The Flower and the Thorn

New Blog

2011-03-26T14:20:00.000-05:00

I really just outgrew this blog. Please check out and follow me on my new blog, Sanguine Eyes. I'll be posting there.

xo,
Katy

2009-06-12T21:53:00.002-05:00

I am seriously considering deleting this blog and staring fresh.

A lot has changed since I started this blog. I'm not the same person, and I want my blog to reflect that. I also feel that a fresh start would inspire me to write more often. There's something motivational about having a blank sheet before you. Also, many of my earlier posts are immature and lack substance. I want this blog to be thought provoking.

We'll see.

2008-11-14T20:37:00.001-06:00

I know, I know...
...but nobody reads anyway! haha.

so anyway, I recently saw this video on Jeff's blog and I have fallen in LOVE with it! Absolutely stunning!

A light post for now, will update blog later with some heavier stuff.

2008-09-21T13:48:00.004-05:00

I AM FINALLY ON SYNTHROID! :)
I never thought i would be able to say those words! But I finally can! I've been on thyroid-replacement-hormone for about a month now. I'm starting to feel better! :)

And now, for lack of anything better to post, here is my list of top played songs from the last month.

1. Dragostea din tei - O-ZONE. Known to most Americans as "Numa Numa"
2. White Lights - Deas Vail. Amazing Indie-Rock/Piano-Pop band. I would highly recommend!
3. Outrage- Capital Lights. Newly signed to T&N. Has a nice Electronica feel to it!
4. Gravity- The Fold. Older, but wonderful nonetheless.
5. I'm Not Over - Carolina Liar. Awesome break-up song. Has a slight electronica feel.
6. The Last, The Lost, The Least- Relient K. Off of "The Nashville Tennis EP"
7. Gravedigging- The Classic Crime. A very depressing song, but totally SWEET.
8. Get Ready (Hot Machete) - Jonezetta. The PERFECT dance song.
9. The One Thing I Have Left - Hawk Nelson. Classic.
10. Dead Man (Carry Me) - Jars of Clay. Has a retro-ish feel too it.
11. Dirty Little Secret- The All-American Rejects. So catchy.
12. The Call- Regina Spektor. Yes, you heard it on Prince Caspian.
13. This Is It, This Is It - As Cities Burn. Screamo-ish.
14. The Smile The Face - Emery. Screamo again.
15. Apparations - Seabird. Indie-rock/piano-pop. Awesome.

Music is amazing.

Lazy Summer Night.

2008-08-10T23:54:00.003-05:00

I know, I know.
I haven't posted since April. My sincere apologies.

If I we're to describe my summer in one word, it would be:
"life-changing" (well, its hyphenated. that counts.)
In some ways it has changed for the better.
Other things still haven't quite worked out yet. But I need to give those things time.

Summer 08, I.
Oh the last bell on that final day of school. You can hear the high school students screaming as they run to their cars: "FREEEEDDDOOOOMMM!" Yes, i was one of those students. But in all seriousness, the school year was great: but I was ready for it to end! After the silly skit, lovely graduation, and barely being beat out of highest GPA; I packed my bags and headed for Nashville for Tate's fourth birthday. That was a blast!

Summer 08, II.
State Competition. After being so sick that we thought I wouldn't be able to compete, I somehow managed to place first in everything. Piano Solo (from the floor arrangements. got to love 'em), Individual Drama, and Computer Art. Tripping as I went up to get a trophy was also a highlight.
After all the competitors left, it was down to just me, and those who stayed for the MOFWB state meeting. We had a good time. Tornado warnings in the middle of the night are also fun. The only downside was being diagnosed with Graves' Disease. a very rare autoimmune disease that attacks the thyroid. The thyroid gland regulates how fast your system works. Mine works overtime. It has made me very, very sick.

