Hey Y'all. Just letting you all know I'm off to EFY in Tacoma, Washington this week. I'm in a bit of a hurry so please excuse me while I write as if I DIDN'T spend a year or two in advanced English classes. I'm adding Diction and Jargon to enhance the credibility that this was written by a seventeen year old girl. K? Anyway, I'll be back late Saturday. Everyone enjoy life while I get spiritually pumped. Love you all!
-KT
Friday, July 24, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Thanks Everyone!
Ahh, Seventeen. In honor of my birthday today, I've added two songs to the top of my playlist: Seventeen Ain't so Sweet by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, and Seventeen Forever by MetroStation. My last year of Childhood Innocence; one more year of getting away with stuff because I'm not a legal adult; one more year of city curfew; one more year of high school; one more year. That's all I have left.
I must admit, however, that this was one of the best birthdays I've had in a long time. I was with my family for most of it, no one was rushed into emergency foot surgery *coughcough GARRETT coughcough*, I absolutely LOVED my presents, and they were WAY more than expected, People called and texted and facebooked me all over wishing me a happy birthday, from family, to friends, to those awesome buddies in other states that I've met through other people and have become awesome friends with even though I've never met them in person. Even the girls at work took me out to lunch and got FATTY costco cupcakes and lunch with the office at Rosa's Cafe.
So my AWESOME day, just a runthrough so I can remember it all.
Woke up SUPER early because of blasted leg cramps, after a pretty trippy dream based on the book I've been reading. I read a bit, came downstairs and mom made me an awesome breakfast. After getting from work, dad came HOME from work early, so I opened presents. THE BEST birthday presents I've gotten in a LONG time. A REALLY nice Casio Exilim with 10.1 Megapixels AND a BS button! (That's Best Shot for those of you sniggering alongside me). I also got tickets to the BODY WORLD exhibit! SO excited to go on Wednesday.
After work, mom and Bailee and I went to Olive Garden, then home to have cake with some friends. The Robertson's gave me a gift card to Barnes & Noble, which was promptly spent on a new journal for my 17th year. Brianne gave me my own copy of Forever Strong, one of my favorite new movies! Once Home I tallied everything up. 20 facebook notifications, 12 text messages, and 1 day of pure amazing.
BIG thanks to EVERYONE who made my birthday special.
Now I get to wait for the lasting add ins to my birthday: Brianne's Kidnapping of Me thursday/friday, Body Worlds on Wednesday, Working Windows and Car Radio (Same Day), and a bit of pool action Saturday!
I must admit, however, that this was one of the best birthdays I've had in a long time. I was with my family for most of it, no one was rushed into emergency foot surgery *coughcough GARRETT coughcough*, I absolutely LOVED my presents, and they were WAY more than expected, People called and texted and facebooked me all over wishing me a happy birthday, from family, to friends, to those awesome buddies in other states that I've met through other people and have become awesome friends with even though I've never met them in person. Even the girls at work took me out to lunch and got FATTY costco cupcakes and lunch with the office at Rosa's Cafe.
So my AWESOME day, just a runthrough so I can remember it all.
Woke up SUPER early because of blasted leg cramps, after a pretty trippy dream based on the book I've been reading. I read a bit, came downstairs and mom made me an awesome breakfast. After getting from work, dad came HOME from work early, so I opened presents. THE BEST birthday presents I've gotten in a LONG time. A REALLY nice Casio Exilim with 10.1 Megapixels AND a BS button! (That's Best Shot for those of you sniggering alongside me). I also got tickets to the BODY WORLD exhibit! SO excited to go on Wednesday.
After work, mom and Bailee and I went to Olive Garden, then home to have cake with some friends. The Robertson's gave me a gift card to Barnes & Noble, which was promptly spent on a new journal for my 17th year. Brianne gave me my own copy of Forever Strong, one of my favorite new movies! Once Home I tallied everything up. 20 facebook notifications, 12 text messages, and 1 day of pure amazing.
BIG thanks to EVERYONE who made my birthday special.
Now I get to wait for the lasting add ins to my birthday: Brianne's Kidnapping of Me thursday/friday, Body Worlds on Wednesday, Working Windows and Car Radio (Same Day), and a bit of pool action Saturday!
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Home Again
- He thought you meant to find fault with his work.
- That's what the average farmer would have meant.
- James would take time, of course, to chew it over
- Before he acted: he's just got round to act."
- -The Code, Robert Frost
As this is such, I will be waking up tomorrow and returning to work after my break off. *Sigh*
I got back from girls' camp on Friday. The trip was shorter than normal, which stunk because it was my last year, but I had a blast. There is a ton to write about but only so much I can say before anyone who bothers to read my blog suddenly gets bored and decides to go do something more fun and exciting, like...get the mail, or...scoop cat litter. Yeah. SO: Highlights: 1) Being a YCL, 2)Getting lost but not really* on an incredibly long hike, 3) High Ropes course, 4) Eating a ton of junk food on an already sick stomach on the last night, having it all come back up, then going on as normal for another 3 hours, because I could, 4) learning a new verse to the frog song, 5)pretending I had a venomous snake bite and a first degree burn.
Want to hear one of the MOST embarrassing things of my life? I got my Report Card last week. Sadly, the Most Important report card in my highschool career is also my worst by far. Worst of all, I failed second semester Pre-Calculus. I don't think I have time to repeat it before I turn in my college applications either. Looks like I really WILL be spending my first year or two in community college. Bummer. Seriously, I really am upset with myself. I actually TRIED in that class. I also mysteriously missed all of this year's deadlines for the ACT and SAT, with no help from my school counselor. Senior year will be rough. I'm still excited for my AP English and AP Psychology classes though.
