Ah, today I had the most wonderful experience. This morning my mom and my soon to be sister-in-law Sarah and I went to Kansas City to the Plaza. One of my students from when I was student teaching gave me a gift certificate to a day spa for a going away gift. This gift certificate entitled me to one free pedicure! So, I'm thinking, hey, an nice ( Read more... )

Well, yesterday I was not sure if I was going to go to the funeral or not. The way that the cost of the flights was looking, it wasn't looking good. Well, I am now officially going. Tonight I came home from seeing a friend and my mom asked if I still wanted to go. I said yes and she said that my aunt and my cousin Julie (Chris's wife) had asked ( Read more... )

Today started off with me getting up at 7:30 to go babysit two little boys (one 5 and one 3). As it ended up I got pretty screwed but the whole deal. While I babysat, the mother decided to sleep in instead of do her grading, which was why I was there in the first place. Oh well, I had a good time with the boys anyway and she probably needed the ( Read more... )

Hey, so I guess I have some big news. Oh no, it's not about me, it's just big news. One of my best friends just got engaged tonight! Yeah, it was a big thing. Every year my grade school (the one I attended from 4th grade on) has an end of the year program in which all of the grades have their own skit. Well it is kind of a huge deal in little ( Read more... )

So I never realized how much time it would actually take to pack up my room at home, the room where I have lived for 13 years. That is 13 years worth of junk piling up! Oh well, that is what a trash can is for, right?! I have been keeping very busy during my time home so far, which is very good, no time to just sit around and be board or think ( Read more... )

So, I spent three of my first days of summer break, after graduation, wondering if I went into the wrong profession, teaching. Before I even got home I was contacted and asked to substitute teach at my old grade school in the third grade. There are only 9 students in the class, how bad could they be, right? Wrong!!!! I taught those 9 angels for ( Read more... )

It has been a while since I wrote in this last. A lot has been going on in my life lately, you know, little things like graduating from college! Yes, I am finally done! Graduation went pretty well. It didn't seem real that I was actually graduating. As I was walking in to the Sinfonians being played by the Wind Symphony, I couldn't believe ( Read more... )

So, today it was cold, wet and rainy all day. How extreemly fitting! I would just like to take this time to say that today absolutely SUCKED! Ok, well it did have its good points, waking up knowing I had some good alcohol (ok, well alcohol anyway) and cigars last night. Even though that meant waking up with the morning after taste in my mouth, ( Read more... )

I just got back from spending four days in beautiful MN. I attended the LEA (Lutheran Educator's Association) convention. The whole week was great. I attended many great sessions on different aspects of teaching and got to spend time with many people that I hvae not see for a long time. It is very encouraging to be in the same place as 4000 ( Read more... )

I think I just need to stop going to sev. early in the morning! I stopped there again this morning on my way out, at about 5:30. So, as I go to pay for my coffee and my water I am trying to mentally prepare myself once again for the ongoing battle for change! Well I think I lost this morning. As I already noted, it was 5:30 and I had not gotten ( Read more... )