Bye Dids!

You're leaving...
Gonna miss you.
Love,
Katie

Business

Here are the updates:
1. I got into graduate school, hooray! (That may mean bad news for all those reading this in Seattle...)

2. I left Rangiora for good a few days ago. I stayed there with (Pheonix's parents) Kate and Rob off and on since December. Who knows how they put up with my nonsense since then, but they did and with grace and generosity to boot. I know it doesn't suffice to just say thank you so thank you a lot. You guys rock. For real.

3. This is from a while ago, but it's... a pig that sits on command.

Hil.ar.i.ous. The video you just watched is of Lucy, a kuna kuna pig. She is in one word: horrific. Here's a close up:

See. Pheonix thinks she's cute. I think not.

4. All of you reading this already know I no longer look like this:

but you didn't know that I look like this:


see:
Heh heh.
To finish up the big news, I'm in Wellington and I'll be here until the 27th when I fly up to Auckland for a few days and say goodbye to Pheonix...
-Katie
Confidential to Lexi again: you're not allowed to comment on this post.

Couchsurfing

I finished WWOOFing a few days ago and now I'm back in Rangiora with Pheonix's parents. It's been kind of a slow week here, lots of rain, lots of planning for South America (gulp), and lots of eating Big Bikkies (again, gulp). Without any pressing moments of hilarity to report, I thought I would let you guys know about one of the ways Pheonix and I have been making our travels more kick ass and affordable:
Couchsurfing.

(Mom, Dad, don't freak out.) Basically we sleep on random peoples' couches around the world. We use individual accounts to search for cool people who live in the places we want to visit. Then, emails are sent, accounts are examined, more emails are sent, and then we meet, we hang out, and we sleep on their couch. (Note: we have yet to sleep on an actual couch. So far we've had big cozy beds in guest rooms. Hot.)
So, I get to meet rad people, learn about new places from people who live there, and keep things on the cheap. Um... yes, please.
Join right now and start offering your couch to people like me. For reals, it's way kick ass. Way.

-Katie

The Life of a WWOOFer

This:

is where I sleep.

This:

is what I eat.

This:

is what I drink. Right now. At 2:43pm. Ha ha.

-Katie
Oh, and to everyone who told me to cut my hair, I did, thanks for the help. The final straw was Lexi saying I looked like an Indigo Girl (confidential to Lexi: shut up and now we're in a fight).