Hair Dye & Tea

How does Alice deal with all the insanity? I can barely hold it all in my head, let alone deal with others' craziness. Yes, I drew that picture a week ago. There's little me in Alice's dress all "wth do I do now?!" n' stuff. I think it turned out "okay" eh?

I've been drawing like mad lately. I haven't had the chance to upload any but the above because I'm lazy. Loads of plunnies have been floating around lately. It's allergy season for my writing community. :D

I have successfully thought of (get ready for this, peeps. not reccommended for the queasy or the pregnant) two new story ideas, a myriad new scenes for NaNoWriMo 2011(useful, isn't it? O.o), and a change of hair color for my character, the lovable Jeff Waylin, hahaha.

Don't worry all you blonde fans. I'm sure I won't turn Jeff's hair black. It's too sudden for those faint-of-heart. He probably wouldn't even be the same goofy kid that we all know, haha.

As for the two story ideas... I'm trying to meld them into one at the moment, but we all know that it won't work, now don't we? This is how fate treats the insane ones. I'm putting money on the table that one idea will be used for script frenzy.

Well, sorry for such a short post in such a long time. I've got so much to do now that school is coming up. Oh, and before I forget.

There's me in steampunk-ness. Happy now, Sarah? :D

Off to see the wizard,

Katelyn

You Know We Have a Hammock?! O.o

As a couple of you peeps know, yesterday I came home from a trip to a lakehouse with a couple besties. It was pretty awesome. There were twenty or so people up there, and it was soooo fantabulous. Our house is close enough to reach a park by walking, and we have the biggest beach.
So while my best friend and I were hanging out on the water trampoline, Evan, Anthony, Sammy, and Jeremy(my best bud) walked over to the park. They somehow got cought up in a conversation with a random kid. His name was Tyler (no idea what last name was) and he was a Freshman in high school this year. In my opinion, he was not pretty. O.o So here's a little snippet of their conversation.

Tyler: Huh, I'm a wrestler. (He did NOT look like one.)
Sammy: That's... great. *is totally not attracted to this guy*
Anthony: *raises eyebrow*
Tyler: So where do you guys live?
Anthony: *still suspicious* ...
Evan: *being pretty dense* Oh... ya know, over theeerrreee *gestures to the house, but not specifically*
*long conversation goes here. lots of awkward pauses*
Jeremy: *in the background* thinks to self: pfft, these dummies.
Tyler: Guh, I really just want to lay in your guyses hammock.
Sammy: O.o
Anthony: o.O
Evan: *totally retarded* You know we have a hammock?!?!?!?!1!!!@1! *is such a blonde*
Tyler: Durhur, well aren't you guys the house on the very end?
Sammy: *stares*
Jeremy: *holy sh***
Anthony: Urm.....
Evan: Yeah.

Okay, so has this guy been stalking us previously too?!?!?

Somehow they got away from him at the park and got back to us and told everything.
But... dun dunn dunnnnnn...!
Tyler comes back just as the sun is setting. He asks my best friend to play ping-pong *casually* and learns our names, what we do, what city we're from, how old we are, etc. She fails at ping-pong, so now of course I have to play. I forgot that I was wearing a bikini top and some short jean shorts.
Somehow he ends up getting my phone number. But *snicker* just my luck, he got the wrong area code. So I'm hoping that he won't be calling me any time.
Later, it gets dark, and the bats are starting to come back out. Hannah(best friend) and I are freaking out because of mosquitoes (plus Tyler) so we escape inside.
We're sitting at the counter, eating and talking about random stuff. We both turn to the sink to get some water. When we turn around, guess who is sitting at the bar now? Holy crap it's Tyler. He followed us in our house.
So we have another really awkward conversation. The entire time he was staring at bikini me. Why not bikini Hannah, for God's sake?! Nope. Just me.
My mom comes in later and her face is all "Holysh**whyisthiskidhereandwhereisyourshirtkatelyn?!?!?!?!"
So she tells Hannah and I to go put on some clothes and leads us down the hall to our rooms. Tyler, of course, tries to follow us. At that moment, Raquel, Jeremy's awesome mom, comes in like "In your DREAMS, perverted freak!!!" and chases him out of the house.
A change of costume later, Hannah and I go back outside, and Tyler sits next to us. O.o My mom sits in between us on purpose. *shield* But later, he moves to the OTHER side of us. That's when my mom is all "You girls should go inside and take a shower." Hannah's like "I'm too lazy," and so am I, until I understand she was trying to get us away from Tyler again. O.O
So Hannah and I give in and run inside the house. Jeremy (the cooliest) is casually standing next to the door with a bat.
We hide out in our room with the door locked and blinds closed all night. Awesome, right?
Not.

