The boy who lived...

On this night 31 years ago, Lily and James Potter were murdered by Lord Voldemort.

Their son, Harry Potter, survived the killing curse.

To Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived.

Oh, and it was Halloween! Yay!

I like Halloween! I dressed up as Indiana Jones! (Pictures coming soon, because I know you all care!)

Okay, love and chocolate!

With utmost sincerity,

Kaitlin R.      

I'm a liebster...

I was nominated for this award thingy by the dear, sweet Miss Carolina. Visit her lovely blog here!

She's an absolutely spiffing person!

Basically, Miss Carolina has given me some questions to answer! Yay!

1. Hogwarts House?

    Hufflepuff!!! Yes! I am a badger!

2. What are your go-to questions when you first meet someone?

    Just your basic, "Hello, nice to meet you, what's your name?...Where are you from?...What brings you to Utah?...What's you're major?...What's your job?..."

3. What is your earliest memory?

    My third birthday party! I remember getting a little book from my uncle!

4. What are you SO happy about right now??

    I'm happy that I was able to sleep in and that today is my day off! Oh, and that tomorrow is Halloween!

5. What is a major goal of yours?
    Currently? To finish my book, not to get published, I don't think I'm that dedicated, but just to have. In the long term, to get married in the Salt Lake Temple and raise my family in righteousness. 

6. Favorite scripture? (I need to know!)

    Ah! This is so hard! Is it possible? Alma 48:17, 3 Nephi 17 (yes, the whole chapter), D&C 121-7-8, D&C 128:22-23...there's a ton more...Pretty much all of Isaiah, and all of everything because it's all SO GOOD! :D

7. If I had the nefarious spinach in my teeth, would you tell me?
    I would indeed my dear! :)

8. Best pumpkin you have ever carved?
    I actually got to carve pumpkins at my work last week and they were spiffy. I did a light house and an anchor! They were my favorite!

9. Favorite movie?
    "Beauty and the Beast." There's a great deal of nostalgia that influences this action. And the music and the magic and the memories...ah! I just adore it! If I had to choose another favorite movie...ah! There's so many that I adore! LOTR, The Mummy, Peter Pan (the one with Jason Issacs as Captain Hook, love him!),...there's just so much love!

10. Do you dance in the rain?
    I do, every available opportunity that I get. I heard a quote some years ago that I adore and feel is perfectly true. "Those who say sunshine is true happiness have never danced in the rain."

11.  Tell me something. (Not a question, just a request.)

    Molly Weasley's birthday's today! 

Okay, I send this blog award for extra special sweetness on to Sarah! At http://skettiseyes.blogspot.com/  

My questions for her are:

1. Favorite literary device and why?

2. Current favorite band?

3. Where do you want to be right now?

4. What are you most looking forward to for the near future? 

5. Current favorite book and why?

6. Do you prefer berries or stone fruit, like blueberries or peaches?

7. What's frustrating you most right now? 

8. Favorite television show and why? (Tell the people Sketti!)

9. Why is it so good to love stories and things that don't technically exist?

10. What were you doing before answering these questions on your blog?

11. Favorite poem?

Yay!

  

With utmost sincerity, 

Kaitlin R.   

Dear someone...

Dear someone,

You're trying to make me feel better, but it just makes me feel worse.

You're very kind to me because that's what's expected of you, not because you care. 

I don't feel an overwhelming need to talk to you, because I have no idea what to say.

And if I say anything, it's the usual, "hello, how are you?...Good?...Good...yeah, I'm good too..."

And I am, but I'm a million different other things that I can't articulate. So that makes me wonder if you're a million different other things too.

And I know my hair was a little greasy, but sometimes that can't be helped. 

And I know my jeans were a little too tight around the middle, but they'd just been washed and weren't stretched out to the proper, comfortable position.

I don't know what you're looking for, and I don't know why I even care.

With utmost sincerity,
Kaitlin R. 

 

 

 

And full of spaz...

"He kinda' hates your guts..."

 

...

 

"Oh no! He really does hate me! Me and my guts!"

 

 

My video log is coming soon. I'm just lazy.

{You were so close to wondering, and too far from finding.}

 

THE HOBBIT IS COMING SO SOON I CAN'T WAIT!!!

 

Seriously though, I'm so excited!

 

 

{...}

 

Guys, in all honesty, I really have nothing to say, for which I am sorry.

I'm was not blessed with quick wit, or inspiring messages...but I do feel a need to write. To get words onto paper (even if that paper is electrical.)

 

I don't remember the rules of grammar.

 

I don't remember all the ammendment's of the constitution.

