It has begun...

As much as I sometimes hate this show...I can't help but watch it season after season after season... And EVERY season I think of Jennie Mack, Alanna, Sarah...and all the Survivor fans back in college...good times...

Since I am all caught up with Prison Break and I have to wait an entire week between episodes...I have taken up a new show...( I promise I do have a life...I actually work a lot...sometimes 13 hours a day...) Now I watch Private Practice...and I really like it...
It is a spin off of Greys Anatomy (which I did not watch) and I am only 4 episodes into it but I think I'm convinced. The second season airs on TV October 1st I think...
There is just one minor issue...I am pretty sure there is no way I am going to have a fulfilling life unless I marry Taye Diggs and become the mother of his adorable children...

One final thought... why on earth when they have an article about Clay 'coming out' do they have to show this picture...this is obviously not what he is like in real life...so unrealistic...

For crying out loud...

I have been asked by many of you if I am doing ok in this time of ...distress...and I want to you all know that I am fine. Clay may never want to be the father of my children (which is good since I'm sort of busy with Taye) but he can DEFINITELY still be my best friend in the whole wide world and I still think he is missing out by not knowing I exist...

I know....

...and I don't want to talk about it...

Just a Few Tidbits...

Nothing major has happened in the past few days...but I thought I would post a few random thoughts and interesting things...


I'm not going to lie...I've been sort of nervous about blogging ever since the owner (who I NEVER talk to) of the Extreme Pita that I eat at all the time mentioned that he had read my blog. He said that the Extreme Pita headquater people had sent him the link to my blog...and he thanked me for writing such nice stuff about it. I was so confused on so many levels...how did he know that I was the writer of said blog...how is it that the company even stumbled across my blog... how long ago did they send it to him...but most of all I was just embarrassed because unlike cool bloggers like Jake and...alot of others...my blog isn't written well enough for anyone other than friends and family....not that I care who reads it...I just didn't think anyone else would WANT to read it...


And that brings me to my next point...I am a little weary of writing about another chain restaraunt...but here I go anyway. Every morning I have to take some papers into the City of Phoenix and on my way out of town there is a McDonalds...and I have a REALLY hard time passing up McDonalds breakfast at 8:30 in the morning...sometimes I do...sometimes I don't...
I was a little nervous about stopping at this McDonalds because I have to drive through a shady part of Phoenix and I was nervous about what sort of hoodelums I might run into...But let me just tell you that this McDonalds makes the best looking breakfast sandwhich I have ever laid eyes on... and I have laid my eyes on many a McMuffin in my time...

I watched the first 3 seasons of Prison Break and the first few episodes of Season 4 in a matter of weeks....and I am afraid I have been permanently affected (effected?) by this...I have found that my trust level for people has gone way down and I am constantly looking over my shoulder and wondering who is spying on me and who is really 'on my side'...

The other day I was driving down to where I work and crossing the crosswalk was a man on a unicycle...I was nervous for him...but he seemed to know what he was doing...

I am obsessed with handwriting...especially my own. I will write and re-write something over and over again until it is perfect. I write best with a thin tipped sharpie...but sometimes that isn't always practical because of the bleed through (except Tacy gave me these amazing no bleed sharpie pens for my birthday and they are perfect...but unfortuanly I used them so much in just one short month and they are starting to run out of juice...or ink if you will... If I can't find a shapie I write best with a #2 pencil...the kind you have to manually sharpen and you can only use that kind on standard tests...And after that I prefer the 'clear' barrel bic pens and then a clicky pencils and after that it's all about the same...

Today my boss was on the phone with someone so I was taking a message for him and I just wrote down...Becky...D-Backs...and then her number. I honestly went through about 10 post-it notes without even thinking about it because the first 9 times I didn't like how I wrote it...

When I finished and I realized what I had done I coudln't help but wonder how mad Ashlie would be if she knew I had waisted that many post-its on a stupid note and I didn't even plan on recycling those extra 9...and also if there is some handwriters anonymous I need to look into joining because this probably isn't very healthy...

I got ink done...and lost my car insurance...

I do apologize for going A-wall on my blog...I just haven't had a whole lot going on... but I will update you on the few things that are new.

First...I got a tattoo...of course the picture up top is not an exact replica...but it is a butterfly and it is on the back of my neck...Ok...not really...but about a week ago at work (Lane Bryant) I stabbed myself with a felt tip pen and it made a dark black circle...and it is still there...I can't get it to go away...and I fear it may be permanent...

Here is an example of what my job is like. I work for a company called Metering Services and my part of the job is to schedule back flow prevention tests for companies and contractors who need back flow assemblies tested... The above picture is what the technicians do (I assume...I've never actually gone out and see what it is to test an assembly) and the picture below is the program I use all day long...I just happened to find a picture of it on google and so now if you really want to picture what I do all day...just look at the picture below... It took me quite a while to get used to it...it is sort of confusing...but I really enjoy what I do and I am catching on quickly...

In other news...My lame-o insurance company cancelled my frickin policy. I signed up on August 7th and I got a letter a few weeks later saying that they were happy to serve me...but my policy has been cancelled due to the 2 speeding tickets on my record....

I just have a couple questions...

1. Why is it that when I went it to inquire about a policy and gave them my name and drivers licence number and all that jazz...they didn't see my two tickets on my record. It's car insurance for crying out loud...you'd think that would be the first thing they look for...and that is why I think I might not of mentioned them when I went it...I just assumed they would know that....

