for my favorite ghouls + goblins...

...a happy health'y Halloween laugh for ya!
(thanks, Claudia, for sharing!!)

is this real life?!

En route to church tonight, I see this...Snow. A lot of it. In October.

Is this real life?!?!

who's that coming down the tracks?!

IT'S THE MEAN MACHINE IN RED AND BLACK!!

Dawgs beat Florida tonight and I am one happy Katy Capers :)

In celebration of me and my team's awesomeness, Emily decided to dress like muah for Halloween! Slash, it was totally an accident that we think exactly alike and wanted to root on the dawgs in similar apparel...

say cheese,
katy c.

a-corn-mazing.

I had a fabulous adventure tonight with some great people :)

It all started when a truck EXPLODED on the highway, which kept the train Emily and I were riding on from moving forward. So we hopped out and trekked the two miles to church in snow-worthy temperatures...

Joined by a merry crew of friends from my church's community group, we all piled together and drove to Ipswich, MA to a corn maze for some freezing fall fun! And so began two hours of slippin' and slidin' on post-snow field dirt, hollering out for our friend Gerald, "I think we should go right!" and "We found a clue!" exclamations...as well as confusing and willy-nilly elections of new leaders to guide us through the eagle-shaped maze. We never actually found the exit (drat!) but it was really a great time....though we may have ruined our shoes..

Wrapped up the evening with a trip to IHOP, which reminded me of my Granny and Granddaddy who would treat us there with hot chocolate whenever we'd go visit, and snagged a photo with our hilariously opinionated waitress, Roberta. It really was a wonderful time! Not necessarily clean fun, but definitely good fun :) It was a-corn-mazing!!

say cheese,

katy c. 

contrary to popular belief...

I am not dead.

I absolutely apologize for the seemingly unending blog silence these last few weeks -- I was swallowed up by school and work and GSA obligations, and the blog just fell by the wayside. I'm not dying in a ditch, but rather (ironically) glued to a computer screen at all times for some reason or another...just obviously not, ya know, for the blog.

Still, during my time in the blogless abyss, I was actually thinking of you and snagging life pics! Hard to believe, I know, with the little evidence I've shown since September (Agh! So embarrassing!), but here are the few that survived during the dark days...

Jackie, Jean, Joanna, Joc, Emily and I went apple pickin' in western Mass...

Then I made an apple crisp...

...and Jocelyn Ann really enjoyed it!!

We continued supporting the Georgia Bulldawgs, and even accompanied our new friend Florian as he watched his first ever American football game!

Emily and Susan discovered Boston Organics, which brings (very photogenic) local produce right to your door!

And Betty Croker kept on bakin' when I made us some homemade banana bread muffins! Yummo!

And we celebrated our one-year anniversary of attending the Head of the Charles Regatta Competition by....attending it again :)

I received some library-white-board wisdom during midterms week...

...and now we are at today and it's SNOWING OUTSIDE!
Moral of the story: I must stick to my commitments or the forces of the world will conspire against me!!

say cheese, again, please ;)

katy c. 

scotttty!

Jackie, Susan, Joanna, Jocelyn, Emily and me :)

Afternoon with friends today at Clery's Pub to watch the dawgs play (Hooray! Back at 500!), then to a mixer at school for our graduate program and two others, and finally at Goody Glover's in the North End! Loves my friends, mucho.

say cheese,
katy c.

an apple a day.

Free apples at Emerson today!! Behold the McIntosh, Honeycrisp and...another one that I can't remember :) But it was delicious!!

Happy apple pickin', y'all!
katy c.

beta.

Seven one-hour video tapes. One media room to pull the footage onto my computer. One verrrry long afternoon.

priscilla, to go.

"...my dinner with Priscilla...and I DID enjoy it!!!!!" - Uncle Mitchell

Check out the awesome blog he keeps while in China...eating things like Priscilla....
http://mitchellmercer.blogspot.com/

more cheese, please.
katy c. 

the devil made me chew it.

Best. Dessert. Ever.

Y'all. Go make these right now.

They're called "The Devil Made Me Chew It" brownies and they're TO DIE FOR! The recipe is from hungrygirl.com and one brownie is a mere 150 calories...a rare find for a delicious dessert! And, bonus, it has the easiest recipe ever...

Ingredients:
- One box devil's food cake
- One 15 oz. can of pumpkin

Directions:
- Heat oven to 400*.
- Mix two ingredients.
- DO NOT add any other items (not even water!) or face ruinin' it!!
- Scoop into cupcake tins.
- Pop 'em in the oven for 20 minutes and enjoy!

Like, so stinking good. Go. Eat. Enjoy.

say cheese,
katy c.

moves like jagger.

Care Bear (aka Carrie Butler) is here!! We (mistakenly) traveled around a hemp fest, into a sidewalk cafe for the best steak salad ever at Abe  Louie's, to the top of the world (not via hemp fest, but via an elevator to the Pru) and allll the way to Little Italy. I miss her mucho!!

priscilla.

My date tonight, Karan's python snake. I didn't love it.

tippity top.

It's often too easy to get bogged down with the monotony or stress of day-to-day life and forget the beautiful, interesting and miraculous people and things surrounding you. So when I forgot just how spectacular Boston is, I was quickly snapped back to reality by the breath-taking, expansive view from the fiftieth floor of the Prudential Center Skywalk...LOVE this city.

back in the starbucks again.

