The Quest for a Career

Well...I've been kind of busy this week!  Near the end of last week, I made a schedule for myself, telling me which room to clean, which days to wash windows (which I need to start doing), which days to sweep, etc, etc...also which day to blog.  I need to blog more often and I figured having a set day to do so (and having it written down) might help me a bit!
I've been doing art a lot lately.  Both makeup art, and digital art (as well as paper written art, although I have no scanner, so can't share it...sorry!).

First off, this lovely lady is UnnamedLegend (Emily) from Flight Rising.  She's one of my dragons, and I did what I believe is called a "gjinka" of her.  (when you draw an animal as a human)

This isn't art, but Poro was so adorable that I just had to share him.  I had been gone for several days and he missed me, so he crawled up on my comfy chair and hugged my foot.

Black and white version of my makeup.  Not quite as pretty, but still pretty enough

I thought I had more pictures of my makeup, but apparently not.  I really want to get really good at my makeup, so I can do those fancy makeup designs that other people do.  I have a really good idea for a gargoyle look.

Meet Volt.  Volt is a dragon (duh).  This species of dragon is called a "spiral" dragon.  They are...well...basically noodles, which is why people call them noodles!  One of the things they're said to do when they get bored is...well...tie themselves into knots.  That's him tied into a knot.

This is Volt himself.  If you click on him, it'll take you straight to his page!  And if you scroll down, you can even read the lore I wrote for him!

So...other things I've been up to?  Why has this week been busy?  Well, yesterday, I woke up, and I had a missed call from a number that I didn't recognize.  I googled it and it was from Wichita.  I was hesitant, but I called, because I've been sticking out job applications left and right, and, lo and behold, the person calling works for a company out of Wichita, but were in a town just thirty minutes away.  And...he wanted me to come in for a job interview at 2:45!

I panicked (sort of), and quickly cleaned myself up, got dressed, made sure I was all dressy and stuff, almost as if it was for church.  But not quite.  I actually can't remember what I wore right now.  Oh.  I remember my shirt.  But I can't remember my skirt.  This is gonna bother me now.

Anyway, I showed up for the interview and I think it went well.  I was told that I would know by today or tomorrow.

BUT

Today I woke up, and almost immediately I got a phone call from, again, a number I didn't recognize.  Turns out, it was the Casey's just two blocks down.  They wanted me to come in for a job interview at 11:15.  So, again, I hurriedly got all nicely dressed and went in for an interview.

We're in the back room, doing the interview.  She's asking me the standard interview questions (oh my goodness, so many, and they're so confusing...like, one wrong answer, or the right answer phrased wrong and yikes).  I was kind of caught of guard when she asked me why she should hire me over everyone else.  I suppose this would be a good place to use the phrase, "a pregnant pause".  I'm pretty sure my entire face just went blank.

I always have problems with job interviews and questions about yourself.  I mean...there is a fine line between selling yourself and...um...selling yourself, if you know what I mean.  I mean, honestly, you want them to think you know your strengths, but you don't want them to think that you think you're the only one in the world with your strengths in that magnitude.

Anyway.  A nice job interview.  She told me that she'd call me later today to let me know.

Roughly an hour ago, I got a phone call.  It was the lady from Casey's.

And guess what.

The blog you are now reading, is officially run by a Casey's employee!

I go in tomorrow for training.  I'm so excited!  Nah, not my favorite job in the world, because it's not daycare or teaching, or something with little people, but I know I'll like it better than fast food.  I've been praying for a decent paying job that I'll enjoy.  Considering that the babysitting jobs God's given me have been enjoyable, I doubt he'll fail me on the enjoyable part now.

So.

Signing off from a small town in Kansas...your newest Casey's employee!

~Katie

Welp...I Got Baptized

So...as you can tell from the title...I was baptized!  On Valentine's Day, actually.  Have some pictures:

This one is right after I came up out of the water.  The guy on the right is Josh, my youth pastor, and the one of the left is Pastor Les, the...regular pastor...I'm not sure how to classify him.

