love is in the air

...but not for me. my roommate morgan however is now very happily engaged to mr kyle bender. it happened sat nite and i think shes still living off of the high. the proposal was absolutely romantic and sweet and well thought out. last nite she told me to never get married...first of all..thats about the last thing i want someone to tell me. maybe bc a tiny part of me fears that that could come true. however, she meant it in the sense of...dont ever plan a wedding. that i can understand..it seems sooo dang stressful. my parents evidently have some allotment of money saved away for my wedding but with the way things are going theyve probably given up on me and are using the money for their various trips to disneyworld and such. so then maybe i wont have barely any money for a wedding and i can just elope. that seems so much more fun. weddings are great but lets be honest...its thousands of dollars that lasts a mere day. and five years from your wedding, is anyone going to remember what color your flowers were and what the food was like? unless its the most amazing wedding ever, like halbert and jeffs, then probably not. yeah yeah...youll remember...thats true...and im sure that if i actually did elope then i would probably regret it somewhere down the line and wished that i had spend a ridiculous amount of money and gotten to wear the pretty white dress and everything. and theres two types of weddings...the one where the bride is cool, calm, and relaxed. the other is where the bride is stressed, crying, and freaking out about something..or everything. i have been involved in both types and of course everything works out in the end...but i just pray that im the cool, calm, and collected type. i dont want my wedding to be a stressful situation..i want to giggle if i want to...or for words to be messed up and be able to laugh about it. those weddings are so much more fun to go to anyways. and why am i talking about my wedding for cryin out loud...im so far from that right now. i guess wedding stuff will just be on my mind for a while since my roommate will be surrounded by it. should be interesting...

matt rielly, friend and personal trainer

i have unofficially hired rielly as my personal trainer. it is however somewhat hard to understand im sure since we are not in the same city. i guess its a long distance sort of thing.

i came to rielly with some workout inquiries and he was very helpful in assisting me and suggested some specific workouts designed specifically to suit me personally, since everyone has different target problems. he also gave me basic instruction on the fat burning process, at no extra cost!

not only that but i recently have had some problems with my knee so we discussed this as well and he gave some advice on the situation.

unfortunately his personal favorite workout suggestion is sprints and i feel like he thinks that all problems can be solved with these. im not quite sure i agree and am not the hugest fan of sprinting however i am willing to give it a shot if my personal trainer suggests it.

thank you matt rielly for not only being a great friend, but my new unofficial, long distance personal trainer. to you i owe all my confidence once bathing suit season arrives.

what would you do with $1000?

well, my first instinct was pay off debt. but how fun is that? my second instinct was, buy an ipod. yeah...not as practical, but so much more fun! first lets go back to where i got this $1000. no, not from selling drugs although that business is starting to pick up a bit.. ;) no, i sold my old honda for a whopping thousand bucks. sadly, it probably wasnt even worth that much but i was still glad to get it. for some reason i assumed i would be giving the money back to my parents since they got me my new car but they were like, you bought your old car..its yours. i decided i wasnt going to argue with that.

so i decided to check out ebay bc bidding is a fun yet sometimes stressful game for me to play. so i found a new ipod...but it wasnt just an ipod..also included were a tunedok which is the holster you can put in your car cup holder..an extra dock for charging...and a leather case. so i was too impatient to wait till the auction ended so i opted for the 'buy it now' option which is usually a little more, but in this case was still worth it considering all the extra stuff i was getting. so it is now in a plane somewhere on its way to me and im so excited. a new toy!

so yeah...it was a pricy impulse buy, but i feel like it will be worth it. and now the oh-so-practical, wise minded kate will invest the rest of the money towards her credit card bill...

hitch and a whore

last nite was fun to say the least. saw the movie hitch with about 12 other girls and we all loved it. but it was after the movie that brought all the fun..

we went to baby a's for some food and margaritas and such and after about 5 minutes of being there a bunch of us on one side of the table couldnt help but notice two guys in a booth next to us staring. and it wasnt like we would look up and happen to make eye contact...these guys had no shame. one guy looked like he had come from work - button down, slacks...the other looked like he had rolled outta bed. so it was a weird combo but we figured they were just friends meeting for some drinks or something...or to scope out women, whatever. so, that was pretty annoying to have two dirty guys staring at you while trying to have a normal dinner with friends. but then it got REAL interesting...

then the whore came in...hahaha-that made me think of tommy boy..hopefully some of yall will get that. anyways, business guy left and came back with the whore. upon seeing the whore, the girl next to me almost spit out her drink and me and the girls on the other side of me were crying from laughing so hard. first let me mention that the guys were easily in their late twenties, maybe early thirties. the whore wasnt a day over 16. she was wearing 'shorts,' if i can even call them that..i mean, they were short alright. but we all got a nice show of her booty cheeks. she had somewhat of a shirt on...and then these knee high socks that had those openings for your toes...and flip flops with like a 4 inch high heel. and then she had a pretty face but tons of makeup on..maybe to try and make it look like she was of legal age? however, dressing like you came out of a britney spears' music video doesnt help much.. oh, so then rolled outta bed guy comes back to the booth and no lie, sits next to her and leans back and gives her the once over..when hes like a foot away from her! absolutely amazing. ive read about hookers in magazines and seen them in movies..but never in my life have i had the opportunity to see the meet and greet in person. i wouldnt say it was a privilege...more like an experience. eventually they left...and as they walk out, the guys are grinning and shaking each others hands as if to say, good choice? so..you probably know the story from there. it was something ill never forget, but hope to never see again...

