Home Sweet Home....via Las Vegas!

Morgan, Henry and Derek at Raising Canes.
Spencer and I. We're Buds!
Oliver loves cups on his head. Silly Kid!

Home again, Home again! I have arrived in the booming metropolis of Rhinelander, WI. (Home of the World Championship Ice Fishing Contest.) It is nice to be here. My parents warmly welcomed me at the airport long past their own bedtimes. They really do love me, don't they?

I got to see five of my favorite people as I had a three hour layover in Vegas. The Hageys came and picked me up from the airport and took me to Raising Canes(They have the best chicken fingers on the planet!). It was a fun side adventure. I always forget that I am the aunt figure and that whatever I say and do will be copied by these little boys. Today it was putting cold drinks on their bellies and putting that same cold drink on the baby's head. For some reason, Oliver loved it. It was a very short meeting but it was nice to see them for an hour and have lunch with them. Spencer was very sad when I left and promply started crying when we got to the airport and I was getting out of the van. He kept saying:"I miss you, Alice!" It is good to be loved by little people! Thanks Hageys!

It was a long day of traveling. I was on three different planes today and the total travel time was eleven hours. It is worth it to be here in 18 degree weather and 13 inches of snow. It is a pretty place, from the inside of our house! I am not looking forward to hiking to church tomorrow. Ah, the Northwoods.

Well, it is late and I need to sleep. It is good to be home.

Leaving on A Jet Plane....

It is midnight. I have to be up at 7:20 to get ready to drive to SLC and then fly out. I am tired. I should be sleeping but instead, I am packing!

Today was a good day. It was fun to have a play day at school. The highlight was playing some of the girls from our school at basketball. We beat them and that is what matters right? It was fun to just be on the court and playing with them.

After the kids left, we had and all out marshmallow war. One of the teachers gave each of us a decorated piece of pvc pipe and some mini-marshmallows. These are pretty fun marshmallow shooters. We had a blast hitting each other. I am sure the janitor hated us for it but it sure was a fun thing.

We then went to Red Robin for Burger Friday and it was way fun. I work with amazing people and hanging out with them is totally fun! I got a million hugs today and I can just feel the love I had around me and that is awesome!

I saw the movie The Blindside today and it was amazing. Check the movie blog for the review. It may be a day or so until I do the review though!

I must now go to sleep so I can be a happy traveler tomorrow! :) Cheers!

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I have no clue what that title means but I put it there anyway. I am beyond tired. Today was a busy day!

The students have been so squirrely the last two days and today was the squirreliest. Crazy kids. I still like them though. In two of my classes, we played Guitar Hero. That was awesome.

I think I am too tired to write.

Tomorrow I will have a busy day too. There is no time to pack for my trip home. I will go to work until 12, then go to lunch at Red Robin(we are having Burger Friday early) and then I will go on a date(woot!), and then I probably should head up to Salt Lake but depending on how late it is, I may just stay here and head up there Saturday morning. It is crazy that I will be heading home so soon. The time has really flown by, which means the time will really fly when I get home too. DANG IT!

Well, I better get my beastly self to bed. Laters.

Practically Thursday...

Which means that tomorrow is practically Friday. Fantastic. Dodgeball Friday is spectacular. I am excited to be this close to Christmas Break. Time is flying and I like!

Today I taught. The funniest thing with students happened after school. The student who likes to spray me with her perfume was in the front office and we were talking. I mentioned to her that she should bring Refugee in on Friday because I have a date but then I remembered that I will be playing basketball as part of our fun last day before break and realized I would probably shower before my date. She then said: "That could be funny. You could just put paper bags over your arms." Yeah...I don't think paper bags would keep the good smell on me. Haha. She is silly.

I got my temporary crown put on the tooth that had the root canal. I sure do love spending money on my mouth...NOT!

Janette and I went to the movie All About Steve. It was mediocre. Kinda funny but kinda stupid all at the same time. We then went back to that cool light display. It is wonderful and makes me smile.

When I got home, I worked out. I love playing football on the Playstation 2 and riding my stationary bike. Perfect distraction from thinking I am actually working out. I then played the drums for Guitar Hero World Tour. So fun.

Now I am off to sleep. You have yourself a wonderful little day!

A Pretty Darn Good Day!!!

Yesterday when I blogged, or maybe that was a day ago,( I am in a time warp people, forgive me, GOSH!)I blogged because I was feeling down and wanted a little pick me up and I actually got that pick me up from re-reading what I wrote and realizing that it wasn't being pessimistic at all and that I really do have some superpowers! I am not being conceited either. I am being the opposite of conceited which is nice to myself. You are supposed to be nice to other people so why not be to yourself, eh?

Well, today was a great day. It seemed to whiz right by. That is a good thing in and of itself. The day did start out with a good meeting...yeah really, A GOOD MEETING! The meeting was followed by welcoming students to school. We do this by standing by the door and actually clapping when each student enters the building. It is like cheering them into the building. I love to see their shocked faces and reactions. Most of them think we are really silly but to some of them this is a major highlight of the day. I like to do it because it actually makes me like kids a lot better. Cheering and clapping for somebody makes you love them more I have found. That is one of my favorite quotes btw "Love them more." Kelly Clarkson has a tattoo of that quote on her wrist. I think it is a wise saying. Sometimes you just need to love people more. I think I know way too much about Kelly Clarkson!

The school day was fun. There was chocolate covered everything in the lunch room. Janette is nice and I am glad she has this great love of chocolate because she shares it with us sometimes!!! She made some amazing brownies a few weeks ago. I loved them!

My Health classes are awesome these days. I really do love them and will miss them when I say goodbye to them come the middle of January. Sigh...semester classes are sad at the end. One student even sprayed me with some awesome perfume. It is called Refugee, if you want to buy me some for Christmas.

Then it was our Christmas party for work. It was pretty much awesome. Not only did I get some fantastic free food but I was also entertained. Our amazing Geography teacher sang while playing the guitar and she pretty much has the voice of an angel and is very talented. We also got to see one of our computer teachers clog with his wife. It was way cute and energetic. Santa also came. I sat on his lap and he asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I thought to myself, while saying "world peace," that I wanted a cute boyfriend. A girl can wish, right? It was fun. I also got to announce the present that everybody got, which is the book "Be the Hero" which is by the Challenge Day people. I also got to announce that Rich and Yvonne Dutra-St. John Dutra(the authors of "Be the Hero" and the creators of Challenge Day) will actually be in our school in March to facilitate this year's Challenge Day. I am so very exited for this because these two people are two of my favorite people on the planet. They are so good at what they do and show love to everybody they meet. They really are inspiring to me!!!! I am so excited.

Then tonight Shule(one of the English teachers) and I went and looked at Christmas lights...there was an amazing display in Orem. It was awesome. I am going to try to upload a video of it. I hope it works!