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katie small mountain

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About Me

"live as if you were to die tomorrow. learn as if you were to live forever" -gandhi
"there is nothing so strong as gentleness, and nothing so gentle as real strength" -sir frances de states
"life changes every second" -caesar milan
"i have ordinary abilities, looks and thoughts. does that suit you; do i qualify?" -jack finney in 'of missing persons'
"we have this thing in our vending machine at work called happy trail mix..." -tana goar
"love don't make things nice...it ruins everything. it breaks your heart, it makes things a mess. we aren't here to make things perfect. the snowflakes are perfect. the stars are perfect. not us, not us! we are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. the storybooks are bullshit" -ronny cammareri in 'moonstruck'
"what'd you say? sorry, i stopped listening." -janelle wilkie
"no cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread." -robert burton
"the cat is just like a cheez-it." -carson hill
"the only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how" -joel plaskett in 'absentminded melody'
"It still seemed simple and incomprehensible...: simple that things should be right, and incomprehensible that they weren't." -ayn rand in 'atlas shrugged'
"life is full of surprises. embrace the unexpected and love the things that take your breath away." -dread hawk night fire
"the mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. the more light you shine on it, the more it will contract." -oliver wendell holmes jr.
some things i like...
tea
goldfish
christmas lights
running
jellyfish
camp lyle mcleod
camp thunderbird
...ANY camp
pasta strainers
seeing joy on someone's face
chai tea
shooting stars
ikea
frozen peas
passing people on the highway
reflections
canoeing
naps
dreaming
girl scouts
swimming
sporks, and other norwegian exports
feeling sunshine on my skin
old movies
dresses
ramuné
campfires
www.postsecrets.com
"france"
chips and salsa
giving
facebook
dane cook
cats
backscratches
my little pony
leaves
uncontrollable fits of laughter
snow
the electric slide
sombreros
the stillness of lakes in the morning
driving places
shoes
friday night club
horses
climbing trees
drawing
sunrises
warm clothes from the dryer
being in bare feet
stretching
perfume
plants
calendars
some things i DISlike...
sneezing
failure
parking garages
asparagus
spiders
losing people
telemarketers
small dogs
feeling insecure
meat
cigarette smoke
litter
misunderstandings
moustaches
feeling guilty
bad memories that won't go away
i hate it when people are...
opinionated
bullies
wasteful
rapists
hypocritical
liars
bitter
abusive
discriminatory
hateful
sell-outs
fake ..

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

gandhi, hitler, juliette low, batman.

My Blog

personal achievement.

here's a link to a video that i helped with for girl scouts of western washington. i can't tell you how strange it is to watch myself in a video like this! a lot of people don't realize how much scout...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:37:00 GMT

check this out.

this is pretty shocking. a friend of mine posted it on facebook. http://www.breathingearth.net/
Posted by on Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:10:00 GMT

baby carrots.

The following is information from a farmer who grows and packages carrots for Safeway, A & P, COSTCO, IGA, METRO, LOBLAWS, etc. and all USA producers do EXACTLY the same. The small cocktail (baby...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:19:00 GMT

word of the day.

momentous. this is a night for the history books. this is one of those memories that is unique to a generation, and finally, that generation is mine. a few months ago i wrote a piece, doubting the eff...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:49:00 GMT

it dances!

dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes. here she lies! no one knew her worth.the late great daughter of mother earth.on these nights when we elebrate the birth in that little town of bethl...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:35:00 GMT

hate me for all the things i didn’t do for you.

expectations suck. especially when they are the kind driven by society's warped ideals. when people make assumptions about other people, how they are, or how they should be, its a form or separation. ...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:35:00 GMT

weight loss, wait loss.

it seems that as i get older, the world becomes a more and more impatient place. generally speaking, people want things, and want them now. one way that this is really obvious is in people's physical ...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:14:00 GMT

movement?

this is a beautiful poem written during world war one. we're doing a fantastic choral version of it in choir, and i think its just amazing. i get goosebumps every time we sing it. In Flanders fields t...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:25:00 GMT

1, 2, 3, 4, tell me that you love me more.

10 Things I want to say to 10 people, but can't.1. i'm sorry things fell apart. i miss you in my life, but i get the impression that you've already moved on, distracted yourself with other people. i w...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:51:00 GMT

"no one could ever look at me like you do..."

"...like i'm something worth holding on to." -you can do better than me by death cab for cutie.so in a completely unrelated direction, for school i have to take this completely inane alcohol awareness...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:39:00 GMT