Last Day of Freedom

Today is my last day of doing anything what I want. Tomorrow I have all day student teaching orientation, Friday I meet with the teacher, Monday I start student teaching full time. I haven't worked a full time job in over 5 years. And I am not gonna get paid!

My biggest dilemma... what am I gonna wear?!! I need to go thru my closet this weekend and figure out what I have and what I need. I know I will need shoes. Nice comfy ones, because I will be standing a lot! I like to shop for shoes. I hate to shop for clothes. Snow, will you come shop for me?

So how am I spending my last day of freedom? Laundry, vacuum, oil change, groceries, dance lessons, dinner at mom's, and some fun under the sheets. Nice long list...hope I get it all done considering that it is now 11 am and I haven't started. Gotta run, Ciao!

School

I started class yesterday. I only have one class and it is the last one. Yippee! Only problem is I start student teaching next week, full time, then I have to rush during traffic to Dallas for class on Mondays. At least I only have it once a week.

I finally received placement for student teaching today. I will be teaching at a school that is only 2.5 miles from my house, which will be nice, and it is in the school district of my choice. I will teach kindergarten for 7 weeks and 2nd grade for 7 weeks. Kindergarten in this school district is only half day, so I will have an am and a pm class. Max in a class is 22 students. I hope to get a schedule worked out that i can drop lil'babs off at her school on my way to mine. She will be at the school early enough to eat breakfast there if she wants.

I will post again soon about my San Diego trip.

My own personal lotto winnings.

The following is one of the reasons I named my blog the name it has....

Long story, long....
Many moons ago when I was in junior high I received a huge ass dictionary for Christmas. I am talking HUGE! I guess my mom thought I would need a huge ass dictionary when I got to high school, or something like that. It was the only time I have ever asked for a receipt so that i could return something, but she wouldn't give it to me. Anyhoo, moving on with the story.... I am a saver not a spender. I have a habit of putting cash up in weird places throughout my house. I've done this since I was 12. I stock pile cash for Christmas or vacation or new tires etc. Well once in awhile I forget where I put the money or I forget about it all together. This time I hit the jackpot!

Dancer and daughter were playing Scrabble the other day. They asked how to spell a word. Guess what I told them. I have this really huge (I left ass out on account of the daughter) dictionary. Lemme go get it for you. A few minutes later the daughter says "we just found $5 in your dictionary". I told them it didn't surprise me since I have that habit. We all laughed about it and went on our merry way. The next day Lil'babs saw the huge dictionary on the table while I was cooking dinner. She said "mom, what's this?" I told her that it was a huge dictionary and proceeded to explain what it is used for. I told her feel free to look through it. When she was flipping through the pages she found some money. "Look mom, there is money in here!" So, I am thinking another $5 or 10, right?! We flipped through the pages and even held the book upside down and shook it. I ended up with $345!!!! Yee Haw!!! I have no idea when I put the money in there or that I even put that much up and forgot about it! I am so jazzed because I haven't worked in over 5 years and I start student teaching in the fall, so I now have clothes shopping money!! Maybe I'll even go buy a lotto ticket.

On another note...
I head out to San Diego tomorrow with Dancer. I can't wait to get away from this heat of 100+ temps and go have fun in the sun at around 75 degrees instead. Dancer is sick today, even running a fever. He went to the doc for some drugs. Sure hope he feels better tomorrow. Will post again when I get back!

Hola!

Ok so the basic spanish words needed in Cancun (please excuse any misspellings) are Donde el bano? (where is the bathroom) and Mucho cervaza por favor (more beer please). hahaha

We left early (had to be at the airport at 5am early) last Thursday. For those of you that remember, that was the high terror alert day with the goings on in GB. We get to the airport and have to take out all liquids and gels from our carry on and repack into our suitcase. Well just about everything in my carryon was liquid, cuz who wants to pack liquids in their suitcase and find them busted all over your clothes when you get to your destination? It was a pain, but what can ya do? The news teams were hitting it early. They approached me wanting to interview me and I pointed at Dancer and said interview him. So they asked him his name and where we were headed and what we thought and did we still plan on going with the high alert. He was so cute and serious about it. She tried to turn to me and interview me again, but I got nervous and said no. Annnnyywaays.... we arrived at our resort by noon. It was great because we spent the rest of the day on the beach. We went on a tour the next day and poor Dancer started in with a sinus cold. We went to town on Sat. to do some shopping. Dancer bought me some gorgeous jewelry. He spoils me! :) I ended up with a stomach bug and had to cut shopping short. We enjoyed the beach again on Sun and also parasailed. That was a blast! It is so beautiful looking down on the turquoise water. The water was so clear that when we were coming back down we saw a sting ray swimming. The food at the resort was so good. I ate way to much!! The room was nice. We were on the third (top) floor back in a corner so it was nice and private. We spent a lot of time in our room ;) It was a spectacular trip.

What's weird is that Dancer and I were together almost every minute of the trip. Not once did I tire of him. It is like I can't get enough of that man! He is so attentive and so caring. It is the weirdest feeling. I never thought I could feel this way about someone. It is the best feeling to really connect with him. We share a similar past history with our exes. We have the same morals and ideas of what kind of qualities a significant other should have. We compliment each other so well.

Moving on....
Today Dancer and I had a dance lesson together at the studio he attends. It was so much fun! Last time I had a single lesson and learned the west coast swing. Today we worked on doing that dance together and we worked on the rumba. I can't wait to learn more moves.

Next week we are flying off to San Diego for 4 days. After that I will be vacationed out! 4 in one summer! Like that will ever happen again! I start my evening class and student teaching in 2 weeks! Wow! Summer really flew!

another quickie....

Get your head out of the gutter! I am stopping in for an update and then I am gone again.

I want to start off by saying I fucking hate it when I just put 3 layers of nail polish on my toes and then I go scrape it up against something and it smears!!!! That just happened as I sat down to the computer. Ok, now that I got that out...

The Iowa trip was a blast. It was a good thing we went when we did because my dad has run into some more health issues. He has a blocked kidney. Long story short he has a stint in it now to keep it open and has an appointment at the end of the month in Omaha to have a laser take care of the blockage. He is in pain right now and is taking pain medication which is making him sick.

The beach trip was a blast. It was fun meeting up with Kate and Tuxbaby and their kiddos. Lil'babs loved playing with the older girls. By the way Kate, I think we ended up with one of your girl's tshirts in our suitcase if you were looking for it. It has the pink panther on it. Also, what Kate forgot to mention in her blog is that when I arrived she was practically burning down the condo!!! LOL!!! I could smell the smoke and hear the smoke detector outside and I was thinking, I hope that isn't our place. It was. No seriously, it was just the nuggets were a little low in the oven and were burning. But it made a very impressing arrival....hahahaha!! The dinner turned out great, thank you Kate! We all had fun in the waves and playing in the sand. A definite vacation spot for next year!

After I arrived home I spent the entire week pretty much with Dancer and studying for my qualifying test that happened last Sat. I found out today that I passed. I was so nervous because they said I couldn't student teach this fall if I didn't pass. Passing is an 80 and I made an 81. Whew!!

Life with Dancer has been awesome! We are headed to Cancun on Thursday for 5 days. I am so excited. We are staying at an all inclusive resort, which to me is the only way to go. We hope to see some sites if we ever make it out of the room (wink wink)!!

Tomorrow is a big day for Lil'babs. She starts her first day of kindergarten! She met her teacher Monday night. She had a hard time going to sleep tonight because she is so excited.

So, that quickly sums up my life for the past 2 weeks. I won't be back to the blog until sometime mid week next week. Take Care!!