Updates A La Katy

Well, I figured it was time I let you all know about what has been going on in my life lately. Seeing as how I don't really like to get toooo personal in my blog (do I? maybe I do?), I'm just going to inform you all of my latest and greatest points of interest and excitement.

1. I am currently collecting all the Happy Meal toys for the Kung Fu Panda movie. Most of you are fully aware that I am heartily invested in any meal in which a definitive emotion is displayed in its description (i.e. Happy Meal, Wacky Pack). But what you might not know is that I convey more expressions of joy and excitement over a free toy/meal combination than I do when, say, gas prices fall from $63.72 a gallon to $58.94. It's just that wonderful to me. So, Brian and I have been steadily acquiring them these past few weeks. We each have three. We are going to get them all and then go see the movie. Yes, we will probably take our free toys with us and set them up proudly at our feet.

2. I now know how to make Chili's salsa. Again, many of you who know me are fully aware that, if I am ever close to death, all I ever really want is for someone to hook me up to an IV that freely flows the deliciousness that is Chilis salsa into my veins, so that my transition into heaven will be all that much more blissful. I love it. Well, Brian Googled it the other day (seriously have no idea why it never occurred to me to do that...) and found the exact recipe. Within minutes, we were on our way to the grosh (my abbreve for grocery store) to gather the ingredients. We got so excited about our endeavor that we doubled the recipe. Now, Brian's fridge is full of about 38 little bowls of straight up Jesus. I'm frankly jealous that he gets to sleep mere feet away from all that salsa-y goodness. It's amazing, friends.

3. I quit my job. I have been working for my wonderful father since, oh, about the Mesozoic Era and have realized it's just time for me to move on. So, I'm finishing up grad school this next year and then it's on to bigger and better things! No more desk job! My last day is August 1. Whenever I think about it, I swear I hear a sweet heavenly choir of angels. And I just want to hug those angels, just wanna hug em up and feed em some happy meals.

4. I'm reading two great books. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen and Having a Mary Heart In a Martha World by, oh I can't remember her name...how very Martha of me. Anyway, both books are sooooo good. Water for Elephants is a fiction book centered around the theme of a 1950s circus type situation. And the other one is centered around the theme of our Lord of Lord and Heavenly Host. Praise Father Son and Holy Ghost.

5. I recently whacked myself in the chin with a lawn mower. Well, not the actual mower. I mean, it would be a pretty bold accomplishment if I could just hoist a mower in the air and then proceed to accidentally whack myself in the chin with it. It was the thing you pull on to start the mower. Or the "starter pully thing" as I like to call it. Well, I was trying to show off how wonderfully talented I am at starting large pieces of lawn machinery when, just out of nowhere, I felt a humbling jolt of pain as I got a little too close to my facial area during the up-pull. So, now I have a bruise there, but that's ok. Oh, and please don't come up to me and try to touch it. Whenever anyone approaches an owie on my person, I have some sort of ninja reflex action that will sever at least two limbs in one move. So, don't. touch. my. chin. bruise. I am not responsible for bodily harm done unto ye.

6. I am horribly sunburned. I blame the clouds which gave the impression that the sun wasn't working. And, I blame my very pale ancestors. Clearly, the fact that I applied no sunscreen whatsoever is soooo not my fault.

That's basically all for now...I think...Hope you all are having a wonderful summer!!!