wow. our first act of "Departures and Arrivals" was last night..
i can't get over how much crazy fun yesterday was!!!
as usual, the practices and the dress rehearsals were fun.
and hot..and sweaty..
but wow! so much fun.
sooo many random random moments..
you guys are such whiners with the eyeliner ahah! at least i didnt poke you in the eye!!=P
some people were pretty nervous, but got over it in no time.
being on stage like that gave all of us such a rush! wow. that was soo much fun.
the play just flew by like that.
along with the heat and sweat. =P
but at least we had fans..hahah
and haha the audience found the play quite hilarious i must say, which is a good thing! wow. it made us all get into our roles all the more.

i kinda botched my lines in the last scene, but you'd only know that if you were in the cast. haha. (THANKS TO THE AMAZING KATHLEEN LAIRD FOR FEEDING ME MY LINES! I CANT THANK YOU ENUF)
anyhoo.
maybe i should get to bed, and get ready for yet another amazing day tomorrow...
which is also "National Keith Day" ahaha. what fun. =P
WEEHOO! CANT WAIT FOR TOMORROW!!...
till we meet again,
kathleen<33

as you can see, i've added a new look to this blog of mine. hope you like it, cuz i do.

well. its a Friday, so far, no plans for this evening. and its raining. Most people would find the rain depressing. Most of the time, i find it quite refreshing. To me, rain is like..a renewal of the earth. Makes everything refreshed and clean. When the rain stops, it may not be totally a sight to behold at first...but once it soaks up the sun, its truly beautiful.Walking//dancing in the rain is one of my favorite things to do. Theres just something enlightening about having droplets of cool water that falls from the heavens touch and trickle down your skin.

i fell asleep last night to lines from the play rushing through my head over and over again. I guess thats a good thing..means i've been practicing and its actually registering lol. I hope the play turns out. I'm almost one hundred percent sure it will. ..you know what's weird? alot of the characters in our play don't have names..i think the night of the play i shall give them all my own names..starting with my own. I think I should be named "April". *sigh* i love that name..

Candie, my little green budgie, whom i've had for 4 years, passed away yesterday. I came home from all the excitement of drama to find her frail body. just laying there. i shed a tear on sister's shoulder, and realized she lived a good life. She even survived the 3 day car ride with us, when we moved here. And I still have my other little blue budgie Skye. so dont feel too bad for me. ;)

&&this is skye..sadly i don't have a picture on the computer of Candie..




so i guess that's all for now. I think i'll go and play the piano and sing and get lost in it all..its a good way to clear my head. ..and then maybe i'll go for a walk in this rain...if only you were here to walk through it with me. i miss you.

Love Always,
-kathleeen
{ nothing in this world could keep me from staring at you }

ray's hair // half straight =P


so today//tonight was pretty awesome. we had our dress rehearsal for "Departures and Arrivals. from 9:00 am till 6:30 pm ish. wow. longer than expected, but much needed practice was had there. and fun of course. we were all kinda worried it wasnt gonna come together in the first act.but everyone pulled their act togther by the end. hahaaa i just made a funny "act together"? ahah i'm such a joker.
ANYWAY i'm sorry. its late.
but twas hilarious putting eyeliner on keith . YOU'RE SUCH A WHINER haha jk. and then seeing everyone with tonz of make-up (ahem, kathleen L. ahem hehe but i love you anyway) haah. and mike. you dressing up in all the costumes. i mean ALL the costumes. ahahah
so yeah. it went well, adn then Brittni, Sarah, Ryan, Rosie, Bekah, Dave, Jess, BRADLEY (haha, sry bud) and I went for dinner at East Side's after. had a grand time. with some random conversations. haahhaha. amazing food, speedy waitress, funny jokes, all equaled to a good time.
so maybe i should go to bed, because my mom told me to go to bed about an hour ago. and i'm a rebel and still up. mwahah =P so yeah. thanks for the awesome time today guys, cant wait for the play. =)

so here's my blogs from myspace. now you can get caught up to date with my wonderful life..pffft..

