Seriously?! what is wrong with me??

well, let's just say this has been an eventful morning...

So. anyone out there ever explode gasoline all over themselves while trying to fill their tank??
*raises hand* oh right... that probably doesn't happen to most people, but it definitely just happened to me.

and i really wish i was exaggerating when i say EXPLODED. as in, practically my whole tank of gas shot out at me, covered me in gasoline, annnd got all over the car and ground. basically if you lit a match i'd have been in trouble. big trouble.

let me start out by explaining... (please do not think i am high maintenance, or spoiled, or anything because of what i am about to say. i promise you i am not.) i don't fill up my own gas tank much. i just really don't like filling up my tank, and my dad loves me and always offers to do it for me. what can i say? i'm lucky.

but today... we were going to the city, and my dad asked me to fill it up. so i agreed, i mean what could really go wrong?! obviously a lot. i felt like such an idiot. i just started laughing hysterically because i didn't know what else to do...that's when things got more awkward i had this little conversation...

*random guy walks over to me* let's call him... fred? okay. fred.

fred: *laughs awkwardly* this has not been my day...
me: you're telling me! i just exploded gas all over the place!!
fred: oh yikes. so is that why you were laughing? i thought you were laughing at me..
(what?!)
me: oh... no, i wasn't..
fred: because you see i started to fill up my car with diesel gas.
me: oh, oops!
fred: yeah. obviously we're both having bad mornings!
me: looks like it..

haha im not sure, it was strange. poor guy. why would i laugh at him?! sad day.

well. after all of this we finally go to chicago, and to my friend's apartment....the first thing she said to me was, "Do you smell gasoline??"

i simply replied with, "ah yes, it's my new perfume! so you don't like it?!"

:)

i finished off the morning with a stop at SuperDawg! I have heard sooo much about this place from everyone and finally went! it was great! delicious and so much fun. :) i definitely want to go back.

well off to do a thousand + one things! happy friday!!

Warning My Future Wedding Party...

whoever you will be,

you WILL be doing this.

good? great.

:) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0

"Cause everyone who sees you, always wants to know you and everyone who knows you, always has a smile"

i'm going to preface this with, i am the hugest dork in the world. i have accepted it.

moving on..

the bachelorette finale was tonight! hooooooooly cow!!!! best finale, hands down i've ever seen. as stupid as many claim this show is, i don't care. i love it. i will defend it as much as i need to. i think the only reason i loved it so much this time though is because i genuinely got attached to the last two (three) guys, and i already thought jillian was a great choice for the bachelorette!

but i never thought i'd cry so much. yikes. who am i kidding? i'm a sap. a huge sap. i am living vicariously through her - haha she had three guys wanting to marry her tonight! and i just lost it when they started playing, "i just call you mine" by martina mcbride. i can guarantee you right now that will be the song at my wedding someday. well, maybe. but a definite contender. for now i will just listen to it and pretend. (ahem, not that i am doing that right now or anything...)

Sad how excited i was to watch this tonight though, live i've said before -- i am way too attached to reality tv.

so i was trying to think of a fun little day trip i could take w/some of my friends maybe... lake geneva? chicago for the day? i don't know. knowing me i most likely will not have time for a day trip. but we'll see. this weekend i went to the most amazing shopping center in our area- for sure, going back there probably everyday. but, i got some adoooorable new shirts that i'm super excited to start wearing!!!

class is over in count 'em TWO DAYS! yesssssss. i couldn't be happier! i was such a spaz in class tonight. i don't know what was wrong with me. hyper up the wazoo. the poor people who sit by me :/ during our quiz i just busted out laughing and couldn't stop. what was funny?! absolutely nothing. you never know what will set me off.

on a completely different note...

i'm losing a lot of respect for people lately. haha how horrible is it to admit that in my blog?! really horrible, i guess. but i need to vent it somewhere and in writing is always easier for me. the sad part is i'm learning a lot about some of my closest friends (not all!), that i don't know if i like so much. what do you do when you feel like some of your closest friends are just plain letting you down? confrontation isn't my strong point...so i'll probably just leave it as is. i'm just really struggling with how to handle it. not to mention the other 5,000 things i have on my mind right now. oh well.

ah well, it was nice being able to ramble for a bit. i only have about 2 weeks left of summer. i don't think i feel like going back to school quite yet...

