My life at home, whichever state that is

ok, so i know it's been forever and a day since i last updated.... sorries.

anyways... things are pretty good here. i'm still working at the school in the lifeskills class.... it's fun, there are 6 kids in the class this year and i laugh all the time in the time. it's a new teacher this year (same room though) and we get along great. her goal by the end of the year is to see me engaged to someone. we'll see if that happens.

work keeps me pretty busy...i'm exhausted by the time i get home each night. so i eat dinner and then go to bed.

but in the midst of all that sleeping, i'm finding time to participate in the Biggest Loser contest that my staff is doing. so far i've had minimal weight loss... but we'll see how it continues.

and of course on Sundays i'm teaching the preschool sunday school class... i have 6 in that class too... lucky me. but they're good kids and we have fun.

that's about it for me.... laters.

so i guess it's been awhile since i've updated. i know... there is no excuse excpet that when i'm on the computer i'm too lazy to type.

work is going really well....i really like the kids. Special Olympics was last Wednesday and we had a blast..... the kids really enjoyed running and jumping and getting ribbons. and when we got back to school, all the other classes were waiting to cheer for us. i've never seen my kids smile that much, it was awesome. then they got popsicles as a treat and of course dripped them all over their brand new sweatshirts that we got for them. of course on thursday and friday they didn't want to work.. they wanted to go to "Olympics" again... but we survived the week.

and as the end of the year approaches they are getting more and more restless... this good weather is ruining our lesson plans. but the kids are learning a lot.... all of them can count to 15 now... and 2 of them can count to 20..... as opposed to all of them who could only count 1-2-3 in January when i started.

that's the only exciting thing going on here. life is pretty boring.... and exhausting. i'm coming home from work everyday ready for a nap.....

laters.

Current Mood: tired

so the new job is working out well.... i really like it. i wasn't sure if i would like it at first, but i really do. i have a small class...only 4 students... and one of them has a nurse...so including the teacher there are 3 adults to 4 kids... nice ratio. of course, that doesn't always mean that things are perfect.... far from it when dealing with kids with autism, down's syndrome and other types of mental retardation. but it's worth it... like this week one of my students counted 1-2-3-4-5. that's huge for him... usually he went 1-2-3-5-7-6-10. so there is some improvement. i do a lot of one-to-one correspondence teaching and i love it. the teacher i work with is just awesome, she and i really get along, so that's good. we have fun everyday. i'm also learning a lot of american sign language (asl) because one of my kids can't speak that well... he's had surgery on his throat too many times to speak clearly. so i can sign bathroom, banana, elephant, yellow, the days of the week and a few other things that aren't school appropriate such as bitch and erection.

in things outside of work....
i'm still teaching sunday school... and my kids crack me up, i have 2 boys (age 3 and 4) for the "lesson" part, then i usually have them and a couple others for play time.... my kids are something else i swear. from past experience i've found that most kids answer "Jesus" if asked a "who?" question.... not my kids.... they answer "Jonah" for everything. and i just laugh.... right now in the middle of lent (ok, well not the exact middle... but close enough) they are still answering Jonah... and of course we're doing Lenten lessons.

things at the korean church are going well too.... yes i'm back there 2 weeks a month. some of the people there were trying to get me to enroll in School (through them) to learn Korean... and as much as i would like to i don't have the time or the money right now... but maybe next year. we'll see.

i think that's it for right now.....

but before i go i have to say... CONGRATS KRIS!!!!!!!!!! i'm really happy for you.

laters everyone.

Current Mood: busy

so life is getting better. a bit......


i've got a job now... as an assistant teacher.. who would have thought that i would become a glorified teacher? not me. i've never wanted to be one and now i am one.....oh well.. it pays well and i get benefits so i'll deal with it for now.

also the weather is finally cold.... single digits and maybe up into the teens. so at least the ski slopes are able to make snow.... we still have none on the ground... but the ski slopes are open. so the tourists are coming back.

niffer is still as strange as ever.... she's regressed to letting her toys hit her in the head rather than catching them. i thought i had taught her to catch. oh well... she's my special puppy.

i've got to cut this short... there's a congregational meeting today and i'm supposed to go to it even though i can't vote on any of the reports. laters.

umm...... so where to begin?

things haven't been the best out here... with the strange weather (it's way too warm out here) the ski slopes haven't been open. not that i ski.... but the economy out here depends on the tourists from NY and NJ who come to ski. so with the slopes down the whole area has been laying people off (inclyding me)... no one is making any money this winter. yesterday it was finally cold enough to keep the snow that the slope owners were able to make.... but it's been warming up... i think we have less than an inch of snow on the ground.

