Kay and I were having a discussion recently about relationships, and healthy ones versus unhealthy ones, and what needs to go into them and why and how other people's relationships just wouldn't work for us for various reasons. And it strongly reminded me of a discussion (and yes this time i really mean discussion and not argument/screaming match ( Read more... )

I've started I do believe about 5 of these so far and haven't managed to get past just a few lines. The last of which includes me trying to figure out if I would ever be able to handle a polygamist relationship. After lots of independent though, and various conversations I think it would only work if it was a group sort of setting. If it wasn't ( Read more... )

Guess who got snow today ( Read more... )

how am i suppose to teach my children higher order thinking when the people I work with can't manage it. You walk into my room and see what's going on in my classroom matches up with my lesson plans for last week. What logical guess would you come to? Hmm maybe that my class is a bit behind and it needs to catch up. Naw. that would be too easy ( Read more... )

I just had one of those very sudden and depressing thoughts run through my head. I was trying to figure someone out about one of my friends and why she would let her father assault her and how normal people don't have to deal with abuse like that. until I stopped and though about it and realized, most of my best friends, and then even some of my ( Read more... )

So the actual birthday was pretty lame, but really on a Tuesday what else can you ask for. So last night I treated myself to my birthday present and went to Wichita to see Wicked. And I got to eat at Olive Garden! Hell yes! The whole thing was quite a riot. The play was quite awesome. I really really liked all the sets, those are pretty much ( Read more... )

Random fun fact for the day. If I could have a special ability I would want to see sounds as colors. Seriously how awesome would that be. And they don't need to be destructive, i'd just love to see colors with the sounds ( Read more... )

last night was a terrible terrible night. I went to bed around 11 ish and was woken up about 12:30 ish by a very very drunken neighbor from Minnesota whose girl just broke up with him. he was trying to convince me that I wanted to make out with him, and when I didn't he was trying to convince me that I wanted to go hang out at his place. Which i ( Read more... )

I'd lj-cut this but I can never seem to remember exactly how it goes and I'm too lazy tonight to dig it up from older posts. So feel free to skip as much of this as you like ( Read more... )

Personally, probably one of the worst days of my life. Educationally, my classes were absolutely phenomenal.