so over this place
ok, so a LOT has been happening lately... and it always seems like i'm always on the go and continuously frustrated....
so how bout today i'm currently on the computer at school since mine at home wanted to smoke, sizzle and spark, but by some miracle of God I was able to get onto livejournal... now the thing is, at school, they have a lot of links that are blocked, like facebook, myspace and even livejournal, but for some reason i was able to sneak in through another site... so yeah, if you've tried posting messages and whatnot, i haven't gotten them cuz i have no access.. i'm sorry
the weird thing is it came up on a journal entry i wrote like.... 3 years ago... so i was reading it and i'm like, i don't remember writing this, but it was an entry on perserverence... and it was a Godsend, that's for sure. it's funny how my own wisdom from 3 years ago could apply to me now in the current state i'm in
for anyone who is a teacher or involved in school in some kind of way, the last 4 weeks of the school year are THE LONGEST EVER!!!! no joke... they just keep crawling by. i have 6 full days and 3 1/2 days left... thank you JESUS!!! i'm trying not to give up, but at this point, EVERYONE in the school doesn't care... it's over... the kids come to be babysat for the next few weeks... the only thing good about this is i don't have a job for next year yet since i've applied to a million places and yet i haven't heard too much of a response. i've been to one interview at a christian school and i absolutely LOVED everything about the place except for i haven't heard anything back yet. i have another interview around the same area on friday for a public school which to be honest with, i'm not really excited about.
i'm currently in this whole standstill process cuz once school is over i would LIKE to move to wherever i'm teaching next (which at this point, i have no clue) and fly home for the summer... i want to see my family so bad and not be here with these children.
dancing with the stars finale is on tonight and i'm excited cuz i absolutely love watching all the dancing... it's amazing... and grey's is tomorrow! i'm telling ya, at least tv shows don't let me down.
i'm going to disney world this weekend. i'm taking friday off of school (it's an early dismissal anyway) to interview at a school near jacksonville and then i'm meeting my friends for the evening in orlando... i'm completely stoked and can not WAIT.
my throat hurts from yelling so much today cuz the little brats only listen to one teacher (out of 3 of us)... basically because they're scared of her and she's black... it's true... sounds awful, but it's true... and it's how it's been all year... i'm sick of it
my stomach keeps growling... i'm hungry...
did i mention i hate school?
so it's raining here in florida for the first time since march... it's weird. we need the rain though... i'm not sure if you guys have heard about all the fires around here... it's crazy weird
i saw something on tv about the hsm3 and i was like like, awwww zac efron... ewwww vanessa hudgens... it's awful
can we rewind to last year in which we all hung out and life was okay? i miss you girls.
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below is the journal entry on perseverence i was talking about...
mood: accomplished
music: Apathetic Way to Be- Relient K
persistence: the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior
ladies and gentlement, persistence is a wonderful thing. God is with those who persevere. and ya know, it's funny, cuz people are always told "not to give up." eventhough we hear it, how often do we "keep on going?" is it always that easy to just push yourself on... to persevere?
we've all kind of had our instances in which we just wanna give up. i know i have with certain friendships in my life, certain habits i've adapted to, certain ideas/attitudes i've developed, or sometimes just taking on too many things at once... and you know, sometimes, it is necessary to just let go of certain things cuz no good can come with being annoyed and hurt by someone you call "friend," or being stressed over getting things done cuz you've taken on too much...
