The Amazing Race: My emotional viewpoint

OH MY GRAVY!!!! Really really?!?!?! COME ON! SHANNON MURPHY SHANNON MURPHY SHANNON MURPHY!!!!! REALLY?!?!? What was the point in that ya globetrotters? I liked the Globetrotters up until now! Was there any reason to do that? No there crackin wasn't. SHANNON MURPHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! and yes I know I am editing and adding pictures its not creepy...but it is how I channel my uneccessary anger towards people I dont know!! and venting in random notes! Jet and Cord were THE BEST team in Amazing Race history!!!!!!! THE BEST! They were funny, nice, polite, they didn't cuss, they didn't ditch people (on purpose), they were just all around amazing and great guys! and what happens?? They get u-turned my a couple of "nice guys" hmmm....not so nice! lol..but really if they had been reversed would the Cowboys have u-turned anyone? No! They would have let it play out. but gee I guess some people can't do that!!! Well I am done with The Amazing Race for the rest of the season...I threw my little cowboy hat on the ground and cried...just like Daddy did when The Steelers lost the superbowl..oops did I say that? lol. Well here's to the best team to ever grace us with their presence on The Amazing Race Jet and Cord McCoy! No matter what anyone else says or whoe ever "wins" the million dollars they will always be the best and the greatest, and at least everything they did they did it honestly, politely, and they worked hard! When I take my trip down to Oklahoma (cause its like 5 miles...but they live like 3 hrs away...) anyway when I get down there I will see you and hug you and squeel like a little girl and then thank you for being the best!!! and now I will continue to watch bull riding in hopes of seeing them...and maybe now I will stop dreaming that Cord is my dad.....meh maybe not. lol. TO THE COWBOYS! Oh my gravy!

Luke Castellan ...and other things on my mind.

I notice as nothing amazing happens ....yet that there is nothing to write about...but it is very late at night and I feel oh so much like writing...soooo here goes. Real quick if you plan to read the Percy Jackson series and haven't...or if you haven't made it to the last two books just prepared to have everything ruined for you. So....I love love books and when it comes to some books such as the Percy Jackson series I become more involved and attached to them than any normal person should be....I mean I get attached to characters and everything is personal.....yes Im one of those people...you know the ones. The ones who would kill someone because they trashed Edward Cullen (only Im not thaaat bad...nor about Twilight) but you get what I'm talking about. so...in the Percy Jackson series my favorite character is Luke Castellan...the main evil guy...except I refuse to believe he is completely evil. Let's face it if your mother was phsyco and your dad abandoned you and you had to live a camp aaaall year and you were always chased by monsters you would be easily influenced by Kronos too...
okay this has nothing to do with my rant but it makes me laugh its from one of the PJ books
"Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff."
"Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.
He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred."
"A god named Fred?"

another one
He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatcailly.
“Green grass breaks through snow.
Artemis pleads for my help.
I am so cool.”
He grinned at us, waiting for applause.
"That last line was four syllables.” Artemis said.
Apollo frowned. “Was it?”
“Yes. What about I am so bigheaded?”
“No, no, that’s six syllable, hhhm.” He started muttering to himself.
Zoe Nightshade turned to us. “Lord Apollo has been going through this haiku phase ever since he visited Japan. Tis not as bad as the time he visited Limerick. If I’d had to hear one more poem that started with, There once was a godess from Sparta-"
“I’ve got it!” Apollo announced. “I am so awesome. That’s five syllables!” He bowed, looking very pleased with himself."

okay so Apollo is my 2nd favorite character...lol..I promise I'll get back to my rant...sometime.

""Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot."
"He's the sun god," I said

"It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.

-Percy, thinking about talking to Apollo"

"You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed."

