i'm still alive. just foggy brained.

hey there.

just wanted you to know that i'm still alive in the blog land.

i'm still alive. just foggy brained.

it's a problem.

i have wanted to blog for weeks but have had nothing to blog about.....writer's block man. it's the worst.

oh well. i'm going to try to ease back in to this section of the world as best i can while i finish up these last few weeks of school.

so, in the meantime.....

how are you?

the awkward moment when...

when your mother forgets the name of one of your friends. and i'm not talking about random friend that i only see once a week. i'm talking in my inner circle. and she it's not like she doesn't know this friend. smh.

when you're in walmart at an ungodly hour and your buggy is one of those buggies that doesn't ride smoothly, or even straight for that matter. it was more like my buggy was drunk, it couldn't keep a straight line! *ba dum tsh* but seriously it couldn't. i wasn't weaving back in forth in the aisle for my own amusement.

when you're so sore after work, the only way for you to get around is to come across as if you're re-learning to walk. and nearly bent in half. i have never been in so much soreness.

when shopping in the local walgreens, you see a young girls jumping up and down while walking, saying "I'M A SUCKER FOR SUCKERS." and not 30 seconds later her brother, as if on queue, (because he probably has heard this since his sister thought of this five hours ago) nonchalantly tells her to "shut up." i have no idea why that is awkward and/or funny, but it is.

when you show off your intensely white-girl dance moves in your workplace, while other people are trying to enjoy a leisurely lunch. #unashamed. queue the shopping cart, the sprinkler, the crossing guard, and my personal favorite:

specifically the girl in the purple dress.

when you dropped your phone in water back in JANUARY, and it still basically works. except for when it doesn't. don't play me phone. either freaking DIE so i can get another phone or don't. I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS FOOLISHNESS. (update: i have since gotten a new phone, thank Jesus)

when you color your hair, only to find, a week later, that you missed some spots. awesome.

when you've dyed your hair, you go to rinse it out and it looks as if a massacre has taken place in your shower. jaws part whatever.....blech.

when it's been raining and you practically slip right out of your shoes in the middle of the wal-mart parking lot. then, if you're like me, you need to stand still for a minute, breath, and regain some sort of composure.

when in the bathroom at work and you go to take your apron off in the stall and in the process you fling the door open. good thing it was just the apron and an empty bathroom.

taking stock.

howdy friends! 

if you're wondering why i haven't posted in a while, it's because of writer's block. lots and lot's of writer's block. it's supah helpful when one has a blog. i had completely intnended on posting last week when i actually had time (spring break) but that obviously didn't happen.

i'm cool.

anyway, my lovely bloggy friend Kate of Odd One Out invited me to her blog to guest post for the first time in the history of ever (i think.) i am so honored that she asked me to be her first guest poster!

so head on over and check it out!

in the mean time, and since i haven't posted in such a long while, i though i would ease back into it by trying out something: i saw this post on this blog, and thought i would partake in the fun of taking stock of my life currently!

making- nothing. i lack so much creativity and it makes me sad.

cooking- fried eggs. i have learned the art of the fried egg and may never go back to scrambled.

drinking- lots of water, lots of coffee, lots of chai tea. it's a problem. a wonderful problem.

wanting- to something creative, like learn to knit, or paint or SOMETHING.

looking- around. people watching. ya know.

playing- my guitar and singing with my pals. it's a lovely thing to have musically minded pals in your life.

wasting- my time on a regular basis. i need to work on this.

sewing- nothing. i wish i was sewing something. i need to relearn.

wishing- to go on a hike. WILL SOMEONE GO HIKING WITH ME.

enjoying- rewatching some of my favorite tv shows on netflix. i haven't yet learned to move on and try something else. i am forever reverting back to the familiar. so sue me.

waiting- on the caffeine to kick in constantly. it's a problem.

liking- my friends. i like them alot. i like the poo outta them. that sounds way weirder than i intended it too. just trying to express how much i like my people ok?

wondering- about this coming week.

loving- jesus and learning to love like he does.

hoping- to pass my classes because these suckers are HARRRRRRRD.

marveling- at the blessing's God has given me, and realizing that i don't deserve them.

smelling- smells. all of the smells.

needing- a tissue. the yellow snow is coming out and it's not even march. 

side note: there are two types of yellow snow, in case you're confused. there is northern yellow snow- the kind animals pittle in (and maybe even people....i don't know you nor do i live up north. though, if you relieve your self in the snow, i'm judging you harshly right now.) and then there is southern yellow snow- pollen. glad we have clarified.

