Prom Night

Hey Kids
I wasn't sure if we were going to get a post from my coauthor Nuttina or not, but I am posting so if you were going too, sorry Nuttina :) So, I basically have all day off today because it's a half day for PROM. Yep that's right a half day for a dance. No practices, nothing it's great, so I get to enjoy this beautiful weather and weekend. By the way Starbender is my prom date, and she is wearing something stunning, maybe I will take some pictures. I am so a shoe in to win Prom King with her as my date!

Alright so, I am going to put my American Idol faith in a hippo, and accept his deal to vote for Chris 7 times to guarentee my favorite Paris is safe. I have no clue how he can guarentee this, shoot maybe he's Ryan Seacrest! Don't screw me over hippo, or I will find you and bring my tranquilizer gun. It's really getting down to business on Idol with only 5 hopefuls left, being Paris, Katharine, Chris, Taylor, and Elliot. Pickler finally bit the dust thank god, she was just awful these last two weeks. I am glad she is gone because now I like everyone who is left, with Taylor being my least favorite. The thing that bugs me about Chris is when he does his style it's like he is screaming, and when he sings I don't think he is that strong oh well. If Paris doesn't win I hope it's Kat. By the way did anyone notice that when they showed Kellie's clips at the end of the show Wed, it wasn't Daniel Powter singing "bad day" the song that plays over the clip?

I am getting pissed off with my cable internet provider. They have been doing upgrades and what not and last night I couldn't open pretty much any browsers, or chat devices. Somehow I figured how to log onto explorer, but I am not quite sure how. I have to check my email at nights for coaching updates and what not, and it was very frustrating. This morning I checked to see if it was working again, and now my chats work, and my browsers all work but explorer! DAMN YOU INSIGHT!

Can you believe it's almost summer?? Speaking of summer there might be some big news concerning yours truly on the summer horizon, NO it's not an engagement I will end that spectulation now. This year has just flown right by it's unbelievable. This spring has been pretty nice here lately, even though it started out so cold. I'll take it this way, even though it's hard to practice in the cold, I prefer our matches nice and warm. Man we were suppose play this team on Wednesday night, and it was about 5:30 and they STILL weren't here yet, and I was starting to get pissed. So anyway I called our AD and he had no clue never does, and was like let me check my messages. About 20 mins later he came waddling out to tell me that they thought the match was at their place and that is why they weren't here D'oh! So they came over last night, and about 20 mins before they got here my 1 Singles player tells me she can't stay because she is getting her hair dyed for prom. See she has a yellow dress and doesn't want her dark roots to show. OH MY GOD, I had to really hold it in, I almost went postal. This is the 2nd match she has missed, and she is going to miss two more for a band trip, this is the type of dedication to the game I get to work with. We would have won last night had she been here, because everyone would have been in the normal positions. Oh well, and I hated the coach of the team we played last night he is a royal prick, and thinks he is God's gift. Some our parents actually witnessed him flirting with his girls, nice right?

Alright that's really all I got. It's nice to see Spygal back in the blogger mix, how many days you back for this time spy? It's not nice to tease :) seriously though glad you're back, hope you feel better. Oh yeah Shannon has become my favorite between the two of you, might be because she is taking me to Jamaica though?? who knows. OH yeah quick update, I talked to Cher, she said she misses everyone and hopes to be back in the mix soon, she, hubby and two rugrats are all doing great.

Have a Phat-tastic Weekend.

Hey Mike H when is your birthday again?

It could be worse.......

This could be you
Yes, he is stuck in the crane game

HAPPY PHAT TUESDAY!

Katina's Korner

TGIF! Man it has been a VERY long week. Work has been very stressful. Last night I had to drink two glasses of wine to calm down. Plus I watched about 2 hours of 90210 so that helped me relax too. I felt better that Brenda's lump on her breast was in fact benign and the Walsh family could go back to their lives again. Close one there. I love that my friend has a DVR and records 90210 for me everyday on Soapnet =) I'm a loser, I know.

Mike H has a bday coming up everyone! Phats is close around the corner too. So I'm mailing in my RSVP for my 10 year high school reunion today. I'm checking NO. I'm not ready to see my high school fellas yet. I've only kept in touch with just one (Phats) and that is good enough for me. Maybe I'll go to the 15 year and hopefully I'll be married by then with a kid..who knows...maybe with Mike M...since he is back in the picture again. =) Big smile on that one.

