Good Song

Here's a new song that I enjoy:

"Who Says You Can't Go Home"  by Bon Jovi

I spent 20 years trying to get out of this place
I was looking for something I couldn't replace
I was running away from the only thing I've ever known
Like a blind dog without a bone
I was a gypsy lost in the twilight zone
I hijacked a rainbow and crashed into a pot of gold
I been there, done that, I ain't lookin' back on the seeds I've sown,
Saving dimes, spending too much time on the telephone
Who says you can't go home

Who says you can't go home
There's only one place they call me one of their own
Just a hometown boy, born a rolling stone, who says you can't go home
Who says you can't go back, been all around the world and as a matter of fact
There's only one place left I want to go, who says you can't go home
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, its alright

I went as far as I could, I tried to find a new face
There isn't one of these lines that I would erase
I lived a million miles of memories on that road
With every step I take I know that I'm not alone
You take the home from the boy, but not the boy from his home
These are my streets, the only life I've ever known,
who says you can't go home

Who says you can't go home
There's only one place they call me one of their own
Just a hometown boy, born a rolling stone, who says you can't go home
Who says you can't go back, been all around the world and as a matter of fact
There's only one place left I want to go, who says you can't go home
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, its alright

I been there, done that, I ain't looking that
It's been a long long road
Feels like I never left, that's how the story goes

It doesn't matter where you are, it doesn't matter where you go
If it's a million miles aways or just a mile up the road
Take it in, take it with you when you go,
who says you can't go home

Who says you can't go home
There's only one place they call me one of their own
Just a hometown boy, born a rolling stone, who says you can't go home
Who says you can't go back, been all around the world and as a matter of fact
There's only one place left I want to go, who says you can't go home
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, its alright

It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, its alright
Who says you can't go home 

Who says you can't go home
There's only one place they call me one of their own
Just a hometown boy, born a rolling stone, who says you can't go home
Who says you can't go back, been all around the world and as a matter of fact
There's only one place left I want to go, who says you can't go home
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, its alright

Who says you can't go home
There's only one place they call me one of their own
Just a hometown boy, born a rolling stone, who says you can't go home
Who says you can't go back, been all around the world and as a matter of fact
There's only one place left I want to go, who says you can't go home
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, it's alright, its alright

Not a real update

You Are Austin

A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll. You're totally weird and very proud of it. Artistic and freaky, you still seem to fit in... in your own strange way. Famous Austin residents: Lance Armstrong, Sandra Bullock, Andy Roddick

What American City Are You?

RAIN!

It's really sad how excited I am when it gets cloudy and then rains...  This morning as I drove to school, the sun was shining (and I was talking to Dan about the random cat that was standing at my patio door...yep, a cat was staring at me from my patio, which has a wall blocking it from about waist down).  I went out at lunch to get my kids from recess, and it was getting cloudy.  When I went to take the kids to music, I noticed that it was totally cloudy out as we walked by the courtyard.  It was totally cloudy for the rest of the afternoon, and I was really excited.  :)   As I was eating dinner (with my Wisconsin wine :)), I heard a weird noise outside.  It sounded like something clanging on the aluminum roof of the carport that's right outside of my apartment.  IT WAS RAINING!  I ate the last bite of my dinner, grabbed my keys, and was on my way out.  I knew Dan would be home and enjoy hearing me spaz, so I had to call him.  He drove around with me.  As we were talking, The Carpenters "Top of the World" came on.  As the refrain started (...on top of the world, looking down on creation...), I was literally looking down at the Vegas Valley...it was awesome.  The rain slowed, and I came home to watch How I Met Your Mother (best show on TV).  I sat down to watch it, lit the candles, and finished my wine....good times had by all. 

Here's another thing I have to blog about, just because I said I would.  I was talking to Adam tonight too, and we were talking about a story he wants to share at my wedding...well in his words, "If you ever get married..."  PUNK ASS!  We talked about some other random things too.  Going to Elkhorn when I'm home and such...good times....

Anyhoo...I'm getting tired, and want to maybe get some extra sleep tonight... 

Bad Influence

I just wanted to start out by saying that Patty is a bad influence on me...and we're 2000 miles apart! She called me this afternoon (thanks for waiting until after noon!!) after I had emailed her to check something out so I could pick her brain about things. The conversation led to what we were doing for the night, and how she had to think of some sort of alcohol to take over to a friend's apartment. I made a comment about how I should get some more liquor for the apartment. She then told me that I needed to. We then were discussing movies, and how she almost bought Love Actually. Yep, ended up getting alcohol and watching Love Actually for my chick flick night. Man, you'd think that being 2000 miles away I wouldn't have bad influences from home!

I've always loved this movie. I can remember counting down the days until the movie came out. I don't remember who I all went with, but it was a good time. I was at Wal-Mart the day it came out on DVD to buy it. I got there late at night, and I was dead tired when I came home, but I had to put it in to watch Hugh Grant dance. That has to be one of the best scenes in the movie, but the movie in general is great. You have to love it when a 10 year old can peg romance, "But you know the thing about romance is people only get together right at the very end." Then there's also this gem between him and his father:

Daniel: So what's the problem, Sammy-o? Is it just Mum or is it something else? Maybe... school - are you being bullied? Or is it something worse? Can you give me any clues at all?
Sam: You really want to know?
Daniel: I really want to know.
Sam: Even though you won't be able to do anything to help?
Daniel: Even if that's the case, yeah.
Sam: OK. The truth is actually... I'm in love.
Daniel: Sorry?
Sam: I know I should be thinking about Mum all the time, and I am. But the truth is I'm in love and I was before she died, and there's nothing I can do about it.
Daniel: Aren't you a bit young to be in love?
Sam: No.
Daniel: Oh, OK, right. Well, I'm a little relieved.
Sam: Why?
Daniel: Well, you know - I thought it might be something worse.
Sam: [incredulous] Worse than the total agony of being in love?
Daniel: Oh. No, you're right. Yeah, total agony.

It's fun being schooled by a youngin'! There's also this part that I love too (for many reasons)

Harry: Tell me, exactly, how long it is that you've been working here? Sarah: Two years, seven months, three days and, I suppose, what, two hours?
Harry: And how long have you been in love with Karl, our enigmatic chief designer?
Sarah: Ahm, two years, seven months, three days and, I suppose, an hour and thirty minutes.
Harry: I thought as much.
Sarah: Do you think everybody knows?
Harry: Yes.
Sarah: Do you think Karl knows?
Harry: Yes.
Sarah: Oh that is bad news.
Harry: Well I just thought maybe the time had come to do something about it.

Today I scrubbed down the apartment. If you'd ever seen my room at school, you'd know I don't keep things clean...at all. I cleaned up everywhere in the apartment. I cleaned my room, and hung a poster of rural Dane County and the map of Green Bay I found in my glove compartment. Last week I scrubbed the bathroom, and it hadn't gotten too dirty this week. I totally scrubbed the kitchen down. I was doing laundry while I was doing dishes and cleaning up the counters. It looks nice in there. I then cleaned the living room to make sure I had enough room to build the computer desk.

