tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12170578743620246102012-02-16T03:01:10.997-08:00katienoreply@blogger.comBlogger501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-831671978951257892010-10-04T20:51:00.000-07:002010-10-04T21:02:01.750-07:00

life of piefairy is closing up, and moving on.because even though i am the piefairy, it's not just my life anymore, and actually hasn't been the whole time i've been writing this (seeing as "me" became "us" oh, one year, one month and fifteen days ago...ish).which is why we've been sitting on a domain name since last fall, and working on a website since i found out i got into medical school, and

katienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-84939158369817326952010-09-30T19:59:00.000-07:002010-09-30T21:16:46.708-07:00

ansel adams wilderness, inyo national forestlocal maximum near agnew passapproximately 10,000 feet above sea level

katienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-58105814505659704772010-09-24T16:27:00.000-07:002010-09-24T17:16:08.687-07:00

image sourcewhere do legends come from? are they born, or made? how do they grow? how do they fade?maniac magee is the story of a twelve-year-old boy named jeffrey who becomes a legend in the highly-segregated [pennsylvanian?] city of two mills. after running away from a stifling home with his aunt and uncle eight years after his parents died, he shows up in two mills and people start

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a week or two ago, we had a lecture and then a lab/seminar/discussion on codes, ethics and regulations. among the many topics discussed was academic and professional integrity. what is right and wrong? are these answers absolute, or subjective? how do morals and the law intersect? how would you respond to a patient who asked you to help them in a way that was illegal? how would you respond

katienoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-62363145086523398252010-09-13T11:30:00.000-07:002010-09-13T11:32:54.325-07:00

five exams in four days. two practical skills assessments, two written theory exams and one lab test. i am 80% confident on 50% of the material for one of the theory exams...this does not bode well. =/

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little by little, the familiar is finding its place in this new home.for all that i was freaking out about everything in my life is going to change!, since the mister has [finally!] moved out west with me, it's been far more subtle than i expected. this weekend, for example, was a pretty typical weekend for us. we went to the farmer's market on saturday morning, and dancing on saturday night.

katienoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-53739884099127992352010-08-26T20:36:00.000-07:002010-08-26T23:18:42.273-07:00

well, here we are, with my contribution to the first monthly installment of the book club bloggers: lois lowry's young adult novel the giver. be sure to visit the daily snapshot to see what everyone else has to say!the basic premise of the story is the coming-of-age of a twelve-year-old boy, jonas, in a world that has removed weather variations, color vision, animals, controversy,

katienoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-66768062705871216852010-08-24T22:32:00.000-07:002010-08-24T22:41:11.267-07:00

do you want to know one of my favorite places to browse through online?shabby apple.lovely dresses. classy and modest but oh-so-fun. i don't remember where i originally came across the site, but i've kept an eye on it ever since.so when i saw the current giveaway of the cider dress, i had to participate. (hence this post!) something that lovely? cider, an autumnal staple (which i fear i will

katienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-58472781083123206482010-08-21T09:38:00.000-07:002010-08-21T10:17:32.689-07:00

it's been a wonderful year.(see more wedding photos here; re-posting seemed redundant)

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medical school is everything i thought i would be, and more. including the i'm-barely-keeping-my-head-above-water feeling. (yikes!)i've heard a professor describe the pancreas as "flirtatious." (actually, his initial description was "lascivious," which is an excellent word.)i have another professor who frequently professes his love for the liver. he's also swiss; someday, i'm going to wear my

