More bad things....
Brady ripped the molding off of my aunt's kitchen cabinet
Papa ran into one of the bar stools, knocking it over and breaking the base.
Ps. ...my papa and dad were involved with the mafia...no joke
PPS....My dad told me to download some songs from 'back in the day' ...one good one: Right Place, Wrong Time by Dr. John (it's just funny)
And a super horrible one: Don't you touch my leg by Maria Muldaur
Monday, December 29, 2008
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Christmas Eve should have been a warning...
We should have known that this Christmas wouldn't turn out the way other peoples' do just because of Christmas Eve. My brother is typically negative about his presents, church and the whole shebang but this year was different. He went to church, no complaints; he watched his kids, no complaints; he opened his parents, no complaints....SUPER STRANGE. And very out of character.
So since he was actually on his best behavior we should have known that the rest of the break would go downhill. But.......no.
My parents, little brother, and I all rode up to Illinois, with my 1 and a half year old nephew screaming for the last 30 minutes. This was crappy part numero uno.
Dos...My great uncle Freddy was put into the hospital with a septic infection, kidney failure and all sorts of crazy stuff. The last update we had: he's off blood pressure meds, his face and hands are swollen, he has a blood clot in his arm, his infection started in his bladder and he is still in critical condition. Prayers requested, thank you.
Tres...My dad hit my aunt and uncle's car in the driveway. We were on our way to my aunt's house and my dad just didn't see their car, that happened to be sitting in the driveway the entire 12 hour day.
Quatro...The neighbor across the street backed up into my cousins car. The front driver's side needs to be completely re-done. $1000s of work.
Cinco....My grandfather was trying to get out of his garage and ripped the mirror off of his car.
I think that is about all that happened this week, so far.
We still have until Tuesday when we have to drive back to Texas.
So since he was actually on his best behavior we should have known that the rest of the break would go downhill. But.......no.
My parents, little brother, and I all rode up to Illinois, with my 1 and a half year old nephew screaming for the last 30 minutes. This was crappy part numero uno.
Dos...My great uncle Freddy was put into the hospital with a septic infection, kidney failure and all sorts of crazy stuff. The last update we had: he's off blood pressure meds, his face and hands are swollen, he has a blood clot in his arm, his infection started in his bladder and he is still in critical condition. Prayers requested, thank you.
Tres...My dad hit my aunt and uncle's car in the driveway. We were on our way to my aunt's house and my dad just didn't see their car, that happened to be sitting in the driveway the entire 12 hour day.
Quatro...The neighbor across the street backed up into my cousins car. The front driver's side needs to be completely re-done. $1000s of work.
Cinco....My grandfather was trying to get out of his garage and ripped the mirror off of his car.
I think that is about all that happened this week, so far.
We still have until Tuesday when we have to drive back to Texas.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Man I want a sour patch kid
'Tis almost the night before Christmas...which means it's almost present time at the Tutwiler house!! My mom went way over board with presents this year, but I'm not sure if we are getting quality or quantity. I suppose I'll have to figure that out when I open presents tomorrow night!
Then on Christmas day we are travelling to me grandmother's house in Illinois. Most of my family will be there including some second cousins coming to visit just because my family and I will be there. I expect that there will be a lot of wedding talk...which will just make me more stressed out then I need to be. Grrr
In other news...did you know (according to Tyler, which isn't the most reliable source) that redheads statistically know more about music then brunettes or blondes?
And I only painted my nails on my right hand....maybe I'll start a new trend?
I saw Jeff's parents today and talked to them for like 2 and a half hours! Ridiculous! We mostly talked about religion and drugs which for some reason are popular topics when we get into discussion. Sometimes it's nice to talk to adults that aren't your parents. Not that I'm not an adult or my friends aren't adults....but you know what I mean.
Side note: some of my friends definitely don't act like adults...
Well, I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas! I will not be updating until well after the holidays...
Then on Christmas day we are travelling to me grandmother's house in Illinois. Most of my family will be there including some second cousins coming to visit just because my family and I will be there. I expect that there will be a lot of wedding talk...which will just make me more stressed out then I need to be. Grrr
In other news...did you know (according to Tyler, which isn't the most reliable source) that redheads statistically know more about music then brunettes or blondes?
And I only painted my nails on my right hand....maybe I'll start a new trend?
I saw Jeff's parents today and talked to them for like 2 and a half hours! Ridiculous! We mostly talked about religion and drugs which for some reason are popular topics when we get into discussion. Sometimes it's nice to talk to adults that aren't your parents. Not that I'm not an adult or my friends aren't adults....but you know what I mean.
Side note: some of my friends definitely don't act like adults...
Well, I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas! I will not be updating until well after the holidays...
Friday, December 19, 2008
Britney Spears
Jenna and I are going to learn how to dance like Britney Spears in her "Circus" video.
Basically we are amazing.
Patrick and Ashley graduated today! Congrats!!! And for that reason we are going to celebrate tonight, maybe we'll do the dance for them.
Yes. We are wearing our hair the exact same way. She's wearing black and I'm wearing green. I feel you needed to know this.
Thumb over the mouth: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Basically we are amazing.
Patrick and Ashley graduated today! Congrats!!! And for that reason we are going to celebrate tonight, maybe we'll do the dance for them.
Yes. We are wearing our hair the exact same way. She's wearing black and I'm wearing green. I feel you needed to know this.
Thumb over the mouth: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Movie quotes
1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them in a note for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDB search functions. That's cheating and it ruins the fun.Guess only one, please. Give everyone a chance, then guess more :)----This is what I'm doing...just in case you needed clarification.
1. I'm the world's most dangerous predator. Everything about me invites you in. My voice, my face, even my smell. As if I would need any of that. As if you could outrun me. As if you could fight me off. I'm designed to kill.
2.You were never there for me were you mother? You expected Mike and Carol Brady to raise me! I'm the bastard son of Claire Huxtable! I am a Lost Cunningham! I learned the facts of life from watching The Facts of Life! Oh God!
3. Juvenile delinquency is purely a social disease. R:" Hey! I got a social disease! "
4. Good. Should you leave these rooms, you will not by any chance go to sleep in any other part of the castle. It is old and has many bad memories. Be warned.
5. J: You remind of a babe
G: What babe?
J: The babe with the power.
G: What power?
J: The power of voodoo.
6. We're newlyweds. Just met. You know how it is. We bumped into each other, sparks happen...
7.In token of my gratitude and as a means of promoting communication between adjoining nations, shouting from windows being forbidden, I shall provide a post office in our hedge, to further incourage the bearing of our souls and the telling of our most appalling secrets. I do pledge never to reveal what I recieve in confindence here.
8. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there
9. Well I always thought that archaeologists were always funny looking men going around looking for their mommies.
10. The light concealing cream goes on first. Then you blend, and blend, and blend. Blending is the secret.
11. You're jokin', you're jokin'! / I can't believe my ears! / Would someone shut this fella up? / I'm drownin' in my tears! / It's funny, I'm laughing! / You really are too much. / And now, with your permission, / I'm going to do my stuff.
12. I may be a drape, but I love your granddaughter. And if that's a crime, I'll stand convicted, ma'am.
13. If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
14. For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
15. A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence and have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punished.
Some of these should be easier than others...I think
2. Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them in a note for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDB search functions. That's cheating and it ruins the fun.Guess only one, please. Give everyone a chance, then guess more :)----This is what I'm doing...just in case you needed clarification.
1. I'm the world's most dangerous predator. Everything about me invites you in. My voice, my face, even my smell. As if I would need any of that. As if you could outrun me. As if you could fight me off. I'm designed to kill.
2.You were never there for me were you mother? You expected Mike and Carol Brady to raise me! I'm the bastard son of Claire Huxtable! I am a Lost Cunningham! I learned the facts of life from watching The Facts of Life! Oh God!
3. Juvenile delinquency is purely a social disease. R:" Hey! I got a social disease! "
4. Good. Should you leave these rooms, you will not by any chance go to sleep in any other part of the castle. It is old and has many bad memories. Be warned.
5. J: You remind of a babe
G: What babe?
J: The babe with the power.
G: What power?
J: The power of voodoo.
6. We're newlyweds. Just met. You know how it is. We bumped into each other, sparks happen...
7.In token of my gratitude and as a means of promoting communication between adjoining nations, shouting from windows being forbidden, I shall provide a post office in our hedge, to further incourage the bearing of our souls and the telling of our most appalling secrets. I do pledge never to reveal what I recieve in confindence here.
8. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there
9. Well I always thought that archaeologists were always funny looking men going around looking for their mommies.
10. The light concealing cream goes on first. Then you blend, and blend, and blend. Blending is the secret.
11. You're jokin', you're jokin'! / I can't believe my ears! / Would someone shut this fella up? / I'm drownin' in my tears! / It's funny, I'm laughing! / You really are too much. / And now, with your permission, / I'm going to do my stuff.
12. I may be a drape, but I love your granddaughter. And if that's a crime, I'll stand convicted, ma'am.
13. If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
14. For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
15. A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence and have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punished.
Some of these should be easier than others...I think
Friday, December 12, 2008
Fun things part quatro
Most of the time I like to mix it up in my classroom and do something fun. So last week we read the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol, if you haven't read it you should google it. It's some good reading it's also from one of my favorite books of all time Alice Through the Looking Glass.
Anyway....the poem is basically made up of nonsense words (portmanteau if you want to know the fancy English term for it) and I made my 10th graders make up their own poem/story like this and give me the dictionary terms for the words they made up. Most of them turned out pretty well...especially this one....
"Beware the Tutenstein. This creanimal has long talaws and sharp feeths.
Originating from Hagashain, a country in Western Europe, this creanimal can creep up on you and surtack you when you least expect it."
