We are buying a house, hopefully. We put in an offer yesterday so we're waiting to hear back on it. We're feeling positive though. I was talking to sukie about it and she had the perfect way of explaining the agony of waiting to hear back on an offer.
"it's like remember in school, when you liked a boy and you wrote him a note like : if you like me check here and pass it back. . . you're waiting for the house to pass back the note that it likes you"
LOL so true.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
New Job!!!
I got the job!!! Yay. I think i mentioned that i would be interviewing on Wednesday with a company up in Salt Lake area. Well i got the job!!! I gave my two weeks notice today! The end of my current job is in sight! Yay!!! No more students, no more professors. I'm sure there will be plenty of frustrations that come with this new job but I'm really excited to be leaving my current frustrations behind. I am so excited!!! Just wanted to share the happy news with everyone. LOL. I'll post about the new job when I'm settled into it and have something to say more than just that i have a new job! Yay!!! Sayonara Teacher Ed!!!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Obama Drama: Sometimes i'm not so much a fan of UTAH...
*This is political, you might not like what I'm going to say. If you don't please think before you comment. Disagree with me if you like but don't do it in a hostile manner please. Thanks.
So Obama is going to be speaking to the children across the country. It's a good thing for the president to talk to our children right? Seems like it can't hurt to me. I'm pretty sure he's not going to brainwash them into hounding their parents about health care until the parents give in. I'm pretty sure he's not going to try and sway them over into the "evil liberal arena". How do i know this? well the US department of education has said that he will speak about, "'persisting and succeeding in school.' The president will also "challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning." The Dept. of Education invites "students of all ages, teachers, and administrators" to watch the President's address and encourages "educators to help students get focused and inspired to begin the new academic year." Sounds pretty harmless to me. He just seems like he wants to get involved in all aspects. And since when is encourage our children to "persist... work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning" ever been a bad thing?
Well it is in Utah.
Today the news website that i follow for the Utah area ran an article entitled: School districts cautious ahead of Obama speech to students. Some quotes from the article:
"Some parents are concerned what will be said may be offensive or too liberal for their children and are even vowing to keep their kids away."
"Salt Lake City School District is advising schools to have teachers notify parents if they plan on airing the address in class, and then allowing an opt-out."
"The Davis School District is sending out letters to parents, giving them the option to have their child opt out of watching the speech. Alpine and Uintah are among the other school districts mulling options or putting into place guidelines ahead of the speech. Granite District says principals will be sending home notices if their schools plan to show the speech."
Wow. Just Wow. Believe what you want about Obama and his politics but really you're afraid that he's going to brainwash your children? You think he's going to lobby for abortion, health care, gay marriage and ending the war in an address to children about succeeding in education? Well I'm glad I'm not as paranoid as you are then.
Note: There were also quotes in the article of people supporting the address or being indifferent to it. I know that this is not the way all of Utah feels or acts. However i think it is uncalled for that even a portion of our population doesn't want our children to hear from the president.
Question for the readers: Is this as big an issue in your community/state as it is here?
So Obama is going to be speaking to the children across the country. It's a good thing for the president to talk to our children right? Seems like it can't hurt to me. I'm pretty sure he's not going to brainwash them into hounding their parents about health care until the parents give in. I'm pretty sure he's not going to try and sway them over into the "evil liberal arena". How do i know this? well the US department of education has said that he will speak about, "'persisting and succeeding in school.' The president will also "challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning." The Dept. of Education invites "students of all ages, teachers, and administrators" to watch the President's address and encourages "educators to help students get focused and inspired to begin the new academic year." Sounds pretty harmless to me. He just seems like he wants to get involved in all aspects. And since when is encourage our children to "persist... work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning" ever been a bad thing?
Well it is in Utah.
Today the news website that i follow for the Utah area ran an article entitled: School districts cautious ahead of Obama speech to students. Some quotes from the article:
"Some parents are concerned what will be said may be offensive or too liberal for their children and are even vowing to keep their kids away."
"Salt Lake City School District is advising schools to have teachers notify parents if they plan on airing the address in class, and then allowing an opt-out."
"The Davis School District is sending out letters to parents, giving them the option to have their child opt out of watching the speech. Alpine and Uintah are among the other school districts mulling options or putting into place guidelines ahead of the speech. Granite District says principals will be sending home notices if their schools plan to show the speech."
