My New Background

So . . . . I was feeling pretty bad that everyone had cuter blogs than i did. So I ventured out and changed my background. Hooray for the New Year and Change!!! Right?! I've been reading SeriouslySoBlessed.blogspot.com - and oh my lands. If you haven't read this blog. . . do. It mocks Mormon blog culture in only the funniest of ways. I love it.

So - work has been pretty slow lately. . . so it's given me lots of time to blog. You woudln't know this - because I never actually publish 9/10 of the things I begin to write. I always get sidetracked 3/4 of the way through and step away. . . and when I come back to finish it, I don't even remember the point I was going to make.

I like making points in my posts. I know you all would LOVE to hear about the details of my life and all that. . . . but most of the time I don't think my life is really interesting enough to share with the whole WWW. However, I have decided that today, I'm going to break my own rules and do an Ode to Kat's 08, ahem. here goes:

2008 was a year of. .. well, not to be cliche and quote the President Elect, but it was a year of Change! From graduating college, to starting the 9-5, buying a new car. . .and learning what it's like to have to understand the words 'deductible' and apartment insurance.

I traveled to lots of cool places! Like New Orleans, San Diego, and Ensenada! I made countless memories with old friends, and gained some incredible new friends.

I hired a lawyer to get my deposit back from a shady landlord, who not only tried to steal from us, but had us unrightfully evicted.

I learned that lawyers are VERY expensive. . .and if I ever get bored with web design, I should go to law school :)

I learned that you shouldn't even joke with your friend about having a weapon when you go through customs. They don't think that is funny. at all.

I quit diet coke for a record of 2 months. Then I had to work a Saturday. . . and the addiction started back up again.

A bunch of my friends got married, a few of them had babies! All very exciting!!!

I learned that having the name of Katrina while you're in New Orleans makes for lots of awesome photo opportunites.

I learned that Vegas doesn't hold a candle to Burboun Street.

I also learned that the South, is VERy very Very different from Utah. :)

Being an adult is actually a lot cooler than being a student. Sorry to everyone that is still in school. But yeah - the 9-5 pretty much rocks.

I spent lots of time in San Diego, but didn't swim in the ocean once. The waves frighten me!

I learned that there is always a lot of Marijuana at Snoop Dogg Concerts. I also learned that my skin doens't react well to Marijuana smoke. If exposed to it for too long, it begins to itch and swell to ridiculous proportions.

I realized that people aren't nice to you when your face is swollen all funny.

I found a favorite airline. Jet Blue. They give you a WHOLE CAN of diet coke, not just the dinky little glass. And even though their TV's don't work for 80% of the flight, I still love the idea.

I got my dream computer - the MacPro. And she never dissapoints.

- well, I think i'm just going off on random tangents now. However, it's been a fabulous year! One of growth and good times! I can't wait for 2009! For all the resolutions I'll make, and then get mad at myself for not keeping :) and for all the days that I'll write checks and accidently date them 08, and not 09!

Happy New Year!!!