Today was my first day of student teaching. Basically, in the beginning we are suppose to observe for like a week or two and slowly take over. My field supervisor wanted us to allow him to come in this week or next for an observation! That'd be okay but um, I have a major problem...my cooperating teacher was not there today! He knew I was coming in. Apparently he has been out with back problems for at least the last week, maybe two. The kids told me this...not any faculty until later. So the substitute that was there was at least 70+ and didn't speak Spanish. He sent me to a Italian class for the first period (WTF) and then my friend Ashley who is in the same school as me and her cooperating teacher came into the room where I was. I stayed with them the rest of the day. I felt a little awkward but grateful the cooperating teacher let me follow. I mean, what am I suppose to do?!
I emailed my field supervisor so hopefully he can help me. And I'm emailing my cooperating teacher again too. I feel a little awkward calling his cellphone. Hopefully he will be there tomorrow. Otherwise, *nervous breakdown/panic attack* will ensue.
I have to go work 5-9 and I don't wanna. Maybe it won't be busy. Wouldn't that be lovely?! Then off to bed. 5:30am is gonna come again too quickly!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
No Strings Attached
Last night, (well Friday since my Mac says it 1:33am here in NY now) I went on a date with a friend to see No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman. It was a Natalie Portman filled week with Black Swan earlier. I thought this one was HILARIOUS. Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher were a hot pair to have star in this. I am definitely going to buy it on DVD when it comes out. If you're in the need of a good laugh, go see it!
There was this quote Ashton Kutcher's character Adam said and I just loved it: "I'm warning you, if you take one step closer, I'm never letting you go." I love it because of the romantic in me. ;)
Something that did repulse me was when we went in, there was a guy checking tickets at the door to the actual theater. Actually, he was checking IDs because there was a group of four or five teenagers (who ended up sitting over from us) that didn't look like they were old enough to see the movie...it's rated R. So he said everyone had to show ID and so when I showed mine, he goes "Thanks Mom".......WHAT ON EARTH?! I am twenty-four NOT forty-four. I looked at my date, who was also confused why the guy would say that (and he knows me well since we went to school together). Oh well.
And today I had to work a double. Well, it was 11:30-4, then 5-8:30 so I ate my lunch/dinner during my break. Buffalo Chicken Pizza all the way! It wasn't busy at first when we opened at 11:30 but it definitely picked up. It was starting to get busy again for dinner around 4 when the other host I was working with came and I went on my break. When I came back at 5, it literally did not stop all night. The servers were looking at us like "WTF is going on?!" and one server, whose section was behind the host stand in the bar area goes "This is never going to end." Some people did leave because we quoted 45 mins and they weren't there but whatever. I get to do it again tomorrow...I'm glad it is not a double tho!
I need to blog about my Disney trip but I may have to do that tomorrow or at some point soon. Now that all my pictures are officially uploaded.
Monday is almost here...student teaching. I feel super awkward already walking up to my cooperating teacher but I will get over it. I'm SO glad we aren't thrown in front of them the first day but I DEFINITELY need to brush up on some things this week. And go shopping for dress pants. I have lost a lot of weight (at least 20-25 lbs) since I left my old job and they're all baggy on me...even with a belt! Oh well. I need to pay some bills and then off to buy new clothes soon. And boots...why is it whenever I find a pair of shoes or boots I like, the store doesn't have them!
Friday, January 28, 2011
Happy Friday!
Today is Friday! In college, this was my favorite day of the week...start of the weekend, partying, nothing to do on Saturday morning, etc. Now, it's just another day of the week. I woke up early to go hand in my papers to the chairperson in my brother's district where he teaches for my student teaching placement...only, she wasn't there. Whoops. Apparently she was at a conference. I just need to do this ASAP so my placement there is SECURE and I'm not fretting the week before I'm suppose to go there.
Afterwards, I went to DSW looking for boots. I need something that will look professional, fit under my dress pants, and not too big of a heel. Of course the one pair I liked they didn't have in my size! Isn't that always the case? It's the same brand my brother got my sister-in-law for Christmas so I'm going to check their website. This is another reason why I hate shoe shopping...it takes me forever to find something that works!
I came home, drank my French vanilla coffee from 7-11 because I was too lazy to make a new pot this morning (why is it that the coffee is ALWAYS gone before I get up?!) and then proceeded to go outside and shovel. My neighbor used their snowblower at the end of my driveway yesterday. But there's a line of snow down the middle of the driveway, basically dividing the sides we park our cars on...and it won't budge! My genius brothers shoveled their cars out and not that (or my car or my mom's) so it is frozen. I attempted to get most of it off as I could, but I failed. I did get more of the ice on our path off and made it walkable. I'm so sick of snow it is not funny. And to top it off, we're apparently getting another storm on Tuesday?!?!?! WHAT?! Good luck trying to find a place to put it, you plow people.