wearing- clothes and i hope you are too. if not, again i judge you.

following- jesus the best i can.

noticing-  and learning how the simple act of being nice is overrated and down right not a good thing. i'm talking about niceness as opposed to kindness or loving-ness.

knowing- that i can make people laugh sometimes, even if i am embarrassing myself in the process. i don't really care, because i love laughter.

thinking- about a lot of things actually. one of those things being the fact that i need a good haircut, but also may cry if it's too short.....i know i know. IT'S JUST HAIR. leave me alone.

bookmarking- a book that i have actually attempted to start reading for the HUNDREDTH time. Christy by Catherine Marshall. i'm so excited. i've watched the series a million times but it ended and left you hanging. and then no one liked it enough to make more seasons so i have no idea who Christy ends up with. so, i am reading the book. and i am pumped. if you've read it, DON'T RUIN IT FOR ME.

opening- a can of worms. always.

giggling- constantly. i love giggling, it's my favorite. and a good giggle is always necessary. ALWAYS.

feeling- thankful.

have you taken stock of your life recently?

the awkward moment when.

ok. ok. 

it's baaaccck!!!! 

i'm pumped.

 i'm super pumped. 

i'm super pumped to embarrass myself to ya'll again!

 i'm bringing back the weekly awkward moments. 

every thursday (maybe friday depending on my mood or my life), come head over here and here about my awkward life. 

you'll have a whole new perspective of me (that is of course, if you didn't read my awkward posts before.)

i really need to make a new pciture for this post.
IT'S TIME FOR NEW THINGS.
NEW THINGS I TELL YA.

 when you decide to start up something you stopped a long time ago. Example, this post. i think i stopped because i wasn't seeing anything awkward, but in reality that's a lie. i see and experience awkward ALL. THE. TIME.

when after deciding to start this up again, you realize that most of the awkward your readers will be reading about the awkward that happens to a waitress. i hope you're prepared for the awkward that comes with working in the food and beverage industry.

when, after the millions of times that you (jokingly, yet slightly serious for various reasons) threatened to kick people in the shins, you kick your own self in the shins by pulling a glass rack off of a shelf and slam down into your legs. IT'S CALLED KARMA.

when taking people's order you LIT'rally (think parks and rec's Chris Traeger played by the handsome Rob Lowe.) do not remember how to speak. happens to me often, so i have to completely start over and get weird and/or ugly looks while telling my guest that they can help themselves to the garden bar whenever they are ready. and to think i was an English Major, ruler of the good grammar fellows. have mercy.

when your math skill suuuuuuuccck. and this is really bad because you are constantly counting out change, but thank goodness for the computers who do the math for you, unless you put in the wrong total and then have to take ten-fifteen minutes to remember how to subtract. so you pull out your phone, which is forbidden on the floor. and then you do the walk of shame back to the table with the correct change while guest give you dirty looks for taking waaaaaayyy to long to get ehir change. NO, I SWEAR I WASN'T TRYING TO STEAL MONEY FROM YOU. MY MATHS AREN'T WORKING TODAY.

when you ask someone, whom you don't know well (as in only met them once but for some creepy reason they remember you and you don't quite remember them) how they are. TWICE. WITHIN ONE MINUTE OF THE PREVIOUS. because you don't know what else to say to this stranger. and when they ask you how you are a second time, you answer differently than the first time. not a full minute ago.

alrighty folks that's it for this week! anything awkward happen to you recently?

the grammy's salute to the beatles.

 normally, as much i would love to watch things like this, i don't because i don't have the means to do so.

i don't have access to television, haven't for a while. so let me say that i am thankful for a best friend who let's me come to her house all the time, because in doing so, i got to see most of this program. 

and let me tell you. i had a party. 

it was just the best to see ringo starr and paul mccartney in the same room fifty years after the first time the beloved british boy band (try saying that one five times fast) appeared in America. 

in my head i'm thinking 

"oh this is so great. this is so great seeing these old chums back together with their families." 

and i'm thinking this in an English accent.

i know. 

it's weird.

but i'm weird, and i'm pretty sure everyone here knows that and have come to terms with the fact that it's a normal thing.

i really don't know how to continue this post in a logical and understandable fashion. i just have a lot of feels about it. 

let's also keep in mind that there were still pieces i missed of this program, so really i'm just talking about what i saw, what i liked the best, and what i don't understand.