Blast from the past

tonight i got a little caught up in memory lane... i was going through old pictures, old journal entries, old things that i packed away, etc.

it made me really miss some things and some people. it also made me wonder, if i had to go back and live one year of my life over again -- which year would i choose? there have been so many good ones. and with each year, a unique challenge came along with it. it's hard to picture myself handling that same challenge over again, because that's what got me to where i am today.

however... just to play along i'll pick a year.

i don't think i'd want to go back to elementary school... as fun as it was to be so carefree and whatnot, i didn't actually know i was so carefree in the moment. i mean, third grade problems seemed pretty huge to me back then. ha.

definitely wouldn't want to relive junior high - yikes, no thanks!

high school was a ton of fun... but still. no need to go back.

i guess if i absolutely had to pick a year i'd pick my freshman year of college. i feel like even though that year brought me a whole lot of downs...it definitely made up for it with the ups. it was my first time EVER being away from home, from my family, from my friends. that was SO hard for me. i was/am extremely attached to my family, friends (my dog!). i feel like that year i really grew up - i changed a lot, became more of who i am supposed to be. i look back and actually drastically see a difference in myself from the summer before freshman year -- to the summer after. there was a lot of happiness in that year. a lot of heartache too. but happiness- for sure. also, i think that's when my faith took off for sure. i discovered God in a different way that i never thought i would. He blessed me with so many wonderful friends that are now family to me.

so yeah. i guess that's the year i'd choose. a lot of people say that each year of college gets better than the next. i think that's hard for me because my freshman year was so good, it's hard to top. but i guess i can understand it. i mean my sophomore year was really good too -- in different ways. i met some more wonderful people, had tons of fun, and some heartaches too. so i'm sure my junior year will be the same. completely different...completely new...completely unexpected.

we'll see what happens. i wonder if God is laughing at me right now. watching me sit and wonder where this year is going to take me when He already knows. hmm. not fair. :)

i really, really, really need to figure out a work out plan.

one that is easy.

one that i will actually do.

one that will not kill me.

one that is not running.

did i mention one that is eaaaaaaaaasy?


that makes me sound so lazy, but i'm just trying to be realistic. any ideas? =/

What Not to Wear

I'm watching "What Not to Wear" on TLC right now...and i would love to be on this show! ha. i know a lot of people who say they would hate it, and would be so sad to get rid of their clothes, and would feel ridiculous being on tv for that. but i wouldn't care at all. 5,000 dollars to spend on a brand new wardrobe...

where can i sign up?!

note to self, family & friends: please, please, nominate me for this show!!

although i don't think i would actually ever make it on. i like clothes too much, therefore i shop too much and for the most part i think my clothes usually look pretty decent...i hope at least....

but seriously what a great deal. you get all new clothes, make up, a haircut and a boost of confidence! i think it'd be perfect. :)

i wish i could have personal stylists to carry around with my all day. they could live in my house and come with me wherever i go.

wouldn't that be nice??

Quakes

i made a "quick run" to target today, with a specific shopping list in mind... but honestly, walking into target is like asking me to spend a lot of money. i mean, it's just so easy! i have a specfic route i follow throughout the store. i start at the dollar section...make my way over to the purses, walk across the aisle to the juniors/women's section...keep going till i make it to the shoes. once i'm at shoes, i go straight to the food sometimes getting distracted by a book or two. then after i get food i browse around housewares, finishing off at cosmetics. sad right?

anyway... so today. i made my normal course, straying off a little bit since i brought my friend with me. and as we were at the food section i saw target was having a sale on Quakes! woohoo! Quakes are such a great snack, because they have such a great variety of salty and sweet. And they aren't that bad for you (unless you eat the whole bad in one sitting like i do, shh)

i can't help it! i love them! Usually i stick to caramel and cheese. but today i branched out and got ranch -- pretty good i guess.

i was in line getting ready to pay and a lady kept telling me how wonderful she thought quakes were and suggesting different flavors to try. haha random people always strike up conversation with me. it's kind of fun.

yeah, well. all this writing about food made me hungry. off to eat my Quakes!!!

