Still Zumba-ing

I've gone through my first week of Zumba class and I'm still not tired of it. Tonight was irritating though because I wanted to go to the 4:30pm class and the instructor was 30 minutes late!! She didn't get there til about 5pm or so and I was ANGRY! I got so angry that I ran over to one of the elliptical machines and started going full force on it! hahaha! Kyle was right next to me and he couldn't believe how fast I was going. I just needed to get some calories burned because we had driven all the way over to Boise to do this class and then she was not there! Finally as I had completed about 15 minutes of elliptical, I looked over my shoulder to the classroom and the teacher had arrived. I ran over there and joined class for the next 30 minutes. I think I got enough exercise but not as much as I had anticipated. Oh well. Here's to another week of ZUMBA!!!!!! :) :)

It's about time!!

ZUMBA dance class is finally here!!! My gym finally started having Zumba class here in Meridian!!! I was ecstatic when I looked on the new schedule. I'm going to start going to those whenever I can get a chance! Unfortunately, I can only go 2 times this week instead of the 3 or 4 times I had actually planned. I have something blocking up my Wednesday evening class (unless I can get away early) but I probably won't be able to get away.


In case you're wondering what Zumba is, it's a latin fusion dance class. It has a little of salsa, merengue, bachata and hip hop all in one. It's so much fun and it doesn't even feel like a workout and before you know it, you're drenched with sweat by the end of the hour. It's about time that I feel excited about going to the gym again. I haven't been in the last few months to a class because I'd been bored out of my mind. I hated going there because it was the same stuff ALL THE TIME. I know Zumba might get that way after awhile but it didn't seem like it was the same at all when I first tried it. I think it'll be different though because it's not a Les Mills program where they have certain routines and whatnot. This is more independent. I think it'll be refreshing and new most of the time.

Knitwitz. A club.

I'm starting a club at school this week. We're going to knit for fun and for charity. I've set up an account with the Donorschoose website to see if donors want to put money towards our projects. Any yarn we get will go towards making projects for Goodwill or other donation places. We'll also have fun making different things for people as gifts and whatnot. I'm excited about this and I think a bunch of kids will be excited to start too! Only thing I'm worried about is having the knitting needles or looms for the kids. I'm going to ask them to get their own tools so that they can take the stuff home and work and plus it'll allow them to take pride in their work if it's all their own stuff. If they can't afford to buy needles or the looms, then I can lend some out and just expect that they bring them back when they're done.


You can take a look at my donor proposal, if you'd like:

<http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=338743&sharebar=true>

Silly video. Tiger talks to us.

Tiger doesn't like the dishwasher. He shows me exactly what he thinks of this at the end of the video. Just watch (and make sure the volume is up). :)

The letter is sealed

I just finished a letter to Chris. It goes in the mail tomorrow. :)

I can't wait til Thanksgiving! We're going to fry a turkey. I know, I know. Not healthy at all but hey, it's the holidays and I'll be sure NOT to weigh in that weekend. ;) I probably won't do that bad though. I'll peel off the skin, how 'bout that?


Four day week this week with the kids. Friday is teacher workday. YAY! I definitely need some organizational time.

I had a really long week this week. 2 observations in one week wears a girl out. Thursday was bad because I had a falling out with my kids in 3rd period. I'm going to have to mend some relationships I guess but at the same time, the kids aren't exactly innocent either even though they'd have you believe otherwise. They apparently went to the counselor and talked about me and said that they felt I was singling them out. Well, if they're going to sit together, and talk loudly and not do any work like I asked repeatedly, OF COURSE they're going to be "singled out". Anyway, gonna see if I can divide and conquer by moving a couple of kids from 3rd period to my 5th period to kind of separate the strong personalities. Hopefully that helps. Fingers crossed.

Just another lazy weekend (at least that's what I want it to be)

Just sitting here typing a little update because I know ya'll are getting bored looking at the same entry for the past couple of weeks.

*Chris goes off to boot camp on Tuesday. I know he says he's not nervous but I know deep down he's a little worried. It probably won't really hit home until he gets there.

*One of my main troublemakers in my class has withdrawn from school due to moving out of state--CELEBRATION!! I'm happy.

*I only have one more real master's class to finish up this semester before I take my spring capstone course before graduation.

*We're enjoying having the extra income from my job. It really lets us relax more and not worry so much about having a little extra to use or to not worry so much about having to pay big bills from the mortgage and whatnot.

*I'm teaching English classes to adults at a local community college every Tuesday and Thursday night for some extra pocket money (about $400 extra every month). The adults are SO much fun to teach! It makes it even better that they want to be there. We had such a good time this past Thursday doing tongue twisters for treats. They gave me 2 Spanish tongue twisters to work on and one guy said that if I could do those close to perfect, he'd bring me chocolate. HA! So cute! These adults are so nice and polite. They've told me they love how patient I am and how kind I am with them in learning this new language. One person did tell me that they wanted me to be harder on them about correcting mispronounced words but I did tell them I did NOT want to be rude and interrupt them. If I correct them too much, it's going to make some people discouraged and not want to talk.

*Kyle's working a lot harder in this first shift position than in his original 4/3 work days, 12hrs a day shift. He's now working M-F, 7-5pm-ish. He says it's a lot harder to get his school work done on this shift because he doesn't have whole days off to get caught up. It's posing a bit of a challenge for him.


Okay, there's an update on what all is happening as of now.

Nice weekend

I had Thursday and Friday off from school. It was great to sleep in. Unfortunately, I haven't done anything work-related.