first off, i saw one of my favorite bands, Maroon 5, singing a Beatles song i did not recognize, but i didn't care. actually this is when we walked in to see this program had started. my exact words were "oh look! the beatles! no wait. adam levine!"

i'm kinda dumb. ha.

next, stevie wonder performed "we can work it out" with his sassy little twist that he gives everything. and i loved it.

danny harrison, son of george harrison, appeared next with a band i did not recognize, and yet another beatles song i did not know, but that's ok because i got chill bumps seeing the son of a beatle singing a song his dad helped make popular.

the next people i saw where these two gents. both decent guitar players (i'm one to talk. they can play light years around me.), but i was very confused about John Mayor's pant selection. he had some sort of hangy-down thing that was like a butt flap. i came to the conclusion that it was a pocket for his ipad or laptop. 

logical.

katy perry was next (or she was right before, i don't actually remember), and sang a beautiful rendition of "yesterday." i was was also lead to confusion by her outfit choice, but now that i have thought about it, she was probably trying to channel her inner sixties self.

then ed sheeran came on the screen. 

let me tell you....his performance was awesome.

just the best.

i have no idea what he sang. 

but it was nice.

then last and never least, the finale.

ringo starr and paul mccartney together again singing the songs that made them famous.

needless to say i was mentally freaking out. 

it was a party.

during the entire program, the camera hits a number of people in the front row. recognize any of these faces?

my favorite part of the evening (besides ringo and paul's performance):

tom hanks and rita wilson. the camera panned on then every so often and they were just having the best. time. ever. 

and it was the cutest thing.

 i love them.

can just say, too that, johnny depp's segway into the next act during the program, was rather awkward? or was that just me?

and even though no one is thrilled with her, seeing yoko ono and her and john's son (who looked just like lennon) at the performance was interesting to me as well. 

yoko had some moves. it was weird. 

but whatever.

overall it was wonderful to see the grammy's salute to the beatles.

like i said, it was a party.

in which i talk about shaving. boys, you may not want to read this.

i'm gonna talk about it: shaving.

i'm not gonna lie, i really hate shaving, which is funny because i can remember the day that i asked my mom if i could start shaving. then i wanted to, now i hate it. i hate it so much that i have found the lazy way to shave: nair. nair is my best friend and it works pretty dang good too.

most of the time.....then those are those few times that i just for some reason don't leave it on long enough for it to do anything. basically leaves me saying "good job Caroline. way to burn your skin!" in all the sarcasm that i can muster.

then recently, i was given the opportunity to try a new razor before it hit the shelves; the Gillette Venus sensitive skin razor.

oh my lanta. this thing is glorious. and it's for sensitive skin! that was another reason i didn't use real razors. i found that Nair didn't irritate my skin but other razors would. this cute gillette one doesn't! and it's got a really easy-to-grip handle. and it glides very smoothly on my skin. AND it came with a wall hanger to put in your shower, making it easy to get to.

not gonna lie. that last part made me super excited. 

BECAUSE IT'S SUPER USEFUL.

anyway, ladies, if you're prone to sensitive skin or just hate shaving in general (it's ok. be honest. this is a no judgement zone.) or you're like me and you find the shower-wall hanger exciting, this is the razor for you. 

combine it with the lovely Eos Lavender Jasmine shaving cream and it's a party for your legs and pits. 

this was a sponsored post.

 influenster.com gave me this opportunity to try out the new razor by sending it to me for free! 

all opinions expressed are my own. 

it's worth it. 

it really is.

what i did instead of watching the superbowl.

while everyone else was watching the superbowl, i was busy doing other things.

i was busy having a dance party,

i was busy eating,

i was busy being studious,

i was busy falling asleep while being studious,

i was busy laughing,

but in all seriousness, i really did not watch the superbowl. 

i have no feelings towards football. i have no knowledge about football. 

anytime i have watched it, i have stood when everyone else stood because i did not want anyone's booty in my face, 

i clapped when everyone else clapped because clapping is fun and i like to clap.

the only thing i can actually understand is when there is someone running with the ball towards the goal.

then, and only then do i get it. 

that guy is about to make a touchdown.

otherwise, you get the joy of me making remarks such as 

"way to sport. those boys know how to football real good."

i can hear the nauseated groans of football fans everywhere.

and yes.

 i know.

 i made a similar joke already on facebook.

LET ME HAVE MY MOMENT.