Fall has fallen, and that means that my fellow HCommers and I are back to frequenting our local coffee shops and favorite libraries to get our study on. Today's location of choice: Starbucks at Harvard Square in Cambridge. It really was the most productive afternoon of checking items off the list among Harvard students, ceiling-to-floor scenic windows, big comfy chairs, antler chandeliers and (of course) the wonderful scent of a strong brew.

Wish us luck! We're diving into another semester!
katy c.

ain't nothin' finer in the land...

Recently inducted into Bulldawg Nation: Susan, Emily and Joc!

Than a loud, obnoxious Georgia fan!!

It's official, these girls are my favorites. Not only do they let me talk their ear off about Georgia football/Coach Richt/Power-Ranger-wannabe uniforms/the tradition of tradition/the Arch/Athens/etc. (none of which are they loyal to, as they hail from Minnesota and Cali), but they also humor me by learning how to call the dawgs and being legitimately upset when they can't quite pull through. Yes, my heart is broken from the loss (!!!). But it is also filled with joy by awesome friends who truly....get me. And are patient with my yelling. And my constant stand-sit-pace-repeat action. And my general hatred of any type of visor. And my going a little bulldawg crazy.

That being said, this is the second week I've let them watch a game with me at Clery's, the UGA alumni association bar in Boston (loads of wonderful khaki-wearin', polo-sportin', barkin' Georgia fans!), and the second week that my dawgs have lost the "W." So, if we can't pull it out next week against Coastal Carolina, we're gonna have to start playing with some variables here to see who our lucky charm isn't.

I'm kiddingggg....sorta.

Say what you will, GO DAWGS!
katy c.

i've FALLen and i can't get up.

Happy Fall, y'all! And a warm welcome back to my favorite festive hot drinks at Starbucks :) 

Rehberg's Fall favorite, the pumpkin spice latte :) Yummo.

nice and cozy.

New bedspread for a new school year! Haley made me do it.

black and white and red all over.

No BFF bracelets here, folks. Instead, HayReh and I got matching red TOMS this weekend to complete our fashionable UGA looks!!

GO DAWGS!

katy c. 

they're baaaaack.

First week of September, thus streets crammed with U-Hauls and sidewalks filled with unwanted couches, mattresses and lamps. I'm not sure if you can tell, but there were SIX U-Haul trucks waiting at the intersection next to my apartment. Loves it.

happy anniversary :)

Today marks my one-year anniversary of living in Boston! Can you believe it?!?!

WOW! Time has flown by and it truly seems like only weeks ago that I stumbled into this crazy city with a suitcase stuffed with T-shirts, a mind filled with curiosity and a heart overflowing with joy! At the same time, though, I have done so much and learned more than I could have dreamed to (both in and outside of the classroom) and met some of the most beautiful, daring, caring and different people that most folks couldn't encounter in a lifetime -- it seems like a year has hardly been enough time to squeeze it all in! It may have started with grad school, but it's morphed into so much more. I have hit the halfway mark in completing the task on my life checklist of living in a big city, away from home and familiarity and...though some times were bitterly cold...I would not trade one single season, day or experience for a year outside of my beloved Boston.

Obviously, it wouldn't have been the same without my gorgeous roommate and friend, Jocelyn Ann, who is forever making me smile, letting me whine until I'm tired and allowing me to eat a lil something naughty without judgment ("don't judge me!"). I have been blessed by the fantastic group of young women in my class to learn from and joke with and share new experiences with -- being an SAO sister at UGA paid off in our sea full of estrogen! And I can hardly forget the hysterical stories, "seriously?!" moments and lessons learned that come from working in a college health center, alongside some of the most sincere and loving co-workers a girl could never even dream up!

Being away from home for this long has allowed me to really decide what I do (and don't) like about the South, what my future career will (hopefully) look like, how to survive a real winter, how to embrace every single difference in myself and others, how to function without a car, and what it's like to finally be the odd man out. These things have changed my perceptions, my beliefs and my opinions forever -- praise the Lord! Most importantly: I've had the opportunity to see what I want out of life...and to discover that I want to attack it every morning with excitement and vigor...to realize that I'm forever grateful to the Lord for blessing me with and preparing me for everyday...and to continue to challenge myself to accomplish/tackle/experience/explore new things every.single.day that are simultaneously photo-worthy!

This blog has served me well in keeping my memories and anecdotes and discoveries neatly organized, but I can hardly say that it reflects even a drop of all that I have learned since my journey began one year ago. My family has been so patient with my semi-unexpected journey away from home and my best friends have kept me sane when this ole world up here seems so far away from everything normal! I'm forever grateful to all of them, especially my Mom and Dad, for encouraging my jaunt even when I know it wasn't always the easiest at times (i.e., Weiser always being relegated to picking me up at the airport).

This post is certainly not in keeping with the rules and regulations regarding succinctness for this frame of mind, but I'm in charge so I'll allow it this once. Thank you to everyone who reads and comments and shares! I'm a horribly stubborn and opinionated person and, because you put up with that, you get the old blog design back (after one too many tantrums, I'll add). Here's to many, many more :)

say cheese,
katy c.

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