Saryndippity

Stupid Boys

So, I have a question. And I’m hoping someone out there can answer this. Why do guys need to be coddled and constantly reassured?

I could go into detail, but I’m not going to. . .

Big Happy Grin

I had a wonderful day! And I can’t stop smiling. :)

A while back a comment was made on one of the discussion forums I’m a member of. Many of the people on this forum are having babies. Upon the announcement of the last new baby one of the single guys made this comment: “Does anyone want to have a baby with me? I’m feeling left out.” To which I flirttingly replied: “I’m in for some baby action! My biological clock’s been ticking.” And from there we had some back and forth fairly pubic flirtting. It got a bit odd when my ex-boyfriend, who is also a menber of said forum piped in with some random comments about being jelouse.

And then a few days ago I get a private message from the guy I was flirtting with. :) I responded. . . We spent a good chunk of today exchanging messages, both flirty and non-flirty. He seems like a really cool guy. :) He lives in St. Louis and invited me down to see a seek peek showing of Serenity. Going down would mean I would have to find someone to work for me on 2 different days and spend money I really shouldn’t spend. But I think I really like his guy. I’ve never met him in person. Only read his posts and had these converstations today. But we just seem to click. And if we click even better in person, well that would be cool. :)

I’m just not sure what to do. . . Do I go down now? Do I wait and get to know him better and go down later in the summer? I’ve never really been in this situation before. . . I do know that even before we started talking today, and before we started flirting on the forums, back when I had just read some of his posts, I knew I wanted to get to know him.

When I did finally pull myself away from the computer I went up to Wausau to hang out with Andy. We met Brad for dinner. The three of us went to one of the many new resturaunts that are popping up in downtown Wausau. I’m blanking on the name of the place, but the food was pretty good. After dinner Andy and I said good-bye to Brad and we went into DataWave so Andy could fix the internet. His pager went off just after we finished eating. He ended up having to go down to the server room in the basement and I got to “help” fix the internet. And by help I mean I stood on a stool while he fiddled with cords across the room and told him when a specific light was or wasn’t blinking. Not much, but it made me feel pretty cool. ;)

After the internet was fixed we went for ice cream and then back to Andy’s and just hung out. We didn’t do anything exciting. But it was a nice ending to a wonderful day. :)

So Much to Tell

It’s been almost three months since I last updated. I’ve come here often enough and thought to myself that I should really make a post or two, or 10. But then I didn’t. I’m really not sure why, mybe it’s because I was so exhausted from student teaching. Being around 44 three to five year olds for 7 hours a day tends to take a lot out of you. Or maybe it’s because I was so stressed out from preparing to graduate. :)

That’s right I have graduated! After 6 and 1/2 years I have my bachelor’s degree. Shortly, I will have my teaching licence in Early Childhood Special Education. I’m pretty proud of myself. I’m excited to start the next chapter of my life and at the same time it terrifies me just a bit. I used to know what was happening next in my life. The school year would end and I knew that in the fall I would start classes again. But this year I’m really not sure what fall will bring. I’m hoping that it brings a wonderful teaching job for me. And if it doesn’t I hope that I can find something that is at least remotely related to teaching. I’ve already decided that if it comes down to it I am not above applying for teaching aide postitions. I know I am over qualified for them, but I would rather be in a classroom, even in an aide position, than working some high school job. I also know that if nothing else I can substitute teach in the fall. However, if that ends up being the case, I’ll have to get another job. . .

In other news, I have a summer school teaching position! I start next week and it goes to the middle of July. I am very excited to start. I think that this will be a great way for me to really get my feet wet teaching and to really figure out what I need to work on as a teacher. I know that student teaching is supposed to prepare you for teaching. And I think that my student teaching experiance did a pretty good job of doing that. However, I also know that having a classroom of your very own is different than a student teaching assignment. I know that I can do this. :)

Hmmm. . . I’m sure there are other things that have happened since my last post. I know that I’ve posted more pictures to my gallery site and I have still more to post. One of the things that happened was Trivia 36. Which was filled with lots of fun, very little sleep, and the Thanksgiving Pack of Jones Soda. All I have to say about the soda is DO NOT mix the flavors. Even thinking about it now it makes my tummy all flip-floppy.

I think that’s it for now. I’m hoping that now that I have a bit more time on my hands I will be able to keep up with my postings. However, that could not happen too. Soon I’ll be teaching, and I’m still job searching. Hopefully there will be some interviews soon and at least one will result in a job offer. *crosses fingers*

Realizations

I realized 2 important things this week:

1) I really enjoy being alone. I spent a good part of the weekend alone in my apartment. It was lovley. The apartment was so quiet and peaceful. My weeks are filled with noise, mostly the noise of a classroom full of 3 to 5 year-olds. I know that I would really enjoy living by myself.

2) As much as I love my roommate son, the next time I will live with a child will be when I have kids of my own. There isn’t any one thing that has made me decide this, I just know it to be true.

I think that’s really it. I should be doing home work. I haven’t finished my weekly journal or log from last week for my student teaching. But I’m just not motivated to do it at the moment. It’s about half way finished, maybe a bit more, so I’ll just finish it quick tomorrow and send it off to me university supervisor then. I could also be working on my portfolio now that I have Front Page on my laptop. But again not that motiviated. I will however have to work on it this week. I have 2 job interviews coming up and they will most likely want to see some sort of portfolio, it would be nice for me to have something to show them. I’ll just have to buckle down this week and get stuff done.

Freak Women’s Weekend Feb.18- 20

So, it occurred to me that I never posted about the Women’s Weekend. I figure that since I now have the pictures up, I should really get to posting about it. So, let me see what I can remember. . .

It was tons of fun. Manda arrived on Friday night. I finished the last minute cleaning and we ordered ginders from Topper’s when Joyce got home. The three of us ate and hung out for a while. Then Manda and I went and visited our friend Beth at South Point.

Saturday morning I was up early to go to work. After work it was time for some last minute grocery shopping. And then it was back home. Joyce, who also worked that morning, and I got back at about the same time. We started setting up the brunchy-lunchy food we had. Kat and Jess arrived just im time to enjoy the food.

JoAnn arrived around 1, Kat and Jess left around 4, just as Sarah was arriving. And Dawn and Ashley joined us too. Saturday was filled with make-overs, visiting, giggling, sushi at Tokyo Steakhouse, shopping, some drinking, snacking, giggling, fake fingernails, hair dye, staying up late, and a phone call from a boy! It was so much fun.

JoAnn and Manda were the only girls to send Saturday night. We didn’t do much on Sunday. It was snowing pretty hard for a good part of the day. Both Manda and JoAnn took off early-ish to try and avoid most of the snow. I stayed in my pajamma’s the entire day. It was lovely. :)