Summer 08, III.
"Free Will Free Will Baptist Bible Camp. Free Will Free Will Baptist Bible Camp. Free Will Free Will Baptist Bible Camp. This is what it means to meeeee..." Camp was great this year! The services were amazing, the classes were amazing, the fellowship and friends were amazing...tripping fifteen billion times...not so amazing! I did get to play the offertory Wednesday evening, and for a pretty cool group from another church. Mikaela and I also had a great time one evening, dancing around the cabin like maniacs. I also, solehandedly, kept our cabin from getting "Cabin of the Day." I'm sorry girls, you know I'm not organized. But I promise. I'm trying!
A few days after I returned home from camp, we drove to St. Johns Hospital, and checked me in. I was to receive "Radioactive Iodine." RAI will destroy your thyroid over the course of a few months. After blood work (which took about two hours to take, develop, etc.) I was ushered into a small room. The nurse took a tiny lead capsule-like-thing, unscrewed it, and dumped the contents out into my hand. I stared at the bright blue pill and thought to myself "Do I really want to do this?" I heard the words of my Endocrinologist and the Radiologist echo through my head. "This is irreversible. Once you take the pill, there is no turning back." I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and popped the pill into my mouth. There was no turning back now.
After three days of solitude, I was back on my feet and ready to greet the world.

Summer 08, IV.
Ask anyone. I hate packing. Packing stresses me out more than a history test that I didn't get the study guide for. It's that bad. Nevertheless, I packed the majority of my belongings and headed for Nashville. It was time for Truth & Peace. There are so many things I could say about Truth & Peace. It was amazing. God really spoke to me. He revealed so much to me. The friends that I made there are truly for a lifetime. I wish I could say more, but it really is hard to sum up something that life-changing.
After two weeks at FWBBC, we loaded on a couple of charter buses and moved to Charleston, WV for the National Association of Free Will Baptists Convention. I love the nationals more than an emo kid loves girl pants. I worked Tic-Tac-Toe doors, Seminars, a Gopher, and the Highway 456 kid's class. Honestly the Nationals are even better once you see how it's put together, how it works. I have much more appreciation for all those who devote their time for something like this.
National Competition. Always a highlight. My piano solo and individual drama happened to co-inside. That was a dramatic mess. But nevertheless, it all turned out okay. Amazingly I made it past the pretest in TruthQuest. When all was said and done, I walked away with second place in TruthQuest, third in piano, second in short story, and first in computer art. The awards ceremony was a riot. Never, ever let me sit behind the announcer. Yes, that means I am on screen, and yes, that means I will do all I can to embarrass myself. And I had fun with that, too.
July 24, 2008. One of the saddest days of my life. It was so hard to leave everyone behind. Some, I will see numerous times throughout the year. Others, I will hopefully see next year. And others, I will never see again. I had to force myself to walk out the door. Everything that was within me pleaded for me to stay for just a few more minutes. But I had to go.
Soon I was on the road to Plymouth, NC. Vacation. Nothing really work speaking of happened. Just, peace and a couple arguments about shutting my mom's hand in the window and mayonnaise. The norm.
We picked my nephews up on the way home from Nashville. A whirlwind week.

So here I am. Chapter V, so to speak. School starts Thursday. I really don't know what to expect. I am still sick with Graves'. That is one thing that I cannot escape from. It will haunt me and effect me the rest of my life. But I know that God is taking care of me. Even now that I have more health problems popping up, I'm still staying optimistic.

"If there is one thing i know, it's that beauty comes from pain. The love that God offers will change everything."

All i know is that I am a new person. God loves me, and I want that love to radiate through me.

The Other Katie

2008-04-29T21:32:00.000-05:00

She is the most outgoing, yet shy person that I have ever met. She is strong, she is sarcastic, she is unique. She is my best friend. When Katie was twelve, she sprained her ankle. Within hours, she was rushed to the hospital. It turns out, Katie had a very rare blood trait, Factor Five. She also contracted the MRSA staff infection. Over the course of three months, Katie had gone though eleven surgeries., one of them being open heart surgery. Katie is the strongest person I know. She is very sarcastic, and people who do not know her well often have a hard time discerning whether she is joking or not. She is definitely a blonde. She once asked me “How in the world do people go to the South Pole without falling off the Earth?” but that doesn’t top the time she told me that she thought “Islam” was a kind of lunch meat. Katie is a strong Christian. She has told me repeatedly that the only way she made it through her illness was with the help of Jesus. Although Katie is a strong person, there are times when she is weak and scared. She often wishes that she was as strong as she was when she was twelve. She often worries what the future holds for her. But through it all, she still has a joyous outlook on life, and she still takes the time to try to comfort and cheer up those who are hurting around her. She is one of the most selfless people that I know. Anyone who has ever made her acquaintance is truly blessed.

