hey all! whats up?!?! o man i just got back from my weekend @ DUKE!!!!!!! it was CRAZy but sooo much fun!!!! lol on friday i left my house really early to go to the airport for my plane to DUKE! woo lol so after i arrived in Durham i met John who was going to Duke also he was cool lol the we were waiting and then Lauren came!!!! yay!! lol so we picked up some more people like Kelly, Annie, Mary and some other cool recruits! haha esp the diver from Hawaii!!! lol! but yea then we drove to DUKE! Kelly, Annie and I were gossipping then entire way to DUKE... nothing to new! lol so OMG we finally arrived at DUKE!!!!!!!!! ITS GORGEOUS OMG I LOVE IT! hahah it was awesome then like right away we went to class it was so funny the teacher looked exactly like Miss Guiess (sp?) from Clueless and the entire class was about human sexuality!!! haha omg and FREUD! haha i knew about him!!! lol!!! so after class we went to LUNCH!!! yummy it was really good! lol i ate lunch with jay ash and kelly and some other cool people it was fun!! haha so then after that we walked over to the bookstore and then to my host Michelle and Jackie's room... we just hung out before practice and everything then we went to practice Coach talked to us... he is way to funny!!! lol and so did Lauren then we were free to go about! first we went to the football stadium then kelly, mary, alex and i sncuk into Cameron! it was awesome it was so cool to see!!! lol then all the girl recruits talked for like an hour then we went back for the last like 10 minutes of practice then we went out for dinner at this mexican place it was good then Kate, Jackie, Michelle and I went back to the dorms and Michelle went to the movies and Jackie, Kate and I watched the entire 4th season of Sex in the City it was awesome lol so then we slept and woke up early for practice again then we went to BRUNCH!! it was so good!!! lol then i got to SWIM!!! yay!!! lol so yea then we watched the boys play Ultimate Frisbee.... wayyy to funny holy shit! haha! then after that Kelly, Amy, Kate and I watched the GOONIES!!! haha then we went to dinner @ Mad Hatters it was so good i loved it!!!! lol then we went back to the dorms to get ready for the PARTY!!!! it was SOOO much fun holy crap i dont think i have ever had so much fun in my life seriously... then again i've never really been to a party before!! haha!! the entire team is awesome and so much fun to hang out with!!!! lol then i woke up this morning and went home! i was so sad to leave but OMG it was def the best weekend ever o man!!!!!!!!!! lol!!!! but yea thats all for now!!!! love u all soooo much!!!! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin

hey all! whats up?! o man i never have to take the SATs EVER AGAIN!!! WOO! haha im so excited! lol but yesterday was so much fun!!! lol so after SATs i came home then i drove down to MKA and i picked up Maggie and Cassie and we went to watch Lexi's field hockey game against MoBeard even though we showed up w/ like 10 mins left! haha o well then we watched the football game for a tad then we went to the MACARONI GRILL! haha i love that place! it was me, cassie, maggie, dan, charley, lexi and bets! it was a lot of fun even though John wasnt there!! lol but yea! then we went to Cocnuts and MAGGIE MOOS! haha it was sooooo good! lol then we all left cause BEts had to drive dan and charley home but i had so much fun yesterday!!! haha so yea then today i woke up and got bagles and such but yea i was looking @ our entries for the NY meet @ AGUA were going to and i think Judy wants to kill me!!!!! haha i have to swim the 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 free, 4000 free, 800 free and 200 fly!! O GOODNESS!!! im going to drown!!! haha! but yea thats about all for now! o yea and Purdue won yesterday against Penn State! go boliers! lol but yea thats all for now! love u all sooo much!! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin

