My preggo self

Or the vertical turtle, or the lead ginger sneetch, whatever you'd like to refer to me as. 33 weeks.

Perspective

When it comes to perspective, I am pretty good and keeping myself in check. However, when I stayed home this week, for the entire week, I had a hard time/am having a hard time dealing with not being able to do it all. I felt terrible M-W and finally went to the doctor on Thursday, they ran tests and put me on bedrest for the rest of the week with another appointment tomorrow. Last week grades were due at the ol' high school, and we needed to finish a project and start a new book. The problem being, we work at a school where subs don't want to come, and thus it really is a glorified babysitter situation, and thus who knows how far I really am behind. This week is finals week in grad school and I just want to be done. At this point, I am almost completely sure that I don't care about my grades....glad I got inducted into my honor societies this semester.  However, the reason for the post, I am so blessed to have teachers in my life to say things like "You are the only family your family has, the kids have 70 other teachers and subs, and they aren't you but you need to take care of you." Which is true, and I know it is but I still have a hard time getting it through my think head. I want everything to be taken care of and I feel bad when something I am in charge of acts of or decides to not do what they are supposed to! Okay, self-guilt trip is done now. Happy Sunday yall!

Huh, facebook did something right!

•  Apparently facebook made changes. Who knew. I guess at one point I felt like I needed to air my business on facebook, which made for this funny little list of things about me. I wrote this in 2009. I thought it was funny, specifically the ones that still apply, which is most of them :)
• I think that truly smart people don’t have to constantly display it, and when asked they can make even the least intelligent person feel like Einstein. 
• I hate being alone for the weirdest reasons. 
• I just bought my first moleskin, and although I am so excited to use it I don’t want to waste the first page with something stupid. 
•  I blame sorority for my need to sleep with the TV on. 
• I pay itunes for the only show I actually have cable for. I am incapable of articulate creativity since moving to Kansas.
•  I will have crank out at least 100 books this year. www.asthepageturns.tumblr.com 
• I rearrange either my house or classroom every two weeks. 
•  New pens are like tiny colorful orgasms. 
•  I could eat bear creek potato soup for every meal. 
•  I bake every Thursday and give all of it away. Very rarely even tasting it. 
• I reorganize by buying new planners, and recolor coding. It helps me. 
• All of the things I almost have a degree in are totally useless in the real world but are the most important parts of the real world. Psychology, history, political science, philosophy. 
• When I was small my dream was to have my own cash register and microphone. 
• It saddens me that manners and common courtesy are dying arts. 
• I draw caricatures of people. I boost my own ego by hanging my artwork in my house. 
• Some of the best dates I have ever had were walking around wal-mart. 
• I think I liked the world better before social networking brought us so close together. At least then there was something else out there. 
• The way I pretend the world is, is so much better than status quo. 
• Some of my favorite people I hardly talk to anymore. 
• The boy I always hoped I would marry met the love of his life this year, and I am happy. 
• The sheer fact that I want to get married in Vegas so I can have an amazing party with my girls says something about how I feel about marriage. 
•  I have downloaded the most music of my life in the last month. Ridiculously satisfying. 
• I wear a fleece coat most of the time. Even in my house, under my blankies. 
• I want my 20’s to last forever. I want to live with so many different people and just hang, and do stupid things. 
• My profession does not define me. It is a part of me but not my entirety. 
• I am totally and completely indebted to a variety of people for helping me keep my sanity. You know who you are and I love you each individually for that. 
•  I have more gingered friends than I have any other hair color. 
• Carly, you too are my soulmate. The my little pony said it all. And the fact that I did this blasted thing :)

100 dolla bill yall

I remember not so very long ago that spending $100 on anything meant that I overdrafted something and was screwed into Ramen Noodles for the forseeable future. I really had to ponder if I really needed something that was that expensive. Essentially this was reserved for Christmas and other holidays devoted to the celebration of my mama.  However, now that I am married and have 1.5 kids, we drop 100's like you wouldn't believe. The problem is, we don't actually come home with anything cool! We watched couponing yesterday, and we aren't those people, not because it's a bad idea, but because we cook alot and rarely use things in boxes or cans. Boy, do I sound pompous in this blog. I promise we aren't. It is just surprising how little you get for $100. We can almost fill both cars, its a grocery trip, a trip to Target or some new clothes for school, or getting a nursery ready! I am just constantly amazed at how quickly our money flies out the window. Anyone else fave the same problem? Or are we the lucky ones. 

