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hi!

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:04:18 GMT

in the off-chance you're wondering where i've been, i guess it's okay to tell you now. i've been on vox...

if you want an invite, i can send you one. just let me know.

i was keeping it on the down-low, because i know i have a tendency to try to leave and then i just come back. but i've been there for awhile and i definitely think it's more my scene. which is as gay as it sounds. i don't know, i was always just a little too old for xanga, or xanga was a little too old for me.

so, you can come visit me at wordsisfun.vox.com, and if you want to join in on the exclusivity of it all, send me an email at wordsisfun at aim.com and i will invite you. see you later!

p.s. i miss you, dear friends. i know you are all busy growing up, and i'm glad. but do know that i think of you and smile. all two of you.

Friday, July 14, 2006

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:15:45 GMT

did you know that i'm still on weight watchers? i bet you didn't. it occurred to me that i don't really ever talk about this weight loss journey i'm on. you know what that usually means in my life? that i've given up.

usually, i start something, anything. i get very excited about it. i'm gung-ho, as they say. i talk about it all the time. and then... i quit. and anytime the subject comes up again, i blush like a strawberry and try to sink into my chair and simply pretend that no! i never tried to do that one thing! i was never obsessed with it! you have most assuredly mistaken me for someone else.

not this time, buddy. as of my meeting tonight, i have lost 31.8 pounds. my sister, who started up in san francisco the week before i did (in october) has lost 55 pounds. sometimes this is discouraging to me, and i wish i was doing as well as her. but most of the time, it inspires me to keep going, to catch up, to make her as proud of me as i am of her.

i still, scary as it sounds, have at least 20 pounds to lose. she has about the same, but that's because she wants to get skinnier than i feel i need to be.

it also scares me that i've been doing this for eight months, and i'm only half way there. and then i think, "i've been doing this for eight months!" "and i'm more than half way there!"

which, for me, is an extraordinary thing. because i know that one day, whenever, i will be at my goal weight. and not only will i look super hot and feel like a trillion bucks, but i will also have come a very, very, very long way. it's not easy at all, losing weight. but i'm doing it, and i'm doing it well.

so. that's my update.

thanks for listening.

a night and day in the life of me.

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:20:05 GMT

tonight i:

>swam while playing dr. mario on gameboy advance;
>joined the pomona city lie-berry and checked out two books:
anansi boys by neil gaiman and a man without a country by kurt vonnegut;
>went to the claremont village and got a scoop of mint oreo ice cream for three dollars, and proceeded to walk around the village eating it.

this was excellent because:

>the swimming was relaxing, and body-temperature-lowering;
>i've been meaning to join that library for years since a.) we live in pomona (a requirement for membership) and b.) our l.a. county public library system is going down the tubes;
>i am too cheap to buy either of those books but have been meaning to read them for months;
>the ice cream was my dinner;
>there were families with dogs and children and scooters also walking (or scooting) around the village;
>the weather is a perfectly breezy 80 degrees.

today i:

>messed with my resume and applied for a new job while at work;
>um, that's pretty much it.

so you can see how infinitely superior tonight was, when compared to the meaninglessness of today.

p.s. i just found this picture of me and jared on our honeymoon. we are half-way through the bike ride down haleakala, the 10,000+ foot volcano on the island of maui. there is no tie-in between this post and the picture. but both are pleasing to me, so just smile and move on. and yes, we wore those outfits the whole ten days in hawaii. no, we are not wearing anything underneath.

thank you.

Friday, July 07, 2006

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:48:29 GMT

look what i made tonight:

it's called a mimi-moopy, and it's the first thing i've sewn in a long time. it's kinda tiny and it took me about 3 hours. it's my friend.

we also watched 3 episodes of the office, which is nice.

good stuff.

