Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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P.S. Steve is totally cool with me going to Spain this summer. I submitted my application to the Pueblo Ingles program today... fingers crossed!
Goodbye 26
In about 30 minutes, it will officially be my birthday.
I have mixed feelings about this.
Also, I am a little bit drunk right now... so I don't know how coherent this post is going to be... but ahh well.
I have mixed feelings about this because I am glad of where I've come. I've done a lot since college, I've really figured out who I am, I've worked hard and established a career.
I'm sad because I haven't accomplished anywhere near what I expected I'd accomplish at this point.
I feel like I'm stuck in the middle of being a kid and an adult. I'm not ready to throw myself head-on into adulthood... mortgages, babies, bills, etc etc... but yet I'm not in the college mentality anymore. I'm stuck in that awful limbo that is the mid-twenties. Although, technically I've just left my mid-twenties behind. *sigh*
This year I want to:
Travel to Spain
Read 50 books
Write a song
Sing in public
Get another tattoo
Paint a picture
Sell my cards/invites on the internet
Learn how to bake a wedding cake
Work on my book
Meet 5 new friends
Speak more Spanish
Paint my house
Run in at least 2 5Ks
I could continue adding to this list... but these are the things that come to mind first in my inebriated state.
Life is too short to settle on, "I guess this is OK." I need to start feeling that passion that I used to feel. I need to start taking risks again and living the way that gives me butterflies in my stomach. I have it in me. I need to just LIVE!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!
I have mixed feelings about this.
Also, I am a little bit drunk right now... so I don't know how coherent this post is going to be... but ahh well.
I have mixed feelings about this because I am glad of where I've come. I've done a lot since college, I've really figured out who I am, I've worked hard and established a career.
I'm sad because I haven't accomplished anywhere near what I expected I'd accomplish at this point.
I feel like I'm stuck in the middle of being a kid and an adult. I'm not ready to throw myself head-on into adulthood... mortgages, babies, bills, etc etc... but yet I'm not in the college mentality anymore. I'm stuck in that awful limbo that is the mid-twenties. Although, technically I've just left my mid-twenties behind. *sigh*
This year I want to:
Travel to Spain
Read 50 books
Write a song
Sing in public
Get another tattoo
Paint a picture
Sell my cards/invites on the internet
Learn how to bake a wedding cake
Work on my book
Meet 5 new friends
Speak more Spanish
Paint my house
Run in at least 2 5Ks
I could continue adding to this list... but these are the things that come to mind first in my inebriated state.
Life is too short to settle on, "I guess this is OK." I need to start feeling that passion that I used to feel. I need to start taking risks again and living the way that gives me butterflies in my stomach. I have it in me. I need to just LIVE!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!
Crazy Summer
I'm thinking of doing something crazy this summer. Let me lead you through my train of thought here...
I'm on Spring Break right now from school and I'm really enjoying the free time to just reflect and relax. I spent the day wandering the stores and stopping for lunch and coffee. I'm reading a lot and I just feel at peace. Doing things alone doesn't bother me at all. It's kinda fun for me every now and then to feel independent.
So as I was having lunch I was thinking of how one of the main perks of being a teacher is having a whole summer free. Free summer = lots of travel opportunities. Last summer was difficult. Lots of classes to take, credits to catch up on, and a TON of family drama. This summer promises to be much more relaxing. Steve and I are trying to time me getting pregnant. We figure late July or August. Next summer ('10) I will either be really pregnant or with a new baby. So this summer is my last hurrah of freedom.
A friend of mine participated in this program: http://puebloingles.com. You show up in Madrid and they transport you to a small town outside of the city where business people and students go to practice English. You are provided free lodging and all three meals as well as cultural activities. My friend did it twice and he LOVED it. The only thing I'd have to pay for is my transport to Spain and any extra days I spent in the city.
I applied to see what I am offered... but here's my dilemma.
I feel completely selfish for wanting to do this. I know that Steve won't be able to come with me. I know that he would never tell me not to go, but he would definitely feel some resentment towards me for going. I could probably make the whole thing happen for under $1000 bucks... but still. I'd feel really selfish for doing it. I'm going to talk to him about it today and see what he thinks.
I'm on Spring Break right now from school and I'm really enjoying the free time to just reflect and relax. I spent the day wandering the stores and stopping for lunch and coffee. I'm reading a lot and I just feel at peace. Doing things alone doesn't bother me at all. It's kinda fun for me every now and then to feel independent.
So as I was having lunch I was thinking of how one of the main perks of being a teacher is having a whole summer free. Free summer = lots of travel opportunities. Last summer was difficult. Lots of classes to take, credits to catch up on, and a TON of family drama. This summer promises to be much more relaxing. Steve and I are trying to time me getting pregnant. We figure late July or August. Next summer ('10) I will either be really pregnant or with a new baby. So this summer is my last hurrah of freedom.
A friend of mine participated in this program: http://puebloingles.com. You show up in Madrid and they transport you to a small town outside of the city where business people and students go to practice English. You are provided free lodging and all three meals as well as cultural activities. My friend did it twice and he LOVED it. The only thing I'd have to pay for is my transport to Spain and any extra days I spent in the city.
