About me:
Hello.
I’m Katherine.
Recently turned 16, just yesterday to be exact.
I love food. More than the average person. Ironic because I cannot seem to gain weight to save my life. I really can’t, trust me I try. I’m very skinny you see. Not sickly skinny but pretty thin.
I love music. A lot. I listen to everything with the exception of a few things.
I love fashion. very much so. Haute couture :]
I love movies. I watch everything. I want to be a screenwriter when I am older.
I have over 500 magazines stashed in my closet. Mainly fashion magazines. I’m obsessed.
I met tiger woods when I was 10. It was amazing.
I grew up in southern california. Less than 10 minutes from Disneyland. :]
Aspiring dancer. sofia boutella is my inspiration.
I talk a lot when I am nervous and I hate staying in one place for too long.
I can talk about anything, which is why it bothers me so much when people say “so..what do you want to talk about? ” Terrible conversationalists.
What’s it going to be then, eh?
So I just finished watching A Clockwork Orange last night. Very long movie I must say, or maybe it just felt that way. After the series of events that has happened in the last week, one part of the movie stuck out to me the most. It was during a scene when Alex had just undergone his first session of the Ludovico Technique and questions the nurse why he started feeling sick during the graphic films that he was forced to watch. The nurse responds with ” You felt ill this afternoon because you’re getting better. You see, when were healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You’re becoming healthy that’s all.” Interesting theory on their part and strange realization from mine. Before I watched this movie, I too responded of graphic imagery with mild nausea and I get very disturbed. I can watch it without looking away but I get quite uncomfortable. Their reference to you being “healthy” if you react this certain way was kind of eye-opening. I never really thought about it that way but to a certain extent their theory is true. I mean, when people have a heart and sympathy for the rest then their reaction to negative occurances are negative. When people are apathetic or lack sympathy then it becomes a bit concerning. It’s a natural human emotion but why is it that others are so prone to it? Have we always been like that or are we slowing becoming that way? I remember when I was told of the incident that occurred tuesday night I had a sick feeling in my stomach and a big lump in my throat. I still feel like that whenever people bring it up. That scene of the movie made me think about that. Feeling sick during other people tragedies. Then the following night, for very different reasons that will remain unknown, became a very humbling experience. Definately made the movie’s philosophy a lot more significant. Then again maybe I’m wrong. Maybe we’re all wrong. I mean, everyone has their different beliefs about everything. So who knows. What I do know for a fact is that if it’s not hurting anyone and it makes you happy then its okay :]] Those are the words I live by. I’m sure other people will find major loopholes in my theory though.
my words to live by or things I have found to be true:
1. If it’s not hurting anyone (including yourself) and it makes you happy then its okay.
2. You can only take things into consideration or even try to, but until you’ve personally felt them you will never fully understand them.
3. Even if things go wrong for whatever reason, but you know you did everything right, then there is nothing to regret.
Slice of Life
Haha, wow, I hate that. When you’re remembering something funny that happened and you laugh out loud to yourself without realizing the people around you are looking at you and wondering what the heck you were laughing about. Makes people not seem very well…sane.
