Sunday, October 25, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Job, Wedding, Life Update
Okay, I haven't posted because my life is really crazy right now. Why, well here goes:
1. Job - I basically told my boss I wasn't stupid enough and they couldn't pay me enough to do this at risk position again next year. So, they thought about putting me in a 6th grade classroom. I was fine with that. Then they told me they were going to put me back in Title I. I was fine with that. Then our librarian announced unexpectedly that she was retiring. Holy Cow! The craziness began. My boss wanted me to apply. I did. Then I had to interview. Then the school lawyer said he didn't want the school to hire me because I wasn't certified yet - could I get certified over the summer? SURE - let me just add that to every other life changing event I'm dealing with right now! Okay, talk to DESE - always a ton of fun. Go take the PRAXIS - sure 2 weeks after the wedding. Oh, you can get certified provisionally with all of your classwork - you don't have to take the PRAXIS (but I already paid for it). Anyway, it's official. The Board hired me last night as Clark-Vitt's new librarian. So, I finally made it. I'm a librarian (albeit one without any experience besides "book learnin").
2. Wedding -Still on. If you're coming and haven't let us know, please do so we can have enough fried chicken. 9 days and counting. Lord help me!
3. Life - Status report: crazy as usual. I'm not sure I would know how to function without craziness!
1. Job - I basically told my boss I wasn't stupid enough and they couldn't pay me enough to do this at risk position again next year. So, they thought about putting me in a 6th grade classroom. I was fine with that. Then they told me they were going to put me back in Title I. I was fine with that. Then our librarian announced unexpectedly that she was retiring. Holy Cow! The craziness began. My boss wanted me to apply. I did. Then I had to interview. Then the school lawyer said he didn't want the school to hire me because I wasn't certified yet - could I get certified over the summer? SURE - let me just add that to every other life changing event I'm dealing with right now! Okay, talk to DESE - always a ton of fun. Go take the PRAXIS - sure 2 weeks after the wedding. Oh, you can get certified provisionally with all of your classwork - you don't have to take the PRAXIS (but I already paid for it). Anyway, it's official. The Board hired me last night as Clark-Vitt's new librarian. So, I finally made it. I'm a librarian (albeit one without any experience besides "book learnin").
2. Wedding -Still on. If you're coming and haven't let us know, please do so we can have enough fried chicken. 9 days and counting. Lord help me!
3. Life - Status report: crazy as usual. I'm not sure I would know how to function without craziness!
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Just a quick reminder....
If you haven't returned the reply card for the wedding, please email me or Kenny and let us know if you're coming to the wedding. We're trying to finalize everything for the reception and need a count for the caterer.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
How to freak me out....
My boss calls me in to his office today to tell me that he thinks my wedding invitation is wrong. He says the wedding invitations say May 13th, not May 30th. WHAT! I immediately call Kenny. He's just had the same phone call from one of his scout leaders. Are our invitations wrong? Both of us panic and call our moms (what else do you do in a panic, you call your mom) because neither one of us have a wedding invitation on hand. What we've discovered is that apparently people don't know the difference between the 13th and the 30th when written in words.
thirteenth = 13th
thirtieth = 30th
So, if you have received an invitation to our wedding, we're getting married on May 30, 2009, not May 13 or June 13! If anybody else asks, please pass along the info that it's the 30th, not the 13th.
I will go back to normal breathing and heart rate now that the mystery has been figured out!
thirteenth = 13th
thirtieth = 30th
So, if you have received an invitation to our wedding, we're getting married on May 30, 2009, not May 13 or June 13! If anybody else asks, please pass along the info that it's the 30th, not the 13th.
I will go back to normal breathing and heart rate now that the mystery has been figured out!
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Wedding Update
1. We should have went to Vegas and gotten married by Elvis. It would have been simpler.
2. I have yet to figure out a way to not be in the spotlight on my wedding day. If I could get married by proxy, I'd probably do it because I don't want to be up in front of people, especially in a freakishly huge ivory gown (definitely not my customary black or navy blue garb) that in no way allows me to fade into the background.
3. Realizing that my last name will change is oddly disturbing. Believe it or not, one of my fellow teachers thinks I'm suffering some depression from it. They never tell you that when you sign up to do this whole marriage thing.
