done!!!

whoo hoo!!!!! i am done with college! well just gotta get through graduation on sunday, but other than that, i'm done!!! YAY!!!! need to finish packing today. going home tomorrow, then back up on sunday for graduation and to get the rest of my stuff. can't believe i'm done. crazy man.

last day...

so today was my last day student teaching. the day totally flew by. it was crazy. i had to correct spelling tests and read their journal entries, so that took up most of my morning. their journal entry today was about me. they had to write about the time while i was there. so it was fun to read all of those. i made copies of them to keep for myself - some were absolutely hilarious. then in the afternoon we watched a movie and then had a little party. i made them cupcakes and wrote them a little note and gave them some candy and a pencil. so they had fun. and of course i started crying as i was reading the note to tehm. so yeah. it was a sad day. but it was fun. a lot of them made me cards and stuff too. and then the whole class made me a card and mrs. carlson got me a book of fun classroom activities/projects so that was cool. i got her some dark chocolates and a gift certificate to sammy's pizza, which is her favorite. so that was cool. but now i'm off to johny holm dance so more later.

friday night

well it's friday night. no big plans. kinda nice. down to one week left of studetn teaching. getting kinda sad about that. but very excited to just be done with school. i got an email from our dj service yesterday and need to get some work done on that this weekend, should be kind of exciting. too bad adam is out of town for the weekend and not available to help me. well i guess too bad for him if there ends up being lots of country music played. ha ha. this weekend begins mayfest, so i will be playing mayball (softball) on sunday beginning at 9 am. hopefully we'll play throughout the day. it wouodl be fun to win and get to keep playing. and we better win the first game, cuz it's against a bunch of freshmen i hear. also need to really work on my portfolio. but we'll see about that....
i'm excited, we've been getting quite a few responses already for the wedding - most people are able to come (so far only 6 people are unable to come), so hopefully we get a few more nos back because we are definitely over on our numbers. but i'm sure it'll all work out jjust fine. i've been calling home everyday just to see who's responded so far. we've actually got about 1/5 of our responses back already, so that's good.
well not much else going on, so i spose i should get home and maybe catch up on some csi and er and do some scrapbooking. whoo hoo!

la la la

so yeah. it's friday. my spring break is almost over. sad. it flew by. i went to adam's sat-wed. it was a lot of fun. i'm super excited to move in to our new place. we did some shopping and bought some necessities for the house (like handtowels for the bathroom, because he had zero!). we also bought a charcoal grill and patio furniture. so that was cool. we grilled hamburgers and ate out on the patio on tuesday night. i also got some strawberry plants and potted them, so i hope they grow! and i hope he takes care of them for the next 2 months.

yesterday was a busy day. lots of errands and wedding plans. finalized flower stuff with my aunt. stuffed all the invitations - they'll be going out monday or tuesday. yay! i'm so excited. today, i have a few errands i need to run, but unfortunately my car is in the shop. just a tune up and new brakes, but it was supposed to be done yesterday. so hopefully it's done early enough today, because i need to head up to duluth today, adn i'd like to leave somewhat early to beat traffic. eeks. so i suppose i should probably get busy pretty soon, so that when my car is ready, i'm ready too. but anyways.

this weekend should be fun. my friends are throwing me a shower at school. it will be funm and interesting to see people. haven't seen a lot of them in quite a while. i also need to do some lesson planning and hopefully some work on my portfolio. and i forgot that my prof is coming to observe me monday afternoon, so of course i didn't bring anything home to do alesson plan for that. so not sure what i'm going to do. hopefully i'll be able to work on something quick over lunch on monday. eeks.

wow

so yeah, it's been a pretty hectic past few weeks. teach teach teach. that's about it. but now i'm off for spring break for a week! woo hoo! i'm home for tonight, then i fly out tomorrow to go to see adam and our new place! i'm super excited. not a whole lot planned for while i'm there, but i'm sure we'll go look at the base and explore the area. so should be fun. then i come home wednesday and who knows from there. i'll only be home until friday afternoon/early evening. and i have a lot of wedding stuff to get done. i think i've decided to get a veil, so have to go order that. have to stuff invites and put postage on envelopes and get them in the mail. have to finalize music choices. have to meet with my aunt about flowers. and whatever else comes up. so this will be a busy, quick week. luckily only 3 more weeks to go of teaching after that. and only one of those will be completely full time, then i back off. which will be kidn of sad too. but i'm just ready to graduate right now. but yeah, have lots to get done tonight, since i leave early tomorrow.