I managed to get the desk out of my car with no help. I called a couple of people to help, but no answers. Oh well, now that I have a kitchen table, I can have them over for dinner. It was a beast putting it together. Well, not really, but it took a damn long time. There were more parts to it than I can remember seeing in the store! I now have a desk, and it's filled up my living room. I figure that I'd put the desk next to the TV so that when I get my digital hook-up this week, I have it all in one area. Putting it in here, made me really look at the size of the living room. My living room is bigger than any of the res hall rooms I had at SNC. I have my computer and TV right across from my futon like in school, and I could see the lay out of all of my rooms...dang, dang...

I started my lessons early last night so I would have the night to relax. It didn't take me as long as I thought it would. When I got done, I started thinking about what to make for dinner. While I was thinking, Dan, Jill, and Jason all called from the Safehouse. It was nice hearing from them, but it made me really homesick. It doesn't help that the day before I moved out here I dropped my Safehouse glass that I got senior year in the storage locker parking lot. It shattered, and I was really upset. The cup was from a time to Milwaukee when we all had a great time. Anyhoos...after I hung up with them I decided I needed to talk to someone from home. I opened my phone and somehow it started dialing Adam's number. We talked for awhile, and it was good times.

School has been getting better. I started some new behavior management things, and they seem to be working. Now all I have to do is make a new seating chart to start on Monday. There's one group that is consistently talking (they sit in groups of 4). I've tried everything, but nothing seems to work. I guess splitting them up will be a start. My cryer still cries sometimes. The other day he cried for the whole first half of the day. That was not cool. I was ready to go insane. Let me tell you how fun it is to try and give a spelling test while someone's sitting at their desk whining. Not going to lie, sounded like a dog whining. I have to think of something that will help him when he starts crying, to help the both of us...

Well, it's getting kind of late here, so I will be off...Night world!

Short one

This is going to be a short one. I only have about 10 minutes before Project Runway begins, but seeing as how I've been living on Memory Lane lately, here's another one:

I called Adam tonight, and we were talking about a song he was going to write for me about 3 years ago. He has his brother helping him now, and we were thinking about the sound we wanted it to have. We decided to go with a honky tonk kind of sound to it since it will be played for the most part on the banjo. This is where the memory comes in: Imagine two young ladies sitting at a kitchen table taking inventory of a HUGE coin collection. They had had their fair share of margaritas the night before, so they were still riding high from that the following afternoon. They began talking about what name they would have if they started a band, and assigning people instruments. Yes ladies and gentlemen, this is the beginning of the Counting Coins. It was created at a kitchen table in Antigo, Wisconsin. Jill and I had a great time creating that band. It was a good day. :) We decided that we'd play at everyone's wedding receptions ever since. (very random memory, and then randomly put together)

And...I've come to the conclusion that Dan needs to come out and visit DAMN soon. I usually make him buy things he doesn't need, and now I'm out shopping all the time. Not cool. Last night I was getting restless, so I decided to go out to Barnes and Noble. As I was driving there, I decided that I had been there the day before and would go to Bed Bath and Beyond to see what they all had on clearance. I pulled into the parking lot and realized there was an Office Depot in the same strip mall. Well, I'll go in and do some price checks of desks since I'm in need of one. Within 15 minutes I was in line with my claim check, and paying for a new desk. Now I just need to figure out how to get it out of my car....guess I'll be calling some people and making friends. :)

Well, Project Runway's on...must leave!

Really Relaxed...:)

I did something this weekend that I haven't done in forever.  I painted and crafted in general.  I'm so relaxed right now, and if I didn't have the day off tomorrow, I would be ready for it.  I wouldn't be dreading going to school.  It's not that I dread going to school.  I go to school everyday thinking that it's going to be a great day, that the kids are going to be wonderful, and I won't have to raise my voice or repeat myself.  

Friday was an okay day.  I got to school really worried about my post-observation meeting with my assistant principal, so I sat down and thought of all of the things that she would've seen that need to be fixed.  I created new ways to fix them, and went in with a list of things to go over with her.  I got to her office (stomach in knots, mouth feeling like I had woken up with a ginormous hangover) with my list, and started the meeting with it.  It turns out that the things I had on my list were the things she was going to bring up, but most of the things were good things.  She pointed out some things that I may not see since I'm in there everyday and deal with it, and she's someone who's coming in and doesn't observe my class everyday.  It turned out to be a great meeting, and I came out of it in a very good mood.  30 minutes later, I had to go pick up my kids from Art.  My good mood quickly faded.  They were whiny and complaining, and can't solve their own problems.  I know that they're only 2nd graders, but still, my kindergartners could solve more than these kids can.  I decided at lunch that I needed something comforting for dinner, and decided to go with tacos.  I left school later than usual on a Friday night, but that meant I got to talk to Dan while I grocery shopped and drove home.  He was heading out to Copp's, so we were both shopping together.  We decided that one of us needs to move closer to the other, or we needed to find a happy medium and both move there.  I just told Dan to hop a flight to Vegas for the weekend.  That solves everything.  :)  I got home, crashed for awhile, and decided to make dinner while I was on the phone with my sisters (Sue figured out how to do 3 way calling on her phone, and so we were all talking and Sue found out we could call mom and talk to her too).  I got done cooking and talking, ate dinner, and then sat down really enthused about working on my lessons.  I don't know why I was enthused, but I was.  It slowly wore off, and I was calling everyone.  Peanut Butter Jelly came on my winamp, so I had to call Erika knowing that she would enjoy it.  Then Sue called.  I finished with my hand written lessons, and was beginning when my phone rang (it was 10:30 my time, and 12:30 back home, so I knew it had to be Sue calling back for some reason.).  It turned out that Adam had stayed up late and decided to call.  And then he called me a loser for doing lessons on a Friday night.  I told him I do that every Friday since then I don't have to worry about them the rest of the week.  It was a good convo, ended it with a smile.  