Tutenstein: English teacher who has a tendency to creep. Tutwiler + Frankenstein= Tutenstein
Creanimal: creature + animal
Talaws: talons + claws
Feeths: teeth + fangs
Hagashain: country in Western Europe
Surtack: surprise attack
It's by this girl, who likes to think that I'm a creeper when in reality she is the one who creeps around my classroom and bugs me. She thinks it's pretty funny to pick on me and I accept this because she doesn't mean anything by it and she's a really good student. I just thought this poem was funny.
In other news...my students sent me 12 'candygrams' today...I would say about 9 of them said 'from your stalker' and the other 3 actually said Merry Christmas. Needless to say, my students are a bunch of strange children who stalk me. But....it could be worse.
Anyway....the poem is basically made up of nonsense words (portmanteau if you want to know the fancy English term for it) and I made my 10th graders make up their own poem/story like this and give me the dictionary terms for the words they made up. Most of them turned out pretty well...especially this one....
"Beware the Tutenstein. This creanimal has long talaws and sharp feeths.
Originating from Hagashain, a country in Western Europe, this creanimal can creep up on you and surtack you when you least expect it."
Tutenstein: English teacher who has a tendency to creep. Tutwiler + Frankenstein= Tutenstein
Creanimal: creature + animal
Talaws: talons + claws
Feeths: teeth + fangs
Hagashain: country in Western Europe
Surtack: surprise attack
It's by this girl, who likes to think that I'm a creeper when in reality she is the one who creeps around my classroom and bugs me. She thinks it's pretty funny to pick on me and I accept this because she doesn't mean anything by it and she's a really good student. I just thought this poem was funny.
In other news...my students sent me 12 'candygrams' today...I would say about 9 of them said 'from your stalker' and the other 3 actually said Merry Christmas. Needless to say, my students are a bunch of strange children who stalk me. But....it could be worse.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
I've been around...
Christmas break is near....
Finals are due this week...along with the final review; have I started writing them? Nope.
I would like to go back to college because I want to get my masters and I want to study German.
I get to see my family soon, which is more exciting than I originally thought! I'm finding that as I get older I realize how important they are especially since we live so far away. And getting married next year means I'll have to split my time between families (if jeff ever visits extended family) and I don't want to miss out on family time.
The reason I haven't been updating is because of school and Stephenie Meyer, yes that is right...I'm on the whole Edward/Bella love wagon. It's horrible, I know, but she does a really good job at writing. Except I have to say the first book trumps the others, the others are just sort of fillers I think.
Anyway, I'm off to church.
It's a random update but an update none the less!!
Finals are due this week...along with the final review; have I started writing them? Nope.
I would like to go back to college because I want to get my masters and I want to study German.
I get to see my family soon, which is more exciting than I originally thought! I'm finding that as I get older I realize how important they are especially since we live so far away. And getting married next year means I'll have to split my time between families (if jeff ever visits extended family) and I don't want to miss out on family time.
The reason I haven't been updating is because of school and Stephenie Meyer, yes that is right...I'm on the whole Edward/Bella love wagon. It's horrible, I know, but she does a really good job at writing. Except I have to say the first book trumps the others, the others are just sort of fillers I think.
Anyway, I'm off to church.
It's a random update but an update none the less!!
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Things I want for Christmas...from Etsy
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_list_12&listing_id=17653453- It's a JPEG file that you can print over and over again and use it as many times as you want. Here is why I want it: because I love Alice in Wonderland, I think vintage is amazing and someday when I have a girl I want to decorate her room with Alice in Wonderland stuff!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_list_15&listing_id=17248802- More Alice
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_list_15&listing_id=17640613 - Mad Hatter
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_list_13&listing_id=17078239- Teacher locket
Really I just love Alice in Wonderland!!! AND I know some family members have viewed this blog, so get your ideas here :)
I also just made my first purchase on Etsy, it's an Alice in Wonderland pendant, and a giraffe pendant (for Jeff's mom for Christmas) and I got a free one (it was a buy 2 get one free deal!) and I got that for Jenna for Christmas. Basically, I think I just started a VERY bad habit....
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_list_15&listing_id=17248802- More Alice
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_list_15&listing_id=17640613 - Mad Hatter
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_list_13&listing_id=17078239- Teacher locket
Really I just love Alice in Wonderland!!! AND I know some family members have viewed this blog, so get your ideas here :)
I also just made my first purchase on Etsy, it's an Alice in Wonderland pendant, and a giraffe pendant (for Jeff's mom for Christmas) and I got a free one (it was a buy 2 get one free deal!) and I got that for Jenna for Christmas. Basically, I think I just started a VERY bad habit....
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Speechless
I'm a first year teacher. I should be naive and believe that all my students are well behaved; they don't cheat on tests, they don't think about sex or drugs or alcohol. But I'm far from naive because I have seen it all; I have friends who did drugs (some who still do), who have problems with alcohol, who sleep around ...all of it. And I know in today's day in age kids are getting younger and younger to explore these temptations.
BUT, and I mean this a big BUT, I don't think that I should sit idly by and watch my students hate on each other or do things that will harm themselves. My students have become increasingly 'evil' towards each other; almost on a daily basis I have a student coming into my classroom crying and saying how somebody made fun of them. I just can't take it anymore; my students are so hateful towards each other it makes me sick. It's mostly the girls, which is understandable because girls are evil, but we go to a Christian school. I would think that someone would have told them before that being hateful to each other is wrong but I guess they haven't received that message. Even if we were in a public school setting I would say something to them, but I think being at a Christian school they are held to an even higher standard of morals. I don't know. I am going to have all the girls meet in my room for lunch tomorrow to discuss all of this. I'm tired of students coming to me crying, telling me someone was mean or that they are scared that someone is hurting themselves.
I can't sit by and watch this happen. Not when I've already seen it happen to so many other people.
Am I wrong to try to fix this?
BUT, and I mean this a big BUT, I don't think that I should sit idly by and watch my students hate on each other or do things that will harm themselves. My students have become increasingly 'evil' towards each other; almost on a daily basis I have a student coming into my classroom crying and saying how somebody made fun of them. I just can't take it anymore; my students are so hateful towards each other it makes me sick. It's mostly the girls, which is understandable because girls are evil, but we go to a Christian school. I would think that someone would have told them before that being hateful to each other is wrong but I guess they haven't received that message. Even if we were in a public school setting I would say something to them, but I think being at a Christian school they are held to an even higher standard of morals. I don't know. I am going to have all the girls meet in my room for lunch tomorrow to discuss all of this. I'm tired of students coming to me crying, telling me someone was mean or that they are scared that someone is hurting themselves.
I can't sit by and watch this happen. Not when I've already seen it happen to so many other people.
Am I wrong to try to fix this?
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Purity Ceremonies?
Has it really come to the point where we have to have a ball/gala if you will so that our daughters will stay a virgin until marriage? I don't think that buying a fancy dress, learning an elaborate dance, and receiving a ring will make the temptation any less severe as they grow older. What ever happened to sex education? I'm not saying that it isn't realistic to stay a virgin until you get married but statistically kids today are having sex at a younger age. It is time to face facts and realize we have to do more than give our girls rings to protect their virginity. I know PLENTY of girls my age and younger who walk around flaunting their purity rings one minute and talking about how they had sex just last night the next.
The whole reason I came up with this topic is because of crappy television on TLC. But here is the biggest issue I have with all these people and their purity ceremony.
A) They say that if you do not grow up with a father you will turn to another man and give bits of your heart away until you do not have your whole heart to give to your 'soul' mate.
-I've dated plenty of guys and my heart has healed after each of them, I plan on giving my whole heart to Jeff...not just the parts left over from past relationships.
-I believe this implies that girls who grow up without fathers are more likely to have sex before marriage then girls with fathers. I call BS on that. I have a father but he was not around a lot when I was growing up (he would admit this himself) but my mother did a wonderful job explaining what is right and what is wrong according to what we believe. And, I didn't turn to other males to fill the void of my dad always being at work...that would be stupid, no one can replace your own father. And having sex with some random guy doesn't fill any void that an absent father creates, at least not in my eyes.
B) Every single person they interviewed said they weren't even going to kiss anyone until marriage. They don't even date anyone who isn't a possible candidate for marriage. This one girl didn't even hold her fiance's hand!!!!
-I really don't think God said anything about kissing in the bible. Am I wrong? And I'm pretty sure that God made no rule about hand holding. What unrealistic ideas to feed your children. Kissing isn't wrong, holding someone's hand isn't wrong and neither is dating. How can you expect to find the right person without even getting to know several people? You don't have to sleep with someone in order to get to know them. These people are so confusing. Crazy crackers.
I just don't even know what is wrong with these people. I understand why parents are concerned about their children having sex at a young age, I get it. I know that parents are concerned about STDs and teenage pregnancies but there are other ways to prevent that. My issue is that the more you shelter and confine your children the more they will want to break out of that mold. I've seen it so many times, even in my own family. Children are going to want to have sex, or kiss, or hold hands...it's human nature and it's wrong to deny that. Putting a ring around your daughter's finger isn't going to make her stay pure...your education on the matter will.
And don't be a stinkin weirdo about hand holding or kissing, that is just plain old bizarre.
P.S. I found the father's to be extremely creepy...the way they hovered over their daughters and talked about them...gross.
The whole reason I came up with this topic is because of crappy television on TLC. But here is the biggest issue I have with all these people and their purity ceremony.
A) They say that if you do not grow up with a father you will turn to another man and give bits of your heart away until you do not have your whole heart to give to your 'soul' mate.
-I've dated plenty of guys and my heart has healed after each of them, I plan on giving my whole heart to Jeff...not just the parts left over from past relationships.