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this is a story about my first week of medical school, but really, it's a story about shoes.medical school began for me this week on monday, the first of three days of orientation. since the dress was business casual, i wore the nicest shoes i have with me, which were sandals. however, since my feet are my temperature regulators and they were exposed all day in the actually-rather-chilly bay

katienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-8467992970574941332010-07-31T15:10:00.000-07:002010-07-31T15:14:12.759-07:00

that's right--as if a cross-country move and beginning medical school weren't enough (two days, people!!!), i'm joining a[n online] book club!you can, too! read all about it from charlotte, the host, and chime in if you're interested! i already know what i'm going to pick when it's my turn to select, and i can't wait to see what everyone else chooses for us.yay, book club! it's been a while

katienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-89652448276143179432010-07-27T09:55:00.000-07:002010-07-27T12:05:51.436-07:00

o beautiful, for spacious skiesfor amber waves of grainfor purple mountain majestiesabove the fruited plain...we saw everything mentioned in that song, and more.because we've been saying for ages that we wanted to take a trip, just the two of us, and because my husband and i moving to california provided the perfect opportunity, my best friend and i spent four days on the road, driving over 2,300

katienoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-57681275433850730642010-07-18T18:59:00.000-07:002010-07-18T19:08:48.543-07:00

the end of summer fashion week...boo! be sure to get over to moms are for everyone! to check out what everybody has come up with--there's some great stuff! it's been so fun to be a part of. =)shirt: h&mjeans: thriftedsandals: kohl's (though i've also seen them at target)this isn't an outfit i've actually worn yet, but it's planned for a day that's technically still summer, although the start

katienoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-6918433597391898902010-07-17T17:32:00.000-07:002010-09-02T22:05:02.599-07:00

sorry for the blank posting initially - i was attempting to post from an iphone...it did not go well. =)it's been really great to see everyone's different take on summer as well as the way this online community of mostly strangers comes together to encourage and complement and congratulate. check out all the rest of the fun of summer fashion week over at moms are for everyone!saturday was one

katienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-13781145253919016912010-07-15T22:20:00.000-07:002010-07-15T22:30:15.662-07:00

vest: targetdress: see story belowbelt: thriftedshoes: who wears shoes?there's a wedding rehearsal this evening that i am excited about wearing a lovely summer dress to. this dress is particularly special--it was hand-made just for me by a bunch of girls at an orphanage that i became friends with when i lived in peru. hand-made! by a 14-year-old! seriously, check out the embroidery and

katienoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-58730443025280154562010-07-15T21:20:00.000-07:002010-07-15T21:57:12.905-07:00

inspired by shabby apple's "pie in the sky" contest, i'm writing up the story of how i became the piefairy and developed my "signature" pie.i am the piefairy. that's a nickname/title/identity i've held for probably four or five years. the origin of the name is my father. having developed a habit of making pies with a friend for special occasions during my senior year of high school, whenever i

katienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-49756879621022666852010-07-15T19:59:00.000-07:002010-07-15T21:16:49.876-07:00

check out what everyone's got going on during the summer fashion week! =)this outfit is from going out dancing last night. we swing dance, which means that ease of movement and willingness to get clothing sweaty and gross is necessary. sadly, last night was my last night swing dancing in our local scene. =/ there's plenty of dancing to be had where we'll be moving to, but this is my scene

katienoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-65892436284120442152010-07-13T22:57:00.000-07:002010-07-13T23:20:52.902-07:00

day three of the summer fashion week blog fun, hosted by emery jo! i'm really enjoying seeing what everyone puts together. =)this outfit is actually from sunday. seeing as today's agenda was moving furniture and vacuuming a decade's worth of dust and debris, my attire was man-shorts and a gym shirt. not fashionable in the least. (but it's not like i didn't warn you...)sunday was church in

katienoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-75000026974021249122010-07-12T23:02:00.000-07:002010-07-13T06:42:12.884-07:00

and now for the second installment of summer fashion week, hosted by emery jo...terribly blurry, but...so it goes.dress: targetshoes: boston store, on massive clearanceearrings: modcloth (they came as a free surprise when i bought this dress)this not-particularly-summery getup is me dressing up for an indefinite time frame girls' night.we've done this a few times since graduating high school and

katienoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-22273681666222271512010-07-12T21:22:00.000-07:002010-07-12T21:45:48.512-07:00

