every day is christmas

And with this app I can make crap in my desk look cooler. It's magic.

2011-09-29T17:13:00.001-07:00

And with this app I can make crap in my desk look cooler. It's magic., originally uploaded by katie joella lawson.

And with this app I can make crap in my desk look cooler. It's magic.

Here's one more.

2011-08-11T22:44:00.001-07:00

I can't quite tell who is in this photo but I still love it. It looks like maybe Woodrum & Tyler. Or andera & proctor. Who knows? Feel free to tell me if you do.

Film

2011-08-11T22:35:00.001-07:00

It just looks so good. I'm not saying these photographs are so good but they look so much cooler than the digital ones I've been taking. I don't want to edit them because I like the flaws. Sigh. I just miss film.
I got some film developed that I've had forever. I will put more up when I can.

2011-07-22T08:09:00.001-07:00

Blogging from my phone...or trying. :) look what I found yesterday.

last night

2011-04-30T14:15:00.001-07:00

1304130950868, originally uploaded by katie joella lawson.

an unintentional girls night. it was actually lots of fun. we started by being good and going to function to help stop human trafficking. then off to a whiskey bar to have a little bourbon. followed by eating greasy food and loud public singing... we may have gone back to the whiskey bar but i don't want to make us sound like lushes. (just so you know daddy, we weren't drunk.) it was lovely. i'm glad to have these ladies in my life. we are really going to start looking for ways to help survivors of human trafficking here in our neck of the woods so if any of you out there in the wide world have any ideas please let me know. but until we find something and even when we do everyone should look into transitions global and the wonderful help is it being to some girls in cambodia and please support them.

the christmas eve gift.

2011-03-16T15:06:00.001-07:00

, originally uploaded by katie joella lawson.

Every time I get in this thing I think about how amazing the people around me are & how blessed I am.

its the most wonderful time of the year

2010-12-09T05:30:00.001-08:00

, originally uploaded by katie joella lawson.

i should be asleep right now. i am gonna have to sit down and really write something on here one of these days. :)

2010-11-05T08:19:00.001-07:00

If love is a poison cup. Then drink it up. Cuz a sip or a spoonfull won't do. Won't do nothin' for you but mess you up. - M. Ward

the promised update

2010-10-25T13:06:00.000-07:00

we'll start with this guy pictured bellow. i have been able to spend more time with him lately and i really love it. we took jack to football practice and got a little bored so we started watching some old episodes of aqua teen hunger force. he thought it was the funniest thing ever. i have hardly ever heard him laugh that hard.

we try to have dinner together once a week. last week we took it up a notch with some card tricks and serious stakes poker. :) by serious stakes i mean laundry and picking funny outfits for the losers. needless to say, i suck at poker and will not be getting my laundry done and if you see me some place with extra ridiculous clothes on... just let it happen.

bellow is my attempt at a group picture. luke moved so that he was not in the picture so i hit him. violence may not be the answer but it sure makes me feel better. haha.

this picture is kind of a mess but i really liked all the colors. that canadian is so small and cute. :)

jack and macey made cupcakes like pros the other day. i loved hearing them talk about what they were doing.

check out that concentration.

this is nat's boyfriend. haha. i keep seeing him around town and i wanna be buddies with him.

miss courtney greene had a birthday. we had a great week partying it up. i personalized this cake for her. i call her gay all the time because of how girly she is but the truth is she is a magical lady and i'm glad she was born and my life gets to be around her's.

last weekend i got to hang out with this little lady. she is so stinkin' cute.

the canadians had some cousins in for a visit. they were just as entertaining as their stateside cousins only in boy form. especially because one is named tobias. i pretty much just quoted arrested development at the kid all morning. he was both amused and confused. :)

i was just walking past nat's room the other day and saw this out of the corner of my eye. i thought it was confirming to some of my suspicions that smudge thinks she is a person.

i put this on facebook but not up here. this is how fancy nat and i do mcdonalds drive through. people are pretty jealous of us. sorry planet earth but we are awesome. i love you.

