Amy

2008-11-03T17:58:00.000-08:00

Okay, since Jess officially tagged me and challenged me to blog. I'll take a break from emailing my student's parents and do this!!

Question and Answer Here are the rules: I have to answer the following questions with one word answers and one word only! Then I must pass it on to seven others. Here are the questions:

1. Where is your cell phone? bag
2. Where is your significant other? office
3. Your hair color? Brown
4. Your mother? talented
5. Your father? energetic
6. Your favorite thing? cuddling
7. Your dream last night? nothing
8. Your dream/goal? to be challenged
9. The room you’re in? Living room
10. Your hobby? being happy
11. Your fear? children
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? satisfied
13. Where were you last night? office
14. What you’re not? angry
15. One of your wish-list items? travel
16. Where you grew up? the mitten state
17. The last thing you did? class
18. What are you wearing? sweater
19. Your TV? SNL
20. Your pet? Not enough
21. Your computer? vital
22. Your mood? excited/frustrated
23. Missing someone? big time
24. Your car? cleanish
25. Something you’re not wearing? socks
26. Favorite store? Borders
27. Your summer? Anticipated
28. Love someone? endlessly
29. Your favorite color? orange
30. When is the last time you laughed? minutes
31. Last time you cried? months

Whew, that was fun! I managed to procrastinate just a little longer from either planning classes for someone else or avoiding doing me own homework. Can't wait to vote tomorrow!!!

Updated Life

2007-10-10T17:17:00.000-07:00

Okay Jess, you see, I did finally post again. :) Just to catch you up on the details, if I haven't told you already. I'm working at a school teaching science, basically I'm the instructor for seventh and eighth grade science. The catch is that it's a private school (since I don't have my teaching certificate I can't teach in public schools yet), and it focuses on students with language learning differences. So for a variety of reasons our students have difficulty processing either the written, reading, or oral parts of the English language. The classes are small (thank goodness) and our kids usually have a range of other impulse and attention issues, so teaching is exciting. :) They are all bright, intelligent kids, but they keep me on my toes. I'm definitely learning as I go, as well as working on all the certification in special education programs I have to finish to work there.

The other big news is that I'm flying back to MI this weekend for Joann and Jim's wedding. I'm sure that I'll have a ton of photos and will post some of them. I'm hoping to catch some nice fall photos to put on your photo blog. The colors here in Jersey are just starting to change a little, hopefully with some cooler weather it will start to look and feel more like fall. Then I can go get my pumpkin to carve and all the candy for the neighborhood trick or treaters. This seems like the neighborhood where we could be pretty busy. I'm sure the kids here bring in a haul, that keeps them sugar fueled until Thanksgiving. :)

Baby Chick

2007-10-10T17:10:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I didn't take this picture. I haven't even seen the new baby chick yet. My mom sent me this photo in the mail and it made me laugh. My parents have two chickens, one is a very large red and green rooster, your typical looking rooster. The other is a guinea hen, they are super tiny. Jenny went out the the coop one day and found that one of the hen's eggs had hatched, and this little guy was the result. I think he's uber cute, but what really makes me laugh is the background in the photo. I know those are my dad's hands, and that green coat is his barn coat, but in the background is their bedroom dresser. LOL. They brought the chick inside for its photoshoot! Bet it never counted on the celebrity treatment. :)

Noobie Blogger

2007-07-21T13:05:00.000-07:00

I'm quite excited to be entering into the world of blogging. For those of you who enter into my world, be warned. This blog will consists primarily of me search for a job, my forays into the world of knitting, and my family, which right now consists of my hubby Steve, my hamster hammie ham, and my two geckos- girl gecko and boy gecko.

We've just packed up and moved from the flatness that is central Ohio, to New Jersey which is if nothing else, much greener. I think it will be a beautiful place to live.

Today we went on the search for a new car for Steve, he has his heart set on a Audi A4, so we spent some time test driving, and man does the Audi have a smooth ride. We also drove a Jetta which kind of felt like manuvering a cardboard box after the Audi. So hopefully we will have something new to drive in soon. Then the honda will be all mine to use and abuse.

Other things we're looking forward to in the next month are visits with family and friends. Soon I will be going Maine, which is exciting, but I will be there visiting my friend Jess and her family which makes it outta this world exciting, I can't wait. You will definately hear more about that later. My parents, and my sister will hopefully be traveling to visit us here in Jersey soon too, so they will get to see the highlights of the Garden State. We'll keep you updated about our new digs and our adventures.