Why, oh, why can't I be consistent with this blogging thing?! It has been a whole month since I blogged last. I've been home to MS twice, celebrated Deanna's birthday with a party, and partly decorated for Christmas. Whew!
I know some of you will say that it is too early to decorate for Christmas, but look, with three of us in the house, it is incredibly hard to line up our schedules! Especially when two of us go out of town for the holidays. It is just not worth all of the decorating work to put it all up AFTER Thanksgiving only to look at it for just three weeks before going home for Christmas. So, we decorated early. :)
In other news, the nurse sent me home early from school early yesterday to go to the doctor. I had virtually no voice all weekend, and then I started having sinus trouble on Monday. Anyway, the doctor gave me two prescriptions and told me I could stay home from school today. Yay! It was nice to rest and actually start to feel better!
I need to be cleaning instead of blogging. My mom, Aunt Tina, and my cousin Deandra are coming to visit for the weekend. Yay! I always get excited when family comes to visit. We will have a fun weekend, and we are going to see "The Blind Side" on Friday night, too! Yay!
Hope things are good for the three of you that read this! ;)
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Feelin' crafty...
We had a bit of a problem in our media room upstairs:
Apparently, I was in a super-crafty mood this weekend because I also created a blog to display my paintings. Who knows? Maybe you need a painting for your house, your office, your friend's birthday, etc., and I'm the one to do it! LOL.
The black curtains from the apartment just weren't long enough for these LARGE windows. What's a thrifty, lazy girl to do?
Apparently, I was in a super-crafty mood this weekend because I also created a blog to display my paintings. Who knows? Maybe you need a painting for your house, your office, your friend's birthday, etc., and I'm the one to do it! LOL.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Some days I really enjoy where I work...
It's really too bad that so many of them are like yesterday, where the teachers go, but the kids do not. ;) Instead of being off yesterday like Deanna and Megan, I had a Staff Development Day. Fun, right? Well...actually it was! Our administrators put us into teams with people we don't get a chance to work with often, and then each team was given a clue. We had to figure out the clue, head to that location, and complete an education-related task (Amazing Race-style). When we completed each task, we received our next clue...AND a recipe ingredient. There were ten clue-related tasks total, but task #11 was...wait for it...BAKING COOKIES with all of our ingredients in the school's brand new culinary lab!!! It was freakin' awesome! My team made chocolate chip, but other groups made pumpkin, snickerdoodle, chocolate peanut butter chunk, etc. The whole staff met back up at 3:00 for a debriefing/survey/cookie sampling. Good times. :)
Hmmm...what else is new? Oh, Deanna got a dog, Lola. You can read all about her on Deanna's blog. I linked to it in the first paragraph. She is pretty great, and that is saying a lot since I am not really into pets. Also new: I am playing volleyball again on our staff team. Today was the first day I was able to play. We lost our first match, but we won the second match which just happened to be against the other Academy team. It was SO FUN!!! I was a little anxious about playing at first, but I am so glad I put myself out there. What else, what else? Most of the house is decorated/liveable, so if you're in the area, please call us up! It has been really great to be able to have people over for dinner and such.
I guess that's about it for now. I am still updating my "25 Things" list, so if you haven't checked it lately, you can find it here. Enjoy!
Hmmm...what else is new? Oh, Deanna got a dog, Lola. You can read all about her on Deanna's blog. I linked to it in the first paragraph. She is pretty great, and that is saying a lot since I am not really into pets. Also new: I am playing volleyball again on our staff team. Today was the first day I was able to play. We lost our first match, but we won the second match which just happened to be against the other Academy team. It was SO FUN!!! I was a little anxious about playing at first, but I am so glad I put myself out there. What else, what else? Most of the house is decorated/liveable, so if you're in the area, please call us up! It has been really great to be able to have people over for dinner and such.
I guess that's about it for now. I am still updating my "25 Things" list, so if you haven't checked it lately, you can find it here. Enjoy!
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
OMG...I am so overwhelmed!
It's official.
This is the story of my life.
I feel like I am constantly overwhelmed by something. Right now, it's school. Teaching a new curriculum (9th grade Pre-AP English) is kicking my butt. Since the house-buying lasted all summer, I wasn't really able to plan much before school started. (And let's face it: I had other things I wanted to do! It was summer, after all.) I feel like a slacker because I am totally relying on the other 9th grade teachers for lesson plans. I am having trouble convincing myself that it is worthwhile for me to spend time creating new lessons when I am not even sure that I will teach freshmen again next year, though. And I'm tired when I go home. Woe is me.