My mailman also honked at me at give me my mail when he was across the street. How nice, just what I wanted...bills! He also gave me a paper from the post office that was being given to everyone telling us to clear out the area/snow in front of our mailboxes. THAT made me laugh....again, where do you want me to put the mountains of snow? Just because our house is the corner house, we get all the snow when they plow the street. At this rate, it'll be April by the time the snow melts. =)
Time to go get ready for work. After work, I'm going on a date (oh lala) with a friend to see "No Strings Attached" with Natalie Portman & Ashton Kutcher. Exciting. Peace.
Afterwards, I went to DSW looking for boots. I need something that will look professional, fit under my dress pants, and not too big of a heel. Of course the one pair I liked they didn't have in my size! Isn't that always the case? It's the same brand my brother got my sister-in-law for Christmas so I'm going to check their website. This is another reason why I hate shoe shopping...it takes me forever to find something that works!
I came home, drank my French vanilla coffee from 7-11 because I was too lazy to make a new pot this morning (why is it that the coffee is ALWAYS gone before I get up?!) and then proceeded to go outside and shovel. My neighbor used their snowblower at the end of my driveway yesterday. But there's a line of snow down the middle of the driveway, basically dividing the sides we park our cars on...and it won't budge! My genius brothers shoveled their cars out and not that (or my car or my mom's) so it is frozen. I attempted to get most of it off as I could, but I failed. I did get more of the ice on our path off and made it walkable. I'm so sick of snow it is not funny. And to top it off, we're apparently getting another storm on Tuesday?!?!?! WHAT?! Good luck trying to find a place to put it, you plow people.
My mailman also honked at me at give me my mail when he was across the street. How nice, just what I wanted...bills! He also gave me a paper from the post office that was being given to everyone telling us to clear out the area/snow in front of our mailboxes. THAT made me laugh....again, where do you want me to put the mountains of snow? Just because our house is the corner house, we get all the snow when they plow the street. At this rate, it'll be April by the time the snow melts. =)
Time to go get ready for work. After work, I'm going on a date (oh lala) with a friend to see "No Strings Attached" with Natalie Portman & Ashton Kutcher. Exciting. Peace.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Closet Organization..is a must.
I'm a girl. A girly girl. I guess that happens being the only girl in the family and the baby of the family. I never had to share clothes with anyone. =) I like to shop. I admit it. I probably have shopped way too often when I should not have in college and the almost subsequent two years. Oh well. I pay off all my bills in full (yay for only having school loan debt).
Problem? I have way too many clothes! I usually wear all of them. I need to take a picture of my closet. I still have all my notebooks/Spanish textbooks from college because I am keeping them as resources for school/teaching. I still have some barbies in my closet I have been saving for when my niece got to be old enough (well she's 6 now). And I have a pretty decent sized close..essentially it is walk in! (My dream is to have that closet Jessica Simpson had on Newlyweds...SO MUCH SPACE!) All my clothes are contained to my one dresser (I used to have two before I redid my room in August 09) and my closet. My summer ones are in bins right now in the back of my closet. I like being able to pull them out (or rearrange the closet) when necessary.
The problem is organization. I have no idea how to do it. Sweaters are too bulky to fold on a shelf. Belts are impossible to store. I have way too many Vera Bradley bags. My DVDs need to find a new home other than a stackable crate from Wal-Mart. The first step people would probably tell me is to purge my clothes....I did that and have gotten rid of 10 bags since September! Stuff that was too small, too big, I didn't like anymore, etc. I need to add more "professional clothes" for student teaching. I need storage bins.
Anyone have any suggestions? I did come across this blog IHeart Organizing which gives great tips for organizing everything around a house. I started to follow it so I guess I am going to go hunt on it tonight. Ahh! I need to do a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR purge out of clothes come this summer.
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In other good news, I'm going back to Disney! I know I just came back. But my brother Mark,and my SIL Laurie want to take their 3 kids to Disney for their first visit. They asked my mom if she and me or any of my siblings wanted to come. My oldest brother will be at his camp (he is handicapped) and Brian expressed no interest. It'll probably be my mom and I going with them but I am so excited!! Who doesn't love DISNEY and sharing the magic of it with little ones?! I'd be going at the beginning of August...aka hot weather...and I'm okay with that! I love it!
Problem? I have way too many clothes! I usually wear all of them. I need to take a picture of my closet. I still have all my notebooks/Spanish textbooks from college because I am keeping them as resources for school/teaching. I still have some barbies in my closet I have been saving for when my niece got to be old enough (well she's 6 now). And I have a pretty decent sized close..essentially it is walk in! (My dream is to have that closet Jessica Simpson had on Newlyweds...SO MUCH SPACE!) All my clothes are contained to my one dresser (I used to have two before I redid my room in August 09) and my closet. My summer ones are in bins right now in the back of my closet. I like being able to pull them out (or rearrange the closet) when necessary.
