January 2012
January 4, 2012So, I am officially a complete and utter nerd. Mmmhmm. Or a dork, whatever. lol. Anyways, I've spent most of my Christmas break watching Leverage a show which I am ABSOLUTELY in love with. I even went and bought the DVDs of seasons 1 & 2 at FYE because I was tired of having to fast forward through those little commercials that On Demand makes you watch. lol
But now you know the sad truth. I've pretty much wasted my entire break. I don't feel guilty at all though because I've been having a pretty good time and that's what break is for, right?
So yeah, nothing new to show you this time around, the routine doesn't officially start back up until Saturday which will be the first time going into D.C. since the beginning of December, really excited about that. Need to go through my curriculum and figure out how to teach about birds. lol. That'll be fun. ^^
December 2011
December 26, 2011Hey guys! I'm still alive, sorry about the randomly sporadic updates recently. I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and that it was white for some of you. Here we're still experiencing 50 degree weather. :(
Anyways, today was productive, got my room cleaned finally and a lot of laundry done which makes me feel human. I haven't really been out of the house today except for running up to Staples and Petsmart to buy notebooks and crickets for the frogs. I'd live this way except for the fact that I fall out of practice dealing with other humans and I start to act like a robot. Then people start treating me weird and it doesn't ever end well for my self-confidence. Anyways, tomorrow we're headed out to D.C. to wander around for the day then Wednesday I'm heading to Annap to shop and Thursday I'm getting the AUTO-START INSTALLED ON MY JEEP. -brief proud pause- My dad got it for me because he loves me. ^^
And that's how the first week of my vacay is going to go. Lovin' it! Updates will be sporadic because I'm going to be in and out of the classroom for obvious reasons. lol Love y'all!! Ciao!
December 19, 2011
Little bit tired this morning, not sure why because I went to bed a whole hour early last night. lol. It's probably because it's Monday and I still have 28 Science projects to grade due to the fact that this weekend was non-stop and there was just no way I was going to be able to get it done. So I'll be staying late tonight and probably tomorrow night. Yeah, that must be it because I'm getting tired just thinking about it.
Six days until Christmas, this is fantastic news. For some reason though this week seems indefinitely long. I feel as if I'm staring off into this infinite hallway of time. If there ever was a time to own a TARDIS, now would be it. But then I can't skip right to Friday because I haven't graded Science projects or written Spanish exams yet and skipping to Friday would mean that I never did them. Of course, I could grade and write THEN skip to Friday. That would work. But of course all of this is useless because I don't HAVE a TARDIS.
Anyways. I have a giant orange for lunch. It was either that or leftover pizza. Having watched a show called 'Half Ton Teen' on Saturday I'm pretty much sworn off any fattening food because watching a doctor pull a sixty-nine pound glob of fat from someone's midsection is very, very disgusting.
Alright, some of my students are annoying another one of my students by deliberately wishing him a Merry Christmas when they know he thinks it's too early to be doing so. The conversation goes pretty much exactly the way you are currently imagining it in your head. "Merry Christmas, -----!!" "It's not Christmas yet, -----!" Over and over and over.... lol
December 15, 2011
Ten days until Christmas! I have an orange for breakfast that someone gave my family last night, must love that. Going to be a weird day today, have a pastor and his family coming in to see about maybe taking the assistant pastor position here. If they decide to come it'll be WONDERFUL because we REALLY need the help. Add them to the Gygax (pronounced guy-gax) family which visited last weekend and we'll be riding high on the staff plane. (??) Anyways. Yeah. And my grandpa is also coming in and will be staying at the house which means that Tim and I are going to be sharing the basement. Can you say...awkward?
Awkward.
Today I'm fully expecting to receive seventeen Spanish projects which I need to come up with a grading sheet for. I've already got four sitting up at the front of my room, can't wait to look at them. One of my students tried to email me his report and I emailed him back saying that it didn't work and he never got back to me last night so...I don't know what's going to happen there.