here's the thing about summer fashion:i don't do it.i spend most of my summer in just-slop-something-on-because-it's-not-socially-acceptable-not-to clothing, and avoiding the HOT at all costs. and the SUN. gah. i don't do very well with either one.however, this week i am making an exception, because i do so love to play dress-up, and because there happened to fall quite a number of exceptional

katienoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-47518775844252252872010-07-11T14:40:00.000-07:002010-07-11T14:57:27.642-07:00

black raspberries, aka black caps. these grow wild in south central wisconsin. there's a giant patch near our house, on public land and free for the taking, and nobody seems to know about it but us. (yay!)we've picked all the ripe ones we could find a couple times now this summer, and have come home with nearly a gallon altogether. some get eaten fresh, and the rest are frozen for later use

katienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-2173448007301097022010-07-07T17:59:00.000-07:002010-07-07T18:50:32.928-07:00

it finally sunk in today (or at least started to) that, very very soon, everything in my life is going to change.what brought this on? it was my last day of work.this seems...kind of silly. i mean, i enjoyed my job, and i liked [most of] the people i worked with, but it was a part-time student position--it's not like it's part of my identity. am i going to miss my administrative/research

katienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-58683274772745678722010-07-01T16:16:00.000-07:002010-07-01T16:24:46.029-07:00

...well, actually, it's not.kind of crazy-busy, actually. slightly overwhelming. but all in all, good.good, because we are in the middle of some huge changes that, although stressful, bring new and exciting adventures.good, because i am tying up loose ends and finishing old projects and reminiscing about people i love and good times we've had.good, because i am deliberately enjoying the unique

katienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-47374467735665009232010-06-18T14:56:00.000-07:002010-06-18T22:16:39.428-07:00

"blog hop" sounds like it should be a dance.i love weddings. i love going to them, and celebrating a couple and their love for and commitment to each other. i love helping behind the scenes, showing my love through making someone's wedding details just the way they hoped it would be. i love the excitement and the festivities and the dressing up, and oh my goodness i love the food. =)late

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...and this is only what i have pictures of! =)first photo: body paint "tattoo" from a girlfriend's bachelorette partysecond to fourth photos: refinishing my bedside table (electric blue and chalkboard spray paint!) to sell at our church's garage salefifth and sixth photos: strawberry picking with a lovely friend--me with very dirty pants and a sense of accomplishment, and her with a big floppy

katienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-29377847990288396952010-06-16T17:49:00.000-07:002010-06-16T20:14:35.604-07:00

it's been nearly a month since i went down to haiti.i've been putting off writing about it, partly with hopes that some more pictures will trickle in from teammates that i can use to illustrate (since my not-quite-functional camera combined with self-consciousness in the foreign surroundings meant that i didn't many photos), but also because i can't tell you what i want to tell you, or what you

katienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-35608160294044308672010-06-03T09:12:00.000-07:002010-06-03T09:15:29.229-07:00

my favorite character on one of my favorite comics geeking out about pie.today is a good day. =)

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i had a last-minute, whirlwind interview for medical school (!) on monday.sometime this morning i am going to find out whether or not i am accepted.it's 9:30am in wisconsin, where i am, making it 7:30 in california, where the school is. thus, i still have a few more hours to wait.i've been awake since 6:30, and am doing my best not to freak out.!!!UPDATE: (1:30pm CST) i'm in!

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five years ago, life as i had a reasonable anticipation of knowing what to expect of it came to an end, and something new commenced.i graduated high school and went off to college with high hopes for the future. a few years earlier, i had experienced a calling in the middle of 8th grad history wherein the lord told me i was going to be a doctor someday and help heal the world. at seventeen, i

katienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-69203407983897656142010-05-08T13:51:00.000-07:002010-05-08T13:59:57.948-07:00

