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Name: Katie
Gender: Female
Interests: OSU, band , friends, being a dork, ice cream, band trips, being with Stinky,reading, acting like a kid, music, napping
Expertise: being a student :-)
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  Goodchrlt02
Member Since:
4/25/2003
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| Long time no writey Xanga...not that I have a real following but it's nice to get my thoughts out. I've been living with Chrissy and it's pretty much the best situation I could ask for. The house is clean (most of the time), there's no dirt, no problems, or whining, no dogs to wake me up. And Chrissy and I just get along so well. I also started school, which last minute I got all my financial aid approved, so I'm graduating this year so I just feel this huge weight has been lifted, like I'm finally accomplishing something. My class schedule is craptacular, I'm taking Intro to Fiction, Political Geography, and Women's History. Neither is a subject I could ever care about. Not to mention each has like crappy stuff, in English if we fall asleep we have to lead lecture for 20 minutes, if we miss class, more than twice we fail,and once he reduces our grade, and we have a quiz every day. This first couple weeks there's a lot of theory stuff, I think I'll do better when it's actual reading. Then in Women's History there's good and bad, the good being we can watch a video like every week and it's extra credit, the first being sense and sensibility which I mean...I own the book, dvd, and movie, so I'm ready to write my little one page diddy now. But then 35% of our grade is participation which ughhh if I don't wanna talk don't make me. And Political Geography....I think speaks for itself. So yeah, there's that. Here's to 9 weeks of class left.  Now I am off to take Lily on our little daily walk, which she loves, she has been SO well-behaved here, more than I could ask for. I'm so glad she can finally stay here. | | |
| So I realize this is a bit late, BUT....comic con is like the most amazing/not amazing thing ever. The biggest problem is like the people. If you're not a people person, this is not the place for you. It's PACKED, and you get stuck in lines all day, and get stuck sitting next to people who have the potential to be sweaty/smelly, and if you sit there for hours, the potential increases. But after waiting in line you get to see all kinds of really cool stuff. A lot of movies and TV shows go there, and will premiere trailers, or even scenes from the movie. Not to mention they talk about upcoming stuff, and answer questions. The other big problem is trying to see stuff, for instance for Twilight, apparently people were camping out like the night before. Then instead of making that the first panel, it was like 4th, so I sat in the room all day long and then when we saw the new Alice in Wonderland trailer, I felt bad for all the Tim Burton fans who couldn't get in b/c of us twilighters lol.so yeah. I did see some cool stuff. But then we went down to the first floor and trying to see all the booths is crazy. I ended up just walking around, getting free stuff, and that was about it. Anna-my cousin tried to buy a couple Green Lantern toys and I guess it was ridiculous. I didn't see any really cool storm stuff, but it was SO hard to move around. So yeah, it was worth it. And San Diego is SUCH a beautiful city, we actually stayed in a resort hotel on coronado island...look it up, the average priced home is 1.6 million. I felt so POOR there lol. But every day I got to get up and ride a ferry across the way and yeah....it was awesome. Plus our island like everyone had dogs, and so every day you'd see a million dogs, and people stop to talk to you. There's also a pretty bike/walkway path right by the ocean, so I'd run every morning alongside the ocean. Beautiful.
Anyways back to packing....speaking of which...how do I have SO many boxes of books??? I have more boxes of books than I do clothes..sad.
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| Sometimes people are so frustrating. Like getting anything done at OSU for instance. I'm really frustrated at myself right now, but I can't exactly say why. I just know I gotta continue to focus and all will hopefully be good. So there's a quilting website (I know insert nerdiness here) and I posted pictures of Rachel and Scott's baby quilt online, and I just got three comments on them from people saying I have talent and how much they like it. So I'm feeling pretty good right now.
So life's good, minus being so broke I can't eat. I leave for Cali next week. I have no idea what I'm goin gto do for money. Also I really hope that certain "friends" of mine either A)return my call or B) pretend I exist. But to be honest, I've pretty much stopped trying to care, I know that sounds bitchy. But I've been focusing on me all year, and with all I've done I'd say that's okay.
oh and ps. Boys sorta stink Only sorta, cuz they can be good for certain things.
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| So before I begin what I'm sure will be a post that none of you will care about I'll share a few things.
