Monday, June 21, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Walking on Sunshine...
oh, a whoa-oh! I'm walkin' on sunshine!
Yay for sunshine! So my nose is stuffed up and my skin is itchy, and the weather man says my allergies will get worse tomorrow... but I. DON'T. CARE. The sun is shining, it is 60 degrees outside, and I am one happy girl!! I love love love this sun! I really should move somewhere where it is warm and sunny all the time; I am SUCH a weather person!
You might be wondering what the heck that means, a "weather person." Well, it means that I am extremely affected by the weather. When it's cold and dark and rainy for more than a day or so, I curl up into a little ball on the couch and hibernate until the sun comes out. I refuse to do laundry, clean anything, cook, leave the house, or bathe.
Okay, so I exaggerate. But that's what I feel like doing. And when the sun is out and gorgeous, I go outside and play and sing. No exaggeration! :)
Yay for sunshine! So my nose is stuffed up and my skin is itchy, and the weather man says my allergies will get worse tomorrow... but I. DON'T. CARE. The sun is shining, it is 60 degrees outside, and I am one happy girl!! I love love love this sun! I really should move somewhere where it is warm and sunny all the time; I am SUCH a weather person!
You might be wondering what the heck that means, a "weather person." Well, it means that I am extremely affected by the weather. When it's cold and dark and rainy for more than a day or so, I curl up into a little ball on the couch and hibernate until the sun comes out. I refuse to do laundry, clean anything, cook, leave the house, or bathe.
Okay, so I exaggerate. But that's what I feel like doing. And when the sun is out and gorgeous, I go outside and play and sing. No exaggeration! :)
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sick and Tired
Ugh. I really hate winter. I need to move somewhere where it is warm and sunny all year round, and the temperature barely dips below 60 degrees. Every year, about this time, I have just had ENOUGH of the cold and the wet. It has sunk down deep into my bones and I just can't get warm enough! I can't even get outside to run or play because the ground is so darn mushy!
This last weekend was SO beautiful, but now Marcy (the weather girl) is telling me that it's going to snow later this week!
And you know what else? I am tired of mean people. Sometimes the world is such an ugly place. When people are mean to kids, or animals, or kids... I really have a problem with people who are cruel to kids. And I see it a lot. And it makes me sick. And tired.
I knew teaching would be hard. I expected it to test my patience. I didn't expect it to test my strength. Sometimes, i just don't know if I have enough love to give them all in the forty-five minutes I have them to last them the rest of the day, or through the weekend.
On Sunday, we were coming back from church (and I was already pretty sick with a head cold, so that didn't help any) and there in the road, in the sunshine, was a little puppy that had been hit by a car. And I almost started legitimately crying... and Adam told me not to worry, God loves that puppy and he is probably in heaven, that God loves all animals because he made them. Honestly, that's about all that pacified me in the moment.
But what I didn't want to tell him is that I wasn't so much crying because the puppy was dead... it's more that sometimes the world has so MANY dead puppies and hurting children that it's overwhelming to me. And some days, I am just sick and tired, and I need to know that my Heavenly Father loves them all where I've missed them, and that is what my husband is so wonderful to remind me of!
This last weekend was SO beautiful, but now Marcy (the weather girl) is telling me that it's going to snow later this week!
And you know what else? I am tired of mean people. Sometimes the world is such an ugly place. When people are mean to kids, or animals, or kids... I really have a problem with people who are cruel to kids. And I see it a lot. And it makes me sick. And tired.
I knew teaching would be hard. I expected it to test my patience. I didn't expect it to test my strength. Sometimes, i just don't know if I have enough love to give them all in the forty-five minutes I have them to last them the rest of the day, or through the weekend.
On Sunday, we were coming back from church (and I was already pretty sick with a head cold, so that didn't help any) and there in the road, in the sunshine, was a little puppy that had been hit by a car. And I almost started legitimately crying... and Adam told me not to worry, God loves that puppy and he is probably in heaven, that God loves all animals because he made them. Honestly, that's about all that pacified me in the moment.
But what I didn't want to tell him is that I wasn't so much crying because the puppy was dead... it's more that sometimes the world has so MANY dead puppies and hurting children that it's overwhelming to me. And some days, I am just sick and tired, and I need to know that my Heavenly Father loves them all where I've missed them, and that is what my husband is so wonderful to remind me of!
Monday, February 15, 2010
Quite a While...
