Well Ain't That Some Shit

Really? You're suddenly obsessed with graduating now that I graduated. You have the nerve to say "Apparently I'm getting two degrees. Two is better than one!"

...thank you for just insulting me. They're right, you just have to one up everyone don't you?

>.<
people.

No. We're in a Mall in Ohio.

1. I now have a college degree. While now it is just an associates in two years it will be a bachelors.

2. Graduation went very well. I actually enjoyed it so much more than high school graduation. I wasn't graduating with the same people I've had to deal with since Kindergarten. A lot of people I knew which I was surprised about. The best part? Getting a surprise $500 scholarship for getting my associates and doing the partnership in the fall. While that amount won't cover much, it's a lot better than nothing.

3. Dinner after graduation was so much fun. More crew dinners at Buca di Beppo will be needed.

4. My room is clean! Which leaves me with not much else to fill my mornings before work. Random goals for the summer:
a) Finish reading the Harry Potter series & rewatch the movies that I haven't seen in forever.
b) Catch up on Gossip Girl (currently on disc three of season 2)
c) Major catch up on scrapbooking. I left off at winter/christmas 2009.
d) Let's keep this room clean.

64 days til NY
235 days til WDW

Allah. Bookmobile. Guns. Cat. Hippo.

1. Thank something or other that it's finals week and my last final is tomorrow. I'm finished with general classes, no more math, no more english, no more random class you have to take just because. From here on out it's education classes only. Hallelujah.

2. I scheduled with Ashland for the fall this morning. I have plenty of time to be able to keep my job, another hallelujah. Now I just have to figure out how I'm going to pay for this all which will be the hard part.

3. I've recently rekindled my love for Ed Westwick. I blame my gossip girl watching friends for getting me hooked again :P

4. Evan said two things yesterday that I'm still shocked about.
a) He wants to go to an Indians game.
b) He's been wanting hot dogs.
He hates sports and hot dogs and yet he wants to go to an Indians game and eat hot dogs. Not that I'm complaining. So we're going to the game on June 17th :)

5. Project clean room will take place starting today, well tonight pending on how long voting for our contract at work is going to take. It will be done on/by Tuesday so the weekly glee watching party can take place at my house for once.

6. It would be nice if Ohio realized it's May and it should be spitting out at least 60 or 70 degree weather instead of 40's. Go away old man winter. Off you go to find your dentures for the next 5 months.


3 days til graduation
71 days til NY
242 days til WDW

GRR

Reason why I don't like Easter: my family has suddenly become freakishly religious...and republican. They want Sarah Palin in office and we can't call it "Easter" anymore because Easter is "pagan" so we have to call it "resurrection day". WTF? It was the pagans first, stop plagiarizing their shit. GRR. This is why I hate family get-togethers on holidays. It's all religion and politics with a nice Disney segue somewhere. It's always one of those times I wish I were my cousins age and I would have no idea what's going on. Sometimes I would rather be oblivious.

Oh Freedom is Mine

Oh hello blogger. See what happens is sometimes you are closed out of my tabs and if you aren't there, I forget about you. Terribly sorry ol chum.

1. Next week is the last week of classes. Unfortunately there is a lot to be done this weekend and during this last week including:
a) Math activities
b) Two papers (luckily they're like 2-3 pages)
c) A math test
d) My portfolio for student teaching, anyone who saved this for the last minute good luck to you on not making it look like crap. I've already spent hours on the damn thing.
e) Last week of student teaching in the preschool

2. After four years of not celebrating Easter, it has randomly been decided that we're celebrating it this year. Well, my family celebrates it. I'm just there for food and seeing how much older my cousins are getting. Kaitlyn's going to be six this year! Holy crap! So anyway this means I get to drag homework over there while all the men are in the living room watching sports and the women are in the kitchen doing whatever they do in the kitchen while I always sit on the couch.

3. Umm, yeah that's about it now. Trying to make it past finals so I have a month of not worrying about schoolwork again until my Ohio History class online starts. Luckily it's only 8 weeks and doesn't overlap my birthday. I still have never had to do anything for school on my birthday and I'm hoping to keep it that way for awhile.

15 days til graduation
83 days til NY
254 days til WDW

Ayayarrdeeveeayarrkay

This weekend was good. Did absolutely nothing homework-wise which will bite me in the ass this week but whatevs. I feel more inclined to do homework when I was actually in school that day. Actually I did print pictures for my student teaching portfolio and other stuff for it so I did so something. So ha!
Currently reading the third Harry Potter, which I have read before. The only two left I haven't read are the 5th and the 6th which are pretty dang important ones but I'm getting there.
My period finally "started." It was only mmm about 10 days late and I have the feeling it's going to be extremely light which will be amazing. As if you could ever call a period amazing unless you think you may be preggers.
Its friggin April 10th already. Three weeks left of regular class then finals week. Which is funny because I have my student teaching final this Tuesday which is my last lesson plan to be taught to my preschool. Circle times done. Lesson plans typed & all taught but my final. Now it's just three more weeks in the classroom, three more weekly journals & 4 observations in the class on different subjects which I should have done awhile ago but since I don't have to worry about typing lesson plans anymore, that will just take up the time slot for that...which would be around now, or two hours ago.
I think I just realized how tiny my wrists are today. They're like...friggin tiny compared to my hands. Not like my hands are that big but compared to my wrists it's like gorilla hands.
26 days til graduation. Scheduling for Ashland classes May 4th. Here's hoping my schedule doesn't suck balls to where I have to work every single weekend and kiss any hope that I had for a social life goodbye.
I'm not sure why it took me so long to try a McDonald's strawberry and banana smoothie, but I finally did and they're very addicting. Freakishly, addicting.