and of course my birthday was last week.... because of everything no one here made a fuss about it. i mean i had a cake... but that was about it.

so life continues.

i have yet another interview monday morning (for a teaching position... who would have thought that i would ever be a teacher?) i hope it goes well.....

tomorrow morning i would be going to the Korean church... but mom is sick... really sick she was in the hospital yesterday.... so we're not going to church. so that means i won't have my cell on in the morning the way i usually do on sundays. so if you need me call my house.

i think that's everything. laters.

i'm waiting for the first service to end right now, and i kind of wish it wouldn't. when it ends i have to teach sunday school. not that i mind it.... quite the opposite in fact, i really enjoy it.... but i didn't sleep last night and it's all Niffer's fault.


my dog and i are super talented. and i mean Super talented. i woke up tuesday unable to move my neck. i think i slept wrong or something. anyways it wasn't until friday that i could move my neck comfortably....

and then yesterday....
well my dad's church was cleaning out a bunch of garbage from the basement and rented a dumpster. so my dad and i also loaded my mom's van full of large garbage and hauled it to the church as well. Niffer was on my balcony watching us load the van... and she was fine. well she was crying because she couldn't jump off the balcony and reach us...but she was fine. then when i come inside....5 seconds later... she's limping and can't put any pressure on her right front leg. i have no idea how she hurt herself coming down the stairs but she did. anyways so now i have to medicate her. and she hates it.... i can't get her to take any pills.... she coughs them up no matter what i coat them in... peanut butter, cheese, bread... anything. so i bought children's liquid motrin. she doesn't like the smell of it, but if i mix it with milk she loves it... so i'm using my dad's milk to medicate my dog... geez.. but then again if she wasn't odd she wouldn't be NIffer.

so that's why i can't sleep... she stays up all night crying and shifting trying to get comfortable.... then the medication kicks in and she's sleeping but not for long before she gets stiff and starts to shift again.

so i just want to go to bed... but oh well... i can sleep tonight ( i hope ). laters everyone

so not much going on here... i'm still teaching sunday school at my dad's church.... blah. not much else...

well except for when kati went missing.... for about a week

now my sister is an idiot... and i hate her... but if anyone else tries to hurt her i will kick their ass. i really do love her... so when she went missing my whole family was concerned. my dad was calling her cell 6 times a day. my mom was calling her roommates everyday.... and i'm going crazy because my dad is bugging me, asking me where she is.

so about a week later kati finally turns up.... she had turned off her cell and of course she doesn't have a phone in her apartment.

my parents have calmed down a bit.. thank god. but of course my dad is ready to kill kati and she gets home this afternoon.... so i'm going to hole up in my room avoiding WW3 in the living room.



also in a completely unrelated note i'm getting ready to start christmas cards.... email me your addys if you want a card. laters

well i'm still alive.... although there are times recently that i wish i wasn't.... mostly at work...

work sucks... but i need the money... and that's the only reason that i'm still there. i'm working 5-6 days a week... and getting decent money for a part time job.... and since i have loans and bills to pay i'll keep the job. but it sucks. oh well.... i could elaborate here, but i know that none of you can actually do anything about it, so i'll just keep it to myself.

in other news my mom is back at the Korean Church, so i am too. it's great being back there.... some of the elders are even telling me that i'm Korean now.... all that means is that i have to clean up after lunch is over and watch the kids on the Saturday night meetings. not too bad especially when David and Alan help with the clean up.

hmmm.... not much else..... Niffer is getting really confused when i'm running out of my house to answer my cell phone.... which can be dangerous enough with the dipshits playing chicken on the road in their dumbass pickups. (right chris?) not to mention the bears in the neighborhood.... and supposedly a buffalo escaped from a nearby farm and is still on the loose....

what a lovely area i live in right?
anyways i really think that's all for now.... (eve thanks for the pics, i loved them) take care y'all.

so i had another weird dream... and this one was weird.

the world is ending... and not because of some natural disaster... no. the aliens have decided to freeze the earth. (don't lose it yet, there's more). so anyways Sean, Michelle, Matt and i are in a mini-cooper... along with the lead singer of Good Charlotte and his brother and two other nerds that i didn't recognize. so we are on the western side of the Mississippi River. michelle says we need to cross the river to save my parents. but i say that we need to head to the Rockies to get away from the River (which of course is mostly fozen), i tell her that my parents will be ok since they live in the mountains on the other side of the river. but sean starts to drive across the river anyways.... and the car starts to sink... so we throw out the nerds and the guys from Good Charlotte. but the car starts sinking anyways... so we give up on trying to get my parents. while we are standing there Charlie Sheen and Alan Alda drive up in a pickup truck dressed in hunting gear... they drive straight into the river (and of course they start to sink) so Charlie Sheen opens his window and throws a tiny golden retriever puppy at us.

and that's when i woke up.....

anyways in other news... things are going well here... more laters.