Wow. Just Wow. Believe what you want about Obama and his politics but really you're afraid that he's going to brainwash your children? You think he's going to lobby for abortion, health care, gay marriage and ending the war in an address to children about succeeding in education? Well I'm glad I'm not as paranoid as you are then.
Note: There were also quotes in the article of people supporting the address or being indifferent to it. I know that this is not the way all of Utah feels or acts. However i think it is uncalled for that even a portion of our population doesn't want our children to hear from the president.
Question for the readers: Is this as big an issue in your community/state as it is here?
Monday, August 31, 2009
First day of school
Oh my. It's been a busy one. Happily, i am not starting school. Sadly, i still have to deal with all the students, craziness, minor meltdowns of the semester start courtesy of my job.
Today was also David's first day of work so it was new for us. He has to get up early and leave the house by 7 to get up to his job by 8. Hopefully he can work with his boss to be able to come in earlier or later to miss some of the rush hour traffic. (and hopefully we'll find a house soon so that the commute will be cut down by more than half.) Well that changes my schedule a bit too. all summer we have been driving or riding to work together so it was my first day to go it alone. I decided to ride because it is much faster than walking. I soon realized it wasn't much easier. It's different riding in the summer when there are so few students to weave through. It took so much longer today because there were so many other walkers/riders to deal with. Not looking forward to doing it again tomorrow morning, although I'm going to try a different route.
So i was sick of students by the time i got to work. Not really good when i know I'm going to have to be dealing with them all day. It's all gone fine. No major catastrophes but it has been kind of annoying to have a higher volume of questions (some legitimate, some stupid) coming in all day long. On the other hand, it's nice to finally have a day that has gone by quickly.
So the first day is over and i am more anxious than ever to leave this job and head up to Salt Lake and be settled for a while. On that note, I have a job interview in Draper on Wednesday and after that I will be going to see some houses. Thanks to everyone that has been helping with the house hunt!!! (Carebear, Mom 2, Sukie, Wudan, Striker, David) I think i would be having a continuous breakdown without you! I really appreciate the help!
Please continue to send good vibes/prayers and ideas etc. our way. Thanks again all! Hopefully we'll have a house warming party soon :)
Today was also David's first day of work so it was new for us. He has to get up early and leave the house by 7 to get up to his job by 8. Hopefully he can work with his boss to be able to come in earlier or later to miss some of the rush hour traffic. (and hopefully we'll find a house soon so that the commute will be cut down by more than half.) Well that changes my schedule a bit too. all summer we have been driving or riding to work together so it was my first day to go it alone. I decided to ride because it is much faster than walking. I soon realized it wasn't much easier. It's different riding in the summer when there are so few students to weave through. It took so much longer today because there were so many other walkers/riders to deal with. Not looking forward to doing it again tomorrow morning, although I'm going to try a different route.
So i was sick of students by the time i got to work. Not really good when i know I'm going to have to be dealing with them all day. It's all gone fine. No major catastrophes but it has been kind of annoying to have a higher volume of questions (some legitimate, some stupid) coming in all day long. On the other hand, it's nice to finally have a day that has gone by quickly.
So the first day is over and i am more anxious than ever to leave this job and head up to Salt Lake and be settled for a while. On that note, I have a job interview in Draper on Wednesday and after that I will be going to see some houses. Thanks to everyone that has been helping with the house hunt!!! (Carebear, Mom 2, Sukie, Wudan, Striker, David) I think i would be having a continuous breakdown without you! I really appreciate the help!
Please continue to send good vibes/prayers and ideas etc. our way. Thanks again all! Hopefully we'll have a house warming party soon :)
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
3 posts in one day, i know, this one's good
So last week we went to Boston, flying standby thanks to David's mom. (Thanks!) We spent a lot of time in a couple airports on the way home. Let me tell you, you see and hear interesting things when you're in an airport all day.
1. Make-out-while-waiting-in-line-to-get-a-ticket couple. Just wrong. No one wants to see you going at it, tongue and all, while they're waiting in line behind you. Lay of it in the airport! Seriously!!!
2. Ridiculous/stupid questions and people's reactions. Loved watching/listening to people ask the airline counter staff where a gate or concourse is when it's on a sign if they would just look up. it's so funny how bugged people get when they're told to go back the way they came because they didn't look for the sign that tells them where they should have turned. Love it.
When we were picking up our tickets for the last leg of our journey some guy asked some such question. the airline guy was awesome! after he told the guy where the gate was he was like "people don't read anymore. they'll come up to me and ask me if I'm united (we were flying united and the counter and his uniform clearly mark him as a united worker) he says no, he's American airlines." Awesome!
