Journal Entry

Journal Entry for Sunday February 24th or Monday February 25th:

2:30 am. Oscar with Christian. Gone ALL day. Fireside, Sunday School, mtgs, no dinner. Need to get up in 2 hours to do signs. Going to be hating life!!

10 Reasons Why. . . .

I love my new car:
1. It is newer than any other car I've ever owned (2005)
2. It only had 25,000 on it when I bought it.
3. It if fully loaded (automatic everything)
4. It has a 7 CD disc changer
5. It has a subwoofer (sp?)
6. It is silver (hence it's name The Silver Surfer)
7. It gets great gas mileage
8. I get free car washes on it for the rest of my life
9. It has great pick up
and
10. IT'S MINE!!!!

An apple for the teacher

4 weeks of Jr. High School students can make you go crazy!!! I long term subbed for a teacher at my mom's middle school as she had knee surgery (it seems to be a common theme with people I know). I had subbed for her before so I knew most of the kids. That still doesn't mean they respected me all the time. They did write a petition to the principal asking that I be their teacher. Very flattering!! I have the letter in my notebook I take to jobs with me. I was stupid and didn't even bother to take a picture of all my classes. OOOPS!! The funnest part (yes I am a linguistics major and funnest is grammatically correct so don't argue with me) was the 2 hour lock down we had one day. Try keeping 23 students quite and on the floor with lights out for these hours. I've never had to have more students go to the bathroom than I did during those 2 hours. I was soo glad when it was done. I did get a few kids kicked out of class for behavior problems, but overall it was a good experience. The principal asked when I was getting credentialed. I think he wanted to offer me a job. Oh well. At least I have a future reference. My students also gave me lots of fun stuff for valentine's day!! I guess they do love me. Credentialing here I come!!!

Candyland Craze

February brings valentine's day, my brother's b-day, my brother in law's b-day, president's day, Licoln's b-day, and CANDYLAND CRAZE time. I am my activities co-chair in my YSA ward and we decided to have a candyland dance for our activity this month. We had the dance with an awesome dj (that we miraculously got the night before), cute bright colored decorations, nacho bar, and candy games. We only had a total of like 60 people show up, but those who came had a blast. We did have a few that actually dressed up. We had a grandma nut, queen frostie, Mr. and Mrs. Mint, and gloppy's children. I of course danced like a wild woman and had a blast!! Chalk one up for the activities committee!!

Happy SAD Day!

No boy does not mean no fun!! My brother came up with a great acronym. SAD! Or Single's Awareness Day!! I love my family! I spent the day with them and wore the new pink shirt I bought (it's always a good thing when you have a reason to go clothes shopping) and did our usual watching of Sleepless in Seattle (if only life could be like a movie for real!!). My favorite part was my valentine bag. I cut out letters and pasted them on spelling out the letter from Alfalfa to Darla in Little Rascals. Do think I was synical this year?!

Let it snow, let it snow. let it snow!!

Taking a trip to Utah in the middle of January means SNOW!!! If you know me and my family WE LOVE SNOW!!! We grew up in MD and had snow every year (including one year of a 4 foot blizzard), so moving to CA where there is no snow and only rain kind of dampened our spirits. So you better bet your booty I was outside playing in the 2 feet of snow that they had in UT!!! It was a a dream come true and definitely a winter wonderland! The 4th picture is a snow angel (hahaha)!!