Yes We Can!!!

I have never been more proud of my country than I am at this very moment.

Sleep-less night

I am unable to sleep tonight, yet again. I keep thinking about random stuff. Wondering whatever it may be? Here it goes:

-Many of my friends have started to notice that I am becoming a lot more cynical and negative than I used to be. It makes me wonder what made me this way. Could it be a certain person that completely fucked me over 5 months ago? I wasn't in love with him by any means but I don't appreciate being lied to and taken advantage of. Fuck him.
-In a few short hours the voters of this fine country of ours head to the polls to elect a new President. I hope that they choose the right person for the job. A man we all call Barack Obama.
-Why I have this fascination with Sarah Palin. I admire her as a woman, but at the same time I don't understand 2/3 of the shit that she does.
-Wondering if anybody is truely unique and an individual. Everybody copies somebody.
-The sudden realization that I don't actually believe in God. Strange...
-Why I tend to be more mature than most people my age and yet find myself unable to talk to a certain someone. I think about him constantly and yet act like a shy, 12 year-old girl. This reminds me of the Tanner Beam incident of 1998. Here it goes: after the 5th grade my parents decided to move us to a hell-hole named Hays, Kansas. It took a while to make new friends. I decided that I had a wicked crush on this kid named Tanner Beam. I figured that I would tell him that I was in love with him in a note. I decided that picture day would be the perfect time to do it. I wrote a note that said something like I thought that he was cute. When he went to get his picture taken I dropped the note off at his spot. When he got back I watched out of the corner of my eye as he opened it. He laughed. I was crushed. I figure that this is the reason why I find myself lusting after Mr. Jesus look alike and yet find myself unable to tell him how I feel. My friends keep offering to talk to him about it and I don't let them because it feels very much like 7th grade and is just embarassing. I'm 21 years old and should be able to do this by myself. Grrr...


Thanks for reading,
Kaitlin

And how white are you?

After my very boring Halloween, I went to work on Saturday and walked to Books a Million and bought a book that I had been looking at for a very long time. Stuff White People Like: The Definitive Guide To The Unique Taste Of Millions by Christian Lander. It had always looked interesting to me and I saved 10% with my millionaire's card so why not?

After just a few pages I have decided that I am extremely white and not unique in any way, shape or form. Using the examples from the book, here are the reasons why I am so white:

1. Coffee. I say things like "you do NOT want to see me before I get my morning coffee"

24. Wine.

35. The Daily Show/The Colbert Report. At one point in time I considered it a legitimate news source, just like many of you. I don't care, it's funny as shit.

38. Arrested Development. Greatest Show of All Time.

41. Indie Music.

47. Liberal Arts Degrees. I am working towards getting one. What can I say, I just don't like math or science.

53. Dogs

57. Documentaries

58. Japan. I've been there.

60. Toyota Prius. I crave one, apparently so do most other white folk.

67. Standing still at concerts. I just don't like to dance next to sweaty people.

83. Bad memories of high school. I have them, so do you.

84. T-Shirts. I have jillions. Apparently so do lots of us.

97. Red Hair. I have it. It's not even my natural hair color.

120. Platonic friendships. I have many.

122. Acoustic covers. Yes.

127. The Simpsons. I have every season that has been released on dvd.

128. Avoiding confrontation. I do it better than most other white folk.

132. Not having cash. Since the invention of the debit card I have no need for it. Apparently none of us do.

138. Reading. I have at least 30 books that I have yet to read and keep on collecting them.

140. Glasses. I like them so much that I've been wearing them for the past 12 years.

146. Therapy. Sometimes you just need someone to talk to.

There were 150 things listed and I said that I liked 50 of them. When I used the chart at the back of the book to figure out how white I was I found out that I was only 35% white! Yippee! I recomend you head to your local bookstore and pick up a copy for yourself. I would let you borrow mine, but I don't do that. People lose them.

Kaitlin

Whoa! Finally a new post

Orphelin Blend Pinot Noir, Cabernet




Chicken Noodle Soup


Aunt Sue.