3. Guys, or girls but this time it was a guy, trying to pick up girls at the airport. So ridiculously hilarious.
While we were waiting for one of our flights this guy in his early twenties is talking to some girl, obviously trying to pick up on her. He even managed to get a phone number, very likely a fake number but a number all the same. The whole time the girl was totally acting like "OK let me get on the flight and get away from this weirdo." He just kept on talking trying to fish for compliments and impress her.
Here are a few gems from what we overheard:
"I have this girlfriend, well she's not my girlfriend she's just a girl who's my friend, and she says she's interested in me but i totally don't think she is."
"I'm on the deans list at my community college. I don't know how that happened. I don't even buy books for class. I just go to class and i guess i did good enough." haha as if a community college's deans list is much to brag about.
When he got the girls "phone number": "I'm a nice guy. I just like to be friendly. I like to talk to people etc." blah blah blah.
Lucky for the girl she got on a flight and he didn't get on until the next flight.
I love people watching and the airport is one of the best places to do it. Good times.
1. Make-out-while-waiting-in-line-to-get-a-ticket couple. Just wrong. No one wants to see you going at it, tongue and all, while they're waiting in line behind you. Lay of it in the airport! Seriously!!!
2. Ridiculous/stupid questions and people's reactions. Loved watching/listening to people ask the airline counter staff where a gate or concourse is when it's on a sign if they would just look up. it's so funny how bugged people get when they're told to go back the way they came because they didn't look for the sign that tells them where they should have turned. Love it.
When we were picking up our tickets for the last leg of our journey some guy asked some such question. the airline guy was awesome! after he told the guy where the gate was he was like "people don't read anymore. they'll come up to me and ask me if I'm united (we were flying united and the counter and his uniform clearly mark him as a united worker) he says no, he's American airlines." Awesome!
3. Guys, or girls but this time it was a guy, trying to pick up girls at the airport. So ridiculously hilarious.
While we were waiting for one of our flights this guy in his early twenties is talking to some girl, obviously trying to pick up on her. He even managed to get a phone number, very likely a fake number but a number all the same. The whole time the girl was totally acting like "OK let me get on the flight and get away from this weirdo." He just kept on talking trying to fish for compliments and impress her.
Here are a few gems from what we overheard:
"I have this girlfriend, well she's not my girlfriend she's just a girl who's my friend, and she says she's interested in me but i totally don't think she is."
"I'm on the deans list at my community college. I don't know how that happened. I don't even buy books for class. I just go to class and i guess i did good enough." haha as if a community college's deans list is much to brag about.
When he got the girls "phone number": "I'm a nice guy. I just like to be friendly. I like to talk to people etc." blah blah blah.
Lucky for the girl she got on a flight and he didn't get on until the next flight.
I love people watching and the airport is one of the best places to do it. Good times.
Our Apartment. Long time coming...
Best part. Huge, frosty root beer floats.
Second bedroom. It's had a futon and a bunch of random stuff. But it's been good for a few guests so far. This is my brother, he and my dad were in town when the pictures were taken. Oh and the house hasn't been cleaned for these pictures. this is, more or less, how it usually is.
Our bedroom. Our amazing duvet cover that's 650 thread count that we found at Bed Bath and Beyond for super cheap clearance. Lovely.
Bathroom.
Laundry area.
Dining room/office/sitting room/ my dad's left arm. OK so this area is actually a little messier then it usually is. My dad and brother brought a bunch of my stuff out to me and that's what's all over our table and counter. That's usually cleared off.
Kitchen.
Living room. Our elliptical.
Other half of living room.
TV area. Lol. Our apartment is so glamorous. My mom has been wanting to see it forever and I've been bad and not taken or posted pictures until now. I figured that since we'll be moving up to salt lake pretty soon we'd better document our "first place" before it's too late. So there it is.
Cute Babies
On the way to and from Boston we stopped off in Denver. Carebear and Squirt were there at the same time so we got to see the cute cousins playing together.
Bones.
Whenever Alice comes over to our house she goes straight for our bedroom because she loves getting thrown on our bed. We have a down comforter and mattress cover so it's quite fun.
When we babysat Alice for Carolyn and Frik's anniversary she wasn't in to taking a nap in her port-a-crib. But she fell asleep on David. So cute. Don't worry, she did better that night on her own.
Playing around in PJ's in my shoes.
Little musician.
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