New Year, Same Blog

Happy New Year! 

Buffer Festival

Ottawa

My family just arrived home from our trip to Ottawa. Overall it was a very standard touristy trip, so I don't have much to say about it. But, I took a couple nice photos that I wanted to share with you. Enjoy!

One Direction

So, as previously stated many a time on this blog, I recently went to see One Direction in concert. It was a pretty good time.

The show started (after much waiting through commercials played on the jumbo-tron) with Five Seconds of Summer, a new boy band from Australia. They have a very Jonas Brothers circa A Little Bit Longer sound about them. They were decent enough, but honestly, I have enough bands to fan girl over, so I'm not in the market to pick up another one. But I appreciated them none the less.

Finally, after more and more waiting, the main attraction hit the stage and AHHH HARRY WAS SO CUTE and AAHH LOOK AT NIALL DID YOU SEE THAT but mostly just AHHHHH.

That concert was so unbelievably loud. I have been to many a boy band concert but I don't think I have ever attended one so loud. I mean, usually fans at least make an effort to listen instead of scream the entire time, but, whatever. It was a good show.

One of the most impressive parts of the concert was the set. They had these amazingly huge screen backdrops to the stage which played either live clips of the boys, or really nice typography of lyrics, or animated backgrounds. For example, the London sky line, or the boys as cartoon super heroes! It was really cool.

Life is Busy

Real life is hard. Mostly because it's busy.

These past few weeks I haven't been able to blog at all, because I've been overwhelmed with work and church commitments, not to mention my bustling social life (haha) and I just, I've let you all down, I know. 

At the beginning of this month, I promised that I would blog every single day. Quickly that degraded to only week days, and then soon, never at all. I've done quite a few things since I've seen you last, such as see One Direction in concert, see the Jonas Brothers in concert and buy a few new nail polishes. Yes, those are the things of note that I've managed to do. Everything else has been either work, church or boyfriend related. Well, I did try roller derby, that's something. But anyway, the point is, I have been quite busy. 

I also have not been able to fulfill my Youtube duties that I assigned myself, missing two History Minute Mondays and one Fashion Friday. I plan to resume my Friday videos this week and hopefully get a Monday filmed for next week, the week I am away on vacation. Yeah, I know right? One more thing that gets in the way of getting things done. I think I might post a couple features on things that I've done in the past few days just to keep a nice record of my summer, but we'll see. I have a lot of other online catching up to do this evening. 

Tomorrow, after working in the morning, I'm spending the day with Dan, which I am quite excited about. Maybe I'll have something to say about that later. 

Anyway, I think that's all for now. Hopefully I will get back to you soon and hopefully you will forgive me for neglecting to fulfill my online duties as Youtuber and blogger.

Until then,

Katie

Camping

I believe the verdict is in. I am terrible at blogging everyday. In my defence, I have been quite busy. For example, this past weekend, I went camping.

So on Friday evening myself, my boyfriend and our five friends stuffed ourselves into a van and headed west, to the beach. We camped at Point Farms provincial park, on Lake Huron, and it was a grand old time.

Cute Preschoolers

Hello again, blogosphere. It has been a crazy busy week. It's only the fourth day of BEDJ, and I'm already struggling to find time to write. For instance, right now I'm typing this on the Blogger app on my phone, while on the way to vacation bible school.

All week long, I've been leading music and skits with the kids, which has been pretty fun. My appreciation for parents has definitely grown anyway. 

Some of the preschoolers though are just the cutest things I've ever seen. One boy in particular, named Samuel, is very energetic and when I first met him, he said, "Hi! I'm Samuel! S-A-M-U-E-L!" He was just so proud to be able to spell his name. It was adorable. Another girl, during craft time, told me that she wanted to be an artist when she grew up, upon me telling her that her drawing was beautiful. She said that she did lots of painting and that once, she made a painting of her kitties and the sunset. Another time, during games after a crawling race, she acknowledged that she came in last, but she "never gived up" the entire time. I almost cried it was so cute. 

So, all in all, the week has been pretty busy, between VBS, meetings for work and family and church events, I haven't been home much. Thankfully, though, the time I have been at home has been relatively productive. I've managed to release three videos this week on YouTube, which is my goal for every week this summer. We'll see if I can keep it up. 

So I think that's all I have time for today. DFTBA and I'll see you tomorrow. 

-Katie

Collapsible Lung

So, yesterday, 2nd July, Relient K released their newest album Collapsible Lung, and to say that I'm happy with it would be an understatement. It's everything that I love about Relient K and more.

If I had any critique for this album it would be that I wish Matt Theissen would have done more writing. He is a brilliant lyricist and I think we're really missing out on some great lyrics because he wasn't the main writer on a lot of the songs.

A lot of people are upset about the lack of Christian themes in this album. They're right, we don't get any songs like "Getting Into You" or even "Hope For Every Fallen Man" but, just as many bloggers before me have already pointed out; everyone goes through seasons in their Christian walk. No one is in perfect communion with Jesus all of the time, let's be real. I think this album really represents a time in their lives that they fell short of that relationship. Lost Boy is a perfect example of this, "wandering, wondering" and being a 'stray." These words are very representative of that whole feeling of being lost or far from God. And I would argue that Relient K displaying their real relationships and not some unreal fabricated models of perfection is far more "Christian" than trying to be the perfect role models. Because that's not what their job is, as artists. They're not supposed to show everyone what a perfect relationship with God is, they're role is to express their own feelings that others might relate to. And I think they're done that perfectly.

So, overall, I'd say this album deserves an 8/10. The lyrics could be better, and the style isn't exactly classic RK, but it's great none the less. Buy the album, is what I'm saying.

Or, if you only want a couple songs, my initial recommendations are the title track, Lost Boy, and PTL- Don't Blink is pretty great too.

Those are my only thoughts for today, kids. Don't forget to be awesome.
-Katie

~summer stats~
nail colour: turquoise & caicos (esse)
money spent: 0
subscribers: 28

The Apple Store & Film Premieres

So I've been feeling lately like I should write another blog post. So, that I shall do.

You know, I really appreciate the service the Apple store has to offer; they sell very expensive products, but the service they offer (at least to people with a warranty) is great. Not only have I received a full replacement in the past, but they have also fixed hardware problems on site. Like they did today. My USB ports weren't working (some internal hardware error) and Mr Apple Genius took it back through the tall aluminum doors and fixed it right up for me- in less than 20 minutes no less, for the entire trip. I was pleased.

Also today, other than my trip to the Apple store, I attended a film premiere, which was very exciting. So, my school has a film class, which a couple of my friends were in, and for an end of year project, the entire class worked together to create a half-hourish film. And it was pretty great. Especially for the class having completed it within a very short time. I was impressed anyway.

Soo, it's summer now. School is over. Despite having two jobs and multiple volunteer commitments this summer, I still feel obligated to try to post on my blog more often, and also to make more Youtube videos. I have a couple ideas for new series and such, so I'd really like to start that. I just need some motivation (and time).

I suppose that's all I have to write about. No social justice issue or current event this time. Just my boring old life. I hope you enjoyed it anyway.

Best Wishes,
Katie