Tomorrow night is the annual Christmas banquet, Saturday is going to be practice for various programs all day long and then the bus route Christmas party which I am supposed to bring bread to. I'm halfway tempted to just bring a bag of white bread. lol. Just to see what Mr. Snow says. Nah, I'm really bringing French bread. From Bloom.
Then Sunday is all the various programs and the cantata, no Military Ministry, thankfully. Monday is normal. -Ish.
So, one last, funny thing. The bells haven't been working for the secondary hallway so every time class is over Mr. Davies walks up and down the hallway saying 'Ding ding! Ding ding!' He's mostly doing it to be funny but it is partly necessary. If he didn't do that I'd end up teaching forever. lol
Alright, need to write a Spanish verse quiz and other stuff. Not sure what other stuff I need to do but I know there's something I could be doing other than writing here. lol
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Only someone who works with kids gets to be paid for watching The Sound of Music. My brother is coming home early for the funeral.
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December 12, 2011
Thirteen days until Christmas and I've messed up on my Science curriculum in that I taught today's lesson on Friday somehow. Not quite sure why I kept going on Friday but today will have to be all review. Fun. Games or something I guess. The whole week is a review week due to the fact that semester exams are not this Thursday but next.
In other news, an old friend of mine died on Sunday morning. Nobody is quite sure what happened but sometime in the early hours on Sunday Keston Lewis was shot down in D.C. It's sort of hard to comprehend because you really don't expect something like that to happen to people you know. It's happened to me before down in Mexico but that's Mexico. You just take it for granted that it's dangerous and people get hurt. But this is the States! He used to go to school here and some of my students remember him but they're young and he wasn't really involved in their lives at all except for being the occasional presence so they aren't really hurt by it. They just have a good story to tell people now, "Yeah, one of the guys who used to go to my school got shot yesterday." It'll die down in a few days.
Sorry, I'm being pathetically melodramatic about this. I need to call Enterprise and tell them I'll need a car tomorrow. I need to get curriculum ready, I need to figure out what 2nd grade is going to sing for the Christmas chapel and I need to fix my bulletin board. See, life goes on. And I'll see Keston again in Heaven, I know he was saved no matter what he was doing when he died. So this is just temporary. I'm sad but not devastated. It is a fairly tragic thing.
Anyways.
December 9, 2011
World, this is Grace. She's my niece.
She's pretty much the cutest thing alive right now. I need Steph to send me more pictures but she's pretty out of it. I don't even get to see her again until....Tuesday. I think. Unless I head back out to the hospital which..meh. Pictures will suffice.
Tonight I'm going to the Eastern Shore for a wedding rehearsal and spending the night over there. Good stuff.
Oh, and bought the Straight No Chaser Christmas CD last night. Must have provisions for road trips you know and music counts as provisions. Plus it was only $10 at WalMart and you can't really beat that.
December 7, 2011
Yesterday was...productive. I got a lot of stuff done that has needed to be done for awhile now, including laundry. I also managed to make it up to the body shop with the Jeep and got an estimate. It goes in next week to be fixed, yay! Bought music books for my students and then headed over to Michael's, of course. I mean, since they're all in the same area, why not? They had ribbon on sale (curse them!!) and I sort of took advantage of it. I had gone there specifically to buy something (I can't remember what right now...oh yeah, chipboard letters for my bulletin board) and ended up buying a lot of extra stuff. I had to forcibly remove myself from the ribbon aisle or else I would have spent a lot more money. lol
Anyways, then I went home and wrapped presents. Here is the end result:
Of course, the evening had to start off with leftover Chinese food. What good evening doesn't?
Then I started with Levi's present. I never do as good a job on my first thing, sorry Levi. This was the end result. The ribbon wouldn't stick with anything except glue dots so I ended up using an excessive amount last night. (SOMEONE IS OUTSIDE MY CLASSROOM BLOWING THEIR NOSE EXCESSIVELY. THEY MUST HAVE A WHOLE HEAD FULL OF MUCOUS. STOP!!!) I wouldn't re-do this one, even given the option. It looks good enough.
