I can't believe it is a new year already! Where did 2010 go? It has been a while since I have posted anything, because so much has been going on! First of all, I finished my first semester of Master's classes. Yahoo!! It definitely kept me busy, between doing homework, and keeping up with teaching but I really have learned a lot to help me with my teaching.
The day after my going to my last class for the semester, I packed up and moved!! I only moved about 5 minutes away from home, but have come back many, many times already for Sunday dinner and what not...gotta have those homemade meals! :) It has been a great experience living and learning on my own. It helps to have great roommates and a nice, new, fun little place to live! As strange as it sounds, I am missing my old ward though...maybe it is just because I don't know anyone in my new one (besides my roommates)and need to be more outgoing than I am to enjoy to new one, but hopefully I will feel more comfortable soon!!
The holidays have been great! I have enjoyed the past week and a half off, spending time with family and friends and celebrating Christmas and New Years. Now it is time to get back into the teaching game tomorrow, but only for 3 more weeks before I get another break! Yes, another break! I love it! It is only 2 weeks off this time, but I am going with friends to Hawaii during the those 2 weeks! I am so stinking excited!! I have wanted to travel to Hawaii for so long now and I am finally going! :) Yehaw!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Life As I Know It...
Time flies when you're having fun! And I have been having a good, relaxing time off track, well except for good old school and homework that I have to do...but I guess I have to have something to keep me busy! :)
As far as the "relaxing" part goes, oh man...I am now a Vampire Diaries monster! For my birthday, my mom ordered me the first season of the Vampire Diaries because I had watched a few scattered episodes of it on TV, but never really understood what was going on because I would miss so many episodes in between. So, I finally got around to watching them on my break and I LOVE them! I am even going to go so far as saying that they are MUCH better than the Twilight movies...and I love those as well! Maybe I just like to look at the "evil" vampire brother Damon Salvatore too much in these, but the story line has so many twists and turns in it, you can't help but want to watch the next episode! Needless to say, I am all caught up on even the season 2 episodes and religiously following them on TV now. I even have my family hooked on them...yes, even my brother and Dad! :) So, if you like story lines with hot, blood-sucking vampires in them...I highly recommend these!
I also did some reading, finally getting to the third book of the "Hunger Games" series called Mockingjay. Wow! I pretty much read it in about 3 days! I had heard that some people didn't like it, but I thought it was great! It was just as suspenseful as the first 2 for me and I did like the ending as well, because Katniss, the main character, ended up with the guy I wanted her to! (I won't give it away for all those who want to read it still!)
Sadly, I haven't picked up any more juicy reads like that since because of all the reading I have to do for school. I guess it is back to late night and Saturday homework-doing starting next week! BOO! I do have one more book my dear mother got for me that is the most recent book of the "Tennis Shoes" series by Chris Hiemerdinger, an LDS author. Yes, call me a geek, but I own that whole series and LOVE them as well! I haven't read them since high school though, so I might have to read through them all again before I start this one!
Anyway, that pretty much sums up my life at this point...I know, pretty bland, but it will be changing quite a bit in December because I am moving out. Yes...you heard right...MOVING OUT! Yes this is a big step for me, seeing how I have had the same "roommates" for 25 years of my life (love you Mom and Dad) and they are wonderful roommates, but I don't think that at this point in my life it does me good socially to say, yeah...um...I live with my parents... Awkward silence. It has been SOOOO nice to save my money up a bit though and be able to pay for college for my bachelor's and my master's! So for that I am ETERNALLY grateful!
I am not moving far though...just 5 minutes away (once 11400 South goes all the way through)to a very cute townhouse my friend Sally purchased. It is still being built at the moment, but will be done in December. It is also closer to my work, so that will cut down on my driving time! I am very excited! So, I will keep you posted on when the big day happens (yes it is a big day for me...if you know me!).
For now, back to the real life I guess...for the last couple of days I have been in panic mode already trying to plan lessons and gear up for teaching next week...my cute little class of 27 will be waiting for me Monday morning and Parent/Teacher Conferences in 2 weeks! Phew...here goes nothing! :)
As far as the "relaxing" part goes, oh man...I am now a Vampire Diaries monster! For my birthday, my mom ordered me the first season of the Vampire Diaries because I had watched a few scattered episodes of it on TV, but never really understood what was going on because I would miss so many episodes in between. So, I finally got around to watching them on my break and I LOVE them! I am even going to go so far as saying that they are MUCH better than the Twilight movies...and I love those as well! Maybe I just like to look at the "evil" vampire brother Damon Salvatore too much in these, but the story line has so many twists and turns in it, you can't help but want to watch the next episode! Needless to say, I am all caught up on even the season 2 episodes and religiously following them on TV now. I even have my family hooked on them...yes, even my brother and Dad! :) So, if you like story lines with hot, blood-sucking vampires in them...I highly recommend these!
I also did some reading, finally getting to the third book of the "Hunger Games" series called Mockingjay. Wow! I pretty much read it in about 3 days! I had heard that some people didn't like it, but I thought it was great! It was just as suspenseful as the first 2 for me and I did like the ending as well, because Katniss, the main character, ended up with the guy I wanted her to! (I won't give it away for all those who want to read it still!)
