The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

For those of you who read my Facebook Status – you know yesterday was filled with Goods – but I left out the bads – and the dreaded uglys!

THE GOOD –

I was accepted into Moorhead State Universities Graduate Program for Counseling and Student Affairs. I wasn’t really overly worried about getting accepted – until I left the interview process on Tuesday for gaining acceptance into the program. I didn’t prepare anything – I figured we were just going to talk about myself and my goals and what not? Maybe have a couple laughs – I would come off as normal and BOOM – Easy Peasy – I’m in.

That wasn’t the case and needless to say I was caught off guard when it was set up like a job interview. You know when you are interviewing for jobs and you rehearse those commonly asked questions – you lay out different strengths and turn a strength into a weakness. You think though some situational questions about a time you had to work with someone you didn’t get along with etc. you know the deal.

Well I didn’t do that for this interview – so I felt very ill prepared. I even blanked on the first question “Tell us a Little Bit About Yourself” If you know me at all – you know that shouldn’t be an issue – however, I blanked! I looked at them and said well my name is Sarah – there was an awkward 5 seconds of silence before I said – I’m actually hoping you already knew that. They laughed … I laughed – and went on with it – but yikes – I wouldn’t say it was the worst interview I have ever been in – but it wasn’t a good one! That’s for sure.

I can do a majority of the program online - but there will be a couple classes that I will take as hybrid - where I will have to drive to the campus. People often ask me "Where is Moorhead?" It's about 2 hours from Bemidji - right next to Fargo.

It's not a bad drive to Moorhead, however Winters in Moorhead are worse than winters in Bemidji.

ALSO – I signed up for a 5k! Being I have the Tough Mudder in fall – I really need to kick it back into gear – I figure it’s at the end of April – so it gives me enough time to build back up to running 3 miles. Some might consider this to fall under the “bad” – but I am pretty excited for it :)

I feel this is accurate

THE BAD:

Yesterday I got back to the Apartment around 6ish or so. I made some dinner and was determined I was going to clean the apartment. It’s pathetic how messy my apartment was. It took me 3+ hours to clean it!!! And when I say clean, I mean just pick everything up. I still had to unpack from a trip I made to my sisters over a week ago! I did laundry last week and I hate putting laundry away so there were a few loads of laundry just dumped on my bedroom floor – and I still had to actually put the sheets and pillow cases on my bed from washing them – not just laying them on the bed and calling it good. Needless to say I felt it was pretty pathetic that it took me THAT long to not even clean my apartment – just get stuff picked up. But, I do tend to get ‘a little’ side tracked when I clean :)

ALSO: Friday HIGH OF 47 :) … Saturday: Wintry Mix :( … Sunday: Snow (Wha Wha Whaaaaaaa)

What I look like when I hear there is more snow coming - and we already have more than we know what to do with

THE UGLY:

When I “clean” I find it to be a good idea to start trying on clothes. For the record, it’s not a good idea after winter and lack of working out to try on clothes. I tried on a pair of jeans that used to fit me last year and they were tight. I was telling myself it was good motivation to get to the gym – but made things worse when I saw how horrible all my shorts/summer outfits were looking on me. I would be lying if I said I didn’t tear up over the whole tragic event I put myself through. I sat there (in a mess worse than what I started with) hating myself … wondering if the cold weather shrunk my clothes? I mourned in my own little self-pity party until I saw my rack of shoes … I started trying those on – and well … they still fit – so do my scarfs – and earrings – so… there’s that!

 Welp – Tomorrow is Friday – and that is always something that Makes me smile J Just gotta make it through today!!