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I AM SO EMBARRASSED!

i'm here at work...just working away helping a girl for the past two hours with a paper. she was waiting when i came in, then we talked about the assignment, i showed her how to use the databases through ebscohost, she researched and then i helped her make an ouline. i felt strange because she wasn't making good eye contact with me, but you know some people don't have good eye contact. especially if they realize they need help with something they're not awalys confident. then i realized i was thirsty and you know how your breath can stink when you're thirsty and your mouth is dry? i thought maybe i was grossing her out with my breath. so i did a little check when she left. not too bad. then i go to the bathroom and i'm in front of the mirror ready to wash my hands. i'm not sure why i smiled, but thank God i did! i had two pieces of parsley or basil stuck in my front teeth from my spaghetti sauce. right smack in the middle and then the tooth to the right! i am mortified!!! and why the heck didn't she tell me? nick says maybe she didn't notice, but i tend to smile a lot and show off my heironimus teeth quite a bit. aye dios mil!

tada!!

 

I hang

 

Nick prepares

 

stuffed

what a nice relaxing weekend. although it shouldn't be! well... i am working on homework finally (this is just a quick break). we spent thanksgiving with some of nick's family in rochester, mn. my apple pie turned out great despite it looking very dry and nasty. i suppose looks really can be deciving! then we braved the crowded stores the next day. not only were the stores a mess, so were the roads with our first good snowfall of the season. normally everything is plowed right away, but with it being a holiday things got a little behind and by 11:00 when we headed home the freeway was still unplowed! that's unheard of around here. the only things we ended up buying were christmas decorations. we're not buying high tech gadgets like we were last year so we didn't really need to get anything right away. we didn't find any deals we absolutly needed. however, i did find a million more things to add to my christmas list. like an electric toothbrush! do any of you have one of those? is it worth it? i think i want the phillips sonicare elite 7500 it sounds pretty good to me. target had a pretty good deal on it too. hmmm... nick on the other hand is racking his brain to figure out what he wants. although the things he really has in mind are at least $300 and that's not gonna happen :) i think we'll do most of our shopping online actually...no tax. no lines. no driving. hello! i've enjoyed the shopping online too. i can find the best deal and i can just save my list on the computer or froogle.com for nick to see. so exciting! i can't wait to wrap my presents and have my first christmas with my husband!

thanksgiving eve

well, another week gone by without an entry. sorry guys. last week was seriously one of the busiest weeks i've had in a long time. i had clinicals to finish up, tons of errands to run and gifts to buy for birthdays and such, books to read and work. i'm glad thanksgiving break started today. although i still have quite a bit of homework to do. i am taking two classes independently and it's now time for the essays to be due for them. not to mention my other classwork that i've put off while i was in clinicals needs to be completed. last week the second grader i nanny for celebrated her 8th birthday. i was able to help get things ready for the party and stay for a bit of it. my favorite part was watching them do karaoke to hillary duff and radio disney songs. it was hilarious! the kindergartener attepmted ymca from another cd...she has no idea how the verses went. there was a lot of "blah blah blah" and her just shouting out random words that were being lit up. so funny! today i will be baking my first apple pie. i wanted to practice last week, but didn't have time. this first pie of mine will be traveling with us to rochester, mn for thanksgiving with nick's family. i know i can follow a recipe, but i'm nervous about making my own crust. the pressure is on! i know a ton of things have taken place in the last week...i just can't bring them to my mind right now. enjoy your thanksgiving!

let it snow!

snow was in the forecast for today, now they've pushed it back to tomorrow. i'm thankful it wasn't today because i had to drive to the middle school i'm doing my clinicals in which is 25 minutes away. but now i'm ready! bring on the four inches! woo! however, i could do without the single digit windchill that is supposed to come with it. i taught about pantomime today for my seventh graders. we played a charades type game and they cracked me out. they are divided into teams and the team is given a letter of the alphabet. they have to act out as many words as they can beginning with that letter in two minutes time. i had labradors and losers for "l", breakdancing, boogers and butt for "b", toilet and tackle for "t", what a mess! some kids were so into it using the person next to them for props like a canoe or chair. of course others were scared out of their minds!!! we also watched the scene from hook when they imagine the food - it was quite a fun day. the kids loved it! and so did i.