Wow! It's been two weeks since I last posted! The last few weeks just sort of slipped away. The first week of February, I stayed sick. Yuck. So no running that week.
The second week, we had terrible weather. School was canceled on Friday due to snow. So we had a nice three-day weekend! I will post pictures later!
Today, the sun was shining, it wasn't terribly cold, and I was well! I thought to myself, "What a perfect day to get back on my running schedule!" Oh, how wrong I was. The wind was blowing SO HARD, from EVERY DIRECTION, that my contacts were literally getting blown out of my eyes. So I came inside and did 40 minutes of cardio-yoga instead. As I was laying on the floor (corpse pose, at the end) I hear the door to the bedroom creak open, and then.... I felt something lick me. I thought, "If that is Adam, we will have to discuss what is and isn't a creepy thing to do to your wife. If that's Diesel, I'm pretty sure she rolled in something dead this morning. The third possibility is that there is a pervert burglar in my house." And since I couldn't decide which of those three things was worse, I just laid there with my eyes closed until the licking stopped. I'm 95% sure it was Diesel......
The second week, we had terrible weather. School was canceled on Friday due to snow. So we had a nice three-day weekend! I will post pictures later!
Today, the sun was shining, it wasn't terribly cold, and I was well! I thought to myself, "What a perfect day to get back on my running schedule!" Oh, how wrong I was. The wind was blowing SO HARD, from EVERY DIRECTION, that my contacts were literally getting blown out of my eyes. So I came inside and did 40 minutes of cardio-yoga instead. As I was laying on the floor (corpse pose, at the end) I hear the door to the bedroom creak open, and then.... I felt something lick me. I thought, "If that is Adam, we will have to discuss what is and isn't a creepy thing to do to your wife. If that's Diesel, I'm pretty sure she rolled in something dead this morning. The third possibility is that there is a pervert burglar in my house." And since I couldn't decide which of those three things was worse, I just laid there with my eyes closed until the licking stopped. I'm 95% sure it was Diesel......
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Blech...
So my week last week was fine, but we've had some bad weather. Cold fronts and thunderstorms and such. (Which is better than what we've been having... tornadoes...) Anyway, with the weather all gross, I woke up sick Saturday morning. I stayed on the couch most of the day drinking tea and watching movies. I felt a little better today. We missed church, but I managed to get a little laundry done, watch some movies, and paint a little.
I also made an apple pie today, so I guess I wasn't feeling too terrible! Hopefully, I'll be able to motivate myself to get out of bed, get cute, and go to work. I am supposed to have my official principal observation this week, so I am hoping I can be on top of things this week!
I also made an apple pie today, so I guess I wasn't feeling too terrible! Hopefully, I'll be able to motivate myself to get out of bed, get cute, and go to work. I am supposed to have my official principal observation this week, so I am hoping I can be on top of things this week!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Beautiful Days for Week 4
It's week 4 of this little journey! I know that doesn't sound like very long, but seriously, I've never stuck with anything like this for more than a few DAYS. The weather is absolutely beautiful, it's just really COLD. I am actually sore from my running day, and so today is a rest and some yoga. :) Ommm.....
Sunday, January 24, 2010
A Run, Some Rain, and New Shoes..
So this week my running schedule got all off. I ran Monday and Tuesday, and then not again until Friday and Saturday. The weather was disgusting most of the week and we had some pretty bad tornadoes around here.
So yesterday morning, I woke up before Adam and went on outside to run before it started raining. It was dry out, but it was really muggy and cooler than it has been all week.
When I came back in, we got cleaned up and went to Longview to DoubleDave's Pizza for lunch, then to Target and Academy where I got..... new shoes! So tomorrow, I get to break them in!
For now, I am going to enjoy the rest of my Sunday. Do a little laundry, drink some hot chocolate, and maybe watch "Up"....... Don't want the start to my week to be too stressful! :)
So yesterday morning, I woke up before Adam and went on outside to run before it started raining. It was dry out, but it was really muggy and cooler than it has been all week.
When I came back in, we got cleaned up and went to Longview to DoubleDave's Pizza for lunch, then to Target and Academy where I got..... new shoes! So tomorrow, I get to break them in!
For now, I am going to enjoy the rest of my Sunday. Do a little laundry, drink some hot chocolate, and maybe watch "Up"....... Don't want the start to my week to be too stressful! :)
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