An Unfortunate Turn...

Whoa! Long time, no see! Here's an update...

Yesterday, I got pulled into the principal's office and the principal started talking to me about next year. Unfortunately, the funds for Title I are looking pretty bad and they're probably going to have to let Maren and me go. He said that I should just persue anything that I've got going whole-heartedly and don't worry about anything. That being said, I haven't told you guys the rumor that I heard from a sub here at Garfield: She said that her friend is a Spanish teacher in the elementary school system in Meridian and she said that she's worried because she doesn't think she'll have a job next year because they're thinking about replacing Spanish with German. HA! I've never heard that one before--last year at Rowland, all I kept hearing from parents who would complain about German was, "Why are the kids learning German? Why don't they learn Spanish??" But again, this is just word of mouth and I haven't even gotten a confirmation from this sub as to where her friend works and whatnot. No details yet. So, it may not even happen. In that case, I'll probably return to subbing (ick!) and that will actually help me with my master's degree classes because it'll be a little more flexible when I need it to be. Needless to say, I'll give out all my information to the teacher's there at Garfield because I liked working there--I maybe didn't always have great days there, but at least the kids will be familiar with me.

What a shame!

Um, so Kyle and I spent one of our nice, warm days the other weekend planting new flowers in our garden. Last night, we had a cold snap (about 30 degrees or something) and they're dead. The orange and yellow flowers are lying flat on the ground and the purple ones are still standing but they don't have much longer to go, I guess. :(

What an interesting day!

One of the title I tutors has been out all week due to asthma inflicted stuff and a huge nosebleed. Apparently her nosebleed was so bad, she had to go to the hospital and have her nose cauterized. Well, she came back today since we had early release and she thought she could make it those few hours of the day but nope...She was sitting at her computer and someone else saw her face turn beet red and thought she was having a heart attack! She needed her inhaler because she couldn't breathe! Paul grabbed her purse and brought it over to her and they frantically searched for her inhaler and finally found it. She was able to finally catch her breath but then she got really hot and was panicking. Shortly after, she felt like she had to vomit--that was my cue to leave because she started heaving into the trashcan. After I had left the room, I heard she had another nosebleed but it wasn't as bad as what she had this past weekend. We think the inhaler caused the bleeding. Meredith and Paul took her back home so she could rest. The doctors had told her not to go back to school and climb stairs or whatever. Our school has stairs all over the place...so basically, it's the worst place to be when the doctors tell you something like that. Anyway, we had a very eventful morning. I only had to be in 3 classes today due to early release. In the late morning, I had a really long break and so Meredith and I went on a coffee run for the others in the office. That was a nice break.

It's a beautiful day today and why am I in here typing? I don't know.

Pictures are up..

The professional pictures are up. Go to www.roppop.com and then click the link for "photo store". You'll see a link for Fantastic Sams style awards. Click on it and it'll ask you for a password or code and that is: fansam. Click submit and it'll take you to all the thumbnail photos. There's a bunch of photos of a guy and then a girl and then you'll get to me. I really should've worn a different blouse than the one she gave me but hey, I just wanted to make her happy. I just ordered a few of the better pictures so maybe I could make copies and send them out.

The photo shoot

Here's my evil possessed look

I have a lot of makeup on...I almost don't want to take it off but it feels a bit uncomfortable to have this much on and plus, I don't know if I want to go out in public like that...
Side shot of my hairstyle.
My attempt at doing a back shot...

The professional pictures should be up on his website either by Monday or Tuesday. We're going to print some off and then pass them out. If you're lucky enough, you might just get to see the actual professional ones ;)...

So, I went to the salon this morning with my salmon colored button up shirt and the girl, more or less, said she didn't want me to wear it. She had a shirt for me. I went into the bathroom to try it on and it was REALLY tight...good thing I have lost weight or else it would've looked 10 times as bad... Anyway, so I came out of the bathroom and she (unfortunately) said she liked it and it looked good. I should've worn my black button up blouse had I thought about it. I would've felt much more comfortable in it. Luckily, the pictures are only headshots. The funny thing is that she said, "I'm sorry you're uncomfortable..." but she didn't make any offers to let me change. Oh well. I think the pictures are going to turn out fine because I got to look at them and they looked really good. The only bad thing was that since the shirt was pretty tight around the shoulders, it didn't flatter my arms too much. So whenever there were shots where the tops of my arms showed, they looked a little squeezed. I really like how she did my hair and makeup. It's really rockstar and I don't do that myself at all so it's just nice to let someone else do your hair and makeup and be a little creative.

Random-"ocity" because I'm bored...

Things I'm looking forward to currently:

My Fantastic Sams photo shoot...I will get pictures as soon as they are put on the photographer's website.

Kyle switching to dayshift because nightshift STINKS!

Tiger's 1 yr "birthday" in May/June because we don't know exactly when he was born but we know it was about then.

My trip to Indiana for Libby's wedding because I need to see those people over there :)

Summer vacation away from school

Our trip to GA for Shelly's wedding because we're a bit homesick at this point and are needing some social interaction from familiar and comfortable faces...

Starting my Master's degree in the Fall!

Beautiful Day

It's a gorgeous sunny day out today! I just got done mowing the lawn and I bought 2 birdfeeders and placed them strategically so that Tiger can see them out the window. I can't wait until the birds notice we've got food! Can't wait to watch Tiger enjoy the bird company! Now all I need to do is get out there and take out unwanted plants in the backyard--the only problem is where to put it all...garbage bags aren't that great. Kinda wish we had a mulcher.