Wednesday I texted Emma and asked her for a reminder.
Three minutes later Anna texted me and used more exclamation marks than were needed.
About four minutes after that we had a sleepover scheduled for Friday evening.
The contents of Friday included giggling, walmart, high fructose corn syrup and chocolate, role playing, a chick flick and the floor. Some other highlights of the evening included me assuring Emma that I would never ever bear her children, Emma falling on the floor, Anna force feeding my sister... and other, ahem, activities.
It was a fabulously fabulous evening :)
Monday, February 27, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Snowboarding
Once upon a time Krystal made a 101 list. And on this list she put 101 things that she was going to do in the next 101 days. And one of those things was "attempt to snowboard."
Saturday an ideal opportunity to make the attempt came around. But she didn't know if she really wanted to try it, because you see, all of her cousins were going to be cruising down the hill, and Krystal wasn't sure if she wanted to keep up with them or if she wanted to cross of something on her list. But, when 12:30ish rolled around she found herself strapping the snowboard onto her feet and asking Katelyn how the crap she got talked into this.
Ok guys... The first hour or so was crap. It took me about 20 minutes just to make it down to the lift. And then as the lift picked me up all I could feel was that: 'there's no turning back now' dread sink into my stomach.
Stephanie was oh so kind enough to video my first fall at the top of the hill, which occurred as I got off the lift. I continued to biff it all the way down the hill after that. I think I left more butt marks on the hill than I did snowboarding tracks... and when I got down to the bottom I have to confess that I didn't really want to try again. At my request my cousins had all gone on without me... so I didn't have anyone standing there with me. Luckily at that point my little cousin came by on her ski's and asked if she could ride the lift back up with me. I was NOT going to look like a wuss in front of her, so I agreed. And up again I went.... all the while nursing a small hope that the 2nd time down would be better than the first.
And despite the fact that I fell again coming off the lift, it was. I'd realized by this point that I ride goofy, not normal - and I was getting the hang of how to stand up after a fall pretty well. By the time I had half slid and half ridden down the hill (leaving not nearly so many butt marks this time) I was actually anxious to try again.
And then on the 3rd time down the hill I could actually steer myself and stop! This was in spite of the fact that all my muscles were begging me to quit at this point. Because snowboarding is a lot harder on the muscles than skiing is. But it's still totally worth trying.
Just be prepared to be humbled on your fist day :)
Saturday an ideal opportunity to make the attempt came around. But she didn't know if she really wanted to try it, because you see, all of her cousins were going to be cruising down the hill, and Krystal wasn't sure if she wanted to keep up with them or if she wanted to cross of something on her list. But, when 12:30ish rolled around she found herself strapping the snowboard onto her feet and asking Katelyn how the crap she got talked into this.
Ok guys... The first hour or so was crap. It took me about 20 minutes just to make it down to the lift. And then as the lift picked me up all I could feel was that: 'there's no turning back now' dread sink into my stomach.
Stephanie was oh so kind enough to video my first fall at the top of the hill, which occurred as I got off the lift. I continued to biff it all the way down the hill after that. I think I left more butt marks on the hill than I did snowboarding tracks... and when I got down to the bottom I have to confess that I didn't really want to try again. At my request my cousins had all gone on without me... so I didn't have anyone standing there with me. Luckily at that point my little cousin came by on her ski's and asked if she could ride the lift back up with me. I was NOT going to look like a wuss in front of her, so I agreed. And up again I went.... all the while nursing a small hope that the 2nd time down would be better than the first.
And despite the fact that I fell again coming off the lift, it was. I'd realized by this point that I ride goofy, not normal - and I was getting the hang of how to stand up after a fall pretty well. By the time I had half slid and half ridden down the hill (leaving not nearly so many butt marks this time) I was actually anxious to try again.
And then on the 3rd time down the hill I could actually steer myself and stop! This was in spite of the fact that all my muscles were begging me to quit at this point. Because snowboarding is a lot harder on the muscles than skiing is. But it's still totally worth trying.
Just be prepared to be humbled on your fist day :)
Thursday, February 16, 2012
I'm the Emotionally Disturbed Teacher
Getting a job and dying are sometimes sorta like the same thing... hence I've been neglecting my poor blog. Sorry blog.
As for my new job: well... I'm a co-teacher in the emotionally disturbed unit. I get to deal with all the kids and behaviors that no one else wants to deal with. Do you know what that means? That means I'm tough. Cause sometimes these kids do crazy things. In fact sometimes they get so crazy that we have to use our padded room for timeout. Yeah. I'd never seen a real padded room before I started my job either.
If you want to come visit me sometime you can experience the padded room for yourself ;)
As for my new job: well... I'm a co-teacher in the emotionally disturbed unit. I get to deal with all the kids and behaviors that no one else wants to deal with. Do you know what that means? That means I'm tough. Cause sometimes these kids do crazy things. In fact sometimes they get so crazy that we have to use our padded room for timeout. Yeah. I'd never seen a real padded room before I started my job either.
If you want to come visit me sometime you can experience the padded room for yourself ;)
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