So anyway...so everyone has been through break-ups, being dumped, splitsville, yadda yadda. Did you ever find out who your ex's new flame is? Does it ever make you want to jump off a bridge, drink a gallon of red wine, or egg his/her car?! Well if you guys remember me talking about Jimmy...we dated a LONG time ago and he of course broke up with me and the next girl he dated, he married. Now all you girls understand that is a huge slap in the face when the guy marries the next girl he dates. Why not me? So anyway, he is divorced now, two kids, ect. We started just hanging out...friends with benefits which is fine by me...b/c I'm too good for him. ANYWAY...about a couple months of ago, he disappeared..stopped talking to me, emailing me and instant messaging me. COME TO FIND OUT he is dating someone. Okay that is nice and all, but um let me know. So I'm a nosey person. I found his myspace acct and found his girlfriend....16 years old!! barf barf barf. Now he is 29 and in Indiana 16 is the legal age, not 18. So yet another slap in the face for me...leaving me for a 16 year old. Gosh what a loser.

So a quick Roxie update...she is great of course. At class Tuesday night we learned how to sit, stand, and come when called. She is smart =) But towards the end of the class all she wanted to do was play with the other pups!!

Everyone have a great and fantastic weekend!!

Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore

Hello bloggers!
So they say that Kansas is known as Tornado Alley, I think that might change after this summer. This month of April so far has been very eventful here in good ole Indiana with very bad storms some producing tornadoes. Tonight was the 5th time this month we have had a tornado warning, and it's the first time I have gone to my safe place for it, luckily it veered off and took another path. It's quite funny I never ever took watches and warnings very seriously because I never thought it would happen to me, but that all changed a few years ago. Back in June of 1998 I was home at my parents on summer break from college and we had a tornado warning and it actually hit. My mom and I had one dog in a closet, and my father had the other dog in a bathroom it was absolutely crazy. It's amazing what those things can do, and how there is really no rhyme or reason to them. We had some damage to our house, roof damage, fence damage, car damage. My dad had a tree thrown thru the back of his van window smashing it to pieces. My car had roof damage, where our basketball goal fell ontop it. However we really couldn't complain considering our neighbors across the street and three over lost their ENTIRE house the only thing standing was the closet the mom and daughter were huddled in. If you ever watch the weather channel's storm stories our tornado has been on there. It was a very scary day, and now when the local weather breaks in with watches or warnings I actually listen, not to mention when the town siren goes off that thing is freakin' loud! Hopefully this doesn't mean summer is going to be worse, usually the bad bad storms are in June when it's incredibly hot and sticky.

Well, our tennis season is underway and we're off to the start I thought we would be 0-3 WOOHOO go us! With the first week complete I figured we'd be 1-2, especially since we opened with the two best teams in our conference, but our first match was one we could have and should have won. We lost 3-2 when our 3 singles player lost 6-4 in the third set, she is a Freshman and I think the nerves and tension took over in the last two games. My assistant and I are still tweaking the line up, our biggest problem is we have 12 Seniors! We play Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week so it's keeping me busy. We had an ALL day invite Saturday, and after a 1hr 30 min delay for fog, we sat in the mini bus, the weather ended up being beautiful. Most of us are fried from the sun though! I enjoy coaching, it's hard when you have a team that has a hard time winning, but the girls I work with are great kids and hardworkers so it's been a lot of fun so far.

Now for the bad story from last week, I was going to blog about this sooner but I didn't wanna bloghog Nuttina. So, we had an away tennis match Wed, and after introductions I was walking off court and hear my name. Now, at first I had no clue who the hell this person was, it was a young lady with a baby. As I got closer, and I think I even said this outloud, I said oh shit when I realized who it was. My ex Ehrin was there with her daughter, oh happy day! For those of you who don't know this woman broke my heart into a million pieces and Nuttina can confirm this as she knows most of the situation. She literally tore my heart out of my chest, and stomped on it until it was 2 million tiny piece, then forced fed it back to me. Let me keep this brief here, she was the first girl I fell in love with, and after everything ended this girl continued to email me sending me pictures of her new HUSBAND and baby. Now how is that for bitchy? I emailed her and POLITELY asked her to please stop emailing me, and 2 days later got more pictures. So as you can see she is not someone I really wanted to see. I will say this I am proud of myself I made small talk, and I was very polite and didn't take it to a level of rudeness. Shoot I even played with her kid, and the kid is under 5! Possibly it's because I am in a great place with my life right now and that made me more confident who knows, but I took the moral high road. Believe me there were some things going thru my head that I wanted to say to her, but I refrained. Ex's just suck the big one in my book, I am not friends with any of my ex's.

