updates

So...haven't posted in awhile but things have been crazy. My family is moving soon so we have to pack up our house and clean as well as seperating out stuff for college and appointments(doc, dentists, etc.). All of this on top of normal summer stuff, so it's been alittle hectic. Still been hanging with Dan, Emili, Jeff, Chad, Joe, Nate, Lyssa and Ben. Been playing games, going to movies, and going to concerts (Conscience to Kill hells yes). So I'll try to post more often, even if its just a couple photos I've taken during the week. starting next post which goes up in......10 minutes or so.

Memory Lane

My night was spent doing what every senior should do at least once during their summer before their first year of college: looking back.......okay so maybe I didn't do my walk down memory lane quite as poeticly as that but it was awesome. I spent my night making lanyards with Emily, Playing N64(Smash Bros, Harvest Moon, SuperMario 64) with my boys(Daniel, Chad, Jeff and Nate)and watching Adventures in Babysitting with my little group. It was soo much fun to look back on things that were once such a big part of my life and see how far I've come since then.

college confusion

Okay, so as of late, I'm completely confuzzled as far as college goes. I've narrowed my scope down to 2 colleges: Iowa State University and Drake University. Both institutes carry my program of interest, and are in my home state, so that's not where the controversy lies. The fact is that idk where I'd feel more comfortable.

ISU is a large state campus that pretty much dominates Ames(the city where its located) and has tons of people. Both of my older brothers(1 who dropped out during the semester and the other who left after the semester) went there and there's that feeling that I won't be able to handle it either. Several of my good friends this year are going there after graduation (including Ervin) and acouple of my older friends are freshmen there this(Chad and Cluney). So the familiarity of friends is a big draw to ISU.

Drake, on the other hand, is a medium-sized, private school(private as in not a state school and is almost ivy league), I've only met one or two people who've graduated from there and the only person I know who goes there is Daniel's cousin, Nate. So friends who I already know are pretty much out of the question, but with a smaller school it'd be easier to get to know more people. Also Drake has offered me a $10,000 scholarship to attend their institute, and that's not chump change.

Over all, what I want out of a college is a good program for my major, and not to feel lost in a crowd. I dealt with that for most od high school and I just started feeling like I'm part of something this year, so going back to nothing would suck big time. Mom and I are going to visit both campuses agian and she wants me to spend time with my friends at both universities to see if they can help sway me either way, so we'll see.

(Update 2/12/11: Chad has really pulled me to the ISU side of this puzzle.)

yeah soooo, about this.......

I'm sorry I haven't been posting much, my camera was dead for a while and well,...i'm lazy XD Ok, so last time we talked it was homecoming week and I was marching, recently though, marching has ended :( I miss it ton My section: The flutes(taken before the homecoming parade)

Daniel, my BF, and I went to homecoming with Tyrsa and her bf, Anthony. We had oodles of fun, and met up with our friends Kristine, Joanna and Patrick.

Me and Daniel before the dance

Unfortunately, our friend Taylor had a bad time at the dance. Luckily, he came back to Dan's house with us when we left and within 10 minutes he was feeling alot better. Taylor, emily and me after the dance :)

So thats what happened during homecoming, and after that there was marching festival after marching festival, at Iowa City we took 2nd(highest placing there yet), Urbandale we got 2nd, Valleyfest night show we took 5th(highest ever), at State we got a score of 91.3 which is a new school record, and at the night show we took 1st and stormed the field. Last friday was my last show and as a senior I was walked in front of the crowd, i had my bros walk me. So here's the pics:Tk, Joey, me, and Alex during the senior walk

Tommy, Me, Erik, and Ervin (Me and My Marching Boys)

The Senior Flutes: Steph, Joanna, me and Kayla

Dan, Me, and Nate at senior night

Jordan and me at senior night

So thats what you've missed while I was out and about on my various adventures.

Update!!!!

See the resemblance??

So, great news!!! My grandpa is much better and has been released from the hospital!!! I couldn't be happier. The past two days I've been spending some quality time with Dan's cousin, Monica( this is Nate's little sister). She's a great little chica, super sweet and funny. Personally, I think Nate needs to watch out cuz me and her might end up pranking him pretty good. :D
And for fourth, I'm going to spend time with the family at my Awesome Aunt Cindy's house. As always, games and food will be abundant and ,if weather permits, so will swimming.

For Nate(today) and Daniel(tomorrow)

The Other Night

Ok, so last night I stayed at my bf, Daniel's house. His cousin, Nate stayed over as well. Nate has a new obsession with hypnosis and he was eager to try out what he's learned. Needless to say he tried it on Dan and Randy while at Dan's grandparents house with only Randy having a positive reaction. So when they got back from there, Nate was feeling rather proud of himself and wanted to continue trying. So he convinced me to try it out, as well he got Em and Jeff to give it a shot.

Well, on my first try, I was able to get into the trance, but when first asked to do something start "convulsing"(Some of this will be in quotes cuz I only made it through one whole session out of 4, so the other 3 are fuzzy for me, but witnesses told me what happened.) Eventually, Dan and Nate got me calmed down. I awoke suddenly out of this one and ended up very sick(which happened every time I awoke suddenly without the command to.) The next session was an accident, Nate was trying to put Jeff under and it didn't work but he got me(he wasn't displeased). During this session, I'm told, I was made to do several tricks and once again awoke suddenly.


The next session, was a dual session, intended for both me and Jeff. Once again, Jeff slipped out of Nate's grasp while I laid within it. During this session the had me clench my fists which were "enclosed in cement blocks" until Nate said blanket, at which point i was able to free them. They also made it so that I'd awake still in Nate's grasp but any time he said book, I'd say "I love my laptop." It's very frustrating to not understand why you're saying something. He then put me back to "sleep" and awoke me with the command to try and get Em's shoe off the ground even though, it was "glued" there til Nate said pillow. Once again, frustrating. Nate was able to wake me from this trace with a command and, for once, I remembered it all and wasn't sick! :D

We did one more session but it ended like the first 2 so, I don't remember much, but I'm told that, I walk into Kenni's room talked a couple times, thinking: A) Kenni's name was Alfred, or B)Thinking my name was Helen Fitzgerald and I'm from Ireland. Nate tried to get me to forget everything except that my name was Katie but i started "convulsing" and Daniel(Always my protector ) made him command me to remember, which stopped the spastic breathing and movement. Next, Nathan tried to make me think I was the most beautiful girl on Earth and that I had won the Miss America pageant, and I was a very popular cheerleader.....Yep, you guessed It, this is where I woke up cuz that stuff ain't possible. Hehe, anyway, we'll be doing some more sessions soon hopefully and I'll take a video for the blog!

Wow, this was a long post...Hey look! A puppy ----->