The Kat's MeowBlogging, blogging, blogging...The Nicotine Patch is Evil- August 31, 2007 I have never been able to kick my nicotine addiction. I'm always either smoking or trying to quit. Except I never really try that hard. Instead of quitting smoking, what I've actually done is replaced cigarettes with nicotine patches that I supplement with the occassional cigarette. And if I feel like getting back into full on smoker mode, I just stop wearing the patch for a week or two. Then get back on it.I think what the patch has done for me is actually worse than what would've...http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/08/31#bjs_or_smoking 96th Birthday- August 26, 2007 We went to my grandma's 96th birthday party today. Seeing me and my sister always makes my grandmother cry. And it's hard on my aunt and uncle, too -- the ones that were closest to my mom. All of which wets my eyes and breaks my heart (used to make me bawl). Grandma on her 96th birthday Cousin Joseph, Me, Doug, Cousin Allis, Jesshttp://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/08/25#grandmas_96th_bday Revisiting the Accident- August 26, 2007 To attend Grandma's birthday, we were driving on the freeway my mom died on today and it's a regular drive for my sister, but it's only the 2nd time I've driven it since my mom's accident over a year and a half ago. As we were driving home, I was watching the side of the road wondering how the hell she drifted off into the dirt shoulder when the asphalt shoulder is so wide, but then it narrows and I imagine that must be where.In my obsessive post death search for anything related to my mom, I..http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/08/25#revisiting_freeway Burning Man Sex and Out of Body Porn- August 24, 2007 I love this Violet Blue article on Burning Man. It cracks me up. I've been to burning man twice and will probably never go back. I think it's vaguely cool that people are so into it, and every year as the buzz about it grows and it gets closer and closer to Labor Day weekend, I get the slightest itch to go back. But I'll never scratch it -- it's just not my scene. I love the art, I love the enormous installations, I love the community feel, I love the communal environmental activism, I...http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/08/23#burning_man_sex Shrinks vs God- August 24, 2007 I love this quote by Ann Coulter: Liberals go to therapy. Conservatives go to church. (Right Wing News compiled her best quotes from last year -- most of them are too long, but some of them are real gems). It's so true, isn't it Priests, pastors, confessors -- they're really like shrinks (is shrink a derogatory term)I stopped seeing mine. Not for any particular reason other than I've been too lazy to call my insurance to see what it'd cost me to keep seeing her. But I also felt like I'd go.http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/08/23#shrinks_n_churches Girls' Night- August 24, 2007 We had a girls' night out a couple of weeks ago and I got all dolled up -- which for me is putting on a nice pair of slacks and an appropriately cute tank top and the most uncomfortable pair of shoes I own -- I mean like I want to gouge someone's eyes out after I've spent an hour in them and why didn't I learn from the last time I wore them! uncomfortable. At the end of the night, I wasn't drunk, but apparently was stupid enough to try to climb on top of a fire hydrant in front of the Rite...http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/08/23#girls_night Backpacking Trip II- August 20, 2007 Too tired to blog about the trip, but here're a few quick highlights: got stung by a bee on the first day, had to take a dump in the middle of the woods with no cat shovel or toilet paper, girl group "bathroom" trips, climbed up and over this crazy steep and narrow ridge, and met some damn cool people I'd never met before and hung out with some damn cool people I already knew.Self photo at top of Parson's Peak near Vogelsang in Yosemitehttp://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/08/19#tuolumne Ethical Investing- August 20, 2007 I admit that in the past I have made my stock purchases based on sentimentality. Well, I say in the past, but it's really my only method. I'll do the research to make sure it's a sound company to invest in, but my heart does the picking first. A couple of weeks ago I was trying to pick some new companies I wanted to own stock in and someone suggested Starbucks (SBUX). My immediate reaction was no. But from a financial standpoint, Starbucks is a sound investment, and one of my financial...http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/08/19#ethical_investing |