...killing moon...

For some reason I have that song in my head...and for the life of me can't remember if that's the exact title...and if it's by Echo and the Bunnymen. I'm fairly sure it is by Echo and The Bunnymen...but you never know and I really would hate to be wrong.

I digress.

Mary Ellen, to answer your question, yes, I am still enjoying that new car smell. What an incredible addition to the Slattery-Oblinger family! We're all just so pleased. I think Libby really enjoys the car as well. She's never had a sunroof so she's not quite sure what to think of it.

It has been quite the experience for all of us.

Thanks for the phone call Sunday night. I knew something felt off. It was not seeing you. I know we've said it before, but it's just so weird the way we saw each other so frequently in college...then weekly for those 6 months after college...to once every 6 months for a few years...and now almost every weekend again! I wish it could be that way with Leslie too, but for some strange reason I just know it can't be. I had a dream about her the other night. I vaguely remember the dream at all, but I do remember vividly feeling happy. Leslie just has that way about her. I swear her smile could light up a room...and her laugh is infectious. (is that the right phrase? :) She emailed me back yesterday about a possible visit to Athens. I'd love to go in December..so miss Mary Ellen, if you are up for it..just let me know. She says that she and Mimi don't really have furniture..so maybe we could just get a hotel room...? Thoughts?


One last thing before I go. To make a long story short, I am included in an old neighbor's address book. This guy, Aurelien, is French and just happened to live in my last apartment complex. We happened to meet one morning while scraping snow off our cars. Anyway, in that 10 minute conversation we both realized we had an affinity for photography. He left a cd of some Atlanta shots on my doorstep and I've been a part of his email group ever since. Today I received the latest batch of photos. These were taken last week at the Eiffel Tower. To be honest, I've never seen Paris more beautiful. The sky is perfectly blue and the sun is shining brightly over the city. I wanted to share these photos with you as I know you will fully appreciate them. Personally, I get sad seeing pictures like this as I realize how lackluster cities like Atlanta truly are. This makes me want to get back to Europe tomorrow. Thank goodness for Italy.

Click on the link below..or use the link in the title.

www.acottet.com/eiffel_tower_pages1.html


Sweetdreams.
Katie.

ps. mep, I think we might be the only ones using the blog. The last time Heather wrote was in August. And well, Lisa said she was having problems logging on..maybe she said all she had to in that one post.

That new car smell

Katie,

Still enjoying that new car smell? How is your newest edition to the family? I missed seeing you this weekend and breaking our almost 2 month run of visits. I never got a message back from you, but did you and Heather eat this weekend or are you going to reschedule? I have the most disturbing hilarious story to tell you guys about what happened in my class last week. So disturbing I can't type it, but I might not ever live this one down at school. Heather, you're right, anything to get out of public education and creative discipline referral writing. Lemme know.

loves.
mep

october 17th.

october 17th means it's no longer october 16th, which in turn means that i'm officially 29. amazingly enough, it doesn't hurt like i expected it to. funny. this one i didn't even dread. 25 was the death of me. guess that i'm maturing.

oh well.

i wanted to see if you guys were all in for dinner next saturday night. heather, i emailed you back about it...but how would kennesaw sound to you? that way, mary ellen can join us. heather, you come to me, and i'll drive us up to town center. hopefully that will work for everyone.

also, it's done. my new car is parked in the driveway...and it's spanking nice. best damn car i've ever owned. and heather, i said i was going to surprise you, but i just can't wait that long. i got a shiny new black 4runner and oh, i love it. it drives like a dream and just flat out rocks. mary ellen got to see it tonight seeing as i bought the car in rome. might i also mention that miss mary ellen got herself a shiny new car as well...a fancy shmancy new envoy. how pretty! hee hee!


alright ladies, it's late - and i need to go to bed. such a shame that I just found Frankenstein to watch.

sweet dreams all.
xoxo-
katie

howie day (to the tune of sunshine day)

click the link to get to my alltime favorite website...
just in case any of you needed to waste more time on line.
this is a website for junkies...pop culture-movie junkies.

enjoy.

uh oh

hey mary hell...so i went to purchase tix for the howie show and you can't buy them online anymore. so, if you want to brave it, we can try to get tickets right before the show.

thoughts?

rose colored

glasses. katie we all have a pair. we all have our places and people that bring out the sparkle in our eyes. you need no defense for your rose colored longing of athens and all that it meant. i have similiar feelings about northeast georgia as well as ut of knoxville. we may have been poor, we may have been stressed, but damn it was fun. i don't think we've seen the best part of our lives, but we have passed a part where we strutted through a time we will all remember. there's nothing wrong with that. we will remember other periods of our lives with a 'the grass is greener' sentiment, we're just not far enough removed to appreciate it yet. salaries and bills bring a new perspective, not better or worse, just different. speaking for me at least, i am still, and plan on continuing, having the time of my life. here's to howie. call me soon.