Then Steph's. I'm rather fond of bright green and blue so I allowed the color scheme to carry on over to my presents. The tag, swirlies and 'S' are all die-cuts. Once again, ribbon had to be stuck on with glue dots.
This is the one I like the most. I was thoroughly warmed up by the time I got to Tim's present and pulled out the hemp and distress inks. LOVE the result although the greens could stand to be a bit more matchy-matchy.
Used a whole spool of ribbon on this one and I'm not sure I actually like the colors. The ribbon turned out to be more yellow than green and, while yellow and blue match, it doesn't seem to go with that particular wrapping paper. Whatever, I'm leaving it alone. It looks cool under the tree. lol
It's raining outside because it is too warm. They're calling for snow sometime tonight which would be AMAZING but I sort of doubt will actually happen. I'm a pessimist when it comes to snow, sorry. Now I've got to go figure out how to make something exciting and/or interesting happen today because if I don't NOTHING will happen. That's the conclusion I've come to. Let me know if you have any ideas! Ciao!!
December 5, 2011
Woo woo! Welcome to week 16 on the school calendar! We only have THREE WEEKS left until Christmas, folks. I hope you all have the bulk of your shopping taken care of. I do. In fact, I'm done. Except today is my dad's birthday and....I sorta didn't get him anything because....he's very difficult to shop for....
But I think I'm going to maybe get him the Straight No Chaser Christmas CD despite its obvious reference to alcohol...okay maybe not. GAH! I have no ideas.
New York was good. That trip is always hard, mostly the driving part. You just sort of get cramped when you sit for that long and I've never been able to sleep in a moving vehicle. The only things I bought there were edible: a sandwich, popcorn, mini reese's, and a thing called a 'rice ball' which I only bought because I wanted a Snapple but they wouldn't take my credit card for a >$5 purchase. It was okay. I wouldn't get it again though.
I didn't make any huge purchases because my family is going back up there the 26th and I'm hoping to hit a bunch of the after-Christmas sales. It's going to be INSANE because everyone is going to be heading up for New Years. Not sure how I feel about that.
My haircut is AWESOME! Again, AWESOME!! Leah, my hairstylist, did a PHENOMENAL job. I didn't realize it but I hadn't gotten a haircut since August. No wonder it looked so terrible. lol
Alright, need to get actual work done. I'll be seeing y'all! Thanks for visiting! The stats have been climbing up and up so I know someone is reading this. That's fantastic. Ciao!!
Something Tells Me...
My breakfast of a cookie and cupcake is probably not all that great for my waistline....
December 2, 2011
Various reasons why today is going to be a GREAT day, one of which I cannot mention because it pertains to my job. Bwahaha. But the other reason I CAN mention because it isn't confidential. XD I'm getting my hair cut!! Yay! I didn't realize until yesterday when I was making the appointment but I haven't had my hair cut since August which explains it's terrible state of being. I mean, seriously, the ends are all fried, I've completely lost my side part and my bangs are all limp. I'm probably going to get another layer cut in, shorten my bangs and reclaim the side part. And, if I can convince her to do it, get it a bit chunkier. I should probably find a picture that explains what I'm looking for considering I'm so bad at knowing what I really want.
Oh, and it's test day!!!! In all my classes!! Woot!
Have a card for you too:
Cute, yes? Well, except for the part where the reds don't match but, meh. I made this one last minute for a swap I'm doing on swap-bot. I was supposed to send four Christmas cards but I only had three and was seriously contemplating sending the HOLA card from November but figured that'd probably get me a lower rating than I desired. So I caved and made this one.
Also, as far as running goes, I'm back up, sort of. My leg still bothers me but I'm going to take it a little at a time because I ran last night and it doesn't hurt now. But then, I only ran a mile. This way I don't have to make any doctor's visits. That's the primary goal here. lol
Alright, have to go pull tests and get stuff done for the bus route. See y'all!
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I can't stop sneezing and I want to go home. Welcome to December.
