Lies of Omission

I mean come on, technically we have all been guilty of omitting something for the better of the majority.  Sometimes, you want to spare feelings, prevent drama, or even just keep a little mystery in your life.
But what about those things that could be harmful to other people?  For me at least, thats a no brainer, you tell them.  Say you have pink eye, simple enough, super annoying but not too hard to handle.  If I had pink eye and had been exposed to my friends or strangers, I would immediately tell those certain people that needed to know.  Sure I would be embarrassed that I had contracted such a thing but in that circumstance, I would feel worse if that thing I had was spread to my friends and I hadn't even told them about it.  How scary would that be?  To just have something wrong with you but not know what it was or where you got it from?
That would be bad kids, very bad and highly irresponsible.
So I am here to tell you this: If there is something wrong with you that is contagious.  TELL PEOPLE. If you don't you're being an inconsiderate asshole.  Sorry, but it's true.
It may be a simple as pink eye, or as severe as a transmittable disease
Be honest, be upfront, and don't be embarrassed.  It will be better for everyone if you just get it out of the way.

Obviously this is something in some form or another that I am currently experiencing, I will not go into details but something like the above is currently having a large effect on my life,  and I do not like it.

I hope you are all having spectacular weeks and that if you are in school you are nearing the end and are about to move on!  Yay.

Have a super lovely day!
Song of the Day: Mercy By: Kanye West

Musings from the Insomniac

Superlatives.  I never realized just how often I use them.  "Oh this is the funniest show ever"  Do you know how many shows I've dubbed to be "the funniest ever"?  No?  Well neither do I.  But, I can tell you this, when I was just watching an episode of How I Met Your Mother, for about the fifth time, I uttered that exact phrase.  However I bet that I've said that in numerous shows.  When I was younger it would have been in reference to Gilmore Girls, where I learned just how funny sarcasm could be.  Later on it could have been Friends, and several others, but today it's HIMYM (the new Friends), tomorrow it will probably be New Girl.  Which brings me to this question:  How reliable am I?  My opinions change daily, though this is based on something minute and unimportant as television, I'm sure I stick to character in other areas, how soon will it be until I say speak the words "greatest movie ever" or "Best food I've ever had"? Oh dear.  I believe I've said these phrases even more than the former.  Are superlatives ruining my life?  Maybe.  But it could also be the lack of sleep I've had over the past seven days (Insomnia one week anniversary!!)

I hope that where ever you are, you stick to your guns, that you aren't a superlative whore like I've found myself to be.  I also really hope you've all been getting more sleep than I have, and I hope you're having a wonderful week

Because I missed it last week based on my feelings of being lazy on holidays, let me say this now.  I am thankful for the life I lead, for the opportunities that are set before me, though I on the occasion make light of them.  I am thankful for my family close-knit and extended, these are the people that will be with me till the end....whether they like it or not.  I am also thankful for the people I choose to surround myself with, pleased with how new relationships have begun and grown and even happier with those I've been able to retain.  I love you all, thank you for your support.

Song of the Day: Don't Wake Me Up By: The Hush Sound (get it? I'm hilarious)

FAME

I love all of you, lets be lovers, you're one step closer to being famous.
I don't know what it is about this specific chair in this specific lecture hall, but it seems to grant me a great amount of productivity.  But I have decided not to look this gift horse in the mouth, if you will.....I've never understood that phrase but whatever.
OMG the prof just said "people consider this a sweet chapter because we talk about sugars" Oh O chem II prof, thank you for keeping things fresh, you go bro, you go.
This week I have once again been working on my photography project that seems never ending, and attempting, and I use that word extremely lightly, to start a youtube channel.  The largest problem with my start is, I'm not fucking funny at all.  Like really?! As soon as I turn on the camera, I become this loud, crazy person who has absolutely no purpose on the planet, let alone on youtube. Nonetheless, I will continue my endeavors and practicing being on camera for the greater good, and all my fans :)
I had something else to say......I can't remember......
This week in my life, I have been talking to my sister a lot about what it takes to be truly famous; one of my favorite discussions we had, was what it takes to be a famous person in the public eye.  We concluded that to go out in public, the general consensus of people with fame is that if they cover their eyes with sunglasses and look down, they must be a famous person hiding, and trying to be normal.  But really, aside from that old song, who wears their sunglasses inside? Very few people, you're either hungover, or ridiculously famous.  Those are the only possibilities.  Really.  So.  I have decided to run an experiment, when I go to places that are trendy and popular, I will put on my shades and perhaps a hat or sweater and see just what types of attention are granted to me.
Hopefully, this will prove to be an entertaining experiment in which I give out autographs and take pictures with people.  I really want to see how far I can take this like, if people come up to me and I ask "whats your favorite song of mine?"  I wonder what they would say.  Extremely excited to share the results with you my lovers.

Poem for the sake of a poetry

A good friend is hard to find
They're someone who keeps you on their mind
They're always there whenever you ask,
especially when you need a sip of their flask
They're the people you need to keep you check,
the person you go to when you want to get wrecked

You love them with all of your heart,
Even when beside you, they fart (Nina <3)
This poem should not be taken seriously,
In fact it solely exists because I feel Silly :)
<3

Im feeling 22

Hi my lovely love love loves of my life love!