sad news....

so we've always known that lucy's (our dog) back legs are probably not the greatest. but this week, i guess my dad took her in to the vet and her knees are crap and her hip is horrible. she will never be able to be a hunter, because she just can't handle it. i guess that she could have surgery for her knees, but it'd be a lot of $ and who knows how much good it would do. and i guess that nothing can be done about her hips. and because of how bad they are, they vet said she should never have puppies. which is sad, because we were going to have her have puppies. i just feel so bad for her, she's such a great dog. she doesn't seem to have much pain now, but i think she does get sore after lots of running. so she'll have limited hunting time. and i guess it will only get worse for her. it's just so sad. i seriously cried after i found out.

so...

so... nothing really new going on. boring life. my roommate is gone for the week, so it's very quiet at my apartment and i've got my scrapbooking stuff spread out all over the living room. hee hee. student teaching si going well. i'm pretty much teaching full time. my teacher is going to have me do absolutely everything next week - teach, correct, and all that stuff. so we'll see how that goes. she also said she'll be out of the room most of the time, so that will be good for me too i think. she tends to interrupt occasionally, which is fine, but i need to learn too. so yeah. who k nows. but anyways, i better get back to my place to start getting some stuff ready for dinner. so if any one actually reads this, i would love some comments or emails!

eeks!

so tonight, during student teaching seminar, we had a person from career services come and talk to us. for an hour and a half. whoo hoo. she told us all about interviews and a job fair and resumes and all that fun stuff. and then, not only do we have to create a resume, we have to create a credential file. plus our portfolio and possibly an e-portfolio. as if i don't have enough going on. yes, i knew about the resume and portfolio. but the credential file? great. not taht it's all that difficult. just need to get like my transcript and copies of licensure info once i get it, and stuff like that. it's just a pain in the butt, because this school like shuts down at 4:00 every day, and oh guess what - i have to be at my school 20+ minutes away until at least 3:30. so yeah, doesn't really give me a lot of time to get anything done here. blah! well i need to go home and have some dinner and unwind.

so it's sunday. not much going on. it's my roommate's birthday next weekend and i'm not sure what to get her. i had one idea, but it's at michael's and i'd like to use a coupon on it, but of course there is not even a michael's ad this week, much less a coupon. so i don't know what to do. if any one has any good present suggestions, let me know! i did some scrapbooking yesterday - worked on some of my florida pictures, but of course i only have like half the pictures here that i'd like to use. so now i'm stuck and have to wait until i get the rest of the pictures and who konws when that will be. oh well i guess. i'm kind of into spontaneous scrapbooking - i get bored with a subject quickly and need to move on to a new one. which is fine i guess. i'm just going to have like 20 projects in progress by the time i get anywhere with any of them. it doesn't help that half my pictures are really at home and not with me here. but anyways. today i have some errands to run and then i really really really need to get working on my music selections for the wedding ceremony. i need to get my contract in to chad. yikes. i'm so indecisive. maybe i will just send in the contract and say i'm still working on music selections. but anyways, i better go get started on my day.

it's friday!!!!

whoo hoo!!!! finally friday! going to see The Wedding Date tonight with beth and then she's sleeping over - should be fun! hangin out with Eliza Big Head! all i have to do this weekend is a little lesson planning, other than that, i have nothing. nadda. zip. zero. and it's GREAT! although i'm sure i'll stay plenty busy. but anyways. it's time to start the weekend. which means i need to leave the ocmputer lab. ttfn

so tired...

so it's thursday. weeks gone pretty quick. today the teacher of my class was gone and we had a sub, so i was in charge all day. chaos. the kids just seem sooooo incredibly loud this week. they just had last week off, they're supposed to be nice and mellow and ready to work this week. not. we have a sub tomorrow morning also and we're watching a movie starting at 11, so i'm going to be the mean teacher and if kids aren't working tomorrow and don't have everything done, they are NOT watching it. and i don't care. otherwise, pretty uneventful week. i hung out with beth on tuesday night. we played some hadn and foot. i finally won a game. yay! we're getting together tomorrow too and going to a movie i think. and possibly scrapbooking on saturday. should be fun.
adam moved in to our new town house 2 days ago and is in the process of unpacking. sounds like it should be pretty nice. i'm excited to go out ther ein a month.
but i'm exhausted and watn to go home, so that's all for now i guess.