The History/Poli Sci, Global Studies Gals at the International Relations Council banquet.



Hello friends:

Longtime no see. It is currently after 5am and I am unable to sleep. I think it is due to the following reasons:

1. Worried about my Chinese class. It is hard as fuck.

2. I stole a corkscrew from work. Hope I don't get caught.

3. Decided that I am not going to do anything for Thanksgiving except work like a maniac on the days before and after.

4. Too excited to go see W with my school BFF Katie.

5. Have $5 in my checking account. Shouldn't have bought so many books at A Novel Idea.
Recap of Weekend:

• Friday: Drove to Lincoln with Mommy. Went to Steve and Barrys for the closing out sale but found self overwhelmed with all of the cheap t-shirts that I didn't buy anything. Celebrated Grandma's 90th birthday with family, Mistys, Wine and Vodka tonic. The hotel had complimentary cookies.
  
• Saturday: Woke up, made waffle at hotel breakfast, Starbucks, Went to A Novel Idea and bought approximately $44 in used books, said bye to family, took pictures, super nauseated, ate truck stop chicken noodle soup, worlds longest car ride, tried to call in sick to work, nobody could cover for me, after car ride went immediately to work, got mad because Jesse got to not come into work and I couldn't, sold wine to people, drove back to dorm with Adrianne and her brothers, appreciated parents for not giving me little brothers, fell asleep on top of bed in work clothes.
  
  
• Sunday: Woke up, ate breakfast buffet at Saddle Ranch with mommy, went to Target, watched mommy get into fight with Target cashier, went to work, spent the day incredibly bored, placed wine order, drove back to school, ate Baked Potato and JBC at Wendys, cleaned Mike, Loyd and Trey's bathroom (I drew all over their mirror), realized that Leavenworth, KS is slowly killing me
  

Things/People I loved last week:

• Susan Peterson (Come visit me immediately)
  
• Cinnamon, the cat at A Novel Idea
  
• A Novel Idea
  
• Lincoln, Nebraska
  
• Grandmother, various other relatives
  
• A certain someone
  
• Tina Fey
  
• Chicken Noodle Soup
  
• Panera bread
  
• coffee
  
• wine
  
• Wendy's baked potatoes with butter
  

Things/People I hated last week:

• Boys and their yucky bathrooms
  
• dairy products
  
• John McCain
  
• Sarah Palin
  
• Nickleback
  
• Soft rock radio
  
• steak
  
• breakfast buffet at Saddle Ranch, minus the cinnamon rolls
  
• Leavenworth, KS
  

Here is what I have to look forward to this week:

• another week of lusting after someone
  
• two back-to-back tests this week in World Religions (Judaism) and Comparative Political Systems (liberal democracies)
  
• Seeing W
  
• Chinese
  
• working a super long weekend
  
• using stolen corkscrew


• drinking wine


• attempting not to sleep through Contemporary Controversis
  

Thank you for reading. See you in another 2 months. Enjoy some weekend pictures.

XOXO,

Gossip Girl (addicted to that show)

I think I'm a little too old for this...

So I'm sitting here on the uncomfortable couch in the 3rd floor lounge watching The Secret Life of the American Teenager. The past 24 hours have been the worst 24 hours of my entire college existance. First off, I was very excited to go to sleep at 10:30 last night but was then woken up an hour and a half later by some rediculous pounding noise. It was too loud for it to be somebody having sex. I heard people talking about it in the hall so I poked my head out and apparently you could hear it on the north end of all 5 floors of my building. After about 20 minutes the bangy sound finally stopped. Nobody could tell what it was. It took forever to fall back asleep. I was totally bummed out.

This morning I wake up and go to classes. It was a pretty uneventful day. I freaking hate the dorm food. It's nasty. Today I had spaghetti noodles with the watery sauce and some chicken. It was gross. I ended up eating yogurt with granola and cottage cheese with sunflower seeds. Dinner tonight was pigs in a blanket. Seriously, are we in preschool? Pigs in a fucking blanket? Come on! I took one bite and then stopped. Dinner consisted of yogurt and cottage cheese. When I got back to the dorms I ate some pop tarts. What a healthy day of eating I had.

