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I just want the piece of paper.

September 4, 2007 By 1 Comment

 I had a very busy, very good weekend, but I’m going to save that for later this week.  Today’s topic (for me) is school.

I’m starting my last few classes to finish my degree in Film Theory starting next Monday and I’m going to have a lot on my plate. Working full time, studying for 3 classes, planning my wedding, just keeping my life going in general! Maybe that doesn’t sound all that hard to you, but I often have difficulty concentrating and I get tired very easily due to my medication (which, despite its side effects, has the positive effect of preventing seizures), making studying difficult.  There are some people who don’t quite believe this, but it’s true.

I want to finish university.  I don’t appreciate being a family joke: the eldest sister who probably won’t graduate until the youngest is done university herself.  Keep in mind that I took a full year off of school, and will be graduating without any student loans to pay off!  I have that going for me.  It’s just that a lot is being expected of me this fall, and I don’t want to disappoint anyone.  I don’t like the pressure.

I have a full time job that I enjoy.  Right now graduation is just about the piece of paper – honestly I would be a lot more comfortable (and likely successful) if I was given a bit more time to finish, rather than cramming the last 3 classes into this term.  But then there’s the OTHER piece of paper, the other event – the wedding.  No wedding until I’ve graduated.  I never agreed to that; it was decided.

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Strange Coincidences

August 22, 2007 By 2 Comments

Sometimes in life there are strange coincidences – it may even take you a while to notice them.

On Sunday, Micaela and Lauren hosted a bridal shower for Katelyn at our house. It was a friends/sisters/cousins bridal shower with the theme “Naughty or Nice”, so naturally we had to kick the parents and the boyfriend/fiances out of the house.

Dad went off with a good family friend, Bob (affectionatly referred to as “Dad’s boyfriend”), while Mom and the boys went golfing at The Fox. We girls had a lovely time making honeymoon undies, toilet-paper wedding dresses, drinking mimosas, enjoying the treats made for us by resident chef/Micaela’s boyfriend Kent, and admiring the gifts for the bride!

Later that evening, my FIANCE (I’m still getting used to writing and saying that!) was telling me about their golf game. He noted that he and Kent shared clubs as Kent doesn’t own a set and hasn’t golfed in several years and, among the 4 or 5 sets of clubs at our house, there are no left handed golf clubs.

He then realized that himself, Kent, and Scott (Kate’s fiance) are all left handed golfers who do everything else right handed (as far as I know). Meanwhile, they were golfing with Mom, a righty golfer – but lefty everything else.

What are the chances? Seriously. Three sisters, dating/engaged to three men who are all lefty golfers who do everything else right-handed. Strange coincidence. Or just strange.

Filed Under: blogging, blonde, Family, friends, golf, life, love, personal, random, relationships, sisterhood, sisters, thoughts, Wedding, Work

My Ideal Job

August 17, 2007 By 2 Comments

Since graduating University and realizing that the job I now work in is not at all where I see myself in the future I find people asking me more and more what my ideal job is. So here’s the catch, I really don’t know. I have had various jobs in the past and basically loved them all.

Snowboarding instructor

Golf Course Maintenance worker

Farmers Hand (on the home farm)

Research and Development Student for a chemical company

I guess I was not thinking when I accepted a job where 1. I would be working by myself and 2. I’m in an office, all day. I was blinded by the fact that it was a full time job and I was coming out of University, what an opportunity! This job really isn’t bad at times, when it is busy it is actually quite entertaining. However very rarely is it busy and so I’m getting lazier. When I’m busy when I get a new task I get it done right away. But when there’s not much to do, I put it off because I have so much time to get it done later.

Heres what I think I need in a job:

1. Outdoors (either all outdoors or flexibility indoor/outdoor work)

2. People

3. Accomplishment (I need to feel like what I am doing is actually helping something)
I think that I’d like to try landscaping sometime (designing not cutting lawns all the time). You definately get accomplishment in that job!

Whats in your ideal job?

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Requisite “About Me” post

July 24, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Kate started off with a great “About Me” post, and I’m hoping that everyone will follow suit! I guess everyone includes me…

Let’s start off with important things about me:

  • This is hard. Putting something at the top of a list generally indicates that it is the most important thing on the list. But wait! Now, there is no “first” on the list! There’s…this!
  • I love: my boyfriend (although he is opposed to the idea of blogging); my sisters; my family (immediate, extended, and future); my job & my co-workers; golf; snowboarding; technology; tall no-whip mochas; HGTV.
  • I hate: seizures; being reliant on medication.
  • I want: a Macbook and a digital camera. PS- my birthday is next month…

That’s all I can think of right now.

Filed Under: erica, Family, sisterhood, Work

Kate’s intro

July 18, 2007 By 1 Comment

So before I jump into everything and you get to read all this blogging goodness I want to introduce myself and give a bit of a history.

I’m Katelyn, the middle blond sister and I’m 21 (soon to be 22!). I recently graduated from University with my Bachelor of Science in Agriculture. So now I work at a real estate firm doing administration for realtor’s who are selling farms. Sounds glamorous eh? It’s not what I see myself doing in the future, but now it will do.

When I’m not working you will find me swimming (in the local quarry), golfing, playing baseball, hanging out with my friends and sisters and wedding planning because I’m getting married in October! That’s probably the most exciting that’s happening in my life right now so most of my blogging will be about that, because that’s my life! So I’m the middle child and I’m getting married first. Probably not how my older sisters had it planned out (sorry girls!) but my fiancé Scott had other plans. We got engaged over Christmas of 2006 and quickly decided we wanted a fall wedding and the date was set. I won’t say too much more about this otherwise I will have nothing else to blog about in the future because, really that’s all I talk about lately.

I’ve had a bumpy writing past. I’ve been writing in my live journal pretty regularly and in the past I have also had a blog that I wrote in. In my live journal and blog I wrote about my life in university and all the things that made me tick and all that made me happy. In high school I never liked writing. English was my least favourite subject, only being made better when I had friends in the class or when I had humorous/klutzy teachers. Such as the one, who, during class leaned on my friends glasses and broke them while she was out at the washroom. It was funny to watch him try to explain to her what happened when she returned. Perhaps one reason I hated English class so much was because in Grade 9 it was during English class that my friends realized I had mistakenly worn my shirt backwards and announced it to the whole class while my face quickly turned bright red. However I did survive and even had to take an English class in university. Then one semester I signed up for an Agricultural Communications class in university and I realized writing could be enjoyable/tolerated. Before that class I wrote essay after essay and entering the communications class was like a light bulb being turned on. We wrote lots of articles on topics we chose or were chosen for us and scripts. My writing was even published in the local 4-H magazine, quite an accomplishment for a girl who hates English. This is not to say that my future spanned from that single moment but I do feel like I developed something that I had not in the past.

So I didn’t really write much history about myself but it will have to do for now.

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