goodbye '05

1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before? got straight a's
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? i've resolved not make resolutions cause i never keep them. but i am going to get a fitness membership this year, so that should force me to actually workout.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? sarah and chuck had baby david! (who i just saw this week and he's so cute!) and kari's sister had baby cadel :)
4. Did anyone close to you die? no
5. What countries did you visit? czech republic, austria and germany :)
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005? a date.
7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? july 30th, the day i was told i couldn't get a plane home from europe, it was awful.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? going to prague
9. What was your biggest failure? hm. nothing really horrible happened, actually.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? a cold here, a cough there
11. What was the best thing you bought? a plane ticket to prague (catching a theme yet?)
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? i feel like this is a dumb question.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? this too.
14. Where did most of your money go? beer. hahahaha
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? prague :)
16. What song will always remind you of 2005? sugar we're goin down, by fall out boy
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
happier or sadder? happier
thinner or fatter? fatter for sure
richer or poorer? richer, surprisingly (if we don't count my ever growing student loans that i will have to start paying back at the end of 2006)
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? hanging out with friends/family
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? worrying
20. Did you fall in love in 2005? yes
21. What was your favorite TV program? grey's anatomy
22. What was the best book you read? the brothers k by david james duncan
23. What was your greatest musical discovery? the fray
24. What did you want and get? an ipod
25. What was your favorite film of this year? finding neverland
26. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? went to the u.p. for a weekend at the lake with andra and liz. turned 23.
27. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? hm........
28. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005? i tried to be trendy and then realized i'd rather be comfortable
29. What kept you sane? my fabulous friends here in chi-town
30. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? sarah jessica parker (i met her this year!)
31. What political issue stirred you the most? the reelection (even though that happened in 04, the issue sort of carried over...)
32. Who did you miss? karen s, kyle del, all my other friends from hope
33. Who were the best new people you met? jillian, angie, catherine, christiane and nora in prague
34. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005: i am a stronger and more capable individual than i realized. and always do what i have faith in and have faith in what i do.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year: "Wash out this tired notion that the best is yet to come..." -DMB, Pig

yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me

it's coming...

featuring none other than The Flying Dutchman. haha. awesome.

check out the trailer: http://pirates.movies.com

The Lion.

"Don't you know who is the King of the Beasts? Aslan is a lion -- the Lion, the great Lion."

"Ooh," said Susan, "I thought he was a man. Is he -- quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion."

"That you will, dearie, and make no mistake," said Mrs. Beaver, "if there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most or else silly."

"Then he isn't safe?" said Lucy.

"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver, "don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you."

-C.S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe-

Divine Irony.

A Savior has been born; He is Christ the Lord. The Savior is born.
God wearing human jeans.
What was it like for the Creator to be created?
What was it like for the God bigger than the universe to become a baby?
What was it like to leave the grip of eternity and spend 9 months in a womb?
For the eyes that saw the light separate from the darkness
now strain to make out shapes
For the hands that stirred the cosmos now playing with his toes
Instead of fanfare greeting Creation's King,
emerging in a flood of fluid, blood, and tears
From the clothes of majesty to a straight jacket of skin and bone
swaddling clothes
What was it like to trade the throne room of heaven
for the manger in a stable?
Instead of Seraphim at Your foot, cattle and donkeys lowed into the night
From streets of gold to alleyways of dust and dung
Could you still hear the angels singing,
or just the constant drum of Mary's heartbeat?
The architect of the heavens and earth playing with building blocks
What was it like for the Creator of all things
being told to keep quiet and respectful?
What was it like for the Father to become a Child?

The divine irony is unbearable.
Didn't You know what You were getting into?
The beauty of it is that You did, and You did it anyways.
What can I say to that?

(author unknown)

I'm a flirty, candy-flavored sex kitten.

What color is your hair?

blond=preppy
brown=flirty
black=gothic
red=horny

What color shirt are you wearing?

