Question: Is anybody even reading this blog anymore?
Question: Was anybody ever reading this blog at all?
Answer to both: Probably not.
However, I felt like posting, so gosh darnit, I'm gonna post.
Hooray! Christmas decorating is well under way. This makes me very happy. I can't wait until that day when I can fall asleep to the twinkling of a thousand lights. (This is surprisingly not much of an exaggeration.)
In other news: no school tomorrow! I don't even know why, I just know that I am thankful for a day off. Mostly because I decided to leave all my Thanksgiving break homework until now. Greeaat.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Where are you Christmas?
If Christmas music started on November 1 this year, I would not object. I usually disagree, but I'm definitely ready this season. So, bring it on B101. "We need a little Christmas" is stuck in my head this very moment. Because I DO need at least a little Christmas.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Facebook Fad: 25 Things
I did this a while back while I was procrastinating at school. It's fun. All you have to do is list 25 fun facts about yourself. I decided to post it here too so all can read, learn, and enjoy.
1. I actually have quite a lot of work I could be doing right now.
2. I will always think there was enough room on the door for both Rose and Jack.
3. The Cingular commercial where the dad goes on a business trip and shows how he has more bars in more places and then comes home to his daughter makes me tear up every time I see it.
4. I love the Olympics with all my heart (especially the Summer ones). I rearranged my schedule so I could watch when Michael Phelps was swimming. I’m going to London 2012 if I can afford it.
5. Since I came home from Ireland, I’ve gotten in the habit of watching way too much TV just because I can.
6. If I like a movie a lot I watch it repeatedly, sometimes even back to back.
7. I know it’s dumb but Mr. and Mrs. Smith is in my top five favorite movies if it’s not #1. I don’t even know why I love it so much. Brad and Angelina are the only celebrity couple I care about.
8. I’ve loved show tunes since my mom checked out the first Broadway Kids cassette tape from the library for me when I was little. My current favorite musical is Spring Awakening and it kills me that I can’t see it because it’s not on Broadway anymore.
9. I tend to latch on to things and obsess about them. For example, last year I watched the first episode of LOST online and then became obsessed with it and finished the first three seasons in about three weeks.
10. I am a Christmas fanatic.
11. When I studied abroad I visited a few other countries and I bought a Harry Potter book in the language of each country I went to. I have #1 in Gaelic, #2 in Portuguese, #3 in French, #4 in Spanish, and #5 in Italian. It’s the only collection besides postcards that I maintained during my travels. I also meant to do keychains, bumper stickers, and playing cards but I sort of forgot and I ended up broke after buying those books anyway.
12. I never plan on moving too far away from my hometown. All I really want to do is teach at the school where I grew up.
13. Traditions mean a lot to me.
14. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I hate my birthday, but I really don’t like it. I used cry the night before because I felt like I missed out on the number I was leaving behind.
15. My Skype icon is my indicator as to whether or not my Internet is working.
16. I got my first dog when I was sixteen and I absolutely adore her. I don’t ever want to own another dog because none will ever be as good as Pepper. She’s a black cockapoo. She doesn’t like me much but that doesn’t matter. I took her to get groomed a few weeks ago and she actually preferred the groomer to me.
17. I have a half.com account but no one ever buys my books even though the prices are really good.
18. My favorite part about the Ravens having a good season is that all the buildings in Baltimore city put up purple lights.
19. I read To Kill A Mockingbird every May because it feels like a Summer book.
20. This semester is the first time in 16 years that I’ve had my own bedroom. I’ve been sharing a room with my sister since she was born and we still share that room at home. I’ve never really known any other way and I don’t mind it.
21. Once I started a list of 100 things I wanted to do before I die but I got bored and only made it to number 15.
22. I love to play board games.
23. My dad wanted to name me Gertrude so he could call me Gertie like the girl from E.T. Instead they used to call me “Kristin Elizabeth Gert Urbanski”. I took the name Gertrude as my Confirmation name to make it more official.
24. My nickname growing up was Krikkit and a few people still call me that.
25. My nickname now is Kurbi and to hear my roommates call me anything different is strange.
1. I actually have quite a lot of work I could be doing right now.
2. I will always think there was enough room on the door for both Rose and Jack.
3. The Cingular commercial where the dad goes on a business trip and shows how he has more bars in more places and then comes home to his daughter makes me tear up every time I see it.
4. I love the Olympics with all my heart (especially the Summer ones). I rearranged my schedule so I could watch when Michael Phelps was swimming. I’m going to London 2012 if I can afford it.
5. Since I came home from Ireland, I’ve gotten in the habit of watching way too much TV just because I can.
6. If I like a movie a lot I watch it repeatedly, sometimes even back to back.
7. I know it’s dumb but Mr. and Mrs. Smith is in my top five favorite movies if it’s not #1. I don’t even know why I love it so much. Brad and Angelina are the only celebrity couple I care about.
