Katies of Christmases Past (The Early Years)

Whatever holiday you and your family celebrated or will celebrate this winter break, I wanted to wish you well. My family normally celebrates christmas and I'd like to commemorate this day with a 'typical white girl' #ThrowbackThursday

My Second Christmas (1995). A poorly focused camera at the mall's 'Santa Display' tried to capture my mom (furthest left), a baby me in red (sat on my mom's lap, left of santa), the big man himself, and my brother (sat to to the right of Santa). I'm not sure why the picture is so terrible but seeing as the rest of the pictures documenting this christmas I'm asleep or playing with a box this is the best I have.

I'm not sure what year this was but this picture is displayed year round perched on a shelf in the living room. Same mall display, possibly the same santa, but at least the kiosk upgraded the camera/camera man. I look not very happy for some reason but my brother (left of St. Nick) is having a jolly good time!

Christmas 1998. We had moved on form the mall Santa this year! My grandma (right) got an akita puppy and my cousin (not shown), brother (left) and I named 'Mr. T' with the 't' short for 'trouble.' I can just barely remember this year and the mountains of presents that surrounded to tree. I had gotten a furby and remember thinking it was the coolest thing but being too scared of the thing to play with it!

I hope you had a wondrous holiday this year and I'd love to know what you celebrated!

♥kpeterr

katiedaisie Looks Different

If you've dropped by anytime in the last few weeks you probably saw a less than aesthetically pleasing design. Rather than making the rational decision of using a toss away blog to build a template, I tried to take a more direct route and I think I learnt my lesson. I'm actually proud of the way it's turning out and it's really satisfying to see my first attempts at coding turn into something real and visible and... well, potentially accessible to anyone via the interwebz.

Main changes include a black navigation bar that links all the other places around the web you can find me and the things I share, a new header image,  and other general appearance changes. I also confirmed my decision to change the name of my blog from 'katiedaisie' to 'kpeterr' for continuity purposes (and it secretly annoyed me too much that I had to change -y to -ie in daisy).

Just in time for the new year too.

I'd love to know what you think?

♥kpeterr

Most of the things you do are not a big deal

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I really needed to be reminded of this yesterday.

Some things are a very big deal.  killing someone...

Huge. Deal.

There are some things that are a big deal. Things like deciding whom to share your life with, friends, best friends (cause they always seem like they're own breed), family, significant others, pets, the paper you journal on... all are a kinda big deal because they help to contribute who you are as a person.

How you do things is a little less of a deal. How you eat your meal and with who,  how you talk and interact with the people around you, what school you go to and why you go there are all parts of your contribution to yourself as a person

Most things that you do are of no significance whatsoever. You breathe but everyone does that, you eat but everyone does that also, you go to school but most people do that because they have to, you can go to more school and it seems like most people are doing that now too. None of these things make you an individual.

Yesterday ended with me feeling all soupy on the inside, like someone took out my bones and structural tissues. You guessed it, because of something so microscopic you'd need 3 of NASA's most powerful telescopes all perfectly aligned, eyepiece to lens, to see it. In fact, I didn't even see it as a big deal before I tried to talk to my mom about it. (way to go, mom)

I withdrew from a course I'd already finished more than half of.

A class that pushed myself out on a limb, to try something new, just because I could.  Back in August I registered late for it, because I had the time, freedom, and unfulfilled degree requirement. Now yesterday, last day to withdraw, I decided it just wasn't for me.

While my mother, father, and the university advisors think the permanently engraved W on my transcript says something about me, or my personality, or the kind of person I am, and while they made me feel as though I were single handedly removing the Earth from planetary orbit, I refuse to think so because W doesn't signify anything more than a change of mind. It's confirmation I that I know a smidgen more about what I'm interested in (or not interested in) when it comes to school.

W isn't the same as killing someone
W isn't the name of a friend, family member, or journal
W isn't something you can eat with and gossip to
W isn't in the air I breathe or the food I eat

katiedaisie

♥

Falling for Fall

It's everyone's favorite time of year again! With the new season comes that giddy feeling of excitement that just doesn't seem to go away and I. CAN'T. WAIT.  Even though, here in Arizona, we still have some time before it really cools off, I want to wish you the best of the new season.

