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Summertime...and the living is easy

I woke up this morning at the glorious hour of 5:30 am. At least the sun is out now, with a little glow in the sky, which is nice. Anyway, my mind began to do that self-talk that you do when you are trying to convince yourself that you need to get out of bed on a Monday morning and start getting ready for work. It is slightly ineffective at times, as it was today because I was running a little late, getting to school just before the bell. That's not really the point of my blabbering though. So, my mind began to think about and really realize that I have made it to the end. The end of my first school year and that all of my collective educational efforts will be epitomized in my soon to be summer vacation. Holy Crap!!! I'm really excited now. I haven't had a "summer vacation" since I was a high school student. Part of my reasoning for wanting to teach was to allow myself to have a life. I feel like I have spent the last sixteen years doing nothing but working...
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Why?

Why is it that being on a diet makes you want the stuff you're not supposed to have even more? I swear, I would pay $30 for a package of oreo's right now. All the good stuff is never on the diet list. Take bread. MMmmmmmm bread. So good -----toasted, with garlic butter, with mayo and tomatoes on it, jam, peanut butter, hot and fresh out of the oven --- it is just good in any form. I could go on and on about all the good things that can be done with bread. I know we're told that man can not live on bread alone but, really, this girl could. I'm not a big candy person --- you know, the varieties that get passed out at Halloween? Don't really care for it. Especially hard candies. One year, my bag of half distributed candy waited until the next October to be given away. (seriously, it is sugar, it doesn't go bad.) With that being said, let's talk about cake. Chocolate cake with fudge chocolate frosting, to be specific. It is soo good. I can rarely pa...

Lightbulb Moment

Today, I realized something ---- I'm a busy girl. Work a 45+ hour a week job. I am a student and spend six hours sitting in class per week. I also work a second job, where I spend about 6 - 10 hours per week. Some days I am gone from my home for 14 hours. This however, is not the revelation. I hope we've all previously established that I'm not that dense. :) It doesn't matter how much homework I have to complete or how much homework I have to grade or if I'm home by 3:30 or if I don't get home until 8:30. Everything that I do, every place I have to be, every hour I have to spend away from home, I am glad and grateful to be there. I love being a teacher. I enjoy spending time working at RCW. I am grateful for the opportunity to go to school, which allows me to be a teacher now, and not later. I love spending any spare time I have with my family and friends, especially my nieces and nephews. (I am really great at pretending to be Bumblebee to three-year ...

My Christmas Vacation - Day 1

Wow! The last several months have flown by! New job, more school, still working in Salt Lake, writing lesson plans, doing homework, correcting homework, etc., etc.! All this culminates to this point which is my two weeks of Christmas vacation. I get to do all the things that I never seem to have a lot of time to do -- like scrub my house from top to bottom. Not exciting, but things I have to do never the less. It is just nice not to have homework looming over my head. Today, I got to babysit my niece Sarah. She's two. She's hilarious. She loves to dance, shimmying her shoulders back and forth. She loves to sing and will sing to anything. She's happy and very particular, in a great comical way. I love her. She makes ME happy. A very fun way to spend a day. We went shopping and finished up all of the things that I had left to do. Shopping in the morning during the week is a whole new experience. Not as many people making the outing less stressful. I just need t...

Time.

What I don't have a lot of. Major life changes have taken place in the last several months. First and foremost - I am now teaching at Syracuse High. I was offered a job on the spot to teach special ed math the day after school had already started back in August. It all happened pretty fast that I didn't really think about it, I just accepted. I went to work on a Tuesday, let them know I had just accepted a teaching job and was teaching school on Friday. So...... I am now teaching special ed math, going to to school on Monday and Wednesday nights to get a special ed endorsement so I can legally TEACH special ed, working at the Willey on Tuesday and Thursday nights, doing homework, driving A LOT, and trying to make sure friends and family don't think I've fallen off the face of the earth. It's all good. Difficult and tiring but, good. So much for thinking my life would get less busy and easier once I graduated. I wanted to do other things. I thought this was the...

Oh, What to Do in the Summertime....

Three weeks left. I have three weeks to finish writing my senior thesis and the end has officially come. Life has been full these past three months. Of course I "graduated." I had the whole ceremony and stuff. Once I finish my thesis then I'll be official. It was really an amazing day. Such a feeling of accomplishment it felt a little surreal in many ways. Trying to cram in almost four years of school into two years will make you a a little crazy but, I survived.....and I never thought I would really make it. All of my sisters came, which meant so much that they were there to support me. There have been so many family functions and things that I have missed over the past two years because I had class or had to do my home work. I'm a lucky girl to have such a great relationship with my siblings. Here we all are: I have been looking for jobs and stuff. There is nothing out there. The couple leads I did have did not go in my favor. It begs the question - why ...

Happy Birthday Ben!

What a great day. It was way rainy but, I enjoyed it anyway. Shannon and I went to Costco early to pick up Ben's birthday cake with Ben, Sarah and Caleb in tow. That's all he had wanted all week long is for it to be his birthday so we could eat cake. Truly a child after my heart. The candles proved a little more difficult....... This week is graduation. Pictures of me in a cheesy cap and gown will be coming. Oh, what a glorious day it will be. Until then......let us eat cake. :)