Confessions {9.15.2016}

I skipped confessions last week, so I have a heap of them to get off my chest this week!

I confess...

… that I’m extremely socially awkward and the older I get, the worse it seems to get.  Sigh.  It takes me a long time to get comfortable around new people, but once I am, I’m an open book!  #ProbablyALittleTooOpen

… that using a combination lock on my gym locker these last few weeks has caused a flood of memories from junior high when I first started using one.  I remember getting my first lock and having a complete meltdown over learning how to use it… was anybody else that intimidated by them??  I mean, turn right 1,800 times, turn left 165 times, turn back to the right 4 more times, and don’t forget to pass zero!!!!  Exhausting.  I remember being terrified that I was going to forget how to do it and show up late to class with the wrong books.  #IWishThatWasMyBiggestProblemNow

… that since we’re on the topic of meltdowns over learning new things, I also remember when my mom took me to open my first checking account when I was sixteen I had a total meltdown over learning how to write checks and balance the checkbook.  It was all too much!  Haha.  #ProbsThatSeemedSoBigThatWerentReallyProbsAtAll

… that I think the follow/unfollow game that some people play on Instagram is so childish.  There’s one person in particular (I won’t mention any names) who has followed/unfollowed me at least 6 or 7 times just in the last couple of weeks.  If you follow me and I follow you back only to have you unfollow me one day later, I’m going to unfollow you as well, and then if you try to follow me again, I’m not playing your games and following you again, so give it up!  I understand that people do it to increase their following, but it’s really exhausting and super annoying.  I’d rather have a small handful of organic followers who I can actually connect with rather than 8 million who don’t even pay attention to what I post because all they care about is increasing their followers, too.  #DoYouNotHaveAnythingBetterToDo #HowManyTimesCouldOnePersonSayFollowInOneParagraph #FollowFollowFollow #Follow

… that I am FED UP with this whole airbag recall.  Remember how I was in a rental car for 70+ days because my driver’s side airbag was recalled for deploying too forcefully and sending shrapnel all over the car?  Well, literally the very next day after I got my car back with a safe driver’s side airbag, I received another recall letter in the mail stating that my passenger side airbag has been recalled for the exact. same. thing.  $#!@  The letter then proceeded to say that they are not giving us rental cars for this recall and that we should just “not allow anyone to sit in the passenger seat until the airbag is replaced… maybe toward the end of October.”  There are soooo many things wrong with this.  First off, how can I not allow anyone to sit in the passenger seat for two months?!  This is my primary vehicle!!  Second, if shrapnel comes flying out when the airbag is released, then it can kill me just as easily from the passenger airbag as it could from the driver’s side airbag… I mean, I’m only 2 feet away from it.  And finally, my precious boy rides with me every single day and God forbid that we got in a wreck and shrapnel fly everywhere, it could hurt him in the back seat as well.  GET IT TOGETHER, AIRBAG PEOPLE!  I'M TIRED OF LIVING IN FEAR EVERY SINGLE DAY OVER SOMETHING THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE TO KEEP ME SAFE!  (For those of you who know nothing about this, you need to go to Google immediately and search “Takata airbag recall.”  Millions of vehicles across tons of different brands have been recalled – Volkswagen, Honda, Mercedes, Toyota, BMW, Audi, GM, Landrover… the list goes on.  Please, PLEASE do your research and do everything you can to keep yourselves and your precious cargo safe.)

And now that I've scared the daylights out of you, happy almost weekend!  ;o)

*Linking up with Sparkles and Lattes for Confessional Thursday and Home of Malones for Thoughts for Thursday.