Loveless

I'm sad today. Feeling loveless and unappreciated.

Winter Break

I have officially been on winter break for two days. In those two days I have gotten absolutely nothing accomplished (as it should be). Tomorrow, however, I will begin my work around my house that gets neglected throughout the year. Austin is with his dad this week so I should be able to get a lot done. He will be coming over one day to make a gingerbread house for the party on Christmas Eve.

Christmases Past

just thinking of some Christmases past

Reflections

Reflections on my 2009 post to my blog entitled 32 Goals for my 32nd year:

Mainly, I did not meet hardly any of my goals. But 32 is far too many. I am going to concentrate on celebrating the accomplishments that I did complete or partially met.

#10 I did get my custody arrangement settled
#13 I did go out more socially (which considering it still isn't much, is kind of sad)
#18 I have made more of an effort to show kindness to strangers in small ways
#21 I do now play with Austin a little bit every day that I have him
#23 Since starting my new job, I have made some new friends
#31 As my facial redness has gotten worse, I do now wear makeup everyday to work, no exceptions!

This year, I have decided to concentrate on two and am in the process of deriving a plan on how to make them successful. 1. Lose weight and more importantly 2. find a way to be content with my life.

new teacher induction

So I had day one of my new teacher induction at St. Louis. I walked into the room on the third floor and immediately felt very hot. Since I'm always warm I thought maybe I'm just having a hot flash or something ;) then as I sat down for a moment longer I thought "no, this is really uncomfortably hot". I looked around the room to see many others fanning themselves. At the start of the meeting they informed us that the air conditioning was broken. I sure hope it is fixed by tomorrow because I'm not sure I can sit through another 6 hours in miserable heat and listen to things that don't apply to me anyway. I'm not much of a trooper. It just amazes me that I am supposed to start on Monday and I don't know where to go, I have no assignment yet, I have no supplies and no email. Nice start huh? Welcome to St. Louis Public.

Pretty Little Liars

I began watching "pretty Little Liars" on television and was intrigued enough to buy the books. While I enjoy the show, I love the books. They are so much better. At the end of each book the author did an excellent job of making the reader wonder what will happen next. The story is outlandish but great. I guess I should have expected liking a teeny bopper book series because I so enjoy most teeny bopper shows.

bread-cheese-bread

My poor little Cady was not feeling well yesterday and had to leave daycare early. She still was not better this morning so I watched her so Krista and Jason wouldn't have to miss work. Cady is always calm and is never any trouble. Today she was even more subdued than usual. However, she was still her witty self. She always makes me laugh at the things that come out of that cute little mouth. One conversation follows:

M: would you like something for lunch
C: yes
M: what do you want?
C: I don't know
M: Would you like a cheese sandwich
C: no, I would like bread-cheese-bread
M: that is a cheese sandwich
C: no, its not (matter of factly)
M: yes it is
C: no (takes the SANDWICH and walks away)

Not only did I lose an argument with a 4 year old today, she looked at me like I was stupid. I have heard Paige tell mom that she wanted bread-cheese-bread but I had no idea that that is what they thought the name really was. What sweet girls.