Thursday, May 11, 2006
AOC!!

okay, so i know that i've been simply raaaaving about how much fun AOC was, maybe its time for me to share what went on at the awesome weekend of AOC.
first of all, for anyone who doesnt know what AOC is, it stands for All-Ontario-Choir, but its basically for homeschoolers. lol. Its a Christian weekend, so we had Devotions and such, and we also had activities (games) and, who would've guessed, singing!! and at the end of the weekend, we performed our songs for our parents.
ALRIGHT. now that that's clear, onto the weekend!
So Thursday night was registration night, so for an hour, ppl arrived, signed in, and then just talked with old friends, and met new friends. The hall was packed and hot, but we still had a fun time. So once all that important stuff was out of the way, it was time for games!! So we played this random game outside even tho i really didnt understand what was going on, as did half the people, i just ran with the crowd.lol. and so yeah, the night went on like that with games, and then at the end of the night, we had some praise and worship in the hall which was totally moving and so awesome to see and have all those kids praising God with you. After that, we all went to either the person's house we were spending the weekend at, or our own houses.
Early Friday morning, we all gathered into our groups ( mine was group blue WEEHOO with Anne, Bridget, Laurie, Jordan, and Dave...leaders were Michelle and James..) and had group devotions. The topic for our devotions was Consumerism and how it affects us the society. We had quite the interesting discussions, i must say.
Then, we had a good time practicing choir songs. aaand then there was lunch. great food i must say. (good job stephen and rach ahah) yeah, random pictures were taken, and hilarious jokes were made. and then we had the awesome game of PICTURE SCAVENGER HUNT!!!!
So what we had to do was, take the list that our leaders gave us and take pictures of what was on the list. Things on the list were crazy things like,
Wedding Photo, Jungle Photo, Abstract Art, Sears Catalogue, "You Weren't Supposed To See That", "How Many People Can You Shove In A Car Trunk", "Crime Investigation, and amusing things like this. well, this is how our group displayed some of these things...
for the wedding photo, we had Jordan and I, stand as if we were getting married, underneath this georgeous flowery tree, Dave stood between us as the preist, and the rest stood at the side as bridesmaids..i have yet to see this photo...ahaha
For "Abstract Art" Jordan, with his awesome skills, braided some grass together for Anne to wear in an awesomely cool fashion..damn we are creative ahha.
Now, for the Sear's Catalogue, i was chosen (for obvious reasons...pffft haha) to be the model..yeah. i sat on a rock. weehooo.
One of my favorites, the " You Weren't Supposed to See That" we had Dave ( of course ) do his Monkey Impression. wow.
and somehow, we managed to fit everyone into the trunk of a car...do NOT ask me how we did that.
And then, for our lovely Crime Investiagtion, we stole Stephen (our lovely photographer =P ) 's pocket knife, made it look like it was going into Anne's neck..you won't believe how real it looked! (sarcasim..hehe)
unfortunatly, our photos weren't quite as creative as the other groups, but we still had a hilarious time taking them.
but this brings me to the story of how i became "kathleen brink" for the weekend..
well, first of all, you must know, that Keith Brink and I traded name-tags for the weekend. And so, when i was being asked by Chris what my name was when i signed up for the Coffeehouse, i said "Kathleen...(looked down at my nametag...) Brink!!" ...silence "OMGSH THAT DIDNT COME OUT RIGHT!!!" so then keith, kathleen, chris, and i all burst out laughing. and thats my story. and stephen, i know you're rather jelous. but, hey, you'll get over it. ahaha.
