New Vinyl Sign

I just hung this sign over my front door. I love that quote because it reminds me of all the lessons I have learned from Challenge Day and Next Step. (learn more at challengeday.org) Each day I will be reminded that I am in control of my story! :) This is one of the two new signs I bought at the scrapbook expo. They were cheap!

The Packers came back from behind and beat the Bears tonight. It was pretty loud with my screaming in my living room. I was very happy.

Not much else. Had a good weekend. They do go much too fast, though. SIGH!

Hockey and things.

Okay. Who's idea was it to totally not blog for the whole week. Where did the time go? I think sometimes my life is still in a time warp post-surgery.

The week was mostly filled with work. The kids have been so good this term. It is making me worry that they are setting me up for something. I hope my classes remain small, although I know that the district will see we are not up to the numbers they want and send the troops on over to us.

Wednesday I had my post-op checkup and it seems that everything is healing nice. I can even start exercising again. Of course it is Sunday now and I still haven't started but it is a thought right?

I didn't sleep much this week. I kept waking up every two hours for unknown reasons. Then on Thursday I stayed up way too late watching a movie and playing Guitar Hero with one of our new hourly teachers. I am not even going to complain about the loss of sleep because in general, I have a great time with her. She is hilarious and totally can pick on me. She is already fitting right in at our school too. I really like getting new friends and it is fun to just click with people.

Lately, I feel really up and positive. Except when I am not. haha. The funny thing is that I really do feel great overall. Moments like bad traffic and insensitive people doing stupid stuff get in the way of it being 100%, but I really am enjoying my life right now. My job is good, I have great friends and an awesome family. Why wouldn't I be happy?

Tonight, I dragged Megan to the BYU-USU Hockey game here in Provo. It was pretty much a blow-out by USU which makes this Aggie happy. It has been nice to have Megan here again. We get a long well and are perfectly content with just hanging out and staring at the walls. Just kidding we really don't stare but that is what Megan calls just being. We went up to Salt Lake last night and attended a Scrapbook Expo. I told myself I wasn't going to spend too much money but ended up with quite a bit of stuff. My sister would have loved that place. There were so many vendors and so much stuff to make creative scrapbook pages! I will have to post the picture of all the stuff I bought later. I seem to have lost my cord to my camera. SIGH.

Well, I probably should be sleeping but I might just take in an episode of House. Gotta get caught up before it starts in a week or so!

Hope the weekend is treating you well. Enjoy the pics of hockey and one of my favorite things on earth, The Zamboni!

Labor Day Weekend

So why do they call it Labor Day if most people really just stay home and don't labor? Curious.

I had a great time in Vegas with the Bills family. Every time I mention said family, I feel like I need to explain The Bills and why they are like my second family. Or actually, more precisely, my other family. I met the Bills back in 1994. They pretty much opened their home and their hearts to me. They have even adopted me in a way. Whenever one of the Bills kids gets married, there are family pictures. I try to get out of the picture because I feel they should have a real family pic without me, but they always refuse. It is like I am family. I find it kinda cool to have two families because wherever I am, there is family. I love both my families, so please families, don't be jealous of each other! You are all awesome!

Morgan and Derek live in Vegas and just moved to a very cosy place way north of the strip. It is a nice place and I always love visiting them. Their three boys are so dang cute. I just want to squish them! Spencer decided that Alice was too hard to say so he would sometimes call me "Alalalala." Henry kept hitting me in the butt even though I told him a million times that my butt is a little tender. I guess three year olds just don't get that! Oliver smiled and smiled at me. He makes my heart happy. I have been really happy to have my second family because I get to be an aunt to wee little kids. I haven't got that with my own family so it is nice to have it. (NOW...I totally love my other neices and nephews too. See how I feel this guilt like I should only have a heart for my biological family, even though many of them are not biological either!)

We did some hiking in Nevada and I was pleasantly surprised that there could be beauty so near the grossness of the strip.(Don't get me wrong I love my Belagio Fountains, but The Strip really isn't my favorite place!) I even had the crazy thought that I could actually handle living there It was a fun hike, even if we thought it was much shorter and less strenuous than it was. I enjoyed it highly and found a great sense of accomplishment when I reached the teeny tiny waterfall at the top. The waterfall wasn't stellar but the view of the valley below was!

We also ate some great food and visited tons. We even played a bit of trivia via my tv plug in Buzztime. Way fun.

I felt like I need a vacation from my vacation at the end of work today. I am a lazy butt and just watched some episodes of House online. I am finally catching up from when my DVR died last spring.

I must now go get my Guitar Hero on.

Enjoy the pics of the hiking and fun trip. Relish in the beauty of the fountains, too. CHEERS! Also, the music is for Joshy Washy. He and I traveled together from Provo to Vegas. We sung "Behind These Hazel Eyes" in different octaves in honor of his hazel eyes. It was hilarious!

Midweek

Hi. Life seems to be pretty much back to normal here. Except for the fact that I take a bazillion drugs everyday and take at least two baths. Other than that, my life is back to what it was pre-surgery.

Normalcy in life has brought me to the blog with not much to say. School was school. I was tired by it. I kicked my first kid out of class of the year. He decided it was okay to make PE more of an "In-N-Out" burger joint than class. He kept just leaving whenever he felt like it to talk to people who were waiting to get their pictures taken(it was picture day, obviously.) I am sure he had a fun time in the office with the vice principal. Good times. He didn't seem too mad at me when he came to my 4th hour. Yep, I am lucky enough to have the lovely twice a day.

Speaking of In-N-Out, it is going to be a very bad thing when they open that place in Orem. I love In-N-Out Burger. I may just gain one hundred pounds. Yum! I think I am going to eat there this weekend. Viva Las Vegas, baby!

Well, that is all I have. I hope you were able to find some non-monotony in your day! Cheers!

Another First Day of School.

I went back to work today. It was nice to have so many people excited to see me. Lots of students were happy to see me and many of my co-workers were also happy to see me. It was nice. It did make me pretty darn tired though.

I made myself wash some dishes before I let myself play Guitar Hero tonight. I think it will be a good motivator, if I keep making myself do stuff before I can play. It is really sad that I am addicted to a video game and I am 32 years young.

I don't have much else to say. So there you have a very short post!