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Author: Kathleen

  • The Art of Journaling

    I know I haven’t been updating as regularly lately, and I do regret that. Because other than using this website to stay connected to friends and family, make new friends, hopefully entertain someone who reads it, and have a place to express myself, I also want this website to contain a record of these years of my life. I want to be able to go back later, read it, and remember what was going on in my life at that time. So at least for that reason, I wish I had written more lately even if it’s just to report on what my day was like.

    That is exactly the kind of writing I used to do. I kept a journal for a lot of my life. Not always consistently, but I have a whole box full of them. I thought it would be fun to pull them out and share with you. So today we go back in time to 1990, when I was 8 years old. This is from the first journal that I ever received. I didn’t write in it all that often, but it is still so nostalgic to remember how simple my life was then. I’ll try to type it exactly as I wrote it:

    March 3, 1990
    I was given this book

    March 15, 1990
    My Brother and I PLAYED TOGETHER ALL DAY!

    March 16, 1990
    I went to ADVENT SCHOOL.

    March 24, 1990
    Barry Buged us.
    Barry and I played.

    April 29, 1990
    Today I played Don’t let the Grown-ups see you with my brothers.

    Ah, life as an 8-year-old. I can’t wait till we get to my junior high years. That’s where the real entertainment is!

  • Friends In High Places

    The other day I showed up to my indoor soccer game and was waiting for the previous game to end. A few minutes before the game my dad showed up, gave me a hug, and sat down by me. He had a sneaky little smile on his face, and the first thing he said was, “Did you get my e-mail?” I hadn’t. What was it about? I wanted to know. “I need Courtney to hook me up,” he said, smile widening. He proceeded to tell me the details of his proposition.

    Courtney is my roommate and one of my best friends in Houston. What is it that my dad so desperately wanted from her? A book. Courtney works for the Harris County Public Library. My dad’s e-mail went like this:

    I just reserved the new James Lee Burke novel Tin Roof Blowdown, but I’m 69th in line. :( Can Courtney hook me up in a better position? It’s nice to have friends in high places.

    The funny thing is that I have totally used Courtney for this purpose before, and my dad was so excited when he found out about it. This is the kind of thing my family gets excited about being “hooked up” with. But seriously, the library is awesome. Since living with Courtney my world has been broadened. I use it for movies, music, audiobooks, and, of course, books. And I’m sure Courtney could tell me a slew of other resources the library offers.

    Gosh, I am such a NERD.

  • Iā€™m Not That Crazy

    So I heard on the radio the other day about this guy who ran 63 marathons in 63 days to raise awareness for a rare childhood disease. My first thought was, “That is insane.” My second thought was, “This makes my training for the Texas Independence Relay look so weak.” But then my next thought was, “That is insane.” And I feel perfectly fine about my running aspirations.

  • my return to normal life

    So I’ve been out of town the past three weekends, and this past week I was house-sitting for half the week. In the meantime life went on, including work and school, and all of it put together left me quite frazzled. No more, my friends! I am back home and settled. Here are the things that I am most excited about right now, approximately in order:

    1. Being able to spend more time with my wonderful boyfriend.
    2. Getting to see my family and my boyfriend’s family regularly again.
    3. Spending more time with my dog Cleo and taking care of her again.
    4. The full apartment deep clean that my roommate Amanda and I did yesterday.
    5. The $100 worth of groceries (MOST of which are fairly healthy) that I bought today.
    6. Getting back to a normal life schedule.
    7. Being able to return to church next week.
    8. Running again, and our relay team coming together.
    9. The manicure/pedicure I scheduled for tomorrow.
    10. The fact that my checkbook is balanced.
    11. At this point I have school somewhat under control.
    12. Starting to ride the bus again tomorrow (and thus save money on gas, tolls, and parking).

    Sometimes small things make me happy. Right now I’m just glad to be home!

  • DC Day Two

    Click here to check out the rest of my pictures from my trip! (Hint: click on the pictures in the slideshow to see details.)

    My second day included a Capitol tour, visiting the Library of Congress where I got a library card (supposedly for “research purposes only and NOT to be used as souvenirs…I figure I might come back and do research, right?), viewing the Supreme Court building, botanical gardens, a whirlwind tour of the Holocaust Museum, and a final visit to the Washington Monument. I did all that in four hours, and then my feet wanted to kill me.