For some odd reason, I live on the freshmen floor. They are rediculously loud. I'm an old lady. I need my sleep.

I hate having to sit in the middle of the hallway to watch tv. Although, I freaking love this show. I love how it pushes its Christian propaganda and how everyone just has sex with each other. This show is amazing. And now Greek is on next! WooHoo ABCFamily Tuesdays.

Now back to Henry and Alice, the asian sluts, losing their virginity...

Back to school

I have officially been in school for 7 days now. It's going alright. Living in the dorms isn't as bad as I thought it would be. However, our floor was fined $100 because some jack-ass puked in the water fountain. It ended up being about $2.37 per person. Seriously, who the fuck does that? As far as the classes go:

• International Business. It sounds interesting. Our instructor is pretty hardcore. He calls everyone Mr. [insert last name here] and Miss. [insert last name here]. I think that this will be my hardest class. Hmmm...
• Contemporary Controversies. I will love this class. Me and Katie are the crazy liberal chicks. This ought to be good.
• World Religions. I hate this class with a passion. We are supposed to have an open mind and learn about other religions but the lady who teaches this class is a freaking moron. On our 2nd day she made a circle on the board and started putting the different world religions inside the circle saying that they all fell into the "god circle". Ummm...not all religions believe in god. I swear, if she pulls this shit again I will punch her. She is on my beat down list.
• Comparative Political Systems. Awesome. I love Dr. Reigg. We have a non-trad (non traditional student) who is kind of annoying but I can tolerate it.
• Human Geography. I get to sit next to all of my friends. We watched "Who Killed the Electric Car" the other day. That was a good movie.

Labor Day weekend. I'm working the whole time. Ugh...

Bill Shanahan fiasco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXwy2VuA2V4

Seriously, this dude needs anger management. I can't believe that I actually know this man. Kudos to Fort Hays State University for finally firing him!

Goals and Wine

So after a very tumultuous few months at home my mom made me make out a list of goals, both long term and short term. I hope that it will be fairly effective. I typed them out one boring, rainy day at work and then laminated them. Not that anyone reading this actually cares but here it goes:

1. Learn Chinese. It will be valuable to me in a foreign relations related career and would give me a leg up in the job market. I will accomplish this by doing well in my Chinese classes and going on a language emersion trip to China.
2. Get a 3.2-3.4 GPA this semester. I need a high GPA to be on student government, it will make me proud of myself and my parents proud of me and it will bring my cumulative GPA up so I can get into grad school. The hard part will be actually doing it since I haven't had a 3.4 since Sophomore year of High School. I can accomplish this by not having cable in my dorm room, not watching tv during the week, only working on weekend and spending a crapload of time in the library.
3. Graduate in 2010. I will graduate with a lot of my friends, the 5 year plan is completely normal, I won't feel like a loser and I will only be 22 when I graduate. I will do it by keeping a high GPA, not failing anymore classes, doing especially good in Chinese and Math. I despise math.
4. Live in Washington D.C. I love D.C. There are so many cool things to do there and there is a very diverse population. There would be a lot of opportunities to work for the government or an NGO on the international level.
5. Go to China next summer on language emersion trip. Will help me with Chinese, I will get college credit and it is an AMAZING experience. I can do it if I do well in Chinese and save some benjamins.
6. Save $ for travel. I love to travel. I really want to go to China, New Orleans, Africa, Atlanta, New York, Boston and India. I can do it if I put money out of each paycheck into my savings account and stop buying useless crap (Gossip Girl season 1 on DVD).
7. Start buying Christmas Presents early. This will make me resist the temptation to overspend on people and I will get it out of the way. I've already made a list of what everyone is getting and I've already bought the presents for 2 out of my 3 best friends! Plus, I get a 50% discount on wine. So everyone will probably get a bottle of wine.
8. Build up credit rating. Mine currently sucks and someday I will want to buy a new car (Prius!) and eventually a house. I can do it by keeping my checking account balanced and I could get a credit card and just put my gas on it. It would be easy to pay off every month and it will build up my credit. Plus I will keep making my regular car payment.
9. Become a size 5/6. I will feel better and look better. Plus, I can share clothes with my mom! I can do it if I exercise, eat better, snack healthier, get regular sleep, drink more water and eat out less. Easier said than done.
10. Pay off Sheila (my car, not female bookie). I have to pay her off and it will build up my credit. I can do it if I just keep making my payments. $120 a month isn't bad.

