school

So. I started school on thurdsday. That was not so fun (the school part) the friends part was fun. OK i have to explain this part a bit. It is a nerinx tradition that on the first day seniors decide on some theme and dress like that (this year it was senior citizens, get it? haha) and we get there early (6:30 am). then we wait for everyone to arrive. We draw on the sidewalks with chalk, set up games for the underclassmen, etc... We also get to have a dj there so that was cool cause we all were dancing around. Then when the underclassmen start getting there we make them do things. i.e. push us in wheelchairs, have walker races (all going with the theme...), sing the we love you seniors song, bow a little, etc etc... It is fun for us and funny/annoying for the juniors and sophomores because they thought they would get out of it becuase they arent freshman, and then the freshman are just confused and cute. So that was fun and quite hilarious. But another tradition is that all the seniors throw parties the night before and pull all nighters. So I got about an hour of sleep. I think that was actually worse than no sleep because when I woke up my body wasn't happy. So i came really close to sleeping all day long. We had a huge assembly where we basically go over new rules/changes of this year and stuff like that. Then we have each of our classes for 20 minutes. ANNOYING THING!! ok one new rule is that we can't carry around bookbags this year, we have to have them in our locker. So just before the assembly I put my bag right outside my locker (not obstructing traffic mind you) because I was late for the assembly and I couldn't remember my combination at the moment. So I come back after the assembly and my bag is gone, along with about 100 other girls who did the same hting as me. It turns out the associate principal and teachers roamed the halls during the assembly picking up ANYTHING slightly bag-like that was outside a locker and putting it in the associate principals office. We had to go to the office and wait for her so we could get our stuff back. I was so annoyed!! She also said that today was a freebie. After the first day if you have to go retrieve your bookbag from the office you get an automatice detention!!!!! AH!!!!! So that was really really annoying. That was basically the day. I got to go home at 1:00. yay. So I slept for 1 and 1/2 got up, ate, and went to work. That wasn't pleasant because I had to teach 3 and a 1/2 classes. The first class is really cute 4-6 year olds. I just help in that class (keep the kids in lines etc). The next is 7-10 year olds. I don't like this one because I have to teach them actual karate stuff but some of them have the shortest attention spans. its so annoying. then i teach 10-16 year old beginners. That isn't so bad because now they are sane but just stupid (about karate stuff) since they are beginners. Then I had to start the 10-16 year old advanced class. That was so annoying because I know that they know what they are supposed to be doing, but they were being lazy because I was teaching and not mr. jarnigan (the sensei). So yeah..... frustrating. but mr. j. took over in the middle of that class so i could go do HOMEWORK! (bloodcurdling screams). So I was about to fall asleep sitting there doing hw. Then i got off work, went home, did homework, and went to bed at 10:00! woo that was a long day. yeah. so Tom asked me how the first day was and this is my answer (i was to tired to write all this out when he asked). Well, I have to go now because the laundry is done and it is almost time for me to go to my karate class. :)
bye

yep.

So I haven't blogged in a while. Yeah. I have been busy but not. My life just feels busy because there is something for me to do everyday. I have been basically working and going to karate and yg. Then I usually hang out with my school buddies. It has been fun. I finished my summer reading today!! YAY!! I have successfully read "Pride and Prejudice" "The Red Tent" and "Lovely Bones" WOO WOO FOR ME!! And I finished a day early! yep I am happy. All of the books were good. I liked them all. It was funny because they were all so radically different. You would have to read them all in a row in the order mentioned above to understand. So school starts in two days. I am split, or I guess I could say I don't really care. I don't want to have to wake up early and be made to think that early, but you know I don't think I will mind. Most of the classes I am taking this year I chose out of my free will and they seem really cool. Also I am going to be a senior so - HELLO! thats cool.
Today was a weird day. I woke up at 8:45!!! Whoa!! I didn't feel like falling back asleep because in health class i learned that when you body wakes up naturally you should get up and not roll over and go back to sleep. Your body is trying to tell you that you have slept long enough. I think it is right. The past few weeks I have slept a lot and then suddenly gotten really tired around 1:30 until about 6:00 and then I am more awake for like 6 hours, and then I go to bed. May I say that it is 2:04 and I am not tired! yay! Anyway. So I read the last 100 pages of "Lovely Bones". Then I got online and emailed a lady at the International Institute about career shadowing - which is bad becasue I am supposed to turn that in by friday- but guess what! She emailed me back already! So I emailed her and I am now waiting for a response. woo hoo! Then I went to the websites of Xavier University, Creighton University, Marquette University, and SLU and started filling out the online applications. I filled out as much as I could (I found out that I don't know what my parent's job titles are or what they have degrees in. hmm... interesting) so i have to wait for the parentals to figure all that out. Then I got to the essay part. I have basically finished the essays. They are easier than I thought because they aren't like school essays where you have to do research because it is all personal experience stuff. And they are short!! All of them are like 150-500 words or less! That is barely a page!! That made me happy. So I might have one more to do but I dunno because I have to ask the parentals if they think this one essay will be good for that one. It rocks because I wrote Marquettes (limit 300 words - so I have 256). I wrote Slu and Xaviers because they have the exact same essay questions (150-500 words - so i have 476). Then Creighton is the one I am unsure about. It's limit is 400 so I would have to cut the Slu/Xavier down a bit but I think the essay can work for the question. So I am kinda done! YAY!! woo hoo! That makes me happy. So today was a busy day. I was a good girl and did the things my parents have been bothering me about for ages! YAY! ok, enough making you so bored your eyes are about to fall out. Cya'll :):)
Katie

