Life Was a Little to Cushy!

So as you may imagine now that school has ended and as I am only working part-time I planned to have fairly relaxed and peaceful time for the next few months. BUT ALAS (a little foreshadowing)! So for the past year I have had one of the cushiest callings in the church, Relief Society Teacher, as the ward has four of us it means that I teach about once every 5 to 8 weeks dependent on the circumstances (I have not taught since November). But I still aspire to the best calling in the ward which is of course assistant librarian, I mean come on you leave class early and arrive late (have to unlock and lock the door), everybody comes through so you can talk to everyone, and no work the rest of the week. As the assistant it also means no real responsibility. I figure this will not come to me until I am elderly, but remain ever hopeful. So I guess the Lord decided my life was a little too comfortable and decided to force me to work. As of next week I will be the new SEMINARY teacher for the 11th graders!!!!!!!! OH DEAR. Well, at least I know that as long as I prepare to the best of my ability for every lesson He will ensure it turns out okay. So as I am already a slacker when it comes to my posts don’t be to surprised when they are as sporadic as last year.

2010

Happy New Year!!!! So yes, it has been a while, but let’s face a few facts here, how regularly do I do this even when I'm not busy? So . . . hopefully as you as you hear about my last several months you will excuse my absences. In the middle of December I finished my final semester of student teaching - yes this means I am done and after all the paperwork is done I will have my credential. FINALLY!! I did my student teaching at Simi High School, which was a little strange for me as I graduated from there about 15 years ago (and yes a few of my old teachers are still there). But after a while I was so grateful for being there because 1 - I knew the campus and could get around and 2 - I was so close my commute was about 3.5 minutes and at 7 a.m. that is a huge bonus. I taught 4 - 10th grade classes and 2 - 11th grade classes (modern world and US history). I really had a good time and am finding that I miss my students. During the student teaching we had a few fun (yes about 30-40 pages typed, and one included a 20 min video of me teaching my class) tests to do for the state, they were way fun and I think at one point I was hallucinating and made brownies and then forgot to eat them until a few days later. But, halleluiah I passed them all and finished all my classes with a 4.0 (yes this is me bragging a little [ok a lot, it has taken a year and a half after all]). After the semester ended Christmas started and I got to spend two weeks lying around and if you ask mom and dad that is exactly what I did. But I did have some fun times with Jeff's boys as they came down for the holidays; and yes if you have heard the rumors I did take the Dan, Will, and Sarah to see the Princess and the Frog and as we sat down at the start of the movie I dumped a whole tub of popcorn on the poor girl seated in front of me. So now my klutziness and ability to spill food on myself on a daily basis has reach proportions where I am also spilling on innocent bystanders. Now that the Christmas break has ended I have started to work again over at the Reagan Library, only this time I working exclusively as an Educator in the AFO Discovery Center with field trip groups. I work part-time and spend the rest of the time trying to find places to send my resume that is constantly needing more work to be presentable. Well, hope all is well for you and that you are able to find joy this year and hopefully I will be more on the ball this year and get more posts on a regular basis.

Jerry Seinfeld Teaches History! Yes! We all do this!

The Office Photo Gallery

Nadia Comăneci

It is amazing what you can find on youtube. As one of the girls that used to watch the TV made movie about Nadia it made me want to view the real thing. Enjoy.

Little Ania & My Last Day at Work

Little Ania was born last month, she is so cute and has Liz's lips. Jon and Liz are very funny about her, if she makes a noise while she sleeps they jump up to see what is up. My first visit with Ania, Liz explained how fun it was to clean her dirty diaper. I'm just glad they are enjoying it so they don't try to pass it off to me. We will miss them when they go to Poland. For more pics of her go to Jon and Liz's blog. The next pictures in the slide are from my last day at work, Jen put pictures of Harry Potter, The Office and since she knows how much I love Twilight, (see Twilight UGH post below) many pics of that as well. She put my face inside some of the pics as well, so I'm dancing with Harry, with Viktor Krum, and Cedric Diggory. Then my work made a card goodbye with my face in replace of Hermione Granger (I like this one the best) in place of Bella for Twilight, for one of the models of American Next Top Model and for the Bachelorette (they know we talk about them all the time). It was very funny. They gave me gifts representing some of the jokes we had running, such as sponges because Linda started one on fire in the microwave once. Jen also put a computer mouse in Jell-o, it was funny, the last pics are ones from a while ago when Brianna left I put a calculator in Jell-o.

Family Outings this Year

So, I am finally adding some family activities over the past year. It starts with Emilie, Sarah, Mom, and my trip to Sea World it was during Christmas time of '08. Boy was it crowded. Next are pictures of Sarah's prom, they all looks so beautiful. Jon sure is a great sport. She loves to get all dressed up. Then, are a few pictures from Meri's art show at her school. She took us around to see all her pieces on display. She is so talented. Next, are pics of Sarah and I going to see the Disney Christmas Carol train. The line was forever long, but it was really interesting. Sarah's favorite part was the bagel pizza after. :-). The last ones are of Mom, Sarah, Meri, Kerri, Kathryn, Jessica, Stephanie, Rebecca, Emilie, and my trip to Disneyland. It was way fun and if you want to see more pics go to Kerri's blog.