So then was supper, (once again, awesome food ) and THEN was coffeehouse!!!! wow. amazing talented people we had at AOC!!! We had vilions, euphoniums, singing, piano, guitars, skits, slideshows, bands, flutes, and tonz more. I , for one, played the piano and sang the song "You". And then we all had to vote for our favourite performances, which from there about 7 were chosen to perform at the Finale Concert.....
After the Coffeehouse, we had more praise and worship to end off the night, before we went home to bed...but before that, i tried to show Victor(( vincent =P)) that i could beat him up. so we settled to a Mercy Fight...well, if i was a liar, i'd tell you that i won. but i'm not. soo i'm gonna tell you that Victor won this fight...BUT WE'RE ON FOR A RE-MATCH NEXT TIME I SEE YOU VINCENT!!!!! ahahaah.
Saturday>> Finale!!!!
Went as follows..
Group Devotions, Group Picture, Rehearsal, and the beloved..
AEROBICS!!!!!!!!!!!
wow. words cannot describe how much freaking fun that was!!! ahahah esp. since the music (techno praise&worship =D) we used was awesomely awesome...(p.s. i still gotta buy a copy of that...from who knows where..) yeah, mr. aerobics instructor was a cool cat. his accent was most of all the primest accent i've ever heard. aaahh where to begin. Keith was THE MASTER at aerobic-ing. if that makes sense. he was so into it. aaaaaah keith you are deff my hero. so as you can tell, aerobic dancing was a good time.
Theennnn there was storytelling..we had this lady come in who was rather good at telling stories. quite funny i might add! hehe.
After that, we had dinner, and THEN it was time for the FINALE CONCERTTTT!!! from what i heard, Kathleen2, Kimberly did a lovely job of playing/singing before the show, and then the AOC choir came in, and the men sang the song "We Are The Men" ( coincidental? i think not..) and then us ladies sang "Painless Opera"...and thats all i have to say about THAT thrill of a song!!! ahahaa. Then, we had "Coffeehouse Favorites" Where, Madelaine and Andrea did an AWESOME job of playing the violin and piano in a duet. Then Jen and her amazing skills and violion!!! wow. i dont think i've ever seen fingers go so fast. And I did my song on the piano and singing, and then we had Ryan perform the song that he wrote called "Learning" aww ryan. you are simply amazing. i loved it. anndd thenn last but not least, we had Jon, and the song that hee wrote about giving yourself to God. Amaaazzing piano and vocals Jon!! aaahh i cant get over how much i love that song. Then back to our lovely choir, singing, " African Psalm" " Sheep May Safely Graze" The Heavens Declare Gods Glory " Keep Your Lamps" and "Amen Alleluia". I have to say, we were quite amazing. No doubt about that. And thanks so much to Mrs. Goheen for being such an amazing choir director and an inspriration to us all <33
But, all good things must come to an end, even if it was an awesome weekend like AOC. So we all said signed eachother's sweet green folders, took our last pictures, and said goodbye until next year. aaaaaah. so now i am (aswell as many other AOC goers) are fighting the depression of missing everyone and the awesome times we had those past few days.
*sigh*
Thank you all sooooooo much for such an amazing and awesome weekend! I really had the time of my life. Every person i met there was so awesome and i can't wait to see you next year!!! Praise God for awesome times like AOC! <333
to see some pics from the lovely event, visit
www.spaces.msn.com/AOC2006
or see my pictures at
www.spaces.msn.com/kaddyeh
WEEEEEEEEE i love ay-oh-seeeeee!
miss you all like crazy. thanks for the good times. SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!! WOOT WOOT

