#-So Tired

 So; this post isn't going to be part of the challenge. How dare I not, you say? Well, this is my blog and I can do whatever I dang well please.

 This Friday/Saturday at my college/university (pick your fancy name) there is a Junior High Youth Gathering. Your's truly is in charge of all the counselors. I have named myself brilliantly the head honcho counselor. Luckily I have a partner in crime. I just came from set up and am exhausted. Tomorrow at 11 AM until Saturday at around 3 PM; I will do nothing but live, breathe and ingest-caffeine-because-I'm-so-exhausted. I may not fully post again until Sunday. There maybe an update on the JHYG on Saturday; but it depends on how alive I am.

Right now, if I stay awake anymore I think I would become massively slap happy and say things like "My shoes are bustin' out", that's what she said jokes, or jokes about how strange my friends are, lice jokes, homework jokes, creepy____ stories.

Too late..I've already found things hysterical. 

#2: Describe your typical day, from wake to sleep.

  Post numero dos for the challenge!!

I formally apologize for how boring this will be. I right now am waiting for another student teaching placement; so I wake up and do nothing but hop on the internet, read, knit, and stare off into the beyond wondering when my scheduled life is going to return. So I have decided to add a little creativity to this post.

My Typically Awesome Day Schedule

1. Midnight- Knowing my night owl ways I will still be awake.
2. 1 AM-Beginning to plot the evils of this world and how I could overpower them with my sense of awkwardy lameness
3. 2 AM- Sit rocking back and forth because I have finished writing my plot; and have discovered a flaw in the plan; because I don't own a rocket.
4. 2:30 AM- Throw plan away and go to bed.
5. 3 AM- Realize that I am still awake because the thought that I don't have a rocket still upsets me,
6. 3:15 AM-Throw off my covers climb down off my bed (I'm not a midget. I just sleep on the top bunk.) 
7. 3:17 AM- Open laptop and Google ways to build rocket.
8. 3: 22 AM- Become depressed because I lack the funds to build a rocket because I am a poor broke college student with no job.
9. 3:30 AM- After short depression, climb back into bed and dream of butterflies, Lucky Charm cereal and cures for halitosis.
10. 6 AM- Who knows why in the bloody wonders I am set my alarm this early?
11. 6:02 AM- Get out of bed because my alarm has been going off for 2 solid minutes and therefore shut it off as to not disturb my roommate who is right below me. Climb out of bed.
12. 6:05 AM- Open laptop and see if anyone liked my witty status about rockets and moon monkies. 
13. 6:06 AM- Sigh when Facebook doesn't have any new notifications.
14. 6:10 AM- Decide to check e-mail. 
15. 6: 15 AM- Cry when 35 unread e-mails pop-up in your inbox and they are asking you stupid questions. 
16. 7:00 AM- Decide after 45 minutes to answer 12 e-mails. 
17. 7:30 AM- Stomach is making funny noises. Decide to feed it coffee.
18. 8:00 AM- Google how to make cheap rockets. Uncrumple plan from previous night.
19. 9:00 AM- Nap because you didn't sleep well last night.
20. 11:00 AM- Send annoying text messages to your friends about how you would like to go to the dining hall.
21. 11:15 AM-Continue to stare at your phone because you haven't received a response yet. 
22. 11:17 AM- Received response.
23. 11:18 AM-Realize that you haven't gotten dressed for the day so this would be the time to do it.
24. 11:20 AM-Walk to the dining hall.
25. 11:30 AM- Arrive at the dining hall with your friends. Scope to see what is edible.
26. 11:45 AM- Choose to sit at a spot in the dining hall with excellent people watching views. This is beneficial for your "plan". Take note of people with the name Creepy ___________. 
27. 12: 30 PM- Leave Dining hall complaining that you're about to fall in to food coma.
28. 12: 37 PM- You make it back to your room just in time before the food coma hits. 
29. 2: 45 PM- Food coma finally leaves.
30. 3:00 PM- Check e-mail and Facebook. Delete internet history about rockets.
31. 3:15 PM- Continue your Google search on rockets.
32. 4 PM- Complain that you are hungry to your roommate and want the dining hall to be open.
33. 4:30 PM- Start announcing countdown until the dining hall opens.
34. 5:10 PM- Send out annoying text messages to your friends about the dining hall.
35. 5:15 PM- Go eat in the dining hall; again scoping out edible food.
36. 6:20 PM- Announce that you are ready to leave and say loudly, "Let's blow this popsicle stand!"
37. 6:21 PM- Actually leave the dining hall.
38. 6:30 PM- Sit in the hallway with your friends and talk about random stuff. Almost guaranteed that one will pick the staples off the wall where the other one will keep reminding you of how short you are. 
39. 7:15 PM- Decide to go to Tea Garden/Nina's/ Other Dorm Rooms. Tea Garden is picked
40. 7:30 PM- Arrive at Tea Garden sit in futon couch. 
41. 7:34 PM- Order chocolate coconut chai tea shake. 
42. 7:37 PM- Obtain drink
43. 7:40 PM- Make friends feel awkward in public because of things you to do them
44. 7:50 PM-Consume drink, stumbleupon, knit, think of working on homework type stuff
45. 10 PM- Talk about leaving Tea Garden
46. 10:30 PM-Leave Tea Garden
47. 10:40 PM- Return to room.
48. 11 PM- Resume evil plan
49. 11:30 PM-Modify evil plan
50. 11:59 PM- Cry when evil plan uses a time machine and squirt guns and you don't have the funds for a squirt gun.