2. Is it really that impossible to have car insurance with 2 speeding tickets on my record...and one of them being OVER a year ago? I mean...seriously...I know there are people out there with WAY worse than two...

So, naturally I have been calling the company and they keep giving me the run around saying that 'oh ya...I just don't know how this could happen...let me give you a call back in about a half an hour'...well...guess who is still waiting for that call back...

What I have concluded from my few calls with them is that I am actually not cancelled...but that the two tickets didn't show up when they looked me up because they looked up Katy...not Kathryn...and some other bull crap. They said they could keep me on my current policy rate for the next 6 months...but it would go up after that. But they keep saying that they need to make sure that there will be no more issues...and they will call me right back...

Bull...

And...I just got a letter from my bank saying that they were informed that my insurance was cancelled and so that jeopardize my loan since I have to have insurance to have a loan...

Lovely...

So that is what I've been trying to fix for the past couple weeks...on top of working almost every day from 8am to 9:30 pm....

If anyone has any suggestions about who is a good insurance company who isn't going to flake on me...I'm open for suggestions...

It's about time...

There have been endless instances since I moved to the AZ where me and Ashlie have said something to the effect of "Hey... (insert band name here) is in town in a couple weeks...we are definately going to that!" or "Wow...(insert some interesting thing to do here) is going on next week...we are definately going" ...

But...our 'going out and doing something' experiances have been...zero...

Well...we leave the house and stuff on the weekends but it usually just consists of going to Extreme Pita...or Applebee's for happy hour... or the $5.00 pizza buffet down the street...or if we are feeling crazy...it might be a trip to Texas Roadhouse or The Pita Jungle...

But....this sad tale is true no longer....

This weekend me and Ashlie and Alayna are going to see JIM GAFFIGAN!!!!!!

I highly recommend going to YouTube and looking up his skit on vegitarians or cake....

It's too funny...

One more addiction...that's the last thing I need...

The other day my roomate brought home some movies she aquired from her friend...
One of those movies was the first season of Prison Break....

Little did I know how that would change my life...

I watched the first season in a matter of days and immediately went out and had to purchase it for myself because I knew I could not live without this TV series in my possession...
I just got the 2nd and 3rd seasons(the 4th season just aired last week) in the mail today and let me just tell you what a bed potato (I have to watch DVD's in my room) I am going to be as soon as I get off work every day... The funny thing is when this series first aired I thought..."Oh come on...how can they make anything past one season of someone trying to break out of prison...either he does or he doesn't.....LAME!".... But I take it all back...

I can't explain exactly what it is about this show that is so amazing...
It could be the cast of extremely beautiful men in prison uniforms...
It could the the plot that make me anxious every single episode to see what is going to happen...
It could be the cast of extremely beautiful men in prison uniforms...

I just can't put my finger on it...

I'm your Huckleberry...

My sister Tuna was out visiting me last week...and one thing she really wanted to do was go to Tombstone...mostly because TAPS (a ghost hunting show on TV) went there and she love that show...
So we went...and here are some picture to prove it...

Me and Tuna

These are picture of the worlds largest rose bush. It covers over 8,000 sq ft and and the circumference of the trunk is over 12 ft. You can see how big it is cause Tuna is standing on one end of the branches and I'm on the other taking the picture.

The Famous Bird Cage Theatre where Taps found some interesting things.

At one place they had a 'haunted' tour you could go on...Ashlie was actually very scared in that picture...don't let that smile fool you. And the shop owner let us all three go for the price of two!

And these two pictures are of Tombstone...it is a lot like Nauvoo in the fact that it is a real town where people live and make a living...and then there is pretty much this one road with everything 'historic' on it. There are tons of shops and stores all run by the local townspeople...but these people here were way nicer than a good portion of the shop owners in Nauvoo. They really live up their history...they all dress like cowboys or saloon girls and they stand outside their shops and they talk to you....it's really fun! And... I don't think it was prime tourist season while we were there (as you can see from the empty streets) and the weather was GORGEOUS! It rained while we were there but instead of it getting muggy and hot like back at home...it cools everything way way down. It was so nice. And Ashlie met a hippie that ran a jewelry story there and now they are best friends. She even bought a necklace from him and if you look close you can see me wearing it in some of the pictures. And by some I mean one.

Like I mentioned before...it rained while we were there...but on the drive home it POURED...it was sort of nasty to drive home in. But...once we got through it...look what we spotted! And...I must mention Tuna's good photography skills since that is through a car window with the car going about 85 mph!

Parentals and Storms...

I am a little behind on my blogging stories...

My parents came down and visited me on their way back to Illinois....and one morning we went to the Phoenix Botanical Garden...it was super hot...but not too unbearable because it was morning...and as a bonus...we got in free because my dad is a member of every horticultural society under the sun...

So, now this week my sister has been visiting me (Tuna...not Tacy) and I feel sort of bad because she has a minor fear of storms...and while Arizona ... from my experience...is pretty free of rainstorms...we do have a monsoon season and for a couple of days while she was here we had some pretty amazing lightening storms...
I took a video of the storm one night and it was pretty amazing....it was non-stop lightening...it sort of seemed like I was watching a movie with a war going on in the background because the thunder was was far away so you could just barely hear the thunder in the background...but you could see big flashes of lightening all over the sky...it is really hard to explain...and I tried to post the video but I have no clue how to do it...
(disclaimer...the following picture is not my picture...just a google image photo)

...soon to come....Tuna, Ashlie and my visit to Tombstone AZ...home of the worlds largest rosebush and a lot of other fun stuff..... stay tuned!