4. I feel guilty about registering and having people throw showers for me. I hate having people make a fuss over me and it was downright weird picking out things for people to buy. Yes, it still feels weird even though several people have extolled the wisdom of registering to me. What's even more weird is seeing it in the Delta News for The Victorian and Overturfs. That seems to make it more real and kind of feel like a rollercoaster that I can't get off of, no matter how much I might try.
5. Cake is expensive! GOOD GRIEF! And nothing I've found is sugar free. What about those of us who are sugar challenged?!? Come on people, if they can make awesome sugar-free peanut butter cups why can't we have sugar free wedding cake?
6. For all of my friends who are devout Catholic, please be advised that coming to my wedding may potentially be "formally cooperating with evil". Kenny got his letter, supposedly from Rome, and they told him his petition was "completely without merit" even though Burke wrote a letter, as did a psychiatrist, and others in the know supporting and advocating his laicization. He's been told to re-apply when he's 40, because I guess that's some kind of magic number. Unfortunately, we've been told - per my doctor- if we want to even entertain the notion of becoming parents, we need to get busy (sorry, no innuendo intended), so we don't feel like we can wait three more years to get married until he turns 40. As a result, we're getting married at St. Peter's United Church of Christ here in Washington, MO. And, to further guarantee my seat on the 747 to Hell according to Bishop Herman, we're getting married by a female pastor. My parents and family are totally cool with it. His family, possibly not so much. I'll let you know if a nuclear blast ensues when they find out.
7. I'm going to totally break with "proper etiquette" and not hand address our invitations. Sorry people, I'm so stressed out right now that my handwriting has devolved to practically unreadable. Be glad I'm typing this!
8. That show Bridezillas scares the crap out of me! I'm terrified that I'm going to turn into one of them and then please, somebody just shoot me! Those crazy women need to be slapped repeatedly until they calm down.
9. Our reception is kid friendly, so for all of you out there getting invites with small children, please don't feel like you have to find a babysitter or you can't attend our wedding. I'm trying to figure out stuff to put together for some "kid tables" so they will be entertained. We're not serving alcohol and we're not having a dance, so there won't be loud music blaring, people getting stupid and arrested, etc. If you have any suggestions for things to keep the kiddos occupied (like your child's favorite activity), let me know. Our wedding and reception isn't going to be an all day affair. We're still getting married at noon, reception to follow at Beaumont Scout Reservation at 1:30, and hopefully it will all be over by no later than 5:00 or 6:00. At least this is the plan unless I end up in the funny farm first!
10. Yes, you're reading our Target registry correctly: we registered for garden gnomes and Farkle. The gnomes are awesome! They're cast iron and vaguely resemble my dad dressed up in a gnome outfit. We want to use them to prop the doors in our house open when we turn on our attic fan. Farkle is a dice game and the name just cracks me up, especially when Kenny's mom asks me if I want to Farkle at family gatherings. It's actually kind of fun, sort of like Yahtzee. Yes, we registered for a Wii, not that we expect anyone to purchase it for us, but we can go back and purchase stuff off our registry with a discount, so that's our plan. We're not crazy enough to think anyone else would be crazy enough to buy us a Wii. However, if any of you win the lottery, feel free!
2. I have yet to figure out a way to not be in the spotlight on my wedding day. If I could get married by proxy, I'd probably do it because I don't want to be up in front of people, especially in a freakishly huge ivory gown (definitely not my customary black or navy blue garb) that in no way allows me to fade into the background.
3. Realizing that my last name will change is oddly disturbing. Believe it or not, one of my fellow teachers thinks I'm suffering some depression from it. They never tell you that when you sign up to do this whole marriage thing.
4. I feel guilty about registering and having people throw showers for me. I hate having people make a fuss over me and it was downright weird picking out things for people to buy. Yes, it still feels weird even though several people have extolled the wisdom of registering to me. What's even more weird is seeing it in the Delta News for The Victorian and Overturfs. That seems to make it more real and kind of feel like a rollercoaster that I can't get off of, no matter how much I might try.
5. Cake is expensive! GOOD GRIEF! And nothing I've found is sugar free. What about those of us who are sugar challenged?!? Come on people, if they can make awesome sugar-free peanut butter cups why can't we have sugar free wedding cake?