but ya know, deep down, we need to look at what's important. what do we consider a priority or important to us? are we gonna worry about someone who you can call out as being so incredibly fake? are you gonna give up on being optimistic cuz you have one little bad day? are you gonna give up on something you've been working so hard for but it's just too difficult? think about it... we're all guilty of it
and think about it... nothing THAT bad can come from someone who persevere's... if anything, you come out feeling great cuz you didn't give up
there's many examples to show perseverence, especially since the olympics has been on lately, but here's my example today of how perseverence proved to be awesome... i realized that i am NOT going crazy (well, some of you might read it as i AM going crazy, but ah well... haha)
so yesterday, kelli and i are listening to the aladdin soundtrack ben got me awhile ago... in one of the songs, i noticed that the line that i have been singing all these years was different from what we heard... i'm thinking they MUST have changed it or something... cuz it just wasn't possible that i was wrong... i mean come on now... i'm a die-hard Aladdin fan
so today, since one of my classes was canceled, i was able to go home and i decided i had enough time to put in the Aladdin DVD... so i did... and i paid attention to the same part of the song... once again, what was in the movie was different from what i thought it was supposed to be... it just wasn't right
my perseverence just wasn't letting up
now i'm getting mad cuz i know i'm not going crazy, so i call my family (like an hour or two ago) and my mom answers the phone. i ask her "mom, sing the first few lines in arabian nights." well she didn't know it, and then she asked my dad in the room and he didn't know it (he even told her to tell the person on the phone to call emily cuz she would know... hahaha) so my mom put in the vhs version we had at home cuz i'm thinking, hmm.. maybe since the DVD and the CD i have are relatively new, they changed it from the original version. well, we listen to the vhs version and that TOO was different from what i am used to singing...
and here i am, getting down on myself cuz i thought i was a failure to the aladdin fan club... how could i have been singing the wrong thing all these years?!
but oh, just wait...
so i'm sitting here, on my computer, and britt's like, well what does the vhs, cd, AND dvd all say? so i look it up for her and tell her:
Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where it's flat and immense
And the heat is intense
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home
... but wait?! underneath that verse in parentheses is written: original first verse (1992-1993) and it listed off what i HAVE been singing all these years!!!
Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where they cut off your ear
If they don't like your face
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home
i was so incredibly excited!!!!! and that feeling was all worth the perseverence i put myself through... hahah
the question now is how on earth did i remember that's what it said for all those years?! haha, now THAT is what i call a TRUE Aladdin fan hahaha
but yeah... blah blah blah... perseverence is great! think of the times you've not given up (or on the otherhand, finally DID give up something you were supposed to).... and then you accomplished what you wanted to accomplish... it feels great, doesn't it?
so do not give up...
persevere
so how bout today i'm currently on the computer at school since mine at home wanted to smoke, sizzle and spark, but by some miracle of God I was able to get onto livejournal... now the thing is, at school, they have a lot of links that are blocked, like facebook, myspace and even livejournal, but for some reason i was able to sneak in through another site... so yeah, if you've tried posting messages and whatnot, i haven't gotten them cuz i have no access.. i'm sorry
the weird thing is it came up on a journal entry i wrote like.... 3 years ago... so i was reading it and i'm like, i don't remember writing this, but it was an entry on perserverence... and it was a Godsend, that's for sure. it's funny how my own wisdom from 3 years ago could apply to me now in the current state i'm in
for anyone who is a teacher or involved in school in some kind of way, the last 4 weeks of the school year are THE LONGEST EVER!!!! no joke... they just keep crawling by. i have 6 full days and 3 1/2 days left... thank you JESUS!!! i'm trying not to give up, but at this point, EVERYONE in the school doesn't care... it's over... the kids come to be babysat for the next few weeks... the only thing good about this is i don't have a job for next year yet since i've applied to a million places and yet i haven't heard too much of a response. i've been to one interview at a christian school and i absolutely LOVED everything about the place except for i haven't heard anything back yet. i have another interview around the same area on friday for a public school which to be honest with, i'm not really excited about.
i'm currently in this whole standstill process cuz once school is over i would LIKE to move to wherever i'm teaching next (which at this point, i have no clue) and fly home for the summer... i want to see my family so bad and not be here with these children.
dancing with the stars finale is on tonight and i'm excited cuz i absolutely love watching all the dancing... it's amazing... and grey's is tomorrow! i'm telling ya, at least tv shows don't let me down.
i'm going to disney world this weekend. i'm taking friday off of school (it's an early dismissal anyway) to interview at a school near jacksonville and then i'm meeting my friends for the evening in orlando... i'm completely stoked and can not WAIT.
my throat hurts from yelling so much today cuz the little brats only listen to one teacher (out of 3 of us)... basically because they're scared of her and she's black... it's true... sounds awful, but it's true... and it's how it's been all year... i'm sick of it
my stomach keeps growling... i'm hungry...
did i mention i hate school?
so it's raining here in florida for the first time since march... it's weird. we need the rain though... i'm not sure if you guys have heard about all the fires around here... it's crazy weird
i saw something on tv about the hsm3 and i was like like, awwww zac efron... ewwww vanessa hudgens... it's awful
can we rewind to last year in which we all hung out and life was okay? i miss you girls.