Hot diggity dog!

    Can we talk for a second about how I want one of these cute lil' guys for this very reason. How cute is this? Clearly, he would get stepped on with my big guys around, but it is adorable if nothing else. Aren't my sons handsome? I just can't get enough of them. The little guy Jack Jack is going to have a hard time when this baby comes and he no longer gets to be the baby. He is all about cuddle time with mom. The big guy is too hot at this point to want to cuddle but he comes and visits me still when the shower is running and he thinks its a giant bath for him!  

 This is essentially my poor dog. If he wouldn't make the pool gross, I would totally let him lounge all day in it!
But the true reason for this post is....as an almost 30 year old mom and wife, how many days in a row can you serve BBQed hot dogs? Really, this girl doesn't want to cook, and they are fast and delicious. Although I will have to remind myself when I am not pregnant how disgusting I find hot dogs to be. :)

Insanity, and no, I am not working out.

Does anyone else wonder sometimes if they are insane? Just me? Oh good. As long as I know I suppose that is important. 

I can't seem to stop doing stuff. I know mentally that I am doing too much and thus am super tired, however, here I am being pissed that I have to take a class in order to do my practicum, which starts the week before the baby is due. But further, I am trying to decide what other classes I should be registering for so that I can stay on track to graduate on time. 

Sometimes I wonder if my current hatred of my job is driving my decision making, knowing that I can't be in a classroom if it is run like this. Or that the expectation is that it is run like this. However, I just can't seem to stop, or to think breathing is a good idea. Summer is supposed to be a vacation right? ( I know all the teachers are laughing at me after that comment)! 

I do think that part of my necessity to get involved in school is that I like the fun of learning new things and getting excited about what I have. 

Don't touch me I am preggo!

Boy has it been awhile, I think I finally bit off more than I can chew. Between school, online school, teaching and preggoness I am a tired girl. 

I would love to be the cute little preggo with the happy go lucky attitude, however this girl has been sick for 22 weeks. And 22 was daily, now at week 28 we have moved to only dry heaving. WHAT A DEAL. 

However, I have to tell you something about being pregnant, it is not for the anti-social. People think they should and can comment on you, your size and your ideas for your pregnancy. Daily I get the enlightening discussion of how big I am, names, and whether they can touch my belly. 

My bitches with this include: 

I don't tell you how fat you are, and even if I am pregnant I don't want to be told how huge I am or am getting. Trust me, I know. 

Secondly, I didn't comment on your name, nor do your naming preferences weigh into my decision making. Thanks for your concern however. 

Lastly, No, you may not touch me. I didn't let you touch me when I wasn't pregnant, and I certainly don't want you touching me now. I don't have time for that. Nor do I want your grubby paws on me. If I like you enough to let you touch me, you will already know that. 

And then my husband jumped on the bandwagon

So PDiddy got a Pinterest account. After all of the harassment I got about pinning "crap" he goes off and gets himself one! Which he wasn't overly keen to tell me about, however I don't know why ;) And I have to say if anything is a better descriptor of our differences, I don't know what is. 
In some ways it makes me laugh because he just recently learned to make boards, so there was just alot of random creeping going on, but now, he is a machine! As I am trying to go to sleep at night, the bright ass light of the phone remarkably shows up in my face showing me a new house design, tattoo or funny picture. (I shouldn't have shown him the humor section). The funnier part is that he will take offense if I have already seen the picture and he is late to the party. 
He is all physical fitness and mine is all FEED ME! Maybe he should be the pregnant one :) 

And in summation

Today, the small child attempted to deliver me a burrito while I was taking a shower. I thought Wow, it's cold in here.  When I turned around, the shower curtain was open and there she stood with a burrito in her hand. 
Me: Am I supposed to eat that now?  Her: Well, yea I brought it up here.  Me: Can I get out of the shower first?  She walks away. 
My burrito may or may not have been licked by the dog and slightly wet due to the shower....I still ate it. 
And this sums up my day. 

Such beautiful weather!