-I believe this implies that girls who grow up without fathers are more likely to have sex before marriage then girls with fathers. I call BS on that. I have a father but he was not around a lot when I was growing up (he would admit this himself) but my mother did a wonderful job explaining what is right and what is wrong according to what we believe. And, I didn't turn to other males to fill the void of my dad always being at work...that would be stupid, no one can replace your own father. And having sex with some random guy doesn't fill any void that an absent father creates, at least not in my eyes.
B) Every single person they interviewed said they weren't even going to kiss anyone until marriage. They don't even date anyone who isn't a possible candidate for marriage. This one girl didn't even hold her fiance's hand!!!!
-I really don't think God said anything about kissing in the bible. Am I wrong? And I'm pretty sure that God made no rule about hand holding. What unrealistic ideas to feed your children. Kissing isn't wrong, holding someone's hand isn't wrong and neither is dating. How can you expect to find the right person without even getting to know several people? You don't have to sleep with someone in order to get to know them. These people are so confusing. Crazy crackers.
I just don't even know what is wrong with these people. I understand why parents are concerned about their children having sex at a young age, I get it. I know that parents are concerned about STDs and teenage pregnancies but there are other ways to prevent that. My issue is that the more you shelter and confine your children the more they will want to break out of that mold. I've seen it so many times, even in my own family. Children are going to want to have sex, or kiss, or hold hands...it's human nature and it's wrong to deny that. Putting a ring around your daughter's finger isn't going to make her stay pure...your education on the matter will.
And don't be a stinkin weirdo about hand holding or kissing, that is just plain old bizarre.
P.S. I found the father's to be extremely creepy...the way they hovered over their daughters and talked about them...gross.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
More politics
Every where I go someone is talking about the election and I'm simply annoyed by it all. I've been following the campaigns, watching the news, looking at propaganda and 'hate' advertisement but enough is enough. I can't wait until Tuesday is over, I never want to watch a presidential election again. The biggest reason is because people are idiots and they never know what they are talking about. If I have to hear one more person say ' well my dad likes McCain but we don't agree' or something like that I'll shoot myself in the knee cap! The second biggest reason I don't like about this election are the candidates, well maybe this should be my first reason but whatever. Both candidates have major flaws, neither of them excite me, and most importantly neither of them will make a good president. People talk about Obama's inexperience but what experience does McCain have as a great leader????? What experience does any presidential candidate have? If you've never been the president then how can you be experienced, I mean really??!!! I understand that McCain has life experience and yadda yadda but he's not a strong leader; neither is Obama.
I wish we could just start over; America has to have something better to offer. I'm sure most people would disagree with me, but I know I'm not the only one who thinks this way.
I would like to have a president who would fight for morals and values that Americans haven't had in a long time. I'm not advocating that the president should impose a certain religion upon this country but just have some sort of moral judgment. When I hear a 10 year old talk about oral sex, or an 8th grader talk about getting high and see a 16 year old having babies then something is wrong. If our children are the future then what kind of future are we getting set up for? I certainly don't want my children to have sex in junior high or get drunk or high or anything I didn't even THINK about when I was that age. In fact, I don't even know if I want to raise children in this kind of society; I'm afraid for children today. And it isn't just children, it's adults too! There is a whole website called "The real housewives of Collin county" where they talk about people behind their backs, and discuss how great of 'partiers' they are...ridiculous! Do these ladies really need to share their lives through blogging? But I guess I do the same thing, except I don't gloat about the fact that I party 'good'. (I don't have children and I'm 22 years old so I guess that makes me a little more mature)
I don't know what's going to happen Tuesday and I don't know what will happen after Tuesday. But I hope that some type of GOOD change will happen rather then just any kind of change.
I wish we could just start over; America has to have something better to offer. I'm sure most people would disagree with me, but I know I'm not the only one who thinks this way.
I would like to have a president who would fight for morals and values that Americans haven't had in a long time. I'm not advocating that the president should impose a certain religion upon this country but just have some sort of moral judgment. When I hear a 10 year old talk about oral sex, or an 8th grader talk about getting high and see a 16 year old having babies then something is wrong. If our children are the future then what kind of future are we getting set up for? I certainly don't want my children to have sex in junior high or get drunk or high or anything I didn't even THINK about when I was that age. In fact, I don't even know if I want to raise children in this kind of society; I'm afraid for children today. And it isn't just children, it's adults too! There is a whole website called "The real housewives of Collin county" where they talk about people behind their backs, and discuss how great of 'partiers' they are...ridiculous! Do these ladies really need to share their lives through blogging? But I guess I do the same thing, except I don't gloat about the fact that I party 'good'. (I don't have children and I'm 22 years old so I guess that makes me a little more mature)
I don't know what's going to happen Tuesday and I don't know what will happen after Tuesday. But I hope that some type of GOOD change will happen rather then just any kind of change.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Sometimes I wonder
With the upcoming election a lot of my students, even the young 7th graders, have been asking about politics. I've been trying to give my students an unbiased opinion about both candidates, but sometimes my liberal beliefs leak out. I don't know how many of them have noticed that I'm not a republican but so far I've dodged the topic successfully. But enough about me, back to my main idea..my students interested in politics. Most of my students, I'd say about 95%, are republicans and I'd venture to say that they are this way because of their parents. My junior high students are constantly saying "my dad says Obama is a terrorist" or "my mom says only republicans go to heaven" or the best so far "my dad would beat me if I ever said I was a democrat". It makes me angry when my students say things like this because I really want them to think for themselves, but it's very hard to tell these kids their parents are wrong. (I also don't want parents to come screaming at me) It also irks me that my students take these radical ideas about Obama or even McCain as the truth. We all know Obama isn't a a terrorist, McCain isn't a super conservative republican but my students won't believe that what's on TV is a lie. Am I even making any sense here?
I just want my students to be well-informed, well-educated; whatever you want to call it, I want them to be intelligent voters and members of society. Even if they can't vote in this election, they will have to vote someday.
Funny of the day:
One of my 7th grade students, as innocent and cute as she is turned to me during a discussion about politics and says:
"Ms. Tutwiler are you even allowed to vote? Aren't you too young?"
Aah, my students think I'm under 18, I just hope this face keeps looking young for the rest of my life.
I just want my students to be well-informed, well-educated; whatever you want to call it, I want them to be intelligent voters and members of society. Even if they can't vote in this election, they will have to vote someday.
Funny of the day:
One of my 7th grade students, as innocent and cute as she is turned to me during a discussion about politics and says:
"Ms. Tutwiler are you even allowed to vote? Aren't you too young?"
Aah, my students think I'm under 18, I just hope this face keeps looking young for the rest of my life.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Really?
All I have to say today is........McCain are you kidding me? You want to overturn Roe v. Wade? Seriously.....
And I'm out, because I'm at school and I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be blogging while teaching.
Oops!
And I'm out, because I'm at school and I'm pretty sure I shouldn't be blogging while teaching.
Oops!
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Good people
I tend to be the most cynical person out of my little circle in life. And as this person I generally have the worse things to say about human nature, people, politics, life ...etc. I don't believe that man was made for peace or niceties but sometimes people can shock others, even myself. Case in point:
Saturday I needed to get air in my tires so I could make a trip up to Sherman to see Jessica. Well, I had no idea how much air to put in, how to use a tire gauge and all that nonsense so my mom decided to ask a guy at the Shell station. No one inside knew what to do so we asked some random dude who pulled in to get some gas. Not only did this guy inflate my tires, he explained how much air was supposed to go in, how to use the little air pump AND he gave me his tire gauge thing-y. Apparently nice people still exist.
By the by, Jessica and I had a wonderful Saturday being crafty and I even made a clock! I think I'm going to work on being creative because I want to make all these things that I see that are too expensive to buy. I hope Jeff is prepared to deal with my home craftiness.
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This week is going to be hectic and I'm definitely not looking forward to it. Monday and Tuesday are regular days, with cheer after school on Tuesday....Wednesday is PSAT testing for 10th graders which means the whole school schedule is jumbled around. I also have a meeting with some Academic assistance company Wednesday after school because one of my students met with them. I have no idea what to expect out of that meeting. Thursday is Rock-a-Thon/Jog-a-Thon which means kids will be going in and out of the classroom every 30 minutes; we're supposed to conduct class as normal....like that will happen. Oh, and we have a football game after school Thursday so that eats up that whole day. Friday we have parent-teacher conferences and I DO NOT look forward to this at all. I get so nervous around parents because I'm new and I don't know all the answers to the questions they ask. I know I'll make it through the day without any problems, I'll just stress about it until then.
Ahh, the joys of teaching.
Saturday I needed to get air in my tires so I could make a trip up to Sherman to see Jessica. Well, I had no idea how much air to put in, how to use a tire gauge and all that nonsense so my mom decided to ask a guy at the Shell station. No one inside knew what to do so we asked some random dude who pulled in to get some gas. Not only did this guy inflate my tires, he explained how much air was supposed to go in, how to use the little air pump AND he gave me his tire gauge thing-y. Apparently nice people still exist.
By the by, Jessica and I had a wonderful Saturday being crafty and I even made a clock! I think I'm going to work on being creative because I want to make all these things that I see that are too expensive to buy. I hope Jeff is prepared to deal with my home craftiness.
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This week is going to be hectic and I'm definitely not looking forward to it. Monday and Tuesday are regular days, with cheer after school on Tuesday....Wednesday is PSAT testing for 10th graders which means the whole school schedule is jumbled around. I also have a meeting with some Academic assistance company Wednesday after school because one of my students met with them. I have no idea what to expect out of that meeting. Thursday is Rock-a-Thon/Jog-a-Thon which means kids will be going in and out of the classroom every 30 minutes; we're supposed to conduct class as normal....like that will happen. Oh, and we have a football game after school Thursday so that eats up that whole day. Friday we have parent-teacher conferences and I DO NOT look forward to this at all. I get so nervous around parents because I'm new and I don't know all the answers to the questions they ask. I know I'll make it through the day without any problems, I'll just stress about it until then.
