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Lunch dates. Especially with Lynnsey Coker at Clydes. We spent almost two hours just talking and eating a whole bunch of REALLY good food. It was my first time ever at Clydes and it was super awesome.

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December 27, 2010
Relatives came to visit and we celebrated my aunt's 60th. We actually put 60 candles on the cake and lit them all. She laughed so hard, it was hilarious.

December 28, 2010
Georgetown! It's the first time I've ever been there. It was so much fun. Plus Georgetown Cupcake was amazing, and I normally don't even like cupcakes.

December 29, 2010
I got my first acoustic guitar! It's so exciting. I've been kind of learning how to play, but I didn't have anything to practice on. Now that I do, I'm determined to learn. =)

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Christmas

<3

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Patricia Mackenzie Cook

Tricia: My family is in a heated debate over Sarah Palin.
Me: What about her?
Tricia: Whether she has a soul...Katy gets heated
Me: HAHAHAH I was expecting something political
Tricia: Of course not silly girl

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Decorating Christmas cookies with my sister 

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Christmas Eve.

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Tuesday (56)
Skype. I love being able to have a face-to-face conversation with people who aren't actually next to you.

Wednesday (57)
Dance parties. (Especially at a church when helping out with the middle school ministry. They don't care so much about being able to actually dance. They just go crazy.)

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I had the coolest dream last night, I wasn't sure if I should put it as yesterday's "like" or todays but I've decided to post it as yesterdays. Anyway It was a dream about a balloon. I had this black heart shaped balloon tied to my wrist, but it was so strong that I was hovering about six inches off the floor everywhere I went, but somehow I could still walk if I wanted to. It wasn't pulling me up by my wrist either, I was completely balanced. A couple times in my dream I just sat down in mid air and held on to the hood of someone's jacket or someone's hair and they just pulled me along with them. It kept making the people in my dream laugh. It was a completely nonsense dream, but it was so happy. One of those dreams that you just wake up in a good mood afterword. Today is going to be a good day.

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Being at home on Sundays.

I spent my morning at church with the people I love. They've shaped me into the person I am today and that makes me extremely happy. I don't know where I'd be without this church, but it wouldn't be good. Afterwords I headed home and ate lunch and talked to my mommy. Afterwords I headed over to dance practice to see my old team. It was nice to catch up with everyone. Then I headed back to the church to "Encounter" (worship service) to give some time back to God. It was amazing (as always). I just love being at the Community Church. I can't even find words to express the love I feel there, God is definitely working in that place. Then tonight I made brownies entirely from scratch...melting the chocolate and all. They're the type with cream cheese swirled through them so they're even more awesome. Pretty epic day in general hahah =)

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Fire Escape. I love my youth group and I've missed it so much. It's brought me so much joy and it still does.

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Reston Town Center in the winter with friends. Especially Yogen Fruz and seeing Tangled. Great night with amazing people.

Monday - Thursday

This week has been CRAZY due to exams and coming home, so I haven't been able to have time to sit don and post on here.

Monday (48)

I pretty much rocked by Cultural Anthropology exam. That was a major "like" especially after only an hour of studying. 

Tuesday (49)

HOME! I took my last exam and then headed home and was actually home by dinner time. I had dinner and hung out with my family. Then I headed over to Lynnsey's house and got to spend some time with my best friend. When I headed home all my family was asleep (and it was what 9:45? hahah) so I had a couple hours to myself and I spent them working on a couple pages in my sketchbook. It's awesome to be home. I definitely needed this. 

Wednesday (50)

BAKING! I don't have an oven in my dorm, so whenever I come home I go crazy cooking and baking. I baked two kinds of cookies just yesterday (and there will be much more to come).

Thursday (51)

I woke up this morning to snow. I'm pretty sure that snow has been one of my "likes" before, but I decided that we can count this one again because I'm in a different state =).

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Friday (45)

I found out that I can fit all my credits into four years of college even if I get into the BFA art program and double major in that and psychology. 

Saturday (46)

Oak House fun. I'm seriously going to miss these guys during winter term. We all hung out and then the girls at Full House were having a party and we went over there and each took one thing (a clock, sprinkles, a picture, salt & pepper shakers, etc.).  They figured it out not much longer and tried to break into Oak House which we had secured shut. So much fun. These guys are hilarious. I love being around them. They're always so positive and fun.

Sunday (47)

Church stuff. All day. Staff meeting, service, staff lunch/dirty santa gift exchange. I got some pretty cool stationary. And ate a whole bunch of home cooked southern food. Yum.