Lets see random notes here. I bought a bookshelf today for all my books. I had just been putting them in piles in corners of my room haha. It's nice each shelf is full to capacity with books, and I put them in alphabetical order starting with the ones I have read already on top. I love reading, I am currently reading a Stephen King book of short stories called "skeleton crew" you have any suggestions for books I should checkout leave em in the comments. I am going to look into the one Mr Shife suggested. Umm what else, oh yeah my diet, I started a new healthy eating diet recently. I have been really good so far too, I chose to start April 1st to eat healthier, and so far so good. Of course by saying "eating" that doesn't include beverages, so I am still consuming my amounts of coke, pepsi, dr pepper, mr pibb, mt dew etc. I can't give those up, but with this diet I have decided to at least scale them back. Although I am drinking a vanilla coke from Huck's as I write this :)

I hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday weekend, and that you're not too full of chocolate bunnies, peeps, and jelly beans to function :) MMM I love Mr Jelly Belly's! By the way the song is by the Dixie Chicks, it's their first single off their new album it kicks ass.

Katina's Korner

Just my weekly update. Did anyone catch Lost last night? Pretty good. I like Rose and Bernard and I'm glad they are back together after being on separate parts of the island. That Henry dude is STILL freaky. Another new episode next week!! woohoo

I get a 3-day weekend!! I'm off work tomorrow for Good Friday..woohoo!! Nothing much going on this weekend. Friday night celebrating my friend Amber's BDAY party at BW3's! Great place, great wings. Then Saturday I think I'm having a small martini party at my place if anyone wants to come?!? Then Sunday is Easter. Now, I used to love Easter when I got an Easter basket full of candy and got to search for eggs...but as I got older, I can live without it. Especially since my family is leaving me and I'll be all alone...*sigh*. Well Roxie is good company at least.

Speaking of Roxie. She is amazing. I swear this dog is sooo smart. We started our training classes at Petsmart on Tuesday. Granted it was just a greet and meet to get to know the other dogs..she did soooo good socializing. So proud of her. She is only 4 1/2 months and I got her in the beginning class which is only for 5 mo and older...such a good mom I am. I told the instructor that she is toooooo advanced for just the puppy class. So hopefully she does well. Being half German Shepard, I don't see a problem.

Here is a current pic of her...she is so sweet...

Another note...I've taken the plunge and joined myspace.com Anyone a member?? I would love to be your friend =)

I hope everyone has a great weekend and holiday!! BYE

Phat Tuesday's

Alright I am here to answer all your questions you asked last week. So, here goes!

Design Goddess- Why do you have to ask a ? Well, you don't but I knew one person would be a smart ass, but didn't think it'd be you ;) I just thought i'd give you people a chance to get to know me better seeing as how I am a pretty private person. I know shife did something like this once on his blog, I kinda stole the idea I know that was a point of anger for another blogger so I hope you don't mind shife. Although had you and steph not gotten into an argument I might not have ever read your blog!

Tina- What do I look like, well I could pretty much pass a twin for Andy Roddick. Okeh I posted a video clip of myself in a previous post what more do you want woman? In all seriousness, I did send my pic out to a few bloggers and none of them comment anymore so they must be scared, okeh just kidding a few of them still respond. In all honesty I owe you a surprise, so next time we talk give me your email and i'll shoot a picture your way, but you have to agree to the terms of service.

Mike H- asked like four questions geesh! Two for real, two for kicks. Your piece of cake was HUGE, have you still not gotten it? That damn fed ex worker must have eaten it, jerkmonkey! Your serious questions of when and how I am going to propose is interesting, I knew this would be asked by at least one person here. In all honesty I have no idea still. Probably soon, hopefully anyway, and I have been thinking of some ways to do it. Trying the romantic route anyway. She is more then likely the one, but it's about timing and of course I am going to ask her family first, as that is important. Satisfied? If no how should I have answered it better?

Jennifer- I am glad you finally commented, I know you're a longtime lurker. I knew you would ask some loaded question that could potentially get me into trouble, but alas I will answer. Which blogger would I date if not with Kristen and why. First off let me say the ladies on here are all lovely and beautiful so that makes this question hard. Hmm I would consider a few of course Shannon, she is cute, and a great personality ;) however she is married so I think her husband might object! Spygal, mmm models but has kids no thanks. Design Goddess is going to be an awesome catch for someone, but she'd probably dump me before I even would get the opportunity to ask her hahaha! Alright I choose Avery(aussie transplant) she is beautiful, aussie, and great personality, oh yeah she LOVES sports. So, there is the who and why, i'd say shannon or dg would be runner up though.

