Allergies attack!

Why does the time of year with the nicest weather always bring horrible allergies! It's just sooo wrong!

Back to the grind

Well, I've had one lovely week off and now I have to return to work. I wouldn't mind so much except there's Saturday school and that just drains the hell out of me. This week should still be fun though because my sister's bday is on Thursday (She's turning 18). We're celebrating on Friday night by going to a nice restaurant...it's the one owned by Cal Poly Pomona where she's going next year. Then, on Sunday I'm seeing relatives that I haven't seen in a while...so at least there's some fun things ahead!

By the way, i went to Vegas last month...Here's some photos of the adventure.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! It's the one year anniversary of my car accident...and just a few days ago was the one year anniversary of my drastic fall down the stairs...hehe. I believe things are starting to look up ;-) At least I hope so!!!

New job, the house is coming along (though it is taking forever!!), and I just got back from a lovely Easter service at my church...also, had fun with Kim today as we celebrated my new job!!

Life is good!

Bucket List

And these are not even half the things I'd wanna do...and some of them I have no intention of ever doing..lol.

Things you have done during your lifetime:
( x ) Gone on a blind date
(x ) Skipped school
() Watched someone die
( x ) Been to Canada
(X) Been to USA
( x ) Been to France
(x ) Been to Hawaii
( ) Been to Australia
( ) Been to the Middle East
(X) Been on a plane
( ) Been on a helicopter
(X) Been lost
( ) Been to New York City
(X) Swam in the ocean
(X) Cried yourself to sleep
( x) Played cops and robbers
(X) Recently colored with crayons
() Sang Karaoke
( x) Paid for a meal with coins only
(x ) Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower
( ) Been to the top of the Empire State Building
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't.
() Made prank phone calls
( ) Been down Bourbon Street in New Orleans
(X) Seen the Golden Gate Bridge
(X) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose & elsewhere
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(X) Written a letter to Santa Claus
( ) Been kissed under the mistletoe
( )Watched the sunrise with someone
(X) Blown bubbles
( ) Seen the Grand Canyon
() Gone ice-skating
(X) Gone to the movies
( ) Been deep sea fishing
() Driven across the United States
( ) Been in a hot air balloon
( ) Been sky diving
( x) Been paragliding
( ) Gone snowmobiling
( ) Lived in more than one country
(X) Laid down outside at night and admired the stars while listening to the crickets
() Seen a falling star and made a wish
() Enjoyed the beauty of Old Faithful Geyser
( ) Seen the Statue of Liberty
(x ) Been on a cruise
( x) Traveled by long-distance train
(x ) Been horse back riding
(x ) Ridden on a San Francisco cable car
(X) Been to Disneyland/World
(x ) Been in a rainforest
(x ) Seen whales in the ocean
( ) Been to the great Pyramids in Egypt
( ) Ridden on an camel
( ) Swam with dolphins
( ) Been to the Olympics
( ) Walked on the Great Wall of China
( x ) Saw and heard a glacier calf
( ) Been water-skiing
( ) Been snow-skiing
( x ) Been to Westminster Abbey
( x ) Been to the Louvre
( x) Swam in the Mediterranean
(X) Been to a Major League Baseball game
( ) Been to a National Football League game
( ) Thrown up after riding a roller coaster or other carnival ride
( x) Buried a pet
(X) Been on TV
( ) Skinny-dipped
( ) Got a tattoo
( ) Soloed an airplane
( ) Delivered a baby
(x ) Had someone ask for your autograph
( ) Ran a marathon
( ) Gone white-water rafting
( ) Slept with a famous person
( ) Been punched in the face
( ) Experienced living in the all-day darkness of Arctic winter
() Gone scuba diving
( ) Have seen the Northern Lights
(x ) Been to Amsterdam
( ) Raced a car at a sanctioned track
( x ) Been to the Matterhorn (the one in the Alps)
() Lived in more than one state
(x ) Gone zip-lining
( ) Been snowboarding
(x) Got a dermal piercing

It's been a while...updates!

I know, it's been a long time since I updated this thing and A LOT has happened since February. I was let go from my job (well, not till June 30th). And since that time I have been hired at Chaminade Middle School for the 2009-2010 school year. I've never taught Middle school before so it will be an entirely new experience for me. My assignment will be three 7th grade English language/literature classes and 2 grammar classes for 6th grade. I've also never taught a class that was strictly grammar! That should definitely be interesting!! I hope I can make grammar fun the way my teachers there did.

That said, I was a graduate of Chaminade MS in 1998. Wow, 11 years ago already! Yikes! The now principal, Mr. Valentine, was my 6th grade literature teacher and the VP was my Social Studies teacher in the 7th grade. They are such kind, wonderful people. I know I will love working with them. I will say, I have bittersweet emotions with everything. I will be very sad to leave my kids at Reseda--I've developed some pretty good bonds with some of them, especially the current 10th and 11th graders. Plus, I graduated from RHS in 2002 so many of my colleagues were also my teachers, and we have now become good friends. I know that on Magnet dinner this year (it's on June 12th) I will be feeling very sentimental. But on the flip side, I think this must be what God wants for me because I would never have made this choice on my own and there must be a reason for it. LAUSD is so messed up, so badly organized and so poorly managed, I can't imagine working for them for the next 30 years of my life. Even if the pay and benefits are higher, I only live ONCE and 30 years of my life is a huge junk of it to be so utterly frustrated and disatisfied with my employer. Even though the people at RHS are wonderful, they have no control over the whims of the district. So I will be on my way, to new horizons. I have high hopes that it will be just the thing I'm meant to do!