So....It's be eons (spelling?!) since I last posted. *bad Emily* I know, I know....but, I can't be confined by my blog! haha. Sorry :/ Well, here's the scoop:
1) My younger sister Abby was in town from Germany for a month. She stayed with me.
2) My Father came for a week or so.
3) My Mother came for 3 weeks.
4) We took a week-long trip for 4th of July weekend to New Jersey to visit family. It was fun.
5) Dad left for the sand box when we got back.
6) Then we went to visit my sister Katie in Charlotte, NC for about a week.
7) Richard and I celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary geographically separated but-celebrated when I got back and the cake was still delicious a year later :)
8) Teddy had his last big surgery and is doing really well.
9) Richard's family came into town for a few days from Florida and visited the sites in DC.
10) Everyone is gone now. *whew*
11) I recently was offered a teaching position at a middle school in the area. I can't even describe how excited I am to have been given the opportunity to actually use the skills I've worked so hard to attain.
12) I think that's it!
Until next time blog-world!
xoxx
e
Monday, July 26, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
UGHHH!!!
Cleaned out my car, washed, waxed, vacuumed, etc. I'm still angry and still nervous about getting this job! Ugh! Why does this have to be so hard?!
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Busy busy busy...
Happy Memorial Day weekend blogworld! Usually I'm stuck lifeguarding for the weekend (not this year! woo-hoo!). This is the weekend when we remember soldiers who have fallen to protect our lives and freedoms. So, in honor of those men and women who have fought and died for their country, this blog is for you.
Thank you for your ultimate sacrifice to keep us free and safe.
You, and your families, are in my thoughts this Memorial Day.
<3 E
Thank you for your ultimate sacrifice to keep us free and safe.
You, and your families, are in my thoughts this Memorial Day.
<3 E
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
What in the....
Hello blog world!
I've been terribly frustrated lately, a lot like my dear friend Shell.
Trying to find a teaching job is about as easy as winning Vietnam...wait....we lost, yea. That's how easy it is. I'm - this close- to giving up and finding a new career. I don't know why I thought becoming a teacher would somehow be easy...hahaha. My friend Kyle knows EXACTLY what I mean when I say, I was lied to in college. I went to school thinking it was a given that I would get a job right out of school--Teacher's are in high demand. I heard this over and over again. Well. I hate to break this to all of those people who told me that, it isn't. Teacher's are being let go, displaced, and are not retiring. I have a better chance of being eaten by a shark, not living near the ocean, than I do of getting a teaching job. I can't sub anymore. It takes too much of a toll on my teacher confidence and ego. I just can't stand not being able to walk into my own classroom with my own rules, my own things, my own...everything! I'll keep e-mailing and calling schools but, they'll keep giving me the "We don't anticipate any openings this year." Thanks to budget cuts and the economy. WHAT ARE WE COLLEGE GRADUATES SUPPOSED TO DO?!?!
Moving on from that *takes deep deep deep breath*
I'm home again, for the second day in a row. I haven't been called for a sub job today or tomorrow. Plus I had a root canal done yesterday so I'm in a LOT of pain today. Which brings me to, WHY DOES THE DENTIST COST SO MUCH!? All of these questions are really rhetorical of course...unless someone in the audience would like to answer? 1200 bucks for ONE tooth. Ugh! With dental insurance. Help!
I just keep dreaming for a different life. Something, somewhere along the way, got screwed up! This isn't where I'm supposed to be. Blogging about my life because I have no life. I feel like I need to write a book or something. Anything. I need to step out of this daily struggle to find something worthwhile to do and step into a world that doesn't make me feel so darn lost! I was meant to do great things...as is everyone...but what are those great things? I want to start on them now! I've thought about going back to get my Master's but...I have no teaching experience and no job prospects. A master's degree will probably just over-qualify me. And then I really won't get hired.
Okay. I think that's enough.
Thanks for reading :)
<3 MLE
I've been terribly frustrated lately, a lot like my dear friend Shell.
Trying to find a teaching job is about as easy as winning Vietnam...wait....we lost, yea. That's how easy it is. I'm - this close- to giving up and finding a new career. I don't know why I thought becoming a teacher would somehow be easy...hahaha. My friend Kyle knows EXACTLY what I mean when I say, I was lied to in college. I went to school thinking it was a given that I would get a job right out of school--Teacher's are in high demand. I heard this over and over again. Well. I hate to break this to all of those people who told me that, it isn't. Teacher's are being let go, displaced, and are not retiring. I have a better chance of being eaten by a shark, not living near the ocean, than I do of getting a teaching job. I can't sub anymore. It takes too much of a toll on my teacher confidence and ego. I just can't stand not being able to walk into my own classroom with my own rules, my own things, my own...everything! I'll keep e-mailing and calling schools but, they'll keep giving me the "We don't anticipate any openings this year." Thanks to budget cuts and the economy. WHAT ARE WE COLLEGE GRADUATES SUPPOSED TO DO?!?!
Moving on from that *takes deep deep deep breath*
I'm home again, for the second day in a row. I haven't been called for a sub job today or tomorrow. Plus I had a root canal done yesterday so I'm in a LOT of pain today. Which brings me to, WHY DOES THE DENTIST COST SO MUCH!? All of these questions are really rhetorical of course...unless someone in the audience would like to answer? 1200 bucks for ONE tooth. Ugh! With dental insurance. Help!
