Holy Schmoly it's been a loooooong time since I've been on this here blog thing! But I have a good excuse! Since January I have become addicted to myspace, so I'm normally on a.) my e-mail, b.) my IM, or c.) my myspace--which is: www.myspace.com/onedaywillactihope (I think that's the adress anyways...lol) So if any of you people have a myspace, check me out, leave a message/comment/friend request, let me know who you are (Because I just don't like creepy stalker people...you know?), and I will definitely get back to you (or at least attempt to...lol).

 So yeah...no promises that I'll keep blogging on here, but I do have a blog on my myspace that I try to keep up every once in a while (--what can I say? I'm a busy person...;D)

And if you don't have a myspace, I would STILL love to hear from you, so E-mail me! my e-mail adresses are:

elf_gal06@yahoo.com AND

myfavoritesherlock@yahoo.com

And I have yahoo and msn messenger for elf_gal06@yahoo.com

So give a me a ring, I really want to hear from y'all (ESPECIALLY a certain Miss Diamedes/Ducky--if she reads this...)

So that's it! Maybe I'll post again on this thing...like, in another year or something...lol. Til then you lovely people...

Cheers!

Love, and God bless,

Katie

Sorrento/Rome trips

Hey everyone and anyone! I'm back again, and my traveling month is over. So here's how Sorrento and Rome went.  *Note* (More on the other places w/pictures later.)

      I went with my two grandmas on a Sorrento/Amalfi Coast tour. We rode on a bus with about seven or eight other people. It was a fantastic day, not too chilly, and not too hot. First went to the town of Sorrento went shopping, got to walk around the town a bit, went wine tasting--(not really, just seeing if you were paying attention....) and then we drove around the Amalfi coast. We had lunch in a family owned restaurant (really good food!). I had a chance to take some great pics, in which you'll see three of them. It was fun!

And if you're not asleep yet with reading this.....

    My trip to Rome was great, and was actually my very first time going there! (It's actually pretty sad, considering I've lived only about two hours away from Rome for two years now, and it took me this Oct to finally go there! lol) My mom, grandmas, and I took the 9:30 a.m. train (I LOVE public transportation) to downtown Rome, then took the Metro straight to the Colosseum. It was really funny to see these guys dressed up like Roman centurions at the entrance of the Colosseum waiting to take people's pics! The Colosseum was awesome! We then went to Paltine Hill where supposedly Romulus and Remus had been raised there by the She-wolf. Then on our walk back to the metro we walked passed a Communist Parade.....NO FOOLING! Ironically about 90% of the people in the parade were young people. (I have a picture of that later). We finally took the metro back to the train station had McDonalds for Dinner (really Italian right?lol) then took the 2 hour train ride back home. By the time we got back, we were all REALLY exhausted! It was great though.

   Well, that's it. Hope you all weren't too bored with the details!  Here's the pic:

Hope you like it!  Love and God bless!

Katie

Hey All,

Just a quick update:

I haven't been on here for a while, because I've been really busy with school, babysitting(that's what you'd call my "work"), and my grandmas are now here visiting us in Italy.

So far in the last 2 weeks I have been to Sorrento, Pisa, Florence, Rome, Naples (where I live) and tomorrow my grandmas, my 2 younger brothers, and I are flying to Paris, France. We'll be there for a couple days, and then will be flying to London, England for a couple more days! I'm so excited! I've never been to Paris yet, and I LOVE London!

So it might be a little while longer before I'm on here again. I will write about my "travels" and will post pictures.

God bless! †

Love the world traveller,

<>< Katie <><

Hey Everyone, I got this in an e-mail, and I couldn't stop laughing! Now most of you(if not all of you) aren't married, but I still dare you to do some of these things! Lol

P.s. Warning: Some of it is a little warped......

Enjoy!