The problem is organization. I have no idea how to do it. Sweaters are too bulky to fold on a shelf. Belts are impossible to store. I have way too many Vera Bradley bags. My DVDs need to find a new home other than a stackable crate from Wal-Mart. The first step people would probably tell me is to purge my clothes....I did that and have gotten rid of 10 bags since September! Stuff that was too small, too big, I didn't like anymore, etc. I need to add more "professional clothes" for student teaching. I need storage bins.
Anyone have any suggestions? I did come across this blog IHeart Organizing which gives great tips for organizing everything around a house. I started to follow it so I guess I am going to go hunt on it tonight. Ahh! I need to do a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR purge out of clothes come this summer.
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In other good news, I'm going back to Disney! I know I just came back. But my brother Mark,and my SIL Laurie want to take their 3 kids to Disney for their first visit. They asked my mom if she and me or any of my siblings wanted to come. My oldest brother will be at his camp (he is handicapped) and Brian expressed no interest. It'll probably be my mom and I going with them but I am so excited!! Who doesn't love DISNEY and sharing the magic of it with little ones?! I'd be going at the beginning of August...aka hot weather...and I'm okay with that! I love it!
Oh would you look at that...SNOW!
I am kind of getting sick of waking up and looking out at snow. No joke. I feel like that is all I have written or complained about this month. But let's see....there was the blizzard after Christmas, the blizzard the first week in January, the blizzard the week before I went to Florida (aka when I drove to work and it was closed), it apparently snowed a bit when I was in Florida, and now yesterday. Had there not been hail, maybe it wouldn't be so bad. But um, 15 INCHES?!! Where are they going to put it? What stinks about being the corner house on the block is everything gets plowed right at the end....so digging/shoveling the end of the driveway out is annoying. I did it yesterday. SO not doing it today. That's why I have brothers.
So today I WILL finish cleaning my room. I WILL put my laundry away. I WILL find out when I can get to Smithtown and hand in papers for student teaching. I DEFINITELY will be taking a nap. I will also be uploading my pictures from my trip and organizing them, saving the ones from my friends, and ordering prints. Gotta love 13 cent prints from Costco!
I am also finding other blogs and call me weird/stalker/tell me to get a life, but I like reading other people's blogs. I'd love to get more followers, maybe do some sort of giveaway, etc. Change my layout soon. I get layout ADD sometimes and get bored of it easily. Kinda like my purses.
Considering I fell asleep when I wrote this earlier, I am going to go take a nice hot shower. Happy snow day to me!
So today I WILL finish cleaning my room. I WILL put my laundry away. I WILL find out when I can get to Smithtown and hand in papers for student teaching. I DEFINITELY will be taking a nap. I will also be uploading my pictures from my trip and organizing them, saving the ones from my friends, and ordering prints. Gotta love 13 cent prints from Costco!
I am also finding other blogs and call me weird/stalker/tell me to get a life, but I like reading other people's blogs. I'd love to get more followers, maybe do some sort of giveaway, etc. Change my layout soon. I get layout ADD sometimes and get bored of it easily. Kinda like my purses.
Considering I fell asleep when I wrote this earlier, I am going to go take a nice hot shower. Happy snow day to me!
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Need some motivation!
I need motivation. I will attempt to clean my room. Then I get sidetracked by facebook, blogs, email, the TV, or a movie I'm watching.Currently Leap Year with Amy Adams is playing in my DVD player. I just DONT want to be tripping over stuff in my room anymore but at the same time, I just wanna lay in bed and do nothing! I hope I am not getting sick...my mom thought i was getting mono considering I slept 16 hrs the other day. I certainly hope not!
My suitcase from vacation is emptied with my dirty clothes from the trip and they've been washed. Now it just holds the clean laundry. I think I'll put those clothes away for tonight and then finish everything tomorrow. Besides, who starts cleaning their bedroom at 10pm?! A nut job like me!
I have to go to my brother's district tomorrow to meet the chairperson to "interview" for my student teaching placement in that district. That is if they don't have a delay/closing. I didn't see her email from this morning until about 2 hours ago because I was at my student teaching meeting. Eeek. I dont feel like waking up at 8am to be there at 10. So maybe they'll have a closing and I can go friday. Otherwise, I'm going, coming home, going back to bed, and then cleaning my room. =)
The laundry should just put itself away! Goodbye for tonight. =)
My suitcase from vacation is emptied with my dirty clothes from the trip and they've been washed. Now it just holds the clean laundry. I think I'll put those clothes away for tonight and then finish everything tomorrow. Besides, who starts cleaning their bedroom at 10pm?! A nut job like me!