OKay back to my rant about why Luke isn't totally evil and I love him....however here is where I add my disclaimer I don't dislike Percy or anyone else, in fact I love them all very much, lol....but Luke is my guy! I shall defend his honor!!! okay anyways......
*thumbs through The Last Olympian*
Okay so...Im looking through the book trying to find the quote I want and Im already bawling!!!!!! Im not even really reading, Im skimming...see what I mean????
okay this is going to be alot of jumbled quotes....but hopfully it serves my ranting purpose.
"Then he gasped...'Annabeth'...it wasn't the titan's voice it was Luke's"
"He gasped again. Luke's voice: 'He's changing. Help.He's ...he's almost ready. He won't need my body anymore. Please-'"
"Luke ...collapsed, 'Please Percy..'"
"With difficulty, he stabbed himself" (Luke)
"Luke's left side was bloody. His eyes were open-blue eyes"
"You were a hero in the end Luke."
"Don't let it happen again' his eyes were angry, but pleading too...Luke nodded and his hand went slack"
"A shroud for the son of Hermes." (Luke :( he died)
"In the end, I wasn't really the hero. Luke was"
all of these come from The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Now to explain this (condensed version) Luke was all *turn to the evil side* because of cercumstances I mentioned earlier..however the Titan Kronos (Luke's great grandfather?) (this is all about greek mythology modernized by the way just in case you didn't know) manipulates him into serving him...I guess...in the end he semi-kills Luke so he can use Luke's body to form himself back together (in mythology Kronos was overthrown by the olympians (or the greek gods)(also his children) and they cut him up into little pieces and threw him into tartuars (deepest part of hades(I find greek mythology enertaining and I love PJ series, lol)) anyway...but Luke is still...alive. Anyway the point is once he is in his "true" form Luke's body will pretty much evaporate (killing Luke) and making Kronos super powerful and able to overthrow Olympus and the gods destroying everything. In the end Luke wants to "come back" to the "good" side and so he overthrew Kronos by fighting him for control over his body and killing himself...now let me explain it wasn't really suicide...here's the deal Kronos had Luke take a bath in The River Stix so that his body would be indestructable except in one very small place (ever heard the story of Akellies heel??? (I know spelling stinks...but you try spelling all these greek names)) Its the same thing...well only Luke knew where is "dead spot" was and Kronos was so powerful that he didn't have time for Percy or Annabeth (grrr...she's cool but she gets on my nerves...but that is another rant for another day:)) so he had to do it himself. Ultimatly he saves the day by sacrificing himself....and he dies a hero!!! By the waaaay he was my favorite from the very first book...so even if he hadn't died a hero I would still love him, but he did so ha! Also can I just say the actor they got to play Luke in the movie is like super amazing (and super hot!!!) he is its true.
 JAKE ABEL!!!!! Just saying!  yay...time for the Jake Abel show!! mwwwuuuuuaaaaah....oh gosh wait til I go off about Matthew Thiessen one of these days....cause its coming.

 and there is Jake Abel being Luke....lol

and I suppose we'll give a lil shout out to Logan Lerman who actually played Percy Jackson...lol.
He's pretty good looking too...and he's actually a great actorr....]
....okay so Im pretty sure I could do a whole blog on Logan Lerman's eyes (along w/Matthew Thiessen's ha-ha!) but I won't...so YAY for Logan you are also equally amazing!!!
How ever forgetting Jake and Logan...Percy will never be as amazing as Luke....lol...okay so...see ya! if you never read this blog again I understand! ;)
Kaitlin

Difference Between Telling The Truth and Judging: My Soapbox

What was said: If I tell you, you have to promise not to judge me
Translation: I'm going to tell you about something that I know is wrong and I know you don't approve of and I want you to keep your mouth shut.
Reality:Telling you that I don't approve and telling you that you're wrong isn't judging you it's loving you. I tell you I don't approve because I think you're making a mistake, I tell you you're wrong because I don't want you to screw your life up, and I tell you it's sin because I don't want you to spend an eternity in hell.
Judging you is making fun of you or treating you a certain way because of something you did or said or wore. Correcting you and telling you that you're wrong isn't judging, it's loving.
So be glad that someone loves you and quit getting irritated when someone tells you the truth.

MY BREAK

Some amazing things happened over spring break. 1) I went to the zoo. 2) I turned 17! and 3) I went to Acquire The Fire.
I have no pictures of my bday or ATF but here are some from the zoo :) (next time I will do a blog about my trip to ATF but for now the zoo!!

 

In case you can't tell Penguins are my favorite animal of all time!!! lol, I think all in all I had 97 pictures and like 75 of them were of Penguins :)

Amazing Pictures!

Hey guys! So in case you didn't know my dream in life is to be a photographer and so I thought I would share some of my favorite pictures (taken by other people)
First though you should know that my two favorite photographers of all time are Ethan Luck and Jered Scott however my favorite picture of all time was taken my neither one of them. First off some Ethan Luck!

