Snowboarding


Woke up early to go snowboarding

Had a 2 hour drive

Couldn’t keep my eyes open

Had expresso for the first time

Had too much expresso

Was really hyper

Scared Harrison because I was going 90 on the turnpike

Scared Harrison because I was driving with no hands

Got to the mountain

Got a really good parking spot

Sucked going down the mountain the first time

Thought it would get better

It didn’t

Banged my head on the ice

Had to take a break

Got disgusting food from the cafeteria

It made me miss the food at my job

That just made me hungrier

Tried to think of anything but food: nada

Went back down the mountain

Banged my head on the ice, again

Wanted to leave

Got in the car

Got more expresso

Got home at 10

Thought I was going to go to sleep early for once

Was too jittery from the expresso to sleep

Called Bari

Looked at the clock - 2:38

Blamed Bari for keeping me up late

Finally went to sleep

Going to be exhausted tomorrow

Taking a step Forward

I love to spend my time sitting on my bed
Wondering what I can do instead
Maybe go on my computer
Maybe I should study 
Or just watch TV
I pull off my covers
Pay no mind to my bed hair
Strength in ever direction
Then get a cramp  that hurts like s***(excuse me for that word)
I walk to my desk and smile calmly in my head
The future cannot be formed, if your sitting on your bed
Don't wait for things to happen
Take a step forward instead

Life is a pain

My shoes won't tie
My hair is a mess
My legs our sore
My room is a wreck
I live with people crazier than me
But I can't say that they're mean
I wonder what life would be with a blue sky
Birds flying through the sky
But instead my sky is grey
But I guess that's fine
I mean life that can be a pain
But I guess I like my life that way just telling you all the truth

Story #10

On my last trip home I  lost my arm, I don’t know why or how.

I missed out on a year of my life

After so much worrying, the police finally released Kevin. He came top the hospital, it was nice to know that I didn’t lose him along with my arm.

I screamed and cried as I explained to the police that Kevin didn’t belong in the hospital. They thought that I was just in shock from what happened to my arm as they tried to understand and figure out how I lost my arm.

“How did you hurt your arm?” they asked.  “Who hurt you?” I was stuck on the words they used: Hurt. They acted as if my arm wasn’t missing. Didn’t they see it was missing.

“It was an accident.” I yelled. “An Accident.”

They started nagging me about Kevin. Their words went in one ear and out the other.

I took a long pause when they finished speaking. I yelled once more “It was an accident, Kevin did not hurt me. Get out and let me see him”

Love Stories

Happy Story:

I stand in a crowd and see nothing but grey figures around me.  Because the only one that matters is you, let's be together forever.

Tragic Story: I stand in a crowd and see nothing but darkness.  I'm alone and I can't find you.  I want you to know, "I miss you"

Italy!

That's amore:Dean Martin

"When the moon hits you eye like a big pizza pie

That's amore
When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine
That's amore
Bells will ring ting-a-ling-a-ling, ting-a-ling-a-ling
And you'll sing "Vita bella"
Hearts will play tippy-tippy-tay, tippy-tippy-tay
Like a gay tarantella

When the stars make you drool just like a pasta fazool
That's amore
When you dance down the street with a cloud at your feet
You're in love
When you walk down in a dream but you know you're not
Dreaming signore
Scuzza me, but you see, back in old Napoli
That's amore"

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Gatos Bed

​The  Cats. when my sister got her first cat it eventually got out, then came back pregnant. when it had it's kittens it moved them on the back of our dog and to under my bed. I discovered this when I woke up in the middle of the night and her meowing. unfortunately I still wasn't allowed to touch her kittens without her permission  so i just had glaring contests with tabby every morning.

I've Been, I am, But I Want...

I've been a writer. I started writing when I was 12. They were little poems that followed the AB pattern and rhymed every other line. I never invested the time to develop an advanced vocabulary so the poems consisted of overused words, but they were my poems. They were my thoughts in 12, or 14, or 24 sized font. And I cherished each poem that I started, whether I completed them or not; because they were my poems. They were my thoughts in black, or, blue, or pink ink on white paper. Those poems turned into short stories, which very quickly turned into never- ending stories.   

I am a writer. I haven't written a poem in months; but I work on my novels daily. I've added a few words to my vocabulary, but not many. The stories still seem never ending; written in pure dramatization and ending abruptly. I save any deleted content and value everything. Because these stories or scenes, are my escape into a life that I have created. A life that has been stuffed onto a 13- inch screen, but can never be limited in words, font size, or font color.

