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You Are 36% Girly
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You are a pretty hardcore tomboy, and a very free spirit.
Gender roles be dammed, you like to do things your way.
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| Hola All |
[Apr. 25th, 2006|09:28 pm] |
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So the fundraising is going pretty well with the marathon. I've got over $250 now. Not bad since I'm not really doing much other than talking to people about it at the moment. I'm thinking about having a huge benefit sometime this summer...I'm thinking Julyish/Augustish so I can really get a lot of money together. I've definitely got some ideas brewing.
The other fun part of my life was the recent birthday I celebrated. I'm not that old yet but they sure are getting pretty fun. I went out Thursday night to Girl's Night Out at Kahuna and had a cool time. Then I fell asleep really early when I was supposed to be going out but it was nice because I was so tired. Then the next day at work they scheduled too many people so I went home about 3 1/2 hours early and got ready for the BBQ I had started to plan all last minute. I got around 80 or 90 jello shooters done, made all kinds of food, cleaned up the house (which was a feat in itself because you should have seen my house), went shopping...you know, all the stuff you have to get ready for a party. Then all the fam came over and a few friends and we had a good time. I did 26 jello shooters in honor of the marathon. It really does seem like a lot of the things I do revolve around running nowadays. I think I might like it. =)
Sunday was the cooler day. I slept until about 10:30 and got up and ate a little bit and went back to bed literally until around 5. I did absolutely nothing during the day except read a little. It was nice. Then I went grocery shopping with Ben and got ready to go to the dinner he had planned to surprise me with. He always lets me know that we're doing something but never what. It's nice. So we get in the car and he says I have to be blindfolded. It didn't happen cuz I just did my makeup all hot-like but I did close my eyes for him. I knew where we were going until the last turn and then he told me to open my eyes. I was very excited because he actually listens when I talk. We ended up eatin at Krazy Kat's. It's this really upscale place around Montchanin on Rt. 100. Little did we know how pricey it was too!!! I walked in and my mom and Lonnie, Carl and Tiff and the baby and my cousin Randy were already there. I was so happy. I ate some weird stuff. Duck con somethin that was actually goose liver I think, and I had quail which was actually quite good, and lamb for dinner. Then my cake came out and it said on it, "Running to the beat of her own drum." That made me smile. What made me cry was my other surprise. Just before I was finished eating a friend popped out of nowhere and surprised me.
Christie moved away to Florida in the middle of last summer so I never really got to say goodbye to her. Then she got pregnant and I still didn't get to see her. I missed her so much it wasn't even funny. So she and Ben decide they'll sneak attack me and they slide her on up from Florida for my very own happy birthday. She snuck up behind me and slipped her hands over my eyes and I thought it was my friend "Other Kelly" cuz she's got tiny hands too. Then Christie spoke and instantaneously I started crying...I mean, before she even got her hands away from my eyes. I cried hard!!! Then I couldn't stop hugging her. Then she was sitting on my lap and she went and spent the night at my house and I slept with her on my couch and we hung out the next day til like 1. I miss her soooooo much. She's like my fake girlfriend but she's got a boyfriend. You'd have to be me to understand. Oh well...so I had a great birthday and a great weekend. Now I'm bitchin at work again but I'll live. Have a good one y'all. Peace and love. |
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| Team in Training----October 22nd!!!!!!!!! |
[Apr. 12th, 2006|06:16 pm] |
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So you'll never guess what I've been doing! Running and working!!! Okay, maybe you did guess, but you don't know my newest obsession is. I'm not only running a marathon but I'm running with the Delaware chapter from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Teams in Training.
WHO THEY ARE...The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world’s largest voluntary health organization. They're dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services. (DID YOU KNOW THERE ARE SOME TYPES OF BLOOD CANCERS THAT HAVE A SURVIVAL RATE AS LOW AS 32%!?!?!??!?!?!!!)
WHAT THEY DO...They invest in blood cancer research, provide critical information and support for patients and their families and they advocate for issues impacting blood cancer patients. (DID YOU KNOW THAT A LARGE NUMBER OF THESE CANCERS KILL MOSTLY CHILDREN AND PEOPLE UNDER 20!?!?!??!?!?!!!)
WHY THEY DO IT...More than 747,000 Americans have leukemia, Hodgkin or non-Hodgkin lymphoma or myeloma. Every five minutes, someone new is diagnosed with blood cancer. Every 10 minutes, someone dies. Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under the age 20. Lymphomas are the most common blood cancers and incidence increases with age. The survival rate for myeloma is only 32.4 percent. Incidence is twice as high among African Americans as for all other races.
HOW THEY DO IT...75% (READ IT AGAIN) SEVENTY FIVE FREAKIN PERCENT OF WHAT I RAISE GOES DIRECTLY TO THE CAUSE!!!