There are also homeowner-ish things I need to take of. For instance, I painted my bedroom this weekend. I could have graded papers, but I didn't. I painted instead. :) I also need to hang curtains. Three or four sets, I believe. And the laundry...I always seem to be behind on laundry. Geez.
Will I ever be caught up??
Will I ever be caught up??
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
ABC's of Summer (at Tiff's request)
A: Aunt Tina helped us move, but she kept us entertained with all of her inappropriate (but hilarious!) sayings.
B: Bahamas! See post below.
C: Camera. I will be using it soon to post pics of the house. I promise. One day.
D: Dad & Sherry came to visit me for the first time in the three years I have lived in TX.
E: Everybody and their momma; that's who I feel like I see every time I go home to Columbus! Love it. :)
F: Facebook. Summer provided LOTS of time to catch-up on there!
G: Grandparents. Mine are the best; both sets sent $ to help with house-buying needs.
H: Homeowner! I am one. Yay!
I: icanhascheezburger.com; one of my favorite websites ever.
J: Jessica, my cousin, came out here to help us move. Love. her. :)
K: Kalamazoo. Quite possibly the one place I didn't make it to this summer. LOL.
L: Lisa's birthday dinner @ Taco Diner was the first true summer activity.
M: My mom. She brought Aunt Tina and Jessica out here with her as move-in help, cleaned the apartment and the house, and bought several housewarming gifts. :)
N: New roommate. Megan has officially moved in! Yay!
O: Over. Sad, but true; summer is almost over for 2009. :(
P: Potter, Harry. Movie #6 was pretty darn good, but only because I went to see it with Mrs. Patsy and Mary Beth! :)
Q: Quitting "Jon & Kate Plus 8". What took me so long?!
R: Refrigerator! My first grown-up, home-owner purchase.
S: Swimming pool. Between the apartment and the new house, I have spent lots of my summer around the pool!!
T: Tutoring at HLC. Not often, but I still did it!
U: Umbrella. Can somebody please tell me where I can find a freakin' outdoor umbrella for my patio table?!
V: Victory. After 3 failed attempts, I finally succeeded with House #4.
W: Wedding #6! See post below.
X: Xylophone spines. Yep. See them for yourself at Ripley's Believe It or Not in Grand Prairie.
Y: Yard sale. Hopefully this weekend.
Z: Zebra print cleaning gloves. Just bought them today. Maybe they will inspire me to keep my house clean. :)
B: Bahamas! See post below.
C: Camera. I will be using it soon to post pics of the house. I promise. One day.
D: Dad & Sherry came to visit me for the first time in the three years I have lived in TX.
E: Everybody and their momma; that's who I feel like I see every time I go home to Columbus! Love it. :)
F: Facebook. Summer provided LOTS of time to catch-up on there!
G: Grandparents. Mine are the best; both sets sent $ to help with house-buying needs.
H: Homeowner! I am one. Yay!
I: icanhascheezburger.com; one of my favorite websites ever.
J: Jessica, my cousin, came out here to help us move. Love. her. :)
K: Kalamazoo. Quite possibly the one place I didn't make it to this summer. LOL.
L: Lisa's birthday dinner @ Taco Diner was the first true summer activity.
M: My mom. She brought Aunt Tina and Jessica out here with her as move-in help, cleaned the apartment and the house, and bought several housewarming gifts. :)
N: New roommate. Megan has officially moved in! Yay!
O: Over. Sad, but true; summer is almost over for 2009. :(
P: Potter, Harry. Movie #6 was pretty darn good, but only because I went to see it with Mrs. Patsy and Mary Beth! :)
Q: Quitting "Jon & Kate Plus 8". What took me so long?!
R: Refrigerator! My first grown-up, home-owner purchase.
S: Swimming pool. Between the apartment and the new house, I have spent lots of my summer around the pool!!
T: Tutoring at HLC. Not often, but I still did it!
U: Umbrella. Can somebody please tell me where I can find a freakin' outdoor umbrella for my patio table?!
V: Victory. After 3 failed attempts, I finally succeeded with House #4.
W: Wedding #6! See post below.
X: Xylophone spines. Yep. See them for yourself at Ripley's Believe It or Not in Grand Prairie.
Y: Yard sale. Hopefully this weekend.
Z: Zebra print cleaning gloves. Just bought them today. Maybe they will inspire me to keep my house clean. :)
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Boo. I forgot to blog last week.
Oh, well. At least I posted two entries the week before that. Surely that counts for something. Anyway, during my absence, I finally bought a house. Pictures later...when I've recouperated from moving and everything is all set up and nice and pretty and picture-worthy. :)
Friday, July 24, 2009
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