My Journal- August thru December 2000

Monday December 18, 2000

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!!

His name is Trey. And he is wonderful. Not trying to brag, but I'm just still a little amazed at how great things are going between us.

So, shall I spill a little info on him? What would you like to know? Well, we met online at the beginning of November. He works for XO Communications as a Senior Analyst for their internal Help Desk. His Dad lives here in Dallas and his mom lives in San Antonio (where he grew up). He played football (linebacker) for TCU. He also likes to workout, but he goes at 5:30 in the morning!! That's dedication! But best of all, for some strange reason, he likes me and puts up with my strange, silly personality. He's very generous, motivated, outgoing, intelligent, handsome, caring, romantic, determined, silly... and oh yes... he's scared of my driving, so he's definitely HUMAN. ;-)

We've had fun the past couple of weekends putting up Christmas Trees and going to our Company Holiday parties. Check out the photos!

Anyway, not that Trey is a possession of mine, but I gotta tell you, meeting someone like him was the Christmas gift I was secretly hoping for. I hope your Christmas gifts are what you're wishing for, as well! Have a safe, fun, happy Holiday!

Wednesday December 6, 2000

So guess what? I'm doing something different, something that I never thought I would do! I'm working 8 to 5. That's right! Say goodbye to the 9 to 6 shift and hello to the ol' 8 to 5. Yup, I'm getting my butt up out of bed an hour earlier now! Traffic is a bit worse, but it's nice to leave in the evening when there's still a little bit of light in the horizon. I'm still trying to remember to hit the hay an hour earlier, wanna get out of the habit of staying up til midnight.

I can't believe Christmas is nearly here! I'm going to decorate my house this weekend. I haven't really begun shopping yet, so I'd better get on the ball. I recommend you buy gifts for your friends and family through Amazon.com. They have FREE shipping until Dec. 10th and plus, if you link to Amazon through the previous links, I will get a 5% credit on your purchases for referring you! It's like killing two birds with one stone for you... You get great priced gifts with no shipping for your family and you give moi a 5% referral bonus! You are just sooo sweet!!!!!!!

OK, my brother pointed out to me earlier after sending out an email raving about LiquidPrice.com that I'm beginning to sound a bit like an Informercial, so I guess I'll shut up now.

I'm excited for Jon and my sister-in-law to come down to Dallas for Christmas. This will be my first Christmas ever in Texas and should be interesting. I helped Mom buy a real Christmas Tree the other day. It's very dark green and pretty! I put lights on it last night. This weekend I'll be pulling out my artificial tree and putting it together. This is quite a task, the thing is enormous (well, in my definition anyway).

On another front... the Body For Life 2000 Challenge Winners are going to be announced Dec. 22nd. I know indirectly a few people who have been called and asked for phone interviews and recent photos. But I have received no such call. Guess this means I am not a finalist. This doesn't really surprise me seeing as over half a million people entered the Challenge, and as my transformation was nothing that stunning, but I guess deep down I was hoping I might get a call anyway. I would love to meet Bill Phillips and the other Challenge Winners. However, I will be competing in the Body For Life Challenge 2001 and I'm determined to do even better this time! Wanna do the Challenge with me?

Also, I have something else I really really want to write about, but I guess I'll wait one more week to keep you in suspense. And it's something GOOD, so please check back next week!

Wednesday November 15, 2000

As I was swishing, I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I looked down at the counter top around my sink where the motion was and there was a decent sized spider crawling right for me!

OK, now, have you ever seen those over-dramatic sitcom TV shows when people are at a restaurant or are drinking something and then they are told something shocking and they inadvertantly and explosively spit out whatever was in their mouth? Oh come on, you've seen that. You then hear the big laugh track as the liquid drips all down their companion's face and shirt, you know. Perhaps a half chewed noodle hangs off of their nose. You know? Funny, eh? Yeah?

Well, keep that picture in mind as you hear the rest of my story. And also keep in mind my fear of BUGS.

When I looked down and saw the super ICKY YICKY spider crawling on my very own sanitary bathroom sink my first urge was to scream and jump backwards. However, I was so taken off guard and so distraught that I forgot I had Listerine in my mouth. My scream turned into a big "PUHWWWWWWBBBBBBBBBHHHHHHHHHHHHH" as Listerine was showered over my entire vanity. I'm sure it looked quite comical, just like in the TV shows. After the mouthwash was now all over my bathroom rather than say... in my mouth, I took a breath and screamed. Now, after hearing my shriek echo in my bathroom, I had to laugh. It was POINTLESS to scream after drowning the spider in green minty alcohol. The poor thing never knew what hit him. As Listerine dribbled down my chin and my heart raced, I hesitantly picked him up with some toilet paper and flushed him down the toilet. I watched him swirl and swirl down. HAD to make sure he went down. Perhaps he was able to cope and handle his liquor. If so, he might cling to the side of the toilet bowl and plan a little revenge on me next time I had to take a leak. No no no no. Couldn't let that happen. Down he went. Good. I looked over at the mess the spider made (it was HIS fault!) and shook my head. 'Katie, you're a freak', I thought as I cleaned up.

Next time I swig Listerine I will make sure the coast is clear. So rare to see a spider in my house, thank goodness. Those Pest Control people just love the outrageous amounts I pay them to keep my home pest free. My heart had finally slowed back to a normal beat. Time for bed. Oh, beddie-bye here I come!

Just before shutting off the bathroom lights, I quick reached over and flushed the toilet again. You know... you never can be too sure.

