Meet Katelyn

I don't have to go to work for another couple of hours, and I'm just sitting here with wet hair because I am trying to gather up the energy to go do something with it.

I went down to the "beach" today and was very disappointed. The lake is so high that there IS NO BEACH! There's a long strip of about 3 feet of wet sand between the lake and a second "smaller lake" that has formed where the parking lot of our favorite beach used to be. To get to it, you need to walk through about 2 feet of water, and then once you get to that small strip of wet sand, you put your towel down and lay on it, and in seconds your towel is soaked! WHAT? Ughhh so here I am.

While I was trudging through the nasty "smaller lake," I was thinking about all the things that people don't know about me. Like, sometimes people might ask, "What's something that nobody else knows about you?" The truth is, there's lots that people don't know about me! Dumb little facts that honestly only Bev knows about me. I talked to Bev about a week ago and we reminisced about some of the really funny things that only she knew about me. Well, seeing as they're harmless and I can't get in trouble for them anymore (right Mom?), I'll share a few on my blog.

1. This one's my favorite and so it has to be the first one. My first high school boyfriend and I went over his house instead of going to track practice one day, and I had my period. (No, it's not going where you think it's going). I had a pantyliner in my pocket because I had put it there while switching classes that day and totally forgot about it! Well, those things make crinkly noises! I didn't realize it was in my pocket until we got out of his car at his house and I was like, crap, he'll think I'm weird if he finds this! So, when we got in his house, I bent down to take my shoes off (because we were supposed to be at track practice, remember?) and I slipped it under this small carpet that is in front of his front door! Well, after we were done "hanging out," we came down stairs and I guess I hadn't slipped the pantyliner all the way under the rug, because it was sticking out! He was like, "Umm, did you put this there?" I was like, nope! Well, the only women he lived with were his mother, and his older sister, who was at college. OBVIOUSLY it was me! But he didn't bring it up again. MORTIFYING!

2. My first "real" kiss was to a guy I really didn't know, and I really didn't want it either. And it tasted like Vanilla Dr. Pepper. Because that was what he was drinking. Eww.

3. I was addicted to hair cuts in, I think maybe my senior year of high school? Maybe Junior? Anyways, for some reason I thought I was like a hair stylist or something since I had had so many haircuts, so Bev let me cut her hair. I was like, "Oh, I've seen it done so many times! I can do it!" And I totally BUTCHERED it! Willa even sent me a picture of it a while ago!

That was after my first cut into her long hair. Don't you love it? My face is saying "I'm really not a hairdresser, I just got too many haircuts." And Bev's face is saying "I can't believe I let her do this." After I was done, It was about shoulder length because I really didn't know what I was doing. I'm lucky we are still best friends!

4. I once had 3 boyfriends at once. I just couldn't say no. Hey, I was young! Needless to say, 2 out of the 3 still won't talk to me to this day.

5. In SPF (which was our high school youth group at Wapping Church), one of the leader's names was Hank. Hank was a creepy old man who had good intentions, but just came off as a total perv. Exhibit A: Jenna got paint all over her legs while working on our trip to Virginia and Hank (in his creepy voice) asked if he could help her get the paint off of her legs. EW HANK! Anyways, my last SPF trip was to Maryland where we camped on the beach. One night it poured so much that our tents leaked (and one of the girls actually woke up crying because she thought it was Noah's Ark again and we were all going to die. Man, some churchy people...) and so Bev and I brought all the girls into one of the huge vans where we turned on the heat because we were all wet, drowned, cold rats. Well, girls sleep in whatever they want when they're with other girls, so most of us were in tank tops and underwear, or t-shirts and underwear. I was so cold because I was one of those half-naked girls, so I found a pair of men's shorts in the front seat of the car, where our friend CJ (one of the cute boys who went on the trip) sat that day. So naturally, I put them on to keep warm and slept in them, thinking they were CJ's. The next morning, I got out of the car and Hank goes, "So I see you found my shorts." ...EW! That was the joke for the rest of the trip.. how Katelyn slept in creepy Hank's shorts.

6. When I was in the 5th grade (this one's a classic Katelyn story and my Mom loves to tell it), I found a dead fly in our house. Well, at the time I only had a plastic cup and a tissue on me, don't ask why. So I picked up the fly with the tissue and flushed it down the toilet. As I watched the fly and tissue circle down into the toilet, I looked at the plastic cup, then the toilet, then back to the plastic cup. I thought to myself, hmmm. If a fly in a tissue could fit down the toilet, I wonder if a plastic cup could. Yes, that's how my mind works, and still does sometimes. So I did it! I flushed the cup down the toilet! And yeah, it clogged the toilet. So my mom and dad had to call up my Sunday School teacher's husband who I think was a plumber, I'm not sure, and he brought his snake or whatever it's called, and tried to fix our toilet! Nope, that didn't work. So now, to this very day, the toilet still clogs because of that darn cup that's still stuck in our toilet.

7. I'm looking at a spider on the ceiling right now. It's moving. Ew. And I plan to do nothing about it in fear that its family members will know I killed it and they'll come for me. This isn't really a fun fact about me.. more of a thought from my head.

8. Confession: The only time I've ever really drank was when Bev and I found a beer in her refrigerator before track practice one day and split it. Then we went to track practice and had it in our heads that we were drunk, so we acted absolutely nuts that track practice and secretly blamed our behavior on that half of a can of beer we had drank. Looking back, yeahhhh we weren't drunk at all. Half a beer? Come on.

Well, that's all I got for now. Time to blow dry my hair because the spider is almost right above my head. Love you all!