A little bit of This, A little bit of That.

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Hello, guys and gals. 

It's the day before thanksgiving... YAAY!!! 

I look forward to a day that celebrates food and football more than you will probably ever be able to comprehend. 

On the note of Thanksgiving... my Grandmother, my Dad's Mom, is in town for the week from Carlsbad, NM. She's so darn cute. I haven't seen her in 2 years... so it's been really great being able to catch up. I realized earlier that she was 18 when she got married... and had my dad at 19. 

I'M 19. When I brought this to her attention, she simply said, "yea, well... things were a lot different back then. we were all kind of dumb."

... which was comforting? haha. whats the point of this story? well.. while being married would be super duper fun and splendid... I'm HELLA glad that I don't have a kid right now. 

Oh... here's a picture of her, me, and my brother Jimmy today at the Ft.Worth WaterGardens : 

Precious. I know. 

At the Gardens... Jim and I recreated a scene from the Nickelodeon classic, GUTS! I was climbing up this "Mountain" they had... and reached the top as if I had just conquered the Aggro Crag. 

Yea... It was pretty epic. Especially so considering how well I channeled Johnny Drama. 

Moving on... 

uhmmm all my friends this week on facebook decided to post one of those "20 Secrets" things that discreetly allows you to essentially bash every one of your friends that you can't stand.. and then praise the ones that have never wronged you. I considered doing one, myself. But I'm too open of a person to do it without hurting someone's feelings. So I'll just do it here. 

Beth - I love you to death. I've known you less than any of my other girl friends... yet I consider you my BEST. seriously. I know you have an amazing core group of friends from back home who deserve to be ahead of me in the girl friend list... but you're #1 on mine. you're crazy. I love you!

Sabrina - You girl, are a hoot, hahah. I love you so much... but you can be such a dumbass sometimes! Furthermore, I think you're a lot deeper of a person than you let on to be. I'm so happy you've found love in anotha' brotha'. you guys are way cute together. lets be friends for 10 more years to come.. at LEAST. 

Richard - I love you. I've never not loved you since I've known you. And regardless of how many times you may piss me off, I will never stop having love in my heart for you. You're my best friend. I love your smile. Love your laugh. Your voice. Your sense of humor. Your smirks. And the way that you love me. :) I LOVE YOU!!!

Megan - I've known you over 4 years now. Can you believe it!! I know we've been through some amazing times... and some really awful times (all of which are my own fault)... but I still love you, and know that we're gonna have each other in our lives for a long time to come. 

Evan - I love ya, man. That's all there is to say about you, haha. 

All of Richard's Friends (Esp. the Stickmen) - Thanks for being so warm in welcoming me into your little FWC bubble. you guys crack me up and I consider you all to be MY friends at this point, not just "Richard's friends" that I see occasionally. You all Rock. 

Karl - Please never change. 

Mitch, Brad, Russell - While I know none of you probably realize it, you've pushed at the very least, me and beth, beyond the point of caring to reconcile with you. As soon as you start treating us as equals and not making us feel like we're not good enough people for you to hang around... we'll be around a lot more. It's amazing how differently you all have acted towards us since finding your group from church. Im not bashing church, or religion, or anything... I'm only frustrated in feeling like you've been able to walk away from something that was really nice and really fun; Friendship. If you have problems with me, beth, or the way that we live our lives... address them to us... don't just start treating us like lesser people because you disagree with some of our lifestyle choices. I love you guys so much... really... and would love nothing more than for things to go back to the way they were... but at this point, the ball's in your court. 

Ashley Wilkshire - I'M SO GLAD I'VE MET YOU!! Borders brings people together, I swear, haha. I definitely consider you one of my best friends... and love every crazy moment, joke, or story that we've shared. Please stick around. You're great company to keep :)

Chris Bolton - Since I know you read this... I'm going to tell you that I love you and all your glorious ginger-ness. You're a GREAT friend, and person in general. You deserve nothing but warm welcomes and fun times when you move back here. I'm really glad Canada was a bust. :)

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Woww... That looks like an old school xanga entry. lame. 

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on another note... i just uploaded two more videos to my Youtube page. 

one of which is that song "what we do" that I shared in my last entry.

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OH. The new Beyonce` CD ROCKS MY FREAKIN LIFE. Not so much the "I Am" CD, but definitely the "Sasha Fierce" CD. "Single Ladies" is of course great... but not as fly as the song, "Diva". It's so ghetto-fab... I can't get enough. 

On a totally different end of the spectrum... The new Taylor Swift CD, FEARLESS is great!! I can relate to just about every song on it. It's so good for drives to and from Denton. Esp if you take 377. :)

K that's it. Happy Thanksgiving to all! GO COWBOYS! and thanks for reading this... if you did. 

