Awkward and Awesome // Workouts, Exercise, But Mostly Running

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Long skirts get tangled up around your legs and trip you, 

short skirts tend to fly up when you run, 

denim skirts refuse to behave...

The price of running shoes O.O

When you're sick and can't run and its driving you crazy

Or even worse, when you twist your ankle or something so that you CAN'T run or lift or whatever, but you're still healthy and just have to sit around 

People who walk to abreast on the trails and won't. get. over. to. let. you. through.

When you have your feet stuck under something so you can do situps and your foot slips out and you knee yourself in the face

When you're doing pushups and you underestimate how close the ground is and instead of having your chin up, you're looking down so you knock your forehead into the floor

...

And then the hollow clunk makes you laugh, so you drop onto the ground and your siblings find you lying face first on the floor laughing into the floorboards. 

When someone you don't like can do more pushups then you and you sit there with mixed feelings of rage, annoyance, disgust, and slight respect

(Note, it has to be a fairly impressive amount of pushups to get the respect part since I can do about jack diddly in the push up area)

 People who don't clean of the machine before they leave...Yay. Sweat. My favorite. :(

 People who change the channel on the TV. 

"Hey buddy. Trying to watch Cutthroat kitchen here, not CNN!"

But do we say that? No. Because that would be rude.

When you're having a lovely run and then step in a dip and twist your ankle. Not enough for it to be hurt, just enough to throw you off your run and make it achy

When you try and shower after a work out and your family decided to run laundry and the dishwasher and there. is. no. hot. water.....in December.

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New socks

NEW RUNNING SHOES

The burn in your legs after a long run that makes you feel alive

Also the adrenaline rush after you've finished that makes you want to climb the side of the house and dance on the roof (PRO TIP: DON'T)

The pleasant ache of muscles after a good day

Also the feeling when you stretch and you start to feel your tendons burn

When someone says they can do more situps then you so you end up having a contest in the hallway... and some poor boys walk up to see all these girls crowded around counting...

"49..50...51..."

(And for  your information I won...by a lot.)

Sweat. 

I know, I know. 

Its stinky, wet, and just generally disgusting. 

But it means your out there, living life. 

And that makes all the difference

Workout Playlists

*tightens ponytail*

Smoothies with Bananas in them. Or peaches and mangoes....

-KAT-

Awkward and Awesome: No. 6

 Awkward

•  Trying to whine about how little you got done and people are impressed instead. No. No that's not what I meant. Hear me whine!
  
  And its not like you feel great about it because people are amazed. You just feel disappointed in yourself because you didn't meet all your goals and now you can't even whine about it.
   
• Accidentally making a loud noise....in the middle of the night.....when all your family is asleep.
   
• Making instant potatoes or a box cake for dinner because people are over and they compliment you on the delicious potatoes or the lovely cake.
  
  well.....thanks.
   
• Getting chicken pox after 17 years of avoiding it
   
• Walking back into a room when you've been gone for five minutes and hearing the four year old say "You know how things sometimes fall all by themselves?"  (It was my phone. -K)
    
• When a cute boy and you get up from the communion rail at the same time and you do that awkward 'who goes first' dance. *face palm*
   
• Never finishing your awkward and awesome post so it is filled with things that happened months ago.
   
• Snorting a little too loudly as you laugh at your now really, REALLY old Awkward and Awesome post

Awesome

• Making instant potatoes because people are over for dinner and you don't have time to peel a entire bag of potatoes. And you just hope nobody will notice... And then they compliment you on them. 
  
  And I just sat there like...I feel very smug and also slightly evil.
  
   
• I have also made box cakes for parties AT OUR OWN HOUSE because I was lazy/procrastinated/was busy getting other stuff ready and then that cake was the first thing that was eaten and the thing that everyone came back for seconds for.
  
  Granted, I have a secret when making box cakes to make them extra yummy and moist but I can't share it. Tis a secret it tis!
  
  [No, it's not. I was out of vegetable oil, so I used melted coconut oil with my chocolate box cake and it ended up moist with just a hint of coconut. Enough that people could recognized SOMETHING was there, but not enough for the coconut haters to find it.]
   
• Clean hair on a windy day. (When you're facing INTO the wind)
   
• When your in a great mood and dancing around your room like a crazy to whatever is on the radio
   
• Doing things with your friends
   
• A good game of truth or dare. Let the shame and secrets flow
   
• An AMAZING story
   
• Or a good movie
   
• Or a web story (Like Emma Approved)
   
• Or this song!!!
  
  
  
  -Kat
   and Lia-
   

Awkward and Awesome: Winter, Holidays, Etc

Awkward:

• They are playing Christmas music. You love Christmas music. But it isn't after Thanksgiving, so you stubbornly refuse to sing along out of principle. 
    
• You end up singing anyway because your favorite comes on.
   
