Awesome and Awkward

I've seen people on a few blogs doing "Awesome and Awkward" posts, and I feel as if that sums up most of my life pretty accurately. So I thought I'd try one out. Here's my list of awesome and awkward things for this week.

Awesome:
-Getting accepted into the teaching program.
-An offer to potentially move to Virginia for the summer.
-Skyping Dan and Jaxson :)
-Chloe and I eating chips and salsa until we burst. "If you're not getting salsa all over your boobs you're not living your life correctly."
-Chloe and I going to Beehive and talking about people we hate for 2 hours and talking about the pros and cons of a fishbowl drink vs. a regular size drink. Only one of is an alcoholic (Chloe).
-Reading and watching everything I can find about Tina Fey and fangirling over her by myself.

Awkward:
-Tripping up the stairs on the bus and loudly yelling "Jesus!" in front of a girl holding her scriptures on her lap.
-Timing a pregnancy test for a friend in a Walmart bathroom, all while said friend talked loudly about spawning a child, oblivious to the fact that there were other people in the bathroom.
-Spending 15 minutes uncomfortably driving around Clock Tower Plaza with above-mentioned friend looking for the Planned Parenthood.
-Almost hitting a darkly-clothed pedestrian in a cross-walk and Chloe thinking a cop was flipping a U-turn to come follow us.
-Subsequently parking in a stranger's driveway with our lights off for five minutes to evade capture.
-Having a man on the bus with his stomach hanging 8 inches over his pants stand directly in front of me.
-Driving home with Chloe after Chili's avoiding sharp turns and abrupt stops so we don't blow chunks.
-Sitting in my car reading in the middle of a field while waiting for a tow truck after I went off the road.
-Getting pulled over by douchebag cop for going around a corner "too cautiously."
-My visiting teachers coming to my work in the middle of lunch rush to deliver brownies and a card. They asked for Kathryn. It was uncomfortable.

I feel like I could write an individual blog post about every single item above, but I have neither the time nor motivation. Maybe the Wal-mart bathroom one at a later date, because it's pretty effing hilarious.
What I'm getting at is that life is pretty great lately, even though the "awkward" situations far outweigh the "awesome." :)

Non-numeric Equations

Equation part 1:  Except for a couple of years of late high-school and early college exploration, I have been blonde for most of my life. I was born blonde, and was a towheaded child until my senior year. I went dark for three years, and am back to being fairly light-haired again.

Equation part 2:  I am slightly neurotic in that I have to have things in a certain place and looking a certain way. I like my belongings to be neat and in a particular order. Anyone who has seen my closet, bookshelf, planner, or pencil bag can attest to this. It's normal.

Equation part 3:  I tend to put myself in situations where I get stressed. I take too many credits and try to work too many hours a week virtually every semester of my life. Around midterms and finals, the stress starts to take a physical toll. Namely, I get cankers on my tongue and my hair falls out. I know. Super attractive. Come at me boys.

Equation part 4:  Last year around Christmas I decided to redecorate my room. I now have a lovely black and white damask bedspread THAT SHOWS EVERY SINGLE FEATHER, PIECE OF LINT, OR SHED HAIR POSSIBLE. Particularly those towheaded hairs that fall out when I'm stressed.

Solution:  In order to combat this problem, I have invested in a tool that awes me every time I use it: the lint roller. Go ahead, make fun. I could seriously write a love letter to the lint roller for all the times it's made my room look clean. Lint rollers are a girl's best friend.

sitting in the dark, twiddling my thumbs

So here I am, sitting in the library.
I was making awesome progress on a particularly tough paper I've been writing when the library plunged into blackness. Since I can't actually read the book I'm trying to quote from, I figured this would be an excellent opportunity to blog.
Two things:
1) I am terrified of the dark. I hate it. I sleep with a light on most nights. I will not walk outside in the dark. My mind instantly just goes into overload and starts thinking of all of these terrible things coming out of of the darkness and murdering me. I even get panicked going from my front door to my car when it's dark outside.
2) While I am terrified of the dark and this is a somewhat sucky situation, I am REALLY glad that I have a laptop that I was working on instead of a school computer. I would have been furious if everything I've been working on got lost.

In other news, I've decided to participate in lent this year. Not because I have any sort of religious affiliation that makes me participate in it, but because I think it's kind of a good idea. It's always a good idea to do a self check and make sure you're still in control of things and life is going how you want.
Thus, I'm giving up alcohol, caffeine/soda, and fast food.
Alcohol will be a piece of cake. I've already gone through that time of my life when drinking was way fun and was all I ever wanted to do. Over it. I probably only drink once a month nowadays, if that. So this one won't be too hard.
Fast food won't be hard either, it's really just a matter of planning my days better. Since I work at McDonald's, I'll just have to get up slightly earlier to pack a lunch.
The real challenge here will be caffeine. I've been a regular coffee drinker for a while and a diet coke addict for a lot longer. Like...the amount of diet coke I go through in a day is embarrassing and ridiculous. So just to prove to myself that I can, I'm going without.
We'll see how it goes. I'll keep you updated :)