She's Here ... the newest love of my life

T has arrived!! 

I'm so excited and can't wait to meet her!!! I'm sure she's adorable just like her older brother!!

I can't wait to hold her and play with her! & kiss her little cheeks!

YAY!

Oh and she arrived on her Daddy's birthday... what a present!

Also, I went overboard on the "!s" ... but this deserves it!

Planning...

... is something I really love to do.

Unfortunately Josh doesn't much like to and I am stuck planning on my own.

Thanks to a very (very!) long nap by S yesterday I was able to plan out my entire 2010 school year. Ahhh! I love the feeling of a plan!

Spring 2010

• EDSS 4553 - Foundations and Mentoring in Social Studies
  
• EDSS 4563 - Teaching Secondary Social Studies
  
• SOC 3533 - The System of Criminal Justice
  
• SOC 3543 - Sociology of Deviance
• HIST 2223 - British Empire

May Intersession?

• SOC Elective - possibly Crime Scene Processing
  

Summer 2010

• Study for LSAT!

September 2010 - LSAT!

Fall 2010

• American HIST Elective
• P SC 2603 - Governments Around the World
  
• MUNM 3113 - World Music
  
• SOC
  
• SOC Elective?

Ahhhh isn't it beautiful??

Now back to S because really I'd just rather talk about him! He took a 3 hour ... 3 hour ... nap yesterday while I watched him. He woke up so incredilby happy and pretty much smiled and giggled the rest of the time I was there. We played in the tall grass out back, he handed me handfuls of dirt (thank you S!), he jumped and crawled and had the best time (and I did too!)

Of course, I had a wonderful time just watching him :) I really do enjoy staying with him...

::sigh:: that's the part of my plan I really don't like ... the part where I graduate and have to leave him :(

She Loves You ... Yeah, Yeah, Yeahhhh!

Weekend Wrapup ... yep... totally have fallen off the horse with that one eh? (I'm trying to be Canadian! yay!)

This weekend was fun though... jammed packed with work and fun.
Friday I worked from 5-9 ... Saturday from 9-5 ... and Sunday from 12-5... but!

Dawn came up and we went out to eat... at Othello's! My favorite place EVER (besides El Tap in Ardmore)... mmm pasta stuffed with cheese and alfredo sauce poured all over it? gimme, gimme, gimme!!!... oh boy it was so good!
and sex on the peach? mmmmm good good good!
I heart food and drink.

Ok so then on to the movies ... Men Who Stare at Goats. Hilarious at parts, but I deign it a "rent" movie. ... no need to go to the movies for this one. It's funny.... but I couldn't find a compelling plot that hooked me in... I rooted for nothing.... there was nothing to root for.

Oh and Beatles Rock Band = love! yeah, yeah, yeahhhhhhh
I have confirmed that I have NO rhythm whatsoever. NONE

So then? talking, talking, talking until 4 am :) love

Overall it was a great weekend. I'm so happy I got to see her and spend time with her! She's awesome.


so.... onto this week.... ugh.
so ready for a BREAK

Project 52 - Week 6

It's been unseasonably warm here this winter and I'm not sure if I like it or not.
I want winter ... I want cold, snow, rain... I want it to feel like the semester is coming to an end. I don't feel like Thanksgiving is only 3 weeks away... I don't feel like Christmas break is only about 5 weeks away.

I need that feeling. I am getting so stale ... I don't want to do this anymore. I know that feeling comes around every semester, but I depend on the cues that it is coming to an end.
AND I AM NOT GETTING THOSE CUES! I'm dying here... I need a break... I need the end of the semester... ugh

oh but Aria loves it. Yep, LOVES it.


Yes, she's like Kristy :)

I wish I could come up with creative titles

It's going to be a long, exhaustive day.

Butttt! I get to see my favorite little boy and my mommy and sister!!

I am way too excited.

I have no idea how I am going to get this paper written and study for my test though.
::sigh:: I hate being a procrastinator. Hate. It.

School... is getting in the way of life

So I haven't been posting much and it's because I'm busier than imaginable.

Enjoy what I have here,... read the past posts if you need a fix.

I'm not sure when regular posting will be back... but if you want some funny visit
http://jvoffkilter.blogspot.com/
that is courtesy of my brother IT Geek...

Oops I forgot Want. Need. MUST HAVE. didn't I? I meant to bring that back this week.
::sigh:: oh well... it'll be here next week when I don't have homework coming out of all orifices and my fingernails.


back to your regularly scheduled life.

Project 52 - Week 5

Burnt Out.

This was pretty much my life this last week, and I burnt my toast too.




This will be my life this upcoming week too...

::sigh::

I am so looking forward to a break. A real break.
A VEGAS BREAK! :)

My "Job" is Awesome

Urza (whom I am thinking of renaming) has always argued with me that my job of taking care of S is not a "job" ... because apparently if you love what you do then you are not working.

Now, I love that little guy so very much, but sometimes taking care of a kid IS WORK!

(Ir)Regardless(haha) of if you love them or not.
Anyone who says taking care of kids isn't work,... well they haven't actually taken care of kids before.

So yesterday I stayed with S and we had an amazing time eating apples & bunny crackers, dancing to music, building with blocks, playing with trains, and drawing.

I asked S to draw me a particular picture and this is what he drew me:


Now that drawing is of a particular animal and I want to give you a chance to guess what it is before I tell you.
What do you think it is??




It is ....
A horse :)



All that to say that my "job" is awesome.
Purely and fantastically awesome.

