so part of my ceiling caved on friday. that was pretty awesome to deal with at 6:45am. it's mostly fixed now so that is good. emmie was severely traumatized tho because i left her all alone all weekend because i stayed at dan's. since i've been home i've given her 4 cans of cat food! i make a horrible mom.

funny thing tho, i just gave her dry food and she's scarfing more now than she was with the canned stuff. guess i can save a few bucks there!

grocery shopping online is the most amazing thing ever. i have all of this awesome food and i didn't have to do a thing!

my current favorite pass time is to look at Yahoo! Answers. is about the most hilarious thing in the world.

exciting news! i'm going to amsterdam! it'll be a short visit of only a weekend, but it is better than nothing! i'm going next weekend (24th-27th) so expect so many pictures =)

i will never understand why people like sour cream. gross.



also, i am so glad my power went back on. i don't mind thunderstorms, but i do mind the power going off! for HOURS! i am quite possibly the only girl to not have candles. sitting in complete darkness with no tv, music, reading... anxiety!!!!! i'm also the most unprepared person in the world having no flashlights.

this is now my desktop background. i think it is adorable.

so i finally think i've gotten a hold on teaching for the isat (the illinois equivalent to the meap) in a way that is good for the classroom and good for how i like to teach. the only problem is that the isat is just over a week away! it would've been nice if i had found this good ground a month ago.


i don't have anything else to add to this post.

Amazingly things have been going really well for me. The 2nd quarter ended at my school, and my kids have been doing well (no failure reports!).

I have needed to think about what i'm doing for next year, though. I want to come back to MI, but I need to decide if that is really the best thing for me. Chicago is growing on me. The problem is that I miss my family and Laura. Bah! It is one of those things that is just very confusing for me. Part of me wants to go home, but maybe I should stay away? It would be nice if someone would be able to tell me what the right choice is. One thing I know is that I don't want to leave the midwest. Oddly I like it here.

In other completely unrelated commentary, there is a really awesome picture on the national geographic week in pictures of kenyans watching obama on the 20th. Going along with that, we spent the entire morning watching the inauguration. It was pretty damn cool. Cnn was there to film us too. So when the did the live in chicago portion it was of our school. Also, my class was in the gym where they were filming so I was on tv! It's kind of fun that that is what happens at my school.

1. in terms of teaching (and most other things), as soon as i think i have things figured out, it all goes to hell. case in point, i was feeling great over break. i was in a rhythm at work. i was filling out the principal's lesson plan format with some sort of confidence. i completed a brand new unit in social studies. now.............. we have standardized prep to do! ahhhhhhh! i don't know how to do it, i don't want to do it (3rd grade is too young is my belief), but i have to do it. i have to do prep for almost 2 months (hello, that should tell the world that 8-9 year olds are too young!). plus i have to start a new unit in science. bah. i need a snow day!

2. i'm actually okay at being alone. weird, eh? don't get me wrong, spending the night by myself is not a good time. i like cuddling and watching tv with someone and sex. but on my own i can watch all the bad movies i want and i can watch tv on dvd one right after the other and no one cares. i eat what i want and order out when i want. it's really nice not having to answer for everything i do. i don't feel like i have to defend myself or hide things.



i do learn more things all the time but i only care to write about the 2 currently.

update on my life!!!!!

i have no internet at my new home so i can never look at facebook or livejournal. i feel totally cut off from everyone! i'm thinking that i'll have to splurge and get the internetz because i am not enjoying being without it.

3rd grade is awesome. we have our 1st quarter conferences on wednesday so 6 hours of confrences!!! woohoo! we'll see how well i do.

i took 2 days off of work to come home this weekend. my super fab sister got married. it was probably the most perfect wedding ever created and i don't know if we'll be able to top it. mike hogan was my date... altho he failed at being at the actual wedding (he had a good excuse but i'm still going to pretend to be mad at him). p.s., mike hogan, rachel and chris love thier b&n gift card and rachel thinks you're awesome for being so nice to her the entire night.

i really don't have a whole lot to say, but i've been sad without updating my lj.


loves you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


to add another p.s.: laura bell is awesome for letting me use her computer to read emails and look at ridiculous things on facebook and lj :)

oh, i met a boy on the train to kzoo on thursday! he got my number... said he'd call. we'll see what happens. laura gives her approval that he is cute, but his likes of music are bit questionable.


p.p.s, mike hogan has hangover sundays with beautiful outfits... this is what i do on errand-running mondays:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=49790690&l=186b5&id=2317251

i do not know how to make the picture just show up... so this is the best that laura and i could do and we've been trying for about 15 minutes. THE END!