Ahh, the joys of teaching.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Long time, no see
My life has been consumed by grading lately! It's the end of the first 9 weeks this Friday and EVERYTHING needs to be turned in by Monday so report cards can be run Tuesday. I can't beleive I'm already done with the first quarter of school. It doesn't even feel like I've been teaching that long, but I guess that is a good thing. Time flies when you are busy.
So here's a funny that my student said on Wednesday during Fashion Club (yes I sponsor fashion club, go figure):
Girl: Do you have any glue?
Me: Yes, it's right there on the desk.
Girl: Oh it's foam glue....LOOK GUYS THIS GLUE IS GOING TO FOAM!!!!!
Strange, strange child I tell you.
The other thing I wanted to write about is maturity. I don't know what it is about my students but they are so immature. Today I introduced my 8th graders to the Holocaust/WWII unit that we are doing in conjunction with Anne Frank and The Hiding Place (both good pieces of literature that I recommend reading if you haven't already). I told my students about the movie The Pianist and of course they all laughed when I said the word pianist. It wasn't that I didn't expect laughter but....it was the amount of laughs and how loud/obnoxious they were about it. I told them that this was a serious subject and that The Pianist was by no means a funny movie. So after they quieted down I started telling them about the Madagascar Plan, which was a plan to ship all Jewish people to Madagascar before they came up with the idea of just killing them all. You'd think that would just be a simple point and I'd be able to move on but nooooo! My students all started discussing Madagascar the animated movie, continued to giggle and laugh and I just got so mad at them. When I was told about the Holocaust I couldn't even think of anything remotely funny to laugh about; it's just so serious. I'm about to give up on them. I was NEVER like that towards a teacher, well I shouldn't say never because I was once (but she's the Antichrist). BUT-I just can't get them to realize that they embarrass themselves by acting so immature. For Pete's sake they are in 8th grade not 2nd!!!
Oh and I found out that some 8th grade girls were talking smack about me in the bathroom, pretty awesome.
Life is eventful.
So here's a funny that my student said on Wednesday during Fashion Club (yes I sponsor fashion club, go figure):
Girl: Do you have any glue?
Me: Yes, it's right there on the desk.
Girl: Oh it's foam glue....LOOK GUYS THIS GLUE IS GOING TO FOAM!!!!!
Strange, strange child I tell you.
The other thing I wanted to write about is maturity. I don't know what it is about my students but they are so immature. Today I introduced my 8th graders to the Holocaust/WWII unit that we are doing in conjunction with Anne Frank and The Hiding Place (both good pieces of literature that I recommend reading if you haven't already). I told my students about the movie The Pianist and of course they all laughed when I said the word pianist. It wasn't that I didn't expect laughter but....it was the amount of laughs and how loud/obnoxious they were about it. I told them that this was a serious subject and that The Pianist was by no means a funny movie. So after they quieted down I started telling them about the Madagascar Plan, which was a plan to ship all Jewish people to Madagascar before they came up with the idea of just killing them all. You'd think that would just be a simple point and I'd be able to move on but nooooo! My students all started discussing Madagascar the animated movie, continued to giggle and laugh and I just got so mad at them. When I was told about the Holocaust I couldn't even think of anything remotely funny to laugh about; it's just so serious. I'm about to give up on them. I was NEVER like that towards a teacher, well I shouldn't say never because I was once (but she's the Antichrist). BUT-I just can't get them to realize that they embarrass themselves by acting so immature. For Pete's sake they are in 8th grade not 2nd!!!
Oh and I found out that some 8th grade girls were talking smack about me in the bathroom, pretty awesome.
Life is eventful.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Feeling like a loser
I've determined that the teacher career path leads you straight to loser-dom. My whole weekend was taken away (and it was a 3 day weekend) because of cheerleading, grading papers, getting ready for homecoming and general lesson-planning. Even though I had Friday off and I got to go to the Texas State Fair I still feel like I never have any fun anymore. This weekend will be no different since it is our homecoming and Thursday-Saturday will be filled with a plethora of activities and I shall have no free time yet again.
At least it's almost October, another month down and 6 and a half-ish to go...or is it 7? I have no idea!
Another thing that makes me feel like a loser is that I'm exhausted all the time and I live for the weekends just to sleep in. Did I just end my sentence with a preposition, darn. Plus with allergy season at it's height I've been feeling like death for days. And Brady has allergies, and my ma has allergies....it's like the outside wants us all to feel like crap. I can't wait until winter comes and cold knocks everything out....but then people starting getting the flu.
I'm just doomed.
Well I have cheer pictures today yes, on a Sunday the day of rest...so I must be going.
At least it's almost October, another month down and 6 and a half-ish to go...or is it 7? I have no idea!
Another thing that makes me feel like a loser is that I'm exhausted all the time and I live for the weekends just to sleep in. Did I just end my sentence with a preposition, darn. Plus with allergy season at it's height I've been feeling like death for days. And Brady has allergies, and my ma has allergies....it's like the outside wants us all to feel like crap. I can't wait until winter comes and cold knocks everything out....but then people starting getting the flu.
I'm just doomed.
Well I have cheer pictures today yes, on a Sunday the day of rest...so I must be going.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
When I think about it....
I know a lot of smart people. I remember back in high school when we used to label people by how smart, athletic, pretty, punk, goth and whatever you want to throw in there ,were. My friends and I always considered ourselves part of the smart group with a little bit of punk thrown in (by yours truly). Now that I think about, we were all really smart. We were the kids who finished our homework on time, studied several HOURS for tests AND still had time to go out and party.
When I think about my family we constantly have the same conversation about who is the smartest, who has more education, who makes more money etc. all of which have the same answer: dad.....And then my younger brother started writing a blog, the more I read it the more I feel like I'm reading something my father wrote. We are all intelligent and I'm just lucky to be a part of it all.
I never write anything serious like this because I don't like being serious most of the time, so let's end it with a funny like Master Splinter would...
"I have the herpes, you know when you burp and have the hiccups at the same time" hiccups+burps=herpes or hurpes whatever. GET IT?
When I think about my family we constantly have the same conversation about who is the smartest, who has more education, who makes more money etc. all of which have the same answer: dad.....And then my younger brother started writing a blog, the more I read it the more I feel like I'm reading something my father wrote. We are all intelligent and I'm just lucky to be a part of it all.
I never write anything serious like this because I don't like being serious most of the time, so let's end it with a funny like Master Splinter would...
"I have the herpes, you know when you burp and have the hiccups at the same time" hiccups+burps=herpes or hurpes whatever. GET IT?
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Dude we're at Wal-Mart!
Arlington Pentago Christian Academy is in a Wal-Mart...and that is where our game was tonight, which we won 54 or so to a big fat 0. My cheer girls were okay, they repeated a lot of the same cheers and they kept competing with the cheerleaders from the other team. If I had to chose a winner I would chose my girls, not because their mine, but because we were more together and we did a better half-time routine!!
I was also subject to a bus full of junior high football players for an hour and a half after the game. Let me tell you, if you don't remember what its like to be in junior high...
1. You are still trying to figure out the whole 'deodorant' thing so after 2 hours of playing in the sun you smell pretty ripe.
2. Texting (in my case we did have texts, we had notes) is the sneakiest way to talk to the opposite sex...AND this is the only way you can make a 'date'
3. Yelling is always appropriate
4. The more you fart/belch..etc...the cooler you are.
And that pretty much sums up junior high children, ooh and knowing who the "cool" teacher is makes you seem cooler by association.
I'm going to let you guess who they think the "cool" teacher is this year.
I was also subject to a bus full of junior high football players for an hour and a half after the game. Let me tell you, if you don't remember what its like to be in junior high...
1. You are still trying to figure out the whole 'deodorant' thing so after 2 hours of playing in the sun you smell pretty ripe.
2. Texting (in my case we did have texts, we had notes) is the sneakiest way to talk to the opposite sex...AND this is the only way you can make a 'date'
3. Yelling is always appropriate
4. The more you fart/belch..etc...the cooler you are.
And that pretty much sums up junior high children, ooh and knowing who the "cool" teacher is makes you seem cooler by association.
I'm going to let you guess who they think the "cool" teacher is this year.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Funny things part tres
So I've been sick for the past week and most of the funny things my students have said were towards me and how strange I sound/act when on medication. There are also random students stalking my facebook.
1. Ms. Tutwiler I AM NOT A STALKER! I only checked your facebook twice.....a day for the past two weeks.
2. Student:Mr. Bo is watching you outside through the window.
Me: Oh, I think he's just monitoring me (while putting my shoes back on)
Student: To make sure your not beating us?
Me: Something like that yes.
Student #3: Is that why you put your shoes back on?
3. Ms. T is never going to come back next year to teach if we keep acting this way!!! GOSH YOU GUYS ARE LOUD!!!
A couple of my students (who I've figured out are pretty liberal for their age/location/religion etc) try to stump me on music and politics on a daily basis. So today they were playing hangman (I was watching a class where a teacher was absent) and they picked Toxicity by System of a Down. Apparently only the cool hip kids who rebel against their republican parents listen to such music, and so I schooled them on SOAD and Serj and blew their minds. Not really but I pretty much win brownie points with them every time I let them into my world. Not that I need those brownie points mind you, I'm pretty amazing all by myself without them!
I've decided that even with the daily headaches, constant reprimanding, hundreds of graded papers...the whole nine yards, I like teaching.
And that is something I'd never thought I'd say; in this case the good really does out-weigh the bad.