Saturday rolled around, and I decided I needed to get my laundry done and finish my lessons.  It was really windy yesterday.  I think the people above me moved out (not the inconsiderate college kids), and left their doors open on their balcony, because a door kept hitting the building and banging everytime there was a large gust of wind (every 30 seconds).  Anyhoo...finished my lessons and laundry and decided to go run my errands.  I had to get some stuff for school, and then some crafty stuff since I finally figured out what to do about not having large collage frames that I'd like.  I was looking at a photo album from senior year when I saw how I had dealt with the same thing.  I used twine and clothespins.  This time I wanted to get clothespins, but paint them so they didn't look sketch.  I found clothespins and cute clothesline at the Dollar Tree, along with some of the other things I was looking for.  As I was shopping, it began to "rain"!  I put it in quotation marks because it was just barely raining.  It was more like drizzle, but I'll still take it since I miss the rain like crazy!  I finished my errands, grabbed something for dinner (was way to lazy to cook last night), and headed back to the apartment.  I sat down and ate, and then was trying to decide what I was going to do next.  I really wanted to craft, but I knew it was Chick Flick Night.  I decided to take a break from Chick Flick Night, and made it into Craft Night.  I watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (a classic, and it has my favoritest song from a movie, "Pure Imagination"), and then put in Anchorman to finish Craft Night, and to drink along with.  I ended up painting 61 clothespins, twice.  I painted the base color (15 different colors), and then added "flair" to each one with different colors.  I was content, came online, talked to Erika to make sure she was alright and would feel better in order to go to sleep (it's fun worrying about someone you love 2000 miles away...), and then went to bed myself. 

I woke up this morning, much later than I wanted, and realized it was still cloudy out.  I peaked out and noticed that it had rained while I was sleeping, and then opened up my blinds covering my patio door.  It was still raining!  And it wasn't just drizzle, it was full blown rain!  I don't think I've gotten dressed as quick as I did today, in years!  I was out the door to go out in the rain.  I ran my errands before the rush (which I think I'll have to do from now on), and got to see it rain!  I noticed that the mountains closest to my apartment were covered with snow.  They've never had snow on them!  Before I took off on my errands, I looked at the Weather Channel to see what the temp was.  They were actually talking about the weather here, and how there was a possibility of snow!  I was ecstatic!!  I could see the clouds and rain coming down the mountainside to where I was.  It was really cool.  It was like when my family and I would be up in Door County and see the rain coming in off the bay...it was just really cool.  I came home, made some monkey bread, and then continued with my crafting.  I was done with the clothespins, but now was the task of putting up all of my hooks to hang the clothesline from.  I hung up my Spongebob lights (it took me forever Erika, I'm sorry.  I just couldn't figure out the best place for them!), and then began cutting the clothesline and such.  It took all afternoon, but it makes the apartment feel less sterile.  I know it has to look kinda sketch, but it's better than nothing.  I have all of the pictures I want to see everyday up in all of the rooms in my apartment, minus the bathroom.  I put up a map of Wisconsin on my wall in my room.  I put up maps of downtown Madison and Green Bay, and Door County.  I put pictures around my closet in my room (which I'll be able to look at every day when I wake up, and every night as I fall asleep).  It just feels like a home now.  No place I live is complete without all of my pictures hanging, ask anyone who was ever in my dorm room!  I took pictures and put them in my photo album on yahoo.  Finished everything for school (new behavior charts and such, and hall passes that I got to paint).  Watched my Sunday night shows (damn you Olympics for taking off West Wing!), and then came online to see who was on.  No one's really on right now.  I did get to talk to Hooch though.  No night is complete without talking to Hooch now.  Now my apartment looks like crap, so I must clean it tomorrow.  Great way to spend my last day off until the middle of April.  I'm really hungry right now (even though I ate most of the spaghetti I made, and then a peach afterward...), so maybe I'll have a piece of cake before I go lay down in bed and do my nightly word puzzles.  Yes, I have a word puzzle book laying on the floor next to my bed.  I've become a geek.  I need to do me a crossword or something to that effect before I go to bed at night...what can I say, it keeps my mind sharp!  

Anyhoos, here's a great President's Day off!!

Long Day

Alright...will update more tomorrow...but I thought I would post this since it was mindless fun, and that's what I need since I've been working on lessons since 8:30.


I am a cuddler-True

I am a morning person. false

I am an only child. - False

I am Catholic. - True (at least raised Catholic, not really practicing)

I am currently in my pajamas. False

I am currently pregnant. – UM FALSE...cripes, me "with child" should never be thought of...at least not now...

I am currently single. true

I am currently suffering froma broken heart. - false

I am okay at styling other people's hair- False

I am left handed. false

I am married - False

I am addicted to my myspace.- False

I am very shy around the opposite gender at first - true... but i'm shy around all genders at first

I can be paranoid at times. - true

I currently have a crush on someone. - :)

I currently regret something that I have done. false

When I get mad I curse frequently.- Damn straight that's true!

I don't like anyone. - false

I enjoy country music. - true

I enjoy jazz music. - True

I enjoy smoothies. true

I enjoy talking on the phone – True, I need to charge my phone every night

I have a car - True

I have a cell phone - True

I have / had a hard time paying attention at school – depended on the class

I have a hidden talent - False

I have a lot to learn - true

I have a pet - True, back home...not here in Vegas

I have a secret that I'm embarrassed to reveal - probably true

I have all my grandparents – false

I have at least one brother- true

I have been to another country - Well, Canada...is that another country, or just a huge state?

I have been told that I am smart - true

I have been told that I have an unusual sense of humor - true

I have OR HAD broken a bone - true...arm, toes, pinky finger

I have Caller I.D. on my phone - True.

I have bathed someone - false

I have changed a diaper- true

I have changed a lot over the past year - true

I have done something illegal – True.

I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color - false

I have had major/minor surgery - false

I have killed another person - False.

I have had my hair cut within the past month - False

I have had the cops called on me - false

I have kissed someone I knew I shouldn't - false

I have mood swings –True

I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life – True.

I have rejected someone before - true

I love to cook - True, but mostly on weekends, after school I just want to wave my magic wand and have dinner ready.

I love Michael Jackson - love, not so much, maybe like, some of his songs

I love sleeping - True.

I love to shop - True

I miss someone right now - true, a bunch of people actually...

I own and use a library card - at one point in my life I've owned one...

I strongly dislike math – I just dislike it...

I will try almost anything once – false... some things i will NEVER try

I am currently wearing socks. - true

Randomness and Homesick

Random memories (most likely cuz I'm away from home, and want to be with friends...):

• So, I sat down to write out some lessons for next week...didn't really do it since I'm exhausted. But "Follow Me" by Uncle Kraker came on, and memories came flooding back to me. It came out my freshman year. I was obsessed with this song. I can remember cranking it up while driving with Allan and Bliss in the Explorer, rolling the windows down on campus and belting it out. Good times. I also remember Niki almost killing me for being so obsessed with this song. There was one time we were in the cafe, and I made people shut up so I could hear it. Almost died.
  



