awkward and awesome: moments from the new year (and a little before)

awkward

~  When you’re *so* afraid of spiders, you had to close your eyes anytime you saw the spiders in the new Hobbit movie. And you might’ve started shaking too.

~ When you have to go a day without coffee after you were up past 12 in the morning….and so you’re just like super tired the whole day.

~ When you and your cousin try to toast to the New Year, and try to take a drink of sparkling cider but you can’t because you keep looking at each other and start laughing too hard…so eventually you have to face away from each other just to be able to take one sip.

~ That time where you can’t decide if you’re too hot or too cold, so you keep putting your jacket on then taking it back off.

~ Trying to sing “I Will Always Love You” by Whitney Housten…and let’s just say it doesn’t work very well, and a couple of dogs run out of the room. Ahem.

~ When everyone starts staring at you for no known reason.

~ Getting a a semi-expensive manicure and ruining it after only having it for three days, and when you try to salvage it by touching it up it looks even worse. And this might happen every single time you get your nails done.

awesome

~ Getting to see the Hobbit ::happy dance::

~ Having your sister over for Christmas!

~ Grandma’s food. Nothing beats it.

~ Homemade body scrubs.

~Work Out Update: *drum roll* I got up to 1000 (yes, one thousand) sit ups without stopping…whoa I still can’t believe it!

~ A great start to a new year

What’s awkward or awesome about your week?

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~ holding onto your mug then hitting a bump in the road and spilling hot coffee all over your hand. ouch.
~ when the driver of the truck stops at a stoplight so you try to take a quick drink of coffee and then just as you have it close to your face the truck starts moving again and (even more) hot coffee splashes in your face and spills all down your nice grey sweatshirt. and you might’ve choked on it too, but luckily started to cough it up everywhere because it scorched your entire mouth. ouch. again.
~ trying to run while wearing oversized chinks (and you’ve never worn them before)
~ trying to do your hair in a crowded truck
~ taking an awkwardly large bite of messy pizza and everyone is watching you
~ offering to pay for a drink someone’s getting for you and then realizing you don’t have any money
~ trying to find things to talk about with someone you just met
~ trying to squat with big boots on. and they might’ve been pretty new, too.
~ trying to saddle your horse when your fingers are cold and extremely stiff
~ when you’re riding and your saddle is lopsided and crooked
awesome

~ when you go to idaho again *insert happy dance*
~ learning how to drive a tractor
~ getting to ride EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
~ hugs
~ the above picture
~ hearing Rascal Flatts on the radio *insert another happy dance*
~ learning a ::wee:: bit of guitar
~ seeing some amazing sunrises
~ egg and bacon breakfast sandwiches and a cup of strong coffee. despite the two unlucky incidences above.
~ organizing ALL of the movies in your house
~ knowing how blessed you are with all the friends and family you have <3

What was awkward or awesome about your week?

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awkward:

~ when you’re sleeping and your arm falls asleep so you try to move your arm in a more comfortable position and your arm decides to wack you in the face instead

~ trying to dust when you’ve got a cold (*achoo!::cough::achoo!::cough::achoo!achoo!achoo!::cough,cough::achoo!*, etc)

~ when you’re drinking some water and the ice just suddenly attacks your face

~ going through a whole day without wearing your contacts

~ having to explain to people what courtship is in comparison to dating

~ when you’re a few minutes late for class and everyone’s staring at you like you just killed five people or something

~ when some guy at a store thinks you work there because you’re still in your school uniform and having to explain that you, in fact, DON’T work there but you can still help him anyway

~ when you have to clean some windows in your house, and you have to stand on the back of the couch to reach the top, because you’re so short. yup, that’s how we shorties rock and roll, people.

~ mouthwash-flavored nyquil. now that’s just awkward.

~ eating when your nose is stuffed up with a cold, so you can hardly taste anything

~ wearing jeans that are too big for you

awesome:

~ being sick with a cold but still being treated like a princess anyway

~ watching P&P for possibly the who-knows-what time

~ when you’re told that you should be Chuck Norris’s stunt double.

~ drinking coffee in the morning: coffee doesn’t ask silly questions. coffee understands.

~ learning how to edit pictures so they look nicer

~ realizing you’re going to Idaho again soon!

~ getting a three by five during deer season when you’ve only been hunting for three years. and you may have done a quiet little happy dance too

~ and when your awesome aunt comes to stay with you. and you may have done another happy dance too

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What’s awkward or awesome about your week?

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awkward-

~ nearly slipping on the rubber part of your razor on your shower floor

~ trying to hold on to a wet bar of soap

~  when your hands are sticky from eating a juicy apple

~ walking with rocks in your shoes

~ receiving a text when you're half-asleep: it's like looking into the sun

~ the movie Napolean Dynomite 

~ sneezing really, really loud in a really, really quiet room

awesome-

~ deer season!

~ hunting

~ apple cider on a cold day

~camping

~ your friends

~ the above picture

~ getting stuff in the mail

~ realizing how blessed you really are

~ green smoothies (so you don't get any colds!)

