Go Packers

The Packers won their first playoff game today.  I was a little scared in the first quarter when they were down by 14 points, but they came back and were victorious.  Love it.  

I went into work today and cleaned off my desk.  It is made out of wood.  I am always so excited and surpised to see it.  It will be nice to be organized for the start of the second semester.  I am both excited and nervous to get some new students in some of my classes.  It is always weird to train a new batch.

Other than those two things I have not done a whole lot today.  It has been a nice and relaxed day.  I love my saturdays.

I just finished typing my New Years letter.  Maybe in the next week I will actually get my cards sent.  I like the way they turned out this year.  I bet your all are excited to get one in the mail.  If I miss you, please don't be offended.  Just email me and remind me that you need one.  There is only so much I can do, okay people?

Well, I hope you are enjoying your weekend. 

Cheers,

A

Fonduetastic!

Happy almost Friday.  I really like the end of the week.  I wish that all days could be Friday. Actually, I don't really because then we would not ever have weekends.  So, I take that back.  I like Fridays but we shouldn't have them everyday.  I do, on the other hand, think that we should have two day work weeks with a five day weekend.  I think there would be much less depression and the world would know more peace!  I think that is reason enough to change things, don't you?

Well, for Enrichment(a church event were the women of the ward get together and bond and grow!) tonight we had a fondue party.  Can I just say that I love cheese?  Melted cheese, fried cheese, sliced cheese, shredded cheese.  Really anyway that cheese could be prepared, I like.  We had some fantastic melted cheese. Well, it was kinda melted.  We used crock pots and really they do not keep the cheese hot enough to spread well.  But we made due.  We also had chocolate fondue, which actually would be considered candy by a lot of people, but I decided that it was melted and it was okay.  (I am not eating candy during the week; it is part of the new years resolutions.)

So, the fondue party was fun and that is the reason for the picture of a crock pot with chocolate in it.  There is one more reason for the picture.  One of my friends wanted to have some more delicious chocolate while we were cleaning up and you can see her finger strike in the chocolate.  Unfortunately for her finger, it was really hot and she burned the finger.  That explains the clump of chocolate on the right side(ouch, that is hot!).  The funny thing about this is that I actually had the same temptation to put my finger in that pot but thought it might be too warm and I checked out the temperature above the chocolate, and decided to not have anymore.  I really should have passed on that info to my poor defenseless friend.

Today was good.  We talked about abstinence in my Health Class.  I think it went well.  I did get picked on because I am a 30 Year Old Virgin and they think the movie 40 Year Old Virgin is hilarious.  I am totally okay with sharing that info with my students because I honestly feel they need to know that it is possible to live life without having sex prior to being married.  I also think they need to know why people actually choose to not have sex until they are married.  I am totally okay with that awkwardness! :)

Other than that, it was pretty much a typical Thursday.  I was tired, but I felt more sorry for another one of my friends because she only had two hours of sleep.  We were at her house until 12 playing the Wii and after we left she stayed up to plan a lesson for school and didn't go to be until 2.  Then her daughter was up at 4, so I can only imagine how tired she was today.  Can I just say I love the Wii?  I do.  It is so very fun.  Even when I get beat at baseball on the Wii it is fun and that is saying something.  I really am thinking that one day I will invest in one.  Too bad they are so hard to get.  Sigh!  

Well, enjoy your Friday.  Yea for the weekend!  

Those other two pics are of me and my new glasses.  The eyes behind the glasses are tired, so off to bed they go!  I guess I will bring the rest of me too! 

More awkwardness.

Well, at least I am not the only awkward person on the planet.  Today I started my unit on Human Reproduction in Health class and my 8th hour was pretty awkward.  They are usually my most loud and obnoxious class.  As soon as we started going over the anatomy of the reproductive systems, they were dead silent.  A few minutes into the discussion, my attention was drawn to a comment from the back of the room.  One of my students had just said: "That is too personal,"  and had a very worried look on his face.  I asked what was going on back there and the girl who was talking with him said:  "I was just telling him about menstrual cycles."  Too funny.  This student thought that talking about menstrual cycles was just too personal.  Like he was talking about something embarrassing for himself.  Funny.  He was perfectly okay with talking about the male reproductive system, but menstruation that was just too personal.  So very funny!

