stalking - the new american passtime

i was reading cosmo last night. really, i don't enjoy it much anymore as i don't need much advice on finding men or being single, but i still have the subscription and it's better than financial accounting. when i got to the middle of the magazine (the second half is an upside down special version on what i can only imagine is "men"), there was a story about dating co-workers. well, that seemed interesting to me, as i myself have dated a co-worker on two occasions. it was interesting until i got to point number seven or so. they suggested, after exhausting all of your other resources to find out everything you can about the cute co-worker, that you should go online and purchase a background check. the suggested website charged upwards of $125. apparently regular stalking isn't good enough anymore. now you have to spend $125 to find the love of your life. i'm still not sure why you can't just go strike up a conversation with the guy.....

A Terribly Wonderful Idea

last night we had the pleasure of joining a couple of michael's relatives for dinner. they brought italian sausage all the way from new york city. i personally don't like italian sausage, but i do appreciate the sentiment. more importantly, they brought us the most wonderful gift. it is a red plate. sounds simple enough. this red plate is to be used to honor specialness at meals. what a wonderful idea to honor someone for something wonderful they have done by giving them the special plate. unfortunately, michael and i are not really doing much special these days (we got burnt out over the summer), but i cannot wait until we have a family and can share this with them. perhaps we will even have a special person at every single meal.

Fon-don't

it seems to me that all newly married folks have one thing in common - a "married couple cooking" disaster story. i personally thought michael and i would be immune to such a story considering we have lived together for awhile now and he is a pretty good cook. i was wrong. tonight we decided to try out our new fondue pot. so, we studied the recipes online and decided to try to make the three cheese recipe from the melting pot. apparently there is a reason people go to the melting pot and pay a lot of money for melted cheese, bread, and apples.

OH MY GOD

so i'm sitting at work today and get a call from michael. he says "did you get my email?" that itself would be enough to make me think "oh my god" as mike NEVER emails me. so i say no. he says he'll send it to my other email account as my work tends to confiscate emails not from KPMG employees. he then adds that the email is from his brother and it contains swearing. now he's peaked my interest. his brother doesn't swear......
first, a little background. michael and i got married recently. instead of writing out thank you notes, we recorded a little message for each person and mailed it off. we used our ipods and a voice recorder to record them and itunes to burn the messages to CD (sounds like extraneous information, but keep reading).
finally i get the email. christopher, michael's brother, is writing to tell us the thank you note would perhaps have been more sincere had we not chosen to title the CD "F**k It". at this point, i nearly fall off my chair in sheer horror. another note, chris has 4 kids, ages 14, 7,4, and 2.
my horror stems from the fact that i intentionally name the CD "Thank You!". just like that. exclamation mark and all. i swear on it.
so we try 2 other cds. one comes up as "what about the next disaster?". the next comes up as a song from patti ann smith.
i called apple. they say, as i suspected, that the cd database that the new mp3 programs pull cd information from has similar files with inappropriate titles. so yeah.
so, the moral of the story - if you got a cd from us as a thank you note and it is named something obscene, thank the nice people at CDDB. I named it thank you.

Mi Primo Favrito

This past weeknd, Michael, Butler, and I took a treck up north to see Matt run in the Twin Cities Marathon. Here's a picture of him right before the finish line, looking as good as ever. It's sort of hard to see him, but he's in the grey shirt and black shorts. (i drew a line, i swear that's him)
He finished about 19 mintues past his goal, but the people in charge said everyone finished slow because of the wind(?). He finished in 4:41. I'm constantly amazed that anyone is willing to run at all, no less 26.2 miles. that's just crazy! but he did it, and i'm super proud of him!

Ok, I admit it, I don't make decisions on my own....

Alright, so Daniel was right - I don't make my own decisions. I was sitting around today, surfing the internet in a futile attempt to avoid cleaning my increasingly disgusting apartment like a "good wife" (ha ha ha!), when I realized that nearly all of my currier/stanley buddies have blogs. So, in true Kate fashion, I caved. Now I have a blog. I figure if they think it's a good idea, I should probably get on board too! Maybe it's better if I don't make my own decisions - honesly, should I be trusted with major life decisions. I bet Gwen and Michael would both give an enthusiastic no to that. So really, I'm just doing the world a favor. Or something like that.....