How are we doing on this lovely November? I hope very well.
Well loves, I am now 22 which is pretty super.  I just got back from Las Vegas and needless to say, it was pretty unreal, in the best ways possible!  There was gambling to do, shows to see, shopping to be done, and I did it all friends, and potentially more because did I mention the hard hours I put in to dancing my ass off at XS and Tryst?  Because I did.  It was so amazing, and thanks to my father, I was a VIP guest of the hotel and I got to skip around and do what ever I want all of the amazing rolled into two days was almost too much to handle.  Ok, all excitement and bragging aside, I'm 22 now, far more mature than 21, and yet, I feel no legitimate change in my personality.  (Emo?) Nah, not really.  Just that I kind expected to feel a little different, and I don't, but I suppose that even still, someday I will feel that change.  Good things come to those who wait, that's what they say right?
Anyway, I hope you all are doing well, my life has been one hot mess after another, I broke my foot in some drunken crazy mess, I chopped off the tip of my thumb cooking for my lovely friends, and last weekend, I fell off of a curb, scraped my knee, and bruised my other foot! :(
Needless to say, hot mess.  Another new and exciting venture in my life, is all of the work I have been putting into my photography!
As most of you should know, I am starting a venture, a photo shoot that is my interpretation of Alice in Wonderland, the shoot takes place in February and right now I am working on costumes and concept!
I am very happy to say the entire shoot has already been casted!  I will post the cast list in my next post for those who are interested!
I have also been doing informal shoots over the weekends to clear my mind and to keep myself somewhat sane.  Sometime this week, I will be posting those to my other website: www.kathrynbphotography.com go ahead and check it out if you have nothing to do! :)
I hope you all are having incredible Novembers and hopefully I will get my act together and start posting on here more frequently!

As always, Have a lovely day! :)

Song of the Day: 22 By Taylor Swift (if isn't good but it is fitting!)

Lost, again. aka the Abby Castro Show

Don't ask me how or why friends, but once again, I find myself in the belly of the Organic Chem II lecture hall.  There's a test coming up so its time to knuckle down and get into chemistry gear.  I am once again questioning my future. What if I actually knew what all those funky shapes the professor is drawing are?  I could be a fucking doctor!  I could be a Grey's Anatomy doctor!  I could be ANYTHING.  But lets get real people.  Me? A Doctor? Its laughable. Can you imagine me delivering news to a patient?  I have no concept of bedside manner, I'd be out of a job as soon as I nervously giggled through telling someone they have a tumor.  Yep.  I'm that doctor.
Or better yet, I could be a physicist.  Do I even need to elaborate on this to get a laugh out of you? Yea, didn't think so.
Even still!  I could be an engineer!  I could make tons of really cool things, like the revolving closet from Clueless, or and automatic outfit arranger!  Yep, that's all I would do.
That one wasn't as funny, oh well.
The bottom line is, my desires really don't match up with the depth and intellectual demands that are present in this specific major.  And thats ok!  Where my dear friend Abby could become a surgeon, I could become an author, a photographer, an english teacher, a grant writer, there are so many possibilities, I chose this major because I knew that I would NEED to have several options as to what I could do in the future.  I cannot be satisfied with settling down with one job for the rest of my life.

On a completely unrelated note, I am already getting stressed out about my photo shoot in the near future, if anyone would like to help me on concept and costume ideas, they would be greatly appreciated!  It just helps me to talk out my ideas and I love getting suggestions, its a modern day rendition of Alice in Wonderland, called Alice in my land.  Any suggestions at all are greatly appreciated!


SONG OF THE DAY: "Beg Me" by Denver Duncan.

Special shout-out to Abby Castro for her contribution in today's song selection.  Denver is a local singer/song writer from Oklahoma.  Be sure to look him up on iTunes for the best version quality, or even buy it for just $0.99.  You won't regret it!

PICTURE OF THE DAY: (Shout out to Abby continued)

She's single everyone!!!! Message in the comments for her number :)

Have an awesome day! :)

Stalkers

Lets be real.  In one way or another, everyone has one, and in turn, everyone is one.  I showed that first line to three of my friends, and everyone nodded in agreement.  This is our society, we are a community of creepy individuals, with our facebooks, twitters, smart phones, you name it, (I never go anywhere without at least two pieces of high-tech gadgetry) we are so "connected" but in reality, all I feel is a dramatic lack of connection.  No, this isn't an emo "no one understands me" kind of moment, merely an observation.  Take this morning for instance, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I meet with the greatest group of people on campus, MGoC, you've probably heard of us, we're big in the union.  As I was saying, I met with my MGoC'ers and immediately, three out of the four of us pulled out our computers and two of us pulled in one headphone and proceeded to listen to music, get on Facebook, googling, and pinning things.  And this isn't an attack by any means, I was most certainly one of those people both on their computer and listening to music.  Its just an observation, when did this happen?  When did we become these people who cant sit still without an IV of internet and a double dose of smart phone?  And this is something I really don't have an answer to, I don't even know if its necessarily a bad thing, our generation grew up with this awesome internet thing, and we, like it have grown bigger and stronger.  To go completely out of my comfort zone and into the realms of science, a symbiotic relationship, if you will, we need each other do thrive.  At least, thats how I feel especially after my google drought.
I think I've come to a pleasing place mentally and will close this blog with a series of boop.  I realize that the title really doesn't reflect the blog at all anymore but oh well, not changing it.


BOOPS!!!

SONG OF THE DAY: Lil Freak by: Usher 

The End of an Era

I know what you're thinking, two blogs, one day, it must be the apocalypse.  Close.  Now shut up and sit down, the grown ups are talking.
Today marks the end of an era.  In less that 12 hours, my wisdom will be extracted from me.  It will be goodbye brilliance and wisdom, and hello mashed potatoes and ice cream (not together)
I am home from my collegiate hideaway and let me tell you, I am very ready to go back.  You see, in Norman, I live by myself, which means, no one comments if I wear sweatpants all day, no one scoffs if I take a 4pm nap, and no one complains if I just want to eat peanut butter for dinner.  Here there is a strict set of social rules that I essentially threw out the window in my apartment.  And I'm not saying that rules are bad, because they aren't of course, just that it will take some getting use to.
I thought I would sit down at my computer and spout off loquacious wisdom to you readers of mine and yet, theres nothing in my head but dread and fear.  So, for the second time today, this is where I leave you, I hope those of you with your wisdom intact, head for the hills so no one can take it from you, and those who are without wisdom, like I soon will be.....maybe we can like start a support group of something?  Yes, that sounds lovely.

