Follow Your Bliss

okay so thursday i went in for that interview. it was the principal, her secretary and a 5th grade teacher reading questions off a sheet of prepared interview questions. we qna'd for about 30 mins. they thanked me and the principal asked her secretary to tour me around the school. i was thinking they wouldn't show me the school if they didn't like me right? when we left they closed the door as if the principal and the other teacher were going to "discuss" me.
the school is really cute. they have the main building decorated with crafty like items. the original mascot is the roadrunners, however, the principal had it changed to the shining stars. i just so happen to LOVE stars! is it fate?

when we got back the principal offered me the position...and i took it! HOLY COW I'M SO SCARED!! ok maybe more like really nervous. I know anyone who's reading this doesn't care about what i think about teaching. but this is my journal! so read the following if you want, don't read if you don't want. the pros and cons.

the pros of moving to 4th grade in this district:
1. they pay more
2. 4th graders can work independently
3. getting deeper into subject matter
4. they'll actually 'get' my jokes
5. we can read novels, books i liked
6. i won't have to teach them how to stand and walk in a line
7. number grades! no more e,s,n,u
8. a gradebook on the computer that averages for you
9. they can read directions from the beginning of the year!
10. 15 mins. from home
11. they already know how to read

the cons of moving to 4th grade in this district:
1. i'll miss my friends and old students
2. some may be taller than me
3. they might be brave enough to argue back (1st graders don't)
4. i'll really have to grade papers now!
5. i'll be out in a portable
6. TAKS tests! (no TAKS in 1st)
7. it's new and i hate change

okay i guess the pros outweigh the cons. this may actually be one of the few times where change is good.

friday i slept in late because my brain was going a mile a minute the night before. i didnt fall asleep until 5 something in the morning. then i spent the day on the computer looking for 4th grade ideas. i also went shopping for birthday presents. while shopping for other people i found myself a really cute purse!

I invited me to go watch the notebook with her. oh my goodness. that movie was sooo good! i haven't cried so hard in a theater since steel magnolias. i honestly thought i had turn cold hearted because movies don't make me sob anymore, but it's not me! now i know it's the movies. i OBVIOUSLY can still sob! and i wasnt the only one either. i could hear sobs coming from all over. now at my age it's a little more on the embarrassing side, but i really couldn't help it.

saturday was cousin d's and j's birthdays. i spent the whole day cleaning because my cleaning schedule didn't work and hubster's cousin c and her boyfriend, r were going to spent the night. they went to schlitterbahn (the #1 waterpark in the country btw) during the day and then met up with hubster when he got off work. i on the other hand, went to d's for dinner and presents. then came home to eat and drink some more!

sunday was hubster's company picnic. it was fun. but i noticed that hubster and i were the only couple without kids. afterwards most of us went bowling. i haven't bowled in forever. i started off really good, which surprised me. but i only went downhill from there. but we had a good time. c and r met us there. they spent the day downtown on the riverwalk. we ended the day with pizza and paycheck (the movie). that was my weekend.

and today its been raining all morning. so i'll probably stay inside.

Doubting Oneself

omgoodness! i just got called for an interview! it's for a 4th grade position so im super super nervous! all i know is 1st grade. can i do 4th grade?

Maybe if i had a job

but wait, i do have a job! i have the biggest headache! i think its due to the fact that all ive done today is sit in front of a computer or a television. i did go to the gym this morning so one point for me!

friday i saw the terminal with my aunt. she's one of those people that sit behind you and talk through the movie trying to guess whats going to happen before it does you know? but i still really enjoyed the movie. before the movie we went to this new sports bar called hooligans. it was okay.