------
below is the journal entry on perseverence i was talking about...
mood: accomplished
music: Apathetic Way to Be- Relient K
persistence: the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior
ladies and gentlement, persistence is a wonderful thing. God is with those who persevere. and ya know, it's funny, cuz people are always told "not to give up." eventhough we hear it, how often do we "keep on going?" is it always that easy to just push yourself on... to persevere?
we've all kind of had our instances in which we just wanna give up. i know i have with certain friendships in my life, certain habits i've adapted to, certain ideas/attitudes i've developed, or sometimes just taking on too many things at once... and you know, sometimes, it is necessary to just let go of certain things cuz no good can come with being annoyed and hurt by someone you call "friend," or being stressed over getting things done cuz you've taken on too much...
but ya know, deep down, we need to look at what's important. what do we consider a priority or important to us? are we gonna worry about someone who you can call out as being so incredibly fake? are you gonna give up on being optimistic cuz you have one little bad day? are you gonna give up on something you've been working so hard for but it's just too difficult? think about it... we're all guilty of it
and think about it... nothing THAT bad can come from someone who persevere's... if anything, you come out feeling great cuz you didn't give up
there's many examples to show perseverence, especially since the olympics has been on lately, but here's my example today of how perseverence proved to be awesome... i realized that i am NOT going crazy (well, some of you might read it as i AM going crazy, but ah well... haha)
so yesterday, kelli and i are listening to the aladdin soundtrack ben got me awhile ago... in one of the songs, i noticed that the line that i have been singing all these years was different from what we heard... i'm thinking they MUST have changed it or something... cuz it just wasn't possible that i was wrong... i mean come on now... i'm a die-hard Aladdin fan
so today, since one of my classes was canceled, i was able to go home and i decided i had enough time to put in the Aladdin DVD... so i did... and i paid attention to the same part of the song... once again, what was in the movie was different from what i thought it was supposed to be... it just wasn't right
my perseverence just wasn't letting up
now i'm getting mad cuz i know i'm not going crazy, so i call my family (like an hour or two ago) and my mom answers the phone. i ask her "mom, sing the first few lines in arabian nights." well she didn't know it, and then she asked my dad in the room and he didn't know it (he even told her to tell the person on the phone to call emily cuz she would know... hahaha) so my mom put in the vhs version we had at home cuz i'm thinking, hmm.. maybe since the DVD and the CD i have are relatively new, they changed it from the original version. well, we listen to the vhs version and that TOO was different from what i am used to singing...
and here i am, getting down on myself cuz i thought i was a failure to the aladdin fan club... how could i have been singing the wrong thing all these years?!
but oh, just wait...
so i'm sitting here, on my computer, and britt's like, well what does the vhs, cd, AND dvd all say? so i look it up for her and tell her:
Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where it's flat and immense
And the heat is intense
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home
... but wait?! underneath that verse in parentheses is written: original first verse (1992-1993) and it listed off what i HAVE been singing all these years!!!
Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where they cut off your ear
If they don't like your face
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home
i was so incredibly excited!!!!! and that feeling was all worth the perseverence i put myself through... hahah
the question now is how on earth did i remember that's what it said for all those years?! haha, now THAT is what i call a TRUE Aladdin fan hahaha
but yeah... blah blah blah... perseverence is great! think of the times you've not given up (or on the otherhand, finally DID give up something you were supposed to).... and then you accomplished what you wanted to accomplish... it feels great, doesn't it?
so do not give up...
persevere