We even have Delaware's Honored Heroes:
Bridget, 15 years old
Bridget was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in July of 2003. She is currently in remission and off treatment!! Bridget’s favorite activities include sports (softball and baseball), Instant Messaging on the computer, listening to music, drawing, art, and movies.
Shelby, 5 years old
Shelby was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia in May of 2002. She is currently undergoing chemotherapy maintenance treatment and loves to play.
As you can tell, these people are no joke. And now, I'm no joke. I'm not just doing this for me anymore. I'm not just doing this for the millions of people how have been affected by these diseases either. I'm running the marathon in memory of my Aunt Cyndi who died of breast cancer a few years ago. There are few things closer to my heart.
Here's what you can do to help!! #1 - read this blog! (Look, you're already a fourth of the way there.) #2 - Go to www.LLS.org and inform yourself. #3 - check out the website of the actual marathon I'll be doing. (teamintraining.org/nikewm) and #4 - go to my website (www.active.com/donate/tntde/kroark) and donate. ANY TINY LITTLE BIT HELPS MORE THAT YOU KNOW!! Help me reach my goal!
Love and Peace! |
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| Just checkin in |
[Apr. 4th, 2006|06:35 pm] |
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Hey guys...just checkin in. I'm at work and I'm kinda liking the three jobs thing. It keeps me moving like I'm at school and keeps my bank account growing. Well, that is when I'm not spending money on clothes to go out. (Join me and a butt-load of my friends up at Kahunaville or some other random clube just about every Saturday night and shake your booty.)
I'm also doin pretty well with the running thing. This next Tuesday coming up I'm going to an interest meeting for the marathon I might run. There are two of them and two different reasons I want to run them. The first one is September 10th up in PA. The reason I want to run it is because it's apparently the flattest course in the US. Flat course=easier run and faster time. I have enough time to train for it according to the plan that I have now. Charge is $50. The second one I want to run is October 29th in Washington D.C. It's the Marine's Marathon and it is to help children with lymphoma. It would give me a little more time to train would be the first advantage. The second and most amazing advantage would be that they offer parties and gatherings to keep you motivated, a trainer to work with you 1-2 times per week and they pay your plane ticket (in my case San Fransico if I'd like) if you raise the amount of money they deem possible. All great things!! They just won't tell me how much money I have to raise until April 11th. I'm sure it will be some outrageous amount that I won't think I can do but in all reality I can and they know it. We'll see, we'll see.
Awesome new though...I ran 2 miles in 18 minutes today!! That's probably the fastest I've run ever. Only problem is that I know I could do better. I had to walk for an entire minute because I though my liver was going to jump out my throat. Hmmm, maybe next week. I like running. I just hope I can keep up with it and there's no real reason that I shouldn't. It seems to do me really well. I also found this thing online from mapquest that if you draw little lines all over the map and say that was the way that you ran, it will tell you how far you go and when you're done you can put in the time and it will tell you how fast also. Niiiice! Yeah, so I gues this is what it's like to be a runner cuz all I ever post about anymore is running and all I do anymore is run or read about running and all I eat anymore is so I'll get better at running. I think I might be getting a little sick...or at least I'm starting to obsess a little bit. =) How nice. |
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| Today was good |
[Mar. 29th, 2006|05:41 pm] |
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Today was a very good day. I got up and ate a nice breakfast, hung out with the honey and ran another 5 miles. I BROKE MY PERSONAL RECORD!!! I run this really hard ass course that goes out the back of my neighborhood, all the way up Old Capitol Trail, through Klair Estates A, past Stanton Middle, take a right at whatever road that is and a left at the pizza and beer to go place (it just screams personality on that corner), past some other neighborhood that I can't remember the name of, take a right at some park I also don't know the name of, a left at Delcastle High School, over the train tracks, left at the other pizza place with no beer and back into my neighborhood. It's a good 5 miles and it kicks my ass because there are so many hills. Today was the first day that I ran the entire course without stopping once. Usually I had to take a second to catch my breath at the top of the three hardest hills. And the average time used to be about an hour and fifteen the best being an hour and two minutes. Today I finally broke that hour barrier!!! 56 MINUTES! Okay, so if you don't run you don't know what that means or what it's like so just insert yay here "______!" Why thank you! =) Yeah, I'm a dork, I can't help it.