This one is later, with Crazy Jenni and a cake they got me (seriously guys, you're way too sweet! :') )  Oh, and it's okay to call her "Crazy Jenni", we talked about this stuff.

Why did I decide to be baptized?  Well...it all started long long ago--okay, not that long ago--when I had a meeting with Josh (seen in the first picture) and his wife Abbey.  Some of the scriptures we looked at made baptism look like...well...like it's necessary...not optional.
The church I grew up in...well...they never did baptism, which gave me the impression that it wasn't necessary for salvation.  The scriptures we looked at...well...they seemed to say otherwise.
So, after that meeting, I thought for awhile, then when we had a "questions" night, for Wednesday night, I asked to talk about baptism again...so we did.
THEN...after that, I went and asked Pastor Les about being baptized and we sat in his office for over an hour talking about it and looking at scriptures...and we scheduled a meeting with him and his wife for Thursday, around 8:00-8:30.
Thursday came around, and I went over to their house around 8:15...and didn't come home until almost 11:00....
I thought for a bit after that, then on Friday, I messaged both Pastor Les, and Josh's wife, and asked for both of them to baptize me...because, well, they both directed me down that path and I wanted them both to be involved.
And...yeah....  The water was hot.  Idk what else to say....
~Katie

Interesting Discussion on Facebook....

So...I had an interesting discussion with a girl on Facebook today, after she posted this picture:

Beneath the picture, it read as follows:

My comments on her post, as I did not agree in the least?  She responds...  I respond.

She responds...I respond....

She deletes the entire post, because she has no responses.  I already screenshot everything.  I did however blank out her name, so no one knows who she is.  

One thing I would like to say, completely unrelated to this specific topic is that I really wish that Facebook had an italics option...I mean seriously, it has everything else!

But anyway, yeah, this was my interesting discussion that I had on Facebook!  Anyone got anything to say on the topic?

~Katie

**EDIT** I would like to say that one thing I did actually agree with her on is when she said "There are so many people that are so close to us that think about suicide and we have no idea about it.".  I did agree with that.

Some Art

So, I recently realized that I haven't posted many pictures of my drawings and artwork lately...so thought I would post some of my more recent artwork.  The pictures of the drawings were mostly all taken with my computer camera, so not the best quality...enjoy them anyway?

 For awhile, I had plans to get a white car and decorate it with all kinds of drawings...here are some examples that I had considered.

This is Amumu...from League of Legends.  My own drawing of him.  

This is the drawing I was looking at while drawing him.

This is my...well...I guess my African Tribal Lady.  I just started drawing and this is what happened.

This is honestly one of the best pencil drawings of a person's face that I have ever done.

I think I really wanted a hug that day.

My friend, the airhead.

A drawing I did a while back.

This was a pun on one of my League friend's usernames: Darknyancat

Timeline for my book series, The Unnamed Chronicles

Map for my book The Division, which is part of The Unnamed Chronicles series....

Pardon my odd expression in the background, this was just me, attempting to show my art to a friend.

It is quite obviously what it looks like...bondage?

Freedom.

Odd looking warrior girl?

Idk.

One of my person favorites.  Lemme know when you "see it".

And a dark(ish?) angel.

In all honesty, I love when people comment on my blog posts and it really means a lot...so if you like what I post...I'd love it if you'd leave a comment.  Thank you!

~Katie

My Evening

My evening was well spent.  I went to a party at my Wednesday night church, with the youth group and we ate food (MAN WAS IT GOOD!!!) and played a few...interesting...games, including a game of Sit-down-in-a-circle-on-chairs Keep Away!  We also did some painting.

The boys did this one.  They did all the graffiti-ish stuff, but the word "Jesus" was already painted, but the brown around, one of the boys did.  Other than that, they did the "graffiti" stuff.  There were...four boys working I think.  Maybe five.  I think there were five.  A, K, R, C, C...five.  There were five boys working on it.