LOVE Always, 

Katie :)

Hello, Friends.

No, I'm not quoting J.McCain in my title. 

uhhh let's see let's see.. what's been going on lately?

Well.. B-Obams won.. as I mentioned in my last entry... and American are either (A) TOTALLY pumped about it! or (B) Convinced that the Antichrist has been elected to office and that our country is headed nowhere but the shitter. 

I am definitely more of an (A) kinda gal. My parents on the other hand, WAY more on the (B) side. 

My boyfriend saw a car last week with a "PALIN 2012" sticker on it. 

REALLY? Come on, Repub's... or at least those of you who sport Palin Pride... You've GOTTA understand that as much as you'd love having that woman run for President in 4 years, the Democrats would love it a million times more. You might as well just throw the towel in now.

ASIDE FROM POLITICS...

The new Taylor Swift CD, FEARLESS, was released this past Tuesday, November 11th. And I'm in love with it. :)

It's inspired me to finish writing a song I've been playing with the past few weeks. I finally finished!! Wanna see the lyrics? OKAY!! :)

I think I'm going to call it :

"What I Know"

You and me are falling

into each other. 

We both are blinded by

not knowing how or why

we've been brought together. 

But we do what we do, 

and I know I love you. 

And that's all I need to do. 

What I see's what I need, 

and I see you love me. 

And in that I know this is real. 

We both tried to move slow, 

but sometimes you just can't say no

to what makes you glow. 

And I know I can't let you go. 

So we do what we do,

I'm still here next to you. 

And I'm glad to see we're still true. 

I can't count all the days

or remember all the ways

you have shown and said, "I love you". 

And that's how I can see

I'll have you, and you'll have me

'til eternity. 

And that's all that matters to me.

Mmm, Mmm, 

Mmm, Mmm, 

O0oh, O0oh, 0O0h

Well HOT DAMN that was fun! It looks so pretty typed out instead of scribbled on pieces of a notepad. :)

As soon as I can.. I'm gonna get a recording of this up on the interweb. I have a youtube account... www.youtube.com/katiewelch

I'll either put it on there (assuming its audio AND video) or on here. Or both, perhaps. 

I have another original called "Finding Me". It's kind of lame. But I'll lay those lyrics on you, too while I'm at it. 

"Finding Me"

It started with a wave from a few doors down

a new, handsome boy in this ugly town

with nowhere to go, nobody to see;

for some reason he was looking at me. 

I looked up to the heavens asking, "why?", 

and a big warm smile shone down from the sky. 

He was the first to pull me in so deep

to a love I knew our souls could keep;

with his eyes so clear, shining and bright, 

he lit up my world on those dark summer nights. 

We laughed so hard and together were free. 

Because of him I finally found me. 

Word got around about us two. 

We tried to hide but everyone knew

we were two young fools, falling in love, 

each moment a gift from up above. 

With nothing but love and time to kill, 

we thought forever would be God's will. 

'Cause he showed me love and he gave me life. 

He held me close with all his might

and he spoke so soft, gentle, and sweet;

the person I wish the world could meet. 

We laughed so hard and together were free. 

Because of him I finally found me. 

Fall was right around the bend, 

inside we knew it would be the end

and in the blink of an eye, it was suddenly here;

he was leavin' for a school nowhere near. 

I helped him pack his life away

and prayed so hard for him to stay. 

It ended with a kiss from a few doors down. 

My handsome boy was leaving this town

with miles to go, the world to see, 

leaving behind nothing... but me. 

WOOO. The vid of that song is already up on my youtube. Ch-ch-check it out. 

Already, friends. I realize this was a really random posting, but I guess I got something accomplished : making a "hard" copy of my songs. Assuming of course that the internet will remain existent for a long time to come. 

Love Love, 

Me.

Oh, Good Morning, President-Elect Obama!

Barack Hussein Obama is the President-Elect of the United States of America.

I woke up this morning and had to pinch myself to be sure that his election wasn't a big dream. 

Unfortunately I have seen nothing but negativity coming from McCain supporters. Some that I am very close to.. and some that i barely know at all. i understand that everyone has their own opinions and right to voice them.. but I've got a big problem with people making totally unwarranted claims about our nation being doomed... and over... and done as we know it. so here's a little piece of my mind.. 

FIRST of all.. I personally could not be happier with what happened last night. I think that's probably pretty obvious if any of you have talked to me even once over the past 6 months. 

SECOND of all.. I completely understand that there are a LOT... and a lot MORE than I realized... young people out there who did not vote for barack obama. who did not support him. who tried everything that they could to make sure that he didn't win. 

