kate+speaks

Dammit DRIZZY!!!

Can we please keep our shit consistent, i.e. what we got right here?

Thank you. You’re still my favorite.

Fuggin’ Nikki Minaj, you just KILLLLLLED this for me.

I wasn’t convinced before now, but I’ll have to say, I’m officially a fan.

“S on my chest let me get my cape on
where tha certificate that I changed my name on”

WHERE THE CERTIFICATE WHERE I CHANGED MY NAME ON?!?!

Ohh man. She got me with that line. I’ll probably bang this all summer, just in time too =p

I <3 you, Miguel Jontel.

I slept so hard on this one.

Now when I hear it its like I’m on cloud 9.5.

I’ve seem to hit that point in life where I’ve forgotten just how hard it is to burn off that scoop of ice cream or that chocolate croissant. The other day I ran three miles and then stuck around to do about 75 squats, and I swore to myself that I would think before I ate.

Wrong.

I just ate half a custard pastry bun for breakfast.

I used to work out 4/5x a week as a student, with less sleep, and way more stress. But now I’m lazy and have more money to indulge (for food mainly), plus it seems like every minute of my extra time is devoted to the internet or trying to spend some good qt with the husband.

Gah I need to get out of this rut. Can I blame this crap weather, cause if so, its definitely the weather’s fault.

As soon as 80’s hits I’ll be ashamed to put on a tank top, and I’ll have to play catchup with myself.

$3.50 yellow tulips in a vintage mason jar

My upbringing has engrained me not to fuck up on about everything of which I have the power of controlling. I like to think I’m pretty on top of my shit.

But when I do fuck up…. I fuck up royally.

Example #1:
For our honeymoon on Kauai I made our reservations for our hotel & inter-island flights one day less than the time we were actually going to leave Hawaii. So when it came to checking out our hotel & leaving Kauai we still had one day on Oahu, completely without a plan or any reservations for anything. I had to scramble and get a cheap hotel and car, by asking my maid of honor, while we were still on our honeymoon. Luckily that shit worked out and any expenses we incurred were worth it just for getting that extra day on Oahu. So to us, my huge fuck up turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Example #2:
To my knowledge I thought I cancelled a reservation for the trip planned to San Luis Obispo for the man’s birthday. I even took a screen capture of the damn screen and everything. But after checking my bank accounts yesterday, wamp wamp, looks like I got charged. Then I look back at the screen capture I made, and FUCK, guess I didn’t cancel it all the way.

I’m pretty sharp, so I’m going to have to blame it on a fucked up user interface. Cause I thought I was at the screen in which I already canceled my reservation. As a person who deals with design, I know we have to create user experiences which are quick and to the point, because attention spans are shorter than ever these days, this user-interface is just fucked up to me.

I added the yellow highlighting and the red mark-up. I thought the area with the yellow highlighting was the confirmation for my cancellation. I didn’t even see the “button” to go further with my cancellation, like I said, I thought I was done.

Some ideas Vagabond Inn:
- Put a fatass red button “CANCEL YOUR RESERVATION,” SOMETHING!?!?
- How about highlighting the fact that I still need to go one more important step to actually making that cancellation?
- Make the other options smaller and less dominating

Fuck I’m not stupid, I just had no attention to deal with something so simple as an online cancellation, especially when I make and cancel hotel/travel arrangements like this all the time.

OHH and another tip, I never got a confirmation email when I even made the reservation, so it didn’t bother me too much when I didn’t get a cancellation confirmation email either.

They need a new fucking website, most definitely. We’re trying to argue against the fact, cause we honest to God, believed we cancelled our reservation. If not, its $356 down the drain.

F@CK.

Fast Forward

- To some warmer weather
- To a bbq with crack-laced food
- To an opportunity to wear a dress and fake lashes
- To some real stability with my career
- To July, & our one year anni trip
- To visiting turquoise water and white sand
- To warm golden hours
- To a weekend of blurred memories in Las Vegas
- To “Dexter” season 4 coming out on DVD

Please Rewind

- Back to a day when “LOST” was fresh & new for me
- Back to when SoFA Lounge existed and good music & good vibes went hand in hand
- Back to when I was barely past the age of 22
- Back to when the homies all still lived in the hometown
- Back to when it was easy to get me and my closest friends in the same place
- Back to my favorite family vacation to Florida, July ‘99
- Back to the day my best friend in the world became my husband
- Back to the best week I’ve ever spent with my friends & loved ones, in paradise
- Back to a day when I could say hi to my grandma and give her a hug

You can sing this song to me anytime.

I slept on this one… won’t lie, will probably conceive a baby to this or one of many Robin Thicke songs.

Is it me, or was I the only one who didn’t know it was going to rain in the Bay today? Hmpfh. We’re having some wack ass weather these days. Its May right?

Unfortunately for me, May is when fog season hits SF, while everyone else is enjoying clear skies, it looks like the middle of February in the summer, we even have this thing called “June Gloom.” Although I luhh this city to death, I have to admit, I hate the weather 75% of the time. I forgot to mention that SF has a ton of microclimates, and while one area of the city may be foggy as hell, the Outer Sunset for Example, other neighborhoods, lets say the Mission, could be enjoying a blue sky with 75 degree weather. Ehh thats SF for you, fickle weather patterns. I’ve never been able to leave the house without a jacket, never. Cause when the sun drops, even on a nice day, you’re assed out.