Then, I wasted a little bit of Ben's day by making him try to find a running store that apparently never even existed in Wilmington. Thanks to his persistance, we found an AWESOME women's running store just up Rt. 7. I'm pretty sure a buch of lesbians worked at and ran the place. That was the vibe and those are my favorite kind of people. Gots myself a hot new pair of kicks. They were mighty expensive so Ben got em for me...Happy Early Birthday to MEEEEEEE! Thanks babe. Don't buy me anything else, I already feel bad. Smooch. Then I went to work at my first job and now I'm at my second. I'm like all way on top of things too cuz I have all this energy from running so early in the morning. Yum! |
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| Running running running running running chameleon (sang to the tune of that Boy George song) |
[Mar. 27th, 2006|06:10 pm] |
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Yeah, I like to run. So I've began training for the half marathon that I'm gonna run midway through June. It's kinda funny. The first day I was supposed to train it rained outside but I refused to see that as a message and went to run on my mom's treadmill. I also refused to see the message in the fact that my mom's treadmill doesn't have a manual setting. I spent half of my 4 miles that day fucking around with the buttons cuz every few minutes it would be readjusting the speed or incline on the damn thing. I almost died. It's also totally hilarious that even though I'm pretty in shape cuz I've been running for a while, every hill that I hit when I run outside makes me hate life. I think just about every single time I run I decide I'm never going to be able to run 13 miles. It's okay though...I get the hell over it. I'm keeping a running log and so far I've run 17 miles. Weeee. I'm so proud of me.
I also painted my closet. Yeah, I know, who paints a closet? Well, Ben doesn't plan on staying in the house we're in more than a few years so we were painting and trimming the master bedroom and all the other rooms need to be fixed up. When we got to the closet it was a hot mess (including some delicious mold). So I washed the walls and good for him I painted like he wanted cuz he never gets stuff done. He may work less jobs than me but they log more hours. I figured that since I don't pay rent, I had to help out somehow. So I taped and painted and tonight I get the ever-satisfying feeling of peeling off all the tape. Yummy. Now I just have to go through all my shit that's piled into the middle of that room and move everything from that room to the room we're in and the stuff from the room we're in into the room we just finished while throwing out and giving away everything that I no longer use. (You may just not be the only one that has to read that sentence more than once.) I also have to talk Ben into repainting the room we just did cuz it was before I was his girlfriend so it's definitely a nasty Christmas tree green. When he asked me what color the room we're moving out of should be I couldn't answer him but now I think I know. I want vertical stripes of all different thinknesses in warm cream and chocolate brown. I haven't decided if I want them to go all the way to the bottom or if I want them to end halfway though. We'll see. I want the bed to be totally stark white though with big fluffy blankets and pillows and I want the livingroom almost cream but with a little more yellow in it. We shall see. =) |
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| Another Day, Another Dollar |
[Mar. 22nd, 2006|04:52 pm] |
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Hey kids,
So you may have read the last update about me staying home a little longer than I thought. Well, I decided not to just screw around with that time. Here's what's goin down...
The smallest of them all is that I decided that I wouldn't wait for my life to start to get started on all those things I have on my list of things to do before I die that I started in 9th grade or so. So, if anyone knows of a good mosaics class that I could get up on, lemme know!
Next, I started my third job today. I'm working with Ben at the Bail Bonds office helping to update their system. Somehow, I'm working on getting my license so I can go around hunting people. Who does that? Funny. I've already been on three jobs and we caught the people those three times. They said I was good luck. It made me smile on the inside, where the feelings live. (I love you Christie.) Can you imagine my ass being a bounty hunter? Lemme just say one thing, don't do anything wrong or I'll show up at your door at some random moment of 3am and bust your ass.
Finally and most likely to be the hardest, I'm going to run a half marathon in about 2 1/2 months. I started training this week. I already run a good bit just because I enjoy it but now I have a goal so I'll actually get better at it. I've always had on my list to run a marathon but we'll see how far I get and if I can actually stick to the smaller goal. So, if anyone wants to run, just give me a call. Other than that my life has been pretty chill. I work a lot and try to spend a few hours a week with the hottie and usually go out Saturday nights with the girls. I'm enjoying the normalcy versus the craziness of college life but missing it at the same time. Oh well, we'll see. Until then, weeeeeeeeee. =) |
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| Hi Guys |
[Mar. 13th, 2006|06:19 pm] |
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Just another quick update. The cat is getting better. He's sneezing directly onto my face a lot less lately. It was getting pretty gross for a while. There are little slobber and snot spots on quite a few of my windows. Gross. Ben and I hit a rough spot for a while but we're working it out. It's really kind of neat to know that just because we don't see each other for a week or one of us gets upset with the other that neither one of us are running for the door. That's one of the most comforting things about this relationship. He actually talks to me. All you ladies out there need to find at the very least a man that can sit down and talk to you. It could be about super important stuff or it can just be talking about nothing for hours at a time. Communication is important. The last boyfriend I had really didn't do that and to his credit he already was a pretty quiet person but that's one of the biggest reasons it didn't work out.