Icecoldcoke- First off faithful readers, if you don't read this blog you should his blog is awesome! Secondly, I love these questions. What celeb would I hit, hmm I have a few options. Number 1 Ryan Seacrest, he drives me nuts and I don't think he'd hit back, but I don't choose him. Ashlee Simpson, YUCK I would love to take a hit at her, but then I would look like the big jerk hitting a woman, at least I think she is a woman so I can't choose her. I choose Tony Danza! I think he is a major putz, and I can't believe he has a talk show, does he even speak the English language, "oh eh, eh oh" what a dumb ass, he drives me nuts would love to see the words Cancelled next to his name. What does life mean to me? Hmm, I think life means being happy, and healthy. If I can have both of those elements I will be very content.

Beading- I am glad you stop by, please keep coming and hope ya feel better. I love ice cream so this was a hard question. I would have to say either Cookies n Creme or Chocolate. I also enjoy rootbeer floats :)

Carmel- Again like beading glad you stopped by, hope you keep coming by! My favorite food is anything Italian, I love me some good Italian food. Rose Buds in Naperville, ILL is out of this world! I also like Mexican, Hacienda MMMM.

Hippo- Do I hate Toby, well hate is a strong word so I wouldn't use that. I strongly dislike him, but I didn't like him before the dixie chicks incident. I think he is a hypocrite, and I think he used America's tragedy to gain money. I will never buy his CD's. As for your other ? I would totally choose the peanuts ;) As for the deleted question, no but you should have already known that!

Ryan- You suck, I know you in person so this isn't fair. I honestly don't believe I can answer the first question about the cactus, because I come across looking like a prick, if it's what I think you want me to tell everyone. Maybe save that for another entry. Unfortunately, since I can't drink I have not gone ugly early, or drank em cute, but I know for a fact you have since I was there that night hahaha! I'll stop there! Keep commenting jackass

Skii- welcome back to the land of blog! First off I vote for paris and I try to vote 15 times and stop, if I feel they are in jeopardy I might vote a few more. I voted TONS for carrie last year in the final vs Bo Bice. Queen will be an interesting week. You know someone will sing Bohemian Rhapsody, I am hoping for someone to bust out we will rock you, or we are the champions. Those are really the only Queen songs I know haha sorry. Who do you like?? Terry gonna run away with Survivor?

Shannon- you asked like 30 questions but I will answer them all since I feel guilty for egging hippo on to post the miss swan thing, and I left the best for last ;) What I look for in my future wife, well for starters her name has to be Kristen! She has to be caring, intelligent, sense of humor, so basically personality. I am not gonna lie here looks play a part, and has to be able to tell me anything and vice versa with me to her. Favorite song, this might be the most difficult question of all of them simply because I love music all kinds of music any genre. For personal reason's and this happens to be one of my favorite songs of all time, I am listening to the song "Here with me" over and over by Reo Speedwagon. I would have to say "what hurts the most" by Rascal Flatts is a very close second, followed by "fishing in the dark" nitty gritty dirt band, which is Kristen and I's song. I am not sure why, but I have always been uncomfortable around kids younger then like 5. Maybe it's cuz I feel like an idiot talking baby talk to someone, or not capable of a onesided conversation. Kids, the little variety freak the crap out of me just like fish do. It depends on the blonde, and what she is into ;) Health wise I am doing A okeh, just had my three month appointment in March and got the all clear beep beep(this is a disney reference, anyone get it?) Next three month is in June, thanks for asking :) I have one sister she is married to an awesome guy so I count him as a brother. They have 3 kids all 3 and under so still at that creeped out stage HAHA. I live alone, are you asking to move in, oh la la! Favorite food is Italian, answered this already geesh! Style of clothing, I guess I would be considered preppy. I shop at American Eagle, and Aeropostal for most of my stuff, like wearing nice button up shirts with khaki's. However, I am just as confortable in tennis shorts and a tshirt. However if going out I try to dress nice, appearance means a lot. Vacation plans, nope probably not, unless you count going to cheerleading camp with my squad? My family is going to Pigeon Forge but I will not be able to go with since I am conducting a summer tennis camp that week they are going, oh well. No, Not too much you just made this entry 10 pages.

Alright that's it! I am done, thanks to everyone who sent in questions you guys are cool. Some final pieces of business before I sign off, adding some new links welcome to the dawgpound guys and gals!
Starbender
Icecoldcoke
Beading
Carmel
If any of you object speak now or forever hold your peace. Also I hope that Nuttina(thanks again MikeH good thing I am not paying you royalties) Next blog entry will explain her new name change a lot of people are confused! :)

Have a great Tuesday!

