These drawings put me in a way better mood today.

This is My very first drawing of an octopus. I was laying in bed a while back ( i get my best ideas just laying there) and i thought "I have got to draw a picture of an Octopus with a french mooostachio." so i finally did and i love it. I'm not completely done with this drawing, at least i think i'm not done. But anyways i hope it turns out great.
I don't know why but i've got a thing for drawing octopuses lately. I am finding it really fun. the idea for this first drawing was to draw a few real buildings, but i failed epically at drawing an actual building ha so i decided to just draw my good old cartoony city scape. I plan on doing awesome things with this drawing.

i love the smell of old books.

Last night my mom was making lasagna, which i was so excited about, then BOOM! the oven broke. I was so terribly disappointed. I mean lasagna is one of my favorite dinners. Then she offered to get pizza. Well that's always fun but not as good as lasagna. We got the pizza and it changed my life. VEGETARIAN ARTICHOKE PIZZA! So damn good. It changed my outlook on the broken oven. Anyways i'm all over the place haha ummm nothing else to say. the end.

and so it begins.

I'm going to work tomorrow.And it begins. one of my biggest fears of starting something like a job, was that i'd miss out on fun opportunities. My grandma asked if i wanted to go to a movie tomorrow. Let me tell you, i love going to movies with my grandma. i don't know why, i just do. So i am encountering my first disappointment on the job. On the up side i guess, i get to have lunch with my dad which is cool. I just hate missing fun things. I guess this is real life...i knew i wasn't ready. but i have to tackle it somehow, might as well tackle it when there's a cool understanding boss like my dad. The main thing i'm holding onto it the fact that someday, it may be faaar in the future, but someday i will have enough money to pay for my own damn insurance so i can drive myself. I am so in need of that. Maybe I'm a late bloomer or something but it has finally hit me straight in the face that feeling of wanting and feeling a need to just go. Not because i hate where i am or the people i'm with, but because i want to be reliable and i want to be able to say "I'll be there no matter what" and actually mean it instead of just being full of hot air and good intentions. I need to be able to drive myself. I NEED it desperately. Yeah i know i'm late to the independence party but i honestly don't care. I live life by my own pace and as long as i get there, it doesn't matter how long it takes....I sound angry but i'm not. i'm just passionate i guess. anyways, i'll post tomorrow. peace.

sniff sniff go away.

So yesterday i wake up, write a posting on here, sip some coffee and then my dad calls my mom. "I need katie to work today" bleh. Another two day job where i answer phones for my dad and get a free lunch. Nope he needs an actual receptionist who can do insurance and paperwork and buy merchandise, etc. I agreed because, well he's my dad. He needs my help. So i went and got dressed for a day at work. I walk down the hall and BAM! the toilet flooded downstairs. So instead of a nice relaxing morning before work, i get to walk through poop water and soaked towels. We used all the towels in the house to soak up as much water as possible so the tiling on the floor wouldn't be ruined. The best part is that we had to turn all the water off in the house so it wound't keep overflowing. "But we have poop water all over us?!" yeah that didn't matter. Luckily my moms meticulous care for the chemicals of the hot tub saved the day. She told us we could wash our hands in the hot tube because it'll sanitize our hands. That was my morning. So much fun...not. Then i get to work and my dads old receptionist dumps EVERY possible piece of information about the job into my lap. I was completely overwhelmed. After lunch, though, she reigned in the overwhelming information and stuck with the simple details. By the end of the day i felt like i might be able to do this job.

So i drew an octopus the other night. I'll put it up soon, i just haven't taken the time to scan it. Enjoy.

Do it.

Yesterday was a good day. I kind of started in a funk or something but by the end of the day i was in a better mood. Sometimes it's ok to get mad at the people you love, It's not ok to just let it simmer and get worse.

When i finally decided to go to college and grow up i thought i'd be learning all these books smarts and that would be that. I mean i spent a year doing nothing, and i thought "Why haven't i learned anything new lately?" DUH because you were sitting at home being depressed all the time. Now that i'm out and around new people, being challenged and pushed i have learned a lot of things. I am so happy. Sometimes learning can suuuuck but honestly, that's ok. I love that i have learned how to write a semi good first essay, but i'm also glad i learned that friendships evolve, my parents aren't always right(i know, took me long enough right?), and friendships ebb and flow. I'm still getting a hold of this college thing but i love it. I don't know if this post makes sense to anyone else but me but hey, i'm ok with that.

baby steps.

Well today has been lovely. I woke up with the voice of an old lady that has been smoking for 50 years and a terribly congested chest but i fought all that crap and went job searching. Not sure if going to four places right by each other is the same as job searching but it's a lot for me. I had an epiphany last night that i was pissed off about the fact that i don't have a job and sadly i don't have my license. So i decided i would do something about it and i did. What i've done hasn't payed off yet but it's a step for me. I walked home after the "job search" and felt like i had ran 3 miles because of my damn cold, but i think i'm getting better. Anyways, today has been good and people have said "I'm proud of you" so to me today was a success. For the first time in my life i have actually felt an utter need to grow up and become something other than just nice katie with a good sense of humor and a great encourager. I still want to be all of those things but i want to be more. More accomplished and successful and well rounded. future me here i come.

Oh and this is one of my favorite people today. That person on the right, not me haha

Well what do we have here....

Haven't been on here since before my first term in college(which has only been like5 months?) Well i started a cool thing where i eve's drop at school and draw what i hear. This is one of the many drawings. This second term hasn't been as interesting as the first one but that might have something to do with the fact that i'm only taking one class, Writing. I hope i haven't lost anybody because i've been away for so long. I have to admit that i kind of gave up on this little blog when a friend of mine said "check out tumblr, It's great!" so i did and never looked back...until now. I've got lots of drawings to share so i'll be doing that soon enough. I've also got a lot to say but not sure how to say it so you'll have to bear with me as i figure out how to speak ha Anyways, i'm going to try to be on this thing more often. Enjoy.