1. Ms. Tutwiler I AM NOT A STALKER! I only checked your facebook twice.....a day for the past two weeks.
2. Student:Mr. Bo is watching you outside through the window.
Me: Oh, I think he's just monitoring me (while putting my shoes back on)
Student: To make sure your not beating us?
Me: Something like that yes.
Student #3: Is that why you put your shoes back on?
3. Ms. T is never going to come back next year to teach if we keep acting this way!!! GOSH YOU GUYS ARE LOUD!!!
A couple of my students (who I've figured out are pretty liberal for their age/location/religion etc) try to stump me on music and politics on a daily basis. So today they were playing hangman (I was watching a class where a teacher was absent) and they picked Toxicity by System of a Down. Apparently only the cool hip kids who rebel against their republican parents listen to such music, and so I schooled them on SOAD and Serj and blew their minds. Not really but I pretty much win brownie points with them every time I let them into my world. Not that I need those brownie points mind you, I'm pretty amazing all by myself without them!
I've decided that even with the daily headaches, constant reprimanding, hundreds of graded papers...the whole nine yards, I like teaching.
And that is something I'd never thought I'd say; in this case the good really does out-weigh the bad.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
ACHOO!
Sick.
First year teachers be warned...if you have students who are sick, you are most likely to catch whatever they have...ugh! I've been sick since Monday night and this week was probably the worst week to get sick, and I've decided that that is why I got sick. You never get sick when you have nothing going on, if you are just chillen at home for the weekend...you won't be sick; if you have a week full of activities...you'll probably get sick. I'm sort of hoping that hurricane Ike gets hear soon and that tomorrow night's game gets rained out, I can't really afford to hang out all night outside.
oooooh cheerleading....and 3 of my girls told me they were quitting before basketball season, that leaves me with 3...and that is if the other girls stay...doubt it!
My nose won't stop running.
Sick.
First year teachers be warned...if you have students who are sick, you are most likely to catch whatever they have...ugh! I've been sick since Monday night and this week was probably the worst week to get sick, and I've decided that that is why I got sick. You never get sick when you have nothing going on, if you are just chillen at home for the weekend...you won't be sick; if you have a week full of activities...you'll probably get sick. I'm sort of hoping that hurricane Ike gets hear soon and that tomorrow night's game gets rained out, I can't really afford to hang out all night outside.
oooooh cheerleading....and 3 of my girls told me they were quitting before basketball season, that leaves me with 3...and that is if the other girls stay...doubt it!
My nose won't stop running.
Sick.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
MTV VMA's
One thing about this year's VMA's that we could expect to hear about: Britney Spears, well she didn't give us a bad performance just a pretty plain Britney but considering our options I'll take plain over crazy any day.
And Russel Brand...I'm not sure if he translates into American humor very well, plus his beginning monolouge was mostly about voting for Barack Obama. Can't I just watch trashy television without hearing about some pop culture hippy man talk about politics?
Here is what I don't understand...the Jonas Brothers, where did they come from and how are they popular, I mean really?! If Hanson didn't last in the 90's then how do these, possibly even cheesier boys, drive girls all over the nation crazy? Think about it...Hanson: 3 boys, brothers, long blonde hair, high pitched voices singing about love and mmmbops. Jonas Brothers: 3 boys brothers, long brown hair, high pitched voices singing about love and other words I can't understand in that frequency. They performed tonight, the first 2 minutes consisted of the 3 boys sitting on a psuedo new york stoop swinging their curly locks to what else? A love song. Then they "jammed" out for about 30 seconds with the middle Jonas brother screaming and trying to be rock relevant, sadly for him he didn't quite deliver. I understand Miley Cyrus because we've had slews of pop princesses for years, but the Jonas Brothers will run their 15 minute timer out REAL quick.
Hmmm what else, OH YES young weezy or lil wayne or millionaire man, whatever his name is performed. With his pants halfway down his butt he once again told the world how rich he is and the crowd of millionaires loved him, ugh! But I'm not going to lie I listen to Lil' Wayne on the radio because his songs are catchy...I do not however listen to T Pain because he can't sing and he should never be allowed out of his studio. If all your songs are done on synthesizer how do you expect to sing live? AND why do rappers insist on hanging on to their crotch? I think it's because they need some sort of security blanket. If they didn't grab their crotch then what on earth would they do with their hands, they definitely wouldn't bust out some sweet dance moves.
Ooooo Miley Cyrus is up next....let the pedophiles rejoice, underage jail bait who doesn't mind flaunting her body to millions of Internet hungry photo stealers.
That's all I have to rant about for now, I think.
P.S. MTV said that the Twilight book series has trumped Harry Potter...I beg to differ, and I'm sure J.K. would too.
And Russel Brand...I'm not sure if he translates into American humor very well, plus his beginning monolouge was mostly about voting for Barack Obama. Can't I just watch trashy television without hearing about some pop culture hippy man talk about politics?
Here is what I don't understand...the Jonas Brothers, where did they come from and how are they popular, I mean really?! If Hanson didn't last in the 90's then how do these, possibly even cheesier boys, drive girls all over the nation crazy? Think about it...Hanson: 3 boys, brothers, long blonde hair, high pitched voices singing about love and mmmbops. Jonas Brothers: 3 boys brothers, long brown hair, high pitched voices singing about love and other words I can't understand in that frequency. They performed tonight, the first 2 minutes consisted of the 3 boys sitting on a psuedo new york stoop swinging their curly locks to what else? A love song. Then they "jammed" out for about 30 seconds with the middle Jonas brother screaming and trying to be rock relevant, sadly for him he didn't quite deliver. I understand Miley Cyrus because we've had slews of pop princesses for years, but the Jonas Brothers will run their 15 minute timer out REAL quick.
Hmmm what else, OH YES young weezy or lil wayne or millionaire man, whatever his name is performed. With his pants halfway down his butt he once again told the world how rich he is and the crowd of millionaires loved him, ugh! But I'm not going to lie I listen to Lil' Wayne on the radio because his songs are catchy...I do not however listen to T Pain because he can't sing and he should never be allowed out of his studio. If all your songs are done on synthesizer how do you expect to sing live? AND why do rappers insist on hanging on to their crotch? I think it's because they need some sort of security blanket. If they didn't grab their crotch then what on earth would they do with their hands, they definitely wouldn't bust out some sweet dance moves.
Ooooo Miley Cyrus is up next....let the pedophiles rejoice, underage jail bait who doesn't mind flaunting her body to millions of Internet hungry photo stealers.
That's all I have to rant about for now, I think.
P.S. MTV said that the Twilight book series has trumped Harry Potter...I beg to differ, and I'm sure J.K. would too.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Mad
I am so angry! I can not believe that someone who claims to be a 'best friend' would say those kind of things and then not expect me to hear about it!!! Are you stupid? Not only do you never talk to him, not an email, barely a phone call....and then you say 'well we'll see' like you don't believe its possible that your best friend could be happy.
No wonder your single. What girl would want to be with a guy like you?
I have only been this mad at a person once before, but this....this totally takes the cake. I don't understand why people just can't keep their mouths shut. Just because you are single, unhappy, living with your parents at 25 doesn't mean that you get to bring other people down with you.
People grow up, they get married. Get over it. And get over yourself.
No wonder your single. What girl would want to be with a guy like you?
I have only been this mad at a person once before, but this....this totally takes the cake. I don't understand why people just can't keep their mouths shut. Just because you are single, unhappy, living with your parents at 25 doesn't mean that you get to bring other people down with you.
People grow up, they get married. Get over it. And get over yourself.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Thom Yorke: who I want to name my child after!
If you don't know this man, why not? I've decided that if I have a boy I kind of like the name Thom or Yorke for that matter; depends on how 'original' Jeff wants to be!
The end.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Funny things part duece
Last night was our first football game, naturally being the junior high cheer coach this means I had to attend. Not only did I realize that I TOTALLY miss watching football, outside under the stars with the smell of nachos floating about me, but I got to hear a lot of silly stuff my students say when they aren't in school.
Me: Oh my gosh girls we have our own flag!
Girl #1: Coach T that was the stupidest thing I ever heard.
Me: Watch what you say I'm also your English teacher...
Girl # 2: OMG we have a flag!
Girl #1: Coach just said that, are you going to fail me?
Other things:
1. We totally just talked about how weird the new kid is and his parents are sitting right in front of us, what should we do????
2. I will be Mrs. Nick Jonas someday.
Me: LADIES, we just scored that means you should cheer!!!
Girls: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH right!!
I'm sure to most people these things aren't terribly funny but you really have to hear how my students say them, sometimes their inflection just makes whatever they say sound hilarious! I've grown quite fond of my students as of late, I think I'm in a good place, of course there are always exceptions but you'll never hear about those....hopefully.
Me: Oh my gosh girls we have our own flag!
Girl #1: Coach T that was the stupidest thing I ever heard.
Me: Watch what you say I'm also your English teacher...
Girl # 2: OMG we have a flag!
Girl #1: Coach just said that, are you going to fail me?
Other things:
1. We totally just talked about how weird the new kid is and his parents are sitting right in front of us, what should we do????
2. I will be Mrs. Nick Jonas someday.
Me: LADIES, we just scored that means you should cheer!!!
Girls: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH right!!
I'm sure to most people these things aren't terribly funny but you really have to hear how my students say them, sometimes their inflection just makes whatever they say sound hilarious! I've grown quite fond of my students as of late, I think I'm in a good place, of course there are always exceptions but you'll never hear about those....hopefully.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Funny things student say
1. Are we going to be able to use our notes on this quiz? (When we just discussed nearly every question on the quiz before they were handed out)
2. Are you having a bad day Ms. Tutwiler? Is it because we never shut up?
3. So this one time (add in any random story you could ever think of)....that's a true story I swear!
4. WHERE IS THE HAND SANITIZER????? It smells like fruit loops! Can I have some? No really, where is it? You hid it, WHY? I just want one squirt ONE!
