Bad Blogger

I apologize for being a bad blogger. Bad Alice!

The week has flown by just as time is lately. Not much to report.

Here are things that make me happy right now:
1. Christmas Lights
2. Timer for Christmas lights. I was very glad to have my lights greeting me the other night because I had not seen daylight that day(that is one of many things I hate about winter....the long nights.)
3. Playing Madden 07 while pedaling my exercise bike. It is like I am not even exercising.

I was at a conference today for school. It is a way cool program that I hope to implement in my Leadership Classes. I get to go again tomorrow. It was nice of my principal to send me there, even if on short notice. I have liked not being at class. Don't tell anybody, it is a secret.

I must go sleep. It is much too late.

Thanksgiving was good....now looking forward to Christmas!

I love this time of year. I really love Thanksgiving and I feel it is a very important holiday that sometimes gets lost because of the greatness of Christmas. Do not get me wrong, I LOVE Christmas, but I also think Thanksgiving gets a bad break, so I always wait until the day after Thanksgiving to get excited about Christmas. No Christmas decor or music until the day after Thanksgiving. I am very excited about holiday music and decor now, though. Only 20 days until I get on a plane to fly home and really that is what is going to keep me going the next three weeks. I am so excited to see my mother and family and to just chill with them. Mom, be prepared to watch some movies and play some trivia.

The holiday was good. I was able to see The Utah Jazz lose in basketball, but still I was at a pro game, right? That is all that matters. I was able to babysit a very cute baby on Wednesday. Thursday, I was able to both watch the Packers play and peel potatoes...all at the same time. I also was able to eat some wonderful food and spend time with my other family. I sure do love them. Friday, I got to see New Moon and spend even more time with the fam. Saturday, I went up and was able to attend a temple session with The Bills as Caleb received his endowments for the first time. We then went to Red Robin afterward. Yummy!

Today was a chill day as I just want to church. I actually was only out of my pajamas for those three hours today. That is my kind of day! I have been busy tonight watching football and writing my novel. Good times!

So, there you have it. You are officially updated.

Hmmmm......TURKEYS

I like that tomorrow is the last day that I have to teach this week. It is going to be very, very, very nice to have a few days off. I plan on doing some major sleeping and eating. That is what Thanksgiving is all about right? I told my students today that I would not miss them because hanging out with a turkey would pretty much be like hanging out with them, the turkeys that they are!

Life is good. Gave a good lesson on Sunday. It is actually nice to be done with it. I hate the whole being nervous in preparing. The talk was by President Monson and it is spectacular. Click on Monson(it will be in green) to read the talk. You will enjoy it. Mom....read it!

What else. Hmmm. It snowed yesterday. It was pretty coming down but then I started to think about how I don't really like snow and winter. I think I need to buy some full spectrum light bulbs this winter!

I have been eating a lot of chocolate lately. I like it. I had some nice pizza tonight from Papa John's. YUMMY. I am going to have In-N-Out burger for lunch tomorrow. One of the teachers at school has prep the hour before lunch and he was totally okay with going to get it for us tomorrow. That makes me excited. Funny how food really makes me happy these days!

Here are a few things that I am thankful for today:
1. Friends who are so supportive of me.
2. Good talks with co-workers after school.
3. Visiting Teachers who come and visit me and who are hilarious.
4. Pizza and Fresca
5. Music
6. Sleep. (I better go get some!)

I remembered

A student reminded me of the second funny that happened in Health yesterday. While I was talking to the students, one said: "hey, did you know if you tilt your head to the side it makes the room bigger?" That as funny all by itself but to see the whole class then proceed to put their heads sideways was priceless!

Funniness at School

There were two funny things that happened today at school but I can only remember this one. We are talking about violence and I had them do a little activity with the statistics of rape, assault and murder. While talking about the rape statistics, I lectured the boys a little bit about how a girl's no really means no. I told them that even if you have kissed them before and they say no to kissing now, that meant no. I also told them that applies to sex as well. Then I also said that women can even be raped by their husbands, if their husband forces himself on his wife and she is not consenting. Unfortunately, I used too much of their own slang and said this: "Even if you have put a ring on her finger, it doesn't mean you get to tap that whenever you want." A little too Beyonce? Yes! One girl in class had just taken a sip of juice when I said this and she started to choke to death. I couldn't help but laughing. It was hilarious. Maybe you had to be there.

Not much else from today. I did play some "Goodminton" with two of my co-workers after work. They only beat me one game and I was playing alone and they were playing doubles. I am a fantastic badminton player.

One of my students had to have me as a partner in badminton yesterday and before we started playing he looked at me and said: "But are you good, Alice?" I responded by saying: "I guess you will see when we play." We were a pretty good team and only one other team beat us. After class my teammate came up to me and humbly said: "You really ARE good, Alice!" It was a nice compliment.

Got to go to the temple tonight. I love how it is such a peaceful place and that I can get out of the chaos of the world for an hour or so when I go to do a session. Great stuff!

Well, I am very glad it is Friday tomorrow. I am excited to sleep in on Saturday.

Cheers!