compare and contrast challenge

I was tagged by The Gal Herself!

The Rules:
FlutistPride's 

Compare and Contrast Challenge Rules:

• Do not compare and contrast yourself with yourself. That defeats the purpose of this challenge.
• You are not limited in your amount of comparing and contrasting, but please keep your post coherent and readable.
• Link to the blogger you intend to take the compare and contrast challenge.
• The challenged blogger must be informed via comment section or E-mail order to be obligated to post. If they explicitly decline, they are no longer obligated to participate.
• Do not vex anyone who declines.
• The Compare and Contrast Challenge is not intended to be demeaning to any party. Do not use belittling remarks, even if they are jokes. Save your viewers the headache of trying to read your intentions through a screen.
• There is no particular time frame the challenge should take place in.
• Let the other blogger know you compared and contrasted yourself to them. Invite this person to challenge others.
• Tag your post Compare and Contrast Challenge if you are participating or challenging someone else.
• No one has to challenge you in order to participant

I'm choosing to tag Cat--she posts at Sweet Memes!

First, we compare

• Cat and I are voracious readers
• Cat and I love the band U2
• Cat and I are meme fans
• Cat and I do the things we do without expecting praise, and are awkward with being publicly mentioned
• Cat and I are both library fans
  

Then, we contrast 

• Cat is married and a mom while I am single and not a mom
• Cat has to deal with peculiar people at her job while I deal with teenagers
• Cat drinks Diet Dr. Pepper while I drink Dunkin' Donuts iced coffee
• Cat lives in an urban-ish area while I live hours from civilization
• Cat follows sports teams while I only cheer for the Patriots to get free coffee after they win