• Me leaving my door unlocked all the time...until Dan showed me the way of locking the door (I now come into my apt and immediately turn around and lock it behind me, no matter how full my arms are). I didn't start leaving my door unlocked until I became an RA. Niki and I kept our door locked at all times freshman year. There's one time that I can see clearly every time I think about how I left my door unlocked. It was my 20th birthday. Mom and dad had come up for lunch, and took Niki and I out. Niki and I came back to my room, listened to some music, and cleaned up since Allan, Ben and Jayna were coming up for the big event. Niki had to leave to take a shower or something, and I decided to go and take one myself. As I was coming out of the bathroom, I noticed someone entering my room. I didn't have my glasses on, and my hair looked like I had just put my finger in an electrical socket. I squinted at the figure...yep, it was Adam. He had gotten done with his shift at Phil's and decided to come over to my room before going back to his. "Um, you just walked into my room" "Yeah, you didn't answer, and I knew it was unlocked. So, I was going to go in and make myself comfy." Nice...Needless to say I grabbed my clothes and got dressed in the bathroom. There are other times I can remember walking into my room with people either in it, or people telling me they were in it while I was gone. Sophomore year I walked into my room after a long day with the first graders I was working with (little angels compared to my current class), and there was Anne, working on a paper on my computer. Yeah, I had told her that she could work in there, but I was caught off guard. Then my senior year (when I was religiously locking my door), I walked out of my room to walk across the hall to the bathroom. I came out within 5 minutes, and there were Anne and Dan laying on my futon and bed. What the hell? Then there was one night I came home from Comedy City, and a resident came up to me telling me she really wanted a Mountain Dew but didn't want to go all the way to the lounge for one, so she left 50 cents for me on my dresser. Great, going in and taking my last Dew. Ok, this one isn't someone walking into my room bc my room was unlocked, but, I can still remember when Harr came to my room with her "special" Coke late one night. Adam and I were hanging out, watching infomercials and coloring (this is where the famous Elmo pic comes from) when Harr came up to my room to play my guitar (after quiet hours) and chill. We all had a fun time. I think she came up to vent about either Brian or Zak, and ended up playing "Leaving on a Jet Plane", which is why I think of her when I hear the song now. It was great that she was drinking in my room...but, she was never trained to be a Hall Director :)

Alright, enough of my ruminations...I'm just homesick and want to see people from home...badly. I'm going insane, I need some friendly faces from home. The end of April can't come soon enough...

I'M NOT THAT OLD!

Ok, so I was just talking to Erika, and I realized I forgot to post some things...that, and I'm addicted to Snood. I almost deleted it from my desktop, but realized I had the paid version. Hell if I was going to be stupid to get rid of that!

The only candy I got for Valentine's Day was from my kids. Two of the boys brought in a box of chocolate for me. Sweet, but I now have a lifetime supply of chocolate.

One of the kids had an extra Valentine bag of candy, and offered it to me. "Maybe your kid at home would like it." Dude, I'm not that old!

Lately, they've been real interested in my social life. Yesterday I was being asked about if I was married, and had kids. One of them asked me how much my ring cost, my Icing ring that I paid 5 bucks for. Yes, it's worth the 5 bucks since the "silver" is starting to fade off of it. Then she asked me how much a diamond ring was. Does she know something I don't? Is someone going to be asking for my hand in marriage?

I was asked again today if I was married. I'm not kids! LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!!! Unless, you have a nice, single, uncle who lives in the area. I'm surprised the kids haven't asked me if one of the guys in the picture (Homecoming this year, all around the Abbot) are my husband (either Dan or Adam). Whatever...I'm not that old kids, I'm not that old. I'm barely 24, but not as close to 25 as one of my dear friends is (love ya Dan!).

My Future Looks Bright

Alrighty, I had a nice update last night, and then my computer decided to freeze on me. Whatever...I received and email from Dan the other day with a new prediction for my "love" life. Seeing as how nothing has really come of his last prediction (2 years ago now...), let's see how this one will pan out.

As I told you, I was constructing your future. Your future looks bright. Even though you decided to forego your chance to meet that engineer so you could spend time with such an amazingly hott, intelligent, fun-to-be-around, super cool, and all-around awesome guy, you will be given a second chance at finding a
man.
Now, this is what you must do in order to find this man. First, you will need to have a Sex on the Beach. Why is this drink such an important part of this plan? Well, you're going to need some courage before the events which are about to unfold. I would suggest you go heavy on the Sex and lighter on the Beach. ;-)
Second, you need to wear a nice going out outfit. Have something that displays your assets and doesn't shout, "I'm a teacher." We don't want you to look like a teacher, at least not right away. This will be your secret weapon - almost like the caveman's club utilized to strike his mate on the head so he could drag her off to his cave to make sweat prehistoric lovin'.
On a Saturday night in March between the hours of 9 PM and 11 PM, you will need to go down to a lounge, bar, etc. and order a nice glass of wine. I would suggest you get a pinot grigio. (sans fresca, but that goes without saying) As you sip your wine, I will need you to scan the room. You will see a handsome man wearing a green polo or blue buttonup shirt. This man will have friends by his side, enjoying a pleasant evening in Las Vegas. He will eventually make his way to the bar, and, at this point, he is going to accidently bump into you, thereby spilling your wine. He is going to apologize profusely and offer to purchase another for you. You will say no, it isn't necessary, but that you would rather
have his number.
Score! You will have a number and call him the following
Tuesday. You will set up a dinner for that Thursday. At this Thursday Date, you will hit it off like none other. You'll make more plans for the weekend. From there on out, the two of you will be happily coupled.
Then, in the fall/winter when you return to Madison, he will come with you to meet the rents. While you are racing your mother down the street in your respective scooters, he will ask your father for permission to ask you to marry him. Then, when you are hanging out with your amazing and cool friend Daniel, he will ask Daniel what he thinks about asking for your hand. Daniel will be all about this guy marrying you, so he will say yes.
On the night before you leave for home, You will take a walk through downtown Madison. You will point out to him the site you would like to be propsed, at which point he will drop to one knee and whip out a diamond ring. He will first apologize for not having the right date and time, but asks you to look past that fault. You'll start crying, say yes, then spaz.
You'll get married in 2007. During your honeymoon, my first godchild will be created. Oh yeah! You will move to an awesome house with a swimming pool.
Want more details? Well, this guy will be a CPA for one of the casinos in LV. Within the first couple of months you are dating he will have been promoted to the position of the Director of Internal Auditing. In 2008, he will be a VP.
You will live happily until 2052 when he chokes on a piece of filet mignon. You'll collect the life insurance policy, move to a topical island, and have ten male love slaves to fill your desires.

Well, we'll see how this pans out...

Today was alright...the kids were terrible, but they still got their party. I know that I should've just told them that we weren't going to have it, but then a mom came in with pizza for the class. But hey, I ended up with a few boxes of chocolate and a couple of trinkets from the kids. I can't complain. As I was grading stuff and cleaning up in my room, I began singing songs from Bye Bye Birdie. I haven't listened to the CD in a long time, but thought I would do so on my way home from school. I turned my car upside down trying to find the damn CD. Turns out, I brought the CD case into the apartment the other day. DAMN!