Project 52 - Week 4

So yeah this wasn't posted last Sunday and I'm back-dating it. So sue me. Seriously. Five years from now I'll need the practice.


This last week - ..... we got a puppy!!
Isn't she freaking adorable?!
Probably the cutest I've ever seen. (besides Kristy)

Name suggestions??
please.


UPDATE (11-03-09) after about 1 1/2 weeks she has a name ... Aria :)

Weekend Wrapup

My weekends suck...

Work, work, work
That's what happened this weekend.
On the bright side I do love my job.

Next weekend will have a better wrapup!

Project 52 - Week 2

Setting: Thursday afternoon - playing with S after his nap

We were playing and coloring. I started to draw shapes and had S name them for me (he's good at it!)

So I drew a rectangle...

Me: What is that S?

S: reckangle

Me: Good Job!!.... can you draw a rectangle?

S drew this (right under my square and rectangle)



Me: Wow S! Good job... you are so smart!

S: ..... I know!

:meltintoapuddlebecauseofuttercuteness:

I have a feeling that a lot of Project 52 will be about S.

Cut it out!

work again today...
it was interesting - it always is at the library.
but today was extra weird. one of my co-workers checked in some books out of the book drop and they were CUT UP!! what is up with that?!?!

and it wasn't simply a page that was cut --- 15 pages or more were missing in every book - about 5 books!
It was crazy.

Who does that? Who defaces public property? WHO WOULD RUIN BOOKS?!? BOOKS?!?!
wtf

Parlez-vous français?

I've loved the French language for a long time. I guess I should have taken it as my foreign language in school, but I didn't ... and now I have a hankering to learn it.
I'd love to travel to France especially Bordeaux, Normandy, Brittany (the coastline!), and of course Paris :)
Oh! Honeymoon?!

So here's what I'm wondering ... Does Rosetta Stone actually work? Or would that just be a large waste of money?
I really want to learn the language and unfortunately I don't have the time left at school to do a few semesters...

so how am I going to go about learning French?!?

Places in a bucket

My Bucket List.. (of places I want to visit)

I'm sure you all know what a bucket list is right? Things you want to do before you die...

Well, this is a "places I want to visit" version

(and it'll probably be updated periodically as I learn of new places)


1. England
2. France
3. Greece
4. Italy
5. Alaska -- the NORTHERN LIGHTS!!!
6. Denmark
7. Australia
8. Ireland
9. New Zealand
10. Scotland (Isle of Skye)
11. Fiji
12. The Netherlands
13. Japan
14. Dubrovnik, Croatia
15. Morocco
16. The Azores
17. Antartica



and anywhere with CASTLES!!!

Want. Need. MUST HAVE. Tuesdays

I skipped last week because I'm starting feel a little materialistic and it bothers me.
I'm not a person that focuses on things and I don't want to be viewed as such.

So Want. Need. MUST HAVE. Tuesdays will be postponed for a bit ... maybe next week you will get another view into the type of things I like.

Weekend Wrapup

So it looks like these Weekend Wrapups are going to be a bit boring, but I'll keep with it.

This weekend: Work, work, work. It sucks.
Friday night: work
Saturday all day: work
Saturday night: babysit
Sunday: too sick to go to work and homeWORK all day

Baron was down again...

We hung out...

University lost :( ...

This weekend was uneventful and kind of sucked.

Project 52 - Week 1

I have a friend on facebook that is posting a picture from her life every day for a year - it is her Project 365 - she got it from another friend.
I'd love to do that, but unfortunately I don't have the time to post a picture every single day.

So here's what I am going to do instead:
Project 52!! One picture a week. It will be posted on Sundays and be about the previous week.

Here's Week 1!




S recently had a birthday and he got an awesome train set from his Grandmama and Pops. So when I watched him last Thursday he was sleeping when I got there and I decided to put homework on hold.
I designed this track and put the little people out. I had a lot of fun playing with the train ... (::embarrassed face::)
I never had a train set as a child ... so I had to play with his.
Once S got up we played with it together and had a blast!!
Thank you to Grandmama and Pops for the awesome present for S ;)

Weekend Wrapup

So here's the thing... I'm considering doing a weekend wrapup on Mondays, but let's face it... I'll probably never do it.

Buttt I'm going to try...

This weekend = work.

all weekend.

yuck.

Oh and Baron came to see us ... and actually is currently here.

We also decided to get rid of the guineas :( because they make Urza sick --- he is allergic to their hay. He's had recurring sinus infections since we got Lola.

so ..... Puppy time!

Want. Need. MUST HAVE. Tuesdays

iHome!!


So I can dance around in my underwear while I clean the house

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S turned two today and I cried (only a little).

I'm more attached to that little boy that I ever thought I'd be! I guess watching him since he was 3 weeks old does that though. He's adorable and has changed so much in 2 years (obvs). I'm quite simply in love with him... :)
oh and you should hear the conversations we have :) hehe it's amazing!

His mom and dad had a little party for him tonight and I was invited (thank you!). We had vanilla cupcakes with chocolate icing (yummy!) and the best juice (which I am going out to buy tomorrow).

S got quite a few new (educational) toys from his mom, a bike seat from his dad, a train set, clothes, and a tiger from his grandparents ... and books from me. I'm the boring one eh? No, not really - S LOVES books. ... no, not just LOVES, but LOVES books and I got him a book of animals ... oh yeah! JACKPOT!