you take the good, you take the bad...

... you take them both and then you have - the facts of life! ::sings:: Am I the only person that loved that show growing up? Yes... okay, I'll stop, then. Anyway, lately I've been drawing upon a popular sorority exercise we used to do when we were deciding what girls to take into the house. We called it pro-con-pro - basically for each person, you would list a pro, someone else would list a con, and then someone else would list a pro. Always end on a positive note! I've basically done that with the most pressing issues in my life and posted it here. It's probably hella dull to anyone who isn't me, but I like getting things out on paper/the web.

1. Sex education
• Pro: I GOT INTO THE SEX TRAINING I WANTED TO GET INTO! Sorry for the caps, but I'm really excited. They only took 20 people and like 50 applied, so I'm so happy. I'm going to be a sex educator. This is really happening!
• Con: I am going to be in training Saturday and Sunday from 10am-6pm every other weekend until mid-December.
• Pro: I can finally get serious about my interest in sex education and start working on my side hustle, which is going to be centered around sex education for African-American youth and women.
2. Appearance
• Pro: My skin has cleared up and is back to its smooth appearance, sans makeup.
• Con: I am a fat cow. I do not feel at my healthiest, since my weight is at an all-time high.
• Pro: I've been getting serious about diet and exercise - not just training, but going in on my own for cardio and minimizing my carb and alcohol intake.
3. Dating
• Pro: I set up a profile online again and I'm trying to start chatting with boys who seem interesting.
• Con: POP started checking his online dating profile again, for the first time since we started dating each other. It was kind of hard to see. Also, no one good is interested in me right now, so that's demoralizing. 
• Pro: Umm, I'm not dead? LOL I don't know. I can't think of any other pros in this area. I will try. 
4. Career
• Pro: I'm going to SXSW and all these other projects are getting dropped into my lap!
• Con: The one huge administrative task I have to work on (our team site) is draining my energy and as a result, I haven't been doing it. My boss is probably going to be on my ass about it soon.
• Pro: I truly feel like a valued member of the team and I'm really starting to kick off my career in events. It feels good to enjoy my job and to get to do fun, new, exciting things all of the time.
5. Friendships
• Pro: I have really good friends. Friends who clean up my vomit and listen to me whine 24/7. I don't know how I ended up with such great people in my life.
• Con: I feel like I'm drifting from some of my friends because our lives are in different places and I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. I worry that in two years, I'll have a completely different set of friends.
• Pro: I've been making a lot of new friends and getting closer to folks I would've considered only acquaintances. I'm shocked at how fast my network is growing.