I remember once, when me and my mother had just gotten into an arguement just a few hours before it was 12 am, officially marking the hour of her birthday. Even though I knew she was upset with me, I carried on this spontaneous act of kindness for her birthday. I told my dad and brother about it and they refused since they thought it was kind of weird. I insisted and left to go talk to my mother again. My brother and father thought I had forgotten all about it but about 40 minutes before 12 am I told them we had to leave right away. My father, sitting comfortably on the couch groaned as he hesitated to get up and my brother walked downstairs with his head down refusing to take part in my idea. They both came anyways since they were, well, vital to what I had planned. We left to go to albertson’s and quickly tried to gather things she would like. We bought this chocolate cake with snickers on top of it, her favorite candy bar. We got this huge ridiculous balloon that read “LETS PARTY!” and was very awkwardly distracting to carry on at the store so close to midnight, but funny nontheless. We got her cards, candles for the cake and loud party favors. When we got to the check-out register the lady looked at us and laughed. We could’t help but laugh ourselves since the whole scheme had been a bit odd. We ran to the car with 15 minutes to spare and wrote her lovely things a mother would enjoy after an aggravating dispute. Unfortunately, that part being my fault. Anways, we got home quietly and tried not to make any noise as we set the whole thing up. She was sleeping at the time, which made the timing perfect. The lights were off and the only thing lighting our way upstairs were the candles on the birthday cake. We carefully stopped infront of her room and right when we opened the door emerged into a loud and rude awakening with party favors, me going “woooo!” as my brother blew on the whistle thing. She woke up like What The….?!! and then started laughing. We all started laughing. It was pretty funny considering that I had made her so mad a few hours earlier and it being my idea and all. That pretty much solidified as one of the happiest I’ve ever been with my parents. Well not exactly happy, but not arguing I guess. I don’t know. It was just funny to me because I always do that to my mother. Make her mad and then make her happy again, but then again I think I tend to do that to everyone.
the recession.
I have very mixed feelings about this topic. Currently there are many theories regarding the recession and some of them seem to support this thesis while others seem to think that this a natural process in a healthy economy. Bewildered by the amount of misleading information, i ventured to quest on this impounding topic. I just watched a video about Bear Stearns stocks crashing and Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy. I don’t quite understand the economy but it seems like everyone did something wrong. Maybe we were infused by blind faith and promises backed by false hope.
Personally, I have not at all been affected by the recession. My parents seem to be economically stable at the moment. Either that or they fake it really well. I have never been one to been denied anything when it comes to shopping or financial necessities and for that I am very fortunate. On the contrary, I think my mother spends WAY too much money on food. Its ridiculous. My brothers stuff their face with the first thing they find and then whine about how theres nothing left to eat….because they ate it all. I know people though, whose parents have been fired/laid off etc. I feel kind of guilty when I ask them why they just dont “buy a new one” and then they respond with “we’re too broke for it.” I feel like I should’nt have asked in the first place. Anyways, one thing that I do think is true is how we prefer quicker short-term satisfaction over long term satisfaction. It’s human nature. I think that’s one of the reasons many people are in debt. They would rather have get it over with quicker and faster than expending over the long-term consequences.
My history teacher was telling us how it’ll be another year of this recession until things start looking up again. I remember doing my history homework and realizing we’ve had so many recessions in the last 50 years. It seems like whenever a new president is elected the previous president leaves a significant amount of monetary deficienies. I dont know why is suddenly started writing italics but I can’t get rid of it so I’m not even going to bother.
In conclusion, I think many people are noticing the impact it is having on working class people and their families. Fortunately, I have not at all been affected. I hope I never do.
Technologic.
OMGGG. ROFL. LMAO. TTYL. BLAHH BLAAHH BLAHH dskfljaslkdjfa…
Technology, becoming our last dependent entertainment machinism, seems to also be the present and future for all types of advancements in every defining way of life that we portray. Slowly, we are becoming a generation that seems to be born with a computer at hand. In this current technological upheaval, yes I myself am an avid tech enthusiast. Who doesn’t love the grand mind numbing ecapisim that it oh so purely brings. It is said that for every action there is an equal or opposite reaction, unfortunately not all of techology’s reactions have been positive or for our benefit. That’s scary. I believe anything man made has flaws and malfunctions in any given circumstance. I am very supportive of this progression but I cannot always trust it. So many things we can’t understand and neo-vocabulary that has been intergrated into our daily lives. Up until a few years ago who even heard of blogging? Top 8′s? What’s a friend request? In the last decade It’s changed how we percieve things and how we carry on our rigorious schedule. Concluding this semi-rant with the final vent of my mental confinement, I am trying to picture a world with out it and I simply cannot. We love it, we strive it, we need it.
Shall a new era of ipods, myspace and instant internet celebrity-ism begin.
1. Cellphone.
2. Internet.
3. ipod
