Katie

woah, I forgot livejournal existed for a while. I think I have three "friends" who still use it.

I'm currently on the 3rd of a 5 week vacation and I'm kind of bored with it right now. I'm going to Wyoming next week for a while to visit my family and then I start my masters degree classes on June 11th. I will be a full time student for the rest of the summer. During the fall I will also be a full time student, but instead of working on my master's degree, I will be working toward earning a teachers certificate in secondary education. Next spring, I will be student teaching, and the following summer I will wrap up my master's. I will be what is considered a "highly qualified" teacher with a Master's degree by August of 2008.

It feels good to have a vocational direction. It feels good to have a lot of things right now. I think it's safe to say the "identity crisis" phase of my life is over and the "rest" is just beginning. I finally have a promising career plan, and I think I'm getting proposed to soon. Yes, proposed to. After a miserable three week break up last fall, Andrew and I patched things up and have been solid ever since. We've talked a lot about the future what we want to see happen between us. Right now it's just a matter of waiting for the engagement so we can start discussing it with everyone else. I've always envisioned engagement to be a big surprise, but knowing it's coming up soon is pretty fun too. It will still be a surprise insofar as the timing goes and how he goes about it. I guess I'm at the point where I'm really excited and want to tell everyone, but at the same time I feel like I already know too much about it and should keep it a surprise for everyone else. But I'm really bad at keeping secrets, so I've made up my mind to not to talk about it for the time being. *Enter livejournal.* (public forums don't count).

Also, we are moving in together at some point this summer. I felt a little uncomfortable moving in with someone before I'm married, not because of moral reasons, though. For all -practical- purposes, the marriage is the confirming ceremony but the moving in together marks the real beginning of two lives merging into one. I'm not nervous about the proposal at all, but moving in with a BOY is a whole new story. We'll see how that goes. Either way, I wouldn't be doing it if I felt it didn't make sense, and I do feel really good about it. I just know it will be quite the adjustment too.

His best friend, Mike, bought a duplex and we're all fixing it up so that he can move in with his fiance. The plan was that I was going to move into their apartment (replacing Mike) but we ran into the issue of our dog being pent up in the apartment all the time. He's bigger than he was as a puppy and I thought we should look for a place with a yard for him to run around in. Thus, Andrew and I are moving into the other side of Mike's duplex. I think it will work out well. The four of us get along really well and hang out together most of the time anyway. If anything, it will be nice that we each have our own specific side to call our own with good friends close by. That and rent will be very cheap. Thanks Mike!

I'm on vacation, I have a cute dog, an almost fiance, and a promising and exciting career track. Things are good. Things are very good.

Yes, we were dating.
did the "I love you's".
things got tough....as they tend to do with me.
Tonight,I went over to his place to finalize the break up but

it didn't happen.

This is uncharted territory.
Usually a break up is like, "hey, if you can see light at the end of the tunnel, you're already dead" sort of thing. If you sense the end is near, it usually means the relationship is as good as over in every other sinario.

So, yeah. Weird...and awesome.

We had the serious "this just isn't working/I don't see this going anywhere" talk, and we came out....better?
I mean, I don't feel insecure or scared that it won't work, just challenged. In a good way. To try harder.
He does too.

I think this could be good.

I saw the light.
That means dead.
And yet, there is still a pulse.

I think I'm dating someone.
I can't tell.

WHAT THE HECK!?!?!?! Ok, I'm sitting in my apartment going over some stuff for my first mid-term tomorrow and my phone's "You've got a message" ring goes off and scares me to the point of choking on my own heart. "New Voice Mail Messages: 7." How is 7 messages possible at one time without a phone call first? I listen to them and they're all messages from people who called me over the weekend and I just never got them. My phone was working, but I never got the messages until now.

It's like my voicemail decided to go on vacation last Friday and just got back 3 seconds ago.
Voicemail came in the door with a pair of sunglasses on, a bermuda shirt, khaki shorts, a fanny pack, and a camera with a neck strap.
K: "Where have you been?"
V: "Out. I needed a break."
K: "From what?"
V: "From YOU! What the hell, you check me every five seconds! I couldn't take it anymore. You really shouldn't need me this much. By the way, 7 people tried to tell you something. I didn't feel it was that important."

K's eyes well up as randomly selected but (let's face it) appropriate selection U2's "With or Without You" plays through iTunes.

Welcome home, Voicemail. Welcome home.

Guess who just drunkenly joined OmahaSingles.com and found none other than the infamous Dave Winget's profile.
*extends high-five to Dave Winget knowing full well how much he hates high-fives.

I'm not too tech savvy, so here's a link to my new hair...

http://photos-462.facebook.com/n4/62/84/n32501051_30048462_4496.jpg

I'm about to dye my hair red from a box.

Wish me luck.

I just woke up at my boss's HOUSE in his roommate's bed curled up next to another girl.

I love this weekend!

Not only was it bad enough that I was browsing the facebook, but then I found a guy's profile that had a link to his blog site.
I just spent the last HOUR reading through his entries getting TOTALLY caught up in his life and how he can't get over his ex-girlfriend.
I need to cancel my internet connection. It's become a disease.

Is it lame to re-use a costume idea from a past Halloween?
I don't feel like I drained the rubix cube of its full potential.
That and I don't have any better ideas.
Tell me your thoughts on this.