that time again...

I'm actually having a really hard time coming up with a bunch of A&A moments... It's like my life is so pathetic I don't have any AWESOME moments, but so awesome I don't have any awkward moments too.
ANYWAY.

Awesome:
- Chipotles :) Carol, Chloe, Safiya and I all went to eat there on Friday... The Scott Decker family has officially lost their Chipotle virginity :)
- Safiya FINALLY pooped in the toilet! I really don't think I need to explain this one, but let me just tell you that no one will appreciate this as much as those who have had to change little kids' outfits 5+ times a day due to accidents.
- Jack Bauer or more generally, 24. Mr. I has been hooked on this show all summer long, telling me the latest Jack Bauer-ism every time we skype. Lucky for me, mom has a netflix account soooooooo, I've slowly started my "conversion" into 24. It's so intense!
- having my hair re-colored. So unnecessary.... yet so awesome.
- ummmm THE HARRY POTTER PREMIERE!!!! And the fact that our entire family breakfast conversation was comprised of breaking down the details of the movie and listing what we liked and didn't like. It truly was the BEST movie of the series... although it is fairly sad now that it's over. It's like the last tiny bit of my childhood has completed and I'm now officially an adult. ew.

Awkward:
I actually have one of the greatest awkward stories for this section...
- My Aunt Erin's youngest child Kaia was participating in a soccer camp this week and as part of the camp the parents of the participants were asked in advance if they would be willing to put up the coaches for the week. Erin volunteered to do so, and on Sunday the Decker's had a big family dinner at their house in which we all met Rick and Dan, 2 British soccer coaches. Yes, British. Anyways, too make a long story short, Dan asked if I wanted to go on the quad with him around the trail that was in the big field behind the house to which I said yes (because I love 4-wheelers :D). Well, after like the second loop around the trail, he stopped the quad in the middle of the field. I sincerely thought that something was wrong with the quad, but I was VERY wrong. He turns around to face me and says...
Dan: So how many other British men have you met?
Me: Well, during club soccer my coaches would sometimes have British trainers come in to help us out a bit...?
Dan: But, I'm like... the only one you've had a legitimate conversation with right?
Me: ummm, I think so...

AND THEN HE KISSED ME.
awkward? yes. unwanted? YES
After getting home from the dinner, I check my facebook and I see that I have a friend request from Mr. British. Turns out he's listed as married....
LUCKILY I questioned him about it and he says that it's just a really really close friend from back home.... but I'm still wary of it.
since then he's been unfriended and blocked though... and now he's outta sigh outta mind. BUT... the whole thing was essentially my only really intense awkward moment of the week and henceforth deserved some mention here.
- I really have a hard time taking compliments.... Carol had some friends over this week from Ohio and I was needed to help her play hostess. She was explaining to them who I was and listed some of the things I've done and overall just painting a really flattering picture of me. It was odd for me to stand their as her friends appraised me because I felt like they were getting a false impression of who I am (hello, I'm NOT that girl she's talking about... I've made WAY more mistakes than she's giving me credit for!) but I also didn't want to contradict Carol because well 1. that would've interrupted her and 2. I didn't want to seem ungrateful for her words. So I just turned red with embarrassment instead.
Honestly that's all I can really think of right now. This week was really exhausting because of everything that Carol & co had going on but it's been nice being so busy because it makes time go by faster.

5 more days until Mr. I is here!!!

The travel bug really IS a chronic condition and while I haven't been bitten as much or hard as she has been, I've still got this itch to leave the US and TRAVEL. The older I get the more I realize exactly how ignorant I am. History has never been my forté and I wish that I knew more about different cultures. People fascinate me. I love seeing the interactions between groups and trying to riddle out why they respond to each other the way they do. I am really excited to take my sociology class in the fall for this very reason. Liz recently told me about this International Language Program that allows you to travel to 4 different countries (depending on the program you choose) and teach English for 4 months to the children there. AND it's only $2,500! (room, board and airfare). I'm seriously considering doing that next summer because the timing in between school would be PERFECT.

So that's my current state of events. Nothing too exciting here!
have an awesome and NOT awkward week this week... I know I will! :)
ps: did I mention Mr. I is coming this week? yes? oh... I did. ok just checking :)