I love the feeling of warm breezes on my face and the smell of the grill making my dinner! The weather lately in Georgia has been beautiful, I honestly can't complain but I definitely miss winter. Not necessarily the cold, but its strange to go outside to 70 degrees in January. This really doesn't help that school just started and I keep thinking it is almost out! I am thankful however, that my classroom is no longer an icebox. Even as a northerner I couldn't handle it! Just imagine how the kiddos were doing! I just need to decide now if this is the school for me. Bubba's arrival definitely will change life drastically, and I will have my internship and practicum coming soon for my Marriage and Family Therapy degree. Thus we are trying to decide whether I should keep the job for another year to pay off bills or if we can do it without. Why is being an adult so difficult! I hate things like finances and budgeting, I am just not very good at it!

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Ain't Nobody Got Time

I try not to say alot about my job and its ridikulousness....however! Ain't nobody got time for days like today! We spent 8 hours in an inservice today over Thinking Maps...don't get crazy and call them Graphic Organizers, that was so 5 years ago. Don't even think about calling it a Venn Diagram either, because it is a Circle Map or a more advanced Double Bubble Map. 

There is a lady that travels the country with three friends, explaining the types of Thinking Maps and how to use them, what a job! However, we spent all morning working on differentiating them, only for her to stop with an hour left of the session and say we should work in our grade level groups. Unfortunately, at this point we had to explain that we didn't actually know what we are teaching. Since as of now, (we have kids Thursday) we have no teacher schedules yet, we have inservices the next two days expecting us to make lesson plans. 

Further, I had an assistant basketball coach talk to me about changing the star players grade to passing. Now the kid has a 56, I gave him a 70 last quarter only because he was suspended for fighting right before grades were due. He didn't read any of the books, he plagiarized the last assignment and didn't write any papers. Yet she seemed surprised when I explained that I was not changing his grade. Then she came up later to tell me the two other teachers who failed him didn't want to change either.....I can't imagine why! End rant :) I am going to go drown my preggo sorrows in ice cream!

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Six miles in, and a butt catch

I am so impressed with myself. I initially was doing alot of training to participate in a half-marathon in March with a friend of mine. However, when I found out I was sick (preggo) I greatly slowed down because I just never felt good enough to run. Luckily, it seems as though I may finally be starting to feel better. I was concerned that I should have started to feel better on week 16 but nothing had really changed. However, today I went to a 31 party and went and walked 6 miles! Go me, I am so happy. I am super sore currently, but I feel so much better about what I did today and don't feel nearly as guilty as normal about not getting a work out in! We will see how much I regret it in the morning, but I am going to get back up and do it tomorrow!

Kids are strange little humans.

Kids...they are weird. Period. The small person has had two months celebrating her awesomeness (i.e. birthday, two family visits and Christmas) thus she doesn't remember any of the previously set rules. And maybe the rules were indeed just delusions of grandeur on the part of P-Diddy and I. But alas, I digress, daycare could not have come soon enough. She hasn't talked in babytalk ever, and now all of a sudden here we are pretending to be a baby. Today she requested listening to Britney Spears on the radio and my soul died. However, more obnoxious yet is the rhyming! Anyone else's kid doing this? Don't get me wrong, I am super stoked for the reading that is coming our way, however, I can't handle "Mam, Bam, Cam, Jam, Pam, Ram, Dam, Can I have a drink? Bink, Pink, Link, Sink....."Let's just say this girl was not meant to be a stay-at-home mom!   Bubba, the baby is doing well. We find out what it is in February. This will either be a time of deep mourning for P-Diddy or excitement. He wants a boy. I was really hoping that at 16 weeks the sickness would stop, unfortunately it hasn't. The baby will be a joy, but pregnancy is not for this girl! I can't be the only one who thinks this! Right? 

Uh oh, I'm Preggo.

It has been a whirlwind. I don't even know if I have actual words for it.  It has involved a ton of vomit, late nights and stay home days, but no matter the pain, we have a baby coming in June! Paul and I decided to start trying in September/October, only to find out we were already pregnant! So it has been quite the change for us. I am apparently not going to have one of those "OMG I LOVE BEING PREGGO! experiences. I am tired, bitchy and hungry all while being nauseous at all points in time. I even cried twice at Target yesterday! Who am I and what have you done with my body Bubba!

Happy Wedding Day yall!

