The Kat's MeowBlogging, blogging, blogging...Consuming our morbid thoughts away- (Found June 18, 2008 ) This doesn't seem like new research because it seems to me that it's a given that eating and shopping are relatively common coping mechanisms. It's not unusual to hear stories about women addicted to shopping or food. I suppose men share these same problems but perhaps 1) less numerously, 2) less excessively, or 3) less conspicuously (but I haven't researched this so I'm just stabbing blindly).There was a recent New Scientist article about how thinking about death or dying can spur buying or..http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2008/06/09#morbid_thoughts_lets_consume Past middle aged- (Found June 18, 2008 ) The rats aren't just middle aged anymore; they're getting old. I've noticed one of them hunches over more and squints a lot lately. Tonight I made them a fresh bowl of fruits and veggies and tuna and was hanging out with them. After dinner, I was watching one of them try to climb into his hammock and he didn't have the strength to pull himself into it. I'd noticed they hadn't been sleeping in it much the last few days. He fell to the bottom from the top of the cage and I was horrified. I..http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/02/16#old_rats My mini farm & cash apartment- (Found June 18, 2008 ) In an effort to clean up my apartment and get rid of unnecessary things, I finally took apart my "origami farmreplica apartment made of cash" that my friends built me for my 33rd birthday. It was the sweetest thing ever -- we don't celebrate my birthday often because we're usually all traveling for the holidays, but this year they made a special effort to put together this amazingly involved and touchingly personal birthday party. It was such a surprise that when I got to my friends'...http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/02/26#surprise_bday I Google; You Google- (Found June 18, 2008 ) My blog is a funny thing to me. I've been working onthinking about this anonymity post for over two weeks now for my blog and still haven't completed it. I've been thinking about giving up this blog cause it's so damn personal. And so tied to my real name. Online forum profiles are an interesting phenomena because you can know so much about someone by hisher posts, and never know hisher real name, or anything else about that person heshe doesn't want you to know.Someone I don't know very...http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/03/06#googling E-Gold- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Damn...E-Gold charged with money laundering. They've been investigating it for some time now, but the indictment is in with a nice doomsday quote from the FBI. I wonder what this means for the future of anonymous money, though I'm fairly certain that at some point, there will be no such thing as anonymous money. Every financial transaction will leave some sort of trace back to you.http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/05/01#egold Still Grieving...And I Thought I was Done- (Found June 18, 2008 ) It's been a year and a half now and I realized well after Mother's Day that I'm not done grieving. And long after I thought I was o.k., I realize I'm not. I still miss her. I finally went to go talk to someone -- I told myself I would much earlier, but never got around to it. The weeks before and the weeks after Mother's Day this year were so bleak and dark that I finally felt myself snap. And I still wasn't sure it was grief. Just everything else in my life gone wrong.I've never been to..http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/07/01#getting_help More photos from Yosemite- (Found June 18, 2008 ) I dreamt last night about the PUW shares I blogged about and kept thinking I don't know what companies are in that fund...how do I really know they're ethical! I then woke up in the middle of the night in a panic...where am i! Cozy, overly warm, and completely clean in my own bed. My backpack stinks like hell. Going five days without washing, wearing the same pants every single day, no deodorant for fear of attracting bears, hair thick with dirt and heavily weighted down by the natural oil..http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/08/21#yosemite_photos Drawbacks of Democracy- (Found June 18, 2008 ) So I was reading this today about the Philip Atkinson article on The Family Security Foundation, Inc site. I thought it was hilarious and well written -- it reminded of Swift's A Modest Proposal. I thought it was a parody, a commentary on Bush. But after seeing his treatise on democracy, I think the man is serious.The funny thing is that I can understand the stance he's arguing from -- that selfish people don't always want what's best for a community as a whole. That sometimes what the...http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/08/22#drawbacks_of_democracy The Joy of Writing- (Found June 18, 2008 ) The weeks that I have to turn in a story for my writing group are good because they force me to email out something that's somewhat "complete". I haven't turned in anything longer than 3 pages and none of them I could really consider complete, but that I'm writing fiction at all is a delicious thing.Lately I come home at night and I'm compelled to write and it feels good. I was talking to a good friend tonight about how when you hate work, it's a really tough thing because you spend so much...http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/08/28#joy_of_writing Lessons in Adulthood- (Found June 18, 2008 ) I came home last night after seeing Avenue Q with my friends and my power was out (damn that construction!). Luckily I had a headlamp hanging on a doorknob nearby and it was late anyway so I got settled in for the night. Getting ready for bed by candlelightheadlamp is fine. The only thing that sucks about no power is no internet (and no open wireless networks near home either).The musical was really good! We had a biggish group -- eight of us, and every single one of us had a good time. We.http://www.kathyahn.com/blog/2007/08/30#lessons_in_adulthood |