I've been reading more, which for me, is impressive. I've been reading Boy of the Painted Cave in English with my students and I actually like the book. I'll admit, you could skip a couple of chapters because the middle is slow, but it has a good little twist. Then I ordered all these books from a book order including Jerri Spinelli's "Loser" I ( Read more... )

Gettin it done...I'm finally feeling like I'm getting into a "routine" with my English class. I didn't realize how much work is involved with 3 different preps! I started running again which is good. I took a good 3-4 weeks off while I settled into my grooooove. It is so weird how different 6th graders are from 7th graders, and how 7th graders ( Read more... )

I'm off to a conference. It's supposed to help students write better and the speaker, Kelly Ghalager, is supposed to be phenomenal. We'll see! All I know is I'm there from 9-3!!! Ay Caramba!!

Man it's been a long time since I've written! Tomorrow is my mom's surgery. It's been a long time, but I hope it goes good. I'm sure it will, but I hope they make the pace maker look better. The last doctor was an A hole and you can totally see where it is in her chest ( Read more... )

I have had so much trouble sleeping this past year. I can't keep my mind from thinking about things. Not just my own life, but just hearing such depressing things on the news keeps me from falling asleep ( Read more... )

I've promised myself that I'd be more cautious about spending my money! I'm so close to being debt free, but it seems like its taking forever. I haven't even put anything on my cards, except for the MExico vacation. So anyway, I do have a lot in the bank but I find it easier to save when I have a higher amount. Funny huh? So I've quit going to ( Read more... )

I think I'm going to dye my hair a dark brown/auburnish color. I'm kinda nervous because I want to make it perfectly clear that I do not want to be a redhead...haha. Just like a tint to it would be cool. So anyway, school is going good, but I still run around from one place to another. I'm getting used to it, and not stressing otu so much. On ( Read more... )

What a difference 3 years makes. I was at Trader Joe's today buying some food for my moms. I was in line and ready to pay. THe cashier asks, "how are you?" I reply good, how are you? Then he says, "Brooke" It turns out the guy ringing me up ran with me on my Cross Country/Track team at Saddleback. Its been 3 years since I've seen him, but it ( Read more... )

This weekend was really fun. My sister was going down to PB this Friday night so I called my boy and we headed down. We were going to go out on Garnet, but it was packed with people. Also, the place we were gonna stay out wasn't within walking distance to PB, and since it was cold we decided to just get a 6 pack of Blue Moon, go to John's house ( Read more... )

I'm addicted to Ryan Seacrest in the morning! He always does or says the funniest things. On another note, I woke up super early for an IEP meeting. I even went to bed really early last night because I was so beat. I went to sleep at 9pm and woke up at 6:30am, and I was still exhausted. Oh well, what can I do? So today's classes went really ( Read more... )