6. For all of my friends who are devout Catholic, please be advised that coming to my wedding may potentially be "formally cooperating with evil". Kenny got his letter, supposedly from Rome, and they told him his petition was "completely without merit" even though Burke wrote a letter, as did a psychiatrist, and others in the know supporting and advocating his laicization. He's been told to re-apply when he's 40, because I guess that's some kind of magic number. Unfortunately, we've been told - per my doctor- if we want to even entertain the notion of becoming parents, we need to get busy (sorry, no innuendo intended), so we don't feel like we can wait three more years to get married until he turns 40. As a result, we're getting married at St. Peter's United Church of Christ here in Washington, MO. And, to further guarantee my seat on the 747 to Hell according to Bishop Herman, we're getting married by a female pastor. My parents and family are totally cool with it. His family, possibly not so much. I'll let you know if a nuclear blast ensues when they find out.
7. I'm going to totally break with "proper etiquette" and not hand address our invitations. Sorry people, I'm so stressed out right now that my handwriting has devolved to practically unreadable. Be glad I'm typing this!
8. That show Bridezillas scares the crap out of me! I'm terrified that I'm going to turn into one of them and then please, somebody just shoot me! Those crazy women need to be slapped repeatedly until they calm down.
9. Our reception is kid friendly, so for all of you out there getting invites with small children, please don't feel like you have to find a babysitter or you can't attend our wedding. I'm trying to figure out stuff to put together for some "kid tables" so they will be entertained. We're not serving alcohol and we're not having a dance, so there won't be loud music blaring, people getting stupid and arrested, etc. If you have any suggestions for things to keep the kiddos occupied (like your child's favorite activity), let me know. Our wedding and reception isn't going to be an all day affair. We're still getting married at noon, reception to follow at Beaumont Scout Reservation at 1:30, and hopefully it will all be over by no later than 5:00 or 6:00. At least this is the plan unless I end up in the funny farm first!
10. Yes, you're reading our Target registry correctly: we registered for garden gnomes and Farkle. The gnomes are awesome! They're cast iron and vaguely resemble my dad dressed up in a gnome outfit. We want to use them to prop the doors in our house open when we turn on our attic fan. Farkle is a dice game and the name just cracks me up, especially when Kenny's mom asks me if I want to Farkle at family gatherings. It's actually kind of fun, sort of like Yahtzee. Yes, we registered for a Wii, not that we expect anyone to purchase it for us, but we can go back and purchase stuff off our registry with a discount, so that's our plan. We're not crazy enough to think anyone else would be crazy enough to buy us a Wii. However, if any of you win the lottery, feel free!
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Funny Sign Sighting
On Sunday, Kenny and I travelled to Clarksville, MO to view the Bald Eagle population that winters along the Mississippi River here in MO each year. Clarksville was definitely the place to be to see the eagles. We figure we easily saw 50-100+ near the lock and dam and roosting in the trees along the river banks. Having such good luck at seeing the birds at Clarksville and since it was such a great day, we decided to continue on into Illinois and travel down the Great River Road to see if we could find some more. (Remember, we specialize in nerd outings, so what's fun to us probably is boring to others!)
As we crossed into Illinois, we came upon a very small town with a General Store/Convenience Mart and that was about it. I think the town was called Pleasant Hill and the I'm pretty sure the sign said it had a population of 140. The store had a sign out front and here's what it said, "Eat Here". There is nothing unusual about that, however the line below it kind of ruined it: "GET WORMS" Yep, the sign read, "Eat Here. Get Worms." Clearly, having someone proofread the sign would definitely have come in handy. As usual, we didn't have a camera and I didn't think about taking a picture of it with my phone. Kenny and I were laughing too hard to think clearly and opted to go a little further down the road before stopping for a snack!
As we crossed into Illinois, we came upon a very small town with a General Store/Convenience Mart and that was about it. I think the town was called Pleasant Hill and the I'm pretty sure the sign said it had a population of 140. The store had a sign out front and here's what it said, "Eat Here". There is nothing unusual about that, however the line below it kind of ruined it: "GET WORMS" Yep, the sign read, "Eat Here. Get Worms." Clearly, having someone proofread the sign would definitely have come in handy. As usual, we didn't have a camera and I didn't think about taking a picture of it with my phone. Kenny and I were laughing too hard to think clearly and opted to go a little further down the road before stopping for a snack!
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