I hope this entertained you rather than enlightened you to what my day is. Some of it is real; some of it is fake. I'll leave the choosing of it up to you. Mwhahahaha!

Post #3: Which superpower would you choose to have if you had the option and why? Conversely, which superhero do you find to be the most overrated and why

#1: What did you eat as a child that you can't stand now as an adult?

Challenge Post #1. Have no idea what that mean? See post below.

As a children we all eat strange things: dirt, sand, scabs, grass, flowers and possibly glue. I was a very strange child, as you can probably tell from the fact that I am still strange now. I am currently sitting in a dorm lounge watching the rain fall with plans to read Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo after I am done blogging.

Of course I ate natural, edible things as a child: such as macaroni and cheese, burgers, hot dogs, and cupcakes and brownies. As an adult, or close to it...I am glad my palate has become a tad more sophisticated. I now love to try food from other cultures.

Here is my list:
   Things that I ate as a child that I can't stand as an adult: (with explanations)

1. Frozen Brussel Sprouts
1. To me these were the sh**. Little balls of frozen lettuce! I used to sneak them from the freezer and eat them when my mom wasn't looking. I often requested them as a vegetable for the family dinner that night. I even got my sister hooked. My grandmother knew that I liked them and would give me some every time I visited her house. The would take me forever to eat; I would sometimes just put them in my mouth and waltz around like a small chipmunk up to no good or I would sit and peel layer by layer off until I had just the insides and then pop them in my mouth and go scrounging around for more. I think I have had some wrongly cooked brussel sprouts in my childhood years so I think I just gave up, or maybe my parents stopped buying them.
2. Marshmallows
1. Gooey, little sticky white balls of sugar. These were the best; especially when it came to Peeps. My mother taught me how to blow them up in the microwave. I used to eat them plain like no ones business. Now I think they are the most disgusting things on the face of the planet. I will however eat A s'more in honor of summer. 
3. Fish/Crab Legs
1. My family used to order Market Day all the time. There was always this white fish with seasoning that my mom would order and I would eat it up. My family also splurged on crab legs and sat around the dinner table eating them and dipping them in butter. I think what changed this is that my grandfather went to Alaska and brought back a salmon. I saw them skin it, including the fun eyes; and was forced to eat the nasty dry pink gross texture stuff. It also smelled HORRIFIC. I don't eat any kind of seafood; I think it is gross, above land creatures for me please.
4. Capri Sun or any other fake juice
1. Sugar flavored liquid. Gross. Hawaiian Punch, Sunny D. All got me sick. Enough said.
5. Little Debbie Snacks
1. Eat this and McDonalds if you want your body to not decompose. 
6. Pepperoni
1. Greasy little meat discs tossed upon pizza. Why do you have to ruin my pizza, pepperoni?
7. TV Dinners
1. We only got these as kids when my parents went out on date night and the babysitter had to feed us. I loved them; now I think they are a waste of money and I know that there are other ways to get nutrition. For example: eating cardboard, chewing on my own arm, licking tree bark, freshly cooked squirrel meat. 
8. Macaroni Salad
1. I was the pasta queen and carbs were my playground. Now I think that macaroni salad is gross. Unless I make it, and make it with things that I like to eat. 
9. Miracle Whip
1. Stop trying to be mayo. You're not mayo. You don't even taste good. You call yourself whip salad dressing on generic packages; who would put you on a salad? You're not as thin or as skinny as actual salad dressing. Sorry no love.

