New Digs

Did I mention I am moving?

This is my new apartment.

Move in day is Sunday. Realistic move in day is more like a week from Sunday. This all happened rather quickly. I just saw the place, really liked it and went for it. I haven't been actively looking for a place, just waiting for something nice and affordable to come along. So this came along and I feel good about it. I don't have anything packed besides what is still packed from when I moved home. I need a fridge, couch, new desk, and lamp. Everything else I am going to wait on to see what I have when I unpack.

I looked at the place on Sunday and put the deposit down yesterday. I feel like I should be overwhelmed about all of this but I'm not. I don't mind taking my time to move in. I'm a "slow to adapt child", it takes me awhile to get used to new situations.

Anyhow, I am excited!!!!!!! Can't wait for everyone to come over and see the place.

Love the skin your in

And I do love the skin I am in, it just happens to be an extremely itchy skin right now. Well for the past couple of weeks actually. Everywhere, head to toe itches. My scalp, my arms, my stomach, my legs. All over. Must be the weather because the allergies are acting up to and I have unfortunate pimple/zits on my face. What's a girl to do?

Moisturize, moisturize, moisturize.

Products, products, products.

I have the Dove Moisturizing Beauty Bar, $12 face lotion, the Lubiderm lotion, the Vaseline for my lips. Considering the Head and Shoulders. Should I be admitting that? I doubt I will but just considering it makes me laugh. Head and Shoulders always reminds me of my grandparents. When I was younger and would spend the night at their house that's the shampoo they would have in the shower. So I always associate it with older people. Plus I really love my Aussie shampoo/conditioner. But my head itches. I like the Lubiderm, smells good, was somewhat expensive so I feel like it should be working. I mostly bought the face lotion to help with the sun lines on my face. No real progress yet but I felt with my 27th bday approaching it was time to move forward from the Clearasil face lotion. That Dove bar is a miracle worker, or just magic I'm not sure which. Seems like a white soap bar would do nothing but dry out your skin but I use that bad boy on my face every night and feel fresh as a daisy.

Even with all these products I can't shake this dry skin. Any suggestions?

In the mean time I'll be stimulating the economy buying moisturizers.

To the left, to the left

Everything you want to listen to in the box to the left.

Clever right? There is no Beyonce in there but you can listen to some other tunes.

Now if only I could figure out how to make it smaller and delete the links under it I would be in business.

To receive and to give

a homemade challenge from eliza. basically i get something homemade from eliza if i post this.

this should work out because i like to be "kraftie katie". I don't know what i will be making you but it should be creative.

Here's the deal-

The first five people to comment on this post will get something made by me! kraftie katie at your service. Along with being in the first 5 to comment you are supposed to post this to your blog. If you'd like you can but since I know some people that comment don't have blogs then just a comment will be fine and then maybe you can make something for someone random if you feel like it. Thus receiving and giving.

So comment away and I will make you something. And I will be getting something from Eliza. (I think, if I posted this in time) Woohoo!

Also, coolest thing ever (well almost) I looked up "Kraftie Katie" on Google Image and the above picture popped up as the second image. Made my evening. Try it and you will see me and Sushi, we pretty much shot into stardom.

San Diego Recap

Saturday

12- drive to san diego, stop at in & out
3- check into hotel
afternoon- walk around bay and seaport village
late afternoon- take a nap
evening- walk to little italy, eat sushi (makes sense right)
night- go to target, buy a movie
-go back to hotel, watch Manchurian candidate, fall asleep half-way through

Sunday

9- wake up, eat hotel breakfast
10- drive to san diego zoo
morning- through early afternoon-
- take bus tour and walk around zoo
-look at animals, did you know panda bears like to live alone without any other pandas. they are solitary creatures. wonder if thousands of people staring at them bothers them
- stare at polar bears, think about lost and will we ever know why there are polar bears on the island (or do we know and i missed it because i don't watch regularly anymore)
-risk my life on the sky buckets, curse myself for agreeing to go on the stupid things, and break into a sweat while hanging in the air by a wire
-walk around zoo some more, stare at tigers napping together so cute, i would love to cuddle with them. somehow i find this idea less scary than going back on the sky buckets
-walk around some more, whine and complain about my feet hurting
2- leave the zoo
2:30- back to target
3- wendys for lunch, take back to hotel to eat, take a nap
early evening- watch live free or die hard
6- take train to old town san diego, get verbally assaulted by drugged-out girl, not too scared until we get off and the boyfriend says glad she didn't have a knife. hadnt thought about that
7- eat at coyote cafe, rekindle my love affair with their homemade tortillas
8- get back on god-awful train and listen to another druggie talk to himself and pound his fists against window, get to hotel, make pact with each other never to ride that train again- too risky
10- watch rest of Manchurian candidate, go to sleep

Monday

9- wake up, eat hotel breakfast
10- drive through storm back home
1- come home, go to target, yoshinoya, pavilions, wendys
2- back home, watch groundhogs day, take nap
3:30 boyfriend leaves, i miss him being around me for every minute for 3 days
9- write this blog, love my 3 day weekend

Valentine's Suprise!

