Hello! I am still here and still doing stuff, as can be seen from my Twitter feed.  Unfortunately, I seem to have fallen into the inevitable Twitter-Blog trap.  I already Twittered it, so why bother blogging, right?  Has that ever happened to you?  Well, it happened to me.  Except that I was never very regular in the first place.

Irregardless (a horrible mangling of ‘regardless’ which Merriam-Webster gave up on and made into a real word, blegh), a lot has happened in Katieland since November 23, 2008, the date of my last post.  Let’s review, shall we?

  • I’ve relented somewhat on the word “blog.”  Don’t get me wrong – I still hate that word.  Hate it.  But I also hate the term “hang out.”  However, I am forced to use these words because there is no viable replacement for either.  At least not without sounding like a pretentious snob.  So, I will no longer tiptoe around calling this website a “blog” because in our English vernacular, that’s exactly what it is.  I know, this is terribly interesting. But hey, you’re the one still reading, right? Heh heh.
  • Snow! We’ve had awesome snow for the last week or so.  I shall post some photos and perhaps videos soon.
  • Speaking of videos, if you follow my Twitter, you know that I recently got a Flip Ultra from the wonderful woot.com.  I lof eet.  So video updates might be a regular thing around here.  I’m thinking I’ll go with Vimeo instead of YouTube, though.  Just because YouTube can be such a harsh environment and Vimeo seems more private and better suited to just messing around and showing bits of personal life.  Although I haven’t gotten any mean comments on my one YouTube video yet, I believe that is only because it’s clips of The Guild, not me or my friends and family.  I don’t think I can handle the mean YouTube commenters.  Plus I think on Vimeo you can choose your own video thumbnail instead of the one of three random screenshots on YouTube.  That’s cool.
  • Marc is home!  My brother Marc has been in Taipei, Taiwan for 10 months and he finally came home Wednesday night.  On Christmas Eve, but that is only a coincidence since we don’t celebrate Christmas (more on that will be forthcoming in the soon-to-be About Me section).  My family is whole again and my mom couldn’t be happier.  Especially since he’s living at their house for the time being [winkyface].
  • I’m going to walk away from the computer right now to check my mail.  If my Dr. Horrible DVD isn’t here yet, I will be back to cry about it… AGH! Still not here! What is the deal, United States Postal Service?!  Everyone else seems to have gotten theirs last week – where is mine?!  I paid for it with my own money and everything!  It’s not like I’m in another country or something!  Gah!  Okay, enough of that, but grrr.

So that’s your friendly Katie update.  I’ll be back soon to add videos and photos and such, but first I’m going to try to remember how I installed Wordpress so I can upgrade to Version 2.7.  That should be fun.