Next post: #2 Describe your typical day, from wake to sleep.

Comments are open to all! 

Blog Challenge

Facebook has started a trend for various 30 day challenges: music, photos, etc. I am going to do a 55 blog challenge. I am not going to promise a post daily because with the hectic lifestyle I lead it would be some what crazy. The hard thing that will be brought upon with this challenge is lists. I am challenging myself to form a list with every post. Some will be harder than others but hence the challenge.

I have searched far and wide for the perfect list and have decided it didn't exist for me; so I made one up. You could say I combined the best of a few good lists to create my own. The first post will be today not to long after this one is posted.

Here is the Epic List:

1. What did you eat as a child that you can't stand now as an adult?
2. Describe your typical day, from wake to sleep.
3. Which superpower would you choose to have if you had the option and why? Conversely, which superhero do you find to be the most overrated and why?
4. What would you write in a letter you could send forward in time to yourself in 10 years
5.  Where would you want to live if Earth was uninhabitable
6. You have to invite 5 people to dinner, dead or alive. Who do you invite and why
7. Which would you choose: immense wealth in obscurity or poverty and fame (think "starving artist")?
8. What's your favorite place to escape from life temporarily? A park? A mall?
9. If you could learn any new language, which one would you choose and why?
10. If you could build a soundtrack to your life, who would be on it?
11. Describe what you hear when you hear nothing.
12. What animals frighten you and why?
13.  What medium would your life best be shown as? A movie? A television series? A cartoon? What genre would a movie about your life fall under? Comedy? Romance?
14. Recall an unusual bus, train, or plane ride.
15. What kinds of activities when on at the kitchen table at home when you grew up (eating doesn't count)?
16. If you had more money, what would you alter about your life?
17. Explain how to play your favorite game.
18. Which place would you most like to visit—Africa, China, Alaska—why?
19. Harry Potter-courtesy of Gabby
20. 15 facts about you.
21.  Today’s Playlist
22. Weekend Goals
23.  Least Favorite Words
24.  Favorite Websites
25.  On my wishlist
26.  Places to go in the TC
27. Words that are hard to spell
28. Road trip must haves
29.  Recipes I want to try
30.  Things I’d rather be doing right now
31.  Books I’d like to read this year
32.  Lessons learned
33.  Vacations to take
34.  Favorite Foods
35.  Random To-Do List
36. Things I love About….
37.  Things to do this spring
38. Best part of your day
39. Silly Insecurities
40. 3 Things to change about your life and why
41. First thoughts that cross your mind when you wake up
42.  List of things that I am curious about
43.  20 rules you have broken
44.  Things that people want that I don’t care about
45.  Job I would never do
46.  50 things you love to do
47. 15 things that you want at the very second
48.  7 favorite words
49.  Ask a question everyone else is afraid of asking.
50.  Inspirational Quotes
51.   Rhetorical Questions
52.  Must Watch YouTube Videos
53. A Do and Don’t List
54.   Beginning of a Bucket List
55.  What’s in my handbag/purse

Please note that there may be an off topic post sometimes..A girl just needs to get things off her chest then and now.

*Fun Reactions*

After my last post; which was somewhat ho-hum; I have decided to write a new happier post. I would have to say that overall I am a pretty happy person and that I look at life in my own unique way. I manage to blow with the breeze yet still be the leaf that dances to her own beat and possibly hits you upside the face.

I try to make myself known in most situations (bucket full of contradictions). I will say something and people will get that taken-a-back look; and I love when the almost never failing quotes, "What did you just say?" or "You did not just say that!". I try so hard to keep from smiling and respond, "Yes, I did just say that". Please feel free to rely on the things attached to either side of your head; they are called ears. I'm guessing this reaction occurs probably because the way that I present myself is different from the way that I act.

