Bragy McBragerton

Remember how Mikey said no bragging about spouses or children today.....cause I said so...well guess what?

Dan is awsome....

Dan may be my favorite person ever....

Dan loves me for exactly who I am....

Dan does the laundry when i suck at it...

Dan loves food as much as i do....

Dan respects that I don't share food well....

Dan always puts me first...

Dan always let's me go through a door first....

Dan is my motivator....

Dan tells me i'm beautiful....

Dan supports my every decision....

Dan has beautiful eyes....

I can't wait to be Dan's wife....

Ready to throw up yet???? Awsome...just wanted to prove to you all i'm not as heartless as I may seem. :) WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Step by step....literally...

I have many skills...many unique skills i feel.

I can catch, handle and wash an Eagle

I can make a mean cupcake

I can maneuver the heck out of a chainsaw.

But let's get to the skill i find most helpful everyday. I am awsome at buying cool shoes. i love shoes and they love me in return. I pride myself in finding sweet and unique shoes for all occassions and for decent prices. Now i know the assignment was to walk you step by step through my skill...but i'm not sure i'm ready to give up my secrets. But I will pass along to those who are dedicated to the love of the shoe, some great websites i frequent.

In no particular order:

Piperlime

DSW

6pm

Charlotte Russe

Zappos

Journeys

Please take your time...thats the key to successfully finding the sweetest shoe ever. These sites can be very overwhelming but be patient and only do a little at a time, trust me you will find your perfect shoe. Sometimes there is nothing more important in life than an awsome pair of shoes. :)

MMMMmmmmmmm....

I love food.

I love all kinds of food.

My favorite food is the food i can't get all the time. Seasonal food if you will. In random order these are the things i most look forward to all year.

March - Shamrock shake and cornedbeef and cabbage...not necessarily together

Summer - chocolate/vanilla custard twist with chocolate sprinkles

October - Apple cider and cinnamon strusel cake for my b-day...again not together

November - Thanksgiving dinner (Dark meat, mashed potatos, gramas stuffing and gramas green bean cassarole)

December - christmas cookies

Off the top of my head these are my favorite foods. Since i am deprived of these for the majority of the year...i feel that is why i crave them the most.

Dammit now i'm really hungry...let's see...according to my list...i better go get me some corned beef and a shamrock shake. :)

Let the games begin!

Here we are....Bufblopofo '09!!!! WEEEE!!!! What a good day to start it's 3-14...pi day! ok no more nerdy. Ok today i am supossed to write about 3 big things going on with me right now.

I will go on cronological order:

1. We got a Wii!!! Dan has been bugging me and bugging me and bugggggging me to get one. It's not that i didn't want one but it really just hasn't been in our budget. Everytime we go into a store Dan feels it is a sign from God if they have it in stock that we need to buy it. The final straw was last weekend when we were at Target and they had a bunch in stock. I swear we stood in front of the thing for 20 minutes weighing the pros and cons of getting it. I was about to give my final veto, when a 70 yr old gentleman approached us. He noticed our hesitation and boldly buttted in by saying...."It's completely worth it." I looked at he man....as said..he was about 70...long grey hair in a low ponytail....trucker hat...and holding about 16 bags of twizzlers. Dan responded to the man asking what he thought about the wii, and the man continued with a small dissertation about how much fun it is and how he is so glad he got it about a year and a half ago. Oh God.....cue the rolling commentary. Do I.....say thank you for the advice old guy and walk out of the store pretending to be a responsible adult....or listen to the old guy who is obviously cooler than I am and go home and have infinite fun? As we got into the car i told Dan he should thank the old guy for coming a long. It's the reason we bought the Wii....i feel like i should have some twizzlers in his honor. :) PS.....it's the best toy EVER!!!!!