saturday i had an adventure! tuesday hubster trimmed the trees. suddenly it became MY responsibility to get rid of the limbs.
so i tried to get them into the back of his truck. i did manage about half of the pile. i called lil bro to come help. he did. im thinking i can just leave them in my parents backyard then on saturday my brother can put them on the curb since their neighborhood has brush pick up every saturday morning. my dad said no. so he gives us directions to this place thats a dumping ground for limbs and brush. i was very nervous, but it was super cool. there were so many ppl there dumping their own truck loads of tree limbs and there was a huge pile of dead tree limbs and leaves. lil bro said it smelled much better than the dump - he's been with my dad before. i was glad for that!
when we entered the place they weighed the truck. then when we left they weighed the truck again. if you had over 700 lbs you had to pay. but we didn't - so we were off on our merry way. i felt so accomplished that day! =)

saturday night we had fathers day at my uncle's. all the men were going to want to play poker and they wouldn't have been able to on sunday night since everyone else but moi has work on monday mornings.
earlier during the day i bought a lottory ticket. i didn't win. that was only the 2nd or 3rd time i've bought one. i only try when the pot is huge. someone in el paso won my $145 million. curses!
however, the ladies played poker in the other room and i won $1.25 - so the day wasn't a total loss.

sunday morning we had breakfast at my parents casa. the hubster went to the river but i passed because it's that time and i ate way too much this weekened. tonight i might go to kickboxing. if this headache goes away.

9 days left to get a new job!!

There's gotta be more to life

somehow several days have passed since my last entry. its not like ive been super busy. well i guess kinda. in a way.

after my last entry i did work on my portfolio. then i got this brilliant idea to actually start on my concert ticket scrapbook like i had planned on doing this summer. but then i had creativity block and needed inspiration. this really, really nice person took pictures of hers and emailed them to me so i could get the creative juices flowing. i've done 5 pages so far and i love it!

saturday hubster, lil bro, I and i saw harry potter. enjoyed it. we also went to fridays and i had two junebugs - my favorite! I went with us cuz she was freaking out and didnt want to be at home. she told the guy she loves who's supposed to be just her friend that she loves him! I is my age and he is like 12 yrs older than us. they both have kids and hang out all the time. he went on a date with this other woman and she felt he needed to know how she felt about him for real. we'll see what happens!

sunday we went to that guys house for a bbq. I went but...(dum dum dum) so did that other woman! can you say tension? yea it was rather awkward but she composed herself really well. then afterwards hubster, lil bro and i went to the movies again and saw the chronicles of riddick. it was good. not really good but good. i went in thinking it was the story of him from before pitch black. i didnt know it was years later. so in a way i was kinda disappointed because it wasn't the story i wanted to see. but it was still good.

monday i went to the gym in the morning with cousin d and went 2.5 miles. then i went again at night with hubster and went 2 miles. i'm thinking that would be a nice habit to get into. haha, today's thursday and i know that didnt happen.

tuesday was hubster's day off. 1st i had a doctors appointment at 10:15. they took a lot of blood out of me. one tube to check my cholesterol (sp?) one tube to check my blood sugar level and one tube to check out how bad my dog allergies are to see if i can get a dog or not. then we went to home depot and spent too long there. then we trimmed the tree out front. hubster got attacked by fire ants cuz apparently they live in our tree. that was HILARIOUS, he didn't seem to see the same humor as i. then we got food and watched 2-X. then we put a ceiling fan up on our back patio. and the perfect way to end an evening... we watched the LAKERS LOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! everyone in san antonio was a pistons fan that night!

wow i can't even remember yesterday. i do believe i went to the gym. yea i did. then i went to chilpotle and got a burrito bol. then i was lazy the rest o' the day! glad i haven't written each day cuz then i would only have one paragraph. boring. oh yea i went to a missions baseball game with cousin d and her parents. we lost but the people watching sure was fun. they have two mascots: henry, the puffy taco and the ballapeno. you know your in san antonio when the mascots are a puffy taco and a jalapeno. as always, any where i go, i ate too much! i had nachos grande, a coke, a pretzel, a funnel cake and a root beer float. whew! suprised i didnt get a tummy ache.

today i went to the gym, we did weights. i also went to the post office and the bank. i came home, watched tv and checked my email and uploaded all the pics in my camera. my ex, j wrote me and i wrote him back. its always fun hearing from him. he's a great person, really he is. but we could never be together for long. his baby that he concieved while we were "on a break" is now 7 years old! my how time flies. he was born 17 days after i met the hubster.

btw my cleaning schedule has not worked. oh well. and i decided i wanted a maltese (even though thats the dog that jessica simpson wanted) because its good for allergy sufferers. but hubster said he didnt want a little dog. =( that makes me sad now that i saw online how CUTE they are!