You know it's bad when your husband harasses you for not blogging. My ability to find time is out of control currently.  I did have a delightful weekend this weekend however. Hogwarts sent me my letter of acceptance this week and I even got to take my muggle husband. We went to Harry Potter World for our anniversary, something that I have wanted to do since it opened. It was such a blast, and P's first roller coasters! He planned such a spectacular weekend as a surprise for me, and this girl sucked at life.  I had all sorts of exciting things planned in my head, yet not a damned one made it to fruitition. I didn't even get him a card! We left early on Friday and came back late on Sunday. I had class last night and tonight we went to dinner. Needless to say, this girl wins the terrible wife award.  How yall been lately? 

Random Acts of Kindness in the Classroom

My speech kiddos are still building their schools and we are nearing the completion. Today is one of my favorite days for this project because we look at payscales, tenure and unions in order for kids to understand what teachers actually earn and where we stand. Not because I think I make to little but to give them perspective since they have to depict what they want their teachers to be doing in the classroom. That being said it always surprises me that kids evaluate how they treat their teachers based on the salaries we make, and most days that is a positive change. 
Additionally however, I take this opportunity to discuss kindness and my own personal opinion that the world, AND high school, because clearly they are like alternative galaxies, would be better if people were nicer without reward. So my kids had to do a random act of kindness for speech class, that they got no recognition or reward for beyond feeling good about doing good. 

The kids were a bit distraught that I was asking them to do something without points but have each done an activity and most have thought it was a positive feeling and that they should do it again. Things ranged from cleaning and drawing a bath to prayer to loaning a friend money at lunch. I was super proud. Plus this was on a day where I had to ban the word "fight" and all of its potential synonyms from my second hour because my young ladies are "squirrelly." 
So my ratio currently on positive changes is 7/792......making progress :) 

I survived! TGIF

It's Friday, almost after school and this girl is going to stay late! What, sista must have a fever. 
Actually, I just don't want to grade essays all weekend. I have 60 persuasive essays to grade from the State Writing test practice. These suckers are not fun. However, I did get a big box of school supplies today from the department so that makes it sort of like Christmas around here! I have been doing a ton of pinteresting to find new and fun things that teachers around the country are doing. I am really trying to incorporate things like facebook and twitter into my classroom, or at least their ideas since we don't have either in our rooms!
I am so excited that it is Friday and I want to spend the weekend working on the create a schools for my kids. I want these projects to be stellar so we can show them off! Anyone else get bogged down some days with their to do list? It has just been one of those weeks! It is terribly long but no matter, cuz it's Friday, Friday everyone get down on Friday. Apparently there is a totally wicked hotel party this weekend by the mall if anyone wants to go :) Or at least that is what I hear. 
So kids, what do you wish your high school was like? No hold bar, any change you want. Go!

Home!

We went out and about to a wedding this weekend. An event that I generally dread, not because I am not happy for the couple but moreso because they are so strange and awkward, it is always just a huge group of social ineptness. Either way, it was beautiful and it was nice to meet some of Pdiddy's family. 
Today after sleeping in until 7! we went to get some breakfast and eventually went about 20 miles North to Huntsville, Al, which I absolutely loved. I pulled a try Lindsey moment that upon our arrival into the parking lot of Barnes and Noble, I called the PF Changs next door to order lettuce wraps to go. My husband clearly spent this time thinking I was a freak because I was pre-eating before lunch. HOWEVER, I love lettuce wraps and I can't make them taste the same, I would have suggested we went there for lunch but we had already made plans with his family, thus I ate them on a bench outside the restaurant, because lets face it, I AM CLASSY. 
I looked for some teacher books for a bit, our family called to cancel lunch (tired from wedding planning) and we wandered around the mall a bit more, and I bought a new computer....yup, fabulous impulse buy. I was really glad that I didn't order online because I was looking at the Macbook Air and although it is wonderful it doesn't have enough storage for me to be successful. Happily however, I lesson planned and did school stuff on the 4 hour drive home, but now I have to start saving again to get Christmas presents and pay off bills.  Adulthood = NOT FUN

Level Up Bitches.

