World Series!!

I’m in love with the SF Giants!!

While growing up my brothers has baseball on a lot, and frankly, I thought it was boring to watch on TV.  Don’t get me wrong; I love to play baseball.  I also love to be in the stands and watching it, but listening to it on the radio and watching it on TV just doesn’t capture my interest.  Well that was the case, until the past few weeks.

I have been following the Giants all season by way of twitter.  I like this cause it keeps me updated without having to watch/listen to the games.  As the season drew closer to playoffs I began to pay much closer attention to the games.  I now find that I have to watch and/or listen to the games.  This is so exciting!

But then there is the downside.  I don’t get why people have to be disrespectful.  I read an article that said the Giants don’t deserve to win because we aren’t “regular Joes,” our mayor’s name is Gavin Newsom which apparently is too refined, and blah blah blah blah blah… you get the picture.  Seriously!  This is baseball we are talking about!  It has nothing to do with politics.  Who cares if Nancy Pelosi is from SF?!   If you have to say stupid things like that I don’t think that you are a true fan of baseball.  In my opinion, true fans are respectful of both teams.  I know I’m biased and want the Giants to win the World Series, but I’m not going to be disrespectful of the Rangers (and their fans) to do it.  If you don’t like the Giants, please just be respectful and keep your mouth shut.  In turn, I will return the favor when you start talking about the Rangers, Lakers, Raiders, Chargers, etc.

The Post You Have Been Waiting For

For those of you who stalk me thru my blog I have decided to give you an update.

After graduating from PBC in late April, I didn’t know what coarse my life would be taking over the course of the summer.  I sent out a few resumes but didn’t get any responses.  Daniel and I took a vacation to Washington and saw a bunch of our family.  In June I had the opportunity to teach summer school for middle school.  After summer school finished, I still didn’t know what I would be doing in the fall.  I revamped my resume and sent it out again.  This time I received multiple responses.  Some schools said they already filled the position; others wanted me to fill out an application.  One school seemed very positive in their response and I even had a face-to-face interview with them.  Well, God had different plans for me.  As of today I accepted a part-time job at SFC.  I will be in charge of their after school program.  Typically this has been a time of mass chaos, but I will be transforming it into a tutoring style atmosphere.  Although this wasn’t necessarily my dream job, I am looking forward to what I can do with the program.

Another Boring Post

So there still isn’t too much going on in my life. I am continuing to do my student teaching at SFC. ¬†Over the past four weeks I have observed, graded papers, taught Spelling & Handwriting, and subbed in the Staff Day Care (the nursery) for two days.

During my two day stint in the nursery I discovered that I chose the right major.  The children in the nursery were not horrible, but they did lack the skills necessary for intellectual conversation.  I was very excited when I was able to return to my third and fourth graders.

As I stated I have taught spelling and handwriting.  Next week I will begin teaching third grade reading.  I am looking forward to teaching; however I am not looking forward to my first two stories.  It is just my luck that the first two stories I have to read are about snakes.  If anyone knows me, they are aware that I have a phobia of snakes.  Needless to say I am not looking forward to those first few lessons.

Tomorrow there will be no school because the teachers are having a staff development day.  SFC is working on getting out WASC accreditation.  Our development day will be focusing on things that we need to work on for WASC.

Today third and fourth grade are celebrating Valentines Day.  We will be walking to McDonalds for our party.  :)

Christmas Break Begins!

I have so much to write about that I don’t really know where to begin.

My last day of work at Subway was on Thursday.¬† I am no longer a sandwich artist.¬† I am very thankful that God allowed me to work there over the past three years.¬† When I first got hired, I did not expect to be there that long, in fact, if you remember I quit the summer of ’08.¬† At that point I had no intention of ever returning to work there.¬† I was sick and tired of Subway!¬† Well, God had a different plan.¬† That fall when I returned to school Subway asked me to return and work for them, after a week I told them yes.¬† My second year stint at Subway was a whole lot more enjoyable for me.

My last final as on Friday.¬† After class worked on packing my car… which by the way I am a tetris master.¬† To celebrate I had lunch with Kyle and Annie.¬† After lunch I headed to the airport to pick up Caitlin who would be driving home with me.

I decided to drive home on Saturday so that I could be coherent, consequently a safer diver.¬† However, by leaving later I was gambling with the weather.¬† I had planned to leave Costa Mesa about 8am Saturday but ended up not leaving until 20 minutes after.¬† It was raining so I was being extra cautions… within the first hour Caitlin and I saw 2 single car accidents.¬† The first accident took place in front of me in the carpool lane, it probably occurred about 2 minutes before we passed it.¬† Thankfully¬† there was a wide shoulder next to the carpool and the vehical happened to be on the shoulder.¬† The second accident we saw also took place maybe a minute before we passed it.¬† The carpool lane had just ended and I was back in the flow of traffic.¬† A van in lane #2¬† I guess spun out or something because the van was kind of faceing sideways and one of the tires wasn’t aligned with any of the other ones.

Rain was off and on the entire day and we were able to see a total of 5 rainbows, of those 4 of them were double rainbows.  It was truly amazing. I want to thank all of you who were praying for our safety and for the weather.  We were able to make it through the Grapevine without any problems.  I made it home in 7 1/2 hours!

So what have I been doing since I got home?  too much!

I have decided to make the guest bedroom my bedroom which means I have been moving around furniture, building furniture, and moving around stuff for the past 3 to 4 days.¬† By today I am sore and tired of moving stuff, but my room is coming together.¬† I haven’t decided yet if I will paint my room.¬† If I do decided to do it, I probably won’t attack it until the summer.

Tomorrow is SFCS High School Christmas Program.¬† Daniel gets home on Thursday.¬† I still need to do Christmas shopping… don’t know what to get my parents…. any suggestions?¬† I’m not sure what else to tell you.¬† If you of anything leave a comment.

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Okay, so this blog is going to seem a little paradoxical because¬† I love the rain.¬† When I realized it was raining on Monday I opened all the blinds so that I could watch it pour. However, the weather predicted for this weekend is rain…. lots and lots of rain.¬† Normally this would make me really excited, except I have to drive home this weekend.

I am picking up Caitlin from the airport on Friday afternoon and will be driving home to SF on Saturday.¬† It sounds like there will be lots of rain and lots of wind.¬†¬† Not only this, but the Grapevine might be closed.¬† So maybe I’m blowing this all out of proportion, but I really am praying that the Grapevine doesn’t get closed.¬† I don’t want to drive PCH in all the rain, and all my other options would take me REALLY out of the way.¬† Anyways, so honestly I don’t care if it rains too much, I just don’t want them to close the Grapevine… at least until after I get through it.

Please keep me in your prayers as I drive home on Saturday.