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1. Back from Europe
2. Back on the internet
3. Seriously jet-lagged
4. Sudden distaste for American-Italian food
5. Officially attending University of Notre Dame next year
6. Sprained and/or fractured my wrist* when I skipped the 8:30 service this morning to eat and go hiking... karma.
7. Otherwise, really enjoyed the 6:30 sunrise (c.f. #3) and 10:30 regular Easter services
8. THIS WEATHER <3
9. Is it not frustrating yet wonderful when someone much cleverer than you articulates an idea you already had but in a more beautiful way? (see: C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, "Time and Beyond Time")
10. Must have lists of 10. So here are some pictures. (click to see larger)

Kathryne

*It was actually really funny. I was doing just fine... in my ankle-length skirt and flats, along nice little ledges of mud approximately the width of my foot... until we got to a wide flat easy part. I stepped over a log, onto some leaves, and fell completely flat on my side/face/leg in less than a second. I'm pretty sure it was the least graceful thing I could have done, and, to top it off, afterwards one wrist bone was (is) pointed about 15 degrees from where it ought to be. As I said... KARMA.

sunset

OH was the sunset ever gorgeous tonight.
It was breathtaking. I saw it go straight through from the delicate pastel scrollwork all the way to the deeply soaked, rich tones bleeding out from the horizon. Splendid. But that doesn't capture it.

I think the sky in Heaven might be like a sunset over the snow, continuous.

Kathryne

PS-

"What is passive and active?"

"A pain in the butt."

best night.

Question:

What happens when you have 22 schoolkids (aged 7-17) in a small room for 4 hours with minimal adult supervision?

Answer:

Not Homework

Question:

What happens when the 9 oldest (aged 13-17) eat packets of sugar because the dinner came late and then sit on the floor entertaining themselves?

Answer:

A massive Silly Bandz war, laughing fits lasting for 5+ minutes, chocolate syrup threats, carved mahogany peanut butter dispensers, dining on Oscar the Hamster, sleeping on the floor...

Oh, and Not Homework.

Question:

Where on Earth were you?!

Answer:

A very ritzy country club. And yes, I am serious.

Question:

Why were you there?

Answer:

We sang a couple of songs for the school banquet. We sounded fabulous too <3

(lol All For Jesus awkward silence at the beginning AND end :P)

Question:

...

Answer:

I CAN HEAR MY ECHO! FWWOOOOO!

Kathryne

the days since...

The Good:

every single epic thing.

photoshoot*~

swing dance~

barn dance~

mime performance :)

The Bad:

tried to get homework done at the library, and this... (I blocked out some of the numbers for privacy's sake :P)

The Random:

Dan, on Friday, during MadLibs... "I'm sorry, I can't help that I'm so SEXY."

...lol

Kathryne

* if you can't tell, we were the four seasons.

PS- Christine, I adore you, for real.

*girl-squeal*

Since I couldn't muster it up on the phone or even really on Facebook, I am giving Princess a really legit teenage-girl-squeal via blog.

SQQQUUEEEEEEEEEEEE I cAnNoT bElIeVe YoU mAdE iT InTo BUTLERUNIVERSITY's DaNcE pRoGrAm AAAAAHHHH!!!! BuT oF cOuRsE i BeLiEvE It!!! BeCaUsE yOu ArE AHMAZING aNd So (like) WoUlD mAkE iT!!!

I love you, Rachel dearest. Come visit me when you're famous.

Kathryne

love.

The Good: Life. People. Mime Family Dinner. Christmas music. Apple cider. Everything.

The Bad: SAT tomorrow.

The Random: some pictures from the past two days... (click to see full-size)

^^ from Physics class :P ...in my "Blah Book"

^^ "Blah Book" itself... I have way too many notebooks/journals/sketchpads

^^ from Mime Family Dinner tablecloth

I do not deserve my life. I have been so incredibly blessed. AAAAH.

Kathryne

Do Hard Things... !

Okay. Hi. This is Christine & Kathryne/Katie. We are going to blog our day. EEEEEP!!! !!! !!! !!!

