Dear Twin Falls.....

Dear Twin Falls,
I have officially graced you with my presence for six months. What an interesting six months it has been. I have learned many lessons, and many new adventures. By all means Twin Falls was one the biggest changes of my life. Moving to a new town, not knowing a single sole, starting a new profession which I thought I was ready to handle, boy was I wrong. I have had many tears since being here, it has brought many new challenges and many new heartaches, but I know I have learned from all of them and I cannot deny that this is where I was supposed to be this year.

Why I don’t love Twin Falls:
• They have no shopping. Seriously I know that makes me sound materialistic, but I love shopping and they majorly lack that here. Sorry but TJ Maxx and Macy’s just aren’t cutting it. I miss Hobby Lobby, Ross, MAC make-up, GAP & Urban Outfitters, just to name a few.
• There is an excessive amount of smokers here, I noticed it but never said anything to anyone, but then my mom mentioned it as well so I knew I wasn’t crazy.
• The small town culture is just so completely different than the city. It is hard to explain without being in it.
• It makes me sad the lack of confidence my students have. Seriously it amazes me how many times I here “oh we’re from Jerome, we can’t read, or write, or spell or whatever else insane I can possibly think of.”
• I have been involved in more high school drama than when I was actually in high school… which I am not a fan of drama as it is.
• Mostly why I don’t love Twin Falls is because my family isn’t here.

Now I am not a pessimistic person so I must point out a few positives that I have found about living in Twin Falls:

• It takes me less time to go from my apartment in Twin to Jerome approx. 13 miles than it takes me to get from my parent’s house to Old Navy where I worked in Boise which was only about 6 miles.
• People are more grateful here, because a lot of them don’t have near as much as I have been blest with. For instance I am the advisor of a club and our national competition is in Florida this year so I was talking to my students about going. Literally they were more excited about getting to ride on a plane than anything else. I was shocked about that pretty much none of them had been on a plane.
• I truly know that my administration cares for me and wants me to succeed. They are constantly checking on me and making sure I am doing okay, where when I was in Boise I don’t even think the principle knew I was teaching at the school.
• There are so many unique features to the area. Like Shoshone Falls and the canyon and Twin Bridge, which I love being so close to all of them and have really always loved.
• I know this is one again going to sound materialistic and selfish of me to say, but I like being a young, cute, fun teacher. Basically they all think my over excessive amount of clothes (I haven’t worn the same outfit to school twice yet) are weird, but I know they secretly like them, because most of them are country kids who are very simple and plain. . My sister has always told me I was a trend setter because I was never afraid to try new things.
• I do love being only 2 hours away from Boise instead of 5, it makes it so much more convenient, yet the down side to that is that I go to Boise a lot more often than I probably should.

Reasons to own a toaster

Evidence A:Yes that would be my stove top, and yet you might wonder what that has to do with owning a toaster. Well let me tell you… So once upon a time I wanted toast, so I made some eggs and toast for Sunday breakfast. Since I don’t have a toaster I improvised and used the broil feature on my stove. That was all fine and dandy, and I sat down enjoying my breakfast. Well shortly after I kept hearing this popping noise. I thought maybe I left the oven on, so I went over to the oven and low and behold I actually left the stove top on, and had set the cookie sheet on top of it. Needless to say this was the result. The worst part is that it was touching the corner of the countertop and kinda burnt it. Needless to say it still didn’t prompt me to go buy a toaster… I do have a birthday coming up in 5 months. haha

Shoes, Sheep, Shopping and Seafood!!!

SHOES
I seem to have this knack for finding ugly clothing and yet finding a way to make it unique and original, I absolutely hate having the same the clothes as other people. Basically if I see someone else wearing a piece of clothing that I own, I basically will not wear it again. I also have a love for shoes, eek they just make me so happy. (Typical girl. Haha) I found these two lovely pairs of shoes that even I can’t seem to find a way to pull them off. Haha. Aren’t these beauties? The sparkly death heels ( i am pretty sure they were like 6 more inches that you cant see under my pants) as I refer to them and clown snow boots. Sometimes I wonder what is going through designers minds when they come up with these things.