Current Location: church
Current Mood: tired

so yeah, i'm alive... wet, thanks to Ernesto... but alive. it's been raining since i left Wisconsin on the 25th (happy belated birthday caitlin). been applying to jobs... nothing yet, but i've only been here for a week.


other than that i've not been the best. my friend Jessie passed away on Tuesday and her funeral was this morning (that's why i'm at the church on a Saturday). so for the past few days i've not really been up to much.... a lot of quiet thinking and pondering... and crying. did a lot of that this morning.


i'm not really in a mood to talk a lot here.. .so i'm going to cut this short... laters.

Current Mood: melancholy

my phone is fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



yay....... my cell is working again.

so yeah..... cell phone has been acting funky. took it in to get looked at..... and they still have it, supposed to call today by noon if they acn fix it, if not it has to get sent in to the manufacturer. so don't call my cell if you need to get ahold of me. i'll be in and out of the apartment so call that.

laters

being drunk is the opposite of quicksand.


said by me to my lovely roomie and chris tonight.

it refers to that one thanksgiving.... i shouldn't have to explain any more than that.

night everyone....



oohhh... i forgot... sean gave me a bookcase. i'm so excited. i've almost emptied my room. i'm going to rearrange everything. yay me!!!!!!!

Current Location: living rooom where all my stuff is now
Current Mood: ecstatic

so at lunch today with Chris and Phil we decided that Sean needed a new set of commandments to follow... and Phil as Pope was going to come up with them.... so here they are

1. Thou shall covet thy neighbors' socks, but only on Thursday.
2. Thou shall not look at an uncovered ankle unless you have first purified yourself in the icy waters of (insert random WI lake here) under the first full moon, after the harvest moon, but not the blue moon...at midnight, mountain time.
3. The chipmunk is a sacred animal to you...honor and obey.
4. Keep the Sabbath (Tuesday) holy by watching anime.
5. Thou shall wear a pink shirt every Wednesday unless the temperature should falleth below 25 Celcius, in that case you shall wear a blue shirt with a pink stripe and pink gym shorts.
6. Thou must joineth the Pirate crew and deliver all the booty, in gold bullion, to the Pirate Pope Bob XIII.
7. Thou shall only use 40 watt light bulbs.
8. The price of your soul shall be measured by your weight in beef sandwiches.
9. The internet is for porn.
10. Thou shall have at least one peg appendage.
11. Thou shall not have any other flute but me for i am a jealous flute.


the symbol of the religion shall be a Chipmunk wearing an eye-patch and a pirate hat.

Current Location: (insert random WI lake here)
Current Mood: giggly
Current Music: flute

so phil came to visit.... always fun, and always leading to random conversations. so today's lesson... condoms. when someone said "this is the time, this is the place, and this is the color" what color???? phil and i assumed it was the color of the condoms... or so we hope. so what did color have to do with anything? was there already a color picked out (my assumption) or did this person have a handful and picked one at random (phil's)? and why is color important?

don't worry.... this does lead somewhere.....


so then....me being me..... what if there were mood condoms? you know... like mood rings but condoms. phil wondered if the guy would have to keep checking it..... (don't want to know how or when).... and i thought that he could wait until the end and then see how it was. later tonight was telling kathie about it... and her idea was that the mood was determined by the color the condom turned when the guy put it on...right away. i'm a little disturbed that my roommate thought of this. oh well.

then went out wandering with phil and chris.... kinda got lost, but that's ok... phil's awesome divine providence saved us... yes people he is the Pope and i helped to elect him. then we went out to dinner. fun times there (check out his lj for the details). then were back at my apartment playing catch phrase and what if. it was quite a group... phil, chris, kathie, matt, sean and i. but now they're either gone or sleeping, except for phil. and he should be sleeping soon (he just told me that). so i think i have to cut this short... i'll write more later i promise.

laters.

Current Location: the padded room.
Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: the worms in my head

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