Have a nice night you lovelies, if you're in Oklahoma, I hope you're enjoying the thunder as much as I am <3

Song of the.....evening?  Mariella ------------> By Kate Nash <3

Smell and Remember!

I hope you all enjoyed that comical post from my dear friend, Nina, if you'd like to see more of her, go to her blog, Dreaming Nina, its linked on the side of my blog!  Unfortunately, I'm back now, so get out your dictionaries because you're in for a ride with my sesquipedalian ways.  


Lately I have noticed with a sharper frequency that certain fragrances transport me to various memories of my past.  I know that scents have a direct correlation with one's own memories but as of late, I have noticed more and more certain smells that cause me to reminisce about times past.

For example, every time I wash my hands on campus, (which is all the time) the smell of that generic, industrial supply soap, reminds me of my days as a camp counselor, when that soap could be the only source of hygiene I experienced in a day.  I think it is interesting that at camp, this is completely normal, missing a shower here and there, getting into a mud fight, all such activities of messy debauchery with minimal care or social pressure to clean up.  I remember one time I was a counselor at camp, my friend and I took a bunch of campers on a four day canoe trip where we had absolutely no access to pummeling and on my first day back, not only did I look like a disaster, but when I tried to brush my hair, a simple form of grooming, the brush was stuck in my ratty hair, it was like a scene from the princess diaries!

Just the other day, I went to Target for some groceries, however, as usual, that is not the only thing I went home with, I blame the fact that I was there alone.  But never the less, I decided I needed some new candles so I went to the appropriate aisle and began opening and smelly each and every one to pick my favorites.  Then.  There was a candle called "Silver Birch" I slowly opened the lid, bent my nose to a closer proximity and my head immediately filled with the musky scent of one of my best friends, Patrick.  I literally almost bought the candle based solely on this fact!  While smelling the candle I thought about Patrick, I also thought about the fact that I have been a horrible friend to him lately, as I am not the greatest at long distance friendships, so I called him, we talked for a long long time and it was lovely.  I can't help but feel guilty though, because I doubt I would have called him, had I not smelled him (Cause that doesn't sound weird)


As embarrassed as I am to say this, currently, those are the only two instances that I can think of, so this, my dear friends is where I take my leave, please do not expect any posts from me for the next week, I am losing all of my wisdom tomorrow :( very very sad, I know.
As always lovelies, I hope your lives are going well!!!

Song of the Day: Die in Your Arms ----> Justin the Bieber :)

Hijacked post!

So I am not the usual loquacious Miss Benear, I am her sneaky side kick Bee!

Muhahahaha!!!!

I am sitting here listening to Kate clean up her kitchen after making a delicious meal THAT I CAN'T EAT! Well actually I could, but I already ate!

So what shall I say in the hijacked blog post? First I would like to point out that Miss Benear is probably one of the coolest people I know! She is amazingly loyal and I'm glad everyday she's in my life! Well most days.... hahaha. For any of you that don't know her, she is quite literally great at being a friend. Can someone actually be great at being a friend? Well Kate definitely can! I look forward to this future weekend when she will be high on pain killers and I can sit there and laugh and she won't take offense! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

I don't really know what else to say, so I will tell you about my dream last night!

I had a dream that I was born with an ability to talk to animals so all my friends were animals. My two besties were a hippo and a grizzly bear! Anyone want to interpret that for me? I think it's purely funny!!

Once again, I love Kate and I hoped you enjoyed this hijacked blogpost!

Excited

Hello blog beauties!

As some of you know, I am finally putting together my first, very large scene shoot!  This is something I have wanted to do for a long time, I have been planning and thinking the logistics through for quite some time and I am finally ready to get underway with the production!  My intensions are to have a shoot that I am calling "Alice in my land"  the basic idea is to take the innocence of Alice from "Alice in Wonderland" and transform the antagonists into what I think they would be like in modern times.
I don't want to give anything away, and I also haven't finished casting or constructing my actual idea but, I'm excited because I'm picking up speed on the project with the intention of putting it together in the next few months.  This is the first really big production I have been in charge of and I couldn't be more excited!
In other news, my foot is currently in some disrepair state between being fractured and broken.  Which basically means I get to look like a weird crippled person for the next two months.  How did it happen? No one knows.....which is quite possibly the most frustrating thing in the world.
I have decided to abstain from any and all organic chem classes that come my way.  It just isn't my cup of tea, to me, science is cold and impersonal.  I throughly enjoy what I have chosen to do with my life.
Well I hope you are all having a lovely time this week and have a wonderful day!

Song of the Day: Howlin' For You by The Black Keys

Im In OChem?!

Hi all,
Today I write to you from the belly of the O chem II lecture hall.  A lot of you may be asking yourselves what I'm doing in here, don't worry my lovelies, I'm wondering the same thing.  Somehow, I got dragged into coming to a lecture to see if "I wanted to be a doctor" well, the lecture has yet to come to a close and I can tell you with great confidence, that I do not.
Today is my first day with the power to use google after a week long, torturous dry spell, if you will and interestingly enough, I haven't googled anything yet.  I know, I'm just as shocked, confused and disinterested as you are.  Who cares Kate? Probably no one.  I just thought in the efforts of being completely honest with my online forum, I'd would let you know, take it as you will dear friends.
I just looked up from my screen to the domineering computer screen in front of me, I am very curious as to whether I am the only one in this lecture hall that has no idea whats going on, surely not, there are so many people here, surely at least one other person finds themselves in here by chance, surely theres another scared and confused Lit major in the room.
Rambling.  I do this when I'm nervous, I'm nervous because I'm at a disadvantage scholastically when comparing myself to these science people.  Ok friends, I'm at a loss for words, the professor's scientific babble is too hypnotic, I think now I shall learn about some Ions.
As always what ever you endeavor to do, do it well, whether you're in bed, in the library, or trapped in an O Chem class,
Until next time.


