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KatrinaRenee
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Name: Katie
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: Houston
Gender: Female
Interests: Reading compulsively, drinking tea, hanging out with friends, children's clothing, wearing hats, kidnapping gnomes, watching the Sandlot again, travel, chocolate, trying to have as much attitude as my cat.
Expertise: Napping, giving directions to the House of Pies, hula-hooping, bothering Audrey and making people laugh, albeit unintentionally.
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
8/20/2005
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| The Return of XangaSummer is here, which means one thing: I am bored and back to blogs. Nice.
So far today, I have stuck my poor little patent leather foot in my mouth (oops), tried out our new vacuum (it is AMAZING. There was apparently more dirt inside the apartment than outside...gross.) and reconnected with an old friend.
Audrey has been posting about the lists of summer goals we have made and posted in our kitchen but not included the list themselves. She is probably ashamed of how much better my list is than hers, so I won't rub it in or anything. Besides, it may be a bit too scandalous for xanga. Dangerous activities like learning to blow dry my hair with a roll brush, for instance. What can I say, I live life on the edge.
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| Copy and paste link to see my pig drawing personality test.
http://drawapig.desktopcreatures.com/gallery/large.asp?id=1549033&p=0&hof=1&q=personality+test
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| I haven't posted much this summer...mostly because my life has felt rather drab, and I refuse to make anyone else experience even a second-hand taste of my boredom. Robert has been in Cali, of course, which is a big factor in the general blahness. I also was sick for about 1/4 of the summer which was really annoying mostly because I was bored and at home alone. I don't really mind being sick as long as I have people around but I hate being lonely and bored.
That may be the most excessive use of the word bored ever...but really, I just don't handle boring well. I like a pleasant amount of excitement or at the very least the thrill of productivity. Instead I have spent waaaay to much of my summer becoming extremely familiar with the contents of our movie collection.
Oh well.
On the positive side I do have some great summer memories...my wonderful boy sending me so many flowers that I now have a reputation as spoiled among my friends...a wonderful birthday trip to visit my beloved Chelsea in San Antonio that included swimming, bike riding, afternoon tea, Central Market wandering, and watching Anchorman again for the first time...Audrey's birthday- long live the queen of england!...and a beach trip with Emmaline, Gilts, and Barker that was unabashedly nostalgic and lazy. Plus the fun I managed to have at work t(despite harsh odds), like convincing everyone to smash an oreo cookie to their forehead on the last day of camp or teaching the kids the wal-mart game. AND I got to do some summer reading and enjoy the wondrous spaciousness of our incredible off campus apartment!!
I also got to see Emmie some, though not as much as I'd like. Her time in the Ukraine went so well that she is returning for two months next summer, which means that she'll be out of the country for almost half of this next year. She leaves for Waco tomorrow and then London for the next 3 1/2 months. I'm gonna miss her a heap. I am going to try to spend more time with my momma since she'll be lonely with Emmie so far away. I've also started to visit my grandma again- now that I don't have to worry about running into my dad- which is nice. And btw, please send up a prayer for my dad if you think of it. In fact, pray for us all. It certainly makes a difference.
With any luck, this will be my last year of school! I can't wait to be finished. I will miss ceramics class and English classes, a few psych classes, and walking Kiza, and that late afternoon feel on college campuses. And the people, of course. But besides that- Adios! Goodbye to horrible experiences with the registrar or mind-numbing classes or endless papers...yayus.
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| I really wish I had a digital camera so I could post a pic of the HUGE bruise on my knee from playing broom ball...because I'm super proud of it.
tonight Audrey, Kristen, Emmaline, and I are going to see Shakespeare in the Park! Yay!
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| and we grow a little more every day...Last night I burned a pan of brownies, which was sad. I tried to eat one anyway, which was even sadder. But its always good to get to the brownie-making mood, which will eventually come, no matter what swamps of sadness I've been wading through. Brownie-making is something I do often, a happy, healing thing. I love simple pleasures like making food and pulling it hot from the oven. I especially love to feed people.
Today I held 6 or 7 different snakes, from the small king snake to the huge python who happily coiled himself around my shoulders. I didn't use to be the kind of girl who would touch a snake, much less handle one with unabashed delight. I used to be afraid of a lot of things I have learned to embrace.
Fear is a funny thing, how it keeps you in chains and robs you of experiencing life to the fullest. I have always struggled with fear, though it took me some time to recognize this, since it is easy to disguise fear under a mask of bravado.
But with God's help, I slowly, slowly, ever so slowly...get a little braver every day. And a day like today comes along when you suddenly realize an old fear is completely departed, opening up a new avenue of discoveries and joys to be sought.
And this is our God, the dragon-slayer, the one who teaches the fearful to become strong.
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