I got home, fell asleep on the futon, made dinner, and watched Gilmore Girls in candle light. No one but me on my futon, watching TV on Valentine's Day. Nothing beats that. Oh well. Next year I'll have a Valentine...who isn't a million miles from me, seeing as how this morning Dan asked me to be his Valentine. Aww...cute...

Well, I'm going to try this thing called going to bed early again. I got into bed early last night, but I wasn't able to fall asleep til 12. Damn me for sleeping so much this weekend!

Not a long one tonight...

I can't have a long one tonight.  I slept too much this weekend, and need to get into a good sleeping pattern for this week. 

Anyhoo...I watched 50 Best Chick Flicks on E! tonight, and realized that I've seen about 30-35 of the movies.  Sad thing was, during commericals, I was flipping between two of the movies on the list.  Some of my favorite quotes were shown too...

• "After all... I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her"


• "I like you...just the way you are."

And then there's always the boombox over John Cusack's head...good times...

Alright, I need to try to sleep, so I think I'm going to hit the sack...

Maybe I wouldn't have to watch so many chick flicks if SOMEONE would decide when he was coming out to see me... You know who you are! Punk!

Can't sleep...clowns will get me...

Ah...classic Simpsons. Can't sleep, went to Tickle.com to take the Wedding Date predictor test. Guess I'm not going to get married til Saturday, September 13, 2008.

Last time I took it, I was supposed to be married this summer/fall.

DAMN YOU TICKLE!

A Good One

I was listening to a CD Marx made me for my road trip last night when this song came on.  I've heard it since (someone sang it for an AI audition, and was amazing), and it's become one of my faves.

"Bless The Broken Road"

I set out on a narrow way many years ago
Hoping I would find true love along the broken road
But I got lost a time or two
Wiped my brow and kept pushing through
I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you
Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

I think about the years I spent just passing through
I'd like to have the time I lost and give it back to you
But you just smile and take my hand
You've been there you understand
It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true

Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

Now I'm just rolling home
Into my lover's arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you.

Black Hole

I started watching "The Dive from Clausen's Pier" (which supposedly takes place in Madison) tonight on Lifetime while I was eating dinner, and there was a great quote. "Madison's like a black hole.  It'll suck you in until you're fat and old."  Does that mean I'll end up back there? 

I've officially decided that Saturday nights will from now on be, "Chick Flicks in Candlelight Night".  Tonight was my night to watch Elizabethtown.  This was the last movie I saw in the theater.  I remember seeing it with Patty and Erika.  It was right after my interview out here.  We went to see a late show since both Erika and Patty had to work, but we still had a good time.  Erika and I weren't ready to go to bed, so we went off in search of Dan.  Good stalking time!  It was good fun...Anyway to the things that popped up in my mind during the movie:

• My road trip out here when I moved.  Drew ends up taking a road trip during the movie.  He's driving from Kentucky to Oregon.  As he was driving, he saw a giant Jesus.  It reminded me of the ginormous cross (Western Hemisphere's Largest!) in Texas.  Good times.  I still remember how excited Adam and I were to see something touristy.  He also stopped at the OKC Memorial.  It was cool to think how I had been there too.  He was looking at things I had looked at.  It was just surreal that I had been there too.  I dunno, maybe it was just my mood during the movie.


• I was also thinking of a road trip that I had planned way back when in high school.  Patty and I were going to graduate and drive out to Vegas.  Yeah, we couldn't gamble or drink, but it was going to be OUR trip.  We were going to come out here to see my godparents, and see where the trip took us.  In a way, I was really sad that my road trip out here was without her.  We never took the trip, we always said there was always time for it.  Hopefully when she comes out to visit, it's on one of my breaks, and we can road trip it back to Madison.  We can finally get our road trip in. 


• And just a good quote from the movie: "To have never taken a solitary road trip across country? I mean everybody's got to take a road trip, at least once in their lives. Just you and some music."  Yeah, it wasn't alone, but it was still fun, and I'll have the memories for the rest of my life.  I'll see something that reminds me of the 3 days spent with Adam and the open road to my dreams, and I'll be sent back to that time, with a big smile on my face. 

And now for some randomness that came to me late last night, but wasn't in the mood to type:

• As I started up my WinAmp last night to get rolling on typing up my lessons for this week (which have been saved to both my disk, hard drive, and now sent via email to my school acct), "Regulators" came on.  There are two things that come to my mind when I hear that song.  The first:  The Res.  Marx and I were taking a road trip one day our junior (Marx) and sophomore (me) year.  I had told her I really hadn't been any more north than Door County (except when I was really little, and I don't remember it), and she didn't like that one bit.  She decided to take me up to Antigo, where she's from, on a Friday afternoon.  We were both free after 10:30, or something like that, so we set off on the open road.  As we were driving back to Green Bay, we were going through the Menominee Reservation.  This song came on, and we blared it and danced our hearts out in the car.  Then we were off to the Days Inn in Green Bay for our free night.  We used our Hall Director's (Harr) blender to finish off some of the margarita mix that Marx had in her room at SNC.  We made sure to stop at WalMart in Shawano to get some "classy" margarita glasses.  It was a great night.  I'll forever remember it.  The second time would be senior year, Environmental Studies.  It was Erin, Jenny and I.  We shouldn't be in a class together.  I would come into class and whisper it to Jenny right as the Powerpoint lecture began.  It would get into her head for the whole class.  There was one day where she actually wrote out the lyrics to try and get it out.  Ever since then, I've been a bitch in her eyes... :-D


• I was talking to Dan today, and he was listening to "Rainbow Connection" on the cult CD.  We were talking about the good ol' days of all of us being on the same campus, and such, and then he told me how this song makes him think about my future wedding.  He and Adam have already told me that they're going to sing this at my wedding.  I think I now know two people who may or may not get invited.  :)  My wedding...I had to kind of plan it senior year.  I had to take a class, Society, Sex and Marriage (it was an interesting class), and we had to think of 5 symbols we wanted to use in our wedding.  I remember taking this assignment to Perkins, and having everyone there help me think of things I wanted.  I can't remember what I wanted, but I remember that I wanted to remain real traditional.  Yes, I can be a girl sometimes, and this is one day that you'll ever see me really girly.  I can remember thinking back then about the kind of guy I wanted to marry.  In high school I started a list of qualities that I wanted in a guy.  Sense of humor, good with kids, spontaneous, and he had to sing.  Eventually the singing turned to anything musical, to anything artistic.  Over the years, I added stupid things, able to play baseball on account of most baseball players were good looking.  Then there were the practical things.  No guys from Illinois (obvious reasons people...I mean think about it.  Illinois.  No.  I mean, people have told me that I'm going to have to make a contract with my future husband about never living in Illinois because of my dislike of the dang state.), and he has to have come from somewhere close to where my family is so that we can make sure to get to both families for the holidays.  In college I was thinking about what it would be like to marry a teacher.  I'm a teacher, do I want to come home to a teacher?  Do I want to be able to have conversations about work, and have it be the same thing, just different grade levels/schools/principals?  I thought that it would be boring.  They'd have the same day, you'd have the same convos, and it would just become redundant much sooner than marriage already seems to do.  And here I am now, a few years later thinking, "Damn, I wish I could come home to someone who knows what I'm going through, and can just tell me 'Calm down, everything's going to be alright.  Let me help you think of some things you can do, that I've tried in my classroom.'"  Yeah, I had that at my godparent's house, but that's not my husband.  Cripes, I'm talking about my husband when I don't know who Mr. Right is, and don't have a Mr. Right Now. 


