I Should Have Bought that $254 Million Lotto Ticket

 So I recently wrote about how I won the great Starbucks giveaway from ...and baby makes 3! ... I can't wait to get it... muffins and hot chocolate here I come!

So here's the crazy thing... Jessica @ The Southern Belle Baby had a great giveaway I entered the other week. &&& I WON!!! ANOTHER GIVEAWAY! (yes this calls for capitals.)

oh and I WON YET ANOTHER ONE!!! @ Law Momma's site (love, love, love her!). Here's the giveaway... pretty amazing right??
Is this my week or what?
Lotto ticket today?

~~Kiki

& The Yawning Starts

 So after 30 straight hours of being up I am now going to have to sit through a 3 hour class. & it's not fun and exciting. I may fall asleep. It'd be different if it were a fun and exciting class ... say history, poli sci, soc, psych... but nope. It's boring. It's monotonous. & I have to have it to graduate. So there we go. Wish me luck and someone send me coffee.
Wait, no. Don't do that. I found out this morning that 1/2 cup can make me pee about 23 times in an hour. You know how annoying that is?
J asked if I am pregnant. Um nope. Just an abnormally incredibly small bladder.

On the plus side, I just found out the professor is taking us out after class next week (we only have 8 students). On the negative side, we're going for pizza ::sigh::

~~Kiki



for those who don't know ... get this ... I abhor pizza ... except for pizza rolls ... I'm weird I know ...

I Finally Won One!

Yes, yes, I haven't posted in a while, but I'm still here! yay! School is getting overwhelming and I had to teach Friday. More on that later... on to the good stuff!!

I recently won a $10 gift certificate over at ...and baby makes 3 (love her blog)!! She loves me! She really does! OR at least random number generate at random.org does.

This is my first win through the marvelous blog giveaways I have entered.

So I'd like to thank
Alex for having a birthday (Happy Birthday little one!)
Kristi for the fabulous giveaway!
and random.org for picking me!

Yay!

Come back tomorrow soon for a full recap on the annoying kids I taught today Super Awesome Fun day I had teaching.


~~Kiki

My Little Sister is Old

Chace enrolled in college this last week.

Here comes the cliché "I can't believe she's GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL AND GOING TO COLLEGE!!!" rant. But it's true. I CANNOT BELIEVE IT.

Congratulations Big Little Sister. I'm so proud of you. You have accomplished a lot, and you will accomplish a whole lot more.

I love you.

I miss you. ..... But soon you'll be close to me and we'll hang out every.single.weekend. K? Ok.

Ughhh!

School really just sucks right now.

I start looking at my "To Do" list and I get major scared. I realize I do not have near enough time to finish all that I need to.

For my two education courses

• I have to make a Unit (5 complete lesson plans w/ accompanying handouts, rubrics, etc)
• Teach a lesson in my observation class (4 periods)
• Write critique of myself teaching said lesson
• Catch up on reading
• Study for Quiz 3
• Study for Quiz 7
• Study for Final
• Complete Portfolio

For my British Empire course

• Catch up on reading
• Read two novels for a paper due in about a week
• Write said paper
• Exam 4 - the week before finals! ~ who does that?
• Final Exam

I'm seriously scared of this. I don't know how I'll get it all done; I always do, but I never know how.
I have to get all this done in under a month. Maybe that doesn't sound like much, but I have to do all this plus go to class, observe 30+ hours in a classroom, babysit, ... Oh and find time to sleep.
::sigh::
The only thing I can say at this point is Thank God my Sociology of Deviance course is done. I have an "A" in that course. That's a relief! 

I'll be back at some point.

A Glimpse

On Thursday I got a great surprise - G asked me to watch S and T!! It was great fun! :)
I watch T a few times a week and then S once a week, but not usually together. The change was so much fun. I loved watching them both. It was a great Joy. (hehe) :)

Fast forward to today. I got a little glimpse into my future. I was gathering up clothes to put in the washer. I grabbed my pants I wore on Thursday and thought "need to wash those... spit-up and boogers on them."
Made me laugh to myself. ... I could see myself a few years in the future saying the same thing... about my own kids' spit-up and boogers :)

Whew!