Hello loves,  I am back! Officially, mostly because this isn't blocked anymore at school :) I am working 12 hour days on the regular, and it got me cut up fo real. I've spent so much time with my students lately, that I am learning a vast array of new lingo. Did you know there were levels of bitches? Yup there are, you can be a basic bitch or a simple bitch. Who knew! Unfortunately, I can't get an analysis about the difference between the two despite the kids explaining that they are indeed different. Mostly I have learned that simple means that you have no aspirations except dealin wit yo man. You also can be a "mouth piece" which is the girl who knows she is the side girl, and is perfectly happy with that position. 
Just think how informative this is!
Further, I had something happen today that never has occurred in my 6 years of teaching. Girl walks up to me and asks if she can change seats because she needs to be close to an outlet. I explain that she doesn't need to charge her phone during class and she can wait until later. Unfortunately, she continued the question by showing me her new ankle bracelet. Apparently, she couldn't charge it while she was sleeping. Oy vey. Wahoo school teaching. Tomorrow I will share the Friday Funnies of the school week :) Especially since my goal is to be home before 7 on Friday night :) 

Failure

Isn't it so strange that we are always told to be ourselves, but simultaneously fulfill a bunch of roles that you can't possibly do as yourself? This morning as I droned my way through traffic, and let's be truthful on this I was in a pissy mood, the kid hid from me to not put her shoes on this morning and my coffee wasn't cool enough to drink yet. So, I was pondering this idea of fulfilling very narrow scope in my classroom and still be me. This me that knows it can be successful in the classroom and be successful with students is feeling so limited while simultaneously angered by this idea of my success being labeled based on the success of other people. I don't doubt my students so don't misconstrue the idea, but my success can not be labeled by what other people decide to do. My students who meet me at the great task of learning will achieve what is to be learned, but some will always choose not to make that initiative, why is my success based on both their successes and failures. 

Their successes and mine should be about growth, success and sometimes failure on a case by case basis. There shouldn't be a need for a 100% success rate, that only sets us up for failure. 

The Transition

As I've said before, things are crazy, despite how much I think I am getting ahead! We have a conference several times in the next week that requires that I have a sub. I hate having a sub, because unless I get a teacher who knows English, I am probably losing a day. Despite the idea that movies aren't accepted any longer in education, it would be a heck of a lot more beneficial to be able to show kids a movie from one of the books we are reading in order for readers who are at lower levels to be successful. The kids struggle enough as it is, without adding an adult who isn't actually able to teach them anything. It seems like a waste of a day that could be used for something productive. Just a frustration, ya know? 
In other news that isn't so whiney and depressing, I love Arnold Palmers. They even have a can that is 0 calories! AMAZING! 
Peace love and cocoa puffs, my loves!

Checkin in!

I have never had a job as exhausting as this one. I have always worked long hours as a teacher but this whole 12 hours at school thing plus some time at home is exhausting! Not to mention I am eating like crap because of these hours, and I miss cooking! I am getting ready to do some more work for the night, I need to find something cool with Antigone!

Gettin skinny

It's so funny how much we worry about body image. I had at least three conversations last week about weight, attire and sizes, yet in the grand scheme of world it's such a minut detail. We have several ladies at school doing Weight Watchers, and I will probably join them (in the online version, I don't need quite that much accountability) but WW wants me to be at 149, and I just think that is too thin. I just don't want to be all skin and bones, I want to look good, feel good and rock the best size and look for me. 
This is such a change from where I have wanted to be in the past, this idea that I have to be stick thin, without boobs or a tush, neither of which is ever going to happen. It's so strange that once we lose weight or get more trim or lean, we still want more. Thinner, healthier, leaner, why aren't we ever just happy with the progress we have made?

I really am alive, and I will schedule posts this weekend :)

I am the worst wife ever. My husband is such a rockstar. He has been home because he only works till about 10am (must be rough to be in the army:)) Thus since I am working crazy teacher hours he is in charge of getting Emma feeding her, making appointments and transporting all of our children all over. He is a kick ass husband. 
And he planned me a surprise birthday party. I got home from class and the hubster had an ice cream cake and had decorate in Perry the Platypus!

It's Sunday and I'm procrastinating!

I'm so hungry and the hubs is napping. The qualms I feel about waking him up to go eat are unimaginable.
Sidenote: Anyone seen Kenny Chesney's "Come Over" video? He's getting racy! Naked time and garter belts, go you Kenny. 
Anywhoo, I really need to be getting my work done ahead of schedule this week, I am working on presentations for school and still have to read my chapters before class tomorrow night. I had no idea I was going to have to work so hard for this job. I have always worked my butt off when I teach, but I also have never had to be at school for so long every day for extra crap. It's a bummer to be a teacher doing the right stuff and still getting punished for the teachers who do all the wrong stuff. Apparently there was an epidemic of teachers who "taught" by having the kids listen to 90 minutes of podcast or movies. It was out of control, I can't imagine people thinking that is teaching. However, it seems like the school has hired new people who don't function that way which gives me hope. It's unimaginable to me that people would continue in a profession that clearly makes them miserable. Silly people. 
Alright, I am going to go wake my husband so he can take me out to Bday dinner!