• I talked to Hooch online last night while I was getting ready for bed.  I miss Hooch.  She always manages to make me smile.  She had some good ones last night.  I always had someone that I couldn't sit near during staff meetings in Sensenbrenner.  Marx my first year, Anne and Amanda my second year, and it was Hooch my third year.  I swear Michelle was going to kill me by the end of my third year with all of the chattering had by me my 2 years with her.  Good times had by all. 

This is what chick flicks do to me.  I start to think about things, and then my minds gets carried away.  I was way to reminiscent tonight.  Damn.  I need someone to just tell me to calm down.  Everything's going to be alright....

 

Let the creativity flow...

...at least that's what I told Erika tonight after I gave her a glimpse into my future.  We got started on how I want to change the way I'm going to be proposed to.  I was talking to Adam tonight as he was getting ready to hit the bowling alley with friends to karaoke.  I told him he had to get up and sing, and then call me the minute he got on stage to sing...seeing as how I'm a few thousand miles from him to go and witness this.  He laughed and told me he wasn't going to sing, but he'd try to get away and call me from the men's restroom to serenade me.  I'm a little upset that it didn't happen.  I was all excited about the possibility of being serenaded to in a men's restroom at a bowling alley (and he knew it too!).  I was telling Erika this tonight, and here's where my new proposal went:

Kristy: i really wanted to be able to tell people i was serenaded in a men's room at a bowling alley
Erika: lol
Kristy: i think that's where i want to get proposed to now
Erika: class-assy
Kristy: i know...much class-assy-er than the monona terrace
Erika: of course
Kristy: you know...at least it's not in front of a government building
Erika: lol, thats what i was gonna say
Kristy: lol
Kristy: it's a privately owned building...and it's more private...not as many people in there as to how many could be on the terrace at any given time in the summer
Erika: indeed
Kristy: :)
Kristy: that would be a fun story to tell the grandkids
Erika: yeah it would lol
Kristy: "how did you and grampa meet?"  as they're doing something for their history class
Erika: lol
Kristy: "well suzy, it was a very romantic evening...your grampa and i were just hanging out, decided to go to the bowling alley..."
Erika: haha
Kristy: "grampa got that look in his eye, and told me he needed to show me something."  "he led me to the men's restroom, and pulled something from his pocket..."
Erika: lmao
Kristy: "no, it wasn't his 'monster' (that happens after this story), it was a ring"
Erika: lol
Kristy: "the bowling alley dimmed the lights for us, and the planets aligned, and everyone got strikes the minute we walked out of that restroom"
Kristy: "and now onto how your mother was conceived..."
Erika: oh lord
Erika: lol

Good times had by all...

Anyhoo...back to me talking to Adam, I guess we're going to go see a show when he comes out this summer.  He wants to see some Cirque du Soleil show "Zumanity" (which I like to call "soft core porn on stage"), while I want to go see "Avenue Q" (which I've wanted to see since summer of '04).  I think I'm going to win with this one.  In fact, I KNOW I'm going to win.  That's the name of the game, "I Win".  That, and I'm a local...I get to decide.  Sorry...power trippin'.  He also got his birthday stuff I sent him.  Some CDs that I got that I thought he would enjoy (acoustic stuff and Michael Buble), a Las Vegas Sheriff badge with his name on it (gotta love the mass amounts of souvenir shops in town), a pamphlet about when gambling gets to be too much, a flier about Zumanity, and a nicely colored picture of Zoe from Sesame Street making a snowman.  I guess the pic is on the family's fridge at home, and he's started listening to the acoustic CD.  He told me that that CD is definitely "my type of music", which I'm going to take as, "pretty damn awesome".  At least his mom said that it was good...

My kids are getting better, I know I used to talk about them on here a lot, but they've got me stressing and everything...I just don't like thinking about school after 10pm.  I've come to the realization that the 10pm rule is now back in effect.  Back in school I used to have the 10pm rule:  no work after 10, unless you're in the library or working with friends.  If I was in the library, chances were that I was getting work done, but having fun as well, and if I was in someones room working, we were talking most of the time.  Hell, I think that rule started in high school.  I was never allowed to stay up past 10 in high school, so I never did anything after 10 (unless it was a Regina essay...those I stayed up until midnight for, and then did a victory dane to Love Shack by the B-52's...ALWAYS).  Even if I was supposed to be cleaning my room or doing something productive on breaks or weekends...quitting time was always 10.  I never even thought of that before tonight...I can't believe the 10pm rule is back...I always tell my sister that she needs to start it up...but alas...she hasn't, it's earlier for her.  :)

Dan almost lost "talking to Kristy all weekend" rights tonight.  We were talking for a bit when I got done with school, and we were trying to figure out what was going on with Will and Grace tonight.  Dan looked at his clock, and it was almost time for it to start there.  He asked me how pissed I would get if he called to tell me what happened while he was watching.  I told him I'd get pissed, and hate him more than I already do.  He called me 5 minutes in to tell me what had happened.  Not cool.  I was pissed, and ready to ignore any type of communication with him for the rest of the weekend.  Alas, as I was watching it 3 hours later, he just called to make me spaz.  Congrats Dan, it worked. 

Alright, I think I may head to bed.  Let's see if I can make it there, and fall asleep before midnight.  It will be a miracle if that happens. 

Beautiful

I've had this song in my head for the past few days...and I can't get it out...

I haven't heard this song since my sister left Vegas...I LOVE IT!

My life is brilliant.
My love is pure.
I saw an angel.
Of that I'm sure.
She smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another man.
But I won't lose no sleep on that,
'Cause I've got a plan.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw you face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.

Yeah, she caught my eye,
As we walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was,
Fucking high,
And I don't think that I'll see her again,
But we shared a moment that will last till the end.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw you face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.
You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
When she thought up that I should be with you.
But it's time to face the truth,
I will never be with you

Calmed down...but it took awhile

So, here's what happened last night to make me pissed...

