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I Think I Found my Internet Twin!

I found this on a blog called a Daily Dose of Tony. Totally hilarious! You would swear this was me. And it so would be me but for three things.
#1. I might do this around the house, but I would so never record it!
#2. OK, I would never do that to my hair! Eeewww.
#3. Definitely not the song I would choose.
But otherwise? Totally me ;) notice all the bookshelves? laundry? tv tray full of clutter? two little kids in diapers running around?

:)

OK, now I'm just posting something to get that goofy picture of me holding my first check off the front screen ;)

Things are continuing to go really well around here. We are both digging our new jobs :) I'm scheduled to teach a Comp I class in the spring! I'm excited about that. While I am enjoying teaching that class that I am this semester (professional development) I really enjoy teaching English classes. What can I say, I love lecturing about comma splices and sentence fragments. And I sadistically enjoy reading student papers and editing the crap out of them ;)

I'm just amazed at how fast time is flying by! Mid-terms were last week! Before I know it the semester will be over! And then it will be Christmas! I'm just not ready to think about Christmas yet!

But here's what I think we're going to try to do this year w/the house

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Motivation

Check it out :) It's the first paycheck I've gotten in about 3 years! ;)
And I must say that I am really enjoying teaching again!
Tonight the topic I taught was "Motivation" and of course when I think of motivation, I think of motivational speakers... and when thinking about motivational speakers, who can forget Chris Farley's character? So my plan for tonight was to start with showing my students this skit from SNL. Unfortunately, the classroom technology got the better of me and I couldn't figure out how to get the sound going :( I will have to hunt someone down before class on Wednesday to help me out with that...

Wow!

Has it really been almost a month since I posted anything here? Geez. What a slacker ;) Sadly, it's been even longer since I posted anything on my crochet blog. And I actually have subscribers to that one.

We've just been busy as always. And amazingly, we have yet to organize/unpack two of the downstairs rooms. One of them being my craft room. The other being the kids' room. Of course they still sleep with us, so it's no big rush. Although I do really need to get their clothes much more organized and into their dressers... which means going through lots of boxes in their room! Of course the best time to work on anything is when both the little ones are napping. But both of those rooms are between their nap areas - and who wants to disturb them? It's a catch-22.

Anyway, with my first week of teaching under my belt, I'm glad to say that everything went really well. I have a good group of students and my teaching persona came right back to me :) I was pretty nervous about teaching again as its been 2 years since I've taught a class. And probably just as long that I haven't had many adult interactions aside from family members... I'd actually become pretty comfortable with isolation. But really, it's just not good for anybody. So I'm really glad to have a reason (aside from grocery shopping) to leave the house. The scheduling and driving is a little crazy, but I'm glad that everything worked out so well and we didn't have to try to find child care.

Getting Settled

We are finally getting everything situated here. We had our living areas done within a few days of moving back, but we've been steadily working on the extra rooms (craft room, office, etc.). My craft room is almost ready (thanks to Mike who spent the day working on it Friday). Next is the office.

Things have been going really good. We have all been feeling so much better. The move back was definitely the right choice. It just feel so good to be back in our house.

The only thing different is no Brutal (our outside dog). We had to give him up for the move to Iowa. And it turns out that he was most likely keeping the bears away. Back in the Northwoods for almost two weeks and a bear got into our garbage. Brutal used to bark every now and then at night, and we could tell he was barking at something, so now we are figuring he was probably barking at a bear.

Before we moved here, I never would have gotten a dog for outside. I didn't see the point. But there is a pretty clear point up here. Most of our neighbors have outside dogs.

We had a cookout yesterday for Beatrice's 1st birthday (which was this past Thursday). It turned out to be a beautiful day. Uncle Al helped us celebrate. It was a really nice afternoon. I can't believe my baby girl is 1 already! The time really flies by and they grow up so fast. She's going to be walking any day now. She's taken a few steps on her own, and she can stand up and hang out for a while, and boy does she cruise around the furniture pretty good. I have a feeling once she starts walking she will be non-stop. She already tries to run and jump :)

My 20-year high school reunion is next month. I can't believe it's been 20 years already. It just does not seem like that long. OK, rephrase that, it doesn't seem like I'm that freaking old! :) Sometimes I think in my mind I'm still 18-years old. And some people would probably readily agree with that ;) On the other hand, high school feels like forever away - like several lifetimes ago.