>I’m allergic to the phone…

>I have formed a new theory today. Hear me out – it’s a good one.

I believe that each person is born with a set amount of phone time. Some people plan their time wisely and stretch it out over years to last until death. I, on the other hand, blew my entire phone allowance when I was a teenager. Therefore, I am no allergic to the telephone.
When I was in high school, I would spend all moments not in school either sleeping or on the telephone – sometimes both at the same time. I would spend HOURS on the phone with whatever boyfriend I might have at the time and then call my best friends to tell them everything I had just discussed with the boyfriend. I would take a small break to do trivial things like shower, eat or homework, then I would be right back on the phone with said boyfriend to “say goodnight”. Ridiculous…

Now I CAN’T STAND THE PHONE!!! Every time it rings at work, I cringe. And let me tell you what: I strongly believe that Caller ID is the best invention of our time. Seriously. If it’s not my mother, I’M NOT PICKING UP! It’s like I have forgotten how to talk on the phone. Obviously that’s not the case, so the only other logical explanation is that I have used my lifetime phone allowance and am now rendered allergic to using the telephone.

Now, there are a few of you who are reading this and thinking, “What a witch! She’s been avoiding my calls!” That’s not entirely true. I have not singled you out – I am avoiding EVERYONE’s calls! I love you – really I do. I just don’t have the energy to talk on the phone anymore. I’m way too busy working and cleaning and running errands and grown-up crap like that. I would rather just get together with you in person…let’s make a date! 🙂

That said, I had a fun day today. Matt had to work, so rather than being stuck at home all day (We only have one car. My office is seriously not even a mile away. I walk a lot.), I decided to take him in and use the car for errands. I piddled around Target for a while (one of my favorite stores), went to the mall for a while and then decided to get my hair cut. Now, let me tell you, my hair hasn’t really been cut since September of 2003. I have had it trimmed a couple times, but other than that, it has just grown and grown and grown. Plus, I have been taking pre-natal vitamins lately (we’re not pregnant – it’s just in case…) and they make my hair and nails grow FAST! So, this morning I woke up with hair half-way down my back. Tonight my hair just hits my shoulders (and flips out just a smidge – very cute!). I love it! Anyway – after the haircut I decided that I didn’t want to drive the 20 miles back to Wilmore, so I went to see a movie. I really wanted to see Brokeback Mountain, but no one was showing it around the time I wanted, so ended up seeing Dreamer. If you have a heart at all, you will love this movie! I thought it was great. I don’t know what it is – maybe I’ve just lived in the Lexington area for too long – but I’m really beginning to love horses! They’re just beautiful animals. Plus, the horse farms around here are fab-you-luss. Gorgeous, lush, green, rolling hills with white fences as far as you can see. It’s awesome. Dreamer was filmed near my house in Versailles, KY, so it was fun watching it and thinking, “I know that farm! I drive by that place all the time!” Cute movie. After the movie I went to Joseph Beth Booksellers, and had a reall nice 2 hours to myself. Joe-Beth is a HUGE bookstore/music store/cafe that has some of the most amazingly comfortable chairs you will ever find. I went in, headed straight to the “Staff Picks” shelf (my favorite place to find new books) and picked up “Cash” by Johnny Cash. I don’t know why I was interested in that. Usually I like fiction, but something about that book just called to me. Once I picked out the book, I headed to a comfy chair near a fireplace and read for a few hours. GREAT BOOK. I’m totally going to buy it – just not from Joe-Beth. They’re so expensive. After my reading, I went to listen to some music and ended up buying Marc Broussard’s “Carencro” CD. LOVE IT. I then went to the mall to get Matt, came home and ate veggies and homemade hummus for dinner. It’s been a full day. Do you even care? If you have read this far, God bless you…you are one patient person! I don’t know why I feel like I need to share every bit of my day with you…

Tomorrow is Sunday, and I’m feeling like skipping church. We had some really funky weather here today. It kept switching from rain to snow and back and forth. Now we have slushy roads and it’s cold. I love my church, but it’s all the way in Lexington, and the roads around here just aren’t safe in the snow and ice. We’ll see what happens tomorrow. Maybe it will be sunny and 60 degrees. It wouldn’t suprise me…

I’ve bored you long enough. I won’t even tell you about “The Office” party I had last night. Suffice it to say, I had my co-workers over and we had a great time. I love that show…is Jim not the hottest guy on TV? Really – I could eat him up… 🙂

Have a good night y’all!

