Senior pic

Ok, so this isn't quite as fancy as I'm sure you'd imagine, but its me true to form and Its prolly one of my favorite pics of myself. So here it is:
Aren't I just the cutest damn thing you've ever seen??? Don't answer that. :D

College Apps

So, you can guess from the title that I've been working on applying to colleges(yay!) and for scholarships(needed desperately). In doing this I realized that I don't know what to write on my essays. I mean, when asked,"Please explain yourself as a person to us so we can judge if you're right for institution(which you're prolly not, but do it anyway). Oh, and do it in under 300 words." It's hard enough to answer that question in unlimited words. I had to look closely at myself just to realize that I did know a little of who I am but not everything....like not even close...at all. But here's what I sent to them so they'd "understand" me better:



I can't fully give you the answer to who I am, because I don't know that myself. I have no problem admitting this because I'm 18, not 90, my life is ahead of me and I haven't yet left the confines of high school or expierenced everything the world has to offer. But in my time trying to figure out who I was for this essay, I did come across a few truths of who I am and those I'll gladly share with you.

• My name is Katherine-Rose. I like my name, but it's long and people don't understand it, so I stick with just plain Katie.



• I'm a music addict, I can't live/study/ destress without it. At that, I'm also musically ADHD, having at least 3 music players open at once at all times.



• I love my family, all 3 of my brothers, my mother, my father, my step-mother and step sister, not to mention numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents, but at times its hard to get along. I strongly believe in the philosophy of "I'm not ALLOWED to hate you, I don't HAVE to like you, but I will ALWAYS love you" when it comes to family, especially my brothers (just kidding)



• I like food, this should be not nesscary to say(most people like food) but I don't just like eating, i also love to make it and study how to make it better.


• I have a blog where I better explain my thoughts and who I am, so check it out:http://howyouveremindedme.blogspot.com/

It went on for awhile, but it gave me an even better understanding of who I am and for that I am somewhat greatful....even if it took for frickin' ever to figure out how to word it.

fun with photoshop

I love my new passion for photoshop.

halloween (spooky laugh along the lines of muahhahahahaha)

So lately I've been caught up in a make up fiasco surrounding the holiday of Halloween. It started out as boredom(bordem?) relief and became a half way hobby. I've always been sorts of the local go to person for zed makeup (yes, i'm that good lolz) and i've been improving my work on this medium over the years.

To the left is my friend Frei in 2008 in my zed work. It's kinda catoonish and in my opinion now, kinda cheesy. To the right is Frei this year. I started going for a more matte look trying to dull the skin and lips, and sinking in the eyes. It still needs work admittably(I mean I gotta do something about those eyebrows and i wanna get more indepth on the gash on the side of his face...maybe make look like it was sewn up and then burst open by maggots...idk. anyway the techniques I use for this kinda stuff never really prepared me for what I've gotten myself into now...girly halloween makeup? Its been kind of a wierd transition but i think I'm doing pretty good. tell me what you think of these:The devil inspiration

The imp-spiration(lol for the pun)

Inspired by Magenta from Rocky Horror Picture Show

So let me know what you think, just leave a comment :)

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.

Homecoming week update!!

Ok, so Rock Around the Clock went awesome and my team kicked some heavy duty ass at a few of the activities. About 2/3 of our team met up at Panera for supper before hand, and then we met up with the others at the school. The rest of the night was filled with tug-a-war, relays, puzzles, balloons, and pudding......lots and lots of pudding, like so much that I won't be eating any for awhile. Our team started the night looking like this:

Group left to right: Matt Beary, Chase, Clara, Tyrsa, Katie, Jordan, Dell, Shoez, Amarr, Steeny, Jerin,Mrs. Burns, and Taylor

Of course after pudding fights and a Slip n' Slide of water and pudding, and in the case of chase who had pudding put on his face to throw cheese balls at, you look more like:

left to right: Steeny, Katie, Jordan, Shoez, Taylor, Tyrsa, Chase, Amarr, Jerin, Matt Beary, Dell, and Clara( Burns went home)

So tomorrow is the parade( I march with da band, hells yeah), then Friday is the game,and I'm marching half time(once more hells yeah), and Saturday morning I have a marching show(notice a pattern here?) and after that I get ready for and got to the homecoming dance. I'm going with my totally sweet bf, Daniel now that Kenni has to work. Dan hates dances, but said he go just to make me happy, and be with me(insert awww here). More info and pics to come!

Why yes...

I did spend a major part of my evening playing dress up. At first it started out as trying on my homecoming dress, for final fitting stuff(pics soon enough), but then it switched to trying on Renaissance Faire clothes for (hopefully) this weekend. Once I started on this path, it was a slippery slope. I started out in my fairy outfit, which became my gypsy outfit which transformed into pirate clothes somehow. Needless to say, I looked damn good in all of the outfits. Just Kidding but I did have fun, considering I've been feeling sick the last few days. Anyway, back to homecoming, I'll be participating in the dress up days( pics, I think so) as well as doing RATC(team building crap) and playing in marching band at the game(yes more pics there), and of course the dance(fingers crossed that it goes better then prom did). I'll be going with the fabulous Kenni and meeting up with the amazing Tyrsa and others.