2010-10-22T06:44:00.001-07:00

This is why I like the tiny canadians. Their conversations go like this: lilah: I want to get out of the car seat. josephine: you can't. lilah: I can do it myself. josephine: no. Its too hard. Katie hates it. lilah: I hate stuff too. I hate lots of things. The way they talk just cracks me up. I laughed at this conversation so much. Partially because of how serious they both were & partially because everything is funnier when the voice saying it sounds like its been sucking helium out of balloons. i have lots of pictures & updates coming. Sorry i've been slacking off again. :)

this will have to do for now.

2010-09-20T15:08:00.001-07:00

this will have to do for now., originally uploaded by katie joella lawson.

i found this today. there isn't much of what most of us call autumn here in florida. you have to learn to see the small pieces here and there that are hiding. i will say, this is the first year since i've moved to florida, that i can feel a little of it in the air. its been nice. maybe its because i've been here a while now. maybe i'm just making it up so i don't feel like i'm missing one of my very favorite things on the planet year after year. :) i don't guess it really matters because either way i win. i miss you daddy. its almost christmas.

the godfather

2010-09-16T11:32:00.001-07:00

the godfather, originally uploaded by katie joella lawson.

i had to put this one up too. nat let her wear this hat and she loved it and walked around like she owned the place. :)

the vieira babies

2010-09-16T11:11:00.001-07:00

, originally uploaded by katie joella lawson.

this picture is blurry but the face is awesome.

i got to hang out with the magical judah and eisley for a little bit today. these kids are so friggin' cute that it is ridiculous. in addition to their good looks they are lovely to be around. i would gladly keep them. ;) they both cracked me up today because they usually don't pay attention when i take pictures of them. this time they both made these faces.

2010-09-14T12:59:00.000-07:00

i wish all of these people were my friends. may it be so, Lord. :) i heard some of the new weezer album today. it sounds like i will like it. they have always been a dear friend of mine so i will always love them regardless.

i'm mostly just writing this right now because i'm trying to be better about writing in this blog. i'm doing so good, right!!! :)

new life

2010-09-13T09:39:00.001-07:00

new life, originally uploaded by katie joella lawson.

the story goes like this. there once was a great battle. it had what all great battles have, fierce warriors, a soul in peril, dear friendships, bad guys, the good guys winning and a happy ending that was really just the beginning.

romance

2010-09-13T09:24:00.001-07:00

romance, originally uploaded by katie joella lawson.

He is always romancin' us.

i'm still here.

2009-06-09T13:23:00.000-07:00

hey babies, so i'll admit i'm not a good blogger. i said i'd try and i did. i suck at remembering to update. i would probably have had a little more fun with this is my computer wasn't one with a mind of its own. i'm not totally giving up. i have just gotten a flickr account as well. the photo blog thing makes more sense for me. and from my new magical phone i can upload pictures to it all the time if i want. :) its the most beautiful phone ever!!! look at it! try not to be too jealous. the big deal is, that it has everything an iphone has PLUS an 8 megapixel camera on it. 8! that's a lot for a cell phone. most stop at 5. by a freak of nature it was cheaper and i renewed my contract and dropped the price some more, and bobs your uncle, its mine. :) the two of us are quite happy together. i have named him machete and we are in love. haha. this is not the end of every day is christmas. i will still update on things here too. but the flickr will hopefully stay more up to date. if for nothing else than for my dear ol' dad. :) i am not sure what i made the whole url but it ends with katiejoellawins and my id is katie joella lawson. so, look it up if you are bored and into that sort of thing. i love you all very much and miss those of you far away from me. come see me soon. remember i live in florida with the ocean. its glorious. come on. :)

2009-03-08T19:04:00.000-07:00

poladroid....you're gonna wanna download it....magical. :)

its been a while...

