I'm Alive.. really.

Well, the new year is HERE. Crazy. I have never been so busy in my entire life and I am exhausted! I wake up at 5:45 in the AM!!! I have never done that in my life. My classes are.. okay. I can't say that I am a fan of 12th graders, but I think it would be a lot more challenging to teach the junior high school kiddos. I just can't get them to speak up! Granted, a lot of them really don't understand to analyze poetry and that is all I have been doing for the past 2 years. It just amazes me how much they DON'T care about their grades and how much they really don't participate in school/class.
I have done some fun lessons though. In my 12th grade class, I am teaching Chinese & Japanese poetry and showed some clips from The Karate Kid (the original and best one.) I just feel burned out already and it has only been 2 weeks.
I am not working right now.. I can't decide if it good. I feel like I work, but I don't get a paycheck. Student teaching is really legal slavery.

Anthony is super busy too. He is working at FedEx and getting all of his requirements done for medical school. He has to shadow a physician for about 120 hours and get 40 hours of clinical hours (being around sick people) before June. And these hours can't be combined! During the next 6 weeks he will be shadowing an orthopedic surgeon at Timpanogos Hospital. He loves it so far. He learns all this cool stuff and gets advice from the 'inside.' We learned that doctors don't start making money until about the 22nd day of the month because they have so many bills. (Lab fees, payroll, insurance, equipment payments... etc.) This insight gave me a little more compassion to the fees that doctors charge. They have to make some monies! He is also doing mentoring for 4H. This goes to his volunteering category. He mentors a 10 year old Mexican boy named Oscar. Apparently he is the BOMB. haha. Anthony likes him a lot. Each week they go and do something fun like play tennis, basketball, go to the rec. center, go to Nicklecade... Just fun stuff. Anthony is going to be very well-rounded on his application to med school!

Overall, we are busy little B's. (Browns.) And I can't wait to graduate and go from there. I may not even teach. I may want a change of pace and go in a different direction. Scuba instructor? Who knows. Whatever gets my mind off West Lake High School works for me. (Yes, I had a bad week.)

My Dove Chocolate Said so..

i was eating a dove chocolate... And it said to count my many blessings. I thought it was a good idea---
Here it goes:
Anthony, seriously. Where would I be without him? Not in school that is for sure. Now I love school!
Education.. I can't get enough of it. I think I get that from my dad.
My family. Love you guys!
Friends... They put up with me through high school. Congrats you guys.
The LDS Church and Prophets
People willing to work in sewage.
Sewage. Period.
The inventor of the portable car jack. What did they do before?!
Whoever thought to put air conditioning in a car! THANK YOU.
Flowers... they just make me happy.
Books... I can't get enough of you guys.
Cookbooks... I would be lost.
Digital Cameras... Although it has given vain a whole new meaning.
Married Student Relief Society- It is so nice to be around people who share the same values as I do.
Credit Card Limits ... and a husband who checks it.
Nap time.
Snowboarding.. I would be a hermit otherwise.
Babies... I don't think anything can bring a bigger smile to my face... well, puppies are close.
Puppies. (I have talked A into giving me a Yorkie!!!)... in 2 years.
Creative people. Thanks for making my life interesting. I couldn't do it with out you.
Lights that come on when you unlock your car. It makes me feel a lot safer knowing there isn't a creeper in there waiting.
Deoderant. I wish people used it more though. Same with toothepaste.
Autumn.

It's OVER!! (Don't worry, it's a good thing.)

I have officially finished my last semester as the student behind the desk! I am soooo excited that I never have to go to class again. However, this doesn't mean that my life is getting easier. Quite opposite in fact.

I got my student teaching assignment! Are you ready.... (Can I have a drum roll?) I am going to West Lake High School in Saratoga Springs. It has only been open for 2 years and is super nice. We drove out to see it on Sunday and it only took about 30 minutes. I was thinking it would be 45 because of the freeway traffic, so it wasn't that bad.

I am working with a teacher who is head of the English Department. She is super busy, but I have heard amazing things about her. I am teaching two 11th grade English Honors classes and two 12th grade English classes. Can I just tell you how nervous I am? I meet with my cooperating teacher this Wednesday to hammer out the details, but she told me about a week ago what books I should have read by January 4. We are reading The Once and Future King by T.H. White (11th grade) and Wives and Daughters by ... somebody. (12th grade). So, by January 4 I need to read 1400 pages to catch up. Are you kidding! I am going to die. I started the the T.H book, and it is pretty good. Okay, it is really good. I can barely put it down at night. That is a very good thing since I need to have finished it soon. It's about Kind Arthur. I have not started Wives and Daughters because it is Victorian Lit and looks incredibly boring. (It's around the time of Charlotte Bronte... YUCK).

She told me that the 11th grade class will be very challenging because they function on higher levels of thinking. I am super excited, but feel extremely overwhelmed.