Sweaters a size too roomy,

carmel hot chocolate in cups too puny.

Cuddle weather all day long,

the smell of cinnamon, nice and strong.

Mystery movies causing fear,

the best apples you've had year.

Decorations on neighborhood streets,

cozy socks for cold feets.

Bellies full of Thanksgiving Suppers

and even the butterfly flutters.

Though my favorite thing of all, for fact,

that halloween costume you've surely packed.

Everything pumpkin without reason,

surely the start of baking season.

Shorter days with longer evenings

It's those almost Christmas feelings.

katiedaise

❤

2014 To-Do's - One Direction

Having spent the last 5 or so weeks attempting to get myself on a schedule that balances sleep, socialization, and school-work, I finally feel the familiar swing coming back to me. That doesn't mean it's easy or functional but I will be able to get the necessities done and still have a bit of time left for myself.

One of the first blogs I ever posted was about the seemingly small things I wanted to do this year. I said I was open to adding or subtracting things as the year went on but nothing about that list has actually changed, though some things have been completed. Going to a concert was one of the more critical.

Two weeks ago One Direction came to the University of Phoenix stadium, The same massive stadium where the Cardinals, Arizona's football team, plays and the same stadium that will host this football seasons Superbowl. To say the least, the place is MASSIVE and my forever friend (left most person in the above picture) came upon two spare tickets. The night was wonderful and one I won't forget for a long time to come.

I love concerts and everything about them but I usually get nervous when it comes time to purchase tickets. The large crowd of strangers are a big turnoff for me. If I can swallow the anxiety long enough for the performance to start I tend to lose track of the number of strangers around me.
(I'm on the left in the above pictures)

In fact, most of my most cherished memories are of myself and my friends at concerts and there may or may not be plans for more concerts towards the end of the year. ;)

What's the last concert you went to?

With love,

katiedaisie

Summer 2014

SO summer officially comes to and end as tomorrow is the first day of fall semester.

     I'm more excited than nervous about school: which is the reverse of the feelings I had at this time just one year ago. Excited to be 17 credits closer to a degree and just being done, but 17 credits closer to a degree that may or may not be put to good use. Still struggling with the fact that 

I don't know

 what I want from my life as far a professional career goes but coming to terms with the fact that "I don't know" is not quite mature but an entirely accurate statement. 

   Hank Green has a wonderful outlook on the phrase "I don't know" and it's an outlook that I find extremely comforting. Hank takes a philosophical viewpoint a states that "I don't know" is the most true statement a person can make. Thinking is not equal to knowing and what you think you know is nothing more than an opinion. You can find it here but be warned that it took me two watchings to fully understand.

     I'm not even sure why (who can be sure of anything after watching that) it's so comforting? I guess because it make me think that everyone who knows, or thinks they know, what they're doing is actually doing nothing more than putting on a charade (except wouldn't that makes me feel ignorant). Acting like I know what I'm doing is how I got threw the entirety of elementary, middle, and high school but I also wonder why that isn't working now? 

This semester schedule was planned not mid spring 2014 semester, as it should have been, but late summer. Late July I had picked my most important classes, Organic Evolution, Physics, and food a culture. Later July came Women Sexuality from a random draw of culture classes, and Physics changed to physics with an easier professor. Early August after much internal debate came Entomology (study of bugs, yuck but easy). Just two days ago I decided Women Sexuality wasn't a class I wanted to take and so it was swapped for Sex,Violence, and Media.

There it is in all it's glory. 

Five classes. 

17 credits worth of enhancement or punishment to my standing GPA.

Today I also emailed back and forth with my advisor on the topic of adding a second major. maybe it'll work out or maybe it won't.

Maybe everything will work out, maybe it won't.

I don't know.

Style Inspiration: Alexa Chung

I would sincerely like to know who doesn't think of Alexa Chung is a style icon.

The thing I love most about Alexa Chung's style is that she make the best of fashionable basics. She never wears all her most intricate pieces at the same time, rather a few simple classics. I find inspiration knowing that I don't need a massive closet brimming with goodies to be fashion forward (mostly because on a college budget and living situation, I can't just make that happen). Alexa makes use of a few simple articles and pulls everything together for a minimal yet chic, classic, and absolute enviable style.

katiedaisie
♥