hey all!!! whast up?!?! omg i finally ready to update my journal about PURDUE!!!!!!! OMG IT WAS AWESOMEEE!!! let me tell u this West Lafayette is the place to be!! haha so i flew in on Thursday night and my flight got really delayed and it sucked haha but i finally got to Indy o man was the plane small!!! haha so yea then i went to the hotel and watched some TV then went to sleep i was dead!! lol soo yea i woke up Friday morning and Julianne was in my room... haha she didnt get into Indy until like 2 AM so i didnt see her b/c i was passed out! haha so we went down to eat breakfast and then CATHY picked us up! lol we drove for an hour and @ 9: 46 AM we arrived @ PURDUE!! haha Cathy was so nice to us on the drive down and as soon as we got out of teh car Dar met us and we went on a tour of Macky Arena it was awesome we saw study tables and the physical therapy room and everything lol then we met up w/ Kat and Abby and we went to Sociology 100... wow what a weird class haha the Professor was talking about how some monkey knew sign language then we watched these music videos it was odd but the class was HUGE it was in a lecture hall it was cool though! then we walked to Jake's for lunch it was awesome pizza and spinach artichoke dip!!! haha i was there for like 2 hours but it was awesome! lol but everyone @ purdue had AWESOME school spirit it was so cool!!! lol so then i had my meeting w/ Cathy and i love her she is sooo nice!!!!!! lol and she told me i would get into PURDUE which made me a thousand times happier then i already was!!! lol!!!!! then i met w/ an academic advisor he was really nice and we talked about their management school and everything! then we drove over to practice!! THE POOL = AMAZING AND GORGEOUS AND FAST! ahh! haha the girls did their set and some of the recruits and i jumped in another pool and swam for a little... floating basically it was awesome! lol and my mom was there she was so funny haha o yea then we had CIRCLE P!! omg it was sooo cute i loved it!! haha then off to Stadium for dinner OMG it was SOOOOO good!! haha and my host jen and i were walking around for 20 minutes before we knew what we wanted to eat! haha then after dinner everyone was planning to meet @ jens apartment for movie night we rented MEAN GIRLS haha it was awesome and everyone came it was so much fun!!! lol so then we all went to bed i was exhausted!! so yea saturday morning i woke up around 8ish showered and went over to the pool Katie picked me up shes so nice too! lol and then we got Julianne and went to the pool watched the rest of practice then went to Katie's apartment w/ the other recruits and some of the swimmers like jen, rory, katie, and erica and ate pancakes they were so good! haha then jen, rory and i went back to their apartment we watched some FRIENDS lol then we got ready to go to Cathy's to watch the FOOTBALL game between PURDUE and notre dame!!! PUDURE WON 41-16!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOO it was awesome everyone was sooo into the game!!! haha then all the recruits and some of the swimmers went on a tour of PURDUE it was fun haha omg then we went to a party it was a lot of fun everyone was dancing a lot it was so much fun!!! haha after the party we went back to the apartment and watched some more friends! yay! haha then i had to go to sleep @ 2! lol then i woke up @ 6 to go home! i was so sad i didnt want to leave @ all! then Dar drove all the recruits back the the airport it was so sad i didnt want to leave but we did! haha then i came home and yea! but PURDUE was so amazing i had such a GREAT time it was awesome!!!!!!!! haha i LOVED it! lol but yea that's my PURDUE weekend it was so much fun!! haha but thats all for now!! love u all sooo much!!!!! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin

ps- SARAH i hoped u liked it! hehe xoxo!

hey all! whats up?!? lol! soo yea i leave for PURDUE tomorrow i am soooo excited! lol it is going to be a lot of fun i can't even wait! Kit coached swim practice last night i swam well so i was happy! lol but yea i miss her! haha i LOVE swimming on COUGARS its like the best thing that ever happened to me! haha seriously! lol but yea also hrmm Senior year is getting a tad better but not so muc... whoever was a Senior before me lied about Senior year... it isn't easy! lol but yea i talked to Jay Ash and Puppy last night! yay haha Jay asked me for the like the 778678678 time when i was going down to Duke.. haha! then Puppy and I are going to hang out over Turkey break because when we were thinking about hanging out patricks response was ' i cant eddie reese is coming to my house' WHAT! thast amazing i wish Eddie Reese would come to my house AND bring Brendan Hansen and Aaron Piersol!!!! lol i wouldnt be mad @ all if i saw those 2 at my front door!!! lol! but yea thats about all for now! i will leave an update Sunday about PURDUE!!! haha it should be amazing! lol thats all for now! love u all sooo much! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin

hey all! whast up?! lol well this weekend has been a lot of fun... which is unusual for me to say but hey it really was! lol so Friday night after swimming i made it home in SEVEN minutes go me haha then i drove to Cedar Grove to see First Daughter with my fav MOUNTIES ever! lol but yea good times! hahaha esp when we all started clapping when he took his shirt off!! lol omg then when the movie was over we were standing in the parking lot... yes as usual haha and these guys in a escalade drove by and their windows were down and britt yells those are some hot rims! hahah toooo funny holy crap! lol then we went to Starbucks saw Butler lol then we walked around Upper Montlcair for a bit... so hillarious! lol! then i drove home lol soo Saturday woke up swam did homework went SHOPPING w/ curley!! yay it was so much fun! lol haha AND we saw AJ and ABBY haha it was funny, but it was good to see AJ i miss that kid! lol but yea then we went to Joes for dinner sooo good and some more shopping then we came back to my house curley went a got brie and i went to go get movies and we talked forever and it was so much fun to ahng out w/ them again it really sucks that we are all on different teams now and its sad! lol then i had to take the damn SATS again this morning but they were my last until the realy ones so hopefully i did well on them! lol but yea and i chilled today did some college stuff and yea! but umm thast all for now! i leave for PURDUE thursday nigth im so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol but yea thats all for now! love u all sooo much! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin

hey all!! whats up?! lol but yea i am really sick today and it sucks i didnt even ge to swim which sucks even more! lol but yea today was my cuzs Grace birthday shes 10 soo scary i remeber when she was born werid! lol but yea i hate school its so much work and i hate when people in my grade say shit about me.. yea it's fun let me tell u! JUST KIDDING! its so annoying and hurtful for me to hear that my "friends" are saying bad stuff about me... it hurts a lot and sometimes i wonder why? i honestly feel like i have like 10 friends right now... not even joking and it's quite possibly one of the worst feeling in the world. but o well ill be @ college next year and hopefully someone somewhere wont get mad at me cause i have a banner in teh gym or because im outgoing.. whatever. o but i had something good happen for once in my life... I GOT A LETTER FROM TEXAS! omg i was so excited lol i LOVE TEXAS! yea longhorns!!!! WOO! lol omg and i could see Aaron Piersol and Brenden Hansen.. hottness... haha maybe even puppy and bobby if they go there... or even if i go there! lol but yea thats all for now! im gunna go pass im out dead! lol love u all soo much! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin

hey all! whats up?! so yea im finally back in school and it sucks. i hate senior year it was either made to have for or to make people want to die... haha me! so yea today i was crying LITERALLY lol after guidance class because i hate college and college applications and school work!!! doesn't everyone know already ALL I WANT TO DO IS SWIM!!!! honestly like i thought about it for a long time too this summer and i really think i seriously want to go to PENN STATE. it would give me the best of what i want swimming and education.. so yea im a nittany lion now! haha! maybe i should go for my recruiting trip and send in my application! lol but yea back to Senior year i already have SO much work okay for this weekend i have to write 2 papers- Lit and Pre-Cal, do another pre cal assignment, write 3 paragraphs for Psychology and read chapter one, and do my SAT homework and take the SAT sunday morning and go to the wedding tomorrow night and go to the family picnic sunday morning! o yea and ON TOP OF THAT i have to finish my applications and that wendys high school heisman thing which i also have to write a essay for!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! o yea and also supposedly all my swimming friends hate my for some odd reason i have no clue what i EVER did to them but they LOVE to go out all the time talk about it in front of me then when i ask them what they are talking about they say nothing! seriously u think that sometimes im 'blonde' but im a hell of a lot smarter than u think i am. argh then people say im a nerd, and a brat, and a bitch, and ugly and u know what I DONT CARE! say whatever u want to say about me but say it to my face! the one thing i hate most is when people talk about me behind my back i honestly dont care if u have a problem with me let me know. argh! whatever i dont care! but yea off to better news my cuzs wedding is tomorrow night it should be a lot of fun im really excited! lol but yea thats all for now! love u all so much! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin

hey all!! whats up?! OMG i just got back from the US Open and it was SOOO much fun! lol! first i watched the Hewitt and Johanssen.. and HEWITT WON! wooo! lol i was happy omg yea i was sitting next to Late's people so i met KIM CLIJSTERS and she's so nice and i got a picture with her too! lol OMG and her enagement ring is amazing lol! jac... is like exactly what we discussed hahah! but yea it was fun then it was the Federer and Henmen match. Federer won.. i hope Hewitt wins tomorrow.. he' s so cute but not as cute as Andy and Michael! lol but yea then i ate some dinner w/ my mommy it was really good and we walked around for a little bit then we went back inside for the Women's final. It was intense... JK haha i wanted Dementia (s/p?) lol to win but she didn't the beastly one did but o well... no American won so i didn't really care honestly... lol i wish Capriati played.. i like her a lot or CLIJSTERS cause shes just so cool! lol! but yea thats about all for now! lol school starts monday wahh but just orientation then classes start wednesday! lol and my cuzs wedding is SATURDAY night i cant wait it is going to be soooo much fun! lol! but yea thats all for now! love u all sooo much!! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin

hey all!!! whats up?!?! lol OMG today i met MICHAEL PHELPS, NATALIE COUGHLIN AND AMANDA BEARD! it was so much fun it was amazing lol and i got pictures w/ them and everything. i didnt really get to talk to amanda or michael =( but natalie knew my really good friend Annie who swims for CAL now so yea that was so cool! lol and michael looks even more gorgeous in person it was amazing i love him so much! i even asked a question it was: "what did i feel like standing on top of the podium hearing the national anthem w/ a gold medal around your neck?" o yea good question for me! lol but yea they all said it was cool and they were all nervous. natalie even said that she forgot the words. haha! o yea nd they said it was weird b/c everyone was staring @ them!! lol! but yea that was the most amazing experience ever and i loved it even though i didnt get to proclaim my love to Michael lol! next time i swear im going to do it!!! haha OMG and yesterday was the first COUGAR practice!!!! it was so much fun but REALLY HARD! haha we did this INTENSE dry land it was fun everyone was dying and sweating a lot! haha then we went downstairs and everyone introuduced themselves it was a lot of fun too! lol so then we SWAM! it was a lot of fun it was me, lauren, charley, justion, cassie and alexis in a lane it was a lot of fun we did a lot of drills and stuff then 8X125s free then warm down! it was a successful pratice! lol but yea thats about all for now!!! love u all sooo much!!! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin

hey all!! whats up?!? omg i am SO sad! summers over! today was the last day of the pool and omg i was so upset! i mean sometimes i get so tired of going to work every day but in the end i had such an AMAZING summer. i just love everyone @ RSC you guys were my summer and i had such a great time i love u all! haha omg i have so many memories from this summer haha John Mayer, California, Y Nats, COLDSTONE NON STOP haha, ASHLEE SIMPSON, driving, Garden State, The Notebook, Macaroni Grill,Peer Leadership, CP's story =), discussions lol, the SHORE, lieguarding, "OOOOOOOOO", haha RSC everythng, COLDSTONE eating contest 04, college, swimming, ATHENS, the 800 free relays, Michael Phelps, Stanford, friends, Mexicali, RAIN, and most importantly everyone who helped me laugh w/ the memories on the way!!!! lol! love u all and thanks for letting me have such an AMAZING summer! lol btu @ least i dont start school until next week! haha otherwise i die! PS I HATE MALCOM X worst book ever!!!!! haha! OMG I MEET MICHAEL PHELPS WEDNESDAY! i cant even wait! o and i start swimmign tomorrow! WOOOO! lol! but yea thats all for now! love u all soo much!!! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin

hey all!!! whats up?!?! lol but yea these past couple of days have been a lot of fun! friday night i went to the Yankee game even though they lost it was a lot of fun haha i even got a foul ball and i was like 10 feet from A. Rod and Jeter it was amazing front row ROCKS! haha! but yea then Saturday i worked all day and went to coldstone and same thing today but there was a bungee run there and it was awesome and spin art! haha o yea and i helped give out awards so i got this AWESOME shirt lol! o and i was in the egg toss w/ Casey i got egg yol ALL over me and it was gross but it was so much fun i loved it!!!! haha!!! but yea tomorrow is the last day of lifeguarding im so so so sad i dont want the summer to end @ all!!!! lol! but yea thats all for now! love u all sooo much!!! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin

ps- hey to all my college friends miss and love u all!!! HAVE FUN! haha! o yea and wait what was i going to say it was important.... o yea hey COUGARS! lol we start tuesday im MO excited haha except the whole working out thing that can stop!! haha jK!! ttyl xoxo!!!!!!