back to reality

so today i have to go back to school. not looking forward to that. i hate the drive. the weather isn't supposed to be great. and i dont' really want to drive. so yeah. what a thrilling sunday. but i am supposed to hang out with beth this afternoon, so hopefully she hasn't forgotten.
of course i didn't do any lesson planning over break, so i'll have to look over some stuff tonight also. joy. i am already counting the days till my spring break in april. well not quite, but i'm very close to.
today i woke up and was like, i shouldn't have spent so much fricken money on that makeup. and if macy's weren't so far away i would totally go return it. we'll see how i like it. can always return it next time i'm home i guess.
well, i suppose i should go load up my car so that when i decide im' ready to go, i won't have to spend 20 minutes packign. yuck. i donl't want to go back. major senioritis. the closer it gets to graduation, the less i want to be at school. oh well i guess. only like 9 weeks left. whoo hoo!

oh man

holy cow. i just bought some makeup today. spent more on one thing then i've probly spent total on makeup in my whole life. i sure hope it looks all right. she picked it out for me, and it's got a gold tint, so i hope that works and it's not too orangey-gold. i don't like that look. i should have went with the pink tint maybe. oh well i guess. we'll see how it looks on for a day or something and decide from there. only problem is that i got it at macy's which means i'd have to drive all the way back down there to exchange it. blah. i think i kinda suckered myself inot buying it, so i could get the 'free gift'. but oh well i guess. i figure if i'm gonna wear it, i may as well get good stuff that is good with acne problems and stuff.

the whole reason we were down at the moa was to do the heart walk this morning. what a zoo. i mean seriously, they said 15,000 people were there for the walk. and it was nuts. parking was hard to find, it was hard to walk anywhere. you did not want to try walking against the crowd, as some were attempting.

i was going to try to look for birthday presents for jenean and my roommate while i was there, but kept forgetting, and didn't see anything that caught my eye anyways. so now i have no idea what to do, especially for my roommate. i've got a little time for her though. so we'll see.

my sister has talked me in to making her a scrapbook for her birthday, so we went out and she bought the book. we'll see if it gets done for her birthday or not, since i'm not starting it till who knows when this summer. plus she needs to go through and get me all the pictures she wants. so we'll see. should be fun though. i think it'd be fun to make it as a gift, because they'll be like oh wow, even though i might be like oh i could have made this page so much better if i had done this or something. but whatever. i'm excited.

well not much else going on at the moment. i think we're getting ready to grill some steaks, so i better get going. yum yum.

decisions

veil or no veil? that is the question. i had planned on wearing a veil, but now i don't know. i found a couple i liked today, but they are like $60+, so i'm like, i don't know. that's a lot of money to wear it for a fraction of a day. yeah, they sell them at craft stores for less, but nothing i like. they are all really plain, whcih is fine, i could decorate it, but they are either too small, or too full and long - no in between. so yeah. plus the wedding is outside, so if it's windy, i dont' want my veil blowing all over the place. so now i just don't know. i'm kinda thinking maybe just not wear one. less hassle. less money. maybe i'll get some kind of hair piece. not quite a tiara, but something. i think i know how i want my hair done, and i dont' know that a veil would work well with it, but a headpiece would. so, i guess we'll see. i've got a little time to think. they said the veil would only take 2.5 weeks to get in (compared to 4 months one place told me), so not like i have to decide right this minute i guess. but if anyone reading this has any input, let me know. i can't really describe my dress on here in case adam were to read this, but i think most people have heard some description of it. but i'm kind of wondering if a veil would go well with my dress or not.