On a good note: I practically put in my 2 weeks at Park's! I have worked there for 6 years! That is cRAzY! I can't work and student teach, so I will go in when I feel like I have time, but I am basically a full time teacher that doesn't get paid. (Bummer.)

Anthony is almost done with his finals. I don't know if I mentioned that he got a job at FedEx, but he did. He likes it a lot because he gets to do most of his homework which is sooo nice! This upcoming semester, he is going full time, but only has one real class: microbiology. The rest he is shadowing physicians and has research release where he gets to work more on his cancer research. It will be nice because he gets to work full time while I am student teaching.

And that is all.

Just a Little Something

Just been thinking about this. I love it.

Did that work?

I don't know if the post worked... the update one? Oh well...

It's about Friggin time.

Well, it has been forever since an update.. and I am afraid this isn't going be much of one either. SOO busy. I am at work blogging, because it is my only time to do it!

Anyways.. I guess it is a shock that I am crafty. But guess what... I am. I made these for my stepmom's baby shower! And everyone looked shocked that I knew what a sewing machine was... I sew ALL THE TIME! It is how I calm down. And it is service because I have never made anything for myself... But I found this pattern from here. So cute. I don't have serger, but I am planning on getting one just for these ruffle bottoms. I adore them. I want every baby from 0-1 to own 50. They are tooo cute. I made a lot more, but i figured I didn't need to take a picture of all of them.

I also made these headbands out of nylons. Super easy. You can make like 30 in one hour.However... Get sizes 6mo or older. The newborn ones were so small to sew, but that was the only size i got...

And I have been making these flowers. I think they are soo cute, but I can't pull it off.

On an other note... Braxton got to go to school with me for 3 days. He loved it. NOT. he was so bored, but that is what you get when you are suspended. I think this experience convinced him that he wants to go to college though. In my first class we had a scavenger hunt around campus (NEVER HAPPENS). on the day that he comes we a

actually did something fun?!

We went and saw Ha'ry Potta. I had read the book, so I knew when all the scary stuff was going to happen, so it wasn't too bad! I hate snakes! Sometimes I wish I were a Brit.. and then I see their teeth.

NEWSY: I spoke in sacrament last Sunday.. SCARY. It was for the Primary Program. No I am not in primary, but we only have 1 kid, so the presidency had to speak. It wasn't too bad, considering it was my 2nd talk ever (That I remember). My last talk was right after I graduated high school.

Also, I get my student teaching assignment next Friday! (The 3rd). I am super nervous. I cringe just thinking about it. I took my Praxis 2 test. This is the test that deals with English content knowledge to get my teaching license. I missed it by 3 points last time, which isn't too bad considering that 85% have to retake it. Most people in my class missed it by 30 points. I hope I passed this time. It is such a tricker. How am I supposed to have read every poem and book and then remember who the author was on top of that? And tHEN how am I supposed to know the intent the author had for each book? It is impossible. So hopefully I passed. There was so much poetry on it and I could narrow it down to 2 authors, but I had to guess. And it had a bunch of questions about the origins of the English language which i have never studied... So we'll see.

Anthony has started looking at medical schools. I am super excited. we have about 22 schools picked out, but will probably narrow it down to 15 by the time it comes around. We still have our eyes set on AZ.. I WANT A TAN. really.. that is my main selling point. Anthony has other motives for that school, but i think that mine are legit. we are also looking at: Colorado, south Carolina (LOVE IT), West Virginia, Nashville (love it) and California... It will be an adventure.

Enjoy Thanksgiving! Be grateful.

Some of My Funny Musings

So I haven't had time to blog lately... I know you are all so sad... Just kidding. Do people read this?! Just kidding again, I know you do.
We have been so busy. It is crazy... But I just have few funny comments to share. Here we go:

1. I have been learning a bunch of different scholarly points of view on the Bible in my Sacred Lit class (I am religion studies minor) and we were talking about Paul and the pressure he put on women in his time. And then Anthony and I were debating about women's roles in our world today and I called him a misogynist. He then proceeded to massage my shoulders... He had no clue what a misogynist was. It makes me feel smarter that I have a larger vocabulary than him because it isn't often that I get to feel that way around him. haha.

2. There is a girl in my methods classes that was house sitting for her brother because he has a cat that needed to be fed. These are her exact words: "I really liked the responsibility that came with taking care of Pumsy (the cat). It was nice to have somebody to depend on me so I think I am ready to have a baby." WHAT... umm, get a cat?

3. Remember THIS? Well, it happened again. I went to the doctor on Tuesday... got out of my car and my car started rolling... again. I tried to grab the door handle to pull it... yeah, me strong? No.... It was locked so I had to dig for my keys and hurry and unlock it and open the door and pull the E-brake. Nobody got hurt this time but there was witness... again.

4. I have a friend... who we will call T... well T said something hysterical the other day. "Whenever I see somebody with Obama on their car or shirt I automatically think they are uneducated and a ra-tard." I will not give you my opinion. I just want you to ponder this. HAHA.