2009-02-07T14:40:00.000-08:00

a new charge. benny!

something i didn't get to last time is... matt and janelle are getting married. hooray!

sorry, we've been drifting apart. i'll go to therapy. :) i'm still shopping for a new blog. this one really does make me want to punch a cute furry bunny (that just wants world peace) when i put more than one picture on it.....just keepin' it real. :) i have been pretty crazy busy for a while now. especially the last month. this week has been nuts and next week is gonna be pretty coo coo too. it is because of that that i don't really have much to write about or the time to write much. but i wanted to do something. so don't hate something is better than nothing. that's all for now hopefully i will get to this again before another two months.

one of the best nights ever!

2008-12-16T10:37:00.000-08:00

here is the big party in out of order pictures. yes, this really happened. :)i do not know what jake is doing here but it looks crazy.i don't know why i even tried to put this in order it very much did not work and makes me want to punch a baby deer.

blurry and night vision but i like that people are shakin' it. :)

the pictures i got are all pretty dark and there are not very many. luckily, i stole some from sarah beth, kaitlyn, and eric. :) night-vision babies. i have no flash on the video camera. big gay jeff minni hotdog totally called me out on not updating this blog so i just had to get on here and try to make her happy. :) the last couple of weeks have been so sweet. my birthday was AMAZING. it was probably one of the best birthdays in the history of birthdays. the only thing that could have made it better is for the rest of my friends and family to be there. maybe that would have been toooooo awesome. that kind of party is probably reserved for heaven. :) everyone was so friggin' sweet to me and went above and beyond what i asked for. i couldn't believe my life the whole day was like a movie or a real awesome dream. no one would ever be lonely if everyone had friends like mine. i'm not trying to brag, that is the truth. believe it.

for starters sam sang happy birthday (almost) every hour for the first part of the day. i thought it was funny. i was really glad that my birthday fell on a saturday for many reasons but one was because of the people we hang out with on saturday mornings. even though sometimes i feel a little awkward its become one of my favorite things to do lately. they sang happy birthday to me too (i'm pretty sure sam started it.) our friends lauren and isaac came in for the weekend. it was good to see them and brother. that was like a birthday party for shark. he's two this month. that's kind of weird to think of. it seems like i've had him forever.

anyway, we had lunch and just hung out bein' awesome friends. :) i went home to shower and get ready. jeff came by and we headed over to the greene's early to help with anything that needed to be helped with. they were already done with the party goods. they had even made a stage for the jolly coffee house. it was so nice. i'm glad we were there early though because it gave us some time to actually hang out before all the people got there. the fergies came by for a bit to say happy birthday so i was pretty stoked about that as well.

before i knew it everyone was there. they all looked lovely in their ugly christmas sweaters. my friends do not disappoint when it comes to the ugly sweater party. the jolly coffee house party of the night was insane. they were so funny. i wish i would have taken more pictures but i didn't want to stop video taping and miss something. i will have to figure out a way to put some videos on here. its just too good to keep to myself. i don't think i have ever seen everyone so hyper at the same time. i wonder if its just because they had gotten hopped up due to the anticipation and the waiting. we had been planning for almost two months. that's a long time for us. :) the songs that everyone did exceeded my expectations. my face was sore by the end of the night from smiling and laughing. and as if that was not enough, after that we all went upstairs to hear the magical christmas cd that everyone made for me. HOLY CRAP!!! it was awesome. probably the best cd ever! it is funny and good. it is another thing i will have to figure out how to share with those of you that weren't there. its ridiculous. it has something like 20 songs on it and they are all wonderful in their own way. i couldn't believe that it actually happened. brendan did sooooooooooooooooooooooo much work on it. i couldn't ever thank him enough for the sweetness he gave me in this gift. i don't know if it would have happened without him. they all did such a friggin' good job. sam even sang on it. i am very proud of him and thankful for that because i know that he doesn't normally do things like that. it means a great deal. matt took time out of workin' to make that money for janelle. :) danny drove from the other side of the ditch several times, plus he wins at singing. :) i could go on forever. matt, danny, mikey,mere-death, al, jacob, janelle, judith, abby-doobie, micah, kathryn, luke and katie fair, the ever-so-wonderful sarah beth, eric, the swan, the little girl, and i'm sure i'm leaving someone out right now but know that i appreciate you too.

