Year 2009: In Review

Well, it has definitely been an interesting year! I had LOTS of interviews this time around for jobs... didn't get any (STILL) due to lack of teaching experience. I've planned to remedy this by teaching a lesson at least once a week... if not in Michele's class, then in another class in any grade level. I have had several people offer to me that I can teach in their rooms... this will be great for me because the Principal at my campus will hear of the great work I do... and if SHE can't get a position for me, then at least I know I can add that "experience" to my resume which will be much more impressive and helpful.

• I had several friends have babies
• I grew closer to family (especially my cutie nephew)
• I made more friends at work, and love them for it!
• I shared fun memories with the Ynmans
• I shared fun memories with JBear
• I shared fun memories with Steph at Jonas Bros, and at New Moon (Midnight showing!)

It's been a pretty good year... and I think that 2010 will be even better... here's hoping!

From My Deathbed

The title is what I would've used had I written this post 2 days ago. I got a NASTY case of Sinusitis that started on Friday night... oh... what... fun. :( I know what caused it... stupid Mountain Cedar pollen... gets me every year... but this year it was earlier than normal (of course, sleeping with my windows open didn't help). Anyhow, I'm pretty good about using my sinus rinse and everything, but this time it just DIDN'T help at all. Tuesday I really and truly thought I was going to die. I could barely even move or breathe without the entire left side of my face pounding in pain. It was terrible. Then yesterday I woke up and felt like a normal person. It was strange... last night I felt everything that had been on my left side clogging up my right side... then this morning I went and used my sinus rinse and it was evident that the Mucinex D I've been taking since Monday morning had done it's job... I'll leave it at that and not go into the colorful details of how it was evident... just let your imagination do the work on that!

Anyhow, I'm TRULY bummed that my vacation was virtually ruined by sickness... I had less time with friends in town from L.A.... I had less time with my bestie... I missed her hubby's 35th birthday dinner last night (although I did make it over to Ricky's house to visit with him before he left town today for L.A.)... I am glad I didn't have to use up days of work being sick (especially since I'm using a day and a half to head outta town in March!) BUT JEEZ!!!!

Now I'm even less ready to head back to work next week. Oh well, at least we get a 3 day weekend pretty quickly... that will be nice! Thank you Dr. M.L. King jr. for giving us educators a little break before Spring Break... :) I just had a nice lunch of leftover chicken tikka masala that Shrey made, and I'm quite happy about that... now I'm going to watch more Ghost Lab as there's a marathon on Discovery Channel today! :-D

Holidays

Well, things seem to be going pretty smooth! I've finished all my shopping (a week ago, pretty much!)... I've wrapped nearly all the presents I have to wrap... I've done nearly all the cleaning I need to do before company comes... I'm pretty set!

Here's a quick picture of the presents under the tree... these are just what I've wrapped today... this doesn't include what my parents will be stuffing under there in the next day...

It's exciting, isn't it??? I have about 4 gifts under that tree for my nephew... and I can't wait to see him rip the paper off of them with a smile on his face!

Here's a picture of some of the sugar cookies I slaved over for co-workers! I think they turned out pretty cute. I'll be making another batch of these and also of my chocolate chip cookies tomorrow so that they're ready for Conner to leave some out with milk for Santa on Thursday night. Also for the rest of us to munch on while our company is here! :-) They are pretty yummy!

That's it for updates right now. I'll post more probably later in the week. I hope everyone has a HAPPY HOLIDAY! I'll be going to see Avatar at some point with my brother and sis-in-law also, and I'm PRETTY PSYCHED about that! :-)

Running on Empty

Man...! I'm a little shocked this week is going by so quickly! It's good because we get closer to 2 weeks off... it's bad because I'm RUNNING OUT OF TIME TO GET THINGS DONE!!!

This past weekend I baked some cookies for co-workers... tonight I have nearly 6 dozen sugar cookies to ice/decorate... :( Not quite looking forward to that... but it has to get done... and I will have to do it as soon as I get home so they can dry out and the icing won't get messed up before I package everything tonight! I also need to make my "costume" for the Faculty Talent Showcase that's on Friday morning. I will have to take pictures so that I can post some after... our act is going to be great! We did finally get the tree fluffed and decorated... now we just need to tidy up by vacuuming some and then we can put the tree skirt on. Then I think tomorrow night I will wrap up some of the gifts I've gotten and put them under the tree... why tomorrow? Because starting Friday afternoon I want to have VERY LITTLE on my agenda so I can truly relax. This semester has been a DOOZY... and I just want to relax and completely enjoy my break!!! Off I go to get ready for my work day. I'm teaching a lesson on cause/effect today in Michele's class... looking forward to it... the kids in her class are great... and I have a fun little game planned!

It's so amusing!

The Health Aide at the campus I work at is CONVINCED I'm in love with someone. Why, you ask? Because I started doing my makeup more regularly and that I am wearing more eye makeup! hahaha She also said that I just had a constant glow these days. I told her it could be that I'm in love... or it could be something else. I did this with a straight face, believe it or not! Then I went on to say that it could be I finally got rid of someone or something in my life that was bugging me or weighing me down. To which she heartily agreed. And then I said, "Or it could be something else entirely!" She then gave me a scowl and said she would get it out of me eventually and that she "echar el ojo a" (had her eye on me). She's so funny!

This week is actually going pretty fast with the Mock TAKs testing going on. I'll be glad when it's all over, though... I'll also be glad when next week is over because then I get a nice little break... just long enough to TOTALLY rearrange my sleeping schedule. ;)

I'll post more later!

10 Days and counting

There are just 10 days left in the year, and I couldn't be more thrilled! I've been doing all sorts of things here and there and definitely keeping busy! Next week is a testing week at the school... so other than individual days, hopefully it'll WHIZ by! Thursday we will have the last choir practice for this school year, and then that evening they will have their last concert for the PTO meeting. The 1st graders are also going to perform some songs. The week after that will be a bit busy also. It's an all jeans wearing week, though... so who really cares what else is going on?! lol I will be teaching a Cause/Effect lesson that week in Michele's class, and I'm excited about that! Then that Friday will be all the class Holiday parties, and then we are off for 2 solid weeks.

Other than all that, I have plans for Christmas shopping still... I've gotten all the kiddos' gifts, now I just need to take care of close friends, and family! THEN, all that's left is wrapping... that's the fun part for me! We're still working on the Christmas tree, but the front yard is totally decorated... glad that is done... hopefully we will have equally nice weather when we put it all away as when we put it all out there!

Tonight I will be going to have some dinner with Jamey, and then we'll talk some fun makeup stuff, and after that we (I think) are going to watch 27 Dresses because she hasn't seen it yet, and I insist that she watch it... if she thought Bride Wars was cute, she'll LOVE this one! Anyhow... off I go... I'm finishing up watching some stuff off the DVR while Mom and Dad are out on business w/Dad's work... making a holiday party appearance. I'll catch up more on DVR tomorrow while I'm doing laundry and they're out for ANOTHER party appearance!

Also, on a side note, my dating life may be picking up... more details on that later.