I just keep dreaming for a different life. Something, somewhere along the way, got screwed up! This isn't where I'm supposed to be. Blogging about my life because I have no life. I feel like I need to write a book or something. Anything. I need to step out of this daily struggle to find something worthwhile to do and step into a world that doesn't make me feel so darn lost! I was meant to do great things...as is everyone...but what are those great things? I want to start on them now! I've thought about going back to get my Master's but...I have no teaching experience and no job prospects. A master's degree will probably just over-qualify me. And then I really won't get hired.
Okay. I think that's enough.
Thanks for reading :)
<3 MLE
Monday, May 3, 2010
Here's where I start.
Well. These days I usually take Monday's off. Most of the time I work every day but, the last three weeks I've had at least one appointment on Monday so, today I took the day off since I'm subbing all week. Anywho, here's the scoop!
We have no AC in our apartment and we had to go out and buy a fan the other day. It's been 90 degrees or hotter the last three days and it's getting harder and harder to keep the house cool. Teddy is finding it diffucult to keep cool as well. He just keeps sleeping, I know how he feels. It's impossible to move in this heat. We are "supposed" to have AC on Tuesday...although we were "supposed" to have AC a week ago. We'll see! Yesterday we went out to enjoy the AC in the car and we took Teddy with us. Poor guy.
Teddy is doing really well. We take him out to the closest park every Sunday and just walk and play. He gets all riled up and starts running around like crazy. I worry sometimes that I let him do too much but, Richard is a such a good dog Dad he let's him run around and tells me not to worry....I hope he's right.
Richard is having a terribly tough time at work. I won't go into details but, he hardly makes it home within the normal 8 hour day....most of the time he's working into overtime (which he doesn't actually get extra $$ for). Sometimes I'm not really sure he's actually happy with what he's doing but, he's not really a talker. He just kind of...shuts me out and that can be hard on me and that makes it hard on him. He's been thinking about school again too, which we kind of can't afford (shocker!). Our finances are another topic altogether. ugh. I wish I had a full time teaching job to make life easier. Which brings me to Richard's poor car...which is dying slowly and we can't afford a new car. We're working out a plan dealing with one car in our lives.
Things are so hard with only one main steady income and as newly-weds. Speaking of being newly-weds....ha. People keep asking me how married life is. I don't know what to say. I love my husband. He's the most amazing man (aside from my Dad of course) and I am so lucky to be with him. We have our ups and downs and I am slowly coming to the realization that being married isn't really THAT different from dating. At least for us anyway. Aside from living together it's really not that different than before (along with some other things I won't discuss on the internet...ha). It's like some fantasy that was cooked up in fairy-tales to make girls believe that getting married somehow changes a relationship, it changes it a bit, I admit, but not enough to be called a fairy-tale I suppose. The truth is I don't need the fairy-tale and I don't want it. I'm so happy with our relationship as it is.
I guess that's enough for now. Until next time!
<3 Emily
We have no AC in our apartment and we had to go out and buy a fan the other day. It's been 90 degrees or hotter the last three days and it's getting harder and harder to keep the house cool. Teddy is finding it diffucult to keep cool as well. He just keeps sleeping, I know how he feels. It's impossible to move in this heat. We are "supposed" to have AC on Tuesday...although we were "supposed" to have AC a week ago. We'll see! Yesterday we went out to enjoy the AC in the car and we took Teddy with us. Poor guy.
Teddy is doing really well. We take him out to the closest park every Sunday and just walk and play. He gets all riled up and starts running around like crazy. I worry sometimes that I let him do too much but, Richard is a such a good dog Dad he let's him run around and tells me not to worry....I hope he's right.
Richard is having a terribly tough time at work. I won't go into details but, he hardly makes it home within the normal 8 hour day....most of the time he's working into overtime (which he doesn't actually get extra $$ for). Sometimes I'm not really sure he's actually happy with what he's doing but, he's not really a talker. He just kind of...shuts me out and that can be hard on me and that makes it hard on him. He's been thinking about school again too, which we kind of can't afford (shocker!). Our finances are another topic altogether. ugh. I wish I had a full time teaching job to make life easier. Which brings me to Richard's poor car...which is dying slowly and we can't afford a new car. We're working out a plan dealing with one car in our lives.
Things are so hard with only one main steady income and as newly-weds. Speaking of being newly-weds....ha. People keep asking me how married life is. I don't know what to say. I love my husband. He's the most amazing man (aside from my Dad of course) and I am so lucky to be with him. We have our ups and downs and I am slowly coming to the realization that being married isn't really THAT different from dating. At least for us anyway. Aside from living together it's really not that different than before (along with some other things I won't discuss on the internet...ha). It's like some fantasy that was cooked up in fairy-tales to make girls believe that getting married somehow changes a relationship, it changes it a bit, I admit, but not enough to be called a fairy-tale I suppose. The truth is I don't need the fairy-tale and I don't want it. I'm so happy with our relationship as it is.
I guess that's enough for now. Until next time!
<3 Emily
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