Some weird thoughts have been wrestling in my mind lately.
1) By this time next year, I'll be headed to college (of some persuasion) and life on my own
2) Liberty Jail is one of the biggest oxymorons of our time
3) This is my last summer as a legal kid.
I'm burning through books faster than I can borrow them from the library. In the past two weeks of summer I have read the first three books of the House of Nyte series (I don't recommend them), the last two books of the Twilight series(I had started the first two during school, so it doesn't count), Graceling by Kristin Cashore, and The Other Side of the Island by Allegra Goodman. I REALLY recommend Graceling and The Other Side. The last one is interesting if you're against the whole, 'Global warming and socialism' thing. :)
That being said, I'm reading a book of Ray Bradbury's Short Stories to break the tedium between library trips. Does anyone have anything they recommend? I'm liking the fantasy/young female heroine/handsome mysterious gentlemen the heroine falls in love with thing right now. Maybe it's because I want a boy in my life. I don't know. Oh well.
Love, Happiness, and Music to all!
*My definition of getting lost: Having no points of reference as to where you are, not knowing where you are, no way of finding where you are, no communication to help you find your way, and not remembering which way you were supposed to be heading. Basically, being on your own and helpless in the middle of nowhere. There's a reason I say I'm never lost: I've never not been able to find the place I was going to.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Where'd She GO?!
Hi friends, hello family!
I JUST realized that it has been nearly a month since I last updated ANYONE on what's happening in Temecula. Well, it's really quite simple. Now that the stress of balancing high school, a job, and a college class are behind me, and I get a simple 18 hour work week to have fun with, I don't feel a need to relax in front of a computer for an hour every night. I've even cut back on my Facebook social life. (I know, BIG shocker)
So here's what HAS been happening lately. Finals week rolled around, I studied more than I ever have before (EVER), got sick, almost missed finals, and STILL ended up not doing well. As sad as it is to say, the most crucial report card of my high school life is also my worst.
Something fun and exciting: I got a tumor removed! Okay, some of you may have managed to catch that bit of news flitting around facebook or twitter two weeks ago, but here's the juicy details! I went to the dermatologist for a routine acne prescription check and refill. I decided I might as well get a mole and the funny bump on my leg checked out. Good ole' doc said the bump was a little tumor, benign most likely, and he'd gladly get rid of both it and the mole. SO they did. It was really weird seeing someone attack the underside of my arm with two scalpels, but that's all I got to see. Contrary to my wishes, I wasn't allowed to watch them get the tumor. I had to lie down all the way in case I freaked out or something. But mom said it was cool, and they used a neat little tool that looked like a scrapbook punch. Two stitches and some bandages later I was on my way.
Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy. (Except for when I had a reaction to the undearm bandaging, but that doesn't count.) I just got the stitches out about 45 minutes ago. It'll be nice to be able to swim and shave like a normal person again.
Bailee and I are off to Girls Camp tomorrow; her first time, and my last. SO depressing. But I'm not packed and somewhere between work and our final YCL meeting today I need to come up with a devotional and scripture study lesson, and finalize some certification activities.
Exciting news, two of my guy friends are heading for their missions in 3 months! Wade just got his call to Albequerque, New Mexico, and Jared turned in his papers last week. SO excited to see where he goes, and how they both do. Jared is actually going to get a blog up and running, that Brianne will update with letters and pictures and stuff. You'll find it here.
Enjoy your lives! I need to go to work now, and I'll be back in a week after camp.
Views: 380
Love you all!
-Katie Helen
I JUST realized that it has been nearly a month since I last updated ANYONE on what's happening in Temecula. Well, it's really quite simple. Now that the stress of balancing high school, a job, and a college class are behind me, and I get a simple 18 hour work week to have fun with, I don't feel a need to relax in front of a computer for an hour every night. I've even cut back on my Facebook social life. (I know, BIG shocker)
So here's what HAS been happening lately. Finals week rolled around, I studied more than I ever have before (EVER), got sick, almost missed finals, and STILL ended up not doing well. As sad as it is to say, the most crucial report card of my high school life is also my worst.
Something fun and exciting: I got a tumor removed! Okay, some of you may have managed to catch that bit of news flitting around facebook or twitter two weeks ago, but here's the juicy details! I went to the dermatologist for a routine acne prescription check and refill. I decided I might as well get a mole and the funny bump on my leg checked out. Good ole' doc said the bump was a little tumor, benign most likely, and he'd gladly get rid of both it and the mole. SO they did. It was really weird seeing someone attack the underside of my arm with two scalpels, but that's all I got to see. Contrary to my wishes, I wasn't allowed to watch them get the tumor. I had to lie down all the way in case I freaked out or something. But mom said it was cool, and they used a neat little tool that looked like a scrapbook punch. Two stitches and some bandages later I was on my way.
Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy. (Except for when I had a reaction to the undearm bandaging, but that doesn't count.) I just got the stitches out about 45 minutes ago. It'll be nice to be able to swim and shave like a normal person again.
Bailee and I are off to Girls Camp tomorrow; her first time, and my last. SO depressing. But I'm not packed and somewhere between work and our final YCL meeting today I need to come up with a devotional and scripture study lesson, and finalize some certification activities.
Exciting news, two of my guy friends are heading for their missions in 3 months! Wade just got his call to Albequerque, New Mexico, and Jared turned in his papers last week. SO excited to see where he goes, and how they both do. Jared is actually going to get a blog up and running, that Brianne will update with letters and pictures and stuff. You'll find it here.
Enjoy your lives! I need to go to work now, and I'll be back in a week after camp.
Views: 380
Love you all!
-Katie Helen
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