preview

a summary of forthcoming blerg posts: stay on your toes, friends!! there's a lot of catching up to do!

apple picking

halloween - what are our costumes??

election night

thanksgiving

white house christmas tour

christmas

touristing around town

inauguration

inaugural ball

my blerg

do you know what i like to call my blog? my blerg. yeah. it sounds better than blog. i hate that word, blog. say it out loud and you'll wonder why that word exists. so do me a favor and if you're chatting with someone about what lame thing kate wrote on her blog, call it kate's blerg. you're welcome.

in other news - the leaves just keep falling off the trees around here. watching them drift to the ground makes my blood pressure spike a little bit. i feel like i'm in a race to get everything productive done before they all fall, because once they do i'll really be feeling the winter funk. and you'll hear about it all winter with melancholy posts yearning for spring.

but.

something to look forward to:

my little bro is coming to town for thanksgiving! i am so stinking excited, i hope he will be able to put up with me for a whole week.

and also, something else super exciting:

my aunt cassy aptly pointed out that my dear grandfather, a veteran who we are all so proud of, would have been so happy with this veterans day present.

k-state tailgating in the good ol days - i love this photo

off to do things,

k and e

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well team, i'm pretty proud that i've posted errrrry day this workweek. i'm also proud that i've been staying on top of my dishes, redecorating my apartment, waking up early, and getting things done in general. it's the home stretch of my teaching and tutoring for the spring with k----- test prep which is great because i cannot stand teaching. it's miserable and so not my calling. it did give me some extra dough though, so who am i to complain? it's also a privilege to shepherd some students along their path to medicine, i suppose . . .

i'm also proud that i got honors in my last class.

i'm also proud that i'm eating a whoopie pie right now. yeeep. a whoopie pie with buttercreme filling.

[i'm also proud that i'll go to yoga with michelle tomorrow to work it off]

washed down with some izze to get my carbonation fix without the addictive caffeine portion [after all this organic chemistry teaching i once again get carbonation confused with carbocation - ha! be gone, orgo!]:

right now i'm listening to:

really good. seriously good. lhs folks, we went to high school with them. liberty represent!! go check them out like now [capybara].

happy weekend, suckers and friends alike! get out in the spring and breathe some fresh air. i know that's my plan.

cheers!

k and e

i was pretty sick. it was miserable. and other things.

clockwise from top l: e keeping me company when i was so ill, the longest road in settlers of catan (with ali, michelle and andy - fun times), the view from my sickbed, my sick face, eleanor looking glorious in the morning light flooding in the bedroom window, new belgium brewing co xoxoxox, daffodils - we are so happy about the spring!, another one of ellie being incredibly cute, and the middle picture is titled "waiting on a cab - the life of someone who might as well live in the country" and also "green pants".

the control of birth.

hi friends!

i can't help but speak up about this three ring circus currently underway over on capitol hill. i've been trying to ignore it and focus on school, but i really can't help but fume a little every time i see a panel of stodgy white bros deciding whether or not i should have to pay $76 out of pocket each month for a prescription. it strikes me as absurd, especially given the white house compromise allowing religiously affiliated institutions to pass the onus of contraceptive coverage to the insurance company. it is now a story of some religious leaders asserting that if you are a woman, and you work for or attend school at a religiously affiliated institution, you should not be allowed to take your preventative health in your own hands. talk about a nanny state . . .

what's wrong with this photo?

so here's the deal: if you think this mess is a ridiculous waste of government's time, call your representative and tell them that you support access to preventative care. tell them to support women making the responsible choice to protect themselves from an untimely pregnancy. tell them to support women going through severe menstrual health issues. tell them to support women, period. this is not a partisan issue, friends. this shouldn't be about left vs right. don't allow washington to turn your health into an election year rhetoric game. speak up.

xoxo,

kate and the princess

p.s. it's not all doom and gloom. i got some plum colored skinny jeans yesterday!