Now these on the other hand I LOVE… and well bought. I just these little beauties and couldn’t help but buy them. I text a picture to Mallory with the caption “aren’t these the cutest ugly shoes you have ever seen?” she responded and asked if I was actually going to wear them or just display them. How dare she ask a question like that… these must be worn. Well they do sort of look like old man shoes, but I only paid $5.98 for them. STEAL!!!!



SHEEP
I love making cake pops! I just think they are so fun. For Christmas I got the lovely little cake pop book I have had my eye on for months. EEK I was so excited. So of course the first creative ones other than original cake pops I decided to make where SHEEP. Haha. Love it. Needless to say of course they are way more work than they are worth, but at least they taste good, and very addicting to make… and eat. Haha. This is what they were suppose to look like…


This is how mine turned out… Not as cute, and I got bored so they didn’t get faces. As least they tasted good. Haha.


This here little sheepy, I sent to Mallory and said it was hers because he had been “sheard” bahaha. Basically it cooled to fast before I could get the beads on… and possibly legs. Haha.



SHOPPING
I am beginning to hate grocery shopping. Seriously I do it A LOT!!! Not even for my house, my fridge is basically empty. It is all for school. This is a pretty typical week of what my shopping cart looks like. You should see the looks I get from people. Ya people this is all for me, I can eat 8 tubs of Cool Whip… in a day. Sick!!! It is even worse when I have to go to Costco. One guy was like I think there should be a record set if you can fit that all in your car… oh it will fit, and there was extra room, I am a pro at stuffing my trunk with groceries. Haha.

SEAFOOD
I hate fish. I just had to throw that out there, but I do love shrimp and crab. My mom was in town this weekend and Nick and Jaima happen to be in town as well, so we all went out to dinner for Jaima’s birthday. I ate some crab and shrimp and I think they made me incredibly sick. Ugh I laid in bed that night almost in tears because my stomach hurt so bad. Not only did I have awful service at the restaurant they served cheap crab that made me sick. That did not make me a very happy camper. :(

Little Muffin

Oh my goodness, I am a horrible blogger. Well it doesn’t help that I still don’t have the internet in my apartment (it is more a matter of being too lazy to get it set up than anything else) and I usually just want to go home at night instead of blogging. Hmm where to even start-oh of course CHER.
I am sure you are all wondering about my little muffin Cher…. Well turns out she is actually a HE. My bad. Haha. I think he just wasn’t fully “developed” when we checked and I never bothered looking again. I am still not sure how to explain the whole Gilmore Girls obsession. Haha. Actually I took him home over Thanksgiving (he hung out all day at school with m, my students loved it….I tried to keep him in the closet but of course word gets around. haha) and the family all fell in love with him- well all except Brockton. I decided to leave him up there until Christmas so he wouldn’t have to do as much traveling. When I went home at Christmas I knew there was no way I could bring him back to my apartment. He loves having the other animals there to torture. Literally those poor little critters, they don’t have much tolerance for him. He would have gone crazy at my apartment all day by himself. Haha. He has some new funny character traits. He is very much a cuddler, Cher loves my mom, and purrs a lot. He likes the sideways karate chop the dog. It’s actually very entertaining. Haha. He also tries to sneak out the front door…the little bugger. I love him as crazy as he is. The fam is trying to change his name to Ginger… I told them he has already been through a sex change and couldn’t handle a name change too.
Wow it is amazing I can write so much about a kitten.
Guess what I have parent teacher conferences next week, so I am sure you will get a lovely little post then. Bwahaha.

Sunny meets Cher

Yes folks that is correct, Sunny and Cher have been reunited once again. I know you thought it would never happen (considering one of them is dead) but they have found each other. Since high school my sister Mallory started calling me Sunny. The name seemed to stick and a lot of people call me it. (I sometimes wonder if they even know my real name haha). Well on Monday one of my students came in holding this precious little number....