And more to come as the year progresses....yes, the hand sanitizer comment did happen...it happens every day.
2. Are you having a bad day Ms. Tutwiler? Is it because we never shut up?
3. So this one time (add in any random story you could ever think of)....that's a true story I swear!
4. WHERE IS THE HAND SANITIZER????? It smells like fruit loops! Can I have some? No really, where is it? You hid it, WHY? I just want one squirt ONE!
And more to come as the year progresses....yes, the hand sanitizer comment did happen...it happens every day.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
I'm better than you
Tomorrow is the first day of school, for public school kids that is...it will be my second full week! Which is why I'm better than you, no not better than the one person who reads this blog because let's face it she's awesome!
I'm better because....
1. I've already graded homework assignments for 3 different grade levels
2. I've already planned tests for next week
3. I've had to move kids from one side of the room to the other...because of discipline issues
Basically....I'm amazing. I have done a great job of teaching my students BUT I still have a long way to go...and I mean a long long way. A lot of my students think they can talk and disrupt class without getting in trouble, and that is my fault...but that's changing this week. I've lost my voice so that I sound like a man...There is a lot of adjustment to be done...which means I'm really not any better than you.
ANYWAY
I need to stop hanging around with couples...or seeing couples, I really need to be agoraphobic. Everytime I see a couple my heart cringes, it's that kind of cringe you get when you see that guy who broke your heart with the girl who has a better everything than you...ugh! I feel broken hearted and I haven't even been broken up with....that does make sense I promise. I know I have Jeff, but now that our conversations are becoming less frequent and I haven't seen him since the beginning of May I'm starting to feel REALLY lonely. Don't get me wrong, I love him and nothing is ever going to change that...I'll wait for him to come home, we'll get married and have lots of babies but it's just hard to live day to day without the person you love. Sad day.
Enough of that.
I'm better because....
1. I've already graded homework assignments for 3 different grade levels
2. I've already planned tests for next week
3. I've had to move kids from one side of the room to the other...because of discipline issues
Basically....I'm amazing. I have done a great job of teaching my students BUT I still have a long way to go...and I mean a long long way. A lot of my students think they can talk and disrupt class without getting in trouble, and that is my fault...but that's changing this week. I've lost my voice so that I sound like a man...There is a lot of adjustment to be done...which means I'm really not any better than you.
ANYWAY
I need to stop hanging around with couples...or seeing couples, I really need to be agoraphobic. Everytime I see a couple my heart cringes, it's that kind of cringe you get when you see that guy who broke your heart with the girl who has a better everything than you...ugh! I feel broken hearted and I haven't even been broken up with....that does make sense I promise. I know I have Jeff, but now that our conversations are becoming less frequent and I haven't seen him since the beginning of May I'm starting to feel REALLY lonely. Don't get me wrong, I love him and nothing is ever going to change that...I'll wait for him to come home, we'll get married and have lots of babies but it's just hard to live day to day without the person you love. Sad day.
Enough of that.
Friday, August 15, 2008
God Forbid
I was watching 20 Most Shocking Unsolved Crimes and as I learned about Jon Benet Ramsey, DB Cooper and how (sadly) we got the Amber Alert there it was: Anthrax. Now for some crazy republicans this would send shivers down their spine and some words like "Thank God George Bush declared this war on terror or else we'd all have the anthrax!" would be uttered. And while I consider terrorism to be truly horrifying and the fact that five people died from Anthrax is no laughing matter; I heard the MOST idiotic thing EVER. Here is (and I paraphrase) what one woman dressed in a business suit I can only assume she bought at Ross said: They targeted the most important people in this country....senators and THE MEDIA!!!
THE MEDIA???? God forbid that we lose the most egotistical people on god's green/brown earth! What would we do without the media? Oh I don't know, maybe we could actually fix what's wrong with our government and the way they relay news to us? Maybe and here is a stretch we could focus on our failing economy instead of what dress the president's daughter would wear on her wedding day?! I understand the media does give us important news; soldiers fighting in a useless war, hurricanes/tsunamis/tornadoes wiping out cities all over the planet but are they really the most important people in our country?
I would hope not.
THE MEDIA???? God forbid that we lose the most egotistical people on god's green/brown earth! What would we do without the media? Oh I don't know, maybe we could actually fix what's wrong with our government and the way they relay news to us? Maybe and here is a stretch we could focus on our failing economy instead of what dress the president's daughter would wear on her wedding day?! I understand the media does give us important news; soldiers fighting in a useless war, hurricanes/tsunamis/tornadoes wiping out cities all over the planet but are they really the most important people in our country?
I would hope not.
Jeff
I miss him. Everyone around me has their boyfriend/fiance/husband around them. But I don't.
I want him to come home now!
That is it.
I want him to come home now!
That is it.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
THANK GOD that's done
First day of teaching is now done! I'm so glad that I never have to go through that again...and yeah it was only one day, but I feel like I already accomplished so much. While other people are still anticipating their first days I will be already well into my first year. And that, my friends, is a really good feeling. Nothing really extraordinary happened, no crazy student antics, no discipline issues, overall it was pretty boring. I love my 7th and 8th graders which is something that has taken me totally by surprise! These kids are just excited about everything and you think that would be a bad thing but compared to my 10th graders it isn't!!!!! My 10th graders just sat there, literally, and stared at me like I was a zoo animal. I think high schoolers are just jaded about school and they start to get in this 'I'm way too cool for this' mode. Hopefully I'll break them out of that shell because I am young and I can relate to them better than the older teachers.
It was also nice to be myself for once. Since it was my very own classroom I could be sarcastic and funny; I can implement my own lesson plans without a supervisor breathing down my neck. I really think this year will go well, even if I have to really work with my 10th graders to be more outgoing. Well.... I have some things to put together before tomorrow and I need to get some rest. I'll try to update this as much as possible but with this hectic new year I'm sure my posts will become less frequent.
It was also nice to be myself for once. Since it was my very own classroom I could be sarcastic and funny; I can implement my own lesson plans without a supervisor breathing down my neck. I really think this year will go well, even if I have to really work with my 10th graders to be more outgoing. Well.... I have some things to put together before tomorrow and I need to get some rest. I'll try to update this as much as possible but with this hectic new year I'm sure my posts will become less frequent.
Monday, August 11, 2008
I am going blind.
And that is no metaphor ladies and gentlemen! I went to the eye doctor today and got some pretty disappointing news...my eyes have changed yet again and as usual its for the worse. Apparently my eyes aren't getting any oxygen in them because of my contacts so my doctor scolded me but I told him that I haven't worn my contacts since last Wednesday, which means there is just something wrong with my eyes. So last time I went they told me I had astigmatism well now they don't know if I have that or its just the vascular growth (due to lack of oxygen) in my corneas that is making my vision blurry. Either way I'm probably never going to be able to wear contacts over 6 hours in a day ever again.
Which doesn't bother me.
What does bother me is that my eyes get progressively worse every time I go to get my eyes checked and eventually I think I'm just going to be legally blind. Wouldn't that be funny legally blind at the age of 30?? I hate not being able to see.
My life sucks.
Not really.
Jeff called today and that was a highlight because I haven't talked to him in a while. He is doing okay over in Kuwait, he says it's super hot and he doesn't like being told what to do anymore. I think being a civilian for 2 years got to him. Huspaz for civilians!
Which doesn't bother me.
What does bother me is that my eyes get progressively worse every time I go to get my eyes checked and eventually I think I'm just going to be legally blind. Wouldn't that be funny legally blind at the age of 30?? I hate not being able to see.
My life sucks.
Not really.
Jeff called today and that was a highlight because I haven't talked to him in a while. He is doing okay over in Kuwait, he says it's super hot and he doesn't like being told what to do anymore. I think being a civilian for 2 years got to him. Huspaz for civilians!
Saturday, August 9, 2008
School
The first day of school is Wednesday. WEDNESDAY, for pete's sake!
(Pete Sampras)In-service started on Thursday and I got so overloaded with information that I didn't know where to start. So I think I'm definitely going to write a book about being a first year teacher and make sure to describe in-service days...because no one ever tells you what in-service is like and no one really cares whether you know whats going on or not! RIDICULOUS! Luckily I'm at a school that does care, everyone has come up to me at least once and asked me if I needed anything. Some people just come around to say hi or check in on my progress. It's really nice to know that the staff I'll be working with this year actually wants to know who I am.
Any who...my mother has started talking 'weddings' again so I think at some point she wants me to make some decisions. She is paranoid that I won't get what I want because Jeff isn't here and our engagement will be super short...yadda yadda. I'm not worried about it, I mean, should I be?
I assume I'll be back on here next week to inform you (technically myself since no one reads this) about my first week teaching!
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Bored
I don't know why people go back to those who hurt them. I fought with myself(quite a long time ago) for almost a year trying to figure out if I should talk to someone who broke my heart. Today I can say that I couldn't care less if I talk to that person or not, they no longer have any control over my emotions. And I have to say that is a great feeling. For a while I thought it was because I had Jeff in my life that I didn't need that other person anymore. But now that Jeff is in Kuwait I have realized that I don't need other people who bring me down, and I've done that all on my own. You know how people say you can't love someone else if you don't love yourself? Well I get that concept now. I love myself for who I am and I'm grateful to have someone in my life who loves me unconditionally. Yes, that sounds cheesy...so let's get back to the point.
If someone hurts you, why do you go back?
This post mainly comes from events that I witnessed this weekend. I think it may be a mental disorder sometimes; people love to be hurt. They thrive on it, it's like the kid who disrupts the class just because he wants attention and negative attention is better then no attention. And...that ...is just sickening.