did you know that AI scored 60 points last nite? hes amazing. i love him.

an unfamiliar face

today i told bryan i had gotten a haircut and thanks for noticing. please note the sarcasm there bc he definitely didnt have a clue. in his defense he said, "i can't remember what you look like all the time." excuse me? ive found im one of those people that people dont remember meeting bc the same people will come up to me and be like, 'i dont think we've met' when really im thinking..actually, we've met like 5 times...but like im going to actually call them out so i pretend that we're strangers as well. this has never made much sense to me however bc im asian and honestly, how many asians do you meet in a week? but then again, 'all asians look the same' right? however occasionally people will mistake me for someone else and its then that im like, it was probably just another asian...anyways, back to bryan not remembering what i look like all the time...he blames it on his terrible memory. if thats the case then i encourage you, if youre friends with bryan, to make an appearance in his life weekly otherwise he might not recognize you the next time he sees you...

what a weekend!

this past weekend was terrific. on friday nite i crashed the YI retreat in htown. i figured, what better way to see all my friends but when theyre all in one place? so that was sooo much fun. i got to see my little littles family, my old bible study..it was soo good. it made me realize how much i miss everyone! so i stayed up wayyy to late on friday nite (5ish) but its not like i ever got any sleep at retreats previous years so it was like normal times. played catchphrase for many many hours and ive never had so much fun or laughed so hard when playing a game. i owe most of that to bryan roper who i never knew could be so funny. i dont know which was more fun - listening to bryan or watching doug and patins reactions to him.

drove to cs in the morning to see my kids. kita wasnt home which i feared so that was real sad. hopefully i can catch her next time. then i went to j loop and saw all those kiddos and theyre soo cute - it was so great to see them all.

went to the basketball game on sat. and enjoyed it thoroughly while a&m killed mizzou by 30 points. jojo and i had fun checking out the crowd for terrible haircuts and then rielly proved he was a real man on the way home by driving thru campus to get us home quicker...and when i say 'thru campus' i mean on the sidewalks...between lightpoles...in between buildings of west campus.

saturday nite we played with fire..or rather the boys did while the girls prayed that the boys would not light themselves on fire. the pics below pretty much describe that nite.

went to church sunday...took a sunday afternoon nap with the rain as background music...then woke up in time for pizza and the superbowl. way to go pats...tom brady, youre hot.

so, all in all, a really fantastic weekend. it was GREAT to see everyone! it just makes me want to go back every weekend and hang out...but i should probably make some new friends here and that might make it a little hard to do that. anyways, now its back to a week of work...or at least thats what its called...however, i am typing this at work..so that shows about how hard i actually do work.

blue like jazz

i am reading the book, blue like jazz, right now. its the trendy book to read right now and well, im a sucker for trends so i had to see what all the hype was about. i thoroughly enjoy it though. so far chapter 10 entitled belief is my favorite..i think its 10...anyways, if youre looking for a good read you should check it out. its not necessarily a christian book although it is about christianity. the author donald miller, sums it up as 'nonreligious thoughts on christian spirituality.' i would describe it more but i would do a bad job so i wont. just read it.

finding my niche

my 'niche' or for the layman, 'my place in the world.' i pronounce the word like nitch however ive heard it pronounced like 'neeeesh,' so choose whatever you like.

anyways, about that niche. with my move back to austin i knew i would need/want to find a church to go to and need/want to find some things to get involved in. this is easier said than done and i guess i even had a small advantage over some since i was at least familiar with austin. i think the hardest part about moving to a new place and having to find new things to occupy the time in your life is having to replace the old stuff. and with that, realizing that although something isnt the same, doesnt necessarily make it not as good.

for instance ive been trying to find an inner city ministry to get involved in. so ive checked out a couple of things here and there and i find myself discouraged and unexcited bc i want so bad to find something like YI...or maybe i just wanna find YI...and maybe i just want to find the same kids and the same leaders too and obviously that isnt going to happen...bc theyre in cs...and im here. but in my frustration the Lord kindly reminds me that the inner city in austin needs jesus too. and austins a lot bigger so maybe i need to just be content knowing that inner city b/cs is being ministered to and do my part to start ministering in austin. i know that im going to find something here to be a part of and maybe its going to be nothing like YI...at thats ok.

finding a church can be a process too. and i think its partly bc i expect the process to be easier. ideally i would like to walk into a church and have God bellow out from heaven and say 'k..a...t..e....a..t.t.e..n..d...h.e..r..e' the letter spacing is the best way for me to convey my idea of what i think it would be like if I heard God talking to me. the deep, slow talking voice thats in movies and cartoons, ya know? anyways...i would basically just like for God to tell me where to go to church..this might have something to do with my indecisiveness.. but life doesnt work like that...so i have to make the decision myself. so i have to ask myself...is this where I feel like im supposed to be? but honestly, what does that mean? 'where i'm 'supposed' to be', 'where God is calling me to be' etc etc...what determines that? i think people, including myself, can get too wrapped up in christian lingo and think that by throwing in a couple of christian lined phrases that the world will make sense and the solutions to our problems will be justified...

ive now gone off on my own tangent that doesnt make a lot of sense in writing but makes sense in my head. the journal is good for me bc as im trying to figure out how to word things, it makes me ponder what i really am thinking and although im usually unsuccessful at conveying what i want to say...it has become clearer in my mind. so i apologize that you, the reader, probably have no clue as to what im getting at, but know that its revealed itself clearer to me.

bottom line...i still havent found a church to attend regularly or a ministry to get involved in but thats ok bc i know that theres something for me here..and im going to find it.