I LOVE YOU, KATIE!

2008-04-26T21:17:00.002-05:00

hello all.
i started work today.
it wasn't too bad, i suppose.
its just going to take some getting used to.

i'm supposed to work from 4-10 tomorrow. but i swear, if i dont feel better there is no possible way on this earth i am going. i feel so sick. my throat hurts (also a few pus pockets popping up), im extremely fatigued, i can't concentrate, i can barely stand up without getting dizzy. i'm going to have to go to the doctor monday. but how am i going to make it past tomorrow?
i do not know. and its stressing me out.
not to mention, if i have what we think i have (uh-oh) im going to have to miss school for at least a week. and we have finals coming up soon...what on earth am i going to do?

only three more weeks.
i just keep repeating that to myself.
three three three.
i can't hardly believe it.
Sophomore year has gone by so fast.
Next year i'll be a Junior, then a Senior...
then its off to college. gosh thats freakin' scary and exciting at the same time.
i honestly cannot wait to move to Nashville.
I'll be there for four years...
then on to training...
then to Japan, maybe?
a scary thought. so exciting though.

well i must be getting to bed.

2008-04-14T10:48:00.002-05:00

oh gosh. im so horrible about keeping up with this thing. my apologies!
today is the official start of...Spring Break! i am SO happy its finally here. I was starting to feel totally burned out on school. the break is welcome.

thankfully we only have 4 more weeks of school after this. (sadly, i've been telling everyone that we only had 3. my bad!) now THAT is something to be excited about! gosh i have so much going on this summer its crazy! State Competition (speaking of which i am no where NEAR done learning my piano piece, and i still haven't found a suitable monologue), Camp, hopefully staying with my sister in Nashville (and my bro too), TRUTH&PEACE, the Nationals, vacation out to NC to see my grandma, and, of course, working. yes, i have a job now. scary though, aye? at Quiznos. i was hired last week! but i haven't started yet...actually, im not even sure when i start. hopefully not this week. haha. no, im just kidding. like my dad said "Everything changes from now on. you cant just do what you want. you have to listen to your boss..." Oy im scared. no, seriously. i am. but hey, i need the money.

i had one of the most....interesting arguments last night. it was one of those Calvinism vs. Arminianism debates. dont you just love those? ha. one of my friends from school (a school run by a fundamental independent baptist church) called me and out of the blue asked me "so...you guys dont believe in 'once saved, always saved' do you?" The great thing was he used the arguments that Calvinists are known for using. i couldn't help but laugh. So to prove MY point i gave him Hebrews 6:4-6, (in KJV since that was what he was using.)

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

so he told me that that passage meant that "it is impossible for man to forfeit his salvation" i don't know HOW he got that out of that passage, because to me that is black and white. you CAN forfeit your salvation. you CAN turn away. If we have freedom in Christ, to say that we don't have the choice to give up our salvation, is in fact total bondage. to say that is to say that we no longer have freedom or a free will. I told him that too. But in the end whats going to matter is "did you believe that Jesus died on the cross and rose again?" its not going to be "were you a Calvinist or an Arminian?" ah and he did give me John 10: 28-29 (And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.) to which i said "yes. that verse is true. no man can remove you from His hand. But you yourself, can" to which he acknowledged that i had made a good point. but that was the argument. I'm not changing my opinion, hes not changing his.

2008-03-06T07:36:00.003-06:00

good morning, all.
its 7:36 and i have to leave for school in a couple minutes so this will be a quick blog.
I just want to tell you all about this stupid skit we're doing at school tonight.
Its a spoof off of American Idol. (now "Ozarks Idolatry") yea, i have to be obsessed with sports, and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" in a southern accent. (i'm from Durham, NC), the only problem is i really don't know the words. i never had. when i was little i just made up words to it (and got made fun of for it) so tonight could be interesting.
But if i embarrass myself too bad, at least i' m leaving for Nashville at 6 tomorrow morning for Isaac's 7th birthday.

well i have got to get to school. :)

long time, no post.