We girls were working on this one.  It's still not done.  We have a lot more detail than the boys though, because they were basically given free range to do whatever they wanted, we have more lines to follow.  I did all of the green, part of the blue and purple, and some of the rusty orange part.  There were two other girls working on it with me, and I must say, we did a fantastic job!

Then I came home and did this on my Facebook:

I seem to have a very eclectic taste in music. Here's metal, and goofy music, along with theme music, rock, possibly pop, country...so.... That's a thing. I won't tag anyone, just do it if you want.

1. Put your music player on shuffle
2. For each question press the next song
3. You must write the name down even though it sounds silly
4. Tag 20 friends
5. Everyone tagged has to do the same thing
6. Have fun!!
IF SOMEONE SAYS "ARE YOU OKAY?" You say?
Here it Goes Again.
BEST DESCRIBES YOUR PERSONALITY?
Kim Possible Theme Song
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Hallelujah
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
The Llama Song.
HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Teenagers.
WHAT IS YOU LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Don't Bring Me Down
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Phantom of the Opera
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
End the End.
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Welcome to my Nightmare
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Eye of the Tiger
WHAT IS 2+2?
You're Gonna go Far Kid (clean)
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR EX/BOY/GIRL/BESTFRIEND?
Striper the Kitty
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
This is the Moment
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Sweet Child O' Mine
WHAT DO YOU WANNA BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Wrecking Ball
WHAT DO YOU THINK/HOW DO YOU FEEL WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Reflection
WHAT WILL YOU DO AT YOUR WEDDING?
The Curse of the Sad Mummy
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Ain't no Rest for the Wicked
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Joker and the Thief in the Night
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Human
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
The Broken One
WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
Jim Bridger
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Girl Crush
WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Radioactive
WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Wrecking Ball (again?)
WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
All I Want for Christmas is You
WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Hero (that song actually does make me cry....)
WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
The Sound of Silence (evidently not....)
WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
I Will Survive
DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Bet on It (Well den)
IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Storytime
WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Hurt (shockingly descriptive)
WHAT WOULD YOU WANT TO SAY TO THE PERSON WHO TAGGED YOU?
Wake Me Up When September Ends
WHAT BROUGHT YOUR LAST RELATIONSHIP TOGETHER?
I Gotta Key
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA TITLE THIS AS?
Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold.

And that was my night!

~Katie

Pictures!

I feel like sharing a bunch of pictures today...so here goes!

 ^That would be my facebook cover picture.  My two favorite features...my hair, and my eyes.

 My sweet little kitty can fit in a cup.  Isn't that adorable?

 Prettiful tree.

 A slightly blurry rose.

 I was trying to curl my hair once, and I wanted to take a picture of it before it loosened up and stopped being so bouncy.

 Both sides curled, and...they loosened up....

And that is a picture of my class, drawn by my classmate Corgan, who is on the far left. <that way is left.  The big angry person would be Bro. Todd, who was our sponsor.  Corgan is a pretty good artist huh?

And thus ends the pictures of the day.

~Katie :)

Pictures!!!

I decided that it's about time I post some pictures...so here goes!

 You know how I said I had a baby?  A little orphaned kitten?  Meet RJ!  It stands for Ronja Jr, because he's orange and stuff like a cat I used to have named Ronja.

 Face view!  Someone doesn't like having his picture taken....

 Maybe he's hungry, maybe he just likes the sound of his own voice.

 My little fur baby.

 He calmed down a little bit...not too calm, but some.

 There we are together.  And do ya like my bangs?  Don't worry, my hair's still long, I just have shortish bangs.  If I cut my hair, they'd be as short as my bangs are now.

My mom wanted a picture of how long he is...I don't think it came in that well.  Right after the picture he started to climb toward me on my arms.

And here's a sunset.  To end my picture post.

