Local YUMP! Katie from the St. Matthews Area

Next up is Louisville native and University of Kentucky graduate, Katie of St. Matthews.

Short Bio: Born and raised in Louisville, KY. I’ve lived in the same house in St. Matthews all my life (minus the 4 years I was at UK). Yes, I still live at home but to my defense, I’m only 22…turn 23 in July. I’ve got the best family in the world too! There’s dad, mom, me, my younger brother and our dog Maggie. My brother graduates from Northern Kentucky University in May 2010 and majors in International Studies and Political Science. You can quote me, he will be famous one day!

I will admit, I’ve been a Catholic school girl pretty much my whole life too. I went to Our Lady of Lourdes then on to Sacred Heart Academy, class of 2004. I did actually have one nun teach me English at SHA my freshman year, a frequently asked question of us ladies having grown up in the Catholic school system. I wouldn’t have traded it for the world though! GREAT times!

More recently, I graduated Cum Laude from the University of Kentucky (C-A-T-S!!!) with a BA in Integrated Strategic Communications. I know, usual reaction, what the F*** is that? Basically, it was the major you took if you wanted to pursue a career in advertising. And I did! Now, I work at the largest advertising agency in Kentucky, Creative Alliance. The agency is downtown, which I was kind of nervous about to begin with, but now I think working downtown is something everyone should experience. It is quite interesting (and I’m really close to 4th Street Live! and all their good restaurants so score one).

The two things I’ve really stuck with throughout my days are dance and soccer (and many other sports- HUGE tom boy when I was younger- very guilty – still kind of am). I started both at the age of five.  Continued soccer through my junior year at Sacred Heart, quit senior year, blah, blah. Too bad during what would have been my senior season, the Valkyries won the school’s first State Soccer Championship. Yea, talk about kicking yourself in the ass… But now I play in a co-ed indoor soccer league at Mockingbird Valley (Mock-yea-ing-yea-bird-yea yea yea…) with some friends, GO WAGGZ! I started playing indoor in 8th grade at Mockingbird so it feels great to be back and playing again!

And last but not least, my dancing. I was the little girl who started ballet classes and actually stuck with them, haha. I think it’s awesome they make NFL players and others sometimes take dance lessons because it really does teach you ridiculous muscle control, balance and agility. Hell yea! I just finished dancing at UK, not on THE dance team though. The University of Kentucky Dance Ensemble was more of a student group, all student choreographed dances, etc. If you wanted to dance at UK but didn’t want to be as serious as the actual dance team, you came to us! And I’m not going to lie, we were pretty damn good!

Bottomline right now though…I love summer and most of all THE LAKE!!! Nolin in particular (and occasionally Dale Hollow or Rough River). In the words of our man Alan Jackson, G-O-O-D T-I-M-E that spells good time! Give me a Hank Jr. cd, case of beer and someone to drive me around on the boat all day and I’m set. Summer ’09 here we come! Kress and Roberts camps say what!

1. Cats or Cards? Favorite Player? OHHHHH C-A-T-S CATS! CATS! CATS! I bleed blue baby! Did anyone else catch the freakin awesome rave party in UK’s library a few weeks ago? Genius. Needless to say nothing of that awesome caliber ever took place at Willy T. while I was there, sadly. If you haven’t seen it, watch it here: “UK library rave party” and see why our students kick ass! Fave player…probably Wayne Turner. #5!!! That was my lucky number and he was a point guard too (position I played when I did play b-ball back in the day). Although more recently sticking with my man, Tayshaun Prince. I was very sorry to see LeBron sweep the crap out of the Pistons, but he is the man- MVP!

2. What’s the best/worst pick-up line(s) you’ve ever heard? I’ve never really had a lot of pick up lines used on me honestly but one of the funniest ways a guy tried to talk to me was at Tinseltown maybe freshman year of high school, he wrote his name and number on a dollar bill and threw it at me as I was walking out of the theater. I wasn’t sure exactly how to take that one but it was funny…and no, I’m not a smelly pirate hooker either. Please don’t throw money at women in a movie theater gentlemen.

3. How many pushups can you do? Wow, pushups. Upper body strength, not my forte. I could probably bust out maybe a few sets of 10. I would do real push ups though, not girl ones. I hate girl pushups.

4. Do you have any tattoos? How many/where? Currently don’t have any. I want some but I don’t do well with needles. I literally almost passed out when I got my belly button pierced.

5. Who would you cast to play you in a movie? I don’t think she really looks like me or anything but I’ve always loved Reese Witherspoon. I think she’s pretty down to earth, like me, and so hot! I’d do her…I would probably do Carrie Underwood too because she’s so amazingly gorgeous!

6. Dumb and Dumber: Greatest movie ever or Worst movie ever? Oh, greatest movie ever! I’m a sucker for those types of classics. Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

7. More impressive: Muscles or Humor? Humor 100 percent. If you can keep a girl laughing, definite points.

8. Given the rising fears amidst the pandemic of Swine Flu, do you think the global economy has a chance of recovering within the year regarding travel and trade restrictions? I’ve actually been following the swine flu news some. The one thing I can’t stand about it is the dumb, uninformed public who freak out. You can’t get it from eating pork products people!! And yes, the economy will recover fine to actually answer the question.

9. Are you a beer or mixed drink kind of girl? Beer most all of the time. I’m a simple girl, what can I say. Although do NOT ever buy me a Miller Lite. Yuck! I’d drink Natty Light over that any day. Haha, good ol’ Natty Light…the choice beer of Wildcats who have no money.

10. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie-Roll Pop? 123,456,789 (licks)

11. What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you? My dad’s motto in life used to be “My job as a parent is to embarrass my kids”. So there have been quite a few over the years, but nothing that really comes to mind right now.

12. Favorite place to eat at 4 a.m.? WHITE CASTLE!!!!!

13. When you’re at a bar/club and want to dance, you tend to dance…on the dance floor? Or on the bar? Even though I have a burning desire most of the time to hop up on the bar, I usually keep it on the ground. I don’t want to make the other girls jealous of my skills…j/k.

Turn ons: pretty blue eyes, cute smile, good teeth, manners (We say grace, we say ma’am. If ya ain’t into that, we don’t give a damn!), maybe a hint of mystery, honesty and humor.

Turn offs: Rudeness, impatient people, pessimistic attitudes, know-it-alls, hypocrites, having asshole tendencies, especially when not sober…

Favorites:
Food? Pickles

Sport? to play: soccer, to watch: college basketball (March is one of my favorite times of the year)

Animal? Monkey

Song? Anything by The Eagles

TV Show? too many to name but huge fan of old school Nickelodeon still (Rocko , Salute Your Shorts, All That, Guts, etc. You know what I’m talking about.)

Movie? anything Adam Sandler!

Book? The Puppy Who Lost His Way, by Chrissy Taylor, hahaha

Restaurant? always loved O’Charleys

Bar/Club/Hangout? honestly, I’d prefer just snuggling up at home with my hunny and watching a movie. But I love Bardstown Road too!

**DISCLAIMER: THE FOLLOWING FOUR PICTURES ARE OF KATIE IN STAGE MAKEUP FOR PERFORMANCES AT UK. THOUGH INSANELY GORGEOUS, SHE FELT THE NEED TO JUSTIFY WHY HER MAKEUP IS OVER THE TOP. TOO MUCH MAKEUP, OR NONE AT ALL, THERE IS NO NEED TO JUSTIFY YOUR HOTNESS…**