Oh yes friends, its back!
Song of the day: Some Nights by, Fun.

End to the Madness

Hi everyone,
I greet you with a faint heart on this, the eve of the end to the madness.  I am half the person I used to be.  I feel debased without my search engines, as Im sure Nina would agree about her cleavage. I am a void.
Ok fair enough, that is slightly dramatic but when you're forced to give up your greatest vice, cold turkey or "suffer the consequences" well lets just say its not something I would wish on anyone.  As stated in my previous blog, the act of writing down everything I want to google has shown me that I am an extremely strange person.  But is there anything wrong with that?  I think not.  What some (Nina) may call an annoying need to be right (which is true), I call curiosity, so I want to know the answers to all of the questions life throws at me, is that so bad?  You'd be surprised at just how many times a day the average person uses google, had I the ability (still not cracking), I would absolutely and unashamedly  be the first one to spout that statistic off to you.
Looking back, I wonder if everyone in the world would be able to see their worst habit or offense and makes efforts for one week to change it.  Would they do it?  What exactly would happen?  Personally, I think most people have stronger vices than Nina and I.
And for myself and Nina, I believe that if these are the two things that hinder us from being who we truly are, odds are, we're pretty great.  And I speak from experience, Nina is awesome :)
Its 4 pm on Sunday, just a few hours from our goal and I can hardly contain my excitement.  In the last day alone, my list of google-able items has doubled.  It is a relief that I welcome with both arms open.
I think we can all learn a lot from abstaining from that one thing that we can't get enough of, be it sex, drugs, alcohol, a search engine fancy, or an enjoyment of ones cleavage, it never hurts to take a break, I think this time of reflection has actually made me fall into a deeper love with google and all its best friends (yahoo, askgeeves, wikipedia, etc)

Whatever you endeavor to do in life, I hope you do it well, as always have a wonderful day!

Lets the Games Begin

For those of you who are not currently aware, allow me to enlighten you, Dreaming Nina and I are best friends.  Shocking, I know.
Because of our friendship, we have come to a stage of over-familiarity.  We know how to push each others buttons and fervently do so on a daily basis.  Because of this, we throughly enjoy to "torture" each other.
As of late, we have entered into a double sided bet, highlighting our biggest weaknesses.
For the next week, I am absolutely banned from using any web search engine of any kind, this is to prey on my absolute obsession with always being right.

Its day three now and I'm slowly beginning to fall apart, there are so 

many things I would like to know and so many things I would like to 

ask my old friend google, and yet, I cannot. 

In order to stave off my personal Achilles, I have 

been forced to write down every question I have 

for google.  It has allowed me to reflect on just

how strange I truly am.  

An excerpt: 

Can you sprain your toe?

Learn more about the Amish

Are there poisonous bugs in Oklahoma?

When does Vampire Diaries come back on?

Just a few from a long winded and ever growing list, I assure you

holding out will be the hardest thing to date.  

The reason I have to hold out is, with every bet you make, there is an ultimate consequence, and in this case, its quite strange, to say the least.  The loser, who gives in will have to participate in what we like to call, "Awkward Elevator Games"  for a full list, please google it, I can't remember them all and I also can't look them up to find out what they are but needless to say, they are embarrassing.  What makes it more interesting however is that if we both win, we both have to do the games!  (I never said this made any sense at all)  

So if you're reading this, odds are you're curious to know what Nina's side of the bet is, well let me tell you, its a good one.  For those of you who know Nina, its even more enjoyable, she has to go a week without showing cleavage.  None at all.  For a whole week.  She has been dutiful in her sending me a picture of her crew neck tee every morning, and I don't know why but I think it is the funniest thing in the world.  

If anything of interest should arise from this wager, you'll be the first to know, I hope you are succeeding in all that you aim for this week and make it a good one, as always have a wonderful day, a wonderful week, and please, send me random google facts so I can get my fix <3

College. Is a strange place.

Hello not sure if anyone actually reads this anymore, but if you do, I love you!!

