threading

Kacie and I discovered eyebrow threading/ waxing some time ago. We always went and saw Daisy at the JCPenney salon in Columbia Mall. She was amazing. She was from India where the threading technique originated. Kacie wouldn't go to anyone else.

work out clothes

does anyone else remember kacie's workout attire? I recently joined a gym and can't help but laugh thinking about the things she use to wear to the gym. She use to always wear capri length sweat pants with brown and orange striped socks or some other socks pulled up with her brown and orange new balances or saucony tennis shoes. She also had a grey pair of tennis shoes i believe she switched to later. 

christmas in china.... well not really.

I remember Kacie and Mimi use to always get Chinese food on Xmas day from a takeout spot near Mimi's house. Sometimes I think they would dine in when Mimi was still driving. I also remember one year Kacie and Jeff took Mimi out to a restaurant downtown somewhere. What was the place, Jeff?

Lip venom

Kacie loved lip gloss. She also thought that her lips were too small so she was always buying lip-plumping lip gloss. She loved lip venom and some other brands. I never really liked the stuff it always made my lips burn but she liked it.

12/11/2008

Kac, Things are just not the same without you.
Love
Mom and Dad

in response to a difficult project

Well.... well... well.... this is quite the task. I am not sure about Kacie's work history prior to moving back to Maryland. However... I can tell you once she moved back...

1. Roots Market  Clarksville, MD

2. Origins Columbia Mall- Kacie and I worked here together and we quit together at the same time too.

3. Riverside Coffee shop- Columbia, MD & Ellicott City, MD

3. Babysitting (haha) Lisa might know exactly where these were. She watched kids for several different families and I remember one of the kids was autistic. Kacie use to tell me some crazy stories about that one.

4. Midevil Times- Arundel Mills Mall

5. Bed Bath and Beyond- She quit this job on the first day.

6. Secret Shopper- Kacie did this job for a while. Going around shopping and then filling out surveys online. It ended up not being really worth it for the pay.

7. In Texas she had a couple different jobs Jeff would know these- Twin Sisters resturaunt? An advertising agency

8. Nordstrom

9. Claratin sales rep

10. Monoprint or monograph I think it was called. This was the job she was suppose to be a project manager and they mislead her. It was the last job she had. 

I am pretty sure there are some more I am forgetting.... I will have to think about this one for a while.

Places she lived.... (after moving back to MD)

1. Chatham Garden Apartments- Ellicott City, MD with Shannon (then Shannon moved to Utah briefly)

2.In between Chatham and MeadowLane she spread her time out living at Mimi's house and Jeff's apartment in Catonsville

3. Meadow Lane Apartments- Catonsville, MD- First lived with me after I moved out Lisa moved in with her

4. Another lapse living with Mimi briefly I think

5. Chatham Garden Apartments again- this time she had the place to herself. They didn't allow pets. After trying to have Margo and them finidng out she had to give Margo to Vince. Then she tried getting a ferrett which they also found out about even though we put tint on all the windows. I believe they told her she had to move out because of her animal problems.

6. perhaps another move in with Mimi

7. Townhouse in Columbia with Larissa and Kathy- correct me if I am wrong Larissa but didnt this only last a couple months??

8. Mount Ridge Apartments- Catonsville, MD- with Larissa "Roomates! Roomates!"

9. San Antonio, Texas

10. My Apartment in Sykesville, MD- Main Street

11. Mimi's again for a few weeks

12. Her own apartment in Sykesville, MD- she was there for about 6 months roughly. I decided to move to the city and so Kacie decided to move too and save some money.

13. Back to Mimi's house. 

I am pretty sure this list is accurate in chronological order... However exact years... I am not sure about all that. If anyone remembers something else or differently please chime in.

A Difficult Project

Nancy and I have been thinking about this one. Let's try to put together a list of all of the places that Kacie has worked, starting with the Coastal Discovery Museum on Hilton Head Island. I hope this website is big enough. And let's do it in chronological order.

And if that isn't difficult enough, let's put together a chronological list of all the places that Kacie has lived!!!!!

Natalie, you're gonna have to be our main resource on this one.

europe

When I graduated college I wanted to go on a trip to Europe for a few weeks with Kacie. We wanted to take the Eurorail and hop around to a bunch of different places. Kacie still had another semester left of school and for other reasons it didn't work out that we got to ever go on our european vacation. I was going through an old notebook of mine from college and I found notes in there on our ideas about the trip. I had written down all the countries that the eurorail went to and Kacie circled all the ones she was interested in and I highlighted the ones I wanted. The places Kacie wanted to go were:

Belgium

France

Germany

Greece

Holland > which she visited with Jeff in his dream

Italy

Luxembourg

Portugal 

Ireland 

Sweden

The little Black... Hoodie

This was Kacie's signature piece in her wardrobe collection. She always had a few different ones to wear. She would always talk about I need to get a new hoodie. A fresh black hoodie.

Ocean City Visit

Today I visited Kacie in Ocean City. The weather was decent. It was about 54 outside and there was no rain like the previous day. When I got there, the first thing I did was engrave Kacie's initials into the rock she was standing in the OC pic Natalie took of her. The jetty was really cold because it was windy and there was water splashing all over me, getting me drenched. I tried to get her initials done as soon as possible because it was getting pretty dangerous to be out there. After I did that, I just spent sometime standing on the rocks a little further back and facing south towards some clouds above. I had been thinking about what my visit was going to be like and imagining that I would talk to her for a little while. When I was standing there, I didn't really know what to say. Maybe because it feels kind of funny talking and not knowing if someone is listening. I eventually just said "I just want to know that your'e happy." Immediately when I said that, a perfect hole broke in the cloud and the sun shined directly on my face and making my entire body warmer. I snapped a couple pictures so I could remember that incredible moment. I don't know if it meant anything but I like to think it did. What are the odds?

After that, I decided to go buy some flowers and spread them out over the different places we spread her ashes. I also walked the boardwalk a little as well.

Anyways, the pictures (and video) are below including the one with the sun shining through the clouds. Enjoy...