i can't believe i made it through the night without balling like a baby. it was crazy. afterwards we went back to the boys house and hung out playing silly games. it was just a beautiful night. it was to the point i started wondering if i was going to get hit by a bus the next day and the Lord was just letting me go out with a bang. haha. well, i'm still alive so He must have just wanted to give me an extra lovely birthday. thank you to everyone, near and far. you are all so wonderful and i am completely blessed by the fact you are in my life. i love you more than i could ever manage to communicate. i have more to go along with this but i'm over this thing for now. so, to be continued...

2008-12-02T10:09:00.001-08:00

the best month.

so, sam wins. he has many ninja skills however, i was unaware that one of them was tire ninja. he changed that puppy like the wind. :) i'm pretty spoiled by my dear fellas. i just puke from love when i think about how great my friends are. having andera here makes me happy. she has no idea how thankful i am for her. she is one of the sweetest of babies. :) since she doesn't read this blog we can carry on our usual jerkness to each other. haha.

i've been slacking off with this blog more and more. its really annoying to put more than five pictures on here and then if i put them in the wrong order or accidentally erase one it is a huge pain. i end up spending a long friggin time to write a blog that should just take a few minutes. maybe i'm doing this wrong. feel free to educate me if you know. maybe i just need a different kind of blogger. i'm really out of the loop with this stuff.

that's all i have for now. sorry its not to interesting but i need to get to the work i've been putting off all day. crapballs! i love you guys. merry katie's birthday week to you.

happy birthday week to me!

2008-12-01T12:44:00.000-08:00

i got a flat tire! hooray!

THIS happened!

2008-11-15T17:39:00.000-08:00

BOOM! so there i was minding my own business when mere-death catches my attention. i thought she was trying to get someone else's at first. that's HOW cool i am. haha. i follow her and alison to the other room and they tell me they have made me a birthday present early. i love this idea. presents...yes, please. for me...yes. early....yes again. i was most definitely not prepared for what the sisters clark had in store for me. i put my hand in the bag and pulled out this piece of magic....
and at closer view you can see that my face has been added along with florida matt and brendan's. it is complete with working christmas lights and the ....

SPIRIT OF BOB DOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (sally, the spirit of bob dole!)

i almost peed, pooped, and threw up all at the same time. it is probably one of the best presents i've ever gotten. i knew exactly where it had to go. so when i got home i put it on the piano where it has been happily living ever since. don't be jealous. you can come visit anytime. :)

that is really it for the most part. its hard to get better than that. :)

bella and i had a lovely afternoon. this picture makes shark look like the biggest dog in the world. i love how he loves bella.

we made bracelets and we are awesome. no big deal. ;)

but seriously, i'm friggin' crazy excited for my party in less than three weeks! i'm hoping that the outofstate friends that told me they can't come are just messing with me and then they are gonna surprise me. it'll happen....right?! :) i've talked with benjamin, matty, jane, and emily and i'm pretty sure they are coming so i'm already peeing in my pants. now if i could just get minnihotdog and cj. ;) (minni, all i have to say is that baby is gonna go to sleep and then you can leave those kids with dustin and fly here and be back monday. just a thought. :D ) the florida babies are working on making my birthday present...a cd of them singing christmas music!!! i will prolly pass out. i'm really glad i got bossy this year. it seems to be working out. haha. well, even if it doesn't i had fun dreaming it up.