Okay seriously how could you not resist that cuteness. It was instant love at first sight. Well the student had brought it for me (not even knowing if I liked cats,) started as a joke but then really didnt want her back. So needless to say this was the moment Sunny and Cher were reunited. That is right this little chica got blessed with a name like Cher. Now normally it takes a strong sole to pull off the name Cher, but SHE can sure rock it. haha it totally fits her personality. I snuck her into my apartment, I am not allowed to have to pets (shh dont tell.) She is so funny, she loves to lay on my chest or right by my head at all times. Her newest thing is while I am sleeping she will slowly crawl up to me and prance on my face to startle me. haha. She follows me around the house, when I am there. I leave the music on during the day, to drown out any noise she makes. She is so fun, I love coming home and having her get excited to see me.

I have also discovered she loves Gilmore Girls and has discovered the mirror, she truely is a girl of my own heart, even if I fear everyday that you will cause me to come home to find all of my belongings on the front lawn. haha

Oh little Cher, how I already love you and it has only been 4 simple days. Please stay little forever.

P.S. I sure hope my roommate isn't allergic, but when you have lived there a month and half and only stayed one night I am not to worried about it.

P.T. Conference and date books....

Am I supposed to be posting a blog… probably not. So what am I supposed to be doing, well I can think of about a million and a half other things I should be doing right now… Like grading papers, or creating a new bulletin board, or perhaps even conversing with parent. That is right folks; here I sit at these blasted parent teacher conferences. Not only do I teach some of the most controversial material allowed to be taught in schools, I have to tell the parents what the devil I teach about, and so it would happen that Child Development is in the middle of the most awkward unit of them all, human reproduction, contraceptives, and std’s. Oh how I love my job…. Actually I really do, I just don’t love parent teacher conferences, I think they are awkward and pointless. Yet you better believe I am going to be one of those parents that show up to every teacher, every year… probably just so I give the teacher something to do…instead of posting on a blog. Haha.

On second thought, I am still enjoying my job, it is so fun. I get asked A LOT of very…..interesting questions about everything imaginable, and it completely blows my mind where they come up with this stuff. I like being the teacher that is very open about issues, and in all actually I am glad students feel comfortable asking these bizarre questions. I love Adult Living…it is so fun to teach, and it is a little bit of everything, which seems to fit my personality the best. We are in the middle of our dating unit, and I came up with this idea to have the students create a children’s ABC book of dating ideas. So basically they had to come up with a date for every letter of the alphabet. I got bored on Saturday and decided I wanted to make one too, because the students were having so much fun with it. Haha. So here is a picture of my book…don’t laugh at my drawings, clearly I am no artist. I am not done with it yet, I still need to add the words. This page will be A is for visiting an Animal shelter, B is for a bicycle ride. I made it so I can have an example to show the students when I teach this again. Haha I lead such a boring life… I get excitement about creating a book of dates.



Second thought.... Because we have to sit here for two evenings they are letting us out of school all day friday!!! I can't wait! I am going to go up to Boise for the weekend... I sure do miss that place. It probably doesn't help how close it is and that I have had to go up there so much for conferences and such, but I really do miss it. As interesting as it is, I miss it more now, than I ever did in college. I think because I knew it wasn't permanant in college, but now the feeling is a lot more permanant here. I cant wait.... and I cant even begin to tell you how much I love the FALL. I love the leaves changing, and the ability to wear sweaters, and scarves and boots, which all make me very happy. haha.

Pretty much.....

Pretty much, I am dead to the world... yes that is very much a true statement. In all reality I feel as though I am already becoming a zombie to the world. I don't have the Internet in my apartment, or TV, so the only socialization I have to the world is my cell phone, which is pretty much always in my office at school, so that is useless too. You might ask then how are you in the internet now, typing this post? Good question.... well I am still at school, yes it is 8:00 at night, well it happens sometimes. haha. And technically I am waiting for a load of towels from the kitchens to be done washing so they don't sit in the washer all night.
All I do is go to school, come home and sleep... and occasionally watch an episode of Gilmore Girls. I am really loving my new apartment, even though I am hardly ever there. It is nice to come home too... even though I still haven't hung pictures on the wall. Whatev. haha.
School is going well... my classes are all really well behaved and even though we have only been in school a week, I think it will be a good trimester, even if I feel like I am chicken running around with my head cut off all the time. Okay I know that this was a super boring post... but the buzzer went off, time to go home to more school work. Peace and blessings.