I was putting the finishing touches on my lessons for the week.  When I do my lesson plans, I do them by subject, and then I put them in order by day.  I have my math all put together and separated by day, and I do that for all of the subjects.  Then I go through and put all of my Monday lessons together in the order that I'm going to do them, then Tuesday, and so on.  I finished my lessons on Friday at midnight, so I thought I would stop to go to bed and come back to them later.  I was putzing online last night when I remembered I still had to put all of my lessons together by date.  I had just finished doing that, hit save, and my computer froze and restarted.  I lost it all.  I lost all of my lessons for the week.  Word doesn't work on my computer, so all of my documents are created on Wordpad...which doesn't have recovery like Word.  I was so upset!  I called Sue, it was 1:35am her time, and she gave me crap for calling so late.  She then apologized when she heard me start to cry.  I had spent at least an hour/hour and a half on those things each night last week, and a few hours on Friday night.  It was not cool losing all of my hard work.  I hung up with Sue eventually, and called Patty hoping she'd answer her phone.  She didn't (I don't blame her), so I left a frantic message on her phone, trying not to cry in the message.  I told her to call me as soon as she could when she got up in the morning.  I proceeded to turn off my computer, and head into my room to sleep.  I got into my jammies, crawled into bed, grabbed Nameless Elephant to snuggle with, and proceeded to cry because I was stressing so much.  I didn't fall asleep until about 1am.

At about 5:30am, my phone rang, and it was Patty.  She tried all she could with the help, but nothing worked.  It's ok...I can deal.  Just breathe.  I got done with her at about 5:50, and headed back to bed for about an hour.  I got up, headed to school, and stopped freaking out.  I used lessons that I hadn't done last week, and I had my lessons handwritten in a notebook. 

I got done with school, tried loading my lessons on Word at school, didn't work.  Oh well.  I ejected my disk, got ready to leave so I could work at home.  (I can't get anything done at school.)  I packed up a few school books that had the lessons in them, I just needed to copy them into my format.  I get out of school, listen to a message from Amanda, and blare my Michael Buble in my car.  I then check my phone to see if I had turned it off of silence.  Nope, not yet.  I had a new message.  It was mom, she was having a pity party for me at home.  "Sue called and told us about your night last night.  Give us a call if you want to talk about it.  I'm sending lots of hugs and praying for you."  Great, put me in a mood already mom.  I call home, and she's all "I'm so sorry that happened to you...blah, blah, blah."  I know she's just concerned, but still...she didn't know what she was talking about, and I wasn't in the mood to explain it.  I just wanted to get an hour's worth of work done, and take a break from anything school related for an hour and watch Gilmore Girls.  I was reaching into my bag for my lesson disk (to copy and paste last week's lessons into this week's), and it's nowhere to be found.  Yep, left it in my room.  I grabbed my keys to go back to school, and then noticed the time.  There would be no way I could get back into school seeing as how I don't have the afterhours code to get in.  I threw my keys across the apartment whilst screaming "SON OF A BITCH" with mom and dad on speakerphone at home.  I think I scared mom, because she told me to call later.  I got in my car to go to school, but then rethought that when I got about a mile from home.  I'd never make it in time.  I may as well just go and work on the lessons in the notebook.  I walked into my apartment laughing to myself thinking about how ironic it would be if I left my notebook at school...sure as shit, I did.  It's on my desk at school under some papers I copied today.  More fits ensue, along with more crying (I think this was the third time since I left school at 3:45 that I was crying on account of my lessons...it was 4:30pm).  I decided to go and see if I could actually get the jar of sauerkraut open to keep my mind off of my lessons for a minute.  The jar wouldn't open last night, and I figured with sitting for a bit, it would open.  It wouldn't.  I hit it with a knife.  Nothing.  I tried harder with the jar opener thingy.  Nothing.  More tears of frustration.  I reached into my big silverware drawer, a little violently, and grabbed my can opener.  I beat the shit out of my jar to see if it would open.  Yep, it did.  I sat down to plan, and got some lessons done before 5pm and Gilmore Girls.  Grabbed the last of the cookies, heated them up for 30 seconds, and laid down on the futon to relax for an hour.  Got up at 6 (I totally ditched my That 70's Show all night for these damn things!) to finish, and finally got done close to 8.  At about 7:15, I had to call Erika since Conjunction Junction came on.  Talked to her for a bit.  Called Sue, called mom to let her know that I was calm.  I put the finishing touches on at about 8:15, and was done.  I knew that How I Met Your Mother would be on soon, but I hadn't talked to Adam in a long time.  A song came on my Winamp that reminds me of him, so I thought I would give it a whirl.  Maybe he's be sleeping.  Nope, he was awake.  I missed all of my new episode to talk.  I broke the "no talking during my shows" rule.  (Sorry Patty...I tried that last week, but I was watching whilst talking to you.  I still remember what we were talking about though!)  He cheered me up.  I was able to laugh about today.  Good times had by all.  We got discussing about how we had things for each other, and ruined each other's surprises.  Oh well.  I can deal.  I don't know when it's coming, so that'll be a surprise. 

Anyhoos...must be off to bed since I didn't get much last night.  Here's to a better tomorrow!  (When I'll not be doing anything school related once I leave that place in the afternoon!)

F$%^ing Pissed

I just lost my lessons for the week. I spent at least an hour each day last week on these, and 4 hours on Friday. Not cool. I'm a little pissed.

Let's just hope that my principal doesn't come in to observe tomorrow. Otherwise, I may as well look for another job...

Chick Flicks

Well, it was a relaxing day today.  I got up and lounged around for part of the morning, and did my laundry...since it's laundry day.  While I was waiting for my laundry to finish, I ended up watching Degrassi.  I just wanted to lay in my bed and watch TV last night, so I knew I had to watch today since I told Patty I was going to watch so I could be out with her and some other friends last night.  I sat around and bummed (knitted a little and did some crosswords) to wait for my cousins to visit.  They were in town for a conference, and they wanted to come and see me.  That was cool with me since they're the only extended family I actually consider family.  They're on the wedding list...which only has like 9 family members not including my immediate family.  Anyhoos...we had a good time.  We chilled at my apartment for an hour or so, and then I took them to see my school.  I also took them to the grocery store to see the slots in there.  We headed out to dinner, which was good.  We went to a place right near my place that I had heard about, but had never went into.  It was a really good steak place.  The waitress had to ask me for an ID when I got my drink...she said I looked almost too young to have a drink.  Com'on, I'm not that young looking.  Good lord, I barely get carded in Madison, yet I'm in Vegas and getting carded.  Dinner was fun.  I got to talk to them without mom and dad around, and it was just good to see people from home. 

Ok, so here's where we get into random thoughts:

I decided after my cousins left to watch a movie.  I couldn't decide, so I left Annie on for a bit.  I then realized I was in the mood for a good chick flick (which is pretty much every DVD I own).  I laid down on the floor next to my DVDs to look at what I want.  I decided on Win a Date with Tad Hamilton.  It's a great chick flick.  I also wanted to color some too.  I hadn't done that in awhile, and I wanted to do something semi fun.  I started the movie, and then I started coloring.  A few minutes into the movie, I decided I needed to turn the movie off so I could finish coloring.  I sat and colored while watching Annie.  It was good times.  I finished coloring, lit my candles, and put the movie back down. 