New Layout!

Woohoo! so i've been trying to figure out how to apply a new layout all morning. i wish i was kidding - i'm not very tech savvy.

i finally figured it out! do you like it? i'm having fun playing around with it... so knowing me, it may change seven more times before the end of the day.

:)

It's done!

My research paper is FINALLY finished! No more edits, no more re-writes, no more annotated bibliography (which took forever) and internal citations. it's done.

now... i just have one novel to finish reading, a test on that novel, & the final exam. it still kind of sounds like a lot when i think about how much studying that all will require, but it is so much better than where i started with my list of things to do at the beginning of this class. *major sigh of relief*

my dog is being so cute right now (well, he always is) - he definitely is curled up in a ball on this little decorative chair my mom got for the family room. it is hands down the girliest chair in the world, and he just looks so cute on it. i should probably take a picture. :)

tonight after class i think my friends and i are going to ihop - it's kind of a weird, little tradition of ours. we just always seem to have something interesting happen to us when we're there. so i would be lying if i said i wasn't excited to see what weird thing happens to us this time. it all started one day three years ago... and we haven't been all summer, so this is a much needed trip if i do say so myself.

my refrigerator is making some weird chirping noise at me. i'm a little scared..

*edit*

what do you think of this shirt? i kind of really like it. i feel like it would look really cute with like skinny dark denim jeans a big brown belt instead of that little tie thing?! i don't know though. i can't decide. also it comes in blue, turquoise, & purple. but the red sort of popped to me. hmmmm. jusst kidding, i just read it and it's pink. doesn't it look red? haha. it also comes in plain white which i actually like way better now. the more i look at this the more it turns into a picnic tablecloth.

so the white... ? neither?

perfuuuuume

i have a confession to make.

i'm about to head to class, and a girl that sits by my in class has the strongest perfume ever. it's all i can think about for the 2 1/2 hours im sitting there. (obviously i am completely interested in this class though, so nothing distracts me from it. riiiight.) it drives me crazy. it's not that it smells bad -- it's just... overwhelming.

so, my solution to this, is spraying my perfume like crazy before i go so i can only smell my perfume in class. not hers. if i'm going to be overwhelmed with perfume, may as well be mine.

how much do you want to bet other people are thinking the exact same thing, except about me now?

does this make me a bad person??

toy guns & bambi

*edit*
I got a twitter! https://twitter.com/CurlyKates
*end edit*

you know what i realized i do not like? i do not like when little boys run around carrying toy guns. not one bit. i have heard every excuse in the book, and i really don't care if the toy gun 'encourages imagination, allows for interactive play, is harmless, brings out their manhood.' seriously? today i saw three little guys running around the mall shooting their toy guns at people. to me that doesn't exactly encourage healthy social skills and a violence-free lifestyle. but maybe that's just me... :)

*speaking of violence-free*

i also feel really sad when i see dead deer, or deer (aww bambi) in general running around by busy roads. (I know, enough with dead animals already! sorry!) but i wish i could somehow pick them all up and bring them to a new home where they are safe. i think they are SO beautiful and i just love them so much. i'd save all animals if i could though ;) my little animal is lounging out in front of the fan as i type this. what a little cutie.

i bought a new shirt today...and some teacher clothes. macy's had a crazy good sale. usually i don't find much there, but today i did. haha. i'm excited about my new shirt. it took me awhile to decide if i really liked it or not. i'll have to post a picture.

happy sunday!