So anyway, thats it. If you could keep giving me encouragement I would appreciate it. Now it's off to bed for me. I have bronchitis and have taken too much cough medicine with codine.

P.S. Working in a wine store has turned me into a wino. I used to be a beer and vodka girl. Hmmm...

The Chicas

Seriously, why are some guys such ass bags?

My friends and I from High School referred to our little group and "The Chicas". Even though I haven't seen most of them in years I still love them all. We're all growing up and it is blowing my mind. Some are doing pretty normal. One is married with a really cute baby boy. Another is in a fairly stable relationship and leading a fairly normal existance at good all FHSU. One of the Chicas is getting back on the right track and going back to school. Another is just being all normal with the exception of getting her tonsils taken out. I couldn't be more proud of those four.

Then there are the fuckups. The 3 that are just being crazy bitches with guy issues.

• Someone had a boyfriend wanted her to fuck him in the ass. Seriously, ewww...


• One recently had a long-time boyfriend tell her that he had a wife and 1 year-old daughter and he was leaving her for them. Ultimate ass-face.


• Finally, the youngest chica has never actually been in a serious relationship and is a dirty mistress. Long story involving a friend lying to her so that he could get in her pants before he moved to a foreign country and then actually moving to Utah to be with his wife of apparently a couple years. Ummm...yeah. The thing that bothers her is that he knew her well enough to know that she would never do that if she knew that he was married. Even if it was just a green card marriage and supposedly didn't mean anything. The worst part is that she had to find out from someone else.

I miss my chicas so much!!! I hope that sometime we can actually all get together and have a big group hug and a drunken, loud conversation at Taco Shop followed by Cervs and a snowball.

A song lyric that applies to the chicas:

"You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me." -"You've Got a Friend in Me." from Toy Story

I miss my chicas.

Seriously, whatever happened to Supermarket Sweep? What an original concept that was. Forget Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, this is a true game show. For those of you who don't remember what it was all about (by the way, shame on you!) here is the rundown of Supermarket Sweep:

• The game was played between three teams of two related individuals, such as a parent and child, spouses, siblings, or best friends. In the last two rounds, the team members wore sweatshirts of the same color.




• First came the question round. The question round was divided into 3 sub rounds. One player from each team played, then their partner went and the last sub round was a round robin with all of the players.



• Some of the questions were:Guessing which item a series of interesting facts had described, guessing which item went with a particular slogan or jingle, determining the brand name of a product, the picture of which had the brand name edited out and filling in the blanks to reveal a product's name; contestants were either given the clues and/or the letters that were progressively added.



• The next round was the most important round. THE BIG SWEEP! THE BIG SWEEP was the chance for the teams to run throughout the aisles and to grab whatever they could off of the supermarket shelves. The clock was set to the highest time that was earned by the three teams. The runner for that team was sent out into the market, with the other runners entering when their time had remained on the clock. The only rules were each team could only take up to 5 of the same item, any items that were dropped and/or knocked over had to be put back on the shelf or in one's cart and only one member of each team had to be in the store at a time. The other team member was required to remain at the checkout counter to unload the groceries.



• The team with the highest grand total, including bonuses from the question round, won cash in the amount of their Sweep total and a chance to play in the Bonus Sweep.



• The Bonus Sweep: The winning team was given 60 seconds to find three products in the market. They were given a clue to the first product, after which the time started. The second clue was affixed to the first product, and the third clue was on the second product. If the team found the third product, they won $5,000.

So remember kids: The next time you're at the checkout counter and you hear a beep, think of all the fun you could be having on SUPERMARKET SWEEP!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y44tyEDb_I