There was something about watching the movie in the candle light.  It was nice, but it would've been nicer if I had someone to watch it with, but I made it all good with some chocolate.  Laying down, curled up on my futon alone watching a chick flick in candle light.  Whatever.  I did have to rewind my favoritest part of the movie.  It's when both Topher Grace and Josh Duhamel were in their apartments, and Barry White's "Can't Get Enough of Your Love Babe" came on.  Topher was dancing and mouthing the words to the song.  It was too adorable.  There's just something about goofy guys with me.  I love the image of them dancing around and stuff.  Whatever, that could just be because I dance around my apartment and such.  I really got into the movie.  I called Erin during it.  We went to the movie together, I think someone else may have been with us, but I'm not sure.  There's another part where Topher yells out to his friend "Guard your carnal treasure".  Erin told me that she's going to be yelling that to me on my wedding day.  Good times.  Near the end I actually said "F--- you Tad!" when he was stealing lines from Topher to get the girl.  Not cool.  I also started blubbering like a baby near the end.  Not cool again.  I totally forgot about some of my favorite quotes from the movie:

• "Is it love love, big love, or great love?"  "What's the difference?" "Love love you get over within 2 weeks.  Big love takes 2 years, and great love you never get over."


• "I very unsubtly implied how I feel about her."


• "Do you think it is possible to love someone your entire life and never realize it?"


• "Sometimes Goliath kicks the shit out of David."


• "Two people set out to be friends, but nature would have none of it. Nature wanted them to be more and nature's going to want that tomorrow."

I'm kinda not wanting my flowers from mom and dad to eventually die.  I love looking over there and seeing the flowers.  That make my living room look girly.  Although, now that I have a vase, I can get the cheap flowers every once in awhile.  I know I used to say that I would get a bunch every week while I was in school, but I really like the flowers in here.  And, I was talking to mom, she was asking if I could get cheap flowers near me.  I told her I could, and she was very relieved.  I think in some way she wanted me to get flowers from them so I could have a vase to put the flowers in.  I had told her how I wanted to get some flowers or something to put in the apartment when I first moved in, but I had left all of my vases at home in storage.  It's a nice purple vase, I can see myself using it. 

Alright, I think this is officially one of the latest nights I've ever been up here in Vegas.  That's kinda sad, but oh well.  I'm thinking that tomorrow I'm going to lounge for a bit, and then I'm going to call my godfather and ask if he's going to be watching the "Puppy Bowl" on Animal Planet.  I need a good laugh, so I think I can get that out of him.  I'm still working on getting my road trip pics uploaded.  I can only do so many at a time since I'm still working with dial-up.  But, I'm hoping to have a bunch uploaded within a few days.  :)

TGIF Update

Yes, I'm stealing this from Dan, but hey, it's an update.

First, let me tell you, Vegas won, 2-0. Did Dan listen? NO! Com'on Dan! Listen to the people! (Just kidding, I know you're having a good time in Seattle. Now all you need to do is figure out when you're coming out here!)

Next, I was discussing drinks, and what I should have when I got home tonight with another teacher in the parking lot as we were walking to our cars. He was saying how it was martini time when he got home, and all I said is I had to make something that would go into my biggest cup here. He then filled me in as to where to go for good cheap liquor in town. May have to check that out sometime.

And here's the update...(which was created while I was being ADD typing up all of my lessons for next week, so if they don't make sense, you know why)

• I was writing my lessons for next week, and I decided to turn on my winamp, and turn off That 70's Show. Pure Imagination came on, which is one of my favorites. Just as I was turning off the TV, the line "If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it" came on. I was just looking up to the wall, when I realized I was looking at the picture of Adam and Dan beating me up as the Easter Bunny junior year. I started dancing in my living room, and realized that all I did have to do was view it, paradise that is. Everywhere I turned while dancing I saw a picture of my friends. There's Dan and Adam beating me up, Niki, my sisters, Erika, Patty, and then I have a frame with three pics in it on my wall above my futon. In each slot there's a picture of the "Slow People Cult". I have one from every year in the slot. It's awesome.
  
• Going along with the lessons...I was reminiscing about my senior year. First, I'm listening to pretty much all of the music I listened to then, and I'm planning lessons. This should be a Thursday night, and then it would feel like senior year. Giving up my Thursday nights to type up all of my lessons...damn sacrifices! Second, I was looking at all of my lessons and such from my fifth grade placement. I'm carrying on a lesson that I did in spelling with my fifth graders, and am now implementing in my second grade room. (I don't think that last sentence made any sense at all.) Anywho...I was looking at all of my lessons from fifth grade, and thinking how awesome it was. I was looking at my observations from my supervisor (Speaking of which, my principal came into my room today while I was giving the spelling test. How many times are they going to just pop into my room. Honestly, I'm kinda getting sick of it. I'm put on edge each time they come in, and then I have kids who act up all the time, do it even more so since there's someone in there.), and seeing how they were positive, even though there were things that I could change. It just made me miss those days.

• I was driving tonight, and I heard Alison Krauss' "When You Say Nothing at All". Here's another song that I can listen to, close my eyes, and get transported to another time. It's just a good song to reminisce to....I have many songs like this. It's always good to do that. I had "Can't Stop Lovin' that Man of Mine" come on tonight too. Always reminds me of senior year at Edgewood. We sang it in choir, and it was one of my favorites, and remains a good tune.
  

• I get to see some family tomorrow. The only extended family members that I really do love as family. They've always been around. Not just at holidays, but all the time. When I first moved out here in November, dad was telling me how they were going to be out in February. They sent me an email last week giving me all of the details of their trip. I sent an email to them with some tips. They called tonight to give me details about when they were coming over, and getting directions to my apt. It was weird having a 702 number call me, and have them on the other end. It was cool at the same time. They want to see my apt and school, and then whatever I want to show them (I HAVE to take them to a grocery store to see the mini-casinos in there). They're also taking me out to dinner. It's going to be a good time.
  

• As an added note, the people next to me, or above me are having sex. I've been hearing noises the last few minutes, and I've finally pinpointed what the sound is...ahh...just like living in the dorms...
  

I think that's all. I hear my futon calling me...no, not to sleep since the alarm was finally off when I came home from school yesterday, but to watch either Degrassi Junior High (Censored--bestest episode EVER!) or whatever I can find on TV. I think I may be too lazy to put in the DVD...or I just don't want to get sucked in, and fall asleep during the good parts (which is all of it!)

QOTD

Question of the Day:

Where should Dan go this weekend?

A) Las Vegas: 74 and sunny on Saturday and a kick ass time with Kristy

B) Seattle: Cold and rainy...granted he'll be with J, but still...cold and rainy


I want as much input as possible to see who wins this one!