August 2011
sun on a sunday
Today really was an adventure.
I had fifteen minutes to get showered and ready before I was to meet Sister at her house. We got in the car, picked up a few snacks from the store and headed out to the Delta. The drive there was so nice, just like old times, with the windows rolled down, the music blaring and us singing at the top of my lungs. The smile on my face was so big that it hurt my...
July 2011
Sunday morning
Last night’s dreams were filled with ten year old high school memories. Carnivals, house parties, dates and driving all over hell’s half acre with a car full of girls— like snapshots or a flip book through my sleep. The adult me always dreams about the teenager me when sleeping in this house on Applewood Drive.
Sleep was restful, though, and for that I’m grateful. I woke...
saturday is for missing husbands
1. Brie and fresh tomatoes on sourdough toast
2. 9 AM deep tissue massage
3. Shower, get ready
4. Go to the ranch, miss my husband
5. Go to the mall
6. Go to the grocery store
7. Go back to the ranch
8. Make my favorite coleslaw— cabbage, diced fresh jalapeño, lime juice, cilantro and salt
9. Tanning, miss my husband
10. Swimming
11. Tanning
12. Swimming
13. Tanning
14. BBQ,...
I'm not even on drugs. I'm just weird.
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I miss my husband
i miss my husband
It’s noon… And I’m still in bed.
I should get up, straighten up the house and get ready. But this procrastination feels so good!
Holy hangover!
1. Wake up
2. Bug mom and dad
3. Internet
4. Read Mudbound
5. Get ready
6. Get picked up by Aunt Stef
7. Drive somewhere—- I want it to be Sacramento, but I think she’s going to nix it.
8. Sopping and lunch!
9. Sunbathing
10. Farmers market
11. Out with the girls
12. Fun fun fun!
I finally woke up at a decent hour. It’s seven twenty and I’m refreshed. I don’t have a medicinal hangover from Benadryl or Advil. There’s no crusted sleep in the corners of my eyes. My body doesn’t ache. I feel great.
This morning I’m going to get ready, then I’ll try and convince my Aunt to take me to Sacramento to the mall. There’s a halfway...
Please let me sleep.
Things I want:
-Base Escentuals Mineral Makeup in Medium Beige
-Smashbox eyeshadows in Half Baked and Twice Baked
-a couple new shirts or a summer dress
-a new purse
-a pair of wedges
-to not require sleep
-to have grandparents that aren’t crazy
-a fawn colored French bulldog
-to go boating
that's it
1. Woke up early
2. Ate breakfast
3. Scheduled massage for Saturday
4. went back to sleep
5. Talked to my husband on Skype
6. Showered and got ready
7. Finished working with my dad
8. Lunch with dad
9. Hung out at the ranch
10. Scooter rides through the corn fields
11. Sitting on the porch in the heat, watching the drama unfold
12. Endured two hours of my insufferable grandparents
13....
1. Music to my ears: my mother telling me, “Schedule massages for us on Saturday morning!”
2. I slept so hard last night, it was amazing.
3. I woke up holding Diego like a Teddy bear.
4. I want to go to the State Fair, but I’m too cheap! Hah!
5. Actually, I’m saving up for my trip to Texas in October.
6. Dallas/Ft. Worth here I come!
7. I’m really trying to peel...
Waiting for my advil to work
1. I wish I could quit picking/biting my cuticles.
2. I’m glad my family has drama going on right now, it doesn’t give them a chance to pick on me,
3. I got hit on today. It was weird, but at least I “still got it”
4. My head and stomach hurt.
5. It’s too hot to sleep.
6. If there weren’t any bugs, I’d be sleeping outside. But mosquitoes love me.
7....
“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get - a cold, sick...”
– Jennifer Donnelly (via 99lions)
The benefits of living in a small town
My best friend, Sister, got off work. When she called I was already talking to her sister, Brittany, on the phone. I turned the call into a conference so we could chat about our upcoming plans for the weekend.
Instead of going home and changing out of her work clothes, Sister came and picked me up. We went to get her some takeout, when we spotted a group of friends at the bar next door. Of...
Lap of luxury
1. Shower
2. Bought a fountIn Diet Coke
3. Work with dad
4. Antiquing
5. Lunch with Aunt Stef and Sister
6. Relaxing
7. Manicure and pedicure
8. Sunning myself in the backyard
9. Sushi
10. Wine
11. Ice cream (I tried pralines and cream for the first time!)
12. Laundry
13. Took the dogs for a walk
14. More relaxing
15. I live in the lap of luxury!
Seriously… This is the best...
“If I could do it, I’d do no writing at all here. It would be photographs;...”
– James Agee
(this is my Facebook status right now. Let’s take bets, I bet only one person will “like” this, or even get it.)
1. Slept in
2. Got ready
3. Worked with my dad
4. Went to lunch.
5. Talked to my adorable husband
6. Finally got gas!!!
7. Ran a bunch of errands
8. Hung out at the ranch
9. Rode on the scooters through the vineyards for two hours
10. Sushi takeout
11. Bad tv marathon
12. Finished reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
13. Internet
14. More talk with the hubs
15....
Nothing good is ever posted this late
I’m anxious.
I can’t sleep.
It’s too hot.
I have a gnawing feeling of guilt for willingly being away from my husband this long.
