Celebratory Thunks

So I can't believe that I forgot to mention this in my previous post!  But my blog has been posted on for Five Consecutive Days!! And it extends into older posts!! :D  Happiness abounds!!  Let's see if we can go for Ten Days!! Yay!!

~ Kate

Thunky Thunks

Do you ever have those days where you don't accomplish like anything?  And then, you go on Facebook (or whatever social networking site you prefer) and see all the cool things that people are doing and you feel lame as all get out?  I had that kind of day today.  I didn't go anywhere, except for Church, and didn't do anything except read and listen to music.

Okay, I did watch two episodes of one of those ghost hunter shows.  Yes, I am a pathetic human being.  Yes, I know that they're probably totally faked.  Yes, I know that ghosts don't actually exist.  But it would be so cool if they did and then I'd kinda want to be one.  And then I'd find those guys who are all asking questions like, "Are you there?  Do you want us to leave?" and then I'd appear blatantly before them and go all spooky and then laugh as they ran away as fast as they could.

Yup.  That's what I'd do if I became a ghost.  I once had a story about that...a girl being a ghost.  I don't think it got very far because it was kind of lame.  Not awesome like The Mediator series. Yes, another series by Meg Cabot.  I can't help it, I just finished the last book of the Princess Diaries so I'm kinda Cabot-high. If you want to know, the book was great.  It sufficiently satisfied the romantic teenage girl side of me.  I don't know if it was my favorite one though...it was really good.  But I've always really liked Avalon High...and Airhead, that was good too.  (Being Nikki will be better once I can find the next book in the series, cliff-hangers make me want to cry.)

So tomorrow I will be a functioning, contributing member of society.  I'm working VBS for our church and I'm seriously questioning my sanity in that I agreed to work the babies room.  I'm also questioning my sanity because we need to leave the house by 7:15...in the morning.  During Summer.  That means I need to be awake by like 6.  In. The. Morning.  I don't think I've had to get up that early since I left public school.

So I guess I should stop complaining to you about the fact I have to get up so early and go to bed.  Until tomorrow, stay awesome!

~ Kate

Silly Thunks

Yes, I'm back after I said that I was getting off.  But after I finished posting it, I realized that I wasn't feeling very tired.  And my headache had lessened a bit (I don't really like using painkillers unless it's a really bad headache.  I don't really know why, I just do.) Anyway, so I went downstairs to get some Nilla Wafers (there's just something so good about those cookies) and see what my parents were doing (got to keep an eye on those two. :D).  And they were watching some extreme engineering thing and my mom looked like she didn't really want to be there.

It made me wonder if my future husband will have a thing that he really likes but I just deal with because I love him.  Then that made me wonder what my future husband is like at all.  Or if I even have one, which I know many girls find the thought of being single their whole lives to be appalling but I think it's appealing in many aspects, just like marriage.  I digress, this made me wonder if my future hubbie is out there thinking about his future wife (ie me) and if we already knew each other (GASP!)**.

Then this made me wonder about whether other people think about their future mates, or if I'm more weird than I realized.  Do people wonder if their future husband will like science fiction as much as they do?  Do people wonder if their future husband will have weird sleeping habits, like the need to always have a fan running or a light on? (I'm not sure how I'd deal with the latter considering my room is completely dark when I sleep.)  Or do other people just let love and marriage happen and not pre-plan their wedding down to the flowers in the center-pieces?  Not that I've done that...much.  (Just the dress!  You can only watch so much Say Yes to the Dress before you start wondering how you'd look in that A-line ball gown with the sweet heart neckline and the beading/lace on the back...*happy sigh*)

So anyway, perhaps I'm totally odd in thinking about him as much as I do.  But I'd like to say just one thing.  If, by some miracle, this blog survives till I get married and I remember to show it to my husband.  I'd just like you, hubbie-dear, to know that on July 10th, 2010, I thought of you.  I wondered whether we would be able to eat Nilla Wafers together and agree that there is something just so good about those cookies.  I certainly hope we will.

So I think I'm finally done now.  I'll relieve everyone of my silly romantic thoughts and go to bed now.  Stay awesome!

