February 13th, 2007 by Kateastrophe

***Updated to add: This is in PROVO, UTAH folks. I forgot to mention that part. It’s part of the reason the guy with the cigarette (that if you’ll notice he only really takes a puff of once or twice) is even funnier. I could seriously watch this ten times and still think it was funny. I notice something funnier about it every single time! Hahaha
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Wanna see something awesome? Check out this video Sheila’s brother Ryan and some friends of his made.

The guy in the red (who they have dubbed Ryan 2 (he is NOT Sheila’s brother) was recruited to perform a romatic surprise. Yes, that is his real room. And yes, he is VERY serious.

February 12th, 2007 by Kateastrophe

OK, after you get married Valentine’s Day is supposed to be awesome and wonderful.

Enter my job and my second trip of the month . . . I will not be with my husband for Valentine’s Day.

I leave for Palm Desert (aka Palm Springs) tomorrow for work. I am super lucky and my best buddy Sheila and I get to play for a day before the rest of my sales team arrives for the conference. We plan on doing a lot of excellent shopping and hopefully some laying out by the awesome pool and I am SO excited to see her and get to spend some time with her. We don’t get to see each other often enough — However, like I said, this trip comes at the expense of Valentine’s Day with my husband.

Granted, I don’t have anything for him yet . . . and we were planning to celebrate next weekend, but here’s the thing with THAT plan . . . Matt and his brother Taylor were supposed to go to the sand dunes with their ATV’s this weekend, but Tay had to cancel because he got called in to work. So, being the AWESOME wife that I am . . . I told Matt we could put off our Valentine’s Day celebration so that he and Taylor could spend President’s Day weekend at the dunes. While I truly am totally fine with this arrangement, because I know how much Matt has been looking forward to this trip to the dunes, it presents the problem of VALENTINE’S DAY.

Wasn’t getting married supposed to solve the whole stupid Valentine’s Day issue? And what do you get a guy? Seriously? I mean, he doesn’t want flowers, right? He just wants everything from the Victoria’s Secret catalogue, and whilst I’m happy to try to oblige, my body just doesn’t LOOK like that!

Could my present just be allowing him to go to the dunes without me on our planned Valentine’s Day? That would be so much easier . . .

February 9th, 2007 by Kateastrophe

OK, so as much as I love my new last name, I have decided to move our blog (I use “our” loosely . . . I still don’t allow Matt near the blog ) to a more fun URL

Please visit us at www.walkingkateastrophe.blogspot.com

And stay tuned there for a new, more exciting blogskin! Kate has found a way to bribe the IT geeks at her office to give her favors having to do with HTML code. SWEET!

February 9th, 2007 by Kateastrophe

If you could read my mind, first of all you’d be very scared. Second of all, yesterday you would have been listening to the following conversation I was having with myself on the plane to Orlando.

“Is my butt really that big or did the seats on the exit rows of all airplanes shrink all of a sudden? Seriously, this isn’t going to be a comfortable flight at ALL. Maybe I should offer to switch seats with someone not in an exit row and see if I fit better . . . ok that’s just stupid all the stupid seats are the same stupid size. My butt just IS that bi . . .ow my leg hurts, I wish I would have gotten some pizza before I boarded because I really hate paying five dollars for two pieces of cheese and a grape but I guess it doesn’t matter because this IS a business trip hehehe. . . seriously what is with my itchy leg? SKIN FLAKES? I should have put on lotion this morning after I shaved, that was sure dumb of m . . .ok now the other leg is itchin again and it really feels like my pants are velcroed to my le. . . OH MY GOSH I ONLY SHAVED ONE OF MY LEGS THIS MORNING.”

February 9th, 2007 by Kateastrophe

So last week, during the show “24,” Maricopa County (otherwise known as Phoenix) issued an Amber Alert. Someone had kidnapped a young hispanic child and no one could find his mother either. They did it twice during the hour that the show was on, and it was your typical “beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep ‘this is an amber alert’ then all the details (including the woman struggling to pronounce the names, stumbling over words, etc.) beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep”

What I should have been thinking:
“Oh no, that poor child, I should to out and start looking for him. I’m so glad we have the technology to make people aware when something like this happens, I bet they find him right away because of it. I don’t mind the words flashing across the screen or the beeping or any of it. We have an amazing world with an amazing alert system. Thank goodness.”

What I was actually thinking:

“SERIOUSLY?? During 24? I can’t hear a WORD Jack Bauer is saying and I what he’s saying is important because EVERY SECOND of 24 is important. This is really bothering me and that BEEPING NOISE! Make it stop! She can’t even pronounce the Spanish name. LIKE IT’S WRITTEN LADY, LIKE IT’S WRITTEN. Where did you learn to read? OH MY GOSH STOP TALKING. Oh his MOTHER is missing too?? And you can’t pronounce HER name? ACK! Now Jack is torturing someone and I don’t know why because of the BEEEEEEPIIINNNGGGG!!! I get it I get it, it’s an Amber Alert you already SAID THAT. stopitstopitstopit”

I am going to hell.

February 8th, 2007 by Kateastrophe

So last week, during the show “24,” Maricopa County (otherwise known as Phoenix) issued an Amber Alert. Someone had kidnapped a young hispanic child and no one could find his mother either. They did it twice during the hour that the show was on, and it was your typical “beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep ‘this is an amber alert’ then all the details (including the woman struggling to pronounce the names, stumbling over words, etc.) beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep”

What I should have been thinking:

“Oh no, that poor child, I should to out and start looking for him. I’m so glad we have the technology to make people aware when something like this happens, I bet they find him right away because of it. I don’t mind the words flashing across the screen or the beeping or any of it. We have an amazing world with an amazing alert system. Thank goodness.”

What I was actually thinking:

“SERIOUSLY?? During 24? I can’t hear a WORD Jack Bauer is saying and I what he’s saying is important because EVERY SECOND of 24 is important. This is really bothering me and that BEEPING NOISE! Make it stop! She can’t even pronounce the Spanish name. LIKE IT’S WRITTEN LADY, LIKE IT’S WRITTEN. Where did you learn to read? OH MY GOSH STOP TALKING. Oh his MOTHER is missing too?? And you can’t pronounce HER name? ACK! Now Jack is torturing someone and I don’t know why because of the BEEEEEEPIIINNNGGGG!!! I get it I get it, it’s an Amber Alert you already SAID THAT. stopitstopitstopit”

I am going to hell.