2008-02-29T20:39:00.002-06:00

I just realized that it has been over two months since i've posted. things have been crazy:)
ok so i'm going to cut right to the quick here and talk about things that have been bothering me lately. i seriously feel like life is passing me by. almost as if someone has made a movie about me, and i'm just sitting there; helpless to change what is going on. its like things aren't even real anymore. they say that these are the best years of your life; that we should enjoy them, but honestly its hard to when you don't even feel like your actually living your life. maybe i need to do something...get away from routine...i need something real and tangible in my life right now, but i really don't know what. maybe i should start reading my Bible more. I really want to draw closer to Jesus. sometimes i feel like such a hypocrite because i act like i'm this "super-Christian" and that i know everything about the Bible, and that because i'm a pastor's daughter, i'm super close to God, but in reality, i still feel like i was just saved yesterday and that i'm new to this whole thing. For being a Christian for 12 years now, you'd think that i would be a mature Christian by now. But i suppose the best way to remedy this is by actually getting in the Word. I want to be a missionary, so its imperative that i be close to Him (not just because i want to be a missionary. its truly important for every Christian to grow spiritually) but those are just a few things that have been troubling me lately. add on the drama and the guys and i suppose i'm leading a normal teen's life. (despite the fact i am far from normal) but anyway just want to make a post to let you know i'm still here. :) [[even though no one reads this blog. :)]]

"Like Father, Like Son"

2007-12-20T09:45:00.000-06:00

This is the essay I had to write for my Bible class, telling about what I had learned this semester.

I learned many things in Bible this semester. But one thing that really stood out to me was imperfection. David and Solomon, despite being some of the greatest kings this world has ever seen, were only human. They made mistakes, and every now and then, actually learned from them.

It seems as if David was the patron saint of mistakes. As much as he relied and trusted on God, there were as many instances when he only relied on himself. It was at these times that he became the most vulnerable for temptation. It was when he fell prey to these temptations that he was at his worst. He would realize that he had messed up, but it would take him a very long time to confess to God what he had done. So he would spend months–even years– suffering in his guilt. But eventually he would be able to take it no longer and–usually at the prompting of one of God’s prophets– he would finally confess of whatever it was that he had done wrong. And usually, punishment or retribution would ensue.

To use the phrase “Like father, like son” to describe Solomon would be a major understatement. As much wisdom as Solomon possessed, he messed up just as much as his father, if not more. You would think that for someone as wise as Solomon, he would have a much better track record than his father. That is not the case. But Solomon would, just as his father did, eventually confess and get back on track with God.

If there is one thing that we can learn from these two men, is that not everyone is perfect, and we all make our mistakes. We should always learn from our mistakes, and confess as soon as we can, to keep ourselves from a guilty conscience, and to keep ourselves from drifting away from God. The last think we need is a chasm between us and our Creator.

Merry Christmas! (early!)

2007-12-16T14:02:00.000-06:00

Merry Christmas

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YES!!!

2007-12-06T18:40:00.000-06:00

My best friend Mikaela and I were both accepted for the Truth and Peace Leadership Conference! this is VERY exciting! July 9th can't come soon enough! FWBBC and Charleston, WV, here we come!!

Also it iced today. A bad ice storm is being forecasted for this weekend. It may possibly develop into heavy snow. We are all praying it goes the snow route instead of ice! the last thing we need is another ice storm...

Your two cents?

2007-11-29T22:16:00.000-06:00

I just read the most interesting article in World magazine today. and honestly, i just about started crying. A recent study was done on the money that goes to Missions, and one average only TWO CENTS out of every dollar goes to missions. I think this is just heart breaking. What can we do to turn this around?? I honestly don't know but I would like to see how much of every Free Will Baptist's dollar goes to missions. I think the results would be interesting to see. here is a link to the article. (or at least the first few paragraphs)

Baby its cold outside...(videoblog #3)

2007-11-25T14:53:00.000-06:00

also available on Godtube and youtube
Baby its cold outside..

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way up yonder in the Smokies...