So Tyler leaves at 10:00. The next day, Hannah and I are too tired to leave the house. Apparently, from what we heard, Tyler came back wondering where we were. My dad, being kind of scary when you look at him, Russ (Athony and Jeremy's extremely intimidating tall dad), and Jeremy chase him off our property for good.
So we're safe from my stalker pretty much, cuz he didn't come back. The next day he kind of wandered along the edge of property with a friend, but we didn't see him after that, thank God.
So that is the stalker story of the year for ya. I hope he never figures out my real area code, cuz I really don't want to change my number. :P
For all of you people out there who wish to stalk me... don't. Just don't. Or I may have to unleash a couple years of practice with a switchblade on you.

Buying more lethal objects,
Desiring some sort of depth of insight,
Katelyn

Rawr, I've Returned

Dear Digressing Novelist,

Where are you, and why haven’t you been here lately?
Love,
Your many adoring fans and readers

Rooooooooooaaaaad Trrriiiippppp! *insert fake enthusiasm* Yes, I have gone on an insane road trip, leading to who-knows-where. As far as I understand, this trip goes from small-town Gilroy to the coasts of Santa Barbara to the lights of Las Vegas to the gargantuaness of the Grand Canyon and the arches of Zion National Park. Somehow, we make that entire thing into a loop.

Yesterday(June 22) we made the first of our six days together to Santa Barbara, and we stayed in the nearby town, Ventura. On the way, we stopped at a random Ostrich Farm that we saw off the side of the highway. I ended up feeding and petting ostriches and emus. Quite the experience of weirdness. Apparently, you have to use either a saw or a drill to open an ostrich egg. For all of you tourist-y readers this was just on the outskirts of Solvang, CA, which is also a cute little stop, because it’s a mini Dutch town. Very cute if you enjoy that kind of stuff.
We ended up eating dinner at Mimi’s Café at 10:30 at night because that was how late we made it to our hotel. The chefs probably spat in our food because they couldn’t go home. Believe it or not, they’re open until 11:00.
That was Day 1 for ya. The Craziness continued onto Day 2 in Vegas.

One thing about Las Vegas, NV: It’s just about the prettiest and ugliest city in the U.S. (And no, it’s not a
Stephenie Meyer quote. It only sounds like one. “The next day was better… and worse.”)

(At 103 degrees at 10:00 pm) The lights were fantabulous, and we had an equally fantabulous view from the Luxor hotel. (Best pool ever, by the way) Later we went to the old strip to see more of the lights and in the morning we left for the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
The Grand Canyon was nice; it began to rain lightly after awhile. Nice and cool, as opposed to the rest of the state. We stayed in a very nice Best Western with a bowling alley (which we spent our time in). The name I typed in for the game was "Egg" since my name didn't fit (Cursed 7 letters!).
After that we went BACK through the desert and up to St. George, Utah to go to Zion National Park. It was much like the Grand Canyon except you were in it not above it. It's gorgeous with the Virgin River flowing through it, lots of hanging gardens, and friendly squirrels. According to the locals the squirrels were extremely friendly so that they could fool you and bite off your hand. A couple times that day I screamed out "MAN-EATING SQUIRREL!" and people would look at me like "wth?".
Back through the desert once more, and we decided rather than staying in Barstow(nicknamed the armpit of California? I didn't want to be in any place called an armpit.) to return to bright and shiny Vegas. We stayed in the Circus Circus Hotel this time, being subjected to several clowns up and down the halls (much to my mom's horrror). The show was great and I won nearly every game on the midway with my awesome mad skills lol. Lot's of stuffed creatures.
The next day we were back in quaint Gilroy. I had only four days to complete The Last for Createspace. Somehow I managed and my book came in on July 13th!! (I argued with the company for over nine days). It looks amazing though, and I'm going to read it tonight! :D

So that was a very quick write-up of my road trip last month. Sorry, I've been too busy to write this.

Toodle-oo,
Katelyn