First, I got a 4.0 this quarter!!!!! I'm really proud of myself, I've only gotten two B's since last SUMMER, and the rest are A's. In fact my highest grade was in my stat's class, so I've done excellent.
Second, this past quarter I REALLY impressed my professor, and put tons of work into a final paper. So much so, that when I turned in my paper the teacher told me I was going to get an A in the class before he even read it. I'm really excited to see how this teacher can continue to help me in academics. (in a totally nerdy way yes)
THIRDLY (and most important) I went to the quilt show today. Like I just walked in the door and had to blog about it, I feel SO inspired. I mean as my mom's friend Pam put, I feel like I know nothing. First off, there was this O-State quilt....and it had a HUGE brutus the buckeye in the middle, then around it in red and white blocks were the famous people from ohio. Then around that was grey fabric with block O's, and above each block O a different sport, and inside a person representing the sport, then inbetween the O's were graduation caps with different colleges (like college of arts and sciences) and a major within them. Yeah, imagine the work that went into that. What's cool is the theme this year was red and white quilts. Which I love, there's just a simplicity to them (only being two colors, even if it is various shades of red) and people do such neat things.Besides blue/white quilts, which is essentially the same thing, that's in my fav. Plus, there were several sunbonnet sue quilts (google for images lol) in the redwork I was in heaven. I only bought two quilt kits which is highly impressive. Granted I'm so poor I shouldn't have spent the money but I can handle being poor for just a bit longer. I took pictures of literally everything and I'll post them soon. Right now I want to work on my embrodiery work, but I am so eager to spend my summer quilting. I have three projects lined up. Maybe a fourth.
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| I'm pissed. Like Irish-Catholic throw things, punch someone in the face PISSED. So let me explain a few things.
First, my mom comes from a decent sized family. 3 half-sisters, 1 brother, and 1 half brother and sister. All of them had 2-3 kids each. Obviously with a family that size there's lots of gossip, and b/c they're so diverse (they span 20 years, and were all raised differently) there can be some heated arguments. But my family has taught me to stick up for myself, learn to handle gossip, be independent and assertive. I love them.
Until today. Because you see out of my family I love my grandma most. I even lived with her a couple summers when things got really bad between my mom and I. I know I'm her favorite even though she won't tell others lol. That woman is my hero, she's been married three times, lived through the depression and WWII. She's a beast. She's also 84, and to be honest I'm trying to succeed at life b/c I want her to be happy that she raised such beautiful children/grandchildren. No one has given her a great grandchild yet and my oldest cousin is almost 40. It's one of the reasons I was so eager to settle down and get married/have kids.ANYWAYS you get the gist. grandma=my hero and I will never disappoint her.
So today I get a two page letter from grandma. It starts off by saying I mean the world to her, and I"m her little babydoll and she loves me so much. Then she tells me that she is very sad b/c she thinks I'm hurting and am drinking to solve that hurt, and she doesn't want anyone to hurt me.
Um, WHAT?! Yeah I had to call my grandma and explain that no I'm not an alcoholic, I'm not going down the wrong path, and there's nothing wrong. Wanna know why I had to? Apparently my aunt/cousin think I'm an alcoholic and decided to tell her, instead of talking to me, or even confirming it. I mean I think since starting to go out again around Jan I've been drunk no more than 5x. I sometimes go out drinking 5x in one week. I usually am the DD, or simply have a drink or two. The family can talk about me all they want, but to go and worry my beautiful grandmother?!
The sad part is I know which family member it was, and when I texted a mutual friend of ours the friend said "your family is just concerned about you and knew that you wouldn't listen to them so they went to grandma." Oh that makes sense. I'm am really angry. I know I'm ranting. I mean whenever the family gossips it's hilarious. My cousin Sean and I are constantly laughing about it, and as soon as I texted him about grandma's letter he texted back:OMFG calling you now b/c this is too funny for text only. But when he found out how upset grandma is, and how seriously she is taking this (rather than oh our family is retarded) he too was upset.
Sunday is my sisters graduation party. I plan on bringing vodka, and drinking straight out of the bottle. I want to live up to my name.
Because seriously? talk about it all you want, but bring Grandma into it and it's war.
<edit> I would also like to mention that since going back to college I have maintained a 3.8 gpa, volunteered 5-10 hours a week,worked, done band, and drink. So technically I'm getting more done now than I ever did, including when all I did was hang out with my cousin....so f that.
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