>Things to do at Wal-Mart while your spouse is taking their sweet
>time:
>
> 1. Get 24 boxes of stuff and randomly put them in people's carts
>when they aren't looking.
>
>2. Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5 minute intervals.
>
> 3. Make a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the rest rooms.
>
> 4. Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone,
>"Code 3 in Housewares", and see what happens.
>
>5. Go the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of M&M's on lay- away.
>6. Move a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
>
> 7. Set up a tent in the camping department and tell other shoppers you'll invite them in if they'll bring pillows from the bedding department.
>
>
>
> 8. When a clerk asks if they can help you, begin to cry and ask
>'Why can't you people just leave me alone?'
>
> 9. Look right into the security camera; use it as a mirror, and
>pick your nose.
>
> 10. While handling guns in the hunting department, ask the clerk
>if he knows where the anti- depressants are.
>
> 11. Dart around the store suspiciously loudly humming the "Mission
>Impossible" theme.
>
> 12. In the auto department, practice your "Madonna look" using
>different size funnels.
>
> 13. Hide in a clothing rack and when people browse through, say
>"PICK ME!"
>
> 14. When an announcement comes over the loud speaker, assume the
>fetal position and scream "NO! NO! It's those voices again!!
>
>( And; last, but not least )
>
> 15. Go into a fitting room and shut the door and wait a while;
>and, then, yell, very loudly, "There is no toilet paper in here!"

Here is something to think about. My mom just finished reading this, and had me read this. I thought it was beautiful, and very true. With respect to the author, I would like to show this to all of you:

Posted on Sat, Sep. 03, 2005

By JASON WHITLOCK Kansas City Star KANSAS CITY, Mo. - If I thought it would make a difference, I'd call for a stoppage of play, a respectful, patriotic, mournful pause of the games that entertain us. We did it after 9-11. But that was different. We paused in fear. We feared a World War, we feared a shadowy enemy, we feared another attack. Stopping was the absolute right thing to do. It served a purpose. This time, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the irrelevancy of sports has never been made more clear. It doesn't matter where or whether the New Orleans Saints play their games. Same for the NBA's Hornets, the NCAA's Tigers, Rebels, Golden Eagles and Bulldogs. You can't ease the pain of the men, women and children suffering, starving and, in some cases, dying in the streets of New Orleans. A strong performance by the Saints won't offer any relief to those who lost their material possessions to Katrina or to those who lost their faith in America's compassion to the nonstop neglect being broadcast on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. You can argue that the people of the Gulf need the escape that sports, particularly football, provide. Do they really? You would think that mankind had never overcome catastrophe without the soothing sounds of John Madden's hyperbole. No. Katrina's victims are thirsting for a real escape. Those of us lucky enough and/or wealthy enough to be away from the front lines of the flooding, the disease, the anarchy and the hopelessness desire the entertaining escape. We don't want to look at our poor and uneducated. We don't want to contemplate what their squalid suffering says about us. We build housing projects to isolate them, keep them out of view and away from anything we value - the Superdome, the French Quarter, the Convention Center. Katrina washed them to our surface, put them in our line of sight, and rather than focus on their tragic circumstance, we've escaped by turning the spotlight on looters. Poor women, children and elderly are dying in the streets - lives, in the eyes of God, just as valuable as Natalee Holloway's and Terri Schiavo's - and somehow stolen TVs, clothes, food and water are a bigger story, a more important priority. Yes, we like to escape. It's easier than dealing with reality. Let's talk about the 5,000 troublemakers, so we don't have to deal with the 50,000 camped on highways; squatting at the Superdome; hiding in apartments, homes and hotels; and trapped in attics. Please let the games begin, bring on Herbstreit and Corso and Madden and Michaels and Brady and Manning. The games will help us rally, help us feel good about ourselves, help us believe that we could never be poor and uneducated and stripped of everything, help us think we couldn't be a tourist in the wrong city at the wrong time. This is no knock on sports. They're a good thing. They teach athletes to put aside their differences and work toward a common goal. And sports bring us together, rich and poor, black and white, young and old. Unfortunately, the aftermath of Katrina illustrates just how superficial that togetherness can be. We can come together to win a football game or support a football team. Sports play virtually no role in bringing us together when it's time for us to muster the resolve and the compassion necessary to appropriately assist our underclass. For that, we still need lots of prayer and a collective integrity we've yet to acquire.