8. I’ve loved show tunes since my mom checked out the first Broadway Kids cassette tape from the library for me when I was little. My current favorite musical is Spring Awakening and it kills me that I can’t see it because it’s not on Broadway anymore.
9. I tend to latch on to things and obsess about them. For example, last year I watched the first episode of LOST online and then became obsessed with it and finished the first three seasons in about three weeks.
10. I am a Christmas fanatic.
11. When I studied abroad I visited a few other countries and I bought a Harry Potter book in the language of each country I went to. I have #1 in Gaelic, #2 in Portuguese, #3 in French, #4 in Spanish, and #5 in Italian. It’s the only collection besides postcards that I maintained during my travels. I also meant to do keychains, bumper stickers, and playing cards but I sort of forgot and I ended up broke after buying those books anyway.
12. I never plan on moving too far away from my hometown. All I really want to do is teach at the school where I grew up.
13. Traditions mean a lot to me.
14. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I hate my birthday, but I really don’t like it. I used cry the night before because I felt like I missed out on the number I was leaving behind.
15. My Skype icon is my indicator as to whether or not my Internet is working.
16. I got my first dog when I was sixteen and I absolutely adore her. I don’t ever want to own another dog because none will ever be as good as Pepper. She’s a black cockapoo. She doesn’t like me much but that doesn’t matter. I took her to get groomed a few weeks ago and she actually preferred the groomer to me.
17. I have a half.com account but no one ever buys my books even though the prices are really good.
18. My favorite part about the Ravens having a good season is that all the buildings in Baltimore city put up purple lights.
19. I read To Kill A Mockingbird every May because it feels like a Summer book.
20. This semester is the first time in 16 years that I’ve had my own bedroom. I’ve been sharing a room with my sister since she was born and we still share that room at home. I’ve never really known any other way and I don’t mind it.
21. Once I started a list of 100 things I wanted to do before I die but I got bored and only made it to number 15.
22. I love to play board games.
23. My dad wanted to name me Gertrude so he could call me Gertie like the girl from E.T. Instead they used to call me “Kristin Elizabeth Gert Urbanski”. I took the name Gertrude as my Confirmation name to make it more official.
24. My nickname growing up was Krikkit and a few people still call me that.
25. My nickname now is Kurbi and to hear my roommates call me anything different is strange.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Sky Diving T-shirts: A Meaningless Tale
Today at work, I was doing a tie-dye activity with the four-year-old class. The director came out and asked one particular child what he was doing. He excitedly told her, "We're sky diving t-shirts!" What a great job I have.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Fireworks and Rod Serling
Kristin and I have decided that the best way to celebrate the birth of our nation is to stay inside for the greater part of the day and watch The Twilight Zone Marathon on SciFi (soon to be SyFy...how weird). If you have not yet made this a tradition in your family, get on it. It's so worth it. Rod Serling can offer you so many pieces of wisdom, for instance, don't be surprised if you're actually a mannequin who is taking a month to live among humans. It could happen to anyone. And if you find that the Earth has fallen out of orbit and is hurtling towards the sun, try pinching yourself-it could be that the Earth has fallen out of orbit and is hurtling away from the sun, and you were just having a bad dream. And kids, if you have bickering, abusive, or just plain terrible parents, try diving into your nearest swimming pool and going deeper until you reach another world. There, you can help good old Aunt T bake a chocolate cake and hang out with Huck Finn-like characters. Like I said, the marathon is so worth it.
For the rest of the fourth, we'll be in Pennsylvania, hanging with the fam and watching good old fashioned fireworks, PA style. Which is kind of appropriate, seeing as how that's where the Declaration was signed and all. (Another tradition-watching 1776. I know, it was lame in fifth grade, but it grows on you.)
Happy 4th of July!
For the rest of the fourth, we'll be in Pennsylvania, hanging with the fam and watching good old fashioned fireworks, PA style. Which is kind of appropriate, seeing as how that's where the Declaration was signed and all. (Another tradition-watching 1776. I know, it was lame in fifth grade, but it grows on you.)
Happy 4th of July!
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Long Time No Post
"What's with the lack of blog updates??" I've been asking myself that a lot lately, and today I finally decided to do something about it. I just woke up this morning and said to myself, "Katie, it's your job to get this blog off it's butt and post today." So that is exactly what I'm doing.
Nothing spectacular has really been happening, which at least explains why there hasn't been a post in so long. All I can say is, if you're one of the people with incredibly good taste who watches Harper's Island, then Saturday night was a good night for you. You're probably also feeling that July 11 can't come fast enough. Don't worry, you're not alone.