Ooof... i am too tired to read/comment on people's blogs tonight.
i am too tired to write on here but i am anyway.
i had a no good, rotten, awful day. seems to be a trend lately.
i watched a bird die today while driving on the expressway. it made me cry.


why am i so emotional?

On the road to becoming a teacher

It's friday! whaaat?! where did this week go? it seems like yesterday i was just blogging about coming home for the summer... and now in less that a month i'll be back at school. really weird. i have mixed feelings about it.

Sooo. fridays are the days i tutor... and oh my goodness. my little one today called me, 'Miss Katie' ! and i have to tell you it just about melted my heart. i felt like a real teacher...and it felt really good. sometimes i just want to skip the next two years and have a classroom of my own. other times that seems so far off, and i feel so young that it doesn't seem possible at all.

Then there was this precious old lady there who just kept talking and talking. I almost was late to my tutoring appointment but she was just so sweet.

Seriously... if i could combine working with children with special needs, the elderly, dogs & cookies - i think i'd have the perfect job. i don't exactly know how possible that would be though :]

Any fun weekend plans?? I'm going shopping with Justine in a bit then hanging out and eating pizza! yumm. i think i'm going to make a visit to my apartment this weekend, so hopefully i can get some new, updated pictures. some graduation parties that i don't know if i'll actually be able to make. Also i need to do loads of homework. but it will all get done. it always does. somehow.

I'm praying a novena to St. Jude right now. I love St. Jude. I love all the saints... :) they are pretty much rockstars.

well, happy friday! have a great weekend!

dermatologist

So... i probably shouldn't be allowed to go to the doctor. or perhaps i should wear a warning sign so doctors know who they are dealing with. i get so ridiculous when i'm at the doctor.

well, i'm a little ridiculous always -- but that's beside the point. today i had to go to the dermatologist cuz i've been having some crazy thing going on with my legs. they've been driving me crazy...an itchy, red, bumpy disaster. anyways. i was convinced i needed my legs amputated...i thought for sure i had some sort of incurable disease, and i was prepping myself for the worst. (see what i'm talking about?) i figure it's always good to be prepared, right? maybe...

so i get there and i start reading all these horrible pamphlets about the awful skin diseases you can get, and as i'm reading i'm feeling incredibly grossed out and need to stop. yuck. i don't recommend ever reading those... or looking at the pictures. sick! sick sick.

anyways.

so the doctor gets in, and i know him pretty well by now since i've been going to him for awhile. so i don't hesitate to dive right in.

me: dr., do i need my legs amputated? you can be honest with me. i can take it.
dr: no katie, i don't think it will come to that, however i do think you need a shot.
me: A SHOT?!
dr: yes. in the tush. ((i think it's SO funny when people say that))
me: whaaat?! will it hurt?!
dr: nope!
me: are you lying to me?
dr: no katie. not lying.

aha. seriously. did i really ask my doctor if he was lying to me?! who does that?

moral of this story: i do not like going to the doctor. but i totally respect them so much more for having to deal with people like me.

thanks mr. doc :)

Oh blog..

haha i guess i am writing. why? because i don't feel like studying. blogging is the peeerfect distraction!

things have been a little crazy lately - good crazy, bad crazy... a pretty good combo of both. however, i don't really feel like blogging about the good, the bad, the whatever, not now anyway.

i feel like i want to do something totally and completely random. just some strange, exciting adventure. like hiking. why do i want to go hiking? i don't know... who knows. i feel like all summer i've been playing it safe and doing everything i'm supposed to do - going to school, studying, working, and loads of volunteering. and don't get me wrong- i've loved it all. (well...school? maybe not) but! i just need to do something crazy to finish off the summer with a bang. perhaps a road trip with my favorite married couple?! *fingers crossed*

but other than that... what else could i do? hmm. i need to brainstorm.

we just took my dog out for ice cream. spoiled much? i just love him ohso much.