5:30 AM- "My Savior" by Aaron Shust playing way too loud in our sleepy ears
6:15 AM- Leave for DO HARD THINGS!!!!!!!!11!!!!1!!
7:00 AM- Katie reluctantly begins Government homework because the sun is now out.
8:00 AM- DO HARD THINGS AHHHHAETOIUHVEOSIYHBS
8:20 AM- Motivational Red Wall Paint makes the shoutout board!
9:00 AM- Pure awesome.
5:00 PM- Fangirl time :) Brett Harris signed the MRWP. Then Joel Harris signed it, and he got to sign it next to Robin Mark so he took a picture :) THENTHENTHEN Shannon Harris, Josh's wife, who happens to sing for Sovereign Grace music including The Precious Blood, signed it too.
6:00 PM- Wendy's for dinner! sitting outside, and then this random old man came up to us and talked to us about Mennonite clothing and asked us if we were Mennonites and rambled some odd thing about modern women's clothing... o.0
7:15 PM- Leave for home. Katie attempts to do more Government. Snakes in the car. hehe.
9:05 PM- We both do homework. And talk. And Christine thinks she distracts Katie. But really Katie is just as distracting. Katie gets hungry.
10:00 PM- Sign on to Blogger.

OH. different Good/Bad/Random order today... we're really shaking things up here.

The Bad: No mime performance tomorrow. Major miscommunication. And so that's a bummer.

The Good: (see above, and in addition-) We get to sleep in. Relatively. Like, 7:30 instead of 5:30. But it's still nice. And we still get to see all of our favorite people (read: mimes) at church tomorrow.

The Random:
Good morning starshine, the earth says hello!

<3 Kathryne/Katie & Christine

tehehehe

I am HERE! With CHRISTINE!

And I am spending the whooollleeee weekend.

muahaha.

take that, teachers-who-try-to-ruin-my-life-with-exorbitant-amounts-of-homework. I SHALL DEFY YOU.

Understood, I will be leaving here at 6am tomorrow and getting back at 8pm (in between which times I hope to finish my government and/or apologetics), and then leaving again on Sunday at 6am. Yes. whee. :P I will get to sleep in for school on Monday! haha.

I am happy.

OH! I forgot!

The Good: (see: above) (and see: Princess' amazing poem!)

The Bad: (see: 6am, twice in a row)

The Random: I painted the MRWP with white-out so that it is a sign-able surface for ohmygoodness Alex/Brett/Josh Harris, to whom I will hopefully be gifted with the ability to present their first ever opportunity to sign a 2oz jar of Benjamin Moore Poppy Red wall paint.


Kathryne

Black & White PARTAY

While my voice was incapacitated, I did almost win Twister... not that those two have anything to do with each other.

One game I beat David because he was nice to me and didn't totally push me off the board, and the championship round it took 5 minutes to get down to the two of us, and then probably another 5 with just us. And it was INTENSE. And David is very skilled. And I am very fortunate. But he did win. Then all of my arms/legs/hands/feet/fingers/toes were shaking and I couldn't breathe normally for about 10 minutes. I must be out of shape. (And while David was not in quite so bad a condition, my hair did look better than his when it was over :P)

So there was lots of Twister, and lots of food, and lots of talking.

lol, cartoon about secret identities:

(look familiar? haha)

Kathryne

PS- glove substitutes:

you can only imagine the rest of my outfit...

UmmmyesIlovemylife.

...because JESUS is Life :D

(how cheesy is that, and yet how true?)

seriously. I have been so incredibly effervescent since last night... maybe even since before that... I think it was since I put on my gypsy shirt in the afternoon, yes?

either way...

today planned fun things and made fun things and FINISHED THE MIDDLEMARCH ESSAY and had a bad hair day and didn't really care.

Kathryne

Showdown :)

I really do love Ted Dekker. Even though he only keeps me occupied for 4 hours out of an unexpectedly-empty day (read: out of the house from 7am-8:30pm with no school reading and NO work assignments).

Kathryne

PS- le SHOCK!

(views-per-day on my other (Wordpress) blog, where I posted this morning... about feminism, lol)

No words :)

I have no. words. legitly.

Today was cool, and I talked with awesome people like Sandy and Livi and Daniel. And that's all cool and yadayadayada.

But then... tonight.

at the evening service.

God, what a world You love.

it's amazing what He has done.

what He's doing.

what vision and drive and wisdom He puts in people like Matt.

and what wonderful voices of reason He puts in the minds of people like me who start thinking they can do everything and change the world... when all we are is tools in His hands. And for people like me that may not mean becoming a teacher. But the fields are white. The harvest is ready. And all we've got to do is bend a little and sharpen up so we can be His machetes. And it is SO INCREDIBLY AWESOME.