So today has been a day of strange happenings in my surroundings, and really its just two things but due to the time concentration of the two events, it hit me with a higher magnitude than it normally would have.  So here I am in my awkward hour between classes and I felt it necessary to reflect on my morning.
My first class this morning is a pretty big lecture class on Archaeology, a word I am getting very tired of writing in my notebook, fun abbreviations, even if they aren't relevant would be appreciated in comment form!  Anyway, I always get to class thirty minutes early in order to get a spot on the front row.  And for the last three classes, I have sat next to the same guys.  Today however when I walked in, I could tell they were judging my messy hair and my thunder shirt, nike shorts combo.  By the way, let the record show that I actually come straight from the gym to this class so yes, one of few who rocks "norts" out of necessity.  But nonetheless, they were judging me.  Me.  Big senior on campus was being judged by, I could only assume, to lonely and weird freshmen boys.  So as I went to my seat, I felt kinda sad that they didn't think I was cool enough to sit next to them, but I pulled out my notebook to get ready anyway.  Not two seconds later did the one further from me whip out his iPhone and start up an app.  Then I hear this "dude use snorlax, USE SNORLAX!"  now, correct me if I'm wrong but Snorlax, is the name of a pokemon (I know I'm not wrong, pokemon for life) and again correct me if I'm wrong, but is that not a game for preteens from the 90's?  It is.  And I'm all for reliving childhood memories but for a guilty pleasure like pokemon? You pick front row of a very quiet lecture hall to yell out pokemon names and moves?  Bold.  Bold.  Anyway the point is I felt awesome and cool (even in my disarray) because at least I wasn't playing pokemon OUT LOUD in a two hundred person lecture hall, getting judged by everyone.
After my first class I have this lovely hour wait before the commencing of my following class so I pack a lunch, head over to my next building, climb to the second floor and sit in a comfy chair in the corner that has a slight view of the lobby below.  I like it here (here right now!!) because no one bothers me and no one else wants to sit up here.  But today, this day, while i was eating my container of peaches, some crazy art chick came bounding up the stairs and yells FREE BAGELS!!!!!  I look up from my diligent pinteresting to see a girl with a trash bag full of bagels!  Several people from down below begin to cheer as she is literally just chucking bagels from the balcony, there has never been a moment where I've wished to have my camera out more than I did twenty minutes ago.  People were catching them with their teeth, standing on chairs, and one poor girl with head phones even got hit in the head with one.  It was very enjoyable to be an onlooker in such a strange society of art students.
These two happenings of the day make me very happy that I chose to go to this university, as corny as the union makes it sound, there is always something to do on this campus.  I would like to thank all of the strangely awesome people I ran into today that absolutely made this the single funniest day ever, it was pretty awesome, and I can't wait to be around for more of it!

If you are in school, welcome  or welcome back, if you have a job, sorry boutcha
and as aways have a wonderful day and keep your eyes out for weird, awesome people!

VIDCON 2012

6/28/12                                      (written somewhere in the sky between Dallas and Los Angeles)


I would consider myself to be a pretty well traveled person for being only 21.  But today I'm going to mention a few important observances thus far from my trip!
1. My hair will NEVER  look good after a flight of any length so I will never look ok on a flight.  (probably not on my way to being a member of the mile high club, damn you hair)
2. I am never seated next to a hot 20 something or NBA player :( which I guess makes #1 kind of okay, except of course when you run into someone that you know in a DFW terminal, AWK.
3. No matter how hard you try, your personal space will be invaded in everyday possible. EVERY SINGLE ONE.

• seated next to a fatty who slides SLIDES into your area
• the sweet, slightly creepy old man who watches Pride and Prejudice over your shoulder with you
• That awkward moment where the arm rest will never be big enough for two people to put their arm on and I don't want to be the rude person that takes it. 
• Full body scans 
• And my personal favorite when you sit next to a sweet old lady and either tell her your whole life story, or you make up a life story and tell it to her.

Ok, so those aren't just terrible, I think when I wrote this I was a grumpy pants because I wasn't drinking which, as we all know, is very important when you are flying all day.  

Tomorrow is my first day of Vidcon 2012! 

I have NOW in the time span of my flight received my alcohol beverage of choice, so life just got a lot happier.  Hooray for the planes credit card machine being broken!  Two free drinks :)  Also, if you didn't know, I have hand written every blog entry of my latest adventures and it is quite fulfilling!

This is the part of the blog where I show you what happened on my trip!

I met Hannah Hart 

www.youtube.com/myharto

She was literally the sweetest and funniest person I have ever met, one thing that I find interesting about meeting people who are "YouTube Famous" is that they are totally normal because in their eyes, they're normal people I hope that stream of conciousness made sense.  Anyway, I had a really fun time in her workshop on collaborations.

Then my hair had an awkward moment when I met Benny from 

www.youtube.com.finebros

He was a lot quieter than I imagined, but then again, I guess most video bloggers are pretty introverted. 

Next up was meeting Rafi Fine from the same channel as his brother above, probably the nicest guy, he had a line of people that wanted to talk to him and he gave each person like five minutes and really listened and gave advice and was just super sweet!

We waited in about an hour long line (which actually wasn't that long considering the day before there was a four hour wait, I don't know who was that stupid, crazy but damn yo.)

Just so we could get our picture with a Real Life Charlie (left) 

www.youtube.com/charlieissocoollike

and his sidekick, Michael Aranda

www.youtube.com/arandavison 

Right after this picture was taken, we got yelled at because there's a sign that says no photos, sorry I'm not sorry yo. 

Holy shit I met the MEEBLES! Some of you may know her as the artist of "Bounce that Dick" or from me forcing you to watch her videos about dogs and various other weird things.  

www.youtube.com/jennamarbles

I luckily got to meet the members of SMOSH three minutes after their signing time ended, those gems stayed ten extra minutes so everyone could meet them (from the right Ian Hecox, Anthony Padilla, and Mari whose last name I do not know) 

You may know them from me forcing you to listen to the legends of Zelda rap. 

www.youtube.com/smosh

Next I met Shanna Malcolm from Shane Dawson's channel but she will very soon have her own channel which makes me very happy face happy head anyway, I love her and this was an amazing moment!

This my friends is Shane Dawson's girlfriend, Lisa Schwartz from

www.youtube.com/lisabug

I love her!  She introduced me to LUSH!

It Steve Greene Comedy!  He hugged me :) He was very nice, he was also the first person I met! So yay!

www.youtube.com/Stevegreenecomedy

The last person I met was Shane Dawson, quite possibly the one person I wanted to meet the most, I have been watching youtube videos for quite some time and Shane was the first one I watched!  Also the striped shirt in my hand, I won it in a raffle, its his shirt and its autographed. It was a really cool experience!

www.youtube.com/shanedawsontv

I had an amazing time, met so many awesome people, needless to say, I will be coming back next year!   

