Dominican Republic, Here I Come!!!

Just found out toady that I'm officially going to the DR for the summer... I'm pretty stoked, and will expand on that thought later...

Just Because...

Sure, I don't really have much of anything to report on... I didn't get a haircut, I'm not recently back from Australia, I'm not going anywhere cool sometime soon, and although my job could be a lot worse, I'm not a fan of the 9-5.
But that's not to say that things aren't good. Life has been good lately. I have been celebrating Wednesdays. I have been doing my best to enjoy the weekend.
This weekend was pretty rad. Yesterday Chaco and I drove around the mountainsish. You may ask yourself "Self, what the heck does Kate mean by 'the mountainsish?'" Well, we drove to Granite Falls, where we were going to hike, but there was too much snow and too many people, so we just drove around. We managed to see both ends of a looped road that was closed in the middle for the season, we saw a crazy beautiful scene by a river, we chatted with some fly fishermen, and we drove through Darrington just for the heck of it. The weather was beautiful.
So, for now I'm living a fairly predictable existence (which drives me crazy), with a weekend jaunt or two, but that will pass, so bring it on.

A couple pics

So, I was going through my pics, and I figured I'd put these up there. I took them as an eagle was flying at me and landing. It was pretty rad.

Why am I here?

So, I decided that today I was going to take the day and just spend some QT with the Jeez. Lately I have been reading this book called "Changes that Heal." Cheesy title, yes, but it's still a good book. Today what I read was about taking responsibility for myself. I have been blaming the way things have gone recently for me on anyone but me. "Other people have been telling me to stay away from Haines." "Other people have told me what I should do." But I have a choice in it. I don't necessarily have to listen to what they are telling me.
So what I'm doing now, I'm doing for me. I'm living in Seattle because if I was in Haines I would be too tempted to get close to relationships that tell me what I should be doing. I'm living with my parents, not because I can't make it on my own, but because I will likely never have as good of a chance to save up money like this. I'm working at a job that I don't love because I am trying to make it a happier place to be and because I'm learning a lot about myself by being there... for example, I have no desire to have a desk job. I'm going to do something out there this summer because it wouldn't be good for me to be in Haines and because I can. I want to make the most of this time of my life when nothing is holding me back. So I'm gonna take a roadtrip to the Ben and Jerry's factory. I'm gonna go see Graceland and the world's biggest ball of yarn. I'm going to soak my feet in the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Great Lakes, and a variety of bodies of water between all those.
For the next couple months, my life will have a bit of a routine to it. Work 35-40 hours a week, chill on the weekends, hang out with friends. But after that, your guess is as good as mine. Why the heck not?
I'm gonna steal the words of Jewel's new song... For a while "I'm gonna love myself / More than anyone else / Believe in me / Even if someone can't see / The stronger woman in me / I'm gonna be my own best friend / Stick with me till the end / Won't lose myself again / never, no / Cause theres a stronger woman / a stronger woman in me"
And for the record, some day I'm going to borrow lyrics from songs that Annie Parsons writes. Cuz someday, they're going to be all over the radio.

Random decision

I decided that I'm either going to the Caribbean for the summer, or I'm going to buy a Vespa and drive across the country. I'm pretty stoked about it. How cool would that be? I'd be like Harry and Lloyd...