:) A new thing to make me happy!

Here it is! My new car :) I love it so much!

Another thing to make me happy... I'm going to Steph's tonight to watch Twilight and New Moon! :) We're eating mushroom ravioli with salad and cheesy garlic bread. :) I don't know about dessert, but I'm seriously thinking of picking up a cheesecake or something on the way over!

Tomorrow is the day

That I pick up my brand new car... more details later!

♪♪New... you're so new... you... you're new♪♪

Good job if you caught onto the lyrics for my title. :) I'll be looking at and test driving cars tomorrow afternoon with my dad. I'm tired of my car crapping out on me. Yes, I could fix the problems with my car and hold onto it for a couple more years... but the way I look at it is, why invest in something I'd only keep a couple more years? And it's a Saturn, so if I encounter any more problems in the next couple years, it will not be easy to repair it because they are no longer in production, which means parts won't be easy to come by... at least not at a reasonable price.

So I've settled on trying out a few cars. I'll be looking at the Ford Edge

I love the look of the car. It's a crossover, so it's kind of a mix between a sedan and an SUV. It sort of reminds me of the Lexus SUVs that are out... not so boxy, a more curvy back end. I like the look of the car. Bare in mind any of the vehicles I look at will most likely be a certified pre-owned... new to me, not necessarily new. :) But this is a definite forerunner!

Next up I plan on looking at the Mercury Mariner.

It's a more boxy vehicle. Sort of reminds me of a Jeep in the look of it. It's a very similar vehicle to the Ford Escape (in size and interior) just the "higher end" vehicle. Mercury and Ford and sister companies, so what do you expect? It would be relatively inexpensive for me to even purchase a brand new Mariner, although that's not very important to me, so I don't mind getting a car that's 2 years older, for $6-7,000 less!!!

Lastly, I would like to look at the Ford Escape.

Also similar to a Jeep in appearance. I'll look at it just because a good friend of mine has a Ford Escape and loves hers, and hasn't had any issues with it. Also because it's an inexpensive option, and I would like to keep my monthly payments under $350, and this would be a good option for that! :)

So think of me in my vehicle quest! :) And I'll keep my song stuck in my head as I look! :-D

"But I was defending her honor!!!!!!!!!!"

I just love hearing stories from my old campus about the kiddos I used to work with. One has been very weepy because I'm not there anymore... he'll eventually swing out of it, but he's got a lot going on right now, and my leaving came at a bad time (unfortunately) for him.

My other kiddo has a problem on occasion with keeping his hands to himself. He is a pretty cool little guy... I just got a bunch of stuff autographed by the Ghost Lab (from Discovery Channel) team for him to try and earn... incentives! At any rate, he's been a lot better about hitting, but apparently he hit someone last week, and his response to "why" he had done it was he thought someone had pushed down a girl in his class. "You know you're not supposed to hit people... you're supposed to let a teacher know about it so they can take care of it." And his response???

"But I was DEFENDING HER HONOR!!!!! I WAS DEFENDING HER HONOR!!!!!!!" :) He makes me smile.

Here I am

Friday night and what am I doing? After watching Temple Grandin (which I taped about a week ago on HBO... great movie by the way!) I'm now cutting up card stock for my word wall words so that when I go up to campus tomorrow for a bit, I will assemble my word wall. It needs to be done... I need to add a BUNCH more words to it, too... but I'll do that as time goes by! What else am I working on? Not much... sub plans, I guess... since I'll be having a sub half a day on Wednesday and a full day Thursday.

Just make me sleep on the couch

I've neglected my blog lately. Things have been REALLY busy! I've now survived my second full week in the classroom. Whew! I survived my first TAKs test administration, too. I came home that night and I crashed at 7:30 and didn't get up til the next morn at 5:50! Yeah... I was tired. I'm on my way to get ready for FRIDAY at work, so I can't post much... but *hopefully* I'll remember to post more when I return home. I don't really want to stay very long at work tonight... next week doesn't have too much teaching going on til Thurs/Fri anyway because we have curriculum based assessments Tues/Weds/Thurs and the Monday will be the last review day for the CBAs... so, yeah... and I'm gone half a day Weds and all day Thursday... so I just need to make sure I have stuff for my sub and I'll be good! :) Off I go!