2. I am coming up on the end of my 2 year masters degree. Thank you jesus! I have worked my arse off for the last year and a half going to school full time and putting in about 20 hours of work a week. Needless to say, i am ready to be done. In May I will graduate with my masters in Deaf Education with a certificaiton to teach children from birth to 21. I will also have my certification to teach Biology in grades 7-12. This is an ENORMOUS career change for me and i'm antsy to finish this semester so i can get started! Cross your fingers though, it a tough job market for teachers right now. Wish me luck, i think i'm gonna need it. :)

3. Not that this topic deserves to be #3 but as I said i wanted to go in order of events...and why not save the best for last. I'm getting married in less than 7 Months...21o days to be exact. We have all the big stuff done. Now we are ironing out the little stuff. I can't wait. It is going to be a sweet ass party! My current dilema is the flavor of frosting for the cakes. I'm not a huge fan of buttercream.....Any thoughts? WEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

There you have it the first Bufblopofo post of '09. Can't wait to see what everyone else has goign on!

Because I love birds...

.......And I will force you to watch their coolness!

This one is a Heron using bread to bait a fish....SOOOO SMRT!

This is a bird diving for a fish from the air...SWEEEEET!

Better get on the Bird Bandwagon....Everybody's doing it!

Save the Date....

...........Cause I am hiring this kid for the wedding.....priceless....

Kid is "Burnin' Up"

I feel your pain buddy

I posted this because I feel sonedays i can relate to this kitten....

AND it's farking hilarious...

sorry buddy :)

Katie...errrr Maeve...doesn't share food!

I was watching the girls the other day and decided I needed a snack. Knowing Maeve i made sure to bring her a snack too. It was baked cheetos for me and goldfish for maeve. I brought out the little cup of goodies and made sure it was clear that the goldfish were for her and the cheetos for me. We both went on our way and watched diego with our said snacks until I decided i wanted a goldfish. I asked Maeve if i could have one....she sweetly nodded probably thinking "she won't really do it". Sure enough I took a goldfish out of our community bowl and put it in my mouth. This next few seconds was in slow motion. Maeve went into blind rage. She initially screamed "noooooo" and sure as shit she thrust her hand into my mouth. INTO MY MOUTH! I'm not sure if she was trying to save the soldier or if she was just so mad that I ate one of her goldfish she wanted it back. Either way I was so surprised that she did that i immediatly broke out in laughter. Mistake number 2 on my part. Maeve got piiiiiissedd. This was no laughing matter. She starred my down with a look of death. I quickly compsed myself and told her I was very sorry and offered her one of my snacks. There was a period of akward silence between us as we watched the end of Diego. We both finished our snacks and went about the rest of our day together.

I have completely learned my lesson and I completely understand where she is coming from. It is now very clear that Katie AND Maeve don't share food. Just an FYI.

PS...yes that is a chip clip in her hair....she did it all by herself. :)

Everyone loves a prequel

So I was perusing one of my fav sites, when i came across a post on their blog listing 17 prequals to some broadway musicals....I love it..people are brilliant. I wish my brain worked like this.

17 Fabulous Prequels To Broadway Musicals

1. Kate, We Haven’t Been Introduced
2. Bar Mitzvah of La Mancha
3. Sand And Primer Your Wagon
4. A Chorus Dot
5. Fiddler Borrows A Ladder
6. Little Business Plan of Horrors
7. A Star's Mom Allows A Handsome Stranger To Buy Her A Drink
8. Indian Territory!
9. The Guy Who Is A Little Intense But Keeps To Himself And Isn’t Really Bothering Anyone Of The Opera
10. Annie There’s A Waiting Period
11. Kittens
12. Brand New Acquaintance Joey
13. Handshake Of The Spider Woman
14. Jesus Christ Waiter
15. Starlight Right-of-Way Allocation And Environmental Impact Study
16. Vocal Warm-ups On A Cloudy Day
17. West Side Backstory

Why am I annoyed?...

It's Friday night....

Here I sit in my new living room.....

I am entering the last week of classes of my Grad school career...

I'm sitting on the couch pounding away at 1 of 7 projects due next week.....

Emeril came on TV...

I don't really care for Emeril....

I'm putting up with it...

I'm too lazy to get up to get the remote to change it....

He just put garlic into the pan....

The audience exploded with applause, whistling and general craziness....

What did i miss?

I'm still sitting here...

He's cooking his second dish of the night...

He has mentioned garlic 4 times...

The audience exploded with excitement...

EVERY...

SINGLE...

TIME...

I don't know why i'm so annoyed by these people's reaction to the garlic....

Hold on...

Let's perform an experiement...

OREGANO!

Did you pee yourself with excitment?