Sadly, I haven't picked up any more juicy reads like that since because of all the reading I have to do for school. I guess it is back to late night and Saturday homework-doing starting next week! BOO! I do have one more book my dear mother got for me that is the most recent book of the "Tennis Shoes" series by Chris Hiemerdinger, an LDS author. Yes, call me a geek, but I own that whole series and LOVE them as well! I haven't read them since high school though, so I might have to read through them all again before I start this one!
Anyway, that pretty much sums up my life at this point...I know, pretty bland, but it will be changing quite a bit in December because I am moving out. Yes...you heard right...MOVING OUT! Yes this is a big step for me, seeing how I have had the same "roommates" for 25 years of my life (love you Mom and Dad) and they are wonderful roommates, but I don't think that at this point in my life it does me good socially to say, yeah...um...I live with my parents... Awkward silence. It has been SOOOO nice to save my money up a bit though and be able to pay for college for my bachelor's and my master's! So for that I am ETERNALLY grateful!
I am not moving far though...just 5 minutes away (once 11400 South goes all the way through)to a very cute townhouse my friend Sally purchased. It is still being built at the moment, but will be done in December. It is also closer to my work, so that will cut down on my driving time! I am very excited! So, I will keep you posted on when the big day happens (yes it is a big day for me...if you know me!).
For now, back to the real life I guess...for the last couple of days I have been in panic mode already trying to plan lessons and gear up for teaching next week...my cute little class of 27 will be waiting for me Monday morning and Parent/Teacher Conferences in 2 weeks! Phew...here goes nothing! :)
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Off Track Fun!
My how time flies! Yes, it is already time to be off track...and I am loving it! I am always ready for it and then I am always ready to go back to work again when it's over with. Kind of strange how that works, but I really don't know if I could ever go to traditional school! I think I would burn out very quickly! Don't get me wrong...I love my job, it just takes a lot of energy and it is nice to be able to "re-energize" every once in a while!
I got off last Wednesday, due to Fall Break last week and on Friday, I left with Sally to go to Capitol Reef, Arches, and Canyonlands National Parks. I have NEVER been to a national park, and we wanted to do a not so expensive trip, so that is what we chose to do! We went to Capitol Reef first and were "wow'd" by all the beautiful rocks there. We even saw a pioneer school house and farm house and some indian petroglyphs! I would say the highlight of that park was the Hickman Natural Bridge. We had to hike a mile to see it, but it was definitely worth it!
After visiting Capitol Reef, we drove to Richfield and stayed overnight there. Then, we were off to Moab to visit Arches National Park. Boy was that fabulous!!! There was a whole lot of arches there! One of my favorites was definitely Delicate Arch. It was by far the hardest hike as well! We hiked 3 miles round trip and that was even climbing a HUGE, STEEP hill...but oh was it worth it! It was breathtaking to turn that last corner and see this:
We also saw many, many other things there including the Twin Arches, the Double Windows, the Courthouse Towers, Broken Arch, the Fiery Furnace, and Balanced Rock. All were incredible! We were definitely BLOWN away by all of it!
After exploring Arches, we stayed in Moab and the next day went to Canyonlands National Park and Dead Horse Point State Park, which is only about 30 miles away from Moab. Dead Horse Point was SPECTACULAR! It was just so peaceful there and the view was amazing!
The views from various places in Canyonlands were equally as spectacular!
We were definitely tired of driving and hiking when we were done, but WOW, we saw some pretty amazing things! Hopefully I can visit the rest of the national parks soon!
As for the rest of off track time, I am doing LOTS of catch up on homework for my Master's classes and just relaxing. Oh the JOY! :)
I got off last Wednesday, due to Fall Break last week and on Friday, I left with Sally to go to Capitol Reef, Arches, and Canyonlands National Parks. I have NEVER been to a national park, and we wanted to do a not so expensive trip, so that is what we chose to do! We went to Capitol Reef first and were "wow'd" by all the beautiful rocks there. We even saw a pioneer school house and farm house and some indian petroglyphs! I would say the highlight of that park was the Hickman Natural Bridge. We had to hike a mile to see it, but it was definitely worth it!
After visiting Capitol Reef, we drove to Richfield and stayed overnight there. Then, we were off to Moab to visit Arches National Park. Boy was that fabulous!!! There was a whole lot of arches there! One of my favorites was definitely Delicate Arch. It was by far the hardest hike as well! We hiked 3 miles round trip and that was even climbing a HUGE, STEEP hill...but oh was it worth it! It was breathtaking to turn that last corner and see this:
We also saw many, many other things there including the Twin Arches, the Double Windows, the Courthouse Towers, Broken Arch, the Fiery Furnace, and Balanced Rock. All were incredible! We were definitely BLOWN away by all of it!
After exploring Arches, we stayed in Moab and the next day went to Canyonlands National Park and Dead Horse Point State Park, which is only about 30 miles away from Moab. Dead Horse Point was SPECTACULAR! It was just so peaceful there and the view was amazing!
The views from various places in Canyonlands were equally as spectacular!
We were definitely tired of driving and hiking when we were done, but WOW, we saw some pretty amazing things! Hopefully I can visit the rest of the national parks soon!
As for the rest of off track time, I am doing LOTS of catch up on homework for my Master's classes and just relaxing. Oh the JOY! :)
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