THIRD... he DID win though. and by a LOT. which leads me to bringing up the point that apparently there were a lot more people out there ready for REAL change... full of REAL hope for a NEW nation. not a bad nation. not a scary nation. not a nation that is 'doomed'.. or 'dead'... or 'over'. a nation where EVERYONE... republican, democratic, liberal, conservative, moderate, hell - green party, can, should, and hopefully WILL unite around the idea that this nation NEEDS to be saved. and the person who i think is most likely to get that ball rolling quicker... is obviously our new president-elect. nothing against mccain... i mean.. he's probably a really cool guy in reality.. and yes... he WAS one of the most openly moderate politicians that our nation has ever known. but he ISN'T anymore. and if he IS... he didn't give a damn to maintain that image and to keep his beliefs true and out front. instead... he changed who he was for the sake of politics.. for the sake of an election. he molded himself into a character. OH... and don't EVEN get me started on Sarah Palin. who btw WASN'T his first choice for the VP ticket. however... of course... the republican party and his advisors thought it'd be GREAT to get a woman in there to steal all of the lost hilary votes... the votes from some of the most VAPID women this nation has. now i'm not saying that ALL hilary supporters are of this nature... bc there are some who supported her for her beliefs and platform rather than just because she was a woman. but there were a LOT of women who as soon as barack won the ticket for President... could not WAIT to jump the boat and vote against him out of spite. OH... yea.. and then S-Pal came along.. and they had a fucking FIELD day!! a WOMAN! a WOMAN who wouldn't even DARE to consider YOUR rights as a woman to dictate what you choose to do with your body in the case of an unplanned pregnancy. a woman who couldn't name ONE of the supreme court justices. a woman who was the mayor of a town 5,000 people large... and managed to screw that up by approving a 15 million dollar project to build the town a new ice skating rink. this all happening when wasilla's YEARLY budget is only 20 million!!... oh yea.. and that rink never happened... bc she approved the whole thing before making absolutely sure that the land was going be hers to use for this thing. so the citizens ended up having to pay what averaged out to be about 200 dollars per person to make up for all of the legal fees due after the lost battle for this thing. a woman who didn't know what the bush doctrine is. a woman who couldn't even answer correctly in an interview what the job of the Vice President IS!! a woman who LEGITIMATELY thought that by living in alaska and being able to "see Russia from [her] own backyard" was by FAR enough foreign policy experience to qualify her for the job of 2nd in command in the United States. i'm sorry... but sarah palin scares me a LOT more than Barack Hussein Obama. 

If you want to leave America... go for it. I quite frankly would rather not share the same public goods with people who are too close minded and hard headed to back our president, regardless of his race, age, and platforms. he is our LEADER. NOT our RULER. if you think moving to another country is going to help you out... I won't be the first person i bet to tell you that America is probably one of the LEAST liberal nations in the world. any other country you go to.. espECially canada is going to be a hell of a lot more liberal than the united states of america will EVER be. 

so hold on to your guns... i betcha you're NOT gonna lose them. hold on to your faith.. i PROMISE you're not going to have to change YOUR ideas and beliefs just because the president is a black man who's middle name, Hussein, means "handsome one" (SCARY, right??? ... :\). Hold on to your unplanned pregnancy... nobody's going to MAKE you have an abortion. Hold on to your circle of friends that would NEVER EVER even consider bringing a gay person into the mix. you don't HAVE to become bff with the gays. 

HOLD ON TO YOUR BELIEFS! thats why america is so great!! you can be super proud of any and everything that you believe in... and there's nothing that anybody else can do about it. if you don't think that homosexuality is "right" or "good"... that's your opinion. stay away from the gays.. they sure as shit don't want to bother you. Let the people who are "sinners" in your eyes... sin. if that's the path they so choose to take in life... its THEIRS. you CANNOT tell them what to do or how to live. bc if ANYONE tried to turn around on YOU and tell YOU what to do... well.. that wouldn't be fair now, would it?

I must finish this rant in saying that our nation is in a very rough spot right now. anyone could tell you that. and regardless of who would have won the presidency... change WOULD be on the way. but i feel that 4 years of mccain is a lot closer to 4 more years of bush than 4 years of Obama would EVER be. 

so just embrace what we've done. embrace our country. embrace your neighbor. more than anything what we need right now is unity and love for our nation.. regardless of whether or not you're very fond of the president-elect. McCain's slogan became "country first"... now.. if you were a mccain supporter.. and you even DARE to reject and complain and shit on the fact that our president to be is Barack Obama and that our nation is headed in a new dircetion... well that, "my friends", isn't exactly putting the COUNTRY first, is it?

That's all. 

I'm just voicing my opinion. I'm glad this whole thing is over.. and I'm excited to see where Barack Obama can take us. 

Sincerely American, 
Katie

P.s... if you didn't even VOTE in this election... PLEASE don't think you have the right to complain about anything. kthx. :)