A Hunting We Will Go

today we finally went house hunting for cousin d. her realtor lady is kinda weird. 1st she wasn't ready with listings and what not when we got there. an hour later we were on our way to look at some houses. when we got to the 1st house she realized she forgot her little thing that opens the little box that has the house keys inside. so we had to go back to the office. later we were talking about the price of one house cousin d liked and the realtors response was "well we can always jew them down." jew them down?! what if i were jewish!? i cant believe she said that. crazy lady. so we looked at about 6 houses. productive day.
only i didnt get to clean my room of the day. its already to late to clean a bathroom so i'll have to do double tomorrow.

b from school called today. she was at a workshop with d and c. i was so glad to talk to them but at the same time i was jealous that they were together. then p called too!

during the summer i just get too addicted to tv. im so excited the new season of degrassi started! and soon there will be a new season of bug juice! i can't wait and then big brother 5 is going to start soon too! i love summer!

i had red robin for dinner tonight. that was the highlight of the day. i was craving a big juicy burger. then i stopped at bill millers for a dozen brownies. im so bad. i didn't even go to the gym last night. im soo full now. i swear i didnt eat all 12 brownies. i only had 2. okay i only had 4. i think i'll go to the gym tonight!

reminder to self: tomorrow i need to finish my portfolio, and one thing off my list.

now im going to attempt an lj cut. last night's dream.

hubster and i were at h.e.b. and a lady that works there was getting mad at us. i think she was mad because we were taking up too much room in the aisle and ppl couldnt shop around us. so i started picking up these two notebooks that i left open on the ground behind us in the aisle and tom showed her a scab on his forehead and said don't let what happened last time happen again. I went to go find cherries and bananas but got side tracked and started looking for baby carrots and hot dogs. this little girl ran up to me hugging me like she knew me but i didnt know her. so i smiled and continued my hot dog mission. then i was laying on a couch trying to hit mute on the remote and i heard a vacuum running and kids kinda talking and giggling in the background. this little girl ran to me and layed down on me and said "mommys awake!" (weird) then a little boy hugged me and said they were going to surprise me by cleaning. then my two boys went back to cleaning but the little girl stayed. we looked at pictures. the pictures were of a friends vacation and all of a sudden the friend was there telling me who was in the pictures. i felt very nervous around her. at some point hubster had chili from a chili dog on the shoulder of his brown suede coat. and i said "ew". thats all i can remember.

The Old Man is Snoring

well today it rained. and it rained. and it rained. and its still raining! i was supposed to look at houses with my cousin who is looking to buy but they canceled till tomorrow cuz of the rain. its really raining hard. ive been in the house all day. when the rain lets up i think okay im getting out of this house. all i wanna do is go to blockbuster and return my movies. but as soon as i really get up, it starts pouring and thundering again. and so im a little afraid of lightning and thunder. therefore ive been in the house allll day long.

the only thing on tv is special regan reports which is so sad by the way and special weather updates. and the beeping sounds when the weather scrolls across the bottom of the screen is soo annoying.

regan was the 1st president i was ever aware of. i just found out that gerald ford was pres. when i was born, that makes me feel old. (and i only missed nixon by a year!) and jimmy carter was pres. after that. i don't even know anything about him at all. then next came regan. i liked him because he was the president. he seemed important to other people. i was only 6. no wonder i don't remember carter. but regan was pres. until i was 14. thats a big chunk of my life. i'm very sad now. he looked like a nice guy and he had a friendly smile. ive never denied the fact that im a dork. and im showing it right now arent i? yea well thats okay.

i went to the gym last night for the 1st time since summer started. i thought i was going to die. but i somehow survived. then we came home and i really thought the lakers were going to lose again. thats what i get for thinking.

then i showered even though i thought i was going to get electrocuted. geez it was even raining last night! then i read my book until 1:30. and i had a weird dream about turning my eggs. hehe i forgot to call christy and tell her about that.