Bats outta hell

My husband would say that I drive like a bat out of hell most days. And if bat outta hell is synonymous with fast, then he is probably correct, because sometimes you gotta get somewhere before you can collect social security. Tonight, he drove my booty home because I may have drank an entire bottle of moscato on my own, don't judge me, it was the first week of school. I wouldn't say I was drunk by the time we left, but it was a slow drive, even the kidperson (little McSassy if you're new around here) commented about how slow daddy was driving and that we couldn't listen to Bieber. I have the fever, I can't help it. 
I was thinking today that I wasn't a particularly agressive driver, unless I am at wal-mart and armed with a cart. Then bitches better be gettin' out the way. Okay, maybe not quite like that, but seriously, someone tries to cut me off and by do they get mean mugged. I can't help it, Wal-Mart just does it to me. People don't seem to notice when they are in front of me, oh you're looking at that, please let me stand if front of it for a few minutes texting, oh I didn't see you there. Grr. 
This brought to you by a bottle of Moscato, I'm off to watch Lock-Up Raw with the hubs, cause we're class yall!

Humpday Happies.

Hey yall,
I have survived hump day at school. That's a big deal. The highlights or lowlights dependent on how you look at it :) for the week so far are:
1. Explaining why Cock, cock, cockasia, cockasi, white people have different colored eyes, since black folks only have brown.  2. Learning that Ja-quiz's name is spelled Jacquez.....yup, glad he introduced himself, I woulda butchered that sucker.  3. Having a Mar-Quez, a Markeece, a Marcus, and they are all spelled Marquis. 4. Wondering if I can handle hearing "who you is?" instead of "who are you?" one more time, or if this will be the week I kill a student.  5. Kid: Do you have any lotion?  Me: Nope.  Kid: What you mean you don't have lotion?  Me: I'm allergic.  Kid: What! How you not get ashy? Black folks be gettin ashy, you don't? Let me see! Kid comes to look at my arm.  Kid: Yall, she aint lyin, she ain't ashy. 

In sappy news, I had a kid who was sleeping and I kept waking him up and told him to stand up since clearly sleeping is not okay  and after I woke him up the second time I took his sunglasses which he matches perfectly to his outfit daily. This kid also leaves the tags on his clothes so people know how much he spent. He asked when he got them back and I explained that if he did his work he could get them on the way out of class, and if not, I was going to look SO FLY on the way home from school. He paid attention and participated the rest of the hour, and in the last few minutes of class the kids were chatting and he said, "I'm glad you care, you hard and you mean, but I like you."
WAHOOO Best teacher compliments :) 

Sinking ships and Wal-mart Failures, as if WM does other things

Yall, I think I have boarded a sinking ship. The kind where all of the dumb people get the life boats but no paddles and all the rest of us are left to plug the holes.  I will have more on this tomorrow as it's the first day of school and all, but it may be scary. It is a good thing, I am going to be rocking some kick ass shoes, because it is important to feel like a bad ass on your first day of anything. 

Anyway, I have been to Wal-Mart more than a person with my IQ should, here is what I have learned. 

1. You don't need to go to the circus to see the bearded lady. 

2. You can find a man by wearing the right outfit at Wal-mart. The right outfit however is based on your own discretion. 

3. Someone you don't want to talk to will talk to you, and it is NEVER a Wal-mart employee, because clearly you can't find any of those. 

4. ALL of the lesbians in my town work as checkers in WM, and they hit on people as they come through the line. 

5. Wal-mart will run out of whatever you need so that after you have made the decision to hate your life and go to WM, you still have to go to another store. Recently they have been out of water, and notebook paper. No shit. 

True Blood is on, so I have to go watch the bloody sex fest and hope to stay awake. Don't tell the diet Gods, that this girl is drowning her sorrows in ice cream, so just in case the boat doesn't sink on it's own, I can help it out.