Here is my list:

Things that will get an interesting reaction out of people:

1. Be out of the social norm. Who needs to be normal anyhow? Normalcy is for LOSERS! HA!
2. Wit; knowing that you can think on your feet and interject strange things into a conversation.
3. Act normal, but be not normal. This somewhat contradicts with the first one; but READ this --> Start off a situation normally but start inserting unnormal  (new word!) things into the situation. Example: When you are talking to a friend about your day; start off standing in a normal position; then as the conversation progresses start standing in interesting ways. Be creative with your foot stance and posture. DON'T DRAW ANY ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE CHANGED; just continue on like normal and watch others around you.
4. Say something totally inappropriate or make bad jokes at random times. This may require some prep work. Google interesting facts about sneezes to begin with; the possibilities are endless. Note: it doesn't have to be related at all to the topic at hand; sometimes it is better if it is towards the other extreme.
5. Facial expressions. When someone is telling a story use facial expressions that display the opposite emotion of the story. (Note: Sensitivity should be used)
6. Start speaking in strange tones. This accompanied with facial expressions is so strange; but awesome at the same time.
7. Pose randomly. 
8. Don't be afraid to put yourself out there. 
9. Creepy, awkward and being knowledgeable will take this skill to above and beyond.

People may start to view you in another way after you have used some of the listed above tips. If you are okay with this then grand! If not, you may want to take up another hobby like skiing or beach volleyball or something a little to extreme organizing stacks of paper you see lying randomly around. 

In order to do all of the above you need to be comfortable in your own skin. If you aren't I suggest talking to someone or just trying it and seeing what happens; maybe taking a risk is what you need. I'm not saying that everyone needs to do start being a little awkward; it just maybe something to do when you are completely bored out of your mind.

~Alone~

I have been doing some thinking lately. I have this fear, this constant state of fear that I am going to end up alone. As I write this I am sitting here, alone; ironically. Loneliness haunts me. I feel that I will one day end up in a place where no one will know who I am or my story that I have to tell. As an introvert this adds to my bucket of contradictions that is myself. It doesn't make any sense you say? I know. Let me explain.

Let me set up my scenario: I'm 23 yrs. old, single, soon to be a college grad with a bright future; and so many options. But; (here it comes)...since we live in the technology age; I see on facebook and twitter and other social media sites that everyone is pairing up; like they are getting ready for another Noah's ark. I'm left sitting here wondering what I did wrong. It's even worse when your friends start pairing up and going before God and committing themselves to marriage. I feel left out; like there was a memo I missed that was announced while I was sleeping; and someone forgot to pass it on. I have also watched people before my own eyes fall head over heels for someone else. It hurts and it just fuels my fear. I'm just everyone's friend and no one's date.

On top of it all; I have a fear of being forgotten. I don't want to be the one that you run into the mall a few years down the road and we have that awkward encounter and I have to clarify it. Hi, it's me; Kim. We-used-to-be-best-friends-then-you-got-attached-and-left-me-out-in-the-dust-hanging-out-to-dry type conversations. Being forgotten and alone would be my ultimate humiliation. It'd be worse than being invisible. Being invisible would be pretty sweet; because then I could haunt people and scare the crap out of them...off topic.

Since this is a list type blog I feel that I need to make one. My "J"ness is telling me to do so. (also because it's the title)

My weirdness and thoughts on this subject that don't fit really anywhere but here:

1. Why is it that perfectly good humans fall for those who they can't have? Human nature right?
2. Why is that I am still single?
3. I'm quirky and awkward. Is that a turn-off?
4. I'm organized, a bucket full of contradictions.
5. I care.
6. I'm willing to bend over backwards for others who have "relationship" issues but my advice is coming from somewhere; because I haven't experienced it yet.
7. If I end up lonely and forgotten; I can't become a cat lady..I'm allergic to cats and I think cats are icky...Dogs? Fish? Birds? Not really much of an animal person....Maybe I'll be that type of person who devotes everything to their work..workaholic...I could see that happening.
8. It'll save me from an abusive relationship or one that is bound to fail to begin with...Guess that's a positive??
9. I'd love to start a family..I've been told that I would be a good mother, and I love kids. 
10. I love to cook for people....can't be alone and do that....
11. Sometimes I just need to vent; blogging and all that could be helpful but there are some things that you don't put on the internet..such as..Hey! I have lice. (long story)..venting to people that I know is good.. positive feedback and support...Comments on a blog? Not much support. 
12. My anxiety would be come better if I was with someone..They could help me through it; and find ways to keep my mind occupied so that it doesn't go crazy.
13. One of my love languages is physical touch and the other is quality time...that doesn't happen 
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Maybe I should just work on this: 

Thanks for reading. You have helped me not be alone or forgotten.