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:19:53 GMT

hi! happy fourth of july. what are you doing today? i'm doing a little bit of this; a little bit of that. eating some food, swimming, watching some fireworks. good stuff.

so, this wedding that happened. it was pretty interesting. wanna see?

our pre-wedding champagne toast, as there was no alcohol at this wedding. jared, my sister sarah, and my sister alissa:

the lovely bride, with her father, my uncle david, aka sting:

the happy couple, with matching red highlights in their hair:

me and jared. why, yes i do have ten pounds of eye-makeup on, courtesy of the clinique counter:

and, finally, one in a series of the gayest pictures known to man. jared dancing with my sister's boyfriend, chris:

have a happy fourth!

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:59:31 GMT

my favoritest cousin who was in my wedding just over a year ago is getting married on sunday. she is twenty years old.
i don't know anyone who has no objections to this wedding, but even though we've known about it since november, nobody has said anything to her. i don't know if that means we are an incredibly supportive family, who will stand by each other no matter how much we may disagree with a person's actions; or if it means that we are a terrible bunch of cowards who are afraid of hurting someone's feelings.
i think it may be both.

so this weekend, once again, will be filled to the brim with family. just like every other weekend.

and now, for something completely different -- family photos!

hope you have a lovely weekend.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:41:12 GMT

i've driven past fourteen thousand jacaranda trees in the last week or so, and all i can think is "i wish i had my camera."

Friday, June 09, 2006

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:35:44 GMT

okay, so i know this is totally long, and you don't have to read it all. but i was reading an article on yahoo today about the evil filth that is ann coulter, and they peppered it with these wonderful quotes the filth hath made. enjoy.

--"To expiate the pain of losing her first-born son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch. ... After your third profile on 'Entertainment Tonight,' you're no longer a grieving mom; you're a C-list celebrity trolling for a book deal or a reality show," Coulter wrote in her TownHall.com column on Aug. 18, 2005.

--"Even if corners were cut, (Iran-Contra) was a brilliant scheme. There is no possibility that anyone in any Democratic administration would have gone to such lengths to fund anti-communist forces. When Democrats scheme from the White House, it's to cover up the president's affair with an intern. When Republicans scheme, it's to support embattled anti-communist freedom fighters sold out by the Democrats," she wrote in 2003's "Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism."

--"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building," The New York Observer quoted her as saying on Aug. 20, 2002. She clarified those remarks with RightWingNews.com: "Of course I regret it. I should have added, 'after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters."'

--"After all other suitable office space in Manhattan had dried up -- and also after spending the weekend golfing at an all-white club in Florida -- Clinton announced he would take an office in Harlem. ... As one of my friends remarked, that should be nice: Having escaped a mugging on the way to work, Clinton's female employees will then have to face an accused rapist in the office," Coulter wrote on Feb. 19, 2001.

--"(Liberals) are always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. ... Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment," Coulter said during an Oct. 21, 2005, speech at the University of Florida.

--"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war," Coulter wrote in a column published by the National Review Online on Sept. 13, 2001.

--"The portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't cowering in fear during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to defend itself while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy's name. Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis," she wrote in "Treason."

--"We need somebody to put rat poison in Justice Stevens' creme brulee," Coulter said in a Jan. 27 appearance at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., regarding Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. She later explained she was joking about the justice, whose votes have upheld Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision legalizing abortion.

Friday, June 02, 2006

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:07:21 GMT

Find your own pose!

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Thu, 25 May 2006 23:31:32 GMT

today i had an ethical dilemma at work. it was the choice between keeping something confidential or telling a friend that he may get in trouble, for something big.

i read once that the golden rule of blogging is never write about work. so the post i just typed, regarding the above dilemma, has been deleted. i don't know why i'm even remarking on it, since i could have just deleted it and written something else. but i'm leaving it there, for whoever wants to read it. i guess it's so i can say that i think i did the right thing. and i hope no one gets in trouble, myself included.

on another note, this memorial day weekend is going to be most excellent. we shall swim and bar-b-que and go to the beach and sing karaoke and have an all-around marvelous time. wish you were here.

love,
katie

p.s. i've only read about 50 pages of the book i'm reading, but i wanted to say that you should pick it up. even if you're super busy with finals and starting college and having fun. it is an almost perfect children's-book-lover's book, right down to the introduction.