The only sad/regret from the trip is that I didn't get to meet Bree Essrig or Totally Sketch but none the less, it was fun!!! :)

I hope this post finds you happy and well! 

Have a wonderful day!

I've Been Keeping Things From You

Hello all, I must apologize for my hesitancy to post my creative writing works.  I still don't like any of them and ironically, the first I've chosen to share is the most un poetic poem thing in the world.  The premise of the assignment was simply to write a poem the described a work of art.  Well I'm not very great at following rules so I changed it a little to suit my own fancy, I chose a work of art, that might be cliche, and decided to look not only at the art, but also the artist, in this case, Vincent Van Gogh, and the piece, A Starry Night.  This was not my first choice, my first choice was one of his self portraits, but I thought that too obvious, I preferred a larger jump hence, my decision.  And here is the "poem", I hope it finds you well and that you enjoy  it!

The Starry Night

Artist: Vincent Van Gogh

It is night 

the stars are out, 

covering the heavens 

with an etherial glow

The town below sits motionless in a valley

it is a quiet town, there is peace

and where there is peace, there is also beauty

Bad things tend toward other destinations, 

not here though, this town was peaceful,

This town was a dream

It would be hard to be so advanced,

ahead of your time,

You would stand out,

people would stay away

You were crazy, not brilliant

its enough to drive a person mad

its enough to drive a person to death 

The painting exposes the sorrow 

at the hand of the creator

The night sky simple, yet unique, 

a mirror of how he feels in his own world

lost because he is different

Artists feel everything, stroke by stroke

he wanted to fit in 

but alas his talent was born to stand out

A lot can be said for a Starry Night Sky,

A lot.

Creative WRITE.

So I haven't actually finished, or turned anything in for my creative writing class but, I have been working really hard on some poems (BLEH) and hopefully, I will soon finish them and gain the confidence needed to post them.
As already stated, I love my teacher, I think she is fantastic.
The other day she had us do a free write because we are all "crazy english majors with a sick addiction to structure"
The idea was that she would say a word, and then we would immediately have to start writing whatever that word made us think of for three minutes, no premeditation, no thinking, just whatever was on our minds, it was honest.  I loved this because not only was I able to vent but I also found out about a lot of things that I've been kind of suppressing, or avoiding, it was really cool and I think I'll start doing them more often.
The words were:

ANGER

RED

and

PEACE

With the first two words I was shocked with just how angry I was, it was something that I think normally I would have ignored but as soon as I saw it on the paper, I felt relief.  It was nice to see my "wild side" if you will, I wasn't polishing myself for a teacher or a blog site, I was writing it for myself, it was incredible.
Though the first two words put me on edge, made me pretty upset, the third word was like a strong muscle relaxant.  It made me think of things  and people I love what I love and what I desire, it was pretty awesome.  Basically what the whole experience reminded me of (and this will be lost on everyone except Nina) was when Addison Montgomery was laying on Pete's table with needles all over her and she felt a rush of emotion.  Its cleansing, healing, but without needles in your face!

Try the exercise! It is awesome!

I hope you are all very well! :)

7 days to VIDCON!!!!!!

A week of firsts

Hi internet peoples!
This week has been crazy in more ways than one, lets just say, its been a week of firsts.
The worst being, Oh hey, my first sinus infection....super duper fun times, trust me.
On the bright side, this was also my first week of my creative writing class!  Which is super awesome!  My teacher is the sweetest person I've ever met, she is so unique and hilarious and awesome and I love, love being in this class, I might even take another one!
As I turn in assignments, I will post them on here so that you all can enjoy them!
For now however, I'm doomed to lay in bed taking nasty medication and watch reruns of HIMYM and Bones, don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining.
Anyway, this is where I leave you today dear bloggers,
and I leave you with this picture of a dancing cat

I hope this post finds you well, wherever you are, 

have a wonderful day! :)

Molding the minds of our generation

I have decided that my new blog theme will be molding the minds of our generation.  
Very bold, I know. 
But I think I can be your one source for knowledge, a mecca of insight if you will. 
Today we are going to talk about something that I questioned just this very day and  that is how is it that those annoying blinking signs on the side of the road that tell me Im going "too fast" and "over the speed limit"and what business is it of theirs to tell us what to.  
Today my friend you are going to take a trip to education station and learn all about the wonders of these electronic monsters that rule the roads.
To start us off, this is exactly what I am talking about:

And this is how I feel about them:

So what are these evil little devices that cause us all so much pain?  Well they are called speed cameras, quite appropriately as they clock your speed when you approach them in a vehicle.  

How do they work?

Its elementary my dear pupil, you see, the vehicle is speeding in my supposed scenario, as it passes by, an automatic radar, shoots at the center of the vehicle and calculates the speed the object is going by using a simple distance x time equation to discover the rate of the approaching vehicle.  If the car is in fact speeding, the light flashes and you are given a chance to correct your error, if you do not, a camera takes a picture of your license plate.  A background check is then done on your vehicle such as, a check through the database of stolen and rented cars, supervised by police.  The fine is then mailed to the owner go the car.  A contestation is possible if the owner was not the driver.

Back to the radar, in some cases, it uses electromagnetic waves to detect objects and determine their speed and distance.

Andddddd thats all you really need to know, if you have any questions or suggestions about what we should cover next please leave it in the comments, we will reconvene in this forum whenever the fuck I write again. 

Remember, keep questioning everything. 

well.....yea....

