Waterparks = Love

Um, hi. :)

Thanks for all the congrats on Shane and I being back together! It means a lot to me, and I know he reads the blog (I asked. :) ) so I'm sure he gets a kick out of it, too. Right now I'm just watching the seconds tick by (way too flippin' slowly!) until I can go visit him next month. :)

This weekend I went to Wild Adventures with my family and my friend Baylee. Baylee is the other counselor at the summer camp I work at, and we've become pretty fast friends. Wild Adventures is a theme/water park in Valdosta, Georgia, and we have season passes. It's only like a 45 minute drive from where we live in Florida, so it's not only closer, but cheaper than Disney. (Though Disney wins in quality! Every time.)

Baylee and I agree on one thing at WA. It's all about the waterpark!

So we spent all morning doing this:

I spent the morning going from this chair to the lazy river and back again. I sure do love waterparks. Baylee and I finally decided to ride a wateride, and we got all the way until we were the next people in line to get a float, and this happens....

They close the park for lightening. Murphy's Law, I tell ya. Baylee and I (and the rest of the fam) were huddled underneath an awning for shelter, looking like drowned rats.

Baby Bro took a different approach....

We were there to also see a concert that evening, (Casting Crowns, a Christian band) so we decided to go out to eat to give the weather a chance to clear. After doing a quick change in the truck (all while trying not to flash the old couple walking their dog....) in the Cracker Barrel parking lot, I did as much damage control as possible using a car door as a mirror.

Baylee decided she has more class, and actually went and did makeup in the bathroom. Show off.

After the concert, we stopped at a gas station, and I made some new friends...

I fell asleep in the car, and even though I was supposed to go to a party afterwards, I went straight to bed when we got home at midnight. I'm such a grandma. Oh well. My bed was comfy. :) No regrets.

The next day I met up with Izzy for a 3 miler, and I was super stoked, since I've been craving exercise like whoa. You know. Because I'm too lazy to get off my butt and go do it.

We were supposed to be running/jogging, but we had so much to catch up on (ahem. Like me telling her all the gushy details about Shane and I getting back together...) that we ended up only jogging like a quarter mile.

Oh well. We still walked (briskly!) 3 miles, and bonding with close friends trumps exercise guilt any day. :)
Other than that, just back to camp life. My kids were so cute today.

We were walking to the pool, and somebody (I think it was BabyBro) said I was old. I got super offended. I'm ONLY 24! So then they all started saying (which turned into shouting) "You're so pretty, and young, and skinny, and AWESOME!!" It was so sweet. Well at first. Then they were too busy shouting over each other, it was like they screaming it at me. Haha. But they definitely redeemed themselves for telling me I was old. Little buggers. :)

Tomorrow is my late day, and I have another hair appointment. (Cara, before you get onto me about too many, this one is special! :) So you'll have to read tomorrow!) I hope everyone has a great week! :)

-Katy

Electronics and I Are Not Friends...

Hey y'all! Sorry I've been so scarce lately, trying to stay busy and all... :)

I've had some fun the past week, although, I've some tragedy also. (No, not true tragedy, just KatyWorld annoyances.) For starters, I have lost my iPod Nano. While I have another one, and an iPod Touch (the older iPod Nano I thought I had lost a year ago, and recently found snuggled up under a seat in my car, which is why I have two), I can't use the older one with my iTunes. It's saying there is a corrupt file so it won't let me upload any music. I have all of my old music, and I can charge it and stuff, but no new (and new = anything in the past year and a half) music can go on it. And as for my iPod Touch, I used to use it for running, but it's so bulky! Besides. I spent $150 on the stupid thing, I want it back! It got lost somewhere in the house, but we have looked everywhere. I'm sure I'll find it once I transfer all of my stuff that now litters the living room floor (aka my temp bedroom) - and no, I don't invite people over. I'm too embarrassed by the mess of the house! I seriously can't wait to be completely moved in! So running has not seemed very tempting lately.

I am going running tonight with my girl Izzy (same girl and trail from this post) but I'm hoping our stellar conversation and beautiful scenery will more than make up for lack of tunes. :)

Tragedy # 2? Yesterday I went to Wild Adventures and left my water-proof camera tied to a raft. Ooops. Completely forgot about it, I was too busy chasing Baby Bro out of the Lazy River (he's at a stage where he thinks pretending to drown in front of lifeguards is amusing...) and neglected to grab it. Totally my fault, but it makes me sad. I have another non-waterproof camera, but that thing was such a trooper. I've had it for over 4 years! I want to replace it, but I just can't justify the expense right now. Not when I have a perfectly usable camera to use instead. Luckily all photos except for the ones from the day are on my computer, so it wasn't a huge media loss.

Also. Last little hiccup (hopefully) in the room project. I took my SAT on Saturday morning, and as planned Daddy-o and I headed out to drive to Jacksonville, NC to retrieve my household goods. Until Daddy-o starts asking all these questions about reserving U-Hauls and whatnot.

Um. What? Who does that?! Apparently everyone. Except yours truly. Whoops. So I use the DROID (thank you hand held interwebs) to try to accomplish such a feat known to adults everywhere (Daddy-o made me feel about 12 years old. Fully deserved, I suppose) we realized it wasn't open on Sunday. Crap. So we had to turn around. At the SC border. Me being a complete spastic goof wasted about 4 1/2 hours and I won't even go into the cost of gas. Ugh. My bad. In my defense, I've never moved before when the military wasn't doing it. They show up, pack everything, load it up, and then deliver it to the new house and unpack it. You just watch. I miss that. I miss that alot.

SO we're going this weekend for try #2. Wish me luck!

Wild Adventures was super fun with the exception of the camera-losing. I didn't go to the theme park side of it, just bee-lines for the waterpark and spent the rest of the day in my bathing suit soaking up sun, riding waves, or lazy-rivering it up. (The lazy river is my FAVORITE part!!) I finished the book The Hunger Games.

Please. Like you've never had an 'accident' before.

Just kidding. It's from my swimsuit. That's my story.. and I'm sticking to it!

Um. Holy hell. I was recommended this book, and I've heard about them turning it into a show/movie/something, so I figured I'd give it a shot. Couldn't. Put. It. Down. "Hey Katy, wanna go to the wave pool?" "Nope. Reading." "Hey, lazy river time, wanna go?" "Nope. Reading." "Hey Katy, wanna win a million dollars? All you have to do is put the book down for like 5 seconds." "Nope. Reading."

Ok. Maybe the last one was exaggerated. But only slightly. I really was intrigued hardcore by this book. It's about (sorry if you've already read them!) civilization in a post war North America where the government forces compliance and resists revolutions by annually forcing 24 teenagers aged anywhere between 12 and 18 into an arena to fight to the death. It's fantastic. I went out and bought the next two (it's a trilogy) today, and will start on that later. Kinda (super) excited.

Oh, and I don't want to post any room pictures until it's completely finished, but I will leave you with this! :)

Oh. And on a separate note. I know Blogger has been having a whole bunch of problems. I've tried leaving comments (TNA) on some of your blogs, and I've heard my comments thing is also wishy-washy. I don't have a fix, but I do have a work-around that works FOR ME. I can't use IE as a browser. It just won't work with blogger right now. I use Google Chrome. (However I can't use GC with Facebook, I have to use IE... so I'm all kinds of FUBAR right now...)

Anyways. Have a great day!

-Katy