chia on my mind

mindy and i re-painted my living room this weekend. i'm really enjoying the new look. it looks like a completely different house. i also rearranged some of the furniture. all of this happened whilst mike is out of the country. he has no idea i/we did this. i must say, he did agree to the color for the walls, but did not agree with moving the the furniture, and also he did not have a clue that the paining was going to happen this weekend. i can't wait to see his reaction. hopefully he won't beat me. :)
we had open house this past friday at work. i got to meet some of the parents and students that will be in the class. i'm really excited. we start this tuesday. i still can't believe that i'm a teacher. it feels like such a real job. savannah is so small.
i'm going to bed.

eggs don't grow on plants

i think i may make some baba ganoush today. i've never made it. i'm going to see if the farmers market has eggplant first. if they don't have any then, that's a sign that i shouldn't bother.
there are a few things i need to do today.
i still haven't e-mailed either of my teacher's
i have to call meryweather
wash clothes
finish my made-from-scratch chocolate cupcakes with white chocolate filling

i should cut the grass too.

maybe i'll make the baba ganoush today so that we can have people over for dinner tomorrow. i'll make it a mediterranean night. who will i invite?

man, i'm hungry.

i'm feeling a little bit better today, although i did "sleep" on the couch. i just couldn't sleep.
my plans for today are to:
take shower
e-mail professor
call teacher about meeting
mail tax stuff
buy milk and toilet paper
do appraisal stuff

stank walk

i went for a walk in the rain. i'm feeling stank today. i've decided not to analyze it and just take it for what it is...just one of those days.
along the way on my walk i snapped some photos of some of my favorite spots in the sav; gardens and houses and porches.
p.s. i finally figured out that all you have to do to add a photo is press the little button on the top of the template when you are writing. i promise i'm not an idiot. i just overlook things alot.

here i go...














the end.

man oh man

looking back at my recent blogs i realized that i want three things: a banjo, a scooter, and a new camera. which one should i ask my mom for? they are all pretty expensive things ranging from 250-3,000. i wonder if i can finance a scooter? i know! if i get the job at the school at the end of my student teaching i will see about financing a scooter, preferably a vespa. that will be my gift to myself. i think the banjo i can pull off myself too. so maybe the 1,000 dollar camera can be a gift from moms? i mean, she did want to buy me a 2,000 dollar book shelf that i said no to.
today i had a cupcake and coffee for lunch. fabulous.
it's pouring rain outside from tropical storm fay. maybe class will be canceled tonight. it is the first class of the semester and i already don't want to go. that's a great sign.

i'm about to be 28 years old in a few days. that's got me thinking..

i want a scooter

today i met with the teacher that i will be student teaching under for the next 15 weeks starting next week. i liked her. she was down to earth and not annoying and believes in "bad energy". she actually talked about how she smudged her new classroom with sage to clear the bad energy. my kind of gal.
i also took candy to the vet. apparently she has a form of colitus. the doctor said she is not in pain although it would appear that way because of the amount of blood coming out with her stool. it looks like black cherry jam. the receptionist lady was this little frail looking girl that you can tell has relied on animal love her whole life. she just loooved candy and let her lick her despite my warnings of the putrid breath caused by the green teeth. her eyes were watering when i looked up from signing the bill. i guess i'm just used to the way candy looks. everybody else is either scared, grossed out, or has that girls reaction. come to think of it, maybe her eyes were watering from the smell...naw.
my birthday is coming up and i'm pumped. mike leaves the day after my birthday for a bachelor party in mexico. that means that mindy and i are going to paint my living room and drink mimosas during the day and party it up at night. i already have my party dress and shoes picked out, along with my new hair. excited!

a banjo on my knee

camryn is here. we have one more week and then her and i fly to dallas. this is the best visit yet. she is having fun and so am i. yesterday we went out on mike's boat in the chechesee river. she crabbed for the first time, and so did i. we didn't use crab traps, we did it the old school way or as mindy said, the ghetto way, but it's the way mike did it when he was a kid. we tied raw chicken wings to string, that also had a weight tied to it, and dropped them in the water. when you feel a tug you slowly pull it up and someone else swoops the crab with a net. we ate them for dinner.
when the trip is up i think i'll post some pics from her stay.

i decided i'm going to learn how to play the banjo. i went to the musical instrument store and found out that they have a starter kit for 250. that includes a banjo and some picks and an instructional kit and i don't know what else. if i don't get it for my birthday, which i don't think i will since i specifically told mike not to get me one, i will get it myself.
i'm really nervous to start student teaching. i begin in a couple of weeks. just thinking about it made my stomach turn. the part i hate about it the most is that they come and observe me. i hate that shit. my stomach is turning.
i should go.
ps the u is missing from my key board. i'm pretty annoyed by it, but not enough to get it repaired-yet. it's been at least a month.