stuff

so my week has gone pretty fast. can't believe it's already thursday night. :-( i am totally not ready to go back to school. but life goes on. i'm surprised at how fast this week has gone, because i have seriously done nothing. i have sat at home on my butt the majority of the time. i know, thrilling, right. but actually it's been really nice to not have any work to do. i have done some wedding stuff and i got together wtih gina most of tuesday. so that was a lot of fun. got some scrapbooking done - unfortunately i wasn't motivated at all to work on my germany album, and that was about all i had for pictures. so i worked a little on some random pictures i had with me. today my mom and i ran some errands. think i figured out a hair and nail place for us to go for the wedding. nice and cheap. only downer is that i can't book it this far in advance. but they didn't seem to think there would be any problems. plus the wedding is late enough, that we're somewhat flexible that morning. not much, but a little. so yeah, that's nice that hopefully that is all set. now i just need to remember to call and book them. i still haven't figured out anything for jewelry. that's driving me crazy. oh well. enough wedding talk.
i watched the notebook last night. wow. what a great movie. i had read the book, and cried during that. but man, i bawled last night. very sad. but very good.
tonight my mom and i played 2 games of hand and foot. she kicked my butt both times. really bad. i want a rematch, but she won't play now. oh well. tomorrow i guess. but anyways. not quite sure why i've been writing so much on here this week. no one probly reads or cares. but sometimes it's just nice to talk things out, if only to yourself. and i guess i've been kinda bored this week. obviously won't be writign as much or as often once i'm back at school, since i have to go to school to get internet, and that only happens like twice a week. oh well. i'm done for now i guess.

stairways in tv shows....

so i know anyone who actually reads this, is gonna be like, ummmm.... but i was thinking about this last night as i was lying in bed. isn't it strange how in a lot of television shows, they have a set of stairs going upstairs from the living room, and another from the kitchen? i mean seriously, who really has 2 sets of stairs going up to the same floor? unless your house has like 2 seperate upstairs that aren't connected. i can only think of one friend's house who does have 2 sets of stairs going to the same upstairs. but other than that, i can not remember any others.
and then, what really gets me, is that you see them go up both sets of stairs in the tv show, but when you're upstairs, you only see them come and go from one set of stairs. take full house for example. they have the stairs in the kitchen and in the living room. yet, when you're upstairs, you only see them come up from what i'm assuming is the living room. but the craziness goes even further, because when you go down to the basement in full house, there is one way down from the kitchen. but when you are downstiars, there are 2 sets of stairs, one coming from the left, one from the right, and they both meet up in the middle. where does that 2nd set of stairs go? becasue they do use both. so i find that quite odd. i mean, i know it's tv and all, but still, how many houses are really built like that? i'm guessing it's so they can have multiple 'stage' entrances, but still, that's crazy.
another show with 2 sets of stairs going up is boy meets world. i know there are others, but i'm blanking at the moment - i can picture the shows, but not their names. so we'll leave it at that.

Lucy at Leech Lake 

our dog Lucy, when she was about 2 months old 

hopefully what our future townhouse will be. well minus the (ummmm lovely...) furniture and decorations.  

stuff...

so today i tried to get some wedding stuff done. my mom and i went to look at veils some, but i just can't decide what kind i want, and now i'm thinking maybe i dont' want one now. blah. plus the ones in the bridal shops are so expensive, but then the ones in craft shops are too plain and you have to attach them to the hair piece, so it's like are you really saving all that much and is it going to look decent? the less time i have, the more indecisive i become. good thing i ordered my dress in august. then tonight, i'm trying to work on gathering addresses and counting my (hopefully) final list of people. and it is complete chaos. i keep forgetting to include adam and me, and our families. hmmm. wouldn't that be great if there were room for everyone but us. then i dont' have addresses for a ton of people. and even today, i was still adding and subtracting people - i just dno't know where to cut off. especially with relatives. it's like, who's going to be offended if so and so is invited but they aren't. blah. oh well i guess.

then this mornign i went to the doctor cuz i've been having constant headaches this year and a little jaw pain. so now i have been diagnosed with TMJ. great. but i guess at least i know what's going on. and luckily it's mild enough that i dont' really have to do anything about it. i got some muscle relaxer meds for when i sleep so that i don't clench my jaws/grind my teeth. so hopefully they help. i'm a little nervous to take them, czu there are some lovely side effects. drowziness, dizziness, hangover feeling in morning, dehydration.

so enough whining. my break is nice and fairly relaxing so far. i've played a lot of cards with my parents - whooped them good tonight. hee hee. i'm excited for tomorrow - going to go to archivers to scrapbook with gina adn also get to see her place and all the wedding pics!