Living life

I had a very interesting talk with a friend of mine about life in general. He talked about the things he has done and the things he is waiting to do. Waiting....for kids to get older, for the economy to get better, to drop that 10 pounds he's added, to pay the mortgage off, to get a promtion at work, to get a new truck....Waiting

Now, I know we can't throw our responsibilities out the window, but what happens to our life if we all just sit around and wait? Will we look back and be glad that we waited or will we be sad about the missed adventures? Is there a way to be responsible and still live our dreams?

The dreams I have now are not the dreams of my youth---gave up on that rock star dream a long time ago. LOL! I have seen many of my dreams come true---I have bungee jumped. I have been to Paris. I have loved someone with every ounce of my being and known his love in return. There are more, but those are the biggies!

There are other dreams that I haven't visited in a while and I think it's time that I did. It's time to stop waiting and start living...

http://www.4shared.com/file/69423719/9461efd9/Live_the_Life_11-03-08.html?

What a day

Saturday was a wonderful day! I slept till 10:00 (one of the advantages of living alone) I didn't leave the house until 5:00 today. LOL! I had trouble finding my car in the parking garage again. (It was on the third level this time.)

Thank goodness there are only two levels to the parking garage at the grocery store. Any more and I'd never be able to buy ice cream. It would always melt before I found the car. LOL!

I caught up on the episodes of Dexter that I had missed. Love that show!

I went across the courtyard for a cookout with my friends. It was a beautiful day with lots of sunshine so I took the catwalk in Jimmy's honor. We went out for a ride on the boat and watched the sunset from the water.

We took a walk down to Collins Avenue for a few drinks. With weather like we're having the walk and outside table were a must.

A couple of the guys decided to get tattoos in Jimmy's memory. Us girls watched as they endured the pain and claimed that it didn't hurt at all.

I have no tattoos. I'm way too big of a chicken for something like that. I tried to talk them out of the tattoos. I thought they should wait and think it through a little more. Maybe let a little more time pass. I asked why they would get a tattoo to honor someone that didn't have any tattoos and they answered, "because we can." LOL!

They were happy with themselves for their decision so I had to support them and I must admit that the tattoos looked great. I just hope they're still happy with their decision a couple of days, weeks and years from now...

http://www.4shared.com/file/69328850/488962fd/Foolish_things_11-2-08.html?

It's my birthday...

Well, OK, so it's not really my birthday yet, but it will be my birthday soon and everyone that knows me knows that I believe November belongs to me. LOL! A couple of years ago I had a student in my class whose birthday was the same day as mine and I tired to tell him that he needed to change his birthday to sometime in March. The poor kid! He just laughed and said that I couldn't change his birthday, only his mom could do that.

I never work on my birthday. I tell everyone that I don't work on any other national holidays so why would I work on my birthday. This year my birthday falls on a Saturday so I won't be working. However, I decided that I'll take off some workdays as well and have an even longer celebration.

My firends indulge my month long birthday becuase they love me and know that they only have to put up with it once a year. So here's to my month long celebration....

http://www.4shared.com/file/69261425/3d6cc33e/Princess_11-1-08.html?

Coloring outside the lines

I have a student that colors outside the lines. He just grabs a crayon and goes for it. I've shown him the proper way to hold his crayon. I've shown him papers that are perfectly colored. I've asked him to try and stay inside the lines. He says that his way is just more fun and then grabs another color. He is always happy and he is always proud of his work.

Maybe we can all learn from him. Sometimes, life gets messy and trying to force everything to fit inside the lines makes it even messier. Maybe we should just grab our favorite colors and have fun.

Today is a new day and we've got a blank canvas to color. How will you fill yours?

http://www.4shared.com/file/68957480/19920140/Life_10-30-08.html?

Housework

I spent most of last night doing some much needed things around the house. YUCK! Here's a little goodie for anyone else that hates doing housework as much as I do...

http://www.4shared.com/file/68812279/ea595cce/Housework_10_29-08.html?

Hope

The computer problems I've beenhaving have really set me back on some things I need to get done. I took a nice long nap earlier and I'm off to bed again soon. I almost want to give up and not do some of the things I need to get done, but I've got people depending on me so I cna't do that. Instead, I'm going to keep doing the best I can do and hope that everything works out in the end.

We've all got our share of problems, and this too shall pass...

http://www.4shared.com/file/68667764/34cc9e8b/Hope_10-28-08.html?

Days like this...

Would you believe I had more computer trouble? We thought we had gotten it fixed but there was spyware hiding in my computer. Anyway, I was on the phone with a tech guy until 2:30 this morning. That left me going to school with less than four hours sleep. Too bad we don't take naps in Kindergarten anymore! LOL!

Well, I got to school only to learn that the air conditioning was out in my building. That might sound strange to those of you that live where the weather is getting cooler, but this is Miami--- Home of year round air conditioning! Being in a classroom with 18 five year olds when the AC is out is no picnic.

I was born here, but I grew up in a small North Carolina town that I couldn't wait to leave after high school. Days like today, remind me of just how good those NC days were. I actually miss the winter sweaters and snow days. Oh, how I miss those snow days! The best ones were when it snowed during the night and you woke up to find everything covered in a beautiful white blanket, then you turned on the TV and learned that school was closed. Life was at its best on those days.

The weather man says that it's going to get cold here over the next couple of days. That means the high tomorrow is only expected to reach 72. LOL! Then is should slowly warm back up after that. Guess we're not going to get any sympathy from those of you that are already experiencing temperatures in the 50's, are we?

Anyway, I normally claim Florida as my home state and I do it proudly, but days like today just seem to carry me back. Here's a goodie for anyone that understands how it feels to miss a place you couldn't get away from fast enough...

http://www.4shared.com/file/68544482/af8b2649/Home_10-27-08.html?