ps!! I found the coolest thing the other day (or actually a friend told me). She has cingular wireless on her phone and can get text messages. Although I don' t have a cell I can send her texts!! There is a website!! How cool is that??? I send her random ones. its funny. I suggest you do it to brighten the day of someone random (that has cingular of course). http://www.cingular.com/sendamessage is the url. go - text - spread the random happiness.

Ozarks!

So I just got back from the ozarks. It was tres fun. We drove down on wednesday morning. My cousins (Karen - 20, Kevin - 20 (twins), john -22, and their parents (Herb and Mary) went down on monday and are staying til friday). So we went down to join them. They were staying in a condo - we just got a hotel. On wednesday we went out to lunch with them and then went back and swam in the pool and hung out. Then Julia, Paul, and I went to the outlet mall. That was fun. I got a new swimsuit. It is really cute. I like it. On thursday we layed around and then we went back to the outlet mall (the bottoms for my suit were too small, i had to exchange them) and then to my cousins. My dad and Uncle Herb had gone golfing and were still out. Julia, Paul, my cousins and I went to the pool to hang out. The we watched tv and went back to the pool. Then when the dads got back we went and rented a pontoon boat. That was fun. We rode around the lake for 3 hours. We also rented an inner-tube so we did some tubing as well. Tubing is when you tie the inner-tube onto the back of the boat and a person rides in it. It sounds relaxing but it is actually really really bumpy. It was fun but tiring. Your arm muscles get tired from holding on and your butt starts to hurt after a while from all the bumping. So after that we went back to the condo and had ribs for dinner. They were really yummy. After that my family left to go back to stl. I fell asleep and when i woke up we had pulled up to a gas station/baskin robbins. So we got ice cream. yummy. Then i couldn't sleep almost the entire way home. That was stinky but it was only about another hour and a half.
haha- I am kinda burned. I am tan in some places but others are burned. I didn't put enough sunscreen around the edges of the swimsuit so i get kinda burned around there, and then my upper back and face are slightly burned. Another thing that happened is that tubing causes rub burns, and I got two kinda bad ones on my back. one for each side. They are really red and stuff. Its fun. All of this doesn't hurt too much yet. The face does a little but not the back too badly. yep. ok. time for me to go because my typing is getting increasingly worse and it is hard to make good sentences in my head. bye.

hmmmm

So I really have absolutely nothing to say. I don't even know why I am blogging. hmmm.... so yeah. I finished my senior service! Woo woo! I have 31 hours and 15 minutes (I needed 30). But now I have to work on the paper etc for that. Blah. If anyone has any ideas for a paper about some injustice or problem I encountered during my service please help me out. :) just kidding, I won't make anyone else go through the agony I am going through. I have also finally started my summer reading. haha. I have to read 3 books. "Pride and Prejudice", "The Red Tent", and "Lovely Bones". I know those should probably be punctuated differently but who really cares? I have started P&P. It is ok. It is a lot of dialogue so I have to keep reminding myself of who is talking. Another thing is that it was written in 1813 so they talk a little different (all prim and proper like) so that is confusing. It is one of those books where you have to be totally focused, you can't let your mind wander a little while reading. So it's tiring and a little frustrating. School starts in 15 days!! Ahh!! I don't want to go back!! No!!! (August 19th). I have finally made my appointment for senior pics as well (or I should say that my mommy did). August 24th at 5:00. Yep. So that is cool. Ohh - tonight I get to go to a baseball game! Yay! That makes me happy. I have only been to one this year. I love baseball. It is really cool - especially since the cards are the best team in bball right now!! Woo woo!! yay for us!
Well I have to go now because I have to go across the street to volunteer in 13 minutes and I have to talk to my mommy before I go. Cya'll later!

phew!

So... the wedding is over, most relatives have left..... its sad but at the same time a huge relief. Thanks to everyone who came to show their support of Beth and Pat. :) I am so tired. I am still recovering. The past week was nonstop everything (cleaning, partying, greeting, talking, etc). It was crazy. Beth and Pat left this morning for their honeymoon (in jamaica!!). Most of the relatives left yesterday. I was really sad about that. I love my mom's side of the family and I love it when I get to see them. They are fun to hang out with. I wish they could all live around here. It was really cool because I got to see one family that doesn't usually come to family things because they live in texas and that is too far for them to come (their mom is terrified of flying). But they got to come!! It was fun hanging out with them but at the same time awkward because i seriously haven't seen them in at least 2 years. They have all changed so much! So it was pretty busy over here. It was so much fun and if i could go back I don't think I would change a thing. Well, I have to go because I am falling asleep writing this (i know that is sad since it is 3:20 pm but leave me alone). :)