You may have noticed that the look of this blog has changed a bit. I felt it was time. I wanted something new. I haven't found it yet.

I'm going to keep tweaking. For a blog titled "Life is Awkward" it's looking a little...zen. Spa like. It needs to look more like me. I'm working on it. I'll get there eventually. I just couldn't stare at the polka dots anymore. They were coming to get me I tell you!

Tonight my family and I played a board game (called Wits and Wagers) that involves guessing the answer to a bunch of obscure questions. I won't get into the details, but to make the game work, all the answers to all the questions are numbers of some kind. It turns out that when it comes to numbers, I don't have a clue.

One question asked what the record for most snowfall in one day was, in inches. I said 12 inches. The answer was 152*. Another question asked how far the longest recorded long jump was, in feet and inches. I said 6 feet. The answer was 48 feet*. My family looked at me sadly and said, it's ok, we still love you. My mom said, "I think even I can jump 6 feet." Thanks mom, thanks for not ridiculing me. And how was I supposed to know that we changed the voting age to 18 after the Vietnam war? I stand by my answer of 1902...I mean I would stand by it if I didn't now know that it was wrong.

But I was so right about Braille being invented in the early 1800's and if Brady had listened to me**, we would have won the whole game. HAHA! I was right about something! Thank you 4th grade report on the deaf and blind. (Speaking of which, that was an awesome report. I got to visit guide dog puppies at the guide dog training facility, learn the braille alphabet and learn sign language. I made big posters of the braille and sign language alphabet to use as visual aids and showed pictures of the puppies for dramatic effect. Was I an overachiever...yes. But did that report rock and help me years later in family game night? Yes, yes it did.)

Oh family game night...why must you tear families apart? I mean, we just don't play RISK at all anymore. It broke my family about 6 years ago, and we've never really healed. (For the record though, if we had defended Australia like I said, we wouldn't have been killed so viciously. Whoever said you can't win playing defense was not talking about the game of RISK.)

This has been a completely ridiculous post. Thank you for listening. I apologize for the lack of finesse and writing skill in this particular entry. I'll strive for better in the future.

*This is a completely rough estimate and should not be taken as fact.

** Brady, and everyone else in my family, thought that Braille was invented in the 1940's for some reason. This makes no sense to me, but apparently they all thought that Hellen Keller invented it. This is not so.