Love ya!

Thursday Thoughts

Hello loves, 
I haven't done a link up in ages, and since my bloggy BFF is hosting, and I can't help but love her thus here I am. 
1. I got a job! And school is starting, and that is awesome, but this job may kill me and if that doesn't school might, but I will Survive! (sing the song while you read it!) 2. I am tired of shit breaking, first the AC, now the pool and now my computer is on the fritz. Shit needs to stop kids.  3. Some of the kids came in today to register, cutie patooties.  4. Thank goodness for friends at work. If not for them, I would have lost my mind by now. Both in my online teaching world and my brick and mortar teaching world they make the world go round. I would be losing my mind without the bursts of laughter in my day. 

Be Nice, Bad JuJu

The problem with bad JuJu is that some people don't understand that they have it. You know, JuJu, Karma, Negative Nancying, they are all basically the same thing, but mostly I think what goes around comes around. Today was the first day of teacher work days, and one of the other new teachers is just rubbing me the wrong way. I tried to be a fan, but I just am not because she is so negative and such a know it all. I don't mean to be a bitch, but I don't need a brand spanking new teacher telling me how to do things, if she had experience we could chat, but until then she can hush up. I find it bothersome that she refers to our black kids as "clientele" and when you have "clientele like ours, that doesn't work." Kids are kids, no matter what, and until she actually works with some she doesn't get a say.

End rant. Be good to others and don't judge. 

Rain Rain Go Away!

I'm not usually a person drained by the weather, but this was not what I imagined Georgia to be like. I just lied to my poor puppies and said we were going for a walk one last time before I start back to school and here we are sitting inside because it is pouring again, for another day. This is totally effecting my Chi, when watching London Olympics on the tv looks more sunny than here you know something is wrong. 
This weather is making me a grump, I was going to come home and be productive but now I just want to sleep! What is up with that? It is my last day home, I should be much more enthusiastic about this! What are you all up to today? I am anxiously awaiting 11am so I can go to Zaxby's for a Coke and Chicken strips. Don't judge me! 

Just Sayin

Financial Mishaps and Budgeting Blues

I suck at budgeting, this isn't new. I did extremely well when P was gone and I was the only one spending. Not that he spends much but, it's just harder with two people, and we made the decisions of asses that were dumb for most of the summer.  I blog read about Dave Ramsey awhile back and started to "snowball" our stuff, and prior to the move we had a healthy savings, we were ready to move, our credit cards were down to a couple of thousand dollars. This was all prior to our move. 

This summer has been a financial disaster. We moved from Kansas to Georgia. We were essentially being paid by the army to move so we decided we would use the extra money to buy new furniture since we had an amalgamation yes I went there, proof of that there English degree. of furniture from our families that wasn't really our style, because no one in our family has purple walls and orange chairs, but I digress. Essentially we got 6 grand worth of furniture and paid $3000 outright and put the rest on credit. Not a big deal at that point, we were still getting government money to move so we were just going to hold onto some of our cash so that I could pay to go to school. Well the $1500 I thought my tuition would be was more like $2900 and my books were another $500. Not a smart decision on my part to try to pay without financial aid. So there went the rest of our savings and the extra money we were saving. Then we had visitors for all of July and although we did okay we then had our A/C go out, which we found out prior to our 4th of July BBQ, so after that 5K down the hole, we are enjoying the splendor of credit card provided A/C. Sadly however, school is starting again, which means doctors appointments, and my dear husband's $600 car registration.  So I took a teaching job, which will be great, but the next purchase will be a new ink cartridge and cord for my external hard drive since Jack Jack ate it, and my curtains, my necklace and two pens. I have faith that we will be back on track once we get some semblance of order, but we are now at a financial place where frivolous spending is not an option. So much so that I was denied Batman today on my own accord.

Now that I am done bitching and justifying, I have a couple of things that I am doing differently.  First, I am cooking at home, and making it a goal to use the stuff in the pantry and freezer we've bought.  Secondly, I am trying to read more, and clean more and generally use what I have in the house to entertain and stop feeling like I need to go out in order to entertain.  Lastly, I am going to do some reflection about life as it happens to be at this moment. I am going to use these in my classroom, but one of the new things round this here bloggity blog will be filling out these sheets. If you wanna do them too, let me know and we can link'em up! Get crazy round here!

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