And no matter how much advice I give out, or how many times I tell a person to steer clear of the 'bad guy' they always go back. People always go back.
I just don't understand why.
If someone hurts you, why do you go back?
This post mainly comes from events that I witnessed this weekend. I think it may be a mental disorder sometimes; people love to be hurt. They thrive on it, it's like the kid who disrupts the class just because he wants attention and negative attention is better then no attention. And...that ...is just sickening.
And no matter how much advice I give out, or how many times I tell a person to steer clear of the 'bad guy' they always go back. People always go back.
I just don't understand why.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Punishment
Question to you: Why did America push the prison system?
After watching a program called 'Punishment' on the History Channel, I found out that it was America who revolutionized the prison system. And as the program continued I realized how ridiculous this sentiment was, how did we ever think of letting criminals LIVE in prison? At first, prison was a place you would go to be isolated from society because you had committed a crime. Isolated being the key word in that last sentence. If you look at the prison system now criminals are allowed to congregate with each other, play sports, play music, eat 3 square meals a day...make gangs, fight each other, create a barter system and so forth. It is a community sometimes an extremely corrupt community, but a community none the less.
NOW having said that I must clarify that I do not, in fact, endorse capital punishment. I don't believe in an eye for an eye, like Gandhi said "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". BUT I do not think that criminals should be allowed to live in comfort however trivial that comfort is. I know that prison is a horrible place, I know that people die because they are the wrong color or they become someone's slave/lover without consent. It is by no means a great place to find yourself. But when I see a documentary on prisoners on TV and they are smiling, they are in better shape then they've ever been in their life...then you realize something is wrong. Should a man who raped and killed women or children or even men be allowed civilities? I don't know.
I think America should start thinking about reforming their system. Including people who are in prison for trivial crimes, they take up space and money that could be going towards greater criminals.
Maybe my view of the prison system is tainted by television, maybe it is worse then what I think. But I know I'm not the only one who thinks this way.
After watching a program called 'Punishment' on the History Channel, I found out that it was America who revolutionized the prison system. And as the program continued I realized how ridiculous this sentiment was, how did we ever think of letting criminals LIVE in prison? At first, prison was a place you would go to be isolated from society because you had committed a crime. Isolated being the key word in that last sentence. If you look at the prison system now criminals are allowed to congregate with each other, play sports, play music, eat 3 square meals a day...make gangs, fight each other, create a barter system and so forth. It is a community sometimes an extremely corrupt community, but a community none the less.
NOW having said that I must clarify that I do not, in fact, endorse capital punishment. I don't believe in an eye for an eye, like Gandhi said "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind". BUT I do not think that criminals should be allowed to live in comfort however trivial that comfort is. I know that prison is a horrible place, I know that people die because they are the wrong color or they become someone's slave/lover without consent. It is by no means a great place to find yourself. But when I see a documentary on prisoners on TV and they are smiling, they are in better shape then they've ever been in their life...then you realize something is wrong. Should a man who raped and killed women or children or even men be allowed civilities? I don't know.
I think America should start thinking about reforming their system. Including people who are in prison for trivial crimes, they take up space and money that could be going towards greater criminals.
Maybe my view of the prison system is tainted by television, maybe it is worse then what I think. But I know I'm not the only one who thinks this way.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Giving up
I'm almost to the point.
I want to give up.
I was born with two faces
for a while they lived in peace.
But now
it's constant conflict.
The two cannot be one in the same,
I
have
to
separate.
I have to chose.
I have to decide.
Which one?
Which one?
Which one?
But it isn't easy
it isn't like they said.
There is no concrete solution
for the abstraction in my head.
Which one?
Which one.
I want to give up.
I was born with two faces
for a while they lived in peace.
But now
it's constant conflict.
The two cannot be one in the same,
I
have
to
separate.
I have to chose.
I have to decide.
Which one?
Which one?
Which one?
But it isn't easy
it isn't like they said.
There is no concrete solution
for the abstraction in my head.
Which one?
Which one.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Complaints
Here are the lists of things that have irritated me today...
1) People who work as teachers but don't have formal training as teachers, they didn't go to school to be teachers, they couldn't find other jobs so they became teachers, they thought teaching was easy so they got a permanent sub position...and so forth. Sometimes people ask me what I think is wrong with public education, maybe I'll just direct them to this post so they can see my answer. In Texas some schools need teachers SO BAD that they hire anyone with a college degree and those people get 'emergency certified'. The problem with this is that teaching doesn't come easily to most people, just because you are a master physicist doesn't mean you know how to transfer that information to a 15 year old girl. Or boy for that matter. We are hiring people who don't know how to teach, we are giving our children the bottom of the pile because no one respects teachers anymore. I have cringed a lot at the conference I'm at this week, but this trumps everything. I became a teacher because I WANTED to be one, not because it was a last resort.
2) Now this one a little tamer...bicyclist. I don't remember people biking in Itasca, I remember kids on sidewalks falling over their training wheels, but no professional bikers. Here they are all over the place and they really REALLY piss me off. There is this thing called rush hour, I don't know if you've ever heard of it but it's where all the roads get bombarded with cars and then suddenly you think I'm not on the highway anymore. I'm on a regular road on my way home it's a road no one travels and yet there is a lot of traffic. And then I see it. The bicyclist. In the middle of the road. So everyone has to slow down move into the other lane. My advice to bicyclists GET OFF THE ROAD, especially if it's during a time called rush hour.
3) Being surrounded by republicans. Literally. I know no one(well enough) within a 30 mile radius who shares my political views. Ugh, I hate the south.
And that is about it for now. I have a lot more I could rant about but some things should just stay in my head. I could get in trouble for documenting them on the internet.
1) People who work as teachers but don't have formal training as teachers, they didn't go to school to be teachers, they couldn't find other jobs so they became teachers, they thought teaching was easy so they got a permanent sub position...and so forth. Sometimes people ask me what I think is wrong with public education, maybe I'll just direct them to this post so they can see my answer. In Texas some schools need teachers SO BAD that they hire anyone with a college degree and those people get 'emergency certified'. The problem with this is that teaching doesn't come easily to most people, just because you are a master physicist doesn't mean you know how to transfer that information to a 15 year old girl. Or boy for that matter. We are hiring people who don't know how to teach, we are giving our children the bottom of the pile because no one respects teachers anymore. I have cringed a lot at the conference I'm at this week, but this trumps everything. I became a teacher because I WANTED to be one, not because it was a last resort.
2) Now this one a little tamer...bicyclist. I don't remember people biking in Itasca, I remember kids on sidewalks falling over their training wheels, but no professional bikers. Here they are all over the place and they really REALLY piss me off. There is this thing called rush hour, I don't know if you've ever heard of it but it's where all the roads get bombarded with cars and then suddenly you think I'm not on the highway anymore. I'm on a regular road on my way home it's a road no one travels and yet there is a lot of traffic. And then I see it. The bicyclist. In the middle of the road. So everyone has to slow down move into the other lane. My advice to bicyclists GET OFF THE ROAD, especially if it's during a time called rush hour.
3) Being surrounded by republicans. Literally. I know no one(well enough) within a 30 mile radius who shares my political views. Ugh, I hate the south.
And that is about it for now. I have a lot more I could rant about but some things should just stay in my head. I could get in trouble for documenting them on the internet.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
1 down, 2 to go
I finished the 7th grade syllabus today!!!! Now I have to finish 8th and 10th but I think those will go a lot quicker since 8th follows pretty closely to the 7th grade they just have different things to read and a different order of writing assignments. 10th grade should prove to be the most difficult. The first 9 weeks are dedicated to short stories, and considering I don't know where the short stories are I don't know if students can take them home to read or if we have to read them in class.
That paragraph was filled with run-ons. My bad. That is a fragment. But I'm over it.
Besides that, things are pretty stressful here. I have a conference to go to all week so that will get me out of the house and hopefully help clear my head. Or just make it worse.
School starts in 2 weeks, I can't believe I'm about to start teaching. I feel like I should be starting classes at UNT at the end of August not teaching them at middle school/high school. But I can't wait until next year, 2009 will be a good year and that's what I'm working toward...2009.
That paragraph was filled with run-ons. My bad. That is a fragment. But I'm over it.
Besides that, things are pretty stressful here. I have a conference to go to all week so that will get me out of the house and hopefully help clear my head. Or just make it worse.
School starts in 2 weeks, I can't believe I'm about to start teaching. I feel like I should be starting classes at UNT at the end of August not teaching them at middle school/high school. But I can't wait until next year, 2009 will be a good year and that's what I'm working toward...2009.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Funny stuff
I'm teaching at a private Christian school and I've been thinking about incorporating music and art into my lessons like I did when I was a student teacher in the public school. Well you have to be super careful with pop culture these days, a lot of stuff is inappropriate for a Christian school. Even though I LOVE pop culture, I have to censor myself....until I found this youtube video. It takes a popular rap/hip hop song and turns it into a Christian rap song. I thought it was neat albeit a little corny too. But it's still shows some talent of a Pastor trying to reach this new generation.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TyfWJg8-w7E
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TyfWJg8-w7E
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
What was I going to write about again?
Oh yeah, I was super excited to come home and write about seeing The Dark Knight. Heath Ledger was amazing, does he live up to the hype? Sure. But what about Christian Bale...amazing, sure he assualted his mother and sister or so the news media says...he's still hot. And he is a talented actor even if he's not a nice human being.