Kathryne

PS- welcome home, Christine & Andee! Love you guys! Send me long emails about the weekend, but don't spoil stuff because I'm going in October :P

home alone :)

...pretty much all day. I like it. I love my family, but I also love being able to work on whatever and do it all on my own schedule while multitasking with whatever and eating (almost) whatever I want. I got a lot accomplished today, actually :)

As for now, I am eating my favorite ice cream (Ben & Jerry's Cheesecake Brownie)

and listening to my new favorite artist (Audrey Assad... okay, so, tied with Regina Spektor. David, you asked, here's your answer. And she has a free single on iTunes!)

and talking to my favorite mother (I mean... my only one... on the phone)

and typing this to my favorite people (at least, most of them)

and my life could not be much better (unless I were miraculously to find my other purple sparkly shoelace).

Kathryne

I love life.

my life is crazy wonderful.

the people in my life are crazy wonderful. mostly crazy, but close enough.

I wore my happy skirt today.

I am trying really hard not to use exclamation points, but inside I am going [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

and my face hurts because I have been smiling all day.

:)

Kathryne

CYMA Sunday

Services were AWESOMELY UNBELIEVABLY FANTASTIC!!!

(and I am sick but we won't talk about that)

& I am so blessed to have such great friends to be there and talk with me and make me feel somewhat better :)

Kathryne

busy days make me HAPPY!

Small Group leaders' meeting went fabulously. Those are some of the most entertaining, lovable, hilarious right-brained adults I know. I think I am kindof both left & right... but, definitely leaning left. I love me some SCHEDULES! YES!
...Which leads me to the next meeting. We got a lot accomplished and had a lot of fun. And ate a lot of food.
And then there was David's birthday party... happy birthday, for the fourth time, by the way... and we played Risk, and I did not lose! Colin lost, and everybody else won because we got bored and quit. BTW, Colin, letting someone who borders you (coughMarkcough) play for you after you go home is not the best strategy.

I had a fabulous day. Now off to do my LIT homework!

Kathryne

EPIC, for real.

Seriously, this place is amazing.
lots of pictures coming.

If there were a word to describe hiking & white-water-rafting the Grand Canyon, "epic" would be it.
But... dear me, am I ever exhausted.


Kathryne


PS- I <3 desert squirrels!

perfect night :)

Tonight I saw Christine and talked about everything. I love you!
Then I got to dance a wee bit of lindy hop with David. Yay! It makes me want to learn more. Later.
Then I saw Sandy! *fish face*

Then we finished packing for the Grand Canyon... yup, tomorrow at 4:45 AM I am leaving for an 18-hour transit from BWI to Chicago to LAX (no, Miley Cyrus, I shall not be wearing cowboy boots nor shall I be listening to Jay-Z) back to Sedona, AZ. There I shall meet up with my cousins and (other) grandparents and begin our adventure :)

As for now... the air smells like cotton candy snowballs, and the moon looks like a giant ball of aged parmesan hanging in the sky. The iHome is playing "What a Wonderful World" (string quartet version), and I concur wholeheartedly. Life is awesome. I could not wish for anything more (except maybe the ability to not sleep... Sandy, I'm going to be Ursula to your Ariel and steal your soul!)

Goodnight and goodbye!*


Kathryne

*I may find internet access throughout the week.

Phenomenal Evening :)

I saw (in chronological order)~

BlakeMarkLiviColinChristineErinCavemanDavidStephanieKristina

Which was wonderful.

We talked about books

and things

and ate brownies

which were dropped into

FUNNEL CAKE

batter

which was deep-fried

by my amazing sister!

who also went swimming

with me and

other people

who always make me smile

especially when talking of unions

and things

etc

:)

Kathryne

mimmmeeeesss!!!

I love mimes, I really do. This has nothing to do with the list in progress (50 Reasons I Should not be a Mime).

The concert was *amazing* and lovely and in all ways wonderful. I love you guys.

Also, I DID NOT GET LARYNGITIS! even though I was leading 2 choirs today in school, and delivering my Hamlet soliloquy, and playing piano, and singing a solo... I survived! yay!

ALSO, I moved my Awesome Possum blog to Wordpress! It is so cool.

Kathryne