Where to start??
I have been trying to write a post for a long time, and it keeps coming out too boring and long winded…then I remember I don’t have any pictures on the computer and I stop, delete it, and don’t post.
This is me posting! (FYI, it’s still long-winded, but I finished this time!)
I got a bunny from my best friend and sister, Kristi.
Isn’t he cuuuuute? His name is Sammy and I’ve loved him since I met him. Kristi and Eric’s new apt charges per pet, so they are cleaning house (of the bunnies) I got Sammy just in time for Easter! (the photo is on Easter)
I didn’t get real spring break. I got Thurs-Mon off. I spent my time well…sewing, sewing, and oh yeah…sewing. This is one of my favorite SAI totes that I made….
All in all I made six totes and five shirts. I love my girls who keep me sewing! It was so cool at our Thursday night activity to see half the chapter wearing letters that I made!
My last day of freedom (which was almost its own post) was spent doing what I do best. Eating a ridiculous amount of food, watching an eight episode mini-marathon of Gilmore Girls, and scrapping with my best friend and fabulous cousin, Jessica.
I thought I was really uninspired, and then finally I created these two pages.
Sorry I can’t photograph straight. I should do it *before* I put them in the book…haha. These two are from our MITs’ musicale that they did. I included their program and some photos. The page on the right was inspired by Leslie’s fabulous layoring and ribbon techniques. I really like the way it turned out!
I’m back at student teaching. Getting observed teaching a class I haven’t even met tomorrow. We had early outs both Wednesdays I’ve been there, so I don’t even know these kids, but my supervisor (who I’m sure used his BEST judgement and not at all his hectic schedule as a basis for this) is coming tomorrow. Have I mentioned that I am DONE on May 9th and graduate the 10th? May is going to be so cool 
So…that’s all folks….for now.
The Variety Show
In school the other day my cooperating teacher explained to the kids that Ed Sullivan ran a variety show. This is a variety post, because it contains a little bit of everything.
First, my placement is the very best I could have hoped for. My cooperating teacher is a great teacher and person, and very easy to talk to and work with everyday. The staff in general is very nice and the kids are polite. Who knew that middle school students would be polite? I have had a few little teaching experiences thus far, but I am excited about tomorrow. I’m working with the 9th grade clarinets, and then teaching-wise I really take off with classes!
Glenn and I have been fighting like nutcases because we are so stressed about finding a place to live. We had the perfect house (aka, nice area, decent house, but total fixer-upper) but it slipped through our fingers so to speak. I think we finally truced and realized that it is more the stress and disappointment speaking, because tonight was the first time either one of us was truly relaxed in awhile. We had dinner at our favorite place, Tosco’s, and had some pretty silly conversations.
Our realtor thinks we’re insane because we were talking about our future children, Skeletor and Evilynn, and calling them such. Not knowing it was an inside joke she made quite a face and was like “are you really naming them that?”
I did some scrapbooking before the beast that is student teaching began, but I didn’t ever post the photos. Here is one for my SAI sister Caroline’s recital
And our Members-in-Training put on a skit This is possibly my favorite-est page ever.
Leslie, I’ve been using all of the ribbon you sent me, and I completely went to town with the tag book! Thank you sooo much!
Speaking of SAI, we had our first meeting last night and it was WONDERFUL to see all of my sisters. I yelled at our president to take things like “commencement” off of the calendar. This semester is going to be amazing.
I hope these are enough ramblings to tide everyone over! (by everyone I mean the one person who reads this…haha)
Visit to Asheville!
Our SAI chapter (Epsilon Epsilon) and a really cool girl from a nearby chapter (Marissa!) left at five am to drive to Asheville, North Carolina where headquarters is located! It took eleven hours (including two stops along the way) and when we reached Asheville it was FREEZING! Why did it get colder as we made our way south?!
We had a lot of fun on Wednesday night, telling everyone our names were Minnie Davis and Mary Storrs, etc, and that our sister Caroline was getting married the next day (a Thursday?!). I actually sang a karaoke song by myself! (I’d do my senior recital if it could be in Asheville where no one will remember it…)
The next day we visited headquarters and met Ruth Sieber Johnson. She is the sweetest woman in the world. We got a tour of the building and took a ton of photos, then did some volunteer work. Ruth gave us cookies and tea in the parlor, and then we played and sang songs from the song book! It was really a wonderful day! After we finished at HQ we went to a mall of sorts in town that hosted galleries and unique shops (no Borders or Starbucks here!) I bought a beautiful wall hanging.
We stopped in on Friday before we left to shop SAI and take group pictures. Greg, who does layouts for Tempo! took quite a few nice shots of us with Ruth and her daughter Beth.
Glenn and I went to see Spamalot yesterday. Very funny musical! We had a nice dinner after and walked around Times Square a bit.
Today I returned to babysitting and when I got home, the scrapbooking bug hit me. Here’s what I did:
Good times in the DTM
Tonight, the madness ensued…Jess and I were re-united and the cousin-lovin’ was amazing.
To start the evening, we thought some scrapbooking and Disney movies would be good…along with locking my keys in the car. Keep in mind, this was in Morton, which has like, one cop, so when I called the station a recording informed me that “No one is available to take your call.” So my Uncle Joe called 911 and used this totally calm, “my-stupid-niece-locked-her-keys-in-the-car” voice. The Morton cop came (this guy is infamous as it is) and he looked like he was twelve. When he got out of the car, he put on his hat, as if to say, “I’m not twelve, and I mean policey business!” Jess and I exchanged looks and held back the giggles. He got the car open, and left. My aunt and youngest cousins missed it. 
Overall, I felt pretty stupid, but Jess was, as always, willing to cheer me up. She told me that keys are nothing; my aunt has managed to lock every one of her children in the car… Too funny. “You know, back in the nineties, when it was legal to leave your kids in the car unattended.”
We watched Cinderella and Aladdin. I never had Cinderella as a kid (we missed it, damn the Disney vault!) but I know EVERY word to Aladdin. We were laughing about how Al is Steve from Full House and inserting our own dialogue and being ridiculous.
“Abu….NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Jessica’s favorite quote.
“But you’re so old…” My favorite quote. (one of a million)
I talked to Glenn briefly and AGAIN lamented us not having a tree. He cheered me up a lot by immediately saying, “Well we’ll have one next year.” aka, we’ll be in our own house! We’re viewing some houses and working things out money-wise
Watching two movies, you would think I’d accomplish more…but this is it:
the text/journaling will go in the open space.
The Most Wonderful Time…
Is now that school is over I actually have time to do things I enjoy (besides music). I have been reading an RA Salvatore book called Homeland. It’s the first of several books about a character named Drizzt Do’Urdan and is really good!
The other night before bed I began working on a scrapbooking layout for the first time in what seems like too long a time. I got a book about tags from Leslie and was all inspired to do something fancier than I normally do, so I started cutting out circles to put the letters of the title. It is a page about our SAI Car Wash we did back in September. This is what it evolved into:
Then feeling ambitious, I made a wreath. Glenn and I don’t have a tree, so this made it seem more Christmas-y.
And then finding myself with no babysitting job on Friday night, I made more pages! Yay!!! Here is one that is about two sisters’ senior recital.