That's really kind of all I have to say. I apologize for the lack of news/humor/interesting stories in this blog post. But hey, a post is a post, right?
Nothing spectacular has really been happening, which at least explains why there hasn't been a post in so long. All I can say is, if you're one of the people with incredibly good taste who watches Harper's Island, then Saturday night was a good night for you. You're probably also feeling that July 11 can't come fast enough. Don't worry, you're not alone.
That's really kind of all I have to say. I apologize for the lack of news/humor/interesting stories in this blog post. But hey, a post is a post, right?
Monday, June 15, 2009
The Nail Polish Incident: What Really Happened
So there I was, innocently playing Super Mario Bros. on the DS and watching National Treasure (starring Nicholas Cage). Katie had painted her nails and had also used the super drying spray which looks like hairspray but is most certainly not for hair. (Learned that the hard way over the weekend, but that's a story for another time.) Katie insists that this special super-duper nail polish drying spray is nothing but scented condensed air, but I think it's something far more sinister because even now I am high as a kite from the fumes.
Katie, in her infinite wisdom, apparently thought her nail polish was dry enough to do complicated things such as type messages on the computer. She probably would have been fine if she had been using a normal, working computer and not my junk bucket of a laptop. See, the screws that hold my screen up are broken (hardcore snapped, crackled, and popped) and the whole top half of my Gateway wiggles like a loose tooth. At any given moment, the screen could (and does) come crashing down on the typist, crushing his or her hands between the keyboard and screen. If one had freshly painted fingernails...well, you can imagine what might happen then.
I was just about to get that third coin for Mario and Luigi when the I heard the top half of the computer come crashing down. Nothing new. But then, I heard Katie yell, "MY NAILS!" and, as an afterthought, "Your screen!" Luckily, she got most of it off, though I can still see some hot pink specks, so she'll be taking care of those ASAP. Sadly, her nails were not so lucky. She had to scrap the whole idea and now sports naked fingers again.
Movie's ending. Spoiler alert: Nicholas Cage wins.
Katie, in her infinite wisdom, apparently thought her nail polish was dry enough to do complicated things such as type messages on the computer. She probably would have been fine if she had been using a normal, working computer and not my junk bucket of a laptop. See, the screws that hold my screen up are broken (hardcore snapped, crackled, and popped) and the whole top half of my Gateway wiggles like a loose tooth. At any given moment, the screen could (and does) come crashing down on the typist, crushing his or her hands between the keyboard and screen. If one had freshly painted fingernails...well, you can imagine what might happen then.
I was just about to get that third coin for Mario and Luigi when the I heard the top half of the computer come crashing down. Nothing new. But then, I heard Katie yell, "MY NAILS!" and, as an afterthought, "Your screen!" Luckily, she got most of it off, though I can still see some hot pink specks, so she'll be taking care of those ASAP. Sadly, her nails were not so lucky. She had to scrap the whole idea and now sports naked fingers again.
Movie's ending. Spoiler alert: Nicholas Cage wins.
Of National Treasure and Nail Polish
Welcome, friends, to Kristin and Katie's Monday night. Watching National Treasure and painting our nails. Or, in my case, painting my nails, accidently smudging fresh nail polish on Kristin's computer screen, and then promptly un-painting said ruined nails. Easy come, easy go.
Today, after surviving class number 6 of Driver's Ed, I came home and worked on my scrapbook for a little bit. I've decided that since I'll be going into the eleventh grade, it's time to finish documenting my eighth grade year. It wouldn't be so great to have that project carry over into college.
Tomorrow I'll be going to the pool with some friends. It should be fun (and let's face it, I'm in serious need of a tan).
I should probably get to bed if I want to stay awake in Driver's Ed. Tomorrow's lesson: The Affects of Drugs on Driving. Lucky me.
Today, after surviving class number 6 of Driver's Ed, I came home and worked on my scrapbook for a little bit. I've decided that since I'll be going into the eleventh grade, it's time to finish documenting my eighth grade year. It wouldn't be so great to have that project carry over into college.
Tomorrow I'll be going to the pool with some friends. It should be fun (and let's face it, I'm in serious need of a tan).
I should probably get to bed if I want to stay awake in Driver's Ed. Tomorrow's lesson: The Affects of Drugs on Driving. Lucky me.
Friday, June 12, 2009
In Which Kristin Dictates and Katie Types
5 trite things we are not going to say in our first blog post:
You're gonna wanna follow us like a fat kid follows the ice cream truck.
- We have a blog!!!!!!!!!!
- What up, blogosphere?!
- What to say, what to say?
- This is our first blog post.
- Welcome to our blog.
You're gonna wanna follow us like a fat kid follows the ice cream truck.
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