Monday, April 03, 2006
singin' in the raainnn

bad morning.
bad noon.

WONDERFUL AFTERNOON!!!
wanna know why??? okay. well. i was walking to voice lessons, and it was sunny. but thats not it. and voice lessons went gret, and i'm singing My Heart Will Go On for my recital. but thats not it either..
on my way home..there was a large
KABOOM!
and guess what happened next??
IT STARTED POURING
and for most ppl, that would SUCK.
but if you know me, you know that i looovveee walking in the rain. and i rejoiced and danced all the freaking way home. i even took off my sweater ( i had a tshirt underneath fellahs haha) so i could enjoy the rain all the more.
yes, dancing in the rain is my absolute fav thing to do.
and luckily, i was not struck by lighting, and thats why i'm here to tell you my lovely story...the only thing that was missing was the love of my life. which i know will come around eventually (or maybe he already has?), and will walk in the rain with me.
and so here i am listening to Frank Sinatra and Michael Buble, just to keep my mood up. but i'm leaving for choir now, to grace all with my presence! tehehe.
love you aallllll =D
<333
p.s. get better lysha, my love

Thursday, March 30, 2006
she's in a good mood? holy crap!

so this morning is a momentous occasion..wanna know why??
I'M IN A GOOD MOOD! IN THE MORNING!! AT MY OWN HOUSE!!!
i mean, if thats not amazing, i don't know what is.
i wonder what brought it on? prolly the fact that i went to bed on time last night, and also the fact that I listened to Frank Sinatra as i got ready, and also the fact that it's O.C. NIGHT!! wooooooot!! so i thought i'd just let you all know that i'm in a great mood this morning, and that duznt happen often. i'm usually only in a good mood in the evening...thats why i dont sleep
but if i was outside of my house..i'm usually in a good mood all the time. just..some ppl in my house kinda..piss me off to say the least...esp the ones i'm with 24/7...not to name any names...
but lets not talk about them. because i have freaking awesome news...
THE NEW GOO GOO DOLLS WEBSITE IS UP&RUNNING!!!!!! like omg. i think i pee'd myself when i went to the site and it was all newww and purrtttyyy. and the best thing is....THE LYRICS FOR THEIR NEW SONGS ARE UP!! omg the lyrics are sooooooo friggin amazing. like i couldnt believe it. you must go and chek it out. and if you didnt know yet, the latest GooGoo Dolls album, Let Love In, is being released on April 25th!!!! i'm soooo going to HMV that day to buy it. omg i cant waittt!!!! www.googoodolls.com !! anyhooo..
i'm also getting a long-awaited hair-cut this afternoooon. i hope it looks good..i'm thinking that i'm gonna get bangs and short layers..but i dont know why i'm telling you this. so!
just some words of advice, if you're ever in a bad mood, listen to Frank Sinatra, because he puts you in a good mood...at least he does for me
just one more thing...i'd like to say good luck to alyssa and nathan and the rest of the "sound of music" cast&crew in Winnipeg, MB on their performance tomorrow and saturday!!! i know it will be stellar.
i've got the woorrlldd on a strinnngg sitting on a raainnnbowww!...i'm so in love! thank you Mr.Sinatra, for those inspiring words.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
in follow-upp
In follow-up to my last blog, I am posting these lovely reasons why I dont do my art-appreciation homework, according to my dear friend lysha whom I love with a passion...whether they are true or not...( I hope you dont mind me volunteering your work as a donation to my blog lysh )
Reasons Why Kathleen Dunn Does Not Do Her Art Appreciation Homework
..1. she can tell people that she doesn't do the homework and feel cool...2. she can examine her rebelliousness and feel intellectually minded...3. she finds that not doing her art appreciation homework gives her this odd feeling that something is missing. it makes her cry. kathleen realizes she is emo and goes to find a knife...4. not doing art appreciation homework leaves time to have a party. dismissing the thought of being emo- she throws a party. (using the knife she found to cut a cake.)..5. kathleen finds that not doing art appreciation homework means in class she can choose random answers during quizzes without feeling worried she's choosing the wrong answer...6. kathleendunn is just cool like that.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
blaahh

i'm a procrastinator.
did you know that?..if you were in my art class you would. =P you would know that i've been in that class since..hmm..well a few months now. and i havent done any of the reading homework assigned. ever. and i leave my sculpture/essay homework until the night before. but thats not the point.
the point i'm making now is that i couldSLASHshould be doing math or science or composition or art or religion or any schoolwork right now, but i decided to write another blog. because i'm bored with doing the same schoolwork everyday. i'm bored with being at home. i'm bored with sitting around with the same ppl every day. i need variety.
at least jessica is here behind me. rambling on about stuff that i'm not even listening to. o well. at least she THINKS i'm listening..just cuz i give her a random grunt to her comments every now and then.
you know what i just remembered? i just remember that i havent memorized my lines for the play either. i should prolly get on that. and work on learning how to hug someone properly. seeing as i have to do that in the play.
you'd think i'd know how to hug someone properly, since giving hugs is my fav thing to do. but..on command like that? its actually kinda difficult. o well. i'll figure it out.
aiight. now jessica has decided that she should call her lover, matthew, in dear old winnipeg...they talk about dumb things. and now i'm making fun of them =P cuz thats what i do best. muhaha.
so now that i've wasted about 5 minutes or more of your life, depending on how fast you read, i should prolly shut up and get some work done. yeah. that would be the smart thing to do.
love forever,
kathleen

Thursday, March 16, 2006
can't sleep

so i was upstairs with my older sister who spilled hot tea all over herself and has a 2nd degree burn. and i cant sleep.and neither can she. so i came down here. and now i'm sitting here talking to nathan and alyssa. alyssa is my lover ;) and nathan..well ..is nathan. haha. he's telling me quite interesting things.dont ask =P but anyway. marie (from winnipeg) left today . was really sad. i cried. but i shall not talk about this sad subject anymore. i love you gummi bear.
march break is coming to a close. but ST.PATTIE'S DAY IS TOMOROW! and i'm super excited. i'm going to the Brassie to hear my dad&uncle play/sing, and i might sing a few songs too =D so yeah! and michelle is coming out to visit once again! YAY=D
hurray for being irish ... KISS ME I'M IRISH =P...wait..scratch that aha.
but i should go to bed.
big day tomorrow. gotta clean my room.
see y'alls l8er =P ahaha. God Bless
kathleen

so for now. i'm just seeing how this new bloggy thing works.
Keith is my teacher in this new thing. I shall follow in his steps..i guess.
but i'm gonna start off by posting my myspace blogs here, cuz thats where i normally blog my life away. but i'll do that later. keith is telling me how to change my template and such. so i'm sorry this is the lamest first blog ever. but what can i say? ..i dont no. lol.
SO COME BACK TO READ MORE BLOGS LATERR
-kathleen*<33