Monday October 30, 2000

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Well, I was EVIL BERT again this year at work. I won Honorable Mention. Then Sat. night when I went to a Halloween Party, I dressed as Little Red Riding Hood. This is my first Halloween in 5 years that I haven't done something exciting and new for my costume. I'm a little disappointed in myself, but a lot of it had to do with the fact I'm not at CompuCom anymore and am not as motivated. CompuCom always had a GREAT Halloween day. Here at e2, I must admit it was pretty boring. We did do a Halloween Potluck lunch, though. And a quick contest for some movie tickets.

Atleast a did a great job decorating my house for Halloween this year. I even put orange lights on the bushes outside and hung bats from the trees. Wanna know the bad news? The dumb lawn service trims my front bushes and AGAIN (as they did LAST year) they cut up the lights covering my bushes. Now why on EARTH they can't see the huge black strings of lights that are laying ON TOP of the bushes is beyond me, but they're cut up in tiny peices, and my bushes are certainly trim. I hope they electrocuted themselves doing it. They deserve it! I'm sorry, but I'm very angry. It's just thoughtlessness and stupidity.

Moving onto something else odd and mysterious... my readers. Yes, you! You guys are WEIRD!! Who are you anyway? And why on earth do you search for the things you do on my site? Actually, I find this amusing. I use FreeFind for my search engine and every week they send me a report on what searches were conducted. Please check out this very edited list below.

Fri Oct 20 12:46:39 2000 bongs
Wed Oct 18 21:02:28 2000 pipes and bongs
Wed Oct 18 21:02:13 2000 pipes and bongs
Wed Oct 18 20:58:50 2000 pipes and bongs

for pete's sake! I have nothing about bongs or pipes on my site! LOL! But I guess NOW I will!

Wed Oct 18 15:46:31 2000 "fragle rock"
Mon Oct 16 21:24:49 2000 fragle

I get this one a lot, I must have talked somewhere about Fragle Rock and I'm coming up in Search Engines such as Google and AltaVista.

Fri Oct 13 16:57:24 2000 s*x
Fri Oct 13 14:00:49 2000 bongs 

oyvay! They don't give up! The astrict in that above word is an e, by the way.

Fri Oct 13 06:43:33 2000 download full cami 

eh???

Tue Oct 10 06:08:55 2000 piss test cleaners 

GOODNESS! What the heck do people think I know??? Why someone would come to Planet-K and do a search on THAT is beyond me.

Mon Oct 09 11:35:22 2000 f*ck 

Nice, very very nice.

Sat Oct 07 13:51:17 2000 anarchist cook book
Sat Oct 07 13:23:37 2000 anarchist books
Sat Oct 07 13:23:16 2000 anarchist books
Sat Oct 07 13:19:51 2000 anarchist books
Sat Oct 07 13:18:46 2000 anarchist books 

Ok, now this one is most interesting. Perhaps someone just goes around randomly searching for this crap? I am sure that until today I didn't have anything on my site about anarchist books.

Well, I'm sure now I will get all SORTS of weirdos to my site now and this page will become my top hit page. Hey, maybe this will up me in Yahoo and Lycos' rankings. I also have a feeling that this journal entry will inspire others to go off and do the weirdest searches they can think of. Oh well, I'm used to it. But don't get me wrong, I still love YOU, my loyal reader. You're allowed to search for whatever you want, it's just that anarchist chef I'm worried about.

Guess what I did two weekends ago? I went to Vegas with four friends for my 28th Birthday! Yes, I know... you can quit with the "old" jokes. But the trip was a BLAST (although I didn't win any jackpots), and you can see photos from the trip up soon under Photos/Trips/Vegas- Sept. 2000.

And guess what I did just last weekend? I flew up to Wisconsin to stand up in my friends' (Jim and Tina) wedding. It was beautiful! I'm so happy for them! I have photos posted under Photos/Occassions/Jim and Tina's Wedding.

I also went to my 10 year High School Reunion while I was up there. That was fun, too. Saw some friends I haven't seen in ages. Even saw my ex-boyfriend, Rob, and got to briefly meet his wife. And of course, Cretia and Pam were there, which was fun. I was surprised by how many people I didn't recogonize or remember. I guess I wasn't as social in high school as I thought I was. I will have photos from my trip to Milwaukee up soon under Photos/Trips/Milwaukee Sept. 2000.

One thing in specific I want to mention is that during Jim and Tina's Wedding Reception, I caught the bouquet. And it was sort of weird. I mean, there were probably about 25-30 single women out there and we were walking around in a circle around Tina while she was blindfolded. Suddently the DJ yelled out "toss it" and I was to Tina's side, and for some reason, she threw it to the side! Now, I haven't asked her yet why she threw it that way or if she was trying to purposely throw it to someone in particular, but whatever. The fact is, I caught it. And let me say I've been to LOTS of weddings. I've never even come CLOSE to catching the bouquet before. Now, as you probably know, the significance of catching the bouquet is this... the girl who catches the bouquet is the next to marry. Now obviously, that isn't true in my case, I mean, I don't even have a boyfriend! But I'm wondering if it atleast might mean someday soon I'll meet a really awesome guy. I don't want to get too optimistic, but eh... what the hell. I'll keep you posted. :-)

First, my brother and Theresa GOT MARRIED!! Be sure to look at their virtual wedding album as seen from my camera.

Secondly, I BOUGHT A NEW CAR!!!
Well, new for ME anyway. Check it out! 1998 Jaguar XK8... aint she a BEAUT?

Well, sorry this is short, but I've gotta get to work on downloading, cropping, resizing, resaving, and dictating all the photos from my trip to Wisconsin last week that include photos (see above link) from my brother's (and NEW sister's) wedding. You understand, right? Thanks. You are Oh So Generous!