Hey bloghood,
Im currently attempting to channel my inner rapper, and to give "her" a name, I went to a very unreliable, yet amusing source:http://www.myrapname.com/

So my inner rapper is either:
Crazy Kate
Kathryn K Goddess? wahhh?
Kate Sauce
Sling K?
Kate Trixx
Lil Kate B
Phat Kate Blunt (second fav)
or my personal favorite
Delicious Angel Kate B


Now for giggles, I'll take some of my friends names and put them in and then post their first name:
Nina B - Missy NB Nugget a.k.a. XL Trixx - I wish I had made this up
Kyle B - Jaz Hazy KB
Kevin B - Kevy B Blood - this is just too good
Brandon H - Styling Branny H Flavor Love a.k.a Jiggy Cube - ? You lost me on this one
And now just for fun, my parents,
Mother - Terri T Dirty Face......please no one tell my mom about this hahaha
Father - T Baby or T Troy Dilly Bash a.k.a Slick Assassin - you be the judge, I couldn't decide.

Okay, while that was fun and highly amusing, I did have a point, for my final, I must compose a 90 second rap about myself, perform a rap that already exists, and have a rap battle, all in front of my class, and well, Im still writing my rap.
While talking about bitches and hoes probably has a minimum difficulty level, I do commend rap artists, its pretty hard to get good lyrics and a good beat and all that jazz down quickly and its proving to be quite difficult, I just hope my photographic memory doesn't let me down!
Hope your summer's are all going well!
Stay Fresh or whatever the rappers are saying these days!!

VIDCON 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!

Woah Bloggy Bloggers! Remember ME?  Well you should, Im very important.....to my mom?

Anyway I digress, this summer appeared to be a dismal one with two classes imprisoned in the eternity of summer school and two months till my Tahoe month long summer binge, I thought for sure I would die, not to mention one of my best friends is shipping out for Spain in less than a week, needless to say I have been pretty down lately, but everything is turning around why? Why? Well of course its because today I am finalizing my travel plans for my adventure to Anaheim California in the last weekend of June and into July!!! No, Im not going theme parking, Im doing something much more shameful and dorky, GOING TO VIDCON 2012, no, not Comic con, VID CON! Whats Vidcon? Its a week in a convention center in Anaheim California where I will meet all my favorite youtubers and get advice about how to make my channel better, sing songs, do skits and basically have a full out geek-gasm over all of the awesomeness!
There are so many things I am looking foreword to like:

Meeting Charlie Mcdonnell www.youtube.com/charlieissocoollike
Meeting Alex Day www.youtube.com/nerimon
Talking to John Green about his book and Hank Green about his music www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers
Meeting Benny and Rafi Fine www.youtube.com/thefinebrothers
Singing Bounce that Dick with Jenna www.youtube.com/jennamarbles
Cracking jokes with Steve Greene www.youtube.com/stevegreencomedy
Getting even more makeup tips and partying with Lisa and Bree!  www.youtube.com/lisbug and www.youtube.com/breeessrig
Meeting the super awesome crazy insane Shane Dawson www.youtube.com/shanedawsonTV
Meeting Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecow from SMOSH!  www.youtube.com/smosh
Having lunch with Harley from EMT www.youtube.com/epicmealtime
Meeting Michael Gallagher www.youtube.com/totallysketch

And so many others!!! (I just got bored of writing them out)

Needless to say this summer has made a complete turn around in my mind and I couldn't be more excited!
For more awesome youtubers to watch just ask me!!!

:)

I hope everyone has a wonderful summer!!

Weird memes

CAT BREADING









PLANKING

OWLING

POWLING - a combination of planking and owling, next level meme.

BATMANNING?

HORSEMANNING?

We are a weird race of people.....weird.....

Miss me?

Hey Blog scene!

Im back, though tentatively, I am back for at least this one post!! As always, the one blog a day idea does not work for me, no matter how hard I have tried to keep up with that.

Too much has been happening in my life for me to write it all down, much of it has already been forgotten, much of it is being suppressed and much of it I am over playing as usual.

The reason I have been so busy is, well, many reasons actually.

For one, I am a Junior, English Major, and for those of you who don't know, that entails a depressing amount of paper writing, along with a distressing amount of bonus outside of class lectures and readings, along with the backbreaking amount of reading, and its not all enjoyable, novella reading either, some of it is blehhh poetry, and some even worse, anthology textbook reading.  There is nothing I hate more that hardbacks and textbook reading.  except maybe like, poverty, terror, and war.  And well.....I guess the list is a bit longer....

But I digress,

I also recently launched my photography website (more developed but constantly being changed) and along with that I have many photos to edit and post to it.
I also came out with business cards which you can get from a Kate near you! (high class right? RIGHT.)

Another recent time absorber has been MHOU  or Miss Hispanic OU in which my slave driver of a friend had me painstakingly and completely involuntarily take head shots and group shots of all of the contestants, edit them, and THEN I had to create all on my own the tickets for the pageant, and THEN I had to do the music during the whole show.  I am so tortured....

Right now my field hockey team is attempting to grow, just the other day we received our first goal, which was quite expensive, and Maria and I put it together by ourselves!

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!
ON APRIL 10TH FROM 11AM - 10PM AT ORANGE LEAF ON LINDSEY STREET 10% OF THE PROFITS FOR THE DAY WILL GO TO OUR CLUB SO PLEASE COME OUT AND NOM NOM ON FRO YO!!!!!  AND BRING FRIENDS!!!

Oh yea and I have a job.....well thats pretty much it for me today, its been real friends, hope your lives are awesome right now, much love from me to you all :)

Awkward Dream Belowwwww

Ps.  this is a great example of why I can never do a dreaming blog, last night, I had a dream that Patrick Dempsey went on a killing spree and it was up to me to save everyone and I had to kill McDreamy.....Seriously???? What is wrong with my head?!?!??!?

Carb Free is the Way to Be

First does anyone know how hard it is for someone whose favorite foods include rice, pasta, and mashed potatoes to cut out carbs?

