♫ Kalin Short Smith

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Status: Married
Orientation: Straight
Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
Religion: Christian - other
Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Schools

Belfry High School
- Belfry, KY
- Graduated: 1998
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: High School Diploma
1994 to 1998

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About me:

Hello there, welcome to my page =) Here are a few things that make me... well... ME! I'm going to use the "less formal" approach.

As far as my day to day life goes, I’m one blessed gal! I have the most wonderful husband, parents, and sister in the world. If you take the time to get to know me, you’ll hear about them often.

Wes and I have been married for ten years, and he really is the BEST person I've ever known. You‘ll probably even like him better than me. Seriously. ---> {His Page!}

Some words that describe me.... Serious, Dramatic, Warm, Old-Fashioned, Emotional, and Moody (though I'm only moody to those lucky few in my every day life-haha).

By nature I'm an encourager and peacemaker. I've hardly met a person that I couldn't get along with. Yes, yes, I confess! I’m a people pleaser, and I’ll let you have your way 97% of the time.

My heart rules every decision I make; And instead of saying I wear it on my sleeve, I would say that it's in your hands.

Sad and depressing are my favorite emotions- Odd, I know. I think that's where all the brilliance in Art originates from though, and find myself helplessly drawn to it.

People watching is one of my favorite things to do. I also LOVE Biographies of any sort, be it book or television show.

I'm an entertainment junkie, music being my number one interest. Movies come in second place, and they can't make them fast enough for me!

I often find myself reminiscing in the past. Everything from 80's movies to hair bands. I miss my childhood and that's the fastest way to get back there for a visit.

My creative side is displayed in my home and decorating. I take a lot of pride in keeping things "just so". I should go back to school for Interior Design and AutoCad (program for designing house plans) but I'm too lazy. I never did have the patience for school... I'm lucky that I ended up with a degree of any sort.

I love animals, and I'm blown away that there are so many abandoned each and every day. I try my best to do my part in helping in my community, but I feel like I'm climbing a never ending mountain! And now the part where I preach to you... PLEASE have your pets spayed or neutered! Don't get a pet if you don't plan on taking care of its EVERY NEED for years to come! And please, please, please consider going to a shelter and adopting a baby instead of getting them from breeders.

As far as Myspace goes, I'm one of those people that waits to get a message or a friend request instead of sending one first. I don't know why, but I always feel like I'll be bugging the person. Don't hesitate to send me anything though, it makes my day to hear from a friend =)

I should warn you that if you see me in public, I'll probably just smile and say hello. I panic when I have to have a conversation with somebody, and it causes me to "nervous ramble". Awkward silences really make me uncomfortable too! Afterward, I'll drive whoever I'm with crazy, because I ask them a million times if I sounded okay and if I said anything stupid or not. ::laughs::

I think this touched on all of the important stuff... If it didn't quince your curiosity about "all things Kalin" though, there is plenty more reading below in the Randomness section. Knock yourself out! Toodles for now!

XoXo ~Kalin

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I love music more than anything, and it's pretty much all I talk about. It just does this wonderful thing for me and I honestly can't understand how everybody doesn't feel the same. Right baffling it is!

I'm especially fond of the band SEETHER, and you should definitely give them a listen if you haven't. You won't regret it! As far as I'm concerned, they don't have one bad song. Seriously.

I don't limit myself to one genre either. I can find something I like in everything from country to heavy metal. You should see my ipod library, it's quite the laugh!

~+ My Favorites +~

..Rock..
Seether
Saron Gas
Flaw
10 years
12 Stones
32 Leaves
Alice In Chains
Allele
Audioslave
Ben Moody
Bipolar
Black Light Burns
Black Stone Cherry
Breaking Benjamin
Candlebox
Carly Smithson
Chevelle
Disturbed
Drowning Pool
Evanescence
Godsmack
Revelation Theory
Shinedown
Soundgarden
Staind
Strata
Submersed
System of A Down
The Exies
Theory of A Deadman
Three Days Grace
Trapt
Vertical Horizon