Other than that, not too much of importance or excitement happened today.  Did some laundry(have I mentioned that I hate doing that?), did some grocery shopping(which I have put off for about two weeks now!), and talked with some friends.

That is all I have.  No tips, no suggestions, just a funny moment from my day.  Be sure you have a great day today! :)

Awkwardness breeds awkwardness!

Have I mentioned that I feel awkward a lot of the time lately?  Well, I do.  The most recent awkwardness was going to Family Home Evening with my fellow single ward members tonight.  I do not know what happened but all of the sudden I was acting like an obnoxious 21 year old.  Not that I am saying that the people that I was hanging out with were obnoxious, but I started to be.  Then after I realized that I was acting like that, I just felt awkward.  I really have this whole awkward thing going well lately.  I also have a love of pink going on too.  I really think that these things go together.  I think that maybe I never had my awkward going through puberty experience because I was too busy being a tom-boy and playing sports.  All of the sudden, I am girly.  (well as girly as this girl can get!)  It is weird.  Maybe this is my awkward teen years catching up with me at 30.  That must be it!

I am not a very good teacher these days.  I am going through my hard month either early or late.  I don't remember having a real hard time in November, so maybe I am having that hard time now.  The next hard time should not be coming until February.  So maybe I am early.  Maybe I will only have one hard time this Winter.  Who knows?  All I know is that I am having a hard time being a good teacher right now because I really just don't care.  Maybe it is that whole new attitude of "whatev"

Well, short and sweet today.  

Enjoy my lucky shirt backwards thanks to the computer inverting it.  I am glad that it really isn't that way on my shirt because then I think people might stare and that would just add to all my awkwardness!

Blizzardy

Well, it snowed quite a bit this weekend.  It made me want to move to any island that would be warm all year long.  I envision myself eating lobsters that I would catch for myself and just lying on the beach all the time.  Maybe I would not want a deserted island though.  It is nice to have people to talk to and to be able to go to the store to buy things like books.  Anybody want to move to an island with me?

I didn't do a whole lot this weekend.  Friday night, I watched 24 with a friend.  Saturday, I did a whole lot of nothing with a bit of cleaning here and there.  Saturday night, I ate dinner with a different friend and also went to the movie Juno.

Today I taught the lesson in Relief Society, and it was a relief to have it over.  Tonight, I am tired and it is only 9.  I am thinking of staying warm in my bed while reading Twilight.  I know if I go to sleep right now, I will be up at 4 and that would be no fun.

Here are a few of my New Years Resolutions:

1.  Lower my blood pressure-I have already been to my doctor and am on meds now.

2.  Be more spiritual-Lots of churchy stuff for me.  I even have a chart that I put a star on for each day I read my scriptures.

3.  Be more patient and nice-I am more conscious of this even if I sometimes have no patience with my students.  I am working on it.

4.  Write and read more- I want to write three poems a month and write a chapter to my novel.  I also want to read more good books.  I think I am doing better at the reading already.

5.  Play that banjo- I bought a banjo for 90 dollars this summer but have not been good about playing it enough.  I am planning on getting a teacher in the next month.

Well, there you have it, my big five.  I have also adopted a new attitude called "Whatev."  I am trying not to freak out so much about things I shouldn't.  Sometimes I just have to remind myself to breathe and and that things will happen when they need to happen.  Being less stressed is always a good idea!

Well, I hope you have not broken your resolutions yet but I would also hope that your realize that even if you break one or all of them, that you can start again.  I think it is pretty funny that people won't make resolutions just because they think they will not keep them.  You can do anything that you want to and even if you stumble a bit, you can get back to it.  Remember that most habits take 21 days to actually become habit.  So, maybe by Jan 21 we will all be a bit closer to being real good at our new resolutions!  

Good luck, and good night! :)

p.s.  thought it would be appropriate to add some photos of New Years at the Bills for my resolution post.  There are also some deep in thought pics of me in my office.  I am thinking of how I will ever have a clean desk and be ready for second semester.