I applied to see what I am offered... but here's my dilemma.
I feel completely selfish for wanting to do this. I know that Steve won't be able to come with me. I know that he would never tell me not to go, but he would definitely feel some resentment towards me for going. I could probably make the whole thing happen for under $1000 bucks... but still. I'd feel really selfish for doing it. I'm going to talk to him about it today and see what he thinks.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Croatia
It totally enrages me that Bridget from the Girls Next Door gets to go to one of my top ten destinations in the world.
How do these bimbos actually get their own television shows? I am going to have a rage blackout.
How do these bimbos actually get their own television shows? I am going to have a rage blackout.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Another great one
You all know how ridiculously obsessed I am with Twilight. Well I think I actually found another young adult book that I like better. Yes, I know that I am way to old to be reading young adult literature. But sometimes I don't feel like putting a lot of thought into what I'm reading. I want an escape and stress reliever. Seriously, the last book I read before this one was about polygamy in Utah. Not a light read. So I picked up this one and I have become obsessed! Completely action-packed, good story line, definitely a page-turner. The second book comes out in Sept. 2009.
Read it!
Thank you OCPS
Apparently the geniuses down at the School Board were just a tad bit off the mark when projecting the budget cuts for the upcoming school year.
Instead of a cut of $102 million (which was ridiculous to begin with)
The cuts will now be $240 million.
What this means to me: I'll be unemployed as of early June.
Nothing is 100% definite, but my principal told us that now would be a great time to start looking into that Plan B...
What else this means to me: No baby. Once again, baby plans nixed...
Instead of a cut of $102 million (which was ridiculous to begin with)
The cuts will now be $240 million.
What this means to me: I'll be unemployed as of early June.
Nothing is 100% definite, but my principal told us that now would be a great time to start looking into that Plan B...
What else this means to me: No baby. Once again, baby plans nixed...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
God, please gimme a break
So this is how my day went:
7:30- Arrive at school, get classroom ready for kiddies.
8:30- Kids enter class, refuse to do morning work, bouncing off classroom walls.
9:05- Attempt to start reading lesson, children not focused.
9:30- Student decides she's going to shred and draw with crayon all over her vocabulary.
9:50- Office called for help because student won't sit in seat. Mrs. Heydorn starts to "lose it"
10:00- Assistant Principal enters room and yells at abnoxious brat student.
10:45- Lunch. Student refuses to get in lunch line.
11:27- Student escorted to office for detention.
12:30- Class is bouncing off walls again. Takes 10 minutes to get students in line for Specials.
1:05- Students come back from Specials, talking throughout Math lesson.
2:00- Partner project in Math cancelled because students are fighting.
2:40- Heads down, lights out until bell rings. Class-wide "time out"
3:00- Mrs. H about to QUIT THIS GOD AWFUL JOB, goes to speak to bratty student's mom.
3:30- Bratty student's mom crying and asking "I don't know what to do with her!!!," Mrs. H thinking - how about disciplining your child!?
3:45- Doctor gives Mrs. H the clear to go to the gym because of healed foot. (GOOD NEWS FINALLY!)
4:30- Mrs. H arrives at home, crazy neighbor acosts her while she's trying to enter her home.
4:40- Finally able to enter my house, changing and then my crazy neighbor calls me. I don't answer.
9:00- Driving home from book club, I almost run over a cat and a possum.
SERIOUSLY! IS THIS REALLY MY LIFE!?
7:30- Arrive at school, get classroom ready for kiddies.
8:30- Kids enter class, refuse to do morning work, bouncing off classroom walls.
9:05- Attempt to start reading lesson, children not focused.
9:30- Student decides she's going to shred and draw with crayon all over her vocabulary.
9:50- Office called for help because student won't sit in seat. Mrs. Heydorn starts to "lose it"
10:00- Assistant Principal enters room and yells at abnoxious brat student.
10:45- Lunch. Student refuses to get in lunch line.
11:27- Student escorted to office for detention.
12:30- Class is bouncing off walls again. Takes 10 minutes to get students in line for Specials.
1:05- Students come back from Specials, talking throughout Math lesson.
2:00- Partner project in Math cancelled because students are fighting.
2:40- Heads down, lights out until bell rings. Class-wide "time out"
3:00- Mrs. H about to QUIT THIS GOD AWFUL JOB, goes to speak to bratty student's mom.
3:30- Bratty student's mom crying and asking "I don't know what to do with her!!!," Mrs. H thinking - how about disciplining your child!?
3:45- Doctor gives Mrs. H the clear to go to the gym because of healed foot. (GOOD NEWS FINALLY!)
4:30- Mrs. H arrives at home, crazy neighbor acosts her while she's trying to enter her home.
4:40- Finally able to enter my house, changing and then my crazy neighbor calls me. I don't answer.
9:00- Driving home from book club, I almost run over a cat and a possum.
SERIOUSLY! IS THIS REALLY MY LIFE!?
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