 

I don't say everything I feel for fear of offending people...or sounding really uppity...or really boring.

 

I like so sing. Loud. When I'm at home alone, I belt music. I'm pretty sure my neighbors get annoyed, but they've said nothing.

 

I need to stop talking about myself.

But I've been on no grand adventures!

To quote Dr. Watson, "Nothing happens to me."

 

But I continue for the sake of existence, and because maybe someday I'll have something worthwhile to say...

 

To the right of your screen is a button. ------>

 

It says "Follow."

 

I would appreciate it if you'd click that button.

 

Love and chocolate.

 

 

With utmost sincerity,

Kaitlin R.

 

Oh, and I guess I'll add this for your entertainment...please don't judge me too harshly...yes, I made the song up, and yes my uke is out of tune... :)

 

 

Hero's get remembered...

There's nothing to say,

nothing to do,

nothing to say,

nothing to do...

 But, sit and dream of you.

I'm watching "The Sandlot." Good movie. It was filmed in Utah.

{But legends never die.}

{Follow your heart kid...}

{...and you'll never go wrong.}

Watch Olan Rogers on YouTube. You'll laugh your guts out.

I got to make jack o'lantern's at work today.

Check, check, success!
 

{I just got the best dang chicken tenders...}

Laughing just makes my heart lighter.

Makes the world a little bit brighter.

Opens your eyes.

Open's the skies.

Life's just a big bowl of jello.

And do you have a spoon???

[I'm tired, and bored...and I can't get italics off...]

Weeoooweeoooweeeoooweeooo!

There's a man I love, and his name is Richard Armitage. {heart, heart, heart!}

If you have Netflix, and time, watch

North and South.

It's beautiful, and you'll fall in love with Richard Armitage too! 

With utmost sincerity,

Kaitlin R.

 

Video Log

I'm trying something a little different.

So...yeah...

With utmost sincerity, 

Kaitlin R. 

Also! Blog giveaway coming soon!!!

Are we human?...

 Confessions

1//I am a slight germophobe. Strangely enough, I can play in the dirt for hours without feeling anxious. After I touch an animal though, I have to wash my hands before I can touch anything else.

It doesn't make sense to me either.

2//Before I go to bed, I check my blankets and my ceiling for spiders. Don't call me paranoid. There was a spider in my bed once and one dangling from my ceiling another time.

I will never forget.

3//I'm addicted to book sniffing. The best smelling book I ever smelled was called Founding Brothers. It was about the founding fathers and such.

It smelled so good!!!

4//I don't have a favorite song or book (too hard to choose!!!), but I have a favorite color[s] and a favorite movie (though, there are many very, very, very close seconds to my favorite movie.)

{BTW, my favorite colors are green and gray and my favorite movie is Beauty and the Beast.}

5//I watch way too much television. Lately I've been watching a BBC series called "Rosemary and Thyme." It's really quite excellent, and it's on Netflix. I remember watching it with my mom on Sunday nights when I was younger.

6//If I stare at feet too long, they gross me out. I don't know why, but they remind me of alien-like, squid creatures.

Not pretty.

7//I see faces everywhere. That's sounds creepy, sorry. What I mean is that I see, like, eyes and a mouth in the randomness of architecture and in the folds of fabric.

I create some of them into characters.

8//In any random session of music listening on YouTube, I end up listening to a completely different genre than the one I started with. I go from POP, to Instrumental Music scores, to Alt Rock, to Big Band. 

It's so great.

9//I'm always imagining movie scenarios in my head and I'm completely convinced that I'm not the only one that does this.

10//I believe in Santa Claus.

With utmost sincerity,

Kaitlin R.

Photographs n' things...

That's me in a tree...

 

 

 

This is the temple I will be getting married in someday.

 

 

 This is me getting ready for marching band last year...*sigh* Some days I want nothing more than to be back in uniform, playing my heart out.

 

 

 

 This is a photograph I took sometime a while ago. This hill of rocks was quite tiny, but it looks big, huh? Forced perspective friends, forced perspective.

 

 

{And the dingo said to the baby, "I'm not going to eat you."}

With utmost sincerity, 

Kaitlin R.

Yes...

Yes.

I'm still here.

Sorry it's been so long.

 

{if lost, it can be found again, unless it's sunk into the sea.

if gone, it can come back again, though you never came to me.

if hurting, it can feel whole again, unless the time's too late.

if hating, you can love once more, because that is our fate. } 

It's sort of a depressing poem in some ways, but life's depressing in some ways.

On a brighter note, the church is true, the gospel is real, and our beloved prophet is truly a prophet of God.

Have grand adventures!

With utmost sincerity, 

Kaitlin R.