Entries for June, 2005

June 2nd, 2005

a good night for rain

I'm so solemn and sullen and not super right now.

 

Summer is always the most stressfull ever in my life and this one SUCKS so far.   I didn't want to update and complain though so annnyyyywaaayyy....

I decided not to move.  ALthough it was probably what I should have done I #1 don't want to move at all b/c moving sucks #2 realized that no refrigerator or dishwasher can make me as happy as having a back porch w/wind chimes that I can leave the door and window open to all the time can.   I just need to get some plants and a chair out there

 I have good news!!!!    A FREE. . . . that's right kids, FREE

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f.r.e.e concert ("high life" fest) featuring Barfoot Manner, Mood Cultivation Project,  Kokolo Afro Orchestra, among many others is SUNDAY THE FIFTH at the LINCOLN THEATRE!!!!!!!!!!  Doors open at 2pm and it's FREE!!!!!  Please let me know if you want to go - I probably won't go for the whole afternoon, esp. if I end up having to go by myself (which I will do).  

 

Also Galactic is coming back to the Lincoln on the 23rd - a very good show, Kickin' Grass will be at the Pour House on the 11th, and Victor Wooten at Cat's Cradle July 11th.   The Roots are gonna be in Charlotte on the 23rd also!    THat's one good thing about Summer - damn good music. 

Unfortunately Soulive is nowhere near Raleigh for the summer and who knows when they'll be around next.....you better believe I'll be there though - best show I've EVER seen in my ENTIRE life - and I've seen a good amount.....wow. 

sooooo . .. . .  I guess that's about it.   I'm gonna try and get my sister to come up here.  
tomorrow's Thirsty Thursday - you shoudl come







Katrin

Currently listening to: Jimmy Eat World - Your House
Currently reading: Ender's Game (again)
Posted by flutterbykat at 12:17 AM | 2 hot hollerins

June 6th, 2005

not enough hugs!

I stopped by the apt. quickly tonight for some social time before a long bout of studying and DID NOT get a sufficient amount of hugs!    There are a few of you that owe me an extra hug

 

so I have a classical song in my head and I can't figure out what it is.

 For those that don't know I am currently looking for a new job as I will be leaving Sam Ash after about a year and half now....(maybe more?).   They've cut my hours because they "can't afford to pay everyone on overlapping shifts" so if I could stay on the hours they're giving me now, I woudl.....but I can't.   I get really cnofused because I KNOW that my manager John really likes me, he's bent over backwards for me on a few occasions and I've been there so long - I'm one of the only few remaining people that know that computer system like the back of my hand.   Yet it seems he's so quick to let me go.  The first time I had left and went ot Starbucks he practically begged me to come back - bent the rules and kept me on the payroll saying that I was "in charlotte" for a while.  I don't get it!   I'm so sad to leave - I love that job and I'll be sad to not see those people all the time.   I hate when life does that to you - you become close to people or used to something and BAM - things change.

 . . . .

but . . . . with change comes...well, change.  I think perhaps it's for the better.  I'll definitely meet more new people (my favorite past time!) and depending on what happens maybe I'll get a job closer to my apt. and save gas money or save stress of being late and getting ot capital blvd. in rush hour traffic.   *sigh*

favor de colocar el articulo en la bolsa

 so also - I was thinking that in the fall I'd (depending on things) switch my major to entomology . . . but we don't have an entomology major here at state.   I was thinking then that maybe I should transfer somewhere that does?   I mean - that's the first thing in college I've truly fallen in love with and WANTED to go to class for.  Maybe I should pursue it.   The only reason I do Spanish is b/c for some reason I get it . . . . I've done it forever and it works, but I just like to speak it - I don't like all this other history and blah blah blah that comes with it.  (no one likes history)

 

 I'm very confused.  Life is changing right now - E-beth's been gone and will probably be gone forever now (as in never back to raleigh), Jim left Sam Ash to Ohio where I'll never see him again, I'm leaving Sam Ash, people are graduating, Charlie's in Florida for a job until sept and Hillary's at home then going to UNCC in the fall,.... so much is happening.  As I said before change is good - but it's definitely confusing and tumultuous right now - I need something routine to count on - just one thing right now.

IN OTHER NEWS:

 last night was the miller high life festival and it was a BLAST!    Special thanks to Katie and Ed for joining me - hope you guys had fun!   
I definitely danced my ass off for like 3 hours (NOTHING compared to mannerland - holy sh*t), and ran into SOOOO many people I haven't seen in forever- Summer, KeKe, Billy(without the hair!), Jodi, Dave, John, Lee and his gf were there, Angie, I think that's about it.  SO FUN!    Unfortunately Mannerland is the same weekend as Katie and Ed's wedding     Of course!!!!!!!!     I think what I'm gonna do (b/c I woudldn't even DREAM of missing their wedding) is go to Mannerland friday and stay the night then stay on saturday for as long as I possibly can - please let me know if you're interested!    Weekend of Oct. 15th - not sure about cost yet.  


The moral of the story life is good right now but life is changing.....summer is always so rough and if it weren't for the gorgeous weather and my friends then I'd probably go insane

Katrin

Currently listening to: my wind chimes
Currently reading: fixin to study
Posted by flutterbykat at 11:43 PM | 3 hot hollerins

June 12th, 2005

random thoughts

I love my tattoos

Jim and Kim (a.k.a Jimmy and Kim Jervis) are the cutest ever in my life

I like to get drunk sometimes

I don't like to have a woozy stomach after getting drunk

I like to work up a sweat at least once a day

I need to practice my bassoon and my guitar more

I need to hang out w/Kim Tate more

I need to stop lookin' for love in all the wrong places

I need to go to the doctor about my stomach :-/

I want to THROW DOWN for my 21st birthday . . . possibly in Charlotte?

