My mom and I finally got around to celebrating mother's day yesterday. Since we don't get to spend much time together, a relaxing British style tea/lunch seemed a fitting activity. Lots of time to talk and it seemed kind of mother/daughter like. I had been to a tea house in Gresham a few years ago, so we arranged to meet on Friday ( Read more... )

Time flies! Lots of stuff going on. I have been applying to jobs like mad, though nothing has come of it yet. Mainly it has been summer stuff. With a lack of teaching jobs being posted, I have been looking into preschools, head start, tutoring, and just about anything else related to education. Job prospects look bleak, but we shall see what ( Read more... )

Well my postings on Craigslist have got me somewhere. A few weeks ago I thought about trying to tutor over the summer to help fill the gap in pay from lack of subbing. I posted 3 times a week for two weeks without one little nibble. Then spring break came and I got lazy about it. All the job application stuff got me thinking about it again, so ( Read more... )

SOLV was doing a lot of earth day projects today since it is the closest Sat to it (officially April 22nd) in cooperation with local green space caretakers. I went up to Columbia Park in Troutdale and helped the city plant 60 trees. That doesn't even come close to the number of trees they lost this winter in the park, but it does help. For my ( Read more... )

So one of the things you have to do to get a teaching license is have your finger prints run through the state and fed data bases to make sure you have no seedy criminal history before they entrust you to educate and care for innocent youth. No big deal, I did that before getting my OR license several years ago. So I finally got an appointment to ( Read more... )

I keep thinking life will slow down as I finish things up. For example, my grad class for this term finished up Wed of last week. Theoretically I should have four more hours a week to myself that would have been spent in class or communing, and a few more hours freed up from homework as well. What could I do with all these hours each week? Hmmm ( Read more... )

Ok, so it's been a while, and there are a few things I should catch people up on. Last week, my sweetie decided that Bella should have a little sister. We looked around Craig's List, a few adoption web sites and called the Vet Tech looking for possible kittens that were in need of a good home. Not seeing many kittens on-line, we decided to just ( Read more... )

Our little kitty is growing quickly. She still plays with lots of random stuff, as kittens do. One morning she decided her favorite toy was a small container from my lunch that still had a couple almonds inside. She batted it around the living room for over an hour. Pens or pencils are popular at times with her. A toothpaste lid kept her ( Read more... )

I got to go to a new school on Friday. My neighbor teaches there, so I wanted to make a really good impression. Luckily, even though the class had several very difficult students, two of them were gone. Things ran rather smoothly, and I only had to call the office once. I stayed after school for over an hour, grading papers and cleaning the ( Read more... )

Valentine's Day was just lovely this year :) My Valentine brought lunch to work on Saturday to help me quickly refuel between massages during a long day. When I got home i was able to slip into a hot bath and then we spent a leisurely evening at home together ( Read more... )