Stupid remote across the room......

Early x-mas fun

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Fall!!!!!!!

YAY! FALL! i love me some fall...i'm not sure if that is clear here.

Anywho, Sarah is in from the good old Dela-where, and we did some classic fall activities. We went camping the weekend of my bird-turd, and had some classic fun. I shall walk you through the photos.....

Simba loves a good trip to the cabin

Sarah and I also love a good trip to the cabin...this is our sexy hiking pose

Dan getting fancy with the camera

Quita looking fancy in front of Dan's grama's cabin in Alleghany

Dan let Sarah and i take turns splitting fire wood, old school style...Sarah got a little attached to the wood she split....

I didn't end up with a hole in my lip don't worry....

This is my sassy slice of wood

Dan let Sarah work on some target practice

A nice night by the fire....with only ouor second class of wine

Let's skip to Dan's 965th drink and when he found the caution tape

Sarah trying to perfect her s'more and make everything melty

Skip to Katie and Sarah's 544th drink and "walk like an egyptian" came on the radio and let the dancing commence

Still egyptian-ing

My special bird-turd cake....make with Diet Coke....SOOOO GOOD!!!!!

BLOW!

We returned to b-lo with some fabulous pumpkins from pumpkinville and i was a little punchy....please hold back your surprise

Pre-carved pumpkins

Post-carved pumpkins....Sarah did the horse, I did the sea turtle and Dan has the SCARYYYYY wolf face

This was a completely sober activity....tell me he is not the cutest piggy dog you have ever seen!

Ok kids thats it...Happy Fall!!!!! Can't wait til next year!!!! Turkey day here i come!

Anything Lou can do i can do better....

So as mikey described, Lou challenged my skills, so here it is loobers i hope i can keep my lebeshian title afloat!

I can do 50....."I'M 50!!!"

I think i even beat mikey....hmmmm...not sure this is a good thing

Automotive
1. Handle a blowout
2. Drive in snow
3. Check trouble codes
4. Replace fan belt
5. Wax a car
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle
7. Use a stick welder
8. Hitch up a trailer
9. Jump start a car

Handling Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich
11. Reverse hypothermia
12. Perform hands-only CPR
13. Escape a sinking car

Home
14. Carve a turkey
15. Use a sewing machine
16. Put out a fire
17. Home brew beer
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric
19. Move heavy stuff
20. Grow food
21. Read an electric meter
22. Shovel the right way
23. Solder wire
24. Tape drywall
25. Split firewood
26. Replace a faucet washer
27. Mix concrete
28. Paint a straight line
29. Use a French knife
30. Prune bushes and small trees
31. Iron a shirt
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper
33. Change a single-pole switch
34. Fell a tree
35. Replace a broken windowpane
36. Set up a ladder, safely
37. Fix a faucet cartridge
38. Sweat copper tubing
39. Change a diaper
40. Grill with charcoal
41. Sew a button on a shirt
42. Fold a flag

Medical
43. Treat frostbite
44. Treat a burn
45. Help a seizure victim
46. Treat a snakebite
47. Remove a tick

Military Know-How
48. Shine shoes
49. Make a drum-tight bed
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup

Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe
52. Hang food in the wild
53. Skipper a boat
54. Shoot straight
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike
56. Escape a rip current

Primitive Skills
57. Build a fire in the wilderness
58. Build a shelter
59. Find potable water

Surviving Extremes
60. Floods
61. Tornados
62. Cold
63. Heat
64. Lightning

Teach Your Kids
65. Cast a line
66. Lend a hand
67. Change a tire
68. Throw a spiral
69. Fly a stunt kite
70. Drive a stick shift
71. Parallel park
72. Tie a bowline
73. Tie a necktie
74. Whittle
75. Ride a bike

Technology
76. Install a graphics card
77. Take the perfect portrait
78. Calibrate HDTV settings
79. Shoot a home movie
80. Ditch your hard drive

Holy-get-your-tissues-batman

What a cool video...and the song is one of my all-time favorites....

I promise to stop...right after this...:)

SOOOO i'm getting married, i'm not sure if i mentioned that yet....I'm a dork and I made one of these just to keep all 5 of you who read my blog updated, if you so choose to be updated. :) Ok i promise to get back to my entertaining and ridiculously pointless blogs ASAP. Cut a girl some slack, just started fall semester....taking 20 credits. WEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Somebody's gettin' Married!!