..Other..
Stevie Nicks
Tom Petty
Sade
The Cranberries
Enya
Jewel
Sarah MacLauchlan
Chantal Kreviazuk
Phil Collins
George Harrison
Jason Mraz
Modest Mouse
KT Tunstall
Keith Whitley
Lee Ann Womack
Dixie Chicks
Mindy Smith
Julie Roberts
Martina McBride
Faith Hill
Tracey Lawrence
Gretchen Wilson
Lonestar
Carri Underwood
Martina McBride
JoDee Messina
Sara Evans
Dolly Parton
Alison Kraus
Josh Turner

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..Current..
~How Clean Is Your House
~Grey's Anatomy
~Private Practice
~The Closer
~House
~Lie To Me
~In Plain Site
~Privileged
~One Tree Hill
~Gossip Girl
~American Idol
~Wife Swap
~Super Nanny
~Castle
~Roommates

..Favorite Reruns.. ..
~Mad About You
~Wings
~Green Acres
~Alice
~Andy Griffith
~Sabrina The Teenage Witch
~Judging Amy
~Reba
~Designing Women
~Home Improvement
~Dawson's Creek
~Who's The Boss

~+~FAVORITE QUOTES & PASSAGES~+~

Dear Lord, I am guilty of allowing the things of earth, my family, preoccupations, challenges, and struggles to get in the way of my climb to the ultimate high. You are the place I want to go. Keep me moving until I reach You. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

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Having a grievance or a resentment against someone is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy. -Nelson Mandella

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. -George Eliot

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Popularity is people liking you; Happiness is you liking you.

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A bulldog could whip a skunk any day, but sometimes it just isn't worth the stink.

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It is better to have people think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

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Have no fear of perfection--you'll never reach it. -Salvador Dali

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Women are like cell phones. They like to be held and talked to, but push the wrong button, and you'll be disconnected.

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God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. -Robin Williams

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A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep shit.

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If you think something small can't make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room.

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A bargain is something you cannot use at a price you cannot resist.

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Tolerance is a great trait to contain, but so is the ability to shut up.

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All it takes for evil to triumph is for the good people to do nothing.

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People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

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None are so industrious to detect wickedness, or so ready to impute it, as they whose crimes are apparent and confessed. They envy an unblemished reputation, and what they envy they are busy to destroy: they are unwilling to suppose themselves meaner and more corrupt than others, and therefore willingly pull down from their elevations those with whom they cannot rise to an equality. ~Dr.Johnson

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Human life is like a vapor "that appears for a little time, and then vanisheth away." Man’s life is like the fog in the valley which soon vanishes under the heat of the rising sun.

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

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People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway. - Dr. Kent M. Keith

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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. --Demosthenes

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Nobody ever really sees anybody in the way that they 'want' to be seen...

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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are. ~Malcolm Forbes

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People never see you for what you are... they only see the things you are not.

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We are more apt to point fingers & place blame on others than we are to acknowledge or accept our own flaws...

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Most problems in your life are in direct correlation of the things YOU are doing wrong... don't project them onto other people and expect them to absorb it. If somebody points something out to you, it's probably true.

~+~RANDOMNESS~+~

~ I love my family and friends oodles! They may not always think it, but I consider them in most every aspect of my life. That makes it kind of hard to be my own person sometimes too, whew! ::giggles::

~ I'm pretty boring when it comes to being "socially entertaining". Meaning that I rarely drink, I DEFINITELY don't dance, and you'll probably never be able to talk me into anything you consider typical and "fun". Sorry, but I'm just the person who likes to sit back and watch everybody else, and take care of them in the event that they get carried away-haha.

~ I love stinky potato chips. Everything from Sour Cream & Onion to Doritos to Funyons. In fact, if we didn't need other nutrients to stay alive, I would probably live on them and Diet Coke alone.

~ Making lists for everything keeps me sane... If you were to snoop through my desk drawers you would find evidence of this.

~ I like to talk... .. A LOT... I bet you never would have guessed that though!

~ It would be just fine by me if Taco Bell was the only fast food place in existance. My gosh, I would rather eat there than the finest five star restaurant.