I need to go horseback riding very very soon before I implode

I like being a "curvy" woman although sometimes I am whalish

Being a girl is DEFINITELY better than being a guy (skirts, best friends, sleepovers, earrings, ladies' night anywhere. . . . )

any time I'm ever invited anywhere I need to try to go (unless I don't want to)

THe mandolin player and bassist of Barefoot are the nicest ever 

I love my family more than anything in the entire universe

I think I can safely say that Led Zeppelin is my favorite band of all time

I'm glad I've had people like EJ, Larry, Elliot, Duvonn, Dherel, Jason, JD, and Lindsey in my life to expand my music taste to include R&B 

I'm gonna go work out now . . . . .

<3 Kat

 

p.s. - I love milk! 

Currently listening to: your face
Currently reading: your face
Currently feeling: super
Posted by flutterbykat at 11:44 AM | 5 hot hollerins

June 26th, 2005

planets and poetry

so I'm sitting here reading peoples' tabulas and so much has happened in the world of tabulas!  So I figure now that I'm caught up on reading I'll catch up on updating

 

I'm not in that good of mood right now b/c I have a headache and I kinda had a stinky day.  But it's tricky b/c I feel like b/c of those 2 things I'm in a bad mood on top but a good mood deep down and that's b/c it's summer and I'm happy and I get to go home next week

 

Also everything's wacky right now - a lot of chaos is everywhere and I blame it on the planets.   So here's my wackiness:   I'm a naturally ditzy/airheadedish/silly person and always have been.  I also have been chronicly made fun of (in a silly way) my whole life, which is essentially my job description at Sam Ash:  get made fun of all day.  I don't mind - I've got the best sense of humor and I love being silly with people.  But sometimes it wears on you - especially when you can tell sometimes people are being bitchy and hiding it with a joke.  That happened a lot today and I got made fun of for being ditzy or whatever all day by a lot of different people and it made me sad   I wonder what people REALLY think of me when all doors are closed.  I know I shouldn't care and i don't care in the sense that "omg I hope he/she likes me and my company" but I care b/c all but like 1 person that made one of those comments today are people whose opinions I value. 

*sigh*   Sometimes I need to say what's on my mind b/c otherwise nothing is solved, right?

When I sit and think about things though - and I do that often, especially lately - I realize that the only thing that matters in the end is myself.  I know I'll have my family forever and they love me regardless and hopefully some of my friends will be forever but the person I have to wake up to every day and live with and impress and love and worry about and protect no matter what - no escaping, is me.   Basically I wish I could say screw everyone else b/c they shouldn't matter  -  but I can't help that they do.

 

so I have poetry and song lyrics for you to finish up this entry.   I have a poem to start you out - one I wrote while I sat hungover in my anthropology class.  Then I have a Musiq Soulchild song and a tidbit of a  John Legend song in light of all the craziness everywhere.  I feel like most of my friends and family and coworkers are going through the wackiness mentioned above so here's some hopeful words: (well, after the hangover poem, right....)



Ode to a Hangover

Here I sit hungover in class
My teacher won't shut up, this headache's kicking my ass
My tummy's all rumbly, bumbly, upset
I swear I'll never drink again . . . . . at least, not yet.



IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE IN THIS ENTRY READ THESE LYRICS:

 You Be Alright   -   Musiq Soulchild:
So many people are on a search to find
within their days, within their minds to hide
and dump the load of this worldly life
and the things that it can make you feel and do
just to pass away your time
But you be alright
Cause if you just hold on, be strong, you be alright, yes you will

People have a tendency to think to themselves
that they're the only ones going through more things than anyone else
but oh, I bet you'll beg to differ if you would just consider the much bigger picture
then you would see that most people go through the same things that you do in life
But you be alright
Cause if you can take it, you surely can make it, you be alright

Just take a good look around
look at the things and all the people, people that you see
cause we share a joy, we share a pain
so it doesn't matter at all
oh, we're all the same
so you be alright - everything is gonna be just fine
you be alright - so just keep your head up in the sun
you be alright - you got nothing to worry about - you be alright




It Don't Have to Change - John Legend

Do you remember
when the family was everything?
do you remember?
it was so long ago and so much has changed
I wanna go back
wanna go back to those simple days
I wanna go back
but now we've grown and gone our seperate ways

Times is hard and things are a-changing
I pray to God that we can remain the same
All I'm tryin to say is our love don't have to change
no it don't have to change



sorry I need to add one more set of lyrics from one of my favorite ben folds five songs:


jane be jane
you're better that way
not when you're trying
imitating something you think you saw

jane be jane
and if sometimes that might
drive them away
let them stay there
you don't need them anyway


you're worried there might not be
anything at all inside
but that you're worried
should tell you that's not right
don't try to see yourself
the way that others do
it's no use

you're worried there might not be
anything at all inside
but that you're worried
should tell you that's not right
you've had it harder than anyone could know
so hard to let it go

but it's your life
and you can decorate it
as you like
beneath the paint and armour
in your eyes the truth still shines
jane be jane
jane be jane



 comments por favor?

Currently listening to: John Legend
Currently reading: Montana Sky - Nora Roberts
Currently feeling: VERY contemplative
Posted by flutterbykat at 02:17 AM | 5 hot hollerins