One Room at a Time

I am going to start posting pictures of my house! Yay! So I thought I would do a room at a time, and give you some insight/details on each room.

I will start with my bedroom. =)
Freshly painted.

The walls are chocolate brown. The collage on the wall are some pictures of my travels. =) My duvet was a super great sale price. My lamp was also half off from Hobby Lobby. Gotta love bargains.

I love animal print but didn't want the whole house decorated in it, so my bedroom has a touch of it. My furniture is actually from a used store in Cleveland called "The Store." You should check it out! It had barely been used.

I need a bed skirt-I know. =) And yes, that is the whole Harry Potter set on top of my bookshelf... and I haven't even been cursed to hell yet! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Housewarming!

Oh my word-what a weekend! I got to see some of my most favorite people in the world this weekend all at once! My sisters, mom, and grandma helped throw my housewarming yesterday and it was a blast!

Words can not express how grateful I am for them planning it and for everyone that came. I know what it's like to be on the other side and plan the event (I've done about a billion showers!), so I am deeply grateful for having something planned just for me. I was so overwhelmed... and I can't wait to go play in all my gifts tonight... again! (Special thanks to Lindsay Sluder for making the beautiful cupcakes! You are a rock star!)

Light at the end of the Tunnel

I have made a major decision this week.

It's not total spur of the moment, but I have definitely confirmed my feelings towards this particular question/concern.

So here's my life: I have just started my fifth year teaching. Even if I met the man of my dreams tomorrow and got married next summer, I'm sure we would still have a few years with just us two and no kids. Therefore, I might have a good 8 or 9 years under my belt of teaching... meaning I've lived out my "career" and felt fulfilled.

Of course, the one large part to this decision is if my husband will agree but I will hope he knows far in advance- when I start having babies I want to quit work. =) I could have a solid decade of work, life, true experiences under my belt and probably feel pretty good about letting that go for a while.

Honestly, I'm so tired I can't even see straight. I have no husband or kids to take care of and I can barely take care of myself. Sooo... my thought now is to work my rearend off the next few years... (OR.... it could be 10 more years if the Lord decides to keep me single...) and then enjoy my babies... ohhh, and then we'll see what happens after that. I don't care if my husband isn't loaded.... we'll make it work.

So that's my "light at the end of the tunnel" of being overwhelmed. And dear heavens it's only like the 3rd week of school...

With that being said... I welcome Mr. Right with open arms.... like tomorrow preferably. ha.

Night Guard and Zits

Ways to know I'm stressed:

1-I have a zit-on my forehead-and I get about 4 a year. Joy.

2-I'm grinding my teeth-which causes headaches in the day-thus leading me to have to wear a night guard at night to prevent the grinding. (Soooo pathetic I know!) Also, I find myself in the middle of the day gritting my teeth together.

3-I gain weight. Ugh. I get busy and distracted so I don't concentrate on eating right or exercising often.

4-People just get on my nerves. ha.

(And Megan, thank you for the wonderful suggestions and I shall do one of them soon hopefully.)
=)

Same 'ole Same 'ole... AGAIN!

I need to blog.

It makes me feel better about life... more "finished"... more complete.

But I have no idea what to blog about.

These weeks consist of me adjusting to school and learning to not be so tired. Work....home....sleep.....work...home....sleep.....

No, it's not like this all the time but it's like this now and it gets old. I've had multiple friends call or text and I still haven't been able to see them!

I've mainly been focusing on school stuff at home and "fixing up" my house. =) I usually have something much more interesting to write about, but I'm definitely struggling. I'll do better soon. Pictures of the house to come as well!

What irony!

Well.... of course, after posting something about being positive I would have to endure the most dreadful, long, terrible, gut-wrenching in-service ever possible to a human being so I feel like I'm backtracking... but not really.

BUT.... I did choose to make the best of it. The entire system met at NCCOG today and at about 10 a.m. (it started at 8) I thought I had been there for dayyyyyyysssss. At least I was sitting by someone fairly funny and we just made jokes. And then... the best part.... a BOY BAND sure did come out on stage and SING and DANCE!!!! WHAT?!?! They are called "The Standards" thus very fitting because we all received new standards to teach this year. They were completely accapella and consisted of 5 brothers from Missouri maybe? It was like the Jonas Brothers plus 2: styled hair with skinny jeans.

They were actually decent... and somewhat entertaining... but I was still astounded at the shift of mood in that place. Thank the Lord we don't have one of those for another year!

Nancy Negativity

My first goal of the school year... to not let "Nancy Negativity" creep in! I'm so curious if teachers are the only ones who actually enjoy being negative about things, or if that's just common in the workplace.

Ok. If you're going to be a teacher-just be prepared to endure in-services and staff development days that are NOT fun. Get over it. Do something funny during it or make jokes about it. BUT PEOPLE, to be so negative and nag nag nag all the time is draining! Who wants to be like that?!

Friday I held my tongue royally and chose to just sit there in silence and not cave to the negative peer pressure around me. Is being positive a fruit of the spirit, because it should be! So this is my goal to continue through... all the griping and fussing about people not doing stuff right gets so old. Either suck it up and deal with it... or just go fix it yourself. =)

Ahhh. I feel much better now. From "Patty Positive."