You Sing Well, Buy A Button

Things are going well, I can't complain. Crunch time has now started since there are only three and a half weeks left of regular class and then finals. There's quite a bit to do but I'm confident (hopefully...) that I can get it all done with a minimal amount of stress.

Evan and I celebrated our three year anniversary last week. Still hard to believe it's been three years but they've been some pretty amazing years.

Last night I chaperoned a GATE field trip for the high schoolers with Mrs. C. I didn't realize I hadn't seen her in over two years. She lost her signature hair style and now dons a feathery bob which makes her look younger. Of course she had to tell everyone that I was the "nobody cares what old people look like" person. Oy. I will never live that down. And of course I didn't make it an hour before she said "Life is choices" which for once was not directed at myself. It was a good time. I was surprised by how different I am as a college student from what I was as a high schooler. I had no problem talking with the high schoolers but MY GOD do they have a lot of petty drama they like to vent about. We ate at Li-Wah restaurant in the Asia Plaza of Cleveland which I had ate at before (reluctantly) and enjoyed it so much more now since I've grown to like chinese food. The shops were even more amazing to look at along with the market. Baby octopus anyone? The town hall meeting was Ronan Tynan which was one of the three Irish tenors. Phenomenal voice with a phenomenal keynote message. Him, Liz Murray and Kyle Maynard have been my favorites.

I don't know what it is with children and Tuesdays but something about the two of them just don't get along...

I have mustard on my shirt. Damn.

Graduation in a month then I will be another schools alumni. Have to schedule my Ashland classes for fall this month. Hopefully the times for classes aren't too bad or else I may not be able to work while go to school which will not please me at all.

Thinnnn Mintttttts

And *poof* it's the end of March already. Holy crap. Well seeing as I haven't been on this in over a week we have some things to catch up on. So let's start, shall we?

1. First trip to the zoo this year was this past Saturday which of course means that it just had to be the coldest day we've had since the beginning of February. A lot of the animals weren't out but the ones that were out were very active and I got a few good pictures and an epic penguin hat. We may be going back to the Detroit Zoo (my favorite) this year. Here's hoping!

2. Mine and Evan's 3 year anniversary is this Thursday. It doesn't feel like it's been three years. In fact it feels like I've known him my whole life. Anyway, that means we're eating at Olive Garden as we do every anniversary. It gives us something to look forward too :) Only this year I have work and class and then we get to have fun.

3. Student teaching is going extremely well. I just want to be done with school so I can work with kids. I'm so happy I get to start my day with them. All of my circle times have been completed. All of my lesson plans have gone really well so far. My last one is my final on April 12th. I still have a month in my center and I will be very sad to leave but very happy that summer will have started. I'm taking Ohio History online because I need it for my 4/5 endorsement with Ashland. It doesn't start til June 6th and it ends July 31st so I still will have never been in school on my birthday. I just hope that since I'll be gone a lot in July that won't stir up any problems.

4. Somehow I'm maintaining a 4.0 this semester. If it ends that way I will have to piss myself. Classes are going great and while they are demanding my time management skills have become excellent. Except for the whole browsing the internet about 2 hours a day. I need to cut that out and focus on something else...like cleaning my room.

5. I can't wait for the weather to warm up more. Holy crap. I hate this transitional time where I get shocked on every freaking metal thing I touch which I have realized I have to touch a lot of metal in everyday life.

6. Now I wish I left those girl scout cookies in my locker at work. I really want a freaking thin mint right now.

7. 40 days til graduation. 108 days til New York. 279 days til WDW.

Kickin in the Front Seat

St. Patricks Day is always a good day for me. The weather is always beautiful and it's the one day I'm almost guaranteed every year that it will just be a great uplifting day. This year kept the tradition.

1. I received a lot of compliments about things today. Yesterday I wore my hair in a ponytail and everyone at work flipped out. Apparently it makes me look younger. Today I wore earrings and everyone at work flipped out.

2. I believe I pretty much aced my math test today. I won't find out until Tuesday how I really did but I'm really confident I did really well on this test. Finally, something with geometry.

3. So...those crappy children's poems in my last post that I believe are total crap? My children's literature professor thought they were genius and ended up giving me extra credit because she loved them so much.

4. My mom got off work early today and was home before 9 which is a miracle. I got to spend some time with her and we went on a hunt for shamrock shakes only finding success at the third mcdonalds we went to.

5. The weather is amazing today. I so cannot wait until summer.

Holy shit it's 11?? I have to shower and get my happy ass to bed for work in the morning.

Oops Oh My

These are the children's poems I wrote for my Children's Literature class. Feel free to hoo and haa all you want.

A long time ago in a far away land,
Lived an ogre who had two feet but not a hand.
He would try with all of his might,
All through the day and the night.
But he could never build a castle out of sand.



Icky bicky licky boo,
I love me and you love you.

Sicky quicky hicky hey,
The sun will rise again today.

Rummy gummy summy stew,
I love you if you love me too.

Fummy zummy mummy bite,
The sun will set when it is night.



The alarm goes off,
I try to lay very still.
I won’t have to go to school,
If my mother thinks I’m ill.

I think I have a fever.
I think I have the flu.
I think I have pneumonia.
I don’t know what to do.

I blame my big dirty brother.
He is just crawling with germs.
He keeps his room so messy,
I think it’s infested with worms.

My head feels so heavy.
My arm hurts so bad.
It’s about as inflated,
As my dad when he is mad!

My throat is swollen,
To the size of a basketball!
No I say,
I can’t go to school like this at all.

My mother pats me on the head,
She says “Sweetie, it’s okay,
I know you aren’t really sick
But don’t worry, it’s a snow day!”