A&A Thursday Time!

Yes, dear friends, it is that time of the week again.  Thursday, in all of its awkwardness and awesomeness.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN

 CROQUET KING

HOW CAN YOU NOT HAVE FUN PLAYING CROQUET?

Awkward

• Burning 30 pieces of bruschetta toast in the oven because I forgot to set a timer.  And then setting off the smoke detector.  Oops.  Good thing we had extra bread.
• Making jokes about sex offenders in front of a person who got accused of being a sex offender for public urination.  Also, simply finding out people you’re hanging out with are sex offenders.
• Being sick.  And grossly blowing my nose in public.  Also, not having Kleenex on me and having to sniffle dramatically every three seconds and then run to a bathroom for toilet paper because my nose is leaking.  Ew.
• Putting in a request for school transcripts and putting my address on the SEND TO section.  Realizing this a half an hour later, having to go back to the desk, and giving them a new address.  When I told them I accidentally put on my own address, the women at the desk said, “Yeah, we noticed that…”  Well, gee, thanks for saying something to me.
• Sitting outside with the sun on my right side.  Thus my right shoulder and the right side of my chest burned, but the other side didn’t.  Painful and uneven.  Alas.

Awesome 

• Playing beanbag toss with my cousins and actually being pretty good at it this time around.  It only took me like three years to learn.  And also playing croquet.  I LOVE croquet, even though I’m rather bad at it.  Unfortunate, not necessarily awkward: my guy cousins breaking TWO (2) of my remaining six mallets.  *sigh*
• Game Night!  Cash ‘n’ Guns, Bonanza, Scattegories.  There’s nothing more fun that threatening people with orange foam guns or haggling over bean prices.  What a great night.
• Writers Dates.  Nerdy pompous writerly minds getting together.  Always fun.
• Beautiful weather!  Well, we had one awfully hot day, but yesterday was perfect and today is cool and lovely.  I sat outside, got a rather awkward sunburn (see above), wrote a bunch of scene cards for my screenplay, and generally enjoyed the weather.