Haha! Made you look...I bet you thought this was going to be something important, and the truth is, I just wanted to make an announcement about some changes to my journal. I feel all important now, making an announcement...anyway...

I haven't made a public entry in a long while, I'm pretty much exclusively Friends Only and I have a handful of filters that I use to cater to the many different needs of my readers =P. I wanted to leave this public entry just to say to those new people that may wander in, I'm not overly choosy about adding people to my more general filter, so if you friend me and still don't see anything much, give me a little shout and I'll see what I can do about it.

I have roughly 5 filters that I use, you can find out more about these filters by asking me about them. I don't plan on advertising them, so if you'd like to know more send me a little message. If you're shy, livejournal sends me a little notification every time someone friends me and I do my best to include people who friend me in the filters I feel apply to them, but if you're userinfo is illusive or vague and I'm not sure who you are or where you came from, chances are you're going to get stuck in a very general filter and miss all of the good stuff. (Ha! Like there's really anything good to tell.) It's always good to send just a little note of introduction, c'mon people, it's just polite!

Look at me being all way more upbeat than I feel right now! In keeping with that theme, I'll leave you with a goofy picture that in no way, shape, or form, is a reflexion of how I feel right now, but makes me laugh a little in spite of it all.




Goodnight everyone.

This, by the way, marks my 5,000th journal entry.
Congratulations to me.

happy birthday to me.

i'm crossing my fingers and hoping that today will be an alright day. i'm also going to go lay back down for a while because my throat really hurts.

I successfully had my nose peirced last night and had a great time doing it! Seriously there was little to no pain involved at all...and I was really expecting it to be more painful. We went to Atomic Tattoo and Body peircing in Austin. Heather and I's peircer was awesome. I decided to go first because the dude told us that we would have to wait half an hour in between so that the equipment could sterilize...and I knew that if I watched Heather get hers done and then had to wait that I wouldn't go through with it. So we go back to the little peircing room and I sit in this chair that looks a whole lot like a dentist chair, and Kristin, Chris, Anita, Maggie, and Heather all pile in the room with me. They are all asking me, Are you okay...are you dizzy...and I am like no..I'm good. So what they do is they clean your nose...and then they put a little dot where they are going to make the whole, and then...they take this little metel tube and stick it up into your nose and then they push the needle through into the tube...and they they pull the ring into the whole...If I'm grossing anyone out I'm sorry...but I have to share. So I didnt even flentch...my eyes didnt water like they said they were going to, it just stung the tiniest bit. I wasnt shakey or weird feeling. The only thing was that my heart was beating really hard they tell me...I didn't notice because I was concentrating on being calm, but they all said it was beating so hard that they could see it beating through my shirt. So now I have a peirced nose. We hung out in there for about 3 hours... after mine was done ...we all went outside to talk and so Heather, Maggie, Kristin, and Chris could smoke...Anita and I just stood there and talked to people. We made friends with all the peircers and tattoo people, and we made a lot of friends who were getting stuff done..we watched three people get tattooed...and Maggie kissed my nose. So after that we all went home...because we stayed there later than we thought that we would. While we were there I talked to Josh on the phone, and then I talked to Justin on the way home, and then when I got home I talked to Josh again until around 1 or something...and I went to sleep and I had weird dreams about everything we talked about but that must have been because I was talking to him right before I went to bed. Funny thing was...I called my dad right after it was done and told him I had made it through...and he was like cool...cause he doesnt care, but I asked him if I mom new I was getting it done and he says , " I don't know...Nancy...did you know that Katie was getting her nose peirced?" and I hear " NOOOOOO!!!!" yelled for in the back ground and my dad comes back and says " Nope she didnt know...Bye" it was really funny...or at least I thought it was. I showed my mom this moring and told her some about the whole experiance and I could tell she didnt want to hear it...but I told her anyway...cause I am not going to let her be wierd about it. She will get over it eventually...I just can't wait to be able to put a different ring in it...cause I want a little sparkley one. My nose is a little more sore than it was last night because somehow I whacked it several times in the night... I don't remember ever having hit my nose in my sleep before...but I did last night...so now I am going to get something to eat and then try to go back to sleep I think.