BUT
And I mean this a BIG but.... I'm no longer excited about the movie or writing about the movie or writing about how I think Christian Bale should get just as much notice as Heath Ledger. I received an email from my place of employment aka school. It included the school calendar, mandatory in-service days, a new staff questionnaire...and so on. Within this lovely little packet of pure panic inducing information was the worst piece of info I have ever seen. A rough syllabus of each class that I'm teaching has to be turned in by July 31st. JULY FREAKING 31ST!!!!! That's right around the corner, a syllabus....so many things can go wrong if you plan to far ahead. What if my students don't get the information as quickly as I think they will? What if I'm completely underestimating them and their intelligence and they blow through everything I give them like its a piece of cellophane? Or the worst thought that's running through my head...what if my principal hates everything I've planned?!?!?!
Everyone who knows me knows that I stress out over the littlest of things. To me, and to my fellow new teacher friends, this isn't a little thing. So you can imagine the stress I am now putting on myself. All next week I have a conference from 8-5 at UTD. How will I get this all done? I need to get my priorities straight er..straighter. I've always been a procrastinator but I think this time I've taken it WAY too far.
BUT
And I mean this a BIG but.... I'm no longer excited about the movie or writing about the movie or writing about how I think Christian Bale should get just as much notice as Heath Ledger. I received an email from my place of employment aka school. It included the school calendar, mandatory in-service days, a new staff questionnaire...and so on. Within this lovely little packet of pure panic inducing information was the worst piece of info I have ever seen. A rough syllabus of each class that I'm teaching has to be turned in by July 31st. JULY FREAKING 31ST!!!!! That's right around the corner, a syllabus....so many things can go wrong if you plan to far ahead. What if my students don't get the information as quickly as I think they will? What if I'm completely underestimating them and their intelligence and they blow through everything I give them like its a piece of cellophane? Or the worst thought that's running through my head...what if my principal hates everything I've planned?!?!?!
Everyone who knows me knows that I stress out over the littlest of things. To me, and to my fellow new teacher friends, this isn't a little thing. So you can imagine the stress I am now putting on myself. All next week I have a conference from 8-5 at UTD. How will I get this all done? I need to get my priorities straight er..straighter. I've always been a procrastinator but I think this time I've taken it WAY too far.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
As a woman who holds a Bachelors degree in English...
I think there are some things that we could do without in the English language. One such thing would be using the word 'one' to replace 'you', 'he', 'she' and the like. Case in point: I love the show No Reservations... you know it's on the travel channel, with Anthony Bourdain as the host. You might know him from the show Top Chef where he judges aspiring chefs' concoctions with a sarcastic intelligence I only wish I could replicate. BUT I digress. Bourdain has a blog based on his travels around the world exhibiting different cultures and the fabulous food that goes along with them. So I go to read his blog and the newest one is on Colombia (and may I say that I can not wait until the show airs) then I scroll down to look at the comments people have made and there it is! Some dork is saying "one should do one's research" and I got to thinking about how I hated when my teachers banned me from using 'you' or 'I' in a paper. Now I understand, after four years of college, that using 'you' or 'I' in a paper makes it informal and there should be a difference between an informal and formal paper and yadda yadda yadda. But there has to be something else we could use besides 'one'. I find that it sounds a little pompous or like someone who wants to be considered of a higher status. Whatever. I've decided that my students aren't going to use 'one' in their papers because the English language is changing even if it is only in my classroom.
P.S. For future reference I am by no means a grammar 'nazi' as we call them in the English department. I don't like using formal grammar in blogs, email etc...well sometimes I do but only if I have to email my principal!
P.S. For future reference I am by no means a grammar 'nazi' as we call them in the English department. I don't like using formal grammar in blogs, email etc...well sometimes I do but only if I have to email my principal!
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Thank God! This week is over!
Me and the nephew (Brady) I was lucky enough to have parents that didn't leave my brothers and I alone so that they could go gallivanting all over the world. But now that my brothers and I are all in our 20s I think my parents decided it was time to take a vacation. They went on a 7 day cruise. Which left me to watch my nephew (this duty usually belongs to my mother)...all week. Every morning at 8:30 he would be dropped off by his mother, pop tart in one hand milk in the other, SCREAMING his little brains out. It's tough for a one year old to be bounced from one house to another and I understand that but I swear by the time Tuesday afternoon rolled around I was completely convinced that I never wanted to have children. Now that it is Saturday afternoon I kind of miss the little guy but I definitely don't want to take care of him for another 5 days in a row, I'll leave that to my mother.
I also thought that my nephew broke my phone, it has since been fixed but I almost gave the kid to the guy at Verizon so I wouldn't have to deal with him (and my broken cell).
On a completely different note...I have to start getting ready for school. I have only planned the first 3 weeks for each of my 3 different grades, which I think is a huge accomplishment in itself, but I still have a long way to go. I also have to get together with the varsity cheerleader coach so that I can start planning what to do with my junior high cheerleaders. The girls are really sweet but they are basically first year cheerleaders and I'm a first year coach so we have to work hard if we want to be any good. It is going to be an extremely stressful year.
I don't know what I'm doing. I just know that I'll make it through even if it means less sleep and more coffee.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Base your vote on Mariah Carey's opinion
While cruising the Internet for celebrity gossip, I came across on article titled "Exclusive from ELLE: Mariah Carey opens up about race, politics, her new marriage and the secrets she's had to keep" (http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/exclusive-from-elle-mariah-carey-opens-up-race-politics-marriage-and-secrets-203604/). Mariah Carey....the woman who went from girl next door-to singing diva-to crazy-to wife of Nick Cannon talks about politics, as if she's the political guru of my generation! Now Carey herself admits to being "not the political analyst of the ages" so I forgive her, but who cares what she thinks about politics? The only reason she was asked that question was because she has a mixed heritage. But instead of ranting about race and how this political campaign started off with the notion that it wasn't going to be about white vs black I'll talk about something else.
By the way...I'm a democrat so you can probably figure out who I'm voting for, I'm just irritated that we only look at Obama as the next 'black president' and McCain as another 'white president'. Why don't we look at what they stand for...okay so I lied, I had to rant some more...my bad please forgive me.
On to another subject....parents. If you are going to have a baby, or not take the precaution to prevent a pregnancy, TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN DAMN CHILD! Don't just pawn them off on grandparents, sisters, brothers etc...we didn't make the baby, you did! Yes we love our nieces, nephews, cousins whatever but watching them everyday is exhausting. If you make the baby...you take care of the baby.
By the way...I'm a democrat so you can probably figure out who I'm voting for, I'm just irritated that we only look at Obama as the next 'black president' and McCain as another 'white president'. Why don't we look at what they stand for...okay so I lied, I had to rant some more...my bad please forgive me.
On to another subject....parents. If you are going to have a baby, or not take the precaution to prevent a pregnancy, TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN DAMN CHILD! Don't just pawn them off on grandparents, sisters, brothers etc...we didn't make the baby, you did! Yes we love our nieces, nephews, cousins whatever but watching them everyday is exhausting. If you make the baby...you take care of the baby.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Married with children...at 22?
Due to the invention of Facebook people have been able to spy into the private lives of everyone that they add as 'friends'. Who am I to deny this new way of stalking? And here in lies the point of this post...why in the world are all the kids...and I say kids because I don't feel like a complete adult yet...getting married and having babies by the age of 22? Most of my friends told me in high school that they were going to wait until their mid-20s to get married and wait till late 20s to have kids. When I facebook 'stalk' friends from high school, middle school and new friends from college about 75% are married and 50% have a baby (25% of this 50 are expecting AGAIN!) These figures maybe a little off...I'm not a math person
Am I missing the new trend to get married young? Should I be thinking about kids at 22? I always thought that I would be the last one to get married, the last one to have kids....yadda yadda.
But now I really don't think that's a bad thing. Jeff and I have discussed marriage and we are planning on getting married next year, that means I'll be 23 and he'll be 25 and I think thats a good age. When it comes to babies I think I'll try to wait another year after that because who needs a kid at 23???? I want to be able to travel, especially with Jeff and not worry about taking kids or having my parents or his parents watch them.
I think I'm in a good place at the moment. Kids having kids? Not for me.
Am I missing the new trend to get married young? Should I be thinking about kids at 22? I always thought that I would be the last one to get married, the last one to have kids....yadda yadda.
But now I really don't think that's a bad thing. Jeff and I have discussed marriage and we are planning on getting married next year, that means I'll be 23 and he'll be 25 and I think thats a good age. When it comes to babies I think I'll try to wait another year after that because who needs a kid at 23???? I want to be able to travel, especially with Jeff and not worry about taking kids or having my parents or his parents watch them.
I think I'm in a good place at the moment. Kids having kids? Not for me.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
First Time
After reading celebrity blogs, friends blogs and even my dad's I decided it was time to give in to peer pressure and start my own.
I've graduated from college, I've got a career that starts in August (I'll be teaching English to some middle school kids, and 10th graders), I just bought my very first car (which I own without the help of my parents) and I feel like I've accomplished nothing this entire summer. My boyfriend...soon to be fiance....is in Kuwait. So this is the start of my life...the real world?
So far it's definitely not what I expected.
This is my adventure...or misadventure...or disaster...whatever it is, it hasn't gotten exciting yet. We'll see if I keep this up. And maybe you'll get to hear about the life of a first year teacher trying to plan a wedding when she hasn't even been proposed to yet while she's waiting for her boyfriend to come home.
I've graduated from college, I've got a career that starts in August (I'll be teaching English to some middle school kids, and 10th graders), I just bought my very first car (which I own without the help of my parents) and I feel like I've accomplished nothing this entire summer. My boyfriend...soon to be fiance....is in Kuwait. So this is the start of my life...the real world?
So far it's definitely not what I expected.
This is my adventure...or misadventure...or disaster...whatever it is, it hasn't gotten exciting yet. We'll see if I keep this up. And maybe you'll get to hear about the life of a first year teacher trying to plan a wedding when she hasn't even been proposed to yet while she's waiting for her boyfriend to come home.
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