hey all! whast up?!?! lol today i had Peer Leadership it is so much fun i love it! lol it was a lot of fun to see everyone i missed them esp. MINISH! lol! but yea JANE is my peer buddy im MO excited let me tell u this and our theme is gunna be finding nemo because according to jane 'it was the fish that brought us togerther' haha oo i love her!!! lol but jane and i think our froshies r gunna be scared of us we are kinda scary and wild and talk a lot but its all good!!!! lol soo yea tomorrow we are going to this place like a hour away and i hear its pretty rough so im nervous but yea should be fun! haha OMg and we were planning out the nightmare skit HAHA its so hillarious Chrissy is the freshman and brin, krista, meg, melissa and i are the 'bad' Seniors hahaha brin is doing this dance to Thriller and we are just snapping behind her hahaha its so funny! lol but yea i cant believe that tomorrow is SEPTEMBER! this summer went by so fast its scary! lol but yea im excited for school to start esp for Peer Leadership... haha o and yea i have Mr. Piparo for homeroom... i have now been on teh Second floor all four years at the mount... craziness but chrisyy p's locker is gunna be next to me YAHOOO! haha im excited but shavonne isnt in my homeroom which makes me sad =( but we will still chill! lol! so yea thats about all for now! love u all soo much! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin

hey all! whats up?! lol i just got back from dinner w/ all the swim girls @ MEXICALI! o yea i love that place i ate so much though! lol but yea it was so sad! Danielle is leaving for college... and this was like on of our last 'teammates' bonding experience. come september we are all gunna be on different teasm which sucks because i love all of these girls so much and i dont want to be on different teams as them and not train together because thats why we became so close because we trianed together every day and its gunna be weird not seeing them every day next year! for all u girls... I LOVE U SO MUCH AND I AM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO OUR ONCE A MONTH PARTY!!! LOL LOVE U, SWIM FAST AND SEE U SOON!!!!!
ok no that im not crying anymore.. lol great news i have for u readers of my journal! ok my dad came home from work today and said he had a suprise for me.... GUESS WHAT IT IS...... I MIGHT BE MEETING MICHAEL PHELPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THATS RIGHT OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SO EXCITED!!! AND NATALIE COUGHLIN AND AMANDA BEARD ARE GUNNA BE THERE TOO!!!!!!!!!!!! ahhhhhh im mo excited u have no idea @ all!!!! and even better he DOSENT have a girlfriend... but he did dance w/ Carly Patterson but its ok it was just a dance! lol and shes like 4'6 and hes 6'4 to weird! lol but yea that made me that happiest person ever!!!!!! lol!!! but yea i love u all sooooo much!!!!! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin

hey all! whast up?! lol! yea today was pretty busy i got my haircut and retakes of my SR portrait b/c the first ones were really bad and then i went to SAT class what fun! haha but yea i cant believe that summer is almost over! everyone is going back to school... i am gunna be a SENIOR which is so crazy!! i cant even take it!!! lol but yea!! haha! i cant wait to go on recruiting trips! woO! but yea sometimes i feel like i am always left out of everything! o well i guess thats just the way its always gunna be for me.. o well i guess even though sometimes i just wish i had that one person no matter who that i could always go to without them going to tell another person or not speak to ever again. some people say things to me but in reality i wish i was like them. you know the person that had everything i guess. but o well... so yea thats all for now! love u all so much! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin

hey all! whats up?! lol yea i just finished part one of Titanic w/ Bets and Brie it was a lot of fun lol i miss that movie! haha today was pretty entertaining i guess. i woke up @ 12:15 HAHA YES! lol then i went to the Doctor then i went to the MOunt and dropped off my Peer Leader paper thing then i went to get my NEW uniform haha its awesome!!! lol! o yea and i went to GARDEN STATE PLAZA! yess love that mall and i brought a shirt jeans and a sweatshirt from HOLLISTER!!! wooo! i love that store o so much!!! hahaha! but yea then i had to come home and go to SAT class o yes SO much fun! jk! but yea i even have homework to do argh! haha i still need to read my books for school!!! hahaha! yea ooo well i have until September 15!!!!! lol but yea! so today was fun but i do and dont want to go back to school. i do want to go back to see my friends, MINISH, haha and peer leadership and recruiting trips!! lol but i dont want to do all the work like read those books!! haha! but yea thats all for now! love u all sooo much!!! ttyl

xoxo
Kaitlin