a lot has happened in a week

2008-11-04T13:02:00.000-08:00

last week was pretty full...first off, this jerk is back. :) i did NOT miss her... haha. having one of my family members here is always wonderful but also a bit bitter sweet for me too. it makes me think of everyone else and times when we were all in the same place. don't get me wrong, i love where i am and my family here in florida. i just wish that my whole family could live together. its weird that some of you don't know others of you. i just want you all to get to know one another and how friggin sweet you all are. but i guess i will have to wait....maybe my birthday. ;) because i'm totally a grown-up. :)

this is (of course) out of order. i did the new calendar and several of you beautiful babies are on it so i took pictures to show you. here's the whole burrito. halloween. we had a very short notice and short-lived party at my house complete with a fire pit in the backyard. for those that don't know this is the swan (benjamin swanson) and sam (hating me with his eyes) two of my favorite boys. my sweet baby kathryn. she was a fairy princess despite the fact she looks kinda scary here due to night vision on the camera. this is the fire. and looks a little like a picture in a very strange fairy tale book. judah chicken. this kid is seriously one of the cutest kids i have ever met...and i've met a lot of kids. my fake daughter christina being a pirate and little ash-hole. there was a lot of cross-dressing going on this halloween. this is annie and eddie as each other. abby-dooby as someone that was in a fight. you can't really see her face well cus this picture super sucks but her make-up was very good. eric...is a friggin genius. terminator nixon. jenny and nick. these masks really troubled me. a poor picture of babies havin a good time. florida matt and janelle as the parents. they did great and stayed in character most of the time they were there. night vision again. but judah still looks cute. haha. kathryn. booyah. fridays with bella. always a good time. mere-death's birthday got the november birthdays started.

so, there's last week. i've been slow to get this post up. mostly just from slacking off. :) i've already got somthing else in the works so hopefully it won't take me a week to get it together. i hope you are all well and happy birthday to some of my most favorite people EVER. love, love, love.

bad words

2008-10-30T07:50:00.000-07:00

here's the thing, anyone who knows me at all knows that some time ago i fell in love with "bad words". i have never seen the difference between saying the "s" word and any other word. this is because i feel that bad words are really the mean things we say to others and ourselves. honest to goodness, this belief was not formed to excuse how i this cuss words are funny. i do. i own that. i know, i'm immature. i think poop is one of the best words ever. (that's not the point. haha) the point is, i am like a child and i think immature things are funny sometimes.

until recently i have had little or no conviction that actually came from the Lord and not a person about using these cuss words (mostly for humor). i have often been told by the Lord that i say things i shouldn't but nothing about the bad words. maybe He was telling me the whole time and i wouldn't listen. i don't know. i'm just talking about what is going on now. i have no plans to push my conviction on anyone else. i'm pretty sure i'm still gonna think its funny when others say those words. i am also unsure of how permanent this is (as far as cuss words go).

i know it will be a bit difficult for me. its not such a habit i cuss all the time, but around my friends this stuff just slips out. i think mostly, this lesson is pretty much for my speech as a whole not just bad words. i am writing this to hopefully be transparent and for accountability. my prayer is for the Lord to purify my heart making the overflow one that is good like Him that speaks love and helps others. so, there it is. i hope that some of it made sense.

-psalm 12:6 the words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times. (seven times...man, i'm in trouble. haha)

i also read this today in my utmost for His highest and liked it and thought i'd share it with anyone that wants it.
FAITH
"Without faith it is impossible to please Him." Hebrews 11:6
Faith in antagonism to common sense is fanaticism, and common sense in antagonism to faith is rationalism. The life of faith brings the two into a right relation. Common sense is not faith, and faith is not common sense; they stand in the relation of the natural and the spiritual; of impulse and inspiration. Nothing Jesus Christ ever said is common sense, it is revelation sense, and it reaches the shores where common sense fails. Faith must be tried before the reality of faith is actual. "We know that all things work together for good," then no matter what happens, the alchemy of God's providence transfigures the ideal faith into actual reality. Faith always works on the personal line, the whole purpose of God being to see that the ideal faith is made real in His children.
For every detail of the common-sense life, there is a revelation fact of God whereby we can prove in practical experience what we believe God to be. Faith is a tremendously active principle which always puts Jesus Christ first - Lord, Thou hast said so and so (e.g., Matthew 6:33), it looks mad, but I am going to venture on Thy word. To turn head faith into a personal possession is a fight always, not sometimes. God brings us into circumstances in order to educate our faith, because the nature of faith is to make its object real. Until we know Jesus, God is a mere abstraction, we can not have faith in Him; but immediately we hear Jesus say - "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father," we have something that is real, and faith is boundless. Faith is the whole man rightly related to God by the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. -oswald chambers