• Remember the truck thing I whined about? Guess what....I did it again. Why? WHY? *
   
• Slush. Yuck
   
• And snow. Except for the first day when everything is nice and crisp. After that...it can go
   
• I DO NOT LIKE BEING COLD
   
• I go into panic mode as I realize it is almost time for Christmas shopping and I must begin the mad scrabble to guy things for people. And make sure I don't forget anybody.
   
• Misplacing Christmas presents and finding them a few weeks after Christmas.
  Or a few months.
  Or never.
   
• Forgetting people while Christmas shopping and having to rush out at the last minute
   
• WHO do I need to buy stuff for again? 
   
• So. Many. People. In. The. Stores. *gag*
   
• IT IS OCTOBER! WHY IS YOUR CHRISTMAS STUFF UP!
  For people who don't procrastinate, you say?
  Ha ha. You can't fool me. Those people are myths!
   
• I love to wrap things. But I also procrastinate. So you'll either get a beautifully wrapped gift or it'll have a towel thrown over it.
   
• The winter wind blowing your hair...back into your lipstick...
   
• Knocking over the Christmas tree or even just seeing it fall
  (If you see it fall from across the room, do not yell TIMBER!)

Awesome:

• So festive!
   
• Christmas music
   
• Scarves and people walking about with smiles and coffee cups in hand
   
• EGGNOG! EGGNOG! EGGNOG! EGGNOG!
   
• Am I Christmas shopping or is it for me? Hahaha. You'll never know!
   
• CHRISTMAS MUSIC
   
• I am the best at hiding things. I am practically a squirrel. (Sometimes I forget when they are though.)
  
  
• First snow
   
• Decorating the house
   
• Putting up the tree with your family and everyone being covered in tiny plastic needles by the time it is over
   
• Taking out your favorite ornament
   
• When you find the perfect gift and your just like: Yes! This! This is perfect. and then wait smugly for them to unwrap it on Christmas day
   
• Getting a sibling something weird as a prank and watching them just kind of stare at it in confusion for a couple minutes while everyone laughs hysterically
   
• CRANBERRY PUDDING WITH IRISH WHISKEY SAUCE
   
• Midnight Mass
   
• Coming up your drive and seeing your house decked out in lights and wreaths and garlands
   
• Forcing your pets to wear ridiculous outfits and laughing at their annoyed expression
   
• Doing the same to small children and taking pictures of them for future blackmail
   
• Christmas movies
   

 By the way, comment your favorite Christmas movie!
(Or any movie set during the winter holidays.)
(And no, Leap Day does not count as a winter holiday)

-Kat
 and Lia-

*For all you newcomers (first of all, Hi)

The Truck thing is the fact that I will see a nice truck in the parking lot and will stare at it. And I never look at the cab first, so after I have stared at the bed, back wheels, side, etc THEN I notice the owner sitting in their car. Often, they are busy with whatever they are doing and don't notice me. But a few times I have slowly looked up to meet the amused eyes of this guy who has been sitting their watching me check out his truck.

Awkward and Awesome: Besties

 

Awkward: 

• When she sends prank emails from your account
• When you live far away from each other
• Can't have a conversation without anyone eavesdropping
• When someone makes your friend sad, so you have to kill them and end up getting blood on your new shoes.*
  
  * Please note: This is hypothetical.
• Liking the same things DOES have disadvantages.
  Friend: Where did all the chocolate cake go?
  Me: *shrugs* No idea
  Second Friend: It's got crumbs on its jacket-sess!
  
• When one is the people person and the other one wants to hide in a corner at social gatherings and hiss at anyone who comes near them. But they want to spend time together, so....
•  Buying one of your best friends her graduation present..... three days before her graduation.#Procastination #WorstFriendOfTheYear

Awesome: 

• When you can fan girl to each other
• Spending time with each other
• Reading each other's journals (with permission, of course)
• Sleepovers!
• Looking at each other and being able to understand what we are thinking
• Which can lead to random burst of laughter (sometimes in church)
• Mostly in front of people who then think we are crazy (But everyone thinks we're crazy, so no biggie.)
• Singing along with musicals and screaming as soon as the villain in a period drama comes on screen.
  "You!"
  *Pillow hits screen*
  *TV falls off wall*
  Me: (smugly) Got 'em
• Rapid fire texts and google chats
• Might I just say "Period Drama movie marathons?" The ones where you all pile together like a stack of kittens and get all toasty and warm and your legs go to sleep, but you refuse to move?

-Kat
  and Lia-

Awkward And Awesome: Skirts

AWKWARD: 

• The weird looks you get
• Good skirts are hard to come by
• That one skirt you loved and wore everywhere just died,...because, well...you wore it everywhere
• Wanting to be comfortable yet modest, so you pair your knee length skirt with your fandom T shirt and you just look like "Lazy Fangirl" on the top and "Classy Lady" on bottom. (Lets here it for the Classy Lazy Fangirl Ladies!)
• When it's windy and your skirt decides to do an impression of Marilyn Monroe.