I have to go to my brother's district tomorrow to meet the chairperson to "interview" for my student teaching placement in that district. That is if they don't have a delay/closing. I didn't see her email from this morning until about 2 hours ago because I was at my student teaching meeting. Eeek. I dont feel like waking up at 8am to be there at 10. So maybe they'll have a closing and I can go friday. Otherwise, I'm going, coming home, going back to bed, and then cleaning my room. =)
The laundry should just put itself away! Goodbye for tonight. =)
What I'm Loving Wednesday :)
I saw this last night with Shannon and Olivia. I wanted to see it for the dancer in me. I love any dance movie (but not like Step Up 3 or something random like that). IT WAS SO GOOD!! I left the theater going "What on EARTH just happened?" and jumped outta my seat a few times. If you have not seen this yet, DEFINITELY see it.
#2 -
I'm loving these people! (L-R: Me, Shannon, Zach, Amanda, Olivia).
These are my four friends from college with whom I went to Disney with last week! This is us at Hollywood Studios. We had the BEST time, spent a ton of $$, and this trip made me realize why I love these people. And why I'm so glad we're all friends!
#3 - These cuties!
(Me holding my niece Emma Grace, my niece/goddaughter Sara Elizabeth and my nephew Steven Louis).
I'm loving these cuties! I am proud to be an aunt to all three of them and enjoy spoiling them when I get the chance. I love how my niece Sara, who is 6, picked up the phone by herself, called my cellphone and wished me a happy and safe vacation before I left. SHE's 6! I love her and her sister & brother to pieces! I hope I'll be able to see them soon.
#4
I'm loving that I will get to see my best friend, Stephanie, in less than 3 months! We met freshmen year of college, lived together sophomore year, reaffirmed our friendship junior year after not living together, and senior year were just WILD. She lives in Georgia! I haven't seen her in almost two YEARS so I am LOVING I will get to spend 4-5 days with her over my spring break from school and be in town for her BIRTHDAY! (which is also Easter)
#5
I'm LOVING I slept for 16 hours Monday Night-Tuesday. Nothing says you're tired like not even waking up for food! Best nap/coma/sleep of my life. It was epic.
#6
I'm loving I get to start teaching (well student teaching) on Monday!! I am excited to meet my first cooperating teacher, my students (whom I like to refer to as my kiddos) and start teaching. Nervous? Yes. But I'm loving that this gives me an excuse to go shopping for a cute new wardrobe!
#7 (Edited in)
After shoveling my driveway, I get to stay home from work. I'm LOVING it! While I wont get paid for the 4 hours I would have been working, I'm not a fan of driving in snow. So I'm LOVING my bosses decided to let my brother & I stay home (and probably everyone else working) for safety. =)
#2 -
I'm loving these people! (L-R: Me, Shannon, Zach, Amanda, Olivia).These are my four friends from college with whom I went to Disney with last week! This is us at Hollywood Studios. We had the BEST time, spent a ton of $$, and this trip made me realize why I love these people. And why I'm so glad we're all friends!
#3 - These cuties!
(Me holding my niece Emma Grace, my niece/goddaughter Sara Elizabeth and my nephew Steven Louis).I'm loving these cuties! I am proud to be an aunt to all three of them and enjoy spoiling them when I get the chance. I love how my niece Sara, who is 6, picked up the phone by herself, called my cellphone and wished me a happy and safe vacation before I left. SHE's 6! I love her and her sister & brother to pieces! I hope I'll be able to see them soon.
#4
I'm loving that I will get to see my best friend, Stephanie, in less than 3 months! We met freshmen year of college, lived together sophomore year, reaffirmed our friendship junior year after not living together, and senior year were just WILD. She lives in Georgia! I haven't seen her in almost two YEARS so I am LOVING I will get to spend 4-5 days with her over my spring break from school and be in town for her BIRTHDAY! (which is also Easter)#5
I'm LOVING I slept for 16 hours Monday Night-Tuesday. Nothing says you're tired like not even waking up for food! Best nap/coma/sleep of my life. It was epic.
#6
I'm loving I get to start teaching (well student teaching) on Monday!! I am excited to meet my first cooperating teacher, my students (whom I like to refer to as my kiddos) and start teaching. Nervous? Yes. But I'm loving that this gives me an excuse to go shopping for a cute new wardrobe!#7 (Edited in)
After shoveling my driveway, I get to stay home from work. I'm LOVING it! While I wont get paid for the 4 hours I would have been working, I'm not a fan of driving in snow. So I'm LOVING my bosses decided to let my brother & I stay home (and probably everyone else working) for safety. =)
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