Well it actually isn't that hard to do, there are many alternative foods that you can eat to avoid these nasty, unhealthy little monsters but, tonight when I went to the grocery store, the pasta aisle was singing its siren song almost too sweetly and too loudly in my ears, I almost had to give in.

But I didn't.  I feel so much better since to stopped eating carbs (aside from fruit, I love fruit) I have way more energy and it working out really well.  I'm actually extremely impressed at my will power over things I lust after.

Well the week is half over already, I hope you all have wonderful plans this weekend and I hope everything is going well!  Stick to your goals!

Stay Beautiful!

Song of the Day:  Foundations by Kate Nash

Announcement and....stuff :)

Does anyone else experience that odd calm right before you hear your cat scream and then almost instantaneously the horrible sound of something breaking? I do.  All the time actually.

Use this website if you like to stay calm.
http://www.rainymood.com/

Stay beautiful!! <3


ALSO!!! Im launching a photography website (very much a work in progress) so PLEASE promote it!!
Thanks :)
www.kathrynbphotography.com

Wise Words

Hey Blogosphere!

So today in my class with my favorite teacher someone said something about multitasking.  Now, generally, my teacher is the type to throw out a hilarious one liner, make a puns throughout lecture that keep us amused so as to listen to what he has to say.  And like the weirdo that I am, I write down everything he says that I think is really funny and quote him in the margins of my notebook.  The funniest part about this is, as soon as I read it again, its not funny at all unless you're an English major, or its one of those "you had to be there moments"  but his response to multitasking is something that I don't think fits the general lines of he normally says, his response was, "Some people call texting, reading a book, writing a paper, watching a movie, and eating dinner, multitasking, but I call it doing eight things poorly at the same because you cannot give your best effort if its divided."
We sat silent, admiring his wisdom until his self-proclaimed favorite student (me) raised my hand, he called on me and I said, "But Z, in that scenario there are only five things, not eight?"
To which he responded, "And that's exactly why this is an English class, and not a math class....math....its gives me hives."
The end of that is kind of a play back to the fact that whenever numbers of any sort are introduced to us linguistic types, we are very scared and we run away.

Anyway this was super tangential, which is actually a term I originally learned in math, awkward. But never the less, the next time you think about multitasking, consider that!  Unfortunately there aren't enough hours in the day to practice this way all of the time, but it is a good thing to consider while doing important things!

To my friends headed off on a long and wild adventure in Texas, I hope you have a blast, if you don't take pictures, we will have a problem.  Keep blogging, keep in touch, and stay safe!


Have a wonderful rest of the day, my socks are super
lame today but I did get these wicked new running shoes!!!!


http://img.runningwarehouse.com/shoeviews/MEL7W1-fv.jpg


you cant really tell from this picture but they are ZEBRA print!!!!1 Which is my obsession currently!

SONG OF THE DAY: GLAD YOU CAME - THE WANTED

Bad Day, Bright Side!

Today was a no good, very bad, shitty day, so awful, that a children's book title had to be altered to represent it's shittiness.
So recently I received a promotion which is super awesome but with more money comes more responsibility.  I am the catering lead for the Norman location, which doesn't sound like a big deal, but it is to me.
Well today we were short three people as usual and everyone was running around trying to get everything set us as quickly as we could.  While the employees were running around working, my manager was slowly pacing, and saying "Once again I'll have to everything" and "its Norman, people from here are irresponsible" and "Everything's up to me"  Needless to say, when hearing these phrases, everyone was pretty mad and less encouraged to get their work done, I am so used to this behavior that I decided to brush it off because I had a huge order to cater that morning and I just wanted it to go really well so I was working, in this order, I had to do everything, I'd like to make that clear here forum because later, my self absorbed manager took credit for my work.  And you may think that would be when I snapped, but it was actually the second time I snapped.
Now I am a very sensitive person, but physically, it takes a lot to make me cry.
It was only ten minutes before we opened, I was going to take the silverware and ice out to my car and begin loading up the rest of the order, I went through the little western bar style doors and entered the dining area.  My first step landed me on the floor.  Little did I know because of a dramatic lack of signage, the floors were wet.  I landed on my left thigh and my left elbow, both of which are currently very bruised. Three people saw this happen, a girl, J, a girl named K, and my manager, R.
J was rushing over to me when we both hear R say "what the hell are you doing resting on the ground?! We have things to do!!"
Excuse me?  What?
No.
Absolutely not.
Obviously you lack common courtesy  and don't know that I will not stand for that.
I ignored him, stood up and was helped to the bathroom by J and K where I burst into tears and started cursing my manager.  It only took a few minutes to gain full composure.  But after I felt only a little bit better.

I don't want to continue talking about this part of my day but, my manager continued to ridicule me and was extremely rude.

After that I had a nice, long work out in which every dumbbell I dropped and every medicine ball was I threw was my manager's face.  It was a nice way to de-stress but I was still depressed.  Lucky for me I had a hair appointment today, because I get my hair dyed, my average hair appointment is two hours long.  which leaves lots of time for thinking.  And I thought about all the things I have done that make me happy, and make me proud, things that are cool and unique about me, and what makes me happy about myself.
This may seem really really lame or self-centered but sometimes saying to yourself:

I never have a bad hair day.
Im almost always on time
Im honest
I have a good sense of fashion
I look awesome without makeup
I can make a mean bowl of pasta

Makes you feel a lot better when you're ready to give up.  Think about this!! What do you love about yourself?  What makes you different?  It might be just what you need to hear!

Stay Beautiful!

Song of the day:    Merry Happy - Kate Nash


Socks of a few days

 telephones??

cat lady!

 russian dolls?

lady bugs :)

 :) have a lovely day!!