(from jezebel.com)however, as happy as i am that pie has ultimately triumphed (though i love me some cake, don't get me wrong), i am kind of irked at specifically which pie it was that won. cheesecake? really? yes, cheesecake is definitely pie rather than cake, but it's also somewhere in the middle ground. if i were in charge of this cake vs. pie bracket i'd have pie win, to be sure, but it

katienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-54933723267003698072010-05-07T16:01:00.000-07:002010-05-07T16:19:07.563-07:00

i'm going to haiti. in ten days.haiti. developing-world, mountainous-equatorial-island, recovering-from-recent-earthquake haiti. this is kind of a big deal. people keep asking me if i'm exciting for it. i tell them yes, i am, because explaining that i'm emotionally checked out of life in general right now, though the honest answer, isn't the one they want to hear. brows furrow together and

katienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-17870785715475473422010-04-23T15:16:00.000-07:002010-05-11T14:56:53.045-07:00

last week, while my husband was out of town landing his dream job in san francisco, i was taking this:(image source here)and turning it into this:all by myself, with just a power drill, a hand plane, and a staple gun. well, almost all by myself. the helpful young man at the hardware store cut all my lumber to size for me, and the mister (when he came home) helped me sand between stain coats.

katienoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-41590866482890306352010-04-16T06:38:00.000-07:002010-04-16T06:48:39.867-07:00

i'm graduating a month from today. i am glad to be done--i've only been a student in the technical sense this term, seeing as i finished my classes in december--and i'm ready to move on to the next thing in life.however, i got an email today from the department of chicano and latino studies (my minor) at my university that really makes me wish i was still a student in the fall. they're offering

katienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-51322988608109841152010-04-14T09:02:00.000-07:002010-04-14T09:30:44.001-07:00

our wedding photographers, chang2 studios, did a brief "best of 2009 weddings" to kick off the 2010 wedding season, and we were in it (last wedding in the post)! i love the picture they chose--my favorite parts are charlotte's [the girl standing behind me] fauxhawk and expression of glee. =)

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we took a nice little roadtrip to st. louis over easter weekend. this was the first time in a loooooong time that i have traveled just for the heck of it. most of my miles have been charted due to some dance-related event, or missions trips, or school events. i'm pretty sure that the last time i was on a trip for no other reason than to be on a trip was when my family went to disneyworld when

katienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-4492177571486167862010-04-05T19:21:00.000-07:002010-04-08T22:11:54.524-07:00

three months before moving cross-country on a college-students' budget is probably not the wisest time to buy furniture, especially not something you want to hold onto for a while.but when a robin's-egg-blue leather armchair shows up on craigslist and steals your heart, what's a girl to do?why, take it home, of course. =)*edited to link to miss mustard seed's furniture feature friday*

katienoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-3193320627888895282010-04-04T18:31:00.000-07:002010-04-06T21:29:37.946-07:00

big thanks to emery jo at moms are for everyone! for hosting spring fashion week 2010! it's been fun to see what everyone comes up with each day, and interact with other blog ladies (rather than my usual lurking tendencies). my outfit for the last day of fashion week is simply what was left clean in my suitcase after a long weekend trip. the majority of the day was spent in the six hour drive

katienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-9894119128561659132010-04-03T11:43:00.000-07:002010-04-06T21:27:23.835-07:00

for our last spring break as students, the husband and i decided to take a long weekend trip to st. louis. actually, it was more that i decided i wanted to go to st. louis, asked him if we could take a mini-vacation, told him that i was going to plan it and not tell him where we were going, and then less than a week later told him the destination because i was just too excited not to. turns out

katienoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-4984283556269370872010-04-02T12:42:00.001-07:002010-04-06T21:25:00.393-07:00

it didn't rain like expected, so my footwear is sadly not my lovely puddle-jumpers, but my crocs ballet flats (comfy yet still cute! i am a big fan). anyway, here's today's look for fashion week:shirtdress: h&m (this season--woohoo! i rarely ever get new things)boots: hunter wellingtonsearrings: gift from my brothermy favorite part about this picture? the jessica rabbit hair. i am definitely

katienoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-77288514413720995892010-04-01T14:11:00.000-07:002010-04-06T21:22:49.728-07:00

i haven't been much for april fool's day jokes--i'm usually on the receiving end, gullible me--but this year i was rather pleased with my prank wherein i convinced a friend and my mother that my husband had received a job offer from CERN (you know, the atom collision place that's been in the news a lot this past week) and we were moving to switzerland and i didn't get into medical school (true...

katienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-71745049365158873942010-03-30T09:35:00.000-07:002010-04-06T21:20:59.320-07:00

over the past few days i've found several blog round-ups, and really enjoyed going through and seeing how everyone interprets the challenge or answers the question. it's like watching project runway or top chef (guilty pleasures), but just the good part at the end where you see the finished products. =)so, when i went rabbit-holing on a friend's blog and ended up on emery jo's fashion week, i

katienoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-31945329634530509132010-03-24T13:38:00.000-07:002010-03-24T13:43:37.316-07:00

thanks to the ikea room designer and photoshop, i've been playing paper dolls with my sister E's bedroom for the past few weeks. the goal is to take her currently chaotic, holding-facility-reminiscent, sometimes cave-like bedroom, get all the unnecessary stuff out (and there will be a lot), and make it a fun, organized, productive space for a 15-year-old freshman girl who's the only kid left in

katienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-58874914672552447532010-03-19T12:09:00.000-07:002010-03-19T13:05:18.289-07:00

this post is my contribution to the roundup from AllisonO's O My Book Week. i've never done anything like this before, but thought it would be fun to play along. =)books! where to begin? i've always been a bookworm, but have found myself through college reading less and less for my own personal enjoyment. =/ quite a bummer. when i was a kid, a picture-book-age kid, my favorite book was Make

katienoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-74258444443586917782010-03-14T11:26:00.000-07:002010-03-14T12:44:23.365-07:00

in my earlier college years, when i went back to visit my parents i would mysteriously find all the necessary pie-making ingredients waiting on the counter. by the time my dad came home from work in the evening, there would be a pie cooling. thus, he dubbed me the "piefairy." (i have a hunch he was the ingredient fairy, but that name never stuck.)for reasons i can hardly understand myself, i

katienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-88971145740494017482010-03-11T14:58:00.000-08:002010-03-11T15:00:09.818-08:00

every entry i write on here, i select the same font and size.none of the posts turn out looking the same.i give up.

katienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-16174075215095123262010-02-24T15:00:00.000-08:002010-03-24T13:32:53.131-07:00

for a long time now, i've been daydreaming about owning a home. and not just owning, but renovating--buying a lovely old victorian or craftsman house and restoring it, while updating the kitchen to be the stuff of our fantasies. (lofty dreams, for someone who's not even out of college yet!) and last night these home dreams went beyond daydreams and infiltrated my REM cycles as well. =)but we

katienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-1359944934952277482010-02-17T17:26:00.000-08:002010-02-17T17:47:23.462-08:00

it's not that i dislike waiting. i'm definitely more about enjoying the journey than getting to the destination.it just feels like my life is on hold while the world around me keeps moving.i'm a placeholder, marking timeuntil six months roll around and i can fall in step again.i'm waiting for something to make one week different from the next.i'm waiting for anything i've done to be

katienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-52428895182027626042009-09-30T08:03:00.000-07:002009-09-30T08:21:35.218-07:00

thank you.that's a phrase i've been thinking over for a while now. likely resulting from having been surrounded by love and support and assistance and joy from all our friends and family for our wedding (six weeks ago already?!?), and now taking on the task of acknowledging how much we appreciate everyone's contributions and thanking them for it.thank you. kind of weird, grammatically. as it

katienoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1217057874362024610.post-25460718747018721712009-09-14T08:43:00.000-07:002009-09-14T08:43:34.608-07:00

first post on a new blog...an old habit.last semester of college =first season of married life;new home,filled with our history.old pictures of old friends:familiar placesfacing unknown futures.new city, new life?age-old dreamsso close to true...i think in fragmentsbetter expressingjumbling ideasmix of old and newknow where i come fromimagine where i'm going

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