But I've never shared anything with anyone outside my comfort zone. It may seem strange my comfort zone includes people that I don't interact with physically on a day- to- day basis. I've shared my creations online or through email. I've sent 100 pages of imagination to people that live in Oklahoma, or Chicago. But when my best friend since 10th grade asks me to send him something, I get nervous. I anticipate judgement. 

I am a writer; I've been a writer. But I want to be a publisher. 


     

Pickled Herring in Light Salted Sour Cream Sauce

There are about a million things that people have to do as a routine part of their lives in order to survive in the world we've created for ourselves. I mostly hate all of them. I hate filling out tax forms and keeping track of receipts, I hate folding laundry and I hate paying bills, I hate filling out little forms where I have to answer an endless amount of questions that are all asking the same thing as the one previous. I hate having to memorize a government issued number and I hate being put on hold when I'm trying to figure out about when the next time I have to go get new blood work done is.
Despite hating all of these things though I can usually find at least one thing that is likable about each of them so that I can somehow get through them without completely having a panic attack. For instance when I'm on hold I usually try to come up with fake names and meanings for all the songs they play while I'm waiting on the phone.
But when it comes to grocery shopping, I just can't take it. I don't know if it's the ugly packaging, the crappy music, the zillions of people who don't know how to move their carts to the side while browsing to let other people get by, or the employees who understandably hate their jobs and take it out on me when I ask them for help, but every time I set foot in a grocery store, I begin to feel physically ill.
Today I had to go grocery shopping for my great great cousin who is 84 and nearly blind. I help him often, I come over at least twice a week for at least four house. I helped him with a lot of things that I listed above today in fact, I folded his laundry and I helped him fill out his taxes and I even called the hospital for him and waiting patiently on hold to find out when his next eye doctor meeting was.
Anyway, every time I go grocery shopping for him he makes me this list that takes up at least four pages, half of the reason it takes up so much space is because I think he forgets sometimes that I still have my vision so he right REALLY big, but also, every time he makes a list, he's preparing for the apocalypse. (Mind you I get him groceries every other monday.) Today he had me buy four packs of 24 pack toilet paper rolls. I bought 30 bagles and 8 bags of family sized chips and they all needed to be Lays and they ALL needed to be a different flavor. He is adamant against all things not name brand even if they are less than half the price of what he listed. He hates all things organic even when they taste the same and cost the same. When I leave after putting away all his groceries to go home he takes every single item out of his fridge and examines it under this super CCTV that he has that magnifies things up to ten times the size and if he sees the word "organic" or "shopright" anywhere he calls me up and complains. He also asks for things that no one has ever heard of, today he had listed "pickled herring in light salted sour cream sauce VITA BRAND NAME it has a blue label and is in a plastic bottle" I nearly vomited, I didn't think real people ate those things. He asked for four large bottles of hazelnut creamer like he does every single time I go shopping and somehow he manages to use it all before the next time I get there, I suspect he drinks it out of a mug like orange juice several times a day.
He asked me to get him four pounds of liverwurst. Liverwurst by the way is the most poorly named product in the history of foods. I waited in line with a stupid little number in the deli section of shoprite for nearly 45 minutes. I suppose it seems dramatic but it's also true, that while i was standing their next to those dozens of old people waiting for their sliced up meats I felt like I was actively dying. I know it is mean to say but some of those people looked like they are decaying even as they are standing there in front of me, they looked like they were falling apart right in front of my face. Everything in my body was telling me that I needed to leave that store right away, that I needed to friggen lean all the groceries in the cart and make a break for it because it was a beautiful day today, it was in the 60's and those grocery stores look like prisons, they look like 70's era public schools. Something about being in grocery stores makes me feel like I'm shaving years off my life, it was the worst part of my day.

Another Story

I don't think I have much to write really, so this story will be kind of lame. Anyway, I started my Capstone today which is teaching an 8th grade class about medical history. We started with osteology. I was panicking all week because when I went to introduce myself last week I was pathetic and could barely figure out what to say when put on the spot in front of the class. It kind of discouraged me and made me not want to go back, but I felt like I was too deeply committed to be able to back out of it now. 

However, this class went fantastic. Everything literally fell into place and all the students actually seemed interested, even taking notes and yelling at me if I went too fast for them to write. It was insane and awesome at the same time. 