Ok I just listened to myself teach the lesson.

OH did I mention I had to record myself to critique myself? I didn't? Oh yeah that was what made it so horrible!

Oh University, fully preparing us for a job in education.... You do so well!


 I slayed the dragon. I did it. & it was fun. It really was.

My Attempt at Art

All these were taken at The T's while watching my favorite little boy romp around in the yard - a.k.a. his favorite thing to do :)

& tomorrow can be over now. thank you.

Tomorrow is scary.

I'm teaching a concept clarification lesson about sectionalism leading up to the Civil War. I have to link in the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (& Bleeding Kansas), Uncle Tom's Cabin, Dred Scott Decision, & John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry.
Tonight all I am doing is reading, reading, studying, studying, and reading about those events. You better believe you ask me something about them tomorrow and I'll know it! (I hope!)

So I was stalking people perusing fb today. I came across this friend's quote:

"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." G.K. Chesterton (Note: I can't find a source on this, so am not entirely sure this is an accurate quotation.)

It made me feel oddly calm.
Thank you.

The End.

It's the end of Birthday Week 2010.

It started out great.... It ended great (S time!!) ... but parts of it were sucky.

Oh well.





51 weeks to go until Birthday Week 2011.

It's almost over. Just to start again.

Today I was advised for my last semester of college.

I know this is cliche, but wow has time flown by.
I can't believe I'm already at this point. I can't believe I'm going to be a COLLEGE GRADUATE in just about 9 months. 9 more hours. That's all that is left until I have a college degree. A Bachelor of Science in Education. That means I know something about something. Maybe.

I still have a lot to do before I get where I want to be in life. This summer I have to study for the dreaded LSAT. Then I start applying to law schools. I hope I get in somewhere. This also means I am that much closer to achieving #4 on my Life List.

But the thing is ... I am within reach of a college degree. I can't stop saying that. College Degree.
I'm proud of myself. & I think I have a right to be.

Amazon! Books!

I got a gift certificate to Amazon.com for my birthday!

I'm very excited about it... the only thing is - I have no idea what to buy! Amazon has everything.
I'm pretty set on books though. I love LOVE to read. Books always make me happy. While I've met books I don't particularly like (hello, textbooks) I haven't met one I absolutely hated.

So ... any suggestions on what I should buy? I love fiction - particularly historical fiction (think Alison Weir or Philippa Gregory). I love to read about law, French history, English history, and Early American history.

But! I'm open to other books too - especially murder mysteries and classics.

Birthday Dinner!

Food. mmmm ::drool::

I love food. & last night I was treated to dinner by Comrad Lenin. We went to Outback. It was Com. Lenin, Josh, Aunt D, and me.

I, of course, had steak. It was delicious. Delicious.

I was given complimentary birthday ice cream. MMMmmmm!! I was so full, but the waitress had a good point - ice cream doesn't count. It melts and goes into the crevices around the food. That doesn't count. Gross, I know, but I got ice cream!

I also got a new book, DVD, flowers, and money :) I can't wait to buy my passport!!

So Birthday Week 2010 is going great!

My life is amazing

Birthday Week is off to a great start.
Sometimes the best things in life are not material...

except these are kind of material, but you get what I mean!

Happy Birthday card from S (thank you! I love you!). .... you can see he wrote his initials "S.T." at the bottom ... right, G? or! maybe he was signing for T too??
(I'm convinced that's what it is... & now every time I look at it I see "S.T.")

and this from Josh. He's amazing. I love my "card!"

 Isn't he sweet??? He had this up as a surprise for me when I came home from staying with S.

It's a great Birthday Week!

Ok Here It Goes Again

I have a definite inability to keep up with this blogging thing.
I couldn't regularly post to save Aria's life. Good thing she doesn't depend on me doing so.



And just because they are that cool ... Here's another awesome one:

Living on Tulsa Time

So we spontaneously decided to head to Tulsa this weekend! Josh's ring has been hanging out at the jewelry store for a few weeks & it's starting to wonder if we really care. We do little guy!

