Anyone care to pinch me?

The Other Katie saw Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Growing up, Katie learned to "endure" my obsessiveness with Harry Potter. She wasn't allowed to see it when she was younger and as she got older, she just didn't want to.

WHAT IS HAPPENING!?! HOW DID I GET INTO THE TWILIGHT ZONE!?!

kthxbye

Texan pictures

Home Sweet Home

Well, I'm back from Texas! I had a GREAT time with The Other Katie and Nine Texans and the rest of their crazy cool family.

Unfortunately, Karen (Nine Texans) got really sick on Friday night (the night before I left) and I caught it yesterday morning. As you can imagine, I was NOT looking forward to flying with the way I was feeling. I threw up early in the morning, but thankfully, that was it. Poor Katie (the other one) got sick yesterday while me, her dad, and her cousin Ceci were at Payless. :(

Anyway, I'll post some pictures (and exclusive music videos by "The Katies") later.

I'm such a snagging sap.

Katie wrote this great little article over on Apricot Pie about us and our friendship.

I cried. Real tears pouring down my face. And she was behind me LAUGHING.

Heartless, cruel, person. >.<

Anyway, here is said article.


This week I'll turn sixteen. Apparently that's a big milestone. In most states, you can start driving when you're sixteen; you can get a job; you start looking at colleges and planning for the future. For some reason, it's more of a big deal for girls than it is for boys. I guess it's like a modern-day coming-out....our new version of "You're a lady now".

That's all well and good. But what I'm thinking about as I begin my seventeenth year in this world and tack a different number onto myself is "ten years". Ten years since I was six. That's a great age to be. Some fairly momentous things happened to me when I was six.
I moved to another state, leaving behind my church, school, friends and beloved kindergarten teacher.
I started homeschooling.
I started a new life in a new place, and made new friends.
Friends. The first ones I met were Katie and Sarah. Our moms met online, and found out that they each had a daughter aged six, named Katie, and both homeschooled. It was then discovered that that other Katie had a little sister named Sarah. My middle name was Sara! These remarkable coincidences led to a friendship that's still going today. Ten years later. Katie and Sarah were always my best friends. They were family to me, and I'm pretty sure I was family to them. Their house was my second home. Often over the years my mom would be on the phone with their mom. Then she'd turn to me and say,"Katie, do you want to go sleep over at Katie's house?"
You can imagine my answer.
"OK, get your stuff together. Stacey is gonna pick you up in a few minutes."

Boy, did we have fun. We've almost never argued, that I can remember. Of course, it wasn't constantly happiness and light. Sarah and I had a funny little "enmity" (take note of the quotation marks) for a year or two. We made up eventually.
Katie and I almost never fought. We insulted each other at times and did or said things the other didn't like and gotten on each other's nerves...but within my memory we've never had an out-and-out fight.

Just because our names were the same didn't mean we weren't different in some ways. For example, I was never allowed to read the Harry Potter books or watch the movies, although as I got older the restrictions on the movies were somewhat relaxed. Katie and Sarah were crazy about them. I tolerated their ravings, and they in turn put up with my Nancy Drew obsession.

One thing we have always had in common, however, is our love of reading. We're all book-eaters...let us out of your sight and you can expect at least one of us to have our nose in a good book. Over the years we've lent each other books, recommended books, and obsessed over books. I remember once when I lent one to Katie and she didn't return it for a year.

Ah, remembrance.....I'm quickly turning sentimental. Please bear with me while I take a leisurely stroll down memory lane...
The Katie Sarah Katie Sara Detective Agency: Timeless. We never did solve any mysteries, but the theme song with dance sure was fun!
Henchman Bob! Need I say more?
Remember when Benny was born? He's 5 and a half now!
Penny Lane Players.... Katie and I were the cutest water fairies ever!
"Katie, Sarah....I *think* you guys are sleeping over.
"HOLY SMOKEY THE CAT!"
Sarah's big line in Cymbeline: "Aye."
The Sarah-Jack joke....still bouncing around.
The list goes on....

On my wall is a picture of Katie dipping me when we were eight or nine. The jumper that I'm wearing in that picture now belongs to my eight year old sister. Crazy how time goes by, isn't it? More than three years ago my family moved again; all the way to Texas. It hurt to leave when I had been there for six years- the longest my family had stayed anyplace.* Now, looking back, I'm glad we moved. The Lone Star State is a great place to live, and I've made great friends here and had some crazy fun experiences that would never have happened had my family remained in CT.

Of course, our friendship continued. Sometime this fall it will have been ten years since the chilly, blustery day when we met. I've always been closest to Katie since we're much closer in age (BFF, girly!) but today I'm thinking of the crazy, laughing, carefree trio that would be called to dinner with "Katie-Sarah-Katie-Sara! Get down here!" and have at least two sleepovers a week during the summer.

So here's to ten years: may the next decade be even better.

Love,
KK

Happy Sweet Sixteen to an awesome bestie!