that's it. i love you all.

i do love the weekends

2008-10-26T12:34:00.000-07:00

it was a mellow laid back weekend. the pictures go from sunday to saturday. i meant to do it the other way around but no biggie. :) i didn't really do anything. i just waisted time with wonderful people. i woke up saturday and just hung around the house until little benny called and we went to be awesome together. shortly after we met up with the fellas (brendan and sam) and we went to some trift stores. i bought some sweet coffee mugs. i am pretty excited about using them. it was great to hang out with benny. i have been missin' that kid. :)

saturday night i had to work but the guys were also planing to have a fire on the porch. i thought the fergie gentlemen would like that so, i took them over. they had so much fun. they think sam is the coolest thing ever. boys and fire are fun to watch. some guys never seem to grow out of their love for playing with fire. i'm very grateful to be able to take the kids i watch places and to have such wonderful friends that are so good with them.

this sunday was one of the best sundays in a while. some people that hadn't been around in a while came to church and then everybody got to eat lunch together. you gotta love big happy family time. :) there were just a couple of people missing. it was the closest to everyone being there as it had been for probably months. i loved every minute of it. it was like christmas.

sam trying to ignore me.
these pictures are of big happy family sunday lunch...

tyler- he likes to party. :)

sweet judith and jake.
matt. janelle hates me. haha.

a very bright picture of ash-hole and fartina.
brendan and sweet baby katilyn. (why is it underlining all of the sudden?) these are my employers. ahaha. they came it late at night dressed like this and i almost crapped my pants. :)
little boys and fire.....well and sam. but he's just a big little boy.

i don't think brendan appreciated this picture as much as i did....ps brendan is one of my favorites....EVER!
my fake son benny. he's got the sweet moves. :)

there's my weekend. for the most part. i love you.

yesterday

2008-10-25T21:03:00.000-07:00

this is bella. she is the one i was talking about in yesterday's blog. she is super rad.

these are the cupcakes we made.

so, today's blog is short and sweet. i don't feel like doing it today right now. i will tomorrow. as for now i need to try to sleep. until then....

a rainy day

2008-10-24T11:07:00.000-07:00

florida is indeed the sunshine state. so, there aren't very many rainy days. i love rainy days. i really love to be able to take pictures on rainy days. i love the way an overcast sky makes colors and faces look.

yesterday was cloudy but it only rained once in the morning. today it has been at least drizzling all day. the cloudiness (and near death driving photography) is why i had to cheat on some of the pictures from yesterday plus i hate flash i don't use it unless i really have to. besides, i am cheating anyway when i use this video camera to take pictures so why not go all the way. :)
i like these power lines a lot. i know that's not so "green" and its a little on the "cool" side but whatever. i do what i want. haha. it makes me think of sheet music when the birds sit on them.

i cheated on this one a little extra to make the clouds look a more mysterious. :) its just fun to mess with pictures sometimes. i have really only used photo editing software a couple of times but i can see why people like it. i will probably use it a lot for this thing at least until i get a scanner for my film camera pictures.