2007-11-21T13:39:00.000-06:00

here i sit in a chair with a beautiful view of a mountain and bright red foliage to my left. its quite a sight. very refreshing. like sprite. oh yes.
Well we had the Missouri State Youth Conference at the Windermere retreat center this past friday and saturday. The speaker was a drama troupe called "Onetimeblind" the were AMAZING. eck yes. the musical guest this year was Pocket Full of Rocks. I've never been the biggest fan of theirs, but they were REALLY good live. They have such a passion. It was infectious. They really love the Lord, and its so contagious. It was just such a worishpful atmosphere. (forget using correct English) but sadly I had to leave saturday morning after breakfast to travel 11 hours in a car across the country with the parental units. ah what fun. actually i was probably the most annoying part. singing at the top of my lungs to the radio for 3 hours... (when i actually got control of the radio. Mannhiem Steamroller and Fox News talk radio is great! but after 9 hours of it straight...)
So we've just been chillin up here in Gatlinburg for the past week. i think we are leaving soon to go ride a cable car (hope we dont have a freak accident) up to Ober Gatlinburg. its a ski resort. even though there is no snow. but i digress. tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Which means stuffing. and even more stuffing. and thumbprint cookies. oh my.

well i must be off--haha--but here is a pic of me last night. I was drinking some WONDERFUL sweet tea from Taco Bell--of all places-- when i dumped it in my lap. baha this is so typical. enjoy.

2007-11-13T16:32:00.000-06:00

took the History test today.
ended up getting a 102% out of a 105 possible...
(i missed one and got 5 points bonus for my wonderful reply to the essay question asking why "the Middle ages truly were the dark ages and two factors that helped bring about the Renaissance")
Its really amazing how God uses what at first glance may seem insignificant to bring about a great change. Consider this: in 1440, Gutenberg invented the movable type printing press. Now, that may not seem like a big deal, but before the invention of the movable type press, pages of books would have to be completely carved out of wood. When you were done with one page, you would carve out the next page. now i don't know about you but I think that would drive me to insanity... but I digress. Because of the invention of movable type, Bibles were able to be printed much faster and production costs were cheaper, and thus Bibles were made available to the common people. When the people started to read the Bible for themselves instead of relying on the pope they saw just how screwed up things were, which brought about the Renaissance, which revived an interest in learning, which also helped spread Protestantism and true Christianity. So whenever I think that I'm not making a difference, I just think about how God can use the smallest things to do His work. It may seem insignificant, but its not! :)

Veteran's Day

2007-11-12T10:18:00.000-06:00

Today is Veteran's Day (Observed) (hence the fact I am off from school) and I just wanted to say THANK YOU to all of the brave men and women that have fought to keep our freedom and our country safe. It means a LOT to me. Here's a special shout-out to my Grandpa Fry, who fought in Japan in World War II. Thank you so much!

Today I'm feeling kinda down. Maybe its just because yesterday didn't exactly go as I would have liked it to. But I guess things just happen the way they do for a reason so maybe it will all resolve itself within the coming week. I hope so. So today I'm just kinda in a "blah" mood. Its a good thing we don't have school today because I would have had to take a History test. And I never think straight when I'm down like this. (not that I ever think entirely straight, anyway) And the last thing I need is the guys that I'm competitive with over grades teasing me because I didn't get a 100, as I usually do. Although I'm glad to have some people to be competitive with. Competition always makes me work harder to achieve because I can't stand not being the best. Ah the joys of being a perfectionist and always trying to be perfect...

Long time...

2007-11-02T14:07:00.000-05:00

My dad got home from Cote d'Ivoire last night! After a almost a week of being stuck there due to the Air France strikes. So my mom, another lady, and myself went to the St. Louis airport to get them. We didn't get home until about 12:30 last night. So my parents let me skip school today and sleep in. But I don't feel good today either, so its not like I'm just skipping school or anything. I have a stuffed up head and a sore throat. I'm still in my jammies. haha. I've been bored this morning so I've been photoshopping photos. I have no life. This is so sad.

I am so ready for Christmas. Not to mention its only 2 months until my birthday, 2 months and 1 day until I get my license, 2 weeks until Windermere and 2 weeks and 1 day til we go on Vacation! woot! lol...
well...
adios.

Is it REALLY ever my fault?

2007-10-19T21:27:00.000-05:00

Don't you just hate it when people hold you accountable for things that you didn't do? Like when someone does something incredibly stupid (that they know they shouldn't do) and then blames it on the person next to them, who is consequently innocent? It just makes me mad.

anyway...i'll try not to start ranting. Its just been a crazy week.