ive been trying to wake up at 8:30 and get dressed and everything so that if i get called for an interview i won't have that sleepy voice and it won't take me two hours to get ready and go. but this morning the fone woke me up at 10 and i was so freaking out i said hello hello hello over and over to practice that ive-been-awake-for-hours-now voice then i answered "hello" and it was a recording! so i got out of bed and started my day. i cleaned the kitchen, that was my room for the day. i made a big, huge peanut butter cookie with the left over dough in the freezer. it was gooood.
and last thing that happened to me, also not note-worthy like the rest of this journal, i got soaked saving a plant.

omg i cant believe i almost forgot! i saw jg online yesterday, he got engaged! wow.

Summer Lovin'

okay i'm gonna give this journaling thing another shot.

so I've been out of school for 11 days now. i've accomplished quite a bit in those 11 days too. for me at least. cuz i'm usually good for doing absolutely nothing.

i've set a doctor's appointment for the 15th. i haven't been to the doctor in over ten years. i've been to the, you know, the girls doctor once a year since the summer i got married. but i havent been to a regular doctor in forever. so i'm gonna go meet the lady whos name has been on my insurance card for the last four years finally. and i'm gonna get a complete physical. that's always exciting.

i cleaned the whole downstairs of the house plus both upstairs bathrooms.

i went on a four hour road trip with cousin d to the valley for my cousins graduation. we got a flat tire and thought we were gonna be tough girls and change it ourselves no problem right? well we couldn't even figure out how to get the stinkin tire out from underneath the car! so much for being independent women. then a really nice couple from san antonio stopped and the guy changed the tire for us and when he was done and lowering the car a state trooper stopped to see if we needed help. gee thanks mister. then we were off again and we had a nice weekend with the whole family.

i bought a book for my summer reading. mr. darcy takes a wife. it's some authors continuation of jane austens pride and prejudice. im really excited about reading it cuz i LOVED pride and prejudice and i just hate when stories end and this makes the story not end. well, until im done reading it. =( let's not think about that.

this past weekend we went to big spring, tx to visit hubster's family. that was nice too. except we played trivial pursuit and that game always makes me feel dumb. big spring is in west texas. there isn't much else to do other than play trivial pursuit. there's that and then there's watching the oil derricks pump.

yesterday lil' bro took one hour to fix my computer that has been down for over a month! so today i'm buying him lunch. and im connected to the world once again! and i bought a new color printer cartridge and why in the world are they so FREAKIN expensive?! 35 flippin dollars!

haha! last night i made a schedule for myself to become a better housekeeper. i really really suck at being an adult when it comes to keeping up a house. so with this new schedule i only have to clean one room a day! and today im supposed to clean the laundry room. it works out that i get sundays off and each room will get cleaned every two weeks. i KNOW that sounds like some rooms don't get cleaned as often as they should but its a hell of a lot better than what i was doing before! most of the house except the kitchen would get cleaned either right before company and visitors or about every three months when hubster would really get on me about it or there was a no school holiday. like earlier when i said i cleaned all of downstairs and the bathrooms upstairs, that was cuz when i went out of town for cousin's graduation, hubsters's mom, step dad, sister and her boyfriend were coming to stay for the weekend. so i only cleaned cuz visitors were coming! im terrible! we'll see how long my schedule works out. since i made it yesterday and that took some time i decided i deserved the rest of the day off and i would start tomorrow (which is today) so the dining room didnt get cleaned yesterday and it wont for two more weeks. i sure hope we dont have anyone over cuz then it will either be dirty, or i'll have to clean it AND whatever is on the schedule! ahh. im so lazy!

other than that i just sit around the house or make sure my cell phone is on me cuz i'm still waiting for some principal ANY principal to call for an interview. i have until july 2nd to get a job at a new school or i'll have to stay at my old school. which isn't bad at all! i LOVE my school! but its just so far from home and i really dont like the drive home after school. i dont mind the morning so much its just the traffic in the afternoon/evening. plus...IF we start trying for a little one i dont want work to be so far from home.

i've gotten sucked back into general hospital. its funny how fast you can get caught up even when you havent watched in forever.

okay, i think thats all ive been up to since school got out.