Good news! Scott and I are engaged. I love him and I love our life ( Read more... )

The summer has been wonderful so far. Right now Scott and I are ona  high coming off of our UP trip. Here's what we did :)

Waterfalls: Rapid River falls, Laughing Whitefish falls, Dead River Falls, Yellow Dog Falls, Wagner Falls, Munising Falls, Miner's Falls, and Alger Falls.  At all these falls we jumped, climbed, hiked, swam, and smiled for ( Read more... )

It's been a journal hiatus. And I think it will continue to be until this crazy school year is over. But I needed to take a neverendingessay grading break and update on our spring break trip. I'm doing it day-by-day so that we won't forget. So it may be a bit boring. :)

THursday--My spring break officially began with a half day. I spent the second ( Read more... )

Scott and I had a great valentine's weekend. We went to Downtown Detroit for the winterblast festval with Sam and Ryan. While there we walked around the city, went to the festival, had a great vday dinner at Andiamo, went out to the Old Shellegliah (sp?), and stayed at the Marriot Ren Cen. We had a great mini-getaway. Then on Sunday morning we went ( Read more... )

Everyone always says the first year of teaching is the toughest. It involves long nights, lots of planning, unanswered questions, and lots of guesswork. It was tough. It was long nights and hard work and an infinite amount of unpredictability. But, here’s what they don’t tell you: Year two will be just as hard… maybe even harder. Here’s why.

People ( Read more... )

This was the day's "writer's block" prompt ( Read more... )

The apartment move has been very sucessful so far. Everything is in except for a lot of my clothes/personal things. Tomorrow is the day for all that last minute stuff. I can't beleive how much we got done so quickly though ( Read more... )

1. I love Chelsea Handler. Whenever she's on TV, my mom says, "your girlfriend's on." Is this a bad sign? ;)

2. I should be going to bed, but somehow I always get a second wind around this time of night. I hate it. At 6 I can barely keep my eyes open, and then by 10, I'm rearing to go.

Bleh. Time to attempt sleep.

We offically begin our move in less than week, and we sign our lease in just a few days. I'm starting to feel overwhelmed about everything that needs to be accomplished before then and about how everything will get done. A lot of this feeling comes from my confusion, I think, about what is getting moved when. We are moving things from multiple ( Read more... )

Christmas break was amazing, and I am so grateful for two great weeks off ( Read more... )