~ I always give second chances... ALWAYS. Well, for the forgivable stuff, that is. Lesson? Don't do the unforgivable! It's not too hard =P

~ If I have ever cared about you, it's pretty much forever. No matter what happens or comes between us, even if it is unfixable and we can't be in each others lives anymore. I will still love you, wish the best for you, and only think back on the good things. Just the way I am.

~ I over use the comma. Doh!

~ Cold pizza for breakfast is the best... Yum!

~ I'm very organized, and I love to plan everything.
::In the voice of Martha Stewart:: Structure is always a good thing. I'm not one of those folks that can't enjoy things on the spur of the moment, however. I just compensate for the lack of time by going into super duper speedy plan mode-haha.

~ I love reading Jason Mraz's blogs. If you have the time, you should head over to his page. He's very entertaining and intelligent. You can be 100% guaranteed to get a laugh too, and that's always a good thing =)

~ I think of the best things to write here when I'm in the shower... trouble is I forget them before I make it back to the computer.

~ Diet Coke runs through my veins. It is my drug of choice. Yes, yes indeed.

~ Finding new music gives me a buzz! I can get lost in it for hours! I also get the same effect from singing along-haha. I'd love to take vocal lessons, but there isn't any place to do so here =(

~ I would rather go to the movies than just about anything in the world... Hardly anything better than movie popcorn (with extra butter of course) & a graveyard to drink.

~ I absolutely love Fall. Sitting outside, taking in the chill of the air (it does have a smell if you didn't know), listening to the bugs chirp, eating the LOADS of candy Wes' aunt sends from Hershey for his birthday, bundeling up in a sweater.... Ooooo! And hoodies! I have a tendancy to take a hoodie with me year round though, so maybe that one doesn't count... Did I mention the smell of pumpkin pie, and apple cinnamon? Oh, and last but certainly not least, NEW STUFF ON TV! Yippie! I could go on forever...
:: takes a deep breath in and says ahhhhhh ::

~ Folding/pairing socks is so frustrating for me. If Wes didn't do it, it would never get done.

~ I have a weird sense of humor... I try to be funny, but I stink at it. Most things I find hilarious you probably wouldn't even crack a smile at.

~ Excessive body hair on men can sometimes give me the gags... Especially when they top it off with a gold chain... yuck. A good example is the Truth smoking commercials that they play where they shave the letters into the hairy guys backs. Ewwwwww.

~ I chew whitening gum like it’s going out of style.

~ Tomatoes are disgusting :: ick, hock, gag ::

~ I hate a gossip. I don't want to know all the gory details of what is wrong in somebody else's life. If they want me to know, they will tell me. I also expect the same courtesy... If I tell you something between us, I would like it to stay that way. I don't think it’s too much to ask at all, and if you spill the beans, it's just going to get back to me anyway... it ALWAYS does.

~ I like to look in all the cars I pass on the road. I think about how weird it is that each one has a different person in it... they are living a different life... experiencing everything through their own set of circumstances... thinking about whatever random stuff people think about. There are so many of them, but for just a few minutes they're all heading in the same direction.

~ I've never been ok with people that insult or pick on others for kicks. That's just sad really.

~ I'm really a big pushover, but this doesn't mean I won't stand up for what I believe in either. I can be stubborn when I want to, but I will also be the first to apologize.

~ I often wonder what people are thinking or saying about me when I'm not around.... Oh, who am I kidding? I ALWAYS wonder that.

~ I'm what I call "daylight challenged". This means trying to get me to do anything before 12 is a waste of time.... After 12, well, that's negotiable ::laughs::

~ I have a bad habit of interrupting people while they're talking... It's not because I'm not listening, or that I'm not interrested in what they are saying though. I just get anxious to give my opinion/thoughts on the matter.

~ I'm a self titled neat freak, and I drive everybody around me crazy.... I guess its like my nervous tick or something? It could also be genetic.... If you ever visited my moms house, you know what I'm talking about!

~ I am one of those annoying "people watchers". Sorry. It's your fault for being so darned interesting.

*Stay tuned...more to come =) I am flattered that you even read this far though ::laughs::