My dad just left for Abidjan, Cote 'd Ivore, Africa. He'll be getting home on the 28th, but i still miss him. Im close to my parents so its always hard when my dad takes trips. especially ones overseas. but he is visiting Jerry and Carol Pinkerton, who are probably some of my favorite missionaries. i've always had a special bond with them. I'm just sad that I couldn't send them a package of fried dill pickle spears from Dowd's Catfish. Man, those things are the best ever.

well peace out. even though i believe that peace is not always the answer and sometimes conflict is necessary
~Katy

2007-10-07T21:21:00.000-05:00

TobyMac--Boomin'

so sorry all I've been posting lately is music vids. this has been a very busy and stressful week. thankfully we get school off tomorrow. :)

Music Video of the Week

2007-09-30T20:08:00.000-05:00

Eisley- Invasion

Music Video of the Week

2007-09-23T14:57:00.000-05:00

yay! new video!

Good Monsters-- Jars of Clay

it took me forever to decided on the video for this week. in the future you can be looking for stuff from: Eisley, TobyMac, Jeremy Camp, and Falling Up.

the Rescue tour.

2007-09-22T15:45:00.000-05:00

we went to a free concert last night. it was NewSong, Echoing Angels, Nate Sallie, and Jimmy Needham. it was AWESOME. i got to meet echoing angels. they are awesome!!!!!! and i ACTUALLY got to go on stage with NEWSONG!! one of my friend's dad was one of the security guards and we got to go backstage and i actually got to stand off to the side of newsong!!! it was AWESOME!!!! now how many people can say they've done that? lol! and Eddie Carslile or whatever (one of the lead dudes from newsong) remembers going to mountain grove back in the '80s lol. thats awesome. they came and performed at our church back then. why did all the cool stuff happen before i born?? lol...
i guess we get progress reports monday...hip hip hooray. haha.
new music video of the week will be posted tomorrow! until then...
peace out-
Katy

Music Video of the Week

2007-09-18T18:30:00.000-05:00

Meant to Live- Switchfoot

in other news, check out the new iPod. dude, this thing is AWESOME!!

its been a while

2007-09-13T22:02:00.000-05:00

its been a while since i've posted. a month and 2 days to be exact. um...i'm really too lazy to type all the stuff thats been going on so here is a video...
once again, i'm a dork.
aw rats. i cant upload it. its too large of a file....
i really should download video compression software...
well i was basically talking about school. so far i've made a few hundreds failed a quiz over Silas Marner, and almost failed an open book quiz. i'm really not sure how i managed to do that. like i said, i'm a dork. i also talked about Windermere. its in November. i cant wait. but i have to miss part of Saturday because we are going on vacation w/ the rest of the family to Gatlinburg. i SURE wouldn't want to miss that! haha. Piano is going pretty good right now. i guess my teacher sees potential. im glad she can, because i sure cant. i've been playing for 9 years and i still cant sight read. but i can play by ear rather well. ugh. i really should work on that. i'm hungry right now. just thought i'd throw that in. i've also developed an addiction to Starbuck's iced decaf carmel machiato (or however thats spelled.) too bad that addiction costs 3 bucks. man i'm broke. haha. i have a hard spelling list tomorrow. adequacies. itineraries. moneys. all hard words. i wish monkeys was a spelling word. for some reason i've always liked to spell that word. miscellaneous is a fun word to spell, too. so is pneumoniaultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. haha. the Tour de Missouri is coming though town tomorrow. its coming EXTREMELY close to our house, too. but sadly, i'll be at school. in a study hall. yay. haha. well i gotta get. trying to work things out so mikaela can spend the night tomorrow.
peace,
Katy

panama

2007-08-11T12:05:00.000-05:00

panama was great. i can't even begin to describe it. all i know is that i feel like a completely different person. i guess 3 days with only the clothes on your back does that to you. i really don't care as much about all the things that used to consume me. hair. make up. clothes. i still like them, but i've realized that there is so much more to life than trying to look good. there i better things i can spend my time and money on. i know this sounds...not really cliche, but...i dont know. i'm just different. but i digress... we didn't have any luggage for 3 days because i flight to atlanta was about 3 hour late, due to circling around atlanta for an hour, and running out of fuel and having to hi-tail it to Alabama to get more. so when we finally did land in Atlanta, we had to literally run to our next flight, which Joe was stalling...so, long story short, our luggage didn't make it on our plane and ended up in Belgium or something. so talk about an interesting experience. we all stunk. but at least we stunk together...anyway, panama was amazing. i made some really great friends. both panamanian and american. and i love and miss them all. i was the lucky one on the trip. since i was in charge of "Web Development" or whatever, the majority of my mornings were spent in Stan's air conditioned office. It was nice. now if i only hadn't have had to use a mac! i also had a great Bible school group. they were all so sweet! i miss them so much. i just want to cry thinking about them.

school starts in 5 days. i'm really not excited. this summer has been soooo great. now if only my sophomore can live up to the summer. that would be great...but heres to my friends new and old! lol. i feel like its New Year's! lol.