I also had one of those days that I just cleaned the living crap out of my house. I cleaned for about 3 hours and did stuff like dust (which I think could be the first time ever in my life) and wash doors. Who does that. I think it is TOTALLY AMUSING how much I am just like my mother. Though I never really saw her cleaning any doors, I know she taught me how to keep a clean house. Ben's mom apparently didn't. =P
Hmmm, I think that could be about it. Just give me a call people. I don't have your phone numbers anymore remember????!?!?!? I lost my phone. Even if you just say, "Hey Kel, this is my number, I gotta go." I like you guys a little too much to just let eveyone melt off the face of my earth. Peace. |
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| The real catchup---holy big fat entry Batman!!! |
[Mar. 6th, 2006|07:38 pm] |
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Hey guys...So I felt guilty just coming on here and writing some feelings and not taking the time to put in an update. (Can you believe it...me doing two posts in a day?) I'm doin pretty well right now actually. I'm still with Ben. We're doing great together and it's fun being someone's girlfriend because he treats me so well. I kinda like to have a boyfriend to spoil too. I'm still working two jobs (I have more than 3 grand in the bank now. Go me) and things are going great there too. I even got a new position at Innovative that I like so much better than being on the phones. I work the front desk so it's nice. I do an hour or two of work and then I get the rest of the night to chill and read books or crochet or something like that interupted by the occasional lonesome little phone call.
It also turns out I'm taking a little more time off from school than I originally planned but it's okay. I did freak out a little in the beginning because it means that I have about a year and a half with no huge goal to look forward to. It just didn't sit well with me. I'm used to (and actually kinda love) always, always having something to look forward to. I need to have goals and stuff but it's so hard to set anything long term up when I'm just going to leave in a year or so. It's okay though, I got over it. I was just going to take one semester but that went to one year because it's really hard to start into a music school in a spring semester. Then it went to two years...here's why. If I wait another year, not only can I get my car restored (my little 1967 Nova hottie...I've decided to get it stripped down to bare metal, all the dings and bends totally fixed up and repainted and I'm probably going to chrome out a lot of trim and stuff like that on the outside....weeeee I love that car) and have even more money put away for school, but I'll be able to FULLY PAY OFF ALL MY STUDENT LOANS THUS FAR!!! That's definitely no joke. As a teacher making just over 30 grand a year it would be a lot easier to pay off 30 versus 42 grand in my lifetime. (I've also been thinking that I might not just teach for the rest of my life but that's a different post.) So there you have it. (Oh, and I decided what school I'd like to go to.) So University of North Texas (nice warm climate...absolutely astounding music program...great leg up into the music world etc.) here I come...well, uh, in 2007.
Another HUGE addition to my life is named Valentine. I went to the SPCA with my boyfriend about two weeks ago now. (He tried to talk me out of it because I (inster italics there) would want a cat too bad. When we walked it he got that look on his face and withing ten minutes because of him (insert italics there too) we were looking for an addition to the family. We narrowed it down to 5 cats and then to two. We couldn't decide so we got them both. Valentine and Leg (valentine because he was born on Valentine's Day one year ago and Leg because she kept falling asleep with her entire leg hanging out of her cage...apparently trying to grab our attention). So as you can see one was a boy and one was a girl but neither were fixed. We had to send the girl home with Ben's mom (wasn't that nice) and he came home with us. Luckily we picked the right cats went to the right houses. I'd hate to think of her dealing with the cold that this poor cat got. He was only in the SPCA for three days so a few days after he got home he started sneezing and got all stuffy and stopped eating. It's definitely fun trying to pill a cat you don't know...much less feed him with a syringe. He's working out just fine though. We picked him because when you pick him up he puts one arm on each side of your neck and tucks his head under your chin as if to say, "I love you way too much for you to ever put me down." It's terribly adorable.
The funniest story though is when he tried to have sex with Ben's head. The second day he was brought home since he wasn't fixed he kept getting confused when we petted him for too long. On day two were were laying on the bed petting him and he really likes people's hair so he was chillin in Ben's hair. Then he started to bite his head! So when he tried to get up he kind of attacked him and bit his arm and held on. But since he was purring we figured it out and knocked him off. Then he kept chasing our feet around in an attempt to mate with them. Needless to say, he was at the vet the next day for bloodwork and a snip. Now he's just sick but still wonderful. I can't wait to bring Leg home.
I also decided to take all this time and actually catch up with all those friends that I always promised myself I would. I figured out why all my friends don't really love me as much as I love them. I never call either!!! So I'm trying to fix that but it's really hard. I lost my cell phone about a week ago and my palm pilot died at the same time so alas, all my phone numbers are gone. Cool thing is that I still do have my same number so everyone is more than welcome to give me a call and we can start that process. I started going out every Saturday night with the chicks and we have SO MUCH FUN!!! (Insert hilarious stories about men--ahem, boys--here.)
So that's the new life. You're more than welcome to catch up with me in person if you'd like. I'd love it. Let me know. Hopefully now that I have time to update I will and I'll actually keep everyone up to date. Smooches and much love and live well. |
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