Happy birthday to my bestest friend ever, THE OTHER KATIE, over at Books & Brownies.
Her sweet sixteen way yesterday, the third.

And guess who flew down to Texas as a surprise for the birthday girl as a surprise?

MEEE!!

HAHA.

I couldn't blog about it before, cuz Katie is my number one fan and I couldn't RUIN the surprise! Although I almost blew it sooooo many times. Yeesh. I made Katie a scrapbook, bought us matching Taylor Swift sundresses. Supercute. She will also be receiving a DVD of Macbeth.

Anyway, Happy Birthday Katie! I can't wait to spend ten more awesome days in awesome San Antonio with you!

XOXO

Katie <3

Interviews?

Hey everyone!

Over at my other blog, The Katie and Katie Blog, We want to put some interviews. So, if you'd like to be interviewed, please comment on this post.

A great new blog!

Hey everyone!

My bestest friend Katie and I decided to make a blog called.... THE KATIE AND KATIE BLOG!! YAY!!!

Don't ask.

anyway.. If you'd like to check it out, it should be cool. :) Heres the link The Katie and Katie Blog

Anyway, I have a couple of book reviews to post, so I'll hopefully post them in like, a minute. LOL

Lots of Love,

Katie <3

Whoops

Whoops! I didn't know that Katie (Books and Brownies) made her blog private. Oopsies! Soo, yeah. ignore my above post.

Lots of Love,

Katie <3

PS

Anyone else doing that 100+ reading challenge?

Promoting a wonderbar blog

Ok, as you know, my bestest friend Katie is one of my very few blog readers. Now, she has her own blog (I am SO proud. Sniff Sniff.)

So, make sure you check it out:

Books & Brownies

Sweet title right? I just wish I could come up with a more creative title than "Katie's Online Journal." BOOOORRRIIINNNGGG!!! Maybe I'll rename it. We'll see.

Lots of Love,

Katie <3

Fantasy Football

Sooo, my best friend Katie talked me into doing Fantasy Football this football season. Me. The girl who watches the superbowl because her parents buy good food. Or maybe because the quarterback's cute. But, I'm not really into the game. OK, not into it at all. But, I figured, that maybe if I do this, I'll actually watch the superbowl because I understand what's going on!

Anywho, today was the draft. And to put it mildly, I had NO idea what was going on. Plus, I couldn't hear the names, so whenever we asked for someone, the answer was pretty much always, "Taken." :( Ohhh well.

I'm sure that the nine (+) texans were wondering WHY I was bothering with this, and I'm sure I embarassed them. ;)

oh, and make sure you check out their blog. it's SWEET! link is above.

I'm off to play Rockband on our new WII!!!

Lots of Love,

Katie <3

OK....

Let's try this AGAIN!




Katie's CT visit

THE MONTAGE!!

I did it! I did it! Oh Yeah yeah yeah!

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Katie go home. **Sniff**

We drove Katie back to NJ on Monday night. It was sad. :( But we had a great time and we got some sweet pictures and videos too!! I'm putting more piccys up, and I'd put the vids up, but I'm not quite sure where they were saved to. Heh.

Katie and Katie = BFF!

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Ice Cream

Escalator shot! Pretty awesome huh?

Katie with the Prince Caspian Tickets **GASPETH**

Katie with the Kit movie poster.

Katie's celeb shot.

The three of us!! YAYETH!

They really do love each other. Deep down. Deep DEEP down.

This would be an awesome pic if I didn't have freaky evil eyes... And yes. We do have matching necklaces.

Tristan's cute lil Giants outfit that Sarah wanted to burn.

Book Day

Today we went to the Library and I got a gazlillion million books. As always. And then, we went to the Historical Society and whatcha know? They're having a tag sale... WITH BOOKS!! MUAHAHA! I got four Beverly Lewis books and Katie got two. It was. AWESOME!!

~Me

Pictures of our special *cough cough* visiter

Me with my BFF!

Sarah and Katie being Randy and Paula. Don't ask..

Teresa, Katie and Sarah

I really don't know why they look so sad...

YAYAYAYAY!

WOOHOO!!

My bestest friend in the whole wide world is here!! YAY!! We've been to some of her favorite places in CT and we (well, i know I am!) are having the time of our lives.

PEACE!

~me

More "T-Man" pictures!!

Tristan is HOME!!!!

And here are some more pictures (Courtesy of Ninetexans.blogspot.com)











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Welcome Tristan Karl!

Hi Everyone,

Well, my bestest friend in the whole wide world Katie's mom had the baby!!!!! It's a little boy named Tristan Karl and he is sooooooo cute!!!!!! Here are two pictures (which I stole from his mommy's blog):



This is a picture of Tristan with his dad, Chris.

WHAT?!

How on EARTH did the Giants win?! DARN!!!

Well, since I had a bet with my BFF Katie, and since I LOST!!! I have to tell you something


I am deeply in love with Simon Cowell and Donald Trump.

HAPPY KATIE?!