In other news, i've gotten addicted to a band called Falling up. they are totally awesome. I love what their "sounds like" section on Myspace says

if you go to the ocean during the night, the voices of people far away can be heard clearly. You may wonder, is it because it is quieter at night than in the daytime? However, it is only one of the reasons. Actually, sound transmits farther at night may be related to refraction of sound waves! First, sound is the vibration of air, and it is a kind of wave motion. The propagation of sound wave is faster in hot air and slower in cold air. Therefore regions of air at different temperatures have different refractive indices, just like media with different optical densities. When sound wave propagates in air whose temperature changes with altitude, refraction of air happens. Sound will move towards areas with lower temperatures. In the daytime, when the sun shines the earth, the air near the earth surface is hotter than the air above. Sound waves will be refracted to the sky. On the contrary, in the nighttime, the air near the surface is cooler and sound waves are refracted to the earth surface.

that is so awesome. listen to them here.

also check out the website that i worked some on for our panama trip. click here!
btw, we've had a lot more hits than what the counter says. i accidentally reset it at some point during the trip.

Finally home...

2007-07-19T21:54:00.000-05:00

well, we are finally home.
i think we got away from the Peabody hotel around 11.
we ate lunch at a Cracker Barell (sp?) in Conway, AR
Then we stopped at Branson landing
we were gonna go see my brother in ozark
but...
he wasnt home form work...
so we got home around 6 or 6:30. its good to be home!! although i still really miss the nationals!! my mom got really sad on the way home because she doesnt know what shes gonna do when i go off to college. was quick to remind her that that was 3 years away...
i remembered another thing that i loved about the national. I got to meet "Uncle" Hanna. he was one of the most awesome missionaries EVER!
i'm going on a float trip tomorrow. yay!

2007-07-10T17:21:00.000-05:00

man. it wont let me post a title. anyways..

yay. blog post numero dos. that means #2 in spanish. i said that because this is the second post. who would have thought it? I imagine i look somewhat strange sitting here in my dad's office. I was forced to come up here before i could finish doing my hair. so half of it is curly. and half of it is somewhat straight. sadly, my hot rollers did an awful job and i had to switch to a curling iron which was much better. but then i had to go so i look somewhat strange. but then again, when do i not?
heres a video about how excited i am about the nationals and panama...

so yea. i'm a dork. but i am excited. yay...although my materials for truthquest haven't come yet (the CLEAR part, anyway) so i 'm a little bit stressed about that. but i'm not expecting to make it to round 2, so it doesnt really matter anyway...

so.
tune in next time when i report on...wait. this is not a tv show. last time it was a newspaper, this time its a tv show. whats next? anyways, once again, i should really stop trying to be cool...

the nationals

2007-07-09T22:53:00.000-05:00

i must say...
I CANT WAIT FOR THE NATIONALS. talk about exciting! we are leaving Thursday. Dad has meetings on Friday...yay? but i am so excited...

In other news. I got my passport today! i must say I'm rather excited. we also had a 3 1/2 hour Panama training meeting tonight. We got alot of valuable info tonight. The hardest part for me will be not over packing and packing under 50 lbs. and Katie Karlee and I have decided we want to get arrested. I'm not so sure about that, but hey, talk about a conversation starter.

Also, I found Herman when we were sifting through the masses of boxes labeled "Katy's Stuff" for the yard sale. I was beyond elated when I found Herman the Worman. It had been years since I had seen him. i squealed and gave him a big hug. to which he said

Its good to see you again, Katy! But why have you kept me in this musty box so long? you could have gotten me sooner!

In the above picture hes enjoying some prime tanning time in the family room lamp. He always was a conceited young worm.

well this has been the Katy Report numero uno. please join us for the next issue...wait. I'm not a newspaper reporter so screw that. just be ready to read my next ultra boring blog about my ultra boring life and my attempt to be ultra cool.