When I got back to work from lunch today I had a box sitting on my desk. Rodger sent me flowers and chocolates for Valentine's day. What a sweetheart! It really made my day and week. I have always wanted to get flowers sent to me at work.

My co-workers were so cute and excited and Rachael snapped some pictures.

What a great way to start off Valentine's Day weekend and what a great Rodger for making me feel so special.

The Price of "Love"

Ticket to see "Love"- $120
Hotel room at Cesar's Palace- $32 (a person, if it was $32 total I would live there)
Upgrade to a better hotel room- $40
Slice of pizza and a soda- $9
Pants at the Gap for the show- $60 (the skirt I packed wasn't conducive to the weather)
Dinner at Cheesecake Factory- $20
Peach Bellini from "Fat Tuesdays"- $8
Love program and souvenir for Rodger- $21
Shopping at the outlets- $60
Spending a GREAT weekend laughing with people I love with all my heart- Priceless (bet you didn't see that coming)

Pictures and more about the weekend I spent with my Mom, Vickie, Peggy, and Matt to follow.

He provides the LOLs!

(Sorry for the title, Vickie, I know how you hate when people use LOL).

Rodger had me cracking up on the phone last night.

The conversation went a little something like this-

Me: did you set up your new DVD shelf?
R: yes, superheros on the second row.
Me: (laughing)oh yeah?
R: yeah, and family movies on the top row.
Me: what are your family movies?
R: you know, like "Superbad".
Me: laughing, I don't think that's a family movie.
R: well family movies and comedies.

Sometimes, I think our whole relationship is just making each other laugh. And I'm okay with that because laughing is my favorite.

Although, I don't think it made him laugh when I accidentally drove on the wrong side of the road last night. Oops!

Hot Button Issues

Almost as controversial as my new bangs is Jessica Simpson's "weight gain".



I watched Access Hollywood the other night (my first mistake) and I swear they talked about it no less than 15 times. They asked people's opinions, showed the unflattering picture of her, and then some other pictures of her.

Am I missing something here? Is this a big deal? Okay bad outfit choice and maybe she gained ten pounds, but let's face it who hasn't especially at the holidays?

So what if she weighs 200 lbs, who cares? If it was a man that gained weight no one would even mention it. People should be judged on their character and if they are celebrities they should be judged on their talent.

What bothers me about these media outlets is that they are the ones that create a stir about this and then they turn around and make it sound like they have nothing to do with it. After all the talk on Access Hollywood they went on to say that women in Hollywood are too skinny. Well do we have to ask why? It's either that or be blasted for weeks on end for being fat or as Access Hollywood called it "having a fuller figure". Then this woman on the show does a whole segment on the way Jessica should have worn her "mom jeans" and starts it off by saying "Jessica looks fantastic by the way". Yeah right, they don't believe that or they wouldn't be talking about it. They want to show that she has gained weight or they wouldn't show the same pictures of her dancing over and over again.

What is wrong in our society that this is such a focus? I am not a big Jessica Simpson fan but leave the girl alone. Now she is on the cover of 3 magazines this week all claiming that she is happy with her weight when she hasn't even said a word about it. How would all of these people feel if it was their wife, sister, mother, daughter, or friend being talked about like this? And then the hypocrisy of these magazines to turn around and say women should have a healthy body image. They do nothing to promote that but they can say that's their message? It reminds me of MTV having shows with gay people and getting others to be more tolerant and then turning around and playing Eminem videos full of hate against gay people. It really is unbelievable. Why do we, as women, put up with this? Why has the media gotten so out of hand with celebrities and weight and then claim that to be news? That's not news, that's just mean and out to hurt people.

I love Sundays!

I love Sundays, especially ones like today. It's nice to feel like it's not a complete waste of a day to take a couple of naps. I don't mind wasting time by watching dumb movies like "RV" or looking at the Internet for a couple of hours. I can justify this by saying it's Sunday, a day to relax and spend getting rested for the next week.

I did do one thing productive- I called my grandma. And I may also run on the treadmill later. So that would be two things productive. And I am also writing this blog. So there is three things right there that were part of my New Year's resolutions.

Now I am going to go read and keep one eye on the Super Bowl. Not because I care about the game but so that I can see some of the commercials, watch The Boss at half-time, have some idea what happened in the game so that I can talk about it with everyone at work tomorrow, and most importantly so that when the game is over I can watch "The Office".

Here's to restful Sundays.