oh the holidays...

i am so ready for christmas this year. i'm ready for snow so we can take our christmas picture, i want to bake cookies and pies and i'm looking forward to shopping for nick! i don't know what has come over me - i'm never this into the holidays! maybe it's being married and having my first christmas with nick, or that i love cooking now. as i write i'm listening to christmas music. about that cooking thing...i grew up with alot of "from the box" meals. but nick grew up without those because of living in italy. i am proud to say i have never made a meal from a box or can or bag of frozen stuff yet! this includes frozen pizza or mac and cheese (which were always back up meals when i lived alone). nick used to do the cooking, but now i'm really into it. i read through my cookbooks before making a grocery list and i'm constantly trying new things. and it's not hard like i thought! now that it's the season to bake i'm set! i'm ready for apple and pumpkin pie, chocolate chip cookies, and i've been checking out foodnetwork.com and martha stewart too! other than my obsession with the christmas season, my life has been alot of homework lately. or at least trying to get some done before it all come due at the end of the semester. nick also took me downtown friday night to the local for appetizers and then we headed out for the morning/afternoon to a small town about an hour from here. we walked around the mainstreet area, took a scenic drive and stopped by a pottery factory. it was great to get away for a bit and experience small town life.

now that i feel better...

the local radio station had a contest today. if a person's grandmother came to the station and sang "my humps" by blackeyed peas they won tickets to their concert with gwen stefani and are entered in a drawing for backstage passes. i laughed really hard when i hear about it - they've mentioned it all weekend. and then i decided if i was a grandma i'd totally do it. then, a kid in my first period come running to tell the teacher his grandma was on the radio!!! how cool! ms. picha didn't know about the contest so she wasn't so excited - but boy was i!! apparently seven grannies sang today. i'm guessing he won tickets, but i wasn't able to eavesdrop on the rest of the conversation.

aye caraumba

is that how you spell it? well with my splitting headache i don't really care. so i taught all day. and i enjoyed it - but saying the same thing over and over all day can wear a girl out! maybe if i didn't wear heels i'd have lasted longer. but man does my head hurt! i leave the school with a headache every time. i'm blaming it on the lights. or maybe that i'm thinking too hard. the kids were great and we had amazing discussions. they are smarties i tell ya! now for chinese with dawn and lydia. both of them had days much worse than mine - there were even tears! so here i go being a good friend (or so i hope that's what i can be despite my phyiscal pain and mental drain). then after that the meds should kick in and i'll be ready to start my two papers due tomorrow morning. geeze! what a day!

i'm alive

not writing for a week is strange for me. but here i am. i started clinicals this week (going into the public schools for two days all day) and that made things a bit crazier. i'm really enjoying it though. i'm at a suburban middle school. the kids are so well behaved! i expected them to be much scarier than they were and also more mature :) tomorrow i'm teaching a lesson comparing and contrasting monologues and plays. i have prepared a monologue from a book written for teens to perform. i get to be a girl obsessing over class pictures and the zit on her nose. oh the worries of a seventh grader! we'll see how much i like to repeat the same lesson seven times! nick has headed out to vegas for a few days with work. i'm jealous of this trip and wish i could come with him. but i'll be ok since it is for business and he won't be able to go out and see much of the city. he's promised me we'd go again and fully experience everything. he does get to stay in the venetian though and maybe eat at emril's restaurant. we have started making our chirstmas plans official. looking at plane tickets and such. i'm having a hard time knowing i'll be leaving my cat. oh how pathetic! i'm really looking forward to christmas this year. i actually want it to snow soon. maybe it's because i've designed our christmas card and it rocks but we have to wait for snow to take our picture. i'm anxious for thanksgiving so i can start playing christmas music. nick won't let me until then (although i sneak it when he's gone). we will be coming to winchester. i will actually be in on the 15th to attend bree's wedding on the 16th and i think we'll leave on the 27th since i have to be back early for student teaching. enough for today...i've got homework to do since i work both of my jobs today and won't be home till 10:00. have a good one!