Red=slutty
Green=tree-hugging
Blue=depressed
White=confused
Pink= PIMPish
Yellow=ugly
Purple=a little TOO happy
Black=goth
Orange=multicolored
Brown=yucky smelling
Gray=emo
Aqua= preppy
Other=candy-flavored
Nothing= Sexy Naked

pants are you wearing?
Shorts=hobo
Skirt=prep
Skort=homo
Jeans=hot piece of ass
Capris=half-queer
Cordoroy=weightlifter
Cargo=clown
Sweats=cutie
OTHER [pajamas, etc.]= sex kitten

Now repost this saying "Im a _ _ _
You won't have bad luck, but this is just fun!

Year In Review

Find the first entry for each month of 2005. Post the first line of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review".

January: i don't usually make new year resolutions, but for 2005 i have decided to incorporate more of the following things into my life: healthy eating, daily exercise, God time, and a true living-for-the-moment attitude.
February: Seems like just yesterday, You were a part of me, I used to stand so tall, I used to be so strong (Kelly Clarkson, Behind These Hazel Eyes).
March: don't just let your life fill up with things you aren't passionate about just to get to the next best thing...
April: i remember it so clearly: sitting with karen at a round table in the kletz listening to 12th street harmony and tearing up paper.
May: A - Age you got your first kiss: 15
June: Can you imagine how different life would be if we actually said what we were thinking all the time?
July: am i really in prague right now?
August: I left my beloved dorm at 4am on Saturday morning having not slept all night (Closing party, to student bar, to dorm room party...)
September: "i keep thinking tomorrow is coming today so i am endlessly waiting" (counting crows)
October: oh billy. your lyrics are as good as those sweet piano playin hands...
November: i think my neighbors upstairs are having a star wars marathon.
December: World AIDS Day is a yearly, global event started in January 1988 to promote awareness and action in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

no one is interacting. so i'm giving up and moving on.

Your 2005 Song Is

Beverly Hills by Weezer "My automobile is a piece of crap My fashion sense is a little whack And my friends are just as screwy as me" You breezed through 2005 in your own funky style!

What Hit Song of 2005 Are You?

again, time to be interactive

Post an ANONYMOUS comment with the following:
1. One secret.
2. One compliment.
3. One non-compliment.
4. One love note, but it does not have to be for me.
5. Lyrics to a song.
6. How old you are.
7. How long we've been friends.
8. And a hint to who you are.
9. After you do it for me, put it in your blog and see who does it for you

Katherine's Random Movie Quote: 'Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.' - Scarlett O’Hara, Gone with the Wind Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

hello world...

meet my new and improved photo album
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ktb8482/sets/
(so far, no new pictures. just new site. new photos coming soon.)

It's like a whole new place!

The pictures don't do it justice... you'll have to come see for yourself. Amazing what a little color on the walls can do! :)

World Aids Day

World AIDS Day
Stop AIDS: Keep the Promise

World AIDS Day is a yearly, global event started in January 1988 to promote awareness and action in the fight against HIV/AIDS. According to UNAIDS estimates, there were 37.2 million adults and 2.2 million children worldwide living with HIV at the end of 2004. During the year 4.9 million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35. Around 95% of people with HIV/AIDS live in developing nations. But HIV today is a threat to men, women and children on all continents around the world. In Africa alone, more than 17 million people have died from AIDS and another 25 million are infected with the HIV virus, approximately 1.9 million of whom are children. Every day in Africa, HIV/AIDS kills 6,300 people. 8,500 people are infected with the HIV virus and 1,400 newborn babies are infected during childbirth.

This year, the theme of World AIDS Day is "Stop Aids: Keep the Promise" which reminds us that our government leaders need to be held accountable for their commitments to the fight against AIDS and act in order to delivered the promised results. (article from www.one.org)

almost forgot how much i love dave

Wednesday Nov 30 2005
University of Illinois - Assembly Hall

What Would You Say
#41
Grey Street
Seek Up
Stand Up
Hunger For The Great Light
When The World Ends
American Baby Intro
Dream Girl
Too Much
Jimi Thing
Smooth Rider
Crash
Stay
__________________
Christmas Song
Ants Marching