Just Throw a Brick

All right people. I'm about to go into a sports rant. I FREAKING LOVE THE OLYMPICS!!! That is all. Just kidding. Can I just say, I loved actually understanding what was happening in the Opening Ceremony, and understanding the history and the music! Don't get me wrong, I love learning about other cultures, and the Olympics are a great place to do it, but I really enjoyed understanding everything that was happening...also that all the music was in English. England is such a cool place with centuries of amazing history, and I think they did a good job of portraying that in the opening sequences with the smokestacks and such. They kept it lighthearted and fun, at the same time showing the seriousness of the Olympics and the responsibility that their city/country has to the world for the next couple of weeks. Well done, London!  They say a picture is worth a thousand words...so I added a bunch of pictures. Because words cannot explain the love I have for the Olympics...

Readers! How's it going! Sorry it's been awhile, just been working a lot and enjoying my summer. Speaking of working, it was a good week of random facts. Did you know Kool-Aid was invented in 1926? Yeah, that stuff is WAY older than I expected. Does it even have an expiration date? I mean, if you found one from the 1920s, would it still work? The idea of that really grosses me out, actually. Oh, and it was also a week of fixing heinous typos. My favorite? Having to fix someone's misspell of "Paul Bunyan" as "Paul Bunion". Seriously, coworkers? Paul Bunion? Makes him sound more like a geriatric gimp than an ax-wielding giant. But hey, whatever man.  Hm. Other things that aren't about work...Well, one of my new favorite shows is Leverage (I'm still only on the first season, but it's way good). TNT, people. Seriously in love with this show right now. What else...Well, since all of my other roommates are dating someone rig...

Guess what, guys! Chem lab's over! And I think I did pretty well! We won't know for sure until the final grades come out in a couple more weeks, but it's looking good! YAY!!!! Anyways... Now it's on to my piano final. My teacher's grading me on "how much I've improved", and while I do think I've gotten better at the songs, I don't feel like it's too noticeable, so hopefully he hears something that I don't hear. I guess we'll see. In other news, I discovered my favorite episode of Psych. Or at least, my two favorites. I can't decide between Last Night Gus , Or American Duos. As you can tell, it's a hard choice. Suggestions? ~K

Sorry I haven't been on here for awhile, friends. If anyone even reads this thing. Oh  yeah, no self-pity. Sorry about that little lapse in judgement there. Anyways, so I've been taking a chemistry lab class this spring, and I hate chemistry. Actually doing the lab isn't bad though, and I'm not half bad. I can follow directions, which is all chem lab is, so I'm pretty good at it. Woo! One chemistry class I (hopefully) won't have to take again! Or a third time... *sigh* If you haven't noticed, I haven't really done so well in chem. But hey, that's about to change! I'm going to do great in this one! I know it! (hopefully). First test is tomorrow, so we'll see how it goes. Cross your fingers! Ready for a bad chemistry pickup line? I knew you were. If a guy says this to me sometime, I think I might die. Hahaha. Thank you, Big Bang Theory, for making my life so much better. I love understanding smart jokes. And then I shrink a little ins...

Sometimes when I'm teaching piano, I feel like I'm not really making a difference here. It's a fact that as soon as kid's start growing up and deciding they don't want to take piano, like most of them eventually will, they'll move on and I'll be nothing more than a "I used to..." story. But this week, one of my kids told me, "Katelyn, I like coming to piano. Piano is fun!" It was then that I realized that even though some of these kids may quit and never think of me again, I still made a difference in their lives right now .  And if I can get these kids to find something they love about music, then I've done what I set out to do. I love my piano kids! 

Sometimes I get annoyed. It doesn't take a lot to annoy me, but it takes a lot to get me to tell you about it. I'm kind of a roll-with-the-punches kind of girl. But let me tell you, I'm getting really close to throwing out some punches with the current dish situation. Yes, the dish situation. Didn't you just feel a tingle of dread run down your spine? I know I did. Here's the thing. I think my roommates think there's a dish fairy that magically comes and does the dishes and leaves them all sparkling clean so they can have clean pots for their Pasta Roni and clean bowls for their Special K. I am not kidding. I swear. It's like when there's no dishes because I don't have time and I'm sick of doing them all week, they're like, "What? We have no bowls!!!", and I'm like "no DUH". And then when they do do the dishes (once every month or so), they're like "I did the dishes! Now we have clean ones!" like they...

Once upon a time, there was a magical place where it never rained. ... The End.