*aqueous transmission*

i'm floating down a river
oars freed from their holes long ago.
lying face up on the floor of my vessel
i marvel at the stars and feel my heart overflow.

two weeks without my lover
i am in this boat all alone
floating down a river named 'emotion'
will i make it back to shore?
or drift into the unknown?

i'm building an antenna
transmissions will be sent when i am through.
maybe we'll meet again further down the river,
and share what we both discovered...
then revel in the view.

-i guess i'm still stuck on this incubus kick...and am so sad as i just heard a rumor that brandon boyd married carolyn murphy...oh i think my heart just sank to my stomach-

...i dig my toes into the sand...

the ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket. i lean against the wind, pretend that i am weightless, and in this moment i am happy...happy.

and happy is what i was saturday night. jennifer and i saw incubus. not your typical concert outting as our tickets were left at will call by the band's dj- dj chris kilmore. he also left us some "after show" passes. now i wish i could say that i hung out with brandon...oh brandon...but apparently he's shy and completely anti-social, so he sneaked past us and sat on the bus. but i did get to hang out with kilmore. what an incredibly nice guy. he brought out pictures on his laptop to show us where he'd been and how he's seen the world. (that and oh his cars too. yeah, he owns a shelby - eleanor from gone in 60 seconds, an escalade - must be required, and a "crotch rocket" motorcycle.) the cool parts were the video taped shots from the stage while performing in kuala lampur...or the stage in the plaza de toros in madrid...or bungee jumping off an incredibly high bridge in auckland. not a bad way to spend your days. the nicest part was that this guy was just a down to earth guy. he even hugged us when we left.

all in all, not a bad way to spend a saturday night.
and the new cd isn't too bad either. i highly recommend songs 1, 4, 8 and 13.
my personal favorite line on the whole album is "love is a verb here in my room".

alright ladies.
what's the status on howie? heather?
and mary ellen, how about you just bring your bike here with you and we can ride on sunday?

xoxo.
katie

ps. does anyone know how to add a link column on the blog?

sin titulo

before i get into the nostalgia forum, i just wanted to ask lisa...if you still check this...did you send me that message after you got mine this afternoon? it was crazy timing, or maybe you're just quick on the draw. ps. did you ever get the toby lightman cd?

okay, back to the original topic. i got an email today from a good friend of mine whom i used to work with at austin kelley. he wrote that his time in atlanta and at austin kelley was the happiest time in his life. i started to wonder if that's how i was making out athens. i love being nostalgic, but i don't want to be one of those people that says, "that was the best time in my life". i feel like it's such a fatalist attitude, you know? it kind of says that things will never be better than that one point in your life. wow. what a depressing thought. please don't get me wrong, i loved athens. god, i loved everything that went along with it, but don't you guys agree that you DO want things to get better?

i suddenly sound like i've taken a complete 180 from my comments yesterday. (i haven't.) i just got to thinking about all of this today. it's odd you know? the thought of my days in athens literally makes me feel all warm and fuzzy, but i know it would never be the same if i went back. believe me, i keep trying to convince ashley to move there. we all know that will never happen. = ) but that's also because he knows it would be different. you guys wouldn't be there. the old red couch wouldn't be there. heather and i wouldn't be living together...or at bromsgrove. it was just a package deal. all of those components are what made me fall in love with that time and with athens. who is it that said, "you can never go back"? oh wait, i think that was me...but i probably said it for different reasons. ; ) nevermind.

sorry for being so vocal tonight. this is very therapeutic. and hey, i didn't go to therapy yesterday. although, the topics of conversation would have been as follows:
1. station people
2. bosses
3. anger outbursts
4. did i mention my anger outbursts?
great fun, eh?

it's kind of like grace tonight on w&g...therapy costs money. AA meetings don't. and hey, you guys know me better than i know myself. and well, i like our little chats. (although, heather - i swear you've gone into hiding...and lisa, well, where have you been hiding?

alright, i've done enough rambling for one night. hope to see you guys chiming in soon.

-k-