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!)