My feelings are manifesting themselves as bad body image and poor eating habits.
I’m so hot.
I’m tired, but I can’t sleep.
I need to do laundry.
I’m anxious.
A campfire, country music, good friends and some wine sounds good right about now. I’m going to plan that!
Phenomenal Woman-Maya Angelou →
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Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me.
I walk into a room Just as cool as you...
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1. I STILL haven’t filled up my tank! It’s been since JULY 5th! Oh my gosh… I’m going to end up on the side of the road.
2. I took my nephew on a walk around the neighborhood with my dad. I felt sad because I can’t wait to do that with my own children.
3. I need a manicure so badly. My nails are really long— and I hate the color of the natural nail. It’s...
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River Rats or Hill Jacks?
Last night we were deciding where to go out. Our options were either Walnut Grove or Clements— which is an equally small town in the opposite direction.
Sister: Well, it’s your call Katie— you’re the one with the Bucket List or whatever!
Me: Wait! I’m not dying!
Sister: Well, whatever… I’m stoned. You choose.
Me: I don’t want to get blamed if...
Today
I talked to my husband, who I miss desperately.
I came home and napped.
I played on the Internet.
In a few minutes (because all the fun wore me out), I’m going to get ready.
Then I’ll be getting gas, because Ive been driving on the same tank since July 5th—- that’s how small this town is,
After that I’m going out to the ranch, where I will be spending...
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“We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde (via quote-book)
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Hey Baby Que Paso?
Last night I felt like a teenager. Almost all of our crew was together, sitting in the backyard laughing our asses off and waiting for Sister to get off work so we could go out. It felt good to be with my real friends, the people who really know me, the ones I can be myself around.
It’s so different with my military friends— especially the women. I just can’t be my full self...
I just got off a conference call with my five best friends. We’re cool like that— we plan our nights pout via conference call.
Also, best friend #1 informed me that I puked in her car last night! No bueno!!! Hahaha…. oops.
We’re going out again tonight— this time all of us!
I’m not going to drink, though…
Well, maybe one or two drinks.
This...
1. I have a hangover.
2. One beer, one tomahawk (beer and cider), two glasses of wine and a vodka tonic will do it!
3. I need breakfast.
4. I feel horrible about upsetting my husband this morning.
5. I asked him to change his leave to the following week, which is a pain in the ass.
6. The thought of going out again tonight makes me want to barf.
7. Headache!
8. I found a five dollar bill in...
1. I bought a lot of stuff today.
2. From Target: a pair of shorts and a shirt, the shirt is too big. I tore the tags off though, so…
3. From Forever 21: four v-neck thin cotton tshirts (white, purple, pink, teal), a printed shirt and a set of bangles.
4. From BJ’s Brewery: a beer and some appetizers.
5. It was so hot today.
6. I changed outfits three times.
7. Skyped my husband....
1. Indent feel like myself when my hair isn’t flaming red.
2. I love having a pixie cut.
3. If I lost another fifteen pounds, I’d cut it back to a pixie.
4. I’m sick of my blonde highlights. They are trashy.
5. If you can’t tell, I hate my hair.
6. Hating my hair could possibly be a distraction from what is really bothering me.
1. I got in the shower immediately after getting up. It made me feel so refreshed.
2. Sourdough toast and Brie for breakfast.
3. Hanging out with dad and Mary.
4. Errands.
5. Free smoothie. It was delicious! And my coupon was expired!
6. Downloaded a new book: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
7. Possible shopping for more shirts and shorts.
8. Laying out later.
9. Meeting...
You can love people so much. But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
—John Green An Abundance of Katherines
I feel terrible for not being home with my husband when h needs me the most. Things are bad at work for him— stressful, horrible, awful. He treies so hard, but the people around him just don’t pull their own weight. Some military guys just show up, mill around and collect their paycheck. My poor, honest, hardworking husband gets so upset about it.
Today marked the beginning of an...
Tattle and Get Tattled On
With good reason, I told my aunt and uncle yesterday that their housekeeper didn’t take very good care of the dogs while they were gone at the horse show for the past twenty days.
The housekeeper then told my aunt that had a party at her house, which couldn’t be farther from the truth. I had asked her earlier in the day if my best friends, their kid and I went swimming. She said...
My abs hurt from swimming, but not really because I don’t have abs and I didn’t really swim— I merely kicked back and forth in the pool on an inflatable inner tube. Today was beautiful— not too hot, not too breezy. I had just enough time to myself and just enough time with people.
I feel guilty for not going to a good friend’s wedding this afternoon. I was afraid...
1. I just can’t get into the writing style of American Psycho. I’m forty pages in and it’s disappointing.
2. Two chihuahuas and myself in a queen bed— there wasn’t enough room!
3. Thank goodness I did laundry, I was out of nightgowns.
4. I need an Otter Box for my iPad.
5. I’ve done the dishes and eaten my breakfast.
6. Now I need to put my laundry away....
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Books I've Read This Year (or Am I Failing at my...
I challenged myself to read fifty books this year. It won’t be too hard, I thought. That’s not even one book a week. Between my sickness and my hospital stays and everything else that we call life, I’m pretty sure I’ve fallen behind.
So far I have read:
1. The Help
2. Water for Elephants
3. Island of the Blue Dolphins
4. The Hunger Games
5. Catching Fire
6....