Those were all from the amazing Ethan Luck (and he has bunches that are waay better I just dont have them on my jump drive, but these are some of my favorites) Check him out at http://www.ethanluck.com/

Next Up Jered Scott!

Yeah those are the work of Jered Scott! http://www.jeredscott.com/

Here are some more of my favorite pitures whose capturers are unknown!

That first one is of Mike from Tenth Avenue North.
Now real quick picture of the 3 most beautiful men to grace this earth ;)

That would be (top to bottom) Matthew Thiessen, Taylor Mathews, and Jake Abel.
ha-ha I have been "in love" with Matthew Thiessen for 4 years ha-ha.
Oh okay so my favorite picture of all time is.......

This picture was taken by Father Browne from the Titanic. I have no idea why this is my favorite picture of all time but it is. For me when I look at this picture I don't just see people in line, I see a story. I look at the guy in the middle and I instantly want to know everything about him, I want to know his story, where he's from, what he does, his thoughts, his words, I want to know everything. This is the picture that grapped me and didn't let go it will forever be my favorite picture! Now maybe sometime  can share some of my own stuff :)

Real Christianity

Okay so this blog is sparked my a comment I heard a girl in one of my classes made. We were discussing our weekends and I said something about church and she goes "Me and my aunt don't do church. You go out and do your *crap* and then you go to church one day a week and that makes you a good a person? No thats just *screwed* up and I don't go for that." Unfortunatly her statement is partially true because we have to many fakers and hypocrites in the church....but this isn't about that. It got me thinking...how do I represent my faith? I mean I see this girl everyday. Sure I don't drink, I don't party, I don't have sex, I don't do drugs, I don't cuss, I don't do all of that stuff so I mean that puts me ahead in the game right? Right. But other than what Im not doing what am I doing? Because yeah she's right to many people live sinful lives and misrepresent Jesus Christ and that is NOT what real Christianity is about! Real Christianity is about surrendering yourself to Christ and giving up sin and living for him everyday not just on Sunday! However those of us who are sold out have become defined by what we don't do instead of what we do do for Christ and we aren't reaching as many people as we should be and we're not standing up and saying hey those people are wrong! Don't base how you feel about Christ and church on them because they are just as lost as you. We probably just come across as good people that don't do anything at all. So I wanted this to be longer but it's short and sweet. For those of you who aren't Christians know that living life however you want and then going to church is not real Christianity and for those of you who are how about we quit being defined by what we don't do and start being defined by what we do do for Christ!

The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business ep. 1 and my freak out

                                                             Jet                          Cord
OH MY GRAVY!!!!!!!!! What have you guys been up to? Well I love love love The Amazing Race....however you get new teams every season so you have to say goodbye to the teams you love (and maybe cry at their departure) and prep up for new teams, however you're never emotionally invested for at least the first month right? WRONG! This season they brought back fan favorites (which is why Im confused about Jen and Kiesha coming back....anyway) and my favorite team of all time is back!! JET AND CORD
They got 2nd place first time they raced! I have been soooo pumped for "Unfnished Business" I even went to wal*mart and bought a red cowboy hat and wore it during the episode tonight.
Jet and Cord are amazing, their funny, polite, don't cuss or trash talk, and they work their butts off, and play fair!
What's not to love?!?!?!
Anyway so I have been pumping myself for weeks I mean this is my superbowl people!!!! I am crazy about They Cowboys!!! and they only live one state away!! How amazing is that????
Anyway tonight was sooo stressful Capital S capital FUL! I am too invested into these guys! I cried....twice! They are still in the race but it's a "To Be Continued" and they're currently in last :(
The Amazing Race never has a "To Be Continued" episode!!!!! NEVER! Im sooo stressed but at the same time sooo happy because they're STILL IN THE RACE! THEY STILL HAVE A CHANCE! However....I will admit when it went off I was sitting on the couch hypervenalating and on the verge of tears!! lol....dang! I need therapy or medication or somethings. Anway all this to say next week on CBS at 7:00 sunday night (we have church at 5...so so we're done by 6:30) watch The Amazing Race and cheer on the cowboys!!!! GO JET AND CORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GRAVY! I love those two sooo much!
oh yes and this is what my hat looks like

wal*mart doesn't have any real ones!
Hope you have a great week! and I hope Jet and Cord win!!