I'm a little late on the posting of the engagment but it's a long one. I just wanted to make sure I got it right. :)

Ready.......GO!!!!

We were on vacation in Marble Head Ohio with Dan's family. On our first day there, Dan started the day off with a nice boat ride, we went and got a couples massage and were going to round out the evening with dinner at one of the local wineries. You would think after all this goodness I would have a clue. Nope...not even one.

We had dinner reservations at the winery 4pm (also should have been a clue, what are we 80 eating at 4pm?). We arrived at ten minutes to 4. Dan "decides" we should do wine tasting before dinner. Wine tasting in a matter of 10 minutes is not my idea of wine tasting but i humor him and go a long with the decision. Did i mention i was starving, because i was saving myself for a nice 4pm meal. We wine tasted in record speed. Why? #1 We had dinner reservations in 10 minutes, #2 I hadn't had anything to eat since breakfast and full blown wine tasting would have made me a stumbling moron and #3 I-was-STARVING!

I moved along the tasting and got us all wrapped up and ready to go in time for our dinner reservation. I decided i liked 3 of the wines we tasted and purchased them. The nice man behind the desk told me i couldn't take my bottles into the dining room. Merrrrrrr....fine. I moved things right a long and grabbed Dan's keys and took the wine out to the car.

Meanwhile.....Dan and John (guy who worked there) took this opportunity to run down to the wine cellar and set up the champagne and video camera for the proposal.

I return to the restaurant lobby to find Dan and John coming out from the staff only area...clue #2 i failed to pick up on. John proceeds to tell me that our table was not ready yet and if we were interested we could go on a short wine tour. Cue me looking into their dining room and seeing every...single....table....OPEN. At this point I am not thinking that this is a shady situation...i was thinking....THERE IS NO ONE IN THERE WHY CAN'T WE EAT NOW. I am one classy broad who apparently can think of nothing else but food. Awsome.

Needless to say I agreed to the tour. John led us into the kitchen past the staff bathrooms and down a sketchy set of basement stairs. Where in God's name are we GOING! John leads us into a storage room...a STORAGE room...and claims he forgot his "tour script". Again...i'm still not seeing the shadiness...i'm just annoyed we now have to wait longer to eat. (i think i need a support group) :)

Dan and I wander into the next room, which by the way is beautiful. It is a huge room with stone walls and an incredible stone ceiling. The lighting was low and romantic and guess what I still didn't get it. I wandered over to what looked to be a well in the ground with pretty lighting around it. I look down and there are amazing racks full of ancient wine bottles. Very cool. I was completely oblivious to the table 6 ft from me with champagne, candles and champagne flutes. OBLIVIOUS. Dan clearly had enough of me being oblivous and pointed out the table to me. I did not give it a second thought and assumed it was set up for an event later or was just part of the tour. Dan requests I take a closer look at the table. I humor him....and my eyes stumble upon the champagne flutes....

There it was plain as day, "Katie and Dan - August 3, 2008"

**Click**

In my confused daze i turn to Dan who is already on his knee reaching for the ring in his pocket. I remember looking at him and i remember him trying to put the ring on my finger, but i heard not a word he said....that voice in my head again. "HE'S ASKING YOU TO MARRY HIM!!!!!" The best part...Dan doesn't remember what he said either. I do remember saying yes, and i remember chugging the glass of champagne Dan handed me. I cried my face off and cursed Dan when he told me he was getting it all on film. We ventured up to the dining room and guess what....i wasn't hungry anymore. :)

Here's the video if you choose to see my obliviousness and my blubbering. WEE!!!
Feel free to fast forward the empty room from 1:45-3:40. It was a very echoy room so you can't really hear too much but there are a few choice things you can hear. Fun stuff!!!



PS....Dan has been planning this since Februrary. He may or may not be my favorite person. :)

Because i can't wait til i get home on sunday...

Dan proposed.....

and

I

SAID

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are currently on vacation and won't be back til next week...stay tuned for the full story!

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! :)

Just cause...

cause i don't think i've posted pics of us before....shame on me!

schmoo

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