AWESOME

• You're being modest and pleasing God
• You look awesome!
• Skirts are awesome! They are literally the best for ANY weather! Hot during the summer? Wear short shorts under your skirt and Viola! Nice and cool. Cold during the winter? I know everyone says pants are warmer then skirts....but guess what! LIES! A skirt with pants under it is the warmest. thing. EVER!
• Cold in the morning and don't want to change out of your nice warm pajama pants? Wear a long skirt and tuck them into your fashion boots. (FASHION BOOTS) 
• When you find that magical skirt with:  POCKETS!!!!
• Just wait. Eventually you'll go to a formal event....and them *evil laugh* you'll be able to walk, jog up stairs, dance, climb a tree, slay a dragon, etc. And everybody else? All those jean wearing girls are going to trip on their face walking on flat ground *Another evil laugh*
• You can hide stuff under your skirt. Like a kitten (#LauraIngalls) 

-Lia and Kat 

Awkward and Awesome: Assorted Stuff

Awkward:

• When you see a cute skirt and then hold it up to show your Mom. Oh never mind. You can see right through it. 
• When your reading a great book and you get to one of those parts where you just have to put the book down and give your brain time to register what just happened. Then you glance at your alarm clock and see it's 2 am and you notice that your eyeballs are being to burn. (But there is only five chapters left so you finish it.) 
• When your walking through the parking lot with your Mom and see a giant pick up truck. You can't help, but stare a little. (What? I happen to like pickup trucks)  Then you notice the person inside (read: guy) staring back at you with an amused smile. Oops.
• That one day you don't shower, just throw in whatever and run to the store to buy ice cream...well, apparently your lazy days are "ALL CUTE BOYS GO GROCERY SHOPPING DAY"

Awesome!

• Taking my permit test as the end of this month

• REACHING 1000 PAGE VIEWS ON THIS BLOG!!!!!!
• New York Style Cheesecake
• Actually doing stuff on your bucket list
• High Heels. The awesome sound of the clicking heels. Such a power walk. I could be going to buy bread or kill somebody. You never know (Best sound ever)
• Period Drama. and Besties
• A new book *looks to see if anyone is watching* *Smells book*
• Hoop Skirts. Completely impractical for day to day life but they're so fun to wear. *swish.*swish*
• Horseback riding
• Finishing an awesome book...... but the book made me cry!
• My sister made bread pudding for dinner and she was telling us all the ingredients she used to make it. She said she put eggs in it. My brother spits his drink everywhere, shocked and says, "You put raw eggs in this!!!!!!!!" Clearly I need to have a talk with my brother how the oven works.....
•  Brownie Mix (Maybe I shouldn't have put this right under Lia's story...) 

Growing Up: Awkward and Awesome

I Don't Want To Grow Up!

"I want to stay single and ride through the glen firing arrows into the sunset"  (Disney) 

Or as Lia would say "Take me to Neverland!" (also Disney. Duh) 
(She has a HUGE crush on the Peter Pan from OUAT, BTW) 

Why do we have to grow up?


So here are some Awkward and Awesome parts of growing up

AWKWARD: 

• People talk to you in the grocery store and you automatically look over your shoulder for Mum. Also most of the time it's dudes. 
• I'm sorry, I know a lot of girls are dreaming of the day when random guys will ask them for their number or just strike up a conversation....but it is really annoying. 
• When you and your brother go out to Chipotle, people think you are a couple. 
• When you go out to eat and people think you are ordering a alcoholic drink and you just have to look at them and say, "I'll have tea."  (Ok. This only happened once) 
• You take a quiz on "How Responsible Are You" and it's like "95%! We guess your age to be about 35. (What?! So much for the rebellious teenager thing) 
• But your still not old enough to go skydiving. *SIGH* 
• People ask what your majoring in. I'm in High School!
• Guy in his late twenties asked for my number at Subway. Had to explain I was underage.
• Waiter offered me a free margarita at a Mexican restaurant
• When someone asks you for your phone number or talks to you and you go to say "Hello?! I'm 15!" But then you realize your not 15 anymore....
• Guys just keep asking us for our numbers!!!!!!

AWESOME: 

• Driver's Permits/Licenses
• More Freedom
• You can actually start planning your life, applying for college, etc
• You can start checking stuff off your bucket list. (Except the skydiving...) 
• First Cell Phone! (Except I lost it....whoops) 
• You can buy your own books *Mwuhahahaha*
• You can also buy your own coffees....
• The fact that Lia pretended she was deaf to escape talking to some random dude at the Post Office. (I can't believe I actually did that...)
• Makeup 
• Shopping with your mother and actually getting to pick your own clothes
• People start valuing your opinion as an adult (kind of scary but still awesome)

Well that's all for this.

We had a lot of fun. Enjoy!

Love,

-Lia, Kat