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We had a basketball game on Tuesday and afterword the Cheerleaders went out to dinner at Red Bowl. It's so much fun to spend some time with the team when we don't have to practice. It always ends up being really goofy and us all making fun of each other. It's like a big family. I love it. I always end up having to  drive Hilary's car home also...I guess that's what happens when you have friends who are of drinking age. Hahaha. After that I headed over to Oak House for their Christmas Party. Oak House parties are always amazing because they're probably the only parties on campus that involve absolutely no alcohol. Just a bunch of Christians hanging out, dancing, and eating. I got there at around eleven danced until 1:30ish (to pretty much the best music ever...complete with "smanging it", N*sync, S Club 7, and "Dougie-ing") and then ended up hanging out upstairs ("the VIP room" hahah jk) with about ten people until 3:30 in the morning when I finally headed back to get some sleep. It was just a fun night all together.

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Yesterday night I hung out with Richard (one of the guys who lives in Oak House) and we watched One  Tree Hill. It's always good to find another fan. hahaha. The thing I've realized about Oak House is that everyone is just always invited over. By the end of the episode three more people had joined us. We all just hung out for awhile and then headed over to Cookout and got milkshakes courtesy of Richard.

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Modern Family. Enough said. 

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I'm absolutely terrible at remembering to write these.

Sunday (40)

Sunday night my small group met up with one of the freshman guys' small group and we had a "date night". We all dressed up and went over to Oak House to meet the guys who all were in dress shirts and ties (some even with bow-ties...my favorite). They sang a "harmonized" version of "My Girl" to us and then we had to pick our date. There were a bunch of random objects on a table and we were each told to pick one. Once we picked an item, the guy who owned it would reveal himself and he would be your date for the night. I picked a Nickelodeon alarm clock/radio which obviously meant my date was the coolest kid ever. His name is Ross and it was so much fun to meet him and talk to him the whole night. Some of the date couples were awkward but ours wasn't and I'm really happy about that. It ended up that he even used to live in NOVA. It was a really fun night and I met a lot of new people. I hope we do it again some time.

Monday (41)

Yesterday my new friend Richard (who lives at Oak House) decided to post videos, songs, and websites on my Facebook wall all day. They were all hilarious and completely made my day. I spent half of my Christian traditions class Facebooking him and looking at the websites he was sending me (for example: http://www.ilikeyourjacket.com/ ) It was just one of those little things that make your day so much better.

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Thirty Eight

Oak House parties. Oak house is a house that a couple of the upperclassmen guys from Intervarsity my school's youth group) live at. Last night they had a big thanksgiving dinner potluck and a dance party. It was SO much fun to be partying with  a bunch of Christians and dancing to N*sync and Miley Cyrus songs. Basically the best party I've been to yet.

Thirty Nine

SNOW!

Yes. It's snowing here. We already have at least two inches and it keeps coming. I'm sitting in my room listening to Christmas music with the Christmas lights on and the blinds open so I can see the snow. It's absolutely perfect.

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Wow I suppose I have a lot to catch up on...


35. My "like" from Tuesday was cheer practice. It's something that I have twice a week and I just take it for granted that I'm able to take part in a sport I love on a team full of great people. Coming in to the team, I was scared that it was going to be overly intense and the team would be superficial, but I found the complete opposite. I never find myself not wanting to go to cheer practice. I loveee it.

36. Wednesday's "like" was Daniely L (which is a dorm). It's where my cheer base (Matt) lives. I went over after helping out with Youthquake because he said he'd give me a guitar lesson. That lasted all of a half hour because his suite mates, who are some of the funniest people at Elon, kept bursting in and just doing random things. We all ended up just hanging out and I listened to them play guitar and bass and just have a little jam session. At home I was so used to having friends just pull out random instruments and start playing, but this group of guys are the only people here that I know who does that. It was just a really fun night. I didn't end up going back to my dorm until past one and then had to get up for an 8 AM, but it was completely worth it. I have two "likes" for today I guess. The second "like" is that me and my roommate, Jenny, decorated our dorm room for Christmas and then took our "Christmas card" picture.

37. Christmas lights. Elon has been putting up lights, wreaths, and garland all around campus for the past week or two but they waited until tonight until they lit everything up. I missed the lighting, carols, and hot chocolate because I was getting dinner with the cheerleaders after practice but it's alright. Dinner was super fun anyway. I walked over by myself to take some pictures of everything. They had even lined the walkways with bagged lights. It was so pretty. I wanted to kick myself for leaving my good SLR camera at home over Thanksgiving and having to use a little point and shoot camera. But I decided I wanted a couple pictures anyway. I was there all of five minutes before I hear someone yell "Kaitlyn!" (I love being on a small campus for this reason alone). It happened to be Dan, one of the guys from Daniely L. I ended up hanging out with a bunch of them for a little before coming back to my dorm. I'm now writing this as I'm watching The Santa Claus (with Tim Allen) on ABC Family. It's one of my all time favorite Christmas movies.