its been a very mellow day. in part, due to the weather but mostly because i may have gotten 3 hours of sleep last night. i don't know what the deal was but it really sucked. i'm thankful that today i had bella. she is a fun and easy little girl. we had a laid back day with a trip to target, the art store, scooby doo, and making cupcakes...pink ones, of course. you've gotta love days like today...and getting paid for it. ;)

life in fancy atlantic beach

2008-10-23T17:47:00.000-07:00

well, i thought i would like to show my friends and family that don't live here around. mainly because i'm always curious what it looks like where some of you live so feel free to do this in your blog and i will check it out. some of this is just a day in my life... today. :) here we go... (i, of course, some how got these out of order. oh well.)

this is the porch. belonging to my very magical man friends. we spend an insane amount of time here doing pretty much nothing. its wonderful. :)

third street. this is me driving and taking pictures. not the safest idea, but i do what i want. haha.

this is coming over "the ditch".

the same. i just felt like living on the edge and taking pictures. :)

this is my calendar on the wall in my garage/studio. i am gonna do it BIGGER next month.

this is atlantic blvd.

this is the town center.

this is the starbucks right across the street from.....

THE STARBUCKS! surprise! :)

this is my living room. my friend eric made us that lovely coffee table out of cardboard. sucka wha!!!

new stove! deal with it! :)

this is the wall of the garage. one day we got bored and started drawing on the wall and haven't really stopped.

this is the back yard. i like it a lot.

the jungle tree.

this blurriness is the fergie boys. i worked today. it was a hard day.....nope. :) here they are again in a different color.

all three of them. being normal. weird.

then they saw me and the normal was over. that's when the pictures before this happened. (remember, out of order.)

(the picture at the top goes here)
this is what happens when katie hangs out with your kids all the time. i was not around when he drew this. that just shows how deep my influence goes. moooooooaahahhaaah!

tv face. this always makes me laugh.

the tough face. shake and bake!

more katie influence.

i didn't do this to him but hanging out with me sure didn't help. haha.

that is a very jumbled version of what i had in my head. i have no idea why it is so spaced out but i tried. i don't care enough to fix it right now. :) hopefully i will get better at this. the point is that this is some of my life. so, booyah! i love you babies.

what i have been up to.

2008-10-22T14:55:00.000-07:00

these are some pictures from the last week. i woke up one morning to the light shining in my window and making my shoes all sparkly. as if to say, "hey, katie get your lazy butt up and look at the pretty world you live in." and i did.

later, i remembered all these cameras that i have and how i love them. unfortunately i also remembered that polariod is going to stop making film for the cameras i love so much. whatever dude to that. its a good thing that i just like looking at some of these. jerks! :)

another recent thing is, i got a new stove. i have been pretty happy about this. i started baking the day i got it. the fellas are gonna get real fat at the rate i am bringing them stuff. i wrote "eat it or wear it" on the halloween cookies i gave them. those pearls came from my dear mother. she, like her father, is full of magical little sayings like that. :) my friends seem to appreciate them as well be confused by some of them.

last but not least, i am now katie joella lawson. for reals. :) well, not all the way... yet. but the process has begun. it was hard to choose. ultimately i went we joella because of my dad. his middle name is joe. joella means Jehovah is God in hebrew. i like that too. my friends and family kept me laughing for two days with their suggestions of middle names. it was a tough call but i think i will be happy with it. it will be so awesome and a little weird to never again have to feel the need to explain why i don't want someone to call me by my actual name. i can't wait for my new id and such. goodbye kathryn marie rice. happy birthday katie joella lawson!

so here it is...

2008-10-22T10:43:00.000-07:00

hello and welcome to my blog. who knows if i will stick with this or not. i just thought it might be fun, this is my day off, and i like it when my friends blog. so, here i go. i don't capitalize very often. sorry if that offends or annoys you. i am usually in too big of a hurry to worry about doing that. i will probably spell things wrong and use incorrect grammar. oh well. :) love me anyway. i often misrepresent myself when i write. i want to work on that. that is another reason for this. i don't like being misunderstood but it happens. work with me here. i'm not trying to say anything new or be smart or so artistic. i just want to share some. i like pictures. i will most likely put some on here. i will actually write something soon. this is good for now, i think. :)