Kevin Kevin Kevin (Wednesday)

Kevin( my little brother)


" I remember one time I really didn't feel like going to school and mom specifically told me I had to go this day and I decided to be stubborn and just stay. So I decide I'm just gonna stay in my room until she goes to work. Well and hour passes, past the time she was supposed to leave and I start to get nervous. ohhhh my God, Kat, she called out! The one day I decide to stay home is the one day she wants to call off. So I'm thinking to myself it's cool, she never checks my room anyways so i'l be fine. But then I hear her walking in the hallway, to the bathroom and to her room and downstairs to her room; she just wouldn't stay still, and every time I heard her walk someone i was so scared (LOL). The messed up part was not that I got caught it's how I got caught and in which moment. ok, so, as I'm hiding  out, feeling like Ann Frank in the Attic, trying not to make any noise I suddenly have to pee! I tried to hide it as long as I could and I peeked outside of my door and she has both her room door and th bathroom door open, so it was automatically not an option to try and use the bathroom without being caught. It was too risky... Kat.. don't judge me. I really! Really! Really! had to go.. So i found a bottle in my room and used it if u know what i mean! :( .. literally a minute later all I hear is my scream, "KEVIN get down here!".. I forgot my book-bag downstairs. smh


The Real Me

I am suppressed. The real me. The me that hops up and down and waves my arms and pumps my fist and calls it dancing. The real me that cranks the music up to the point where my thoughts are just backdrop sounds that hop to the beat of the music as well. The me that believes music is life. That creativity is life. The me that used to believe that every writer should have a tattered leather bond journal that has the word “journal” in cursive on the front. It says I am mysterious, and well, I’m a writer. The me that usually hesitates to turn the corner in the case that I bump someone so hard that we nearly fall to the ground and my cool facade will be broken and I’ll be humiliated for life. The me that observes my friends and actually wonder if we’ll grow old together and still find that Spongebob and Patrick are funny even in our mid-eighties. I am suppressed because no one told me that it was okay to be myself. I don’t mean the sappy children shows that’s about Suzy finally gaining friends because she got the courage to ask to play blocks with the other children and that act alone defines her “individuality” as a child. No. No one has ever told me that it’s okay to not actually know how to dance like the video girls or the celebrities that dance in super exclusive VIP darkrooms in mega-VIP clubs in the heart of Hollywood or New York City. No one has ever told me that is okay not to have long flowy hair that permanently smells like strawberries and champagne. No one ever told me that it’s okay to not actually enjoy taste of beer and cigarettes at huge party that you don’t really feel comfortable in. If I had have known that it was okay to be the ordinary girl who knows how to just be herself, who is not really a party girl, who has an unrealistic dream to be a real writer with a real career, the girl who reads 20 books within a month and somehow manages to have some sort of social life; If would have known this, I would have found out who the real Onjelique was a long time ago. However, in retrospect, it’s better late than never. 

The Perfect Day

Today was the perfect day! I went to Colgate University, I went shopping, and I ate ice-cream [chocolate and cream] … It was awesome! I got home at around 9:00 pm and I noticed that I’ll have a quiz tomorrow [I haven’t yet study] I have 3 assignments to do. It is crazy! I’m probably going to stay up all night studying for the quiz. Well at least I can say that today was a perfect day [from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.]

What do people think of me?

​One day last summer at work, a woman came up and ordered her food and then asked me to sing her something. I don't remember the words she used, but I gave her a confused look, and she said, "Oh come on, anything? You look like a theatrical person. I am a theatrical person, and I can usually spot other theatrical people." I honestly did not know how to respond. I shook my head and just said, "No. I can't sing." She was a little disappointed. I can't blame her, she sort of went out on a limb to just come up and ask someone something like that, though she was probably a little drunk anyway.

Looking back on it, I should have said something about playing the piano for 9 years. However, I certainly do not consider myself any type of theatrical person at all. I hate performing and I hate being on stage and getting all of that attention and being looked at by everyone at the same time. It makes me nervous and anxious and stressed and my hands sweat a lot. But it also got me thinking of all of the hundreds of people I interact with every day at my job and how each one probably judges me even in that short period of time of interaction. I wonder what all of the other people think of me...


I look like a Korean idiol?

 I shuffled through my iTunes till my favorite song blasted out my ears as Park Bom sang loudly opening lines "YOU AND I TOGETHER IT JUST FEELS SO RIGHT". I turned down the volume and looked at the screen. It was ironic that a person me and my friend were debating about came on my iTunes. I clicked back on to here box she went on aruging.
"You totally look like her"
"I do not she is korean"
"You have the same nose"
"I have my mother's nose"
"Your eyes are the same"
"Eh I doubt it"
-she sent a picture to me-
"See you look the same"
"You seriously think so?"
"Yes"
"Well I dunno..."

After that argument almost a year ago you can say I am convinced that at times we look a tiny bit alike. But not always it is just a bit a those random moments.