~ Kate

** Let me explain that gasp in case, by another miracle, any guy that I currently know reads that and gets all offended.  It's not the fact that I don't know some guys who would make wonderful husbands, it's more the fact that I do...if that makes any sense.  The thought of already knowing my husband (without knowing that he will be my husband) makes me all giggly in a way that only a teenage girl can be about such things.  I'm giggling right now writing this, which makes me blush and giggle some more.  Especially considering some late-night sleep-over conversations I've had with some girl friends.  You do not know the meaning of giggly, silly girls until you hear us at 3 AM.  You know who you are. :)

Happy Thunks

(Unfortunately, I'm fresh out of pixie dust so these happy thunks won't make me fly. :P )

Have you ever had one of those days where nothing super spectacular happens but it's just a really good day?  I hope you can have one soon.  I had one of those days today and it was awesome!  You've probably already seen my afore mentioned job interview post and that's one of the reasons why today was such a good day.

Reasons why today was such a good day!
1. I got to sleep in for the first time in quite a while (with the whole job hunting thing).
2. The night before, I went to sleep before midnight so got more than like 7 hours of sleep.
3. The scheduled job interview.
4. It was Saturday but there were no chores!
5. I went to the library today and was able to find the last three books in a favorite series of mine by Meg Cabot.

Okay, so the series is the Princess Diaries series (the books make the movies look like milk-toast!).  And because of the no chores I was able to finish two books and start on a third.  I have the uncanny ability to devour books when I want to.  But I think it's also the author, Meg is hilarious.  Her books are always funny and interesting and believable.  Even if the circumstances don't seem to be believable, she writes them so that you can believe that a girl can save the president's life or become Princess of a small European nation.  I don't know how she does it but she makes us believe right along with the characters.

The only bad side about today is that now I have a headache.  So my quest is to find some painkillers and then go to bed so that I'm not yawning through church tomorrow.  Stay awesome!

~ Kate

Super Totally Happy Thunks

So this has been the best day since I've started this blog!! =]  Probably for the main reason that I have a job interview scheduled for next tuesday afternoon!!!  FINALLY!! And it's at the library!! YAY!!  Working at the library sounds soooo much more appealing than working at a fast food joint.  You know what I mean?

And today has also been a great day because I didn't have to apply for a ton of jobs today because today is Saturday!  Aren't saturdays the greatest?  You get to sleep in and just laze around.  That is until your parents decide that Saturday actually means 'Use-your-kids-for-free-labor-day'.  But mine didn't even do that today!!

But why do parents do that?  Why do they translate no school into chores?  I don't understand it.  Perhaps when I'm a parent, I'll understand.  But today I don't really want to understand. I just want to bask in the glow that I soon might have a awesome job and I won't have to apply for any more. YAY!!

I'll talk to you guys late today.  Until then, stay awesome!

~ Kate

Mini Thoughts

So today's post will probably be rather short in that I a. don't have much to tell you and b. am feeling very sleepy.  Probably because I had to get up at an ungodly hour to drive my dad to his carpool so I could have a car today. (Alright so it was 7:30 but this is summer time.  That translates to 5:30 at the very least!)

Random cool thing I saw today: I was driving to pick up our dinner and I saw a red balloon flying away.  It was overcast so the red of the balloon really stood out against the grey of the sky.  It was so pretty and I felt that it would be a good symbol for something.  What, I have no clue.  Perhaps I will have better thoughts in the morning.

Also, tomorrow's post will be longer than this puny little thing.  I apologize.  Until tomorrow, stay awesome.

~Kate

Writing Thunks

So I guess I lied to you because I never got back on yesterday.  My muses did hit me last night (like they do most nights) but they didn't hit my blogging side.  They got the novelist side, so I began another book that will probably never be finished like all the others I have started.

If any of you are unprofessional authors too, you will know what I mean.  You get this great idea for a book, you think it will be a New York Times bestseller and I'll be famous!   So you start writing.  Perhaps you prepared well, by thinking about the entire plot, working out the characters and kinks.  You write the first scene, maybe the second one and then BANG!  Writer's block swoops down from the sky and kidnaps any creativity you had.  And you stop writing.  Then one day you get another idea for another book and the whole cycle repeats itself.

Most of the time I try to plan it out some so that I don't end up with a bunch of first scenes and nothing else.  So I currently have only one story that has made it past the first scene.  But I am pretty proud of the story that did make it past the first scene.  It's over 70 pages long, hand-written.  I know that typing it would be much, much, much less labor intensive and then my spelling and grammar would be corrected.  But there is something just so satisfying about taking that notebook off the shelf and flipping through all the pages that I had written.  There's nothing quite like seeing it all in front of you like that.  I could almost compare it to seeing it in hard-back with your name slapped across the front.