So while we are up here we are picking up a special secret gift for a special secret person's special secret birthday!! :)

Back to Norman tomorrow for studying & the 5th week of school. ::sigh::

1977

Happy Birthday to my Oldest Brother!!!

I love you :)

 

  

 

 

(one of my favorites)

 

IT Geek & Master

 Birthday Boy!

 

Ughhhh

I don't know what else to name this thing .... IT Geek? Got suggestions?? (oh yeah and GET AROUND TO BLOGGING!!)

This nightly headache thing is starting to get really old really fast & it's only 2 days old.
I can't seem to get enough sleep. I sleep sleep sleep and I'm still tired.

Think something is wrong with me? Or is this just the hypochondria?

Smelly dog ... Smelly dog

What are they feeding youuuuuuu?

Aria has the worst farts.
We've tried different food. Doesn't work :(

My Cliché "What I want to do before I die" List

Recently I watched this episode of Momversation. Yes, I'm that weird childless person who watches and reads things about babies. Point, Laugh, Whatever. That past time of mine helped me land the BEST.JOB.EVER.
It got me to thinking, obviously, about my "bucket list."
What do I really want to do before I die? Is it that important to me to hurl myself off a tall building with only a rubber band to stop me?? Maybe. But what do I really want to do?
Here's my constantly changing list (in no particular order):
I'm not going to limit myself to a certain amount of items or a certain kind of item. I'm just looking to make my life a little more adventurous and a little more spontaneous. If I get the chance to do one of these things I am going to take it.

1. Become a parent (yes, I AM going to put this first). 
2. Live in another country for a year
3. Marry my best friend
4. Attend & graduate from law school
5. Have a successful law career
6. Be fluent in French
7. Do something of an activist nature -- participate in a protest or rally. 
8. Take a self-defense class
9. Procrastinate less
10. Swim with the bioluminescent plankton
11. See a Broadway Play
12. Travel with my sister
13. Marathon?
14. Raise awareness about People First Language
15. Learn ASL
16. Sleep in a hammock on a tropical island with the sound of waves lapping in the background
17. See the Northern Lights
18. Do something awesome to repay my parents for the wonderful life they have given me
19. Stay friends with J, G, S, & T for the rest of my life
20. Get another tattoo
21. Donate bone marrow
22. Swim with dolphins
23. Own a home ...
24. ...with a fully stocked library
25. ...with a window seat ... preferably the same house as the library
26. Do something drastic with my hair
27. Find a signature cocktail
28. Use a parasol
29. Learn how to properly use & wear makeup
30. Learn how to not be so emotional when I argue
31. Keep a list of every book I read from now on
32. Learn to only save/keep the things that really do have meaning
33. Visit France including Bordeaux, Paris, Clermont-Ferrand etc (to be updated)
34. Visit England - London, etc
35. Visit Greece - Athens!, Parthenon
36. Visit Italy - eat gelato at the fountains in Rome
37. Have professional pictures done
38. Sky dive
39. Pay for the person behind me (i.e. toll booth, coffee shop, restaurant, etc)
40. Write one handwritten card or letter per week for a year
41. Go skiing again
42. Learn how to water ski
43. Be able to do more push-ups than my dad
44. Show up at the airport with my bag and passport- take the first available flight
45. Get my passport
46. Achieve & maintain a healthy weight
47. Do 5 unassisted pull-ups
48. Scuba dive off the Great Barrier Reef

Here's where I get all preachy and motivating: I challenge you to make your own list. Take charge of your life! Do what you want. /endcheesiness

Also, here are a few things I've already had the pleasure of doing that would be on my list:

1. Visit DC
2. Get a tattoo
3. VEGAS!
4. Pilot an airplane ... as in I actually took over and flew the plane!!!

****some of these things have been "stolen" from others' life lists....

Also, I've added a link to the sidebar, so that you have the pleasure of reviewing this anytime you want. You know, if you want to fund one of my pursuits ... ::hint-hint::

Also, Also, when I accomplish one of my pursuits I will make sure to update it on here :)