Boiler Bits

Quick update, I am about to go to bed and realize my spring break is over :( boo!! Busy week this upcoming one with 4 tennis matches in 7 days. Anyway, I wanted to write about the great news going on in Boilermaker Country. We hired our new ladies hoop coach woohoo!! Those of you who don't know Coach Curry bolted and took the Texas Tech job after Marsha Sharp retired, leaving us without a coach ACK! However it was confirmed Friday that our new coach had been named in a weird roundabout way.

I would like to give a great big Boiler Welcome to Coach Sharon Versyp, WELCOME HOME COACH!! Here is the ironic part she was the coach at our arch rival Indiana University this past year, and we stole her away :) The formal announcement of the hiring wasn't suppose to take place until Monday, but IU's athletic Director was pissed so he made the announcement, what class they have down in Gloomington. I think a lot of people saw this coming as Coach Verspy is a Boilermaker graduate, started all 4 years, led them in scoring 3 of 4 years, and was the first Indiana Miss Basketball to sign with Purdue. She was believed by many to be one of the players responsible for getting the Boilers to the national stage. I think it's a great hire, and she will inherit a team that returns 3 of 5 starters who lost to #1 UNC on a buzzer beater in the sweet 16. In those three starters are 3 of the top 4 scorers from this season. The one big question mark is will all 3 recruits, (the class was ranked #2 nationally) end up becoming Boilers, we'll cross our fingers and wait and see. So welcome, Coach Versyp you have arrived to the big time.

Also a big ups to the Purdue cheerleading squad for once again finishing in top 6 at NCA nationals, way to represent and keep the tradition alive. HAIL PURDUE!! :)

Last but not least you still have time to ask some questions if you wanna get to know me better. Post them in the entry two down(Phat Tuesday's). Also I have chosen to type in bold so you can tell the difference for when I post and when Nuttina(thanks Mike H) posts.

Have a great start to your week! I will be adding some links on Tuesday as well.

Katina's Korner

So I hope everyone has had a good week so far. I'm so glad it is Friday and I'll be able to sleep in tomorrow. This stupid DST is dumb. Usually there is SOME sun at 6am so I can get out of bed...but NOOOO...I've been late every day this week! Sucks. Lost was a pretty good episode Wednesday. What is up with that Libby chick?!!?! WEIRD...and Shife, we are lucky we're getting another new episode next Wednesday also!!! woohoo.

So this weekend not much going on. I have a wedding to go to tomorrow and the rest is up in the air. I'm going to take it pretty easy this weekend, since last weekend was well pretty busy and I had too many to drink. Friday night celebrated my friend's bday...and this bowling alley had Blue Moon on draft...I'm there. So I had several of those. Then Saturday night had a bachelorette party to go too..so had a few there plus some shots. So hopefully the pictures I post below work.

Everyone have a GREAT weekend!!

okay the pics didn't work...stupid rock you site. =)

Phat Tuesday's!

Little late, but it is still Tuesday. Before I get to today's topic a little bit of what I have been up to since spring break started here. I went to my nephews' 3 yr old birthday party, they are twins for those of you who don't know. It was a ZOO! They had it at a dance studio where they take dancing, and swim lessons, and the whole place was turned into tumbling mats. It was a great time by all, and the boys really enjoyed it. I fed ex'd a piece of finding nemo cake to Mike H. Lets see, Sunday we dodged tornadoes all night long. Although it was nice to get a break because traditionally our county gets hit a lot by those, but Sunday we just had bad storms. My sister and her husband on the other hand had to wake up their 3 kids and find shelter as their siren went off. The bank building in downtown Indy had windows shattered out, crazy!! Here is a picture of it.
You look closely you can see the damage done by high winds. This was almost immediately after the John Cougar concert downtown people were flocking to safety. Umm the final four is over congrats to the Florida Gators the 2006 champs! They defeated UCLA the other night, and it brought in close to 48 million dollars to the city of Indianapolis WOOHOO! I had the Gators in my final four, now I wish I had picked them to win it all, and someone in the comments made fun of me for picking them! Alright onto Phat Tuesday's

This week's topic is Questions and Answers. I am giving you all 1 week to ask me any question you want to ask me as long as it's submitted before next tuesday, you can ask 2, but that's the max. Anything you've wanted to know i'll answer nothing is out of bounds. Lurkers who read and don't comment, go ahead and ask, people who were deleted from links that might still read ask away. Just leave the ?'s in the comments and then I will answer them in the next Phat Tuesday post. Sorry, I am not feeling very creative this week haha :) this kind of like you all writing my blog. Hope ya have some good ?'s By the way you can do it anonymous if you wish, but if it's mean or dirty please use a name :)

Phats

Has anyone heard the new Dixie Chicks song?? It's awesome!