>Thanksgiving

>Yikes – I just realized that I have so much to do around the house before we leave for Indy on Monday. I’m hoping to get our Christmas tree up before we leave, but in order to do that, we have to clean this house first. (Geez – I’m turning into my mother. I always hated that we had to clean before we put up the tree, and look at me now…) We need to pack for our holiday week in Indy, but before we can do that, I have to get the laundry done. Does it ever end? I wish I could just hire a maid to do my laundry and dishes for me. That’s it – I can handle the rest. It just seems like those are the two jobs that I do all the time and yet they still need doing!!! Drives me crazy…can you imagine how nuts I will be when we have kids? All those little clothes to wash and sippy cups to clean? Ugh…

So – we’re going home in a few days. I’m pretty excited. It’s been a busy fall at the office, so I’m glad to get some time off. We’re leaving Monday after work and heading for Noblesville, IN to spend a few days with our friends Jeff and Julie and their kids Sarah, Anna, Elizabeth and Daniel. This is the rockinest family you’ll ever know, and we’re completely excited to get to spend some time with them. We’ve known them for years – Jeff was the pastor at Center (our home church), and then a few months before we got married, he took a church in Evansville where we lived. It was great. It was like having family there in Evansville to help with our transition. God really knows what he’s doing, doesn’t he? Now Jeff is at a church in Noblesville (north of Indy). Anyway – ever since we lived in Evansville together we have had Thanksgiving together every year. They really are like family to us. I think that’s what I’m looking forward to most about this week. We always get to see our families when we come home, but we don’t get up to Noblesville very often. It’s going to be so good…

Wednesday is Noodle and Pie night at Mom’s. For those of you who don’t know about my family’s crazy tradition, well…I’ll just have to tell you about it another time. I’ll try to post some pictures from it when we get back. Suffice it to say that it’s a very messy, very loud, very special time and there has not been a Thanksgiving in my life without it. It’s fabulous and I love it…even though I always make myself sick at my stomach by eating raw noodles…oh well – it’s worth it!

Thursday morning we’re having a Thanksgiving breakfast with Matt’s family, then we’re heading up to my cousin Lisa’s for dinner with my mom’s family. Matt is actually coming back to Wilmore Thursday night since he has to work Friday morning. I’m going to stay though, so I can go shopping with his mom and his sister. They’re those crazy people out at 5:00 am the day after Thanksgiving fighting for Tickle-me-Satans…er…uh…I mean Tickle-me-Elmos. It should be fun…

All of that to say that we’re going to have a crazy busy week! But it will be great to be home visiting friends and family, making ourselves sick by eating too much. Isn’t that what Thanksgiving is all about??? I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving and that you get to spend it with many loved ones. May we all remember those who are less fortunate than ourselves and be thankful to God, who blesses us richly.

Be His,
Katie

P.S. Praise God for the birth of little Hannah Barnett. She was born this morning around 3:45 and Mommy, Daddy and Hannah are doing well. Thank you Lord for a perfect delivery!!!

>Why not?

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Originally uploaded by Matt & Katie Swisher.

I got a message from my best childhood friend tonight – she’s pregnant. I’m so excited for her, and yet I’m so jealous! What could be wrong in adding someone to our family? Don’t get me wrong – I love our life now. We go to bed when we want, get up just in time to get to work, eat junk food for dinner (more than we should), make out ALL THE TIME, spend stupid amounts of money on things we don’t really need (like Ren and Stimpy Seasons one and two on DVD…worth every one of those 30 bucks!). Having a baby around would change all of that, but somehow, I just can’t get this out of my mind lately!

Where does this biological clock thing come from? Is it set to automatically go off at the most inopportune time in your life? Just when you feel like your life is coming together and you might have a lot of things figured out – BOOM! All of a sudden your uterus just cries out for attention. I just don’t get it.

I love kids – I do. Sometimes all the screaming and pooping and questions just gets a little irritating. I’m sure it’s different when they’re your kids…I hope it’s different anyway!

So – something to be praying for. My friend’s pregnancy and for my sanity. I can’t wait to hold her little baby…you think she’ll name it after me??? Probably not. The last time she named something after me, I accidentally drowned it…

It was a hamster…and that night was one of the most tramatic of my childhood!!!

Peace…