~ going on walks with your dogs

~ finding new recipes to try

~ watching the rain on your window

~ going outside just after it rains when you smell earth and wet pine trees

~ the smell of homemade chicken noodle soup filling the kitchen

~ bread fresh from the oven

~ eggnog

~ smiling for no known reason

~ watching a grey squirrel scurry up a tree

{What's awkward or awesome about your week?}

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awkward--

~ that moment when you see someone walking on the sidewalk and you can't tell if it's a boy or a girl

~ my photography

~ when you're pencil squeaks in a (very) silent room

~ that moment when you're having a conversation in you're head and you realize you're making faces that go along with the silent conversation

~ when you say something stupid and then it's silent until one of your friends says, "awkward..." in a really weird voice


~ trying to make conversation with someone you just met


awesome-- 


~ winning Angel Eyes by Shannon Dittemore from this contest. Thank you, Jill!!


~ getting a Pinterest. And a Tasty Kitchen membership.


~ Dave's Killer Bread. No explanation needed.


~ sassy water


~ learning the art of bread-making


~ fried eggs on a Sunday morning

What's awkward or awesome about your week?

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     awkward:

~ when you drop a cheerio down your shirt in front of all your friends and then realize it's stuck

~ when, after eating a Kashi granola bar, one of the chocolate chips falls down into your shirt and then you make a mental note to go the the bathroom to fix it but forget then find out that after P.E. at school it melted in *just* the wrong spot

~ seeing pictures of yourself


~ walking with rocks in your shoes


~ when you're driving on the freeway and every single time someone passes you they look out their window and stare at you while they're driving past


~ when there's an awkward silence and you start trying to make conversation with someone on the phone and you start rambling about something so their won't be that awkward silence then your voice trails off and that awkward silence just got awkwarder


~ (some) people


~ this: (dude, i mean, seriously...)

~ laughing so hard you start snorting

      

      awesome:

~ today's my last day of school!

~ ... and then going to a water park for our field trip :)

~ getting the new Pioneer Woman cookbook signed by Ree Drumond *squeals*

~ going to the Olive Garden and eating some pasta


~ Kashi Strawberry Fields cereal

an (awkward yet awesome)(true) story...

     I wrote and emailed this wacky story to my cousin and my siblings a few years ago of an...uh...interesting...adventure...


      I got to try a new form of seafood the other day. On Friday, one of my friends, Kyla, who's 8 years old, asked me if I ever had octopus. After I replied her with a "no", she asked me if I would willing to try it. I said yes, and she said she would bring some for me on Monday.  She'll probably forget about it, I thought to myself. 

           The weekend rolls on past, and I forget about it.  As I loaded my backpack in the Smith's car during the crisp, Monday morning, thinking about the wedding dresses from Say Yes To The Dress, Kyla ran up to me with a plastic bag of (mush?) baby octopus."I brought the octopus!" Kyla said to me excitedly, handing me the plastic bag. Ewwww... did I really ask to try this... mush? I asked myself. Breaking my thoughts, her mother, Mrs. Jones, chuckled and said, "Kyla was excited all morning to give it to Rae." I put on my Broadway smile and said,"Thank you, Kyla." I put it in my lunch box and hopped in the car.  Thanks a lot , Rae. Now you've done it. If you don't eat it, Kyla will be offended. If you do eat it, you'll probably find yourself puking in the garbage can at lunch in front of everyone and humiliated. I pictured Kyla's face if I told her I didn't want to try it anymore. Buck up, for crying out loud. You don't want to take her heart and rub it against a cheese grater, do you? I silently sighed. Okay, but you are paying for this!

          During lunch, I looked at it. I tried to snap a leg off of it. All the third graders at the table were watching me. No pressure...no pressure...SNAP. It came off. Amy raised her eyebrows at me. No pressure... 
         Jenna took my lunch box and put it in front of the octopus, "I am not watching this."  
         Amy said "Wait, I want to see what happens."  I put it in my mouth.  I chewed.  It was squishy.  And sweet.  It tasted good.  Well, now, I don't see you puking in a garbage can.  It actually tastes good.  
         Amy schrunched up her nose, "Do you actually like it?" "Yes."  I ate the rest of the legs except one which I gave to the Headmaster because he asked for one. He praised me. He praised my bravery. I asked Kyla if the head was edible.  "I am not sure," she replied. I still didn't eat the head. 

And that was my adventure of the week.    


**NOTE** I've changed all the names of the people involved so as to protect their privacy

the awkward and the awesome: pt 1

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The Awkward~

* laughing so hard you're crying for no reason whatsoever and after you stop you just realize how quiet the classroom is and that the other students could hear you from the other room

* going to the store in your school uniform and being asked by some thirty-something-year-old guy if you work there

* standing in the school hallway with one of your best friends who just showed you they got a B+ on a Logic test and they start dancing and you start dancing with them and you add to the moment by making up some rap-music-noises when suddenly one of the boys in your class walks in says, "What the heck?" and you and your friend stop and start laughing while he's cracking up at you

* trying to walk all cool to make a friend laugh and you turn around to make a funny facial expression then run into a wall

* accidentally calling your (male) teacher "Daddy" when you ask him a question

* going out onto your porch to lay in the sun and you fall asleep then you wake up to hearing your mom take a picture of you on her camera then seeing the picture and realize that you were snoring

* the taste and texture of coconut

* trying to tell a joke that someone told you but it just...doesn't work. Or being the only person laughing at your own joke

Sometimes you just have to ask: why does this always have to happen to me? 

The Awesome~

* ordering The Betrayal by Douglas Bond

*  your older sister who lives in California is coming up in June

* finding out that you are going to the Ligonier conference up in Seattle to listen to R.C. Sproul, Douglas Bond, John MacArthur, and Steve Lawson speak

* being able to read my Bible openly in this country

* being told you're cute :D

* finally buying the 6 hr version of Pride and Prejudice