~Katie :)

A Rather Interesting Day for Katie

Well...is anyone interested in knowing what I did today?  I cut my foot!  With a knife!!!  On accident!!!!!!  I even got pictures taken ^_^

Meet my foot!!!
I was outside, at my aunt's house, playing catch with my cousin, when I suddenly realized that the knife I'd brought with me was missing.... Now at this point, you have to have some vital information to understand why this is the most horrible thing ever.  It's horrible, because my knife was in a sheath, and my knife is not a folding knife.  It's more like a small dagger.  Well, I'm searching for my knife...and not finding it...so I go inside to alert my mom of this atrocity, then go back outside.  On the way back in...I don't really remember what I was doing, but I was walking back toward the house, when I tripped over something.  At first I thought that it was a stick, but I looked, and it was my knife, and my foot (which was bare, because it's nice enough out to go barefoot, and I don't like shoes) was bleeding.  So I sat down, and held my foot together, and sent my cousin into the house to get my mom, and now I'm sitting here with my foot propped up, feeling better, but I am pretty hungry right now.  And I really want to curl up with my foot under me right now.  It stinks.  I'm also on my aunt's computer because Keith (my computer) is still dead, and we haven't gotten a Keith the 3rd yet.  Depressing, I know.
My leg feels somewhat funny too now though.  I also don't want to get stitches.  I'm quite alright with no stitches!!!  We've got it butterflied, and if we really need to, we can use superglue.  And yes, on the picture of my foot, that is blood down near the bottom.
It's my left foot, and I'm not sure if I'll be able to wear closed toed shoes to school Monday.  Unclosed toe shoes is a big no-no at my school.  Honestly, half the rules there don't make sense.  Like you have to have long sleeves,--past the elbow--highschool girls can't wear their hair down, no hats in the building, no hoods, no sunglasses--although I don't understand why someone would want to wear sunglasses inside....  Yeah, a lot of strange rules, that escape my understanding.
So...how many of you like pictures of sunsets?

Well, you get one whether you like them or not!!!
Anyway, I'm gonna go now.
See y'all later!!!
~Katie :)

Picture Me This, Picture me That, Picture Me Dipptidy DEE!!!

Well, I'm gonna do some pictures today...hence the strange post title....  Anyway...let's start with my outfit today.  I know I haven't done that many pictures lately, because of the crashed computer, but today...yeah....
I present to you...my outfit!

Full view of the outfit in all it's interesting glory.

The "skirt" is actually a sleeveless open back dress, that I would feel horribly insecure in if I didn't wear something over/under it.  I got it at the local thrift store.  As for the shirt that's been worn over it, I got that for free at my school.  The socks I got at WalMart, and yes, I am quite aware that they don't match.  You may be interested in knowing that I also don't care that they don't match.  The headband I made.  I made it out of ducttape and two hair band thingys.

Just another picture of the outfit.  It may interest you to know that I bought the dress because it was all hypnotical and stuff.  CRAZY!  Psychedelic and stuff.  I love it.

I moved outside.  And no, I'm not wearing shoes.  I'm at my grandparents, and I rollerbladed over there, and didn't take shoes.

You can't tell me what to do.  I will just look off to the side, and ignore you.

And that's my outfit.  I mentioned my field trip, did I not?  Well, it may interest you to know that my friend Gavyn and I fight like cats and dogs...so this picture was the perfect description of our "relationship."

Now don't we look like best friends?

Me standing underneath an elephant head on our field trip.

This statue thingy just enchanted me...so I took a picture of it.

I'm sitting in a chair...kinda sprawled out.

The inside of an oil drillers kitchen...I think....  The pies aren't real though, so I don't get to eat them :'(

I mostly took this picture for the horses.  I'm bigger on swords and horses than guns.

This picture was definitely intended for the horse, 'cause there's nothing else in the picture xD

AIRPLANE!!!  Yeah...I'm done with the field trip pictures now.

Actually...I think I'm just plain old done for now.  I guess I'll talk to my awesome readers next time I talk to them...wow that sounded super stupid.

Oh and check out the blogs on the side of my posts and stuff...I'm loving Fresh Modesty.

~Katie :)