I secretly hope that I can have that feeling someday.  That's the other thing I could see myself doing (this was mentioned in my first post).  So my career choices are working in Hollywood and then being an author.  Yes, I know that neither one sounds very realistic.  But they almost tie together.  My mom thinks I should be a screenwriter (ie write the scripts for the movies you watch) and I really think she's right.  When I write my stories, I can picture exactly what's happening, what the characters look, sound and act like.  What the world around them looks like, sometimes even the camera angles, it's like a movie that plays in my head.

What are my stories about?  Well, I don't think I'm going to tell you just yet.  I trust very few people with reading my works.  Perhaps one day, if I think it's good enough, I might post a scene and you can tell me what you think.  But I don't know if that day will come any time soon.

That's all for me today.  Until next time, stay awesome!

~ Kate

P.S. I did get to go to the waterpark!! =]

Today's Thunks

So all today as I was driving around 'pounding the pavement' (ie job hunting), I was thinking about what I was going to write for my post.  I was hoping that something funny would come to me, or that something awesome would happen, like randomly meeting J.K. Rowling.  But no such luck, she appears to still be in England.  Isn't that the way things always happen?  When we want them most to happen, they never do.

But I guess today wasn't a total bust.  I did get invited to go to a local waterpark tomorrow (let's cross our fingers and hope I can go!).  It's a nice waterpark complete with a wave pool, several slides and over priced calorie filled food.  The only complaint I have is that the water is warm.  It's weird how warm it is.  This being my first summer in the South, I never knew that such a thing could happen.  Up North, most of the time you can't go swimming because it's too dang cold!  Now we can go swimming any day but it's just not very refreshing.  There has to be a happy medium somewhere, perhaps Tennessee.

I suppose I never told you that I have recently moved.  Yup, I moved south of the Mason-Dixon line.  People ask me what I think about our new place and all I can (diplomatically) say is that it's very different from where I was from.  They aren't kidding when they say things move slower in the south.  On-time has gone from five minutes early to around 10 minutes later.  I guess because in the heat and humidity you don't want to move so fast but in the freezing cold you need to speed up to keep warm?  I don't know.  I think it's just an excuse for tardiness.  Wonder if it would hold up in a school situation.  "Sorry, teacher, that I'm late.  Things do move slower in the South..." ...Doubt it.

Well, that's all I've got for now.  I'll probably be back later this evening to write some more when my midnight muses hit. :)  Until then, stay awesome.

~ Kate

First Thunks

So I've never been all that great at keeping a blog...or a journal/diary thing.  Isn't that what most blogs are anyway?  They're diaries that you write but other people are supposed to read them.  And unless you're super careful about keeping your identity hidden, people are going to know exactly what you're talking about.  Because what fun is it to read the blog of someone you don't even remotely know?

Anyway, what was I talking about? Right! Keeping a blog.  I've always found that I post one day, maybe again the next day.  I promise myself that this time will be different!! But it almost never is.  About a month later, I log on and delete everything I posted.  So what's the point? Really.

Perhaps keeping the purpose of said blog more broad than previous attempts will make this venture more successful.  Who knows?

Anyway, so with those first thoughts out of the way, I suppose I should give myself an introduction.  My name is Kaitlyn (though I will probably sign this as Kate (it's my alter-ego.  She's much cooler than I am.)).  I am going to be a senior in high school this coming school year (a thought that scares me more than my mother realizes).  When I graduate, I'm kinda sure where I want to go to college...the question is of how we are going to pay for it. Eek!  And I'm also kind of sure what I want to do after college, work in the film industry.

Yes, I want to work in Hollywood.  I know many will probably consider this a bit of a pipe dream but I really want to do it.  I can't think of anything else that I would rather do with my life than work in the movies.  Well, that's not entirely true, there is something else but I won't tell you that just yet.  Have to save something for later posts when (not if!) they come.

So the way I am filling my summer days is looking for a job.  I don't live in a huge metropolitan area but it's a decent sized city.  One would think that at least one business in the area would be looking for part-time workers! Sheesh! Perhaps I just have to bide my time and wait for the public schoolers go back to school and then I can pounce and take their minimum-wage, day jobs!! Mwahahahaha!

*cough* Sorry about that.

I think that's it for tonight.  I promise, scout's honor (okay, I was never a scout but my brother is so it must count for something), that I will post tomorrow.  I'll tell you all about my ever so exciting day of job hunting.  A tout a l'heure!

~ Kate