Queen of Rambles

I’m finally starting to live out my life long dream of being a spy. Secret Agent Josephine has lured me into the world of espionage and now I’m all official. So far the perks include a personalized little picture thingee that I think is really cute. I think I need to make it my new [...]

I’m so happy! I’ve been working on my photoblog all day and was really, really peeved because I couldn’t get my entries to show up. After much frustration and cursing I realized they were being saved as drafts instead of being published. DUH!! Anyway, if you are intersted, you can see my photoblog here. Not [...]

I think I’m getting carried away with the eyebrow pluckage. Just a few short months ago I whole heartedly declared that I would never, ever, never pluck my eyebrows. Then I became a bride. Strange things happen when you become a bride. Now I’m addicted and can’t stop! Pretty soon I’m going to be all [...]

Someone please shoot my right now. Put me out of my misery. I don’t want to be in pain all night. Usually Mike is the one who suggests long, uphill walks and I whap him for it the whole way up. Not so tonight. Instead, he suggested our normal walk then a car ride over [...]

Since I posted the Curve picture, maybe I should post the other picture I entered into a competition today. Not that I think it will win or anything. Or even that it’s good. I just like posting pictures. I need to make a photoblog, don’t I? Ok, here it is. Man vs. Nature for PhotoChallenge

I guess I’ll go ahead and post something for Photo Friday . This is a picture of the old hockey stadium we walk by every night. It’s very curved.

When am I going to get a good night’s sleep? I am so sick of laying awake all night, tossing and turning and begging God or whoever else might be listening to my thoughts to please, please, please just let me fall to sleep. I finally got up and took a sleeping pill but even [...]

Remember how I’ve been craving chocolate cake lately? Mike came up with an excellent suggestion. I could make a cake for him to take to work and eat a tiny piece. I’d get my cravings fulfilled and his work mates would get a cake. Can’t beat that, right? I have no freakin’ clue what happened [...]

i believe you have totally lost your freaky little freaking mind!!! you do NOT – i repeat – DO NOT – want to be a teacher again!!! Carrie!!! akkkkkk!!!!!!

go with the selling lesson plans idea. *nods* do that. control your envorment. once you get back in a real classroom, you have no real control. you know that. the older teachers, the admin, the janitors, the parents, THE SYSTEM – they have the control. all of it. you have the shit. you have the blame. you have the responsibility without the power. you have the evershifting rules, the evershifting schedules, the evershifting classrooms. you have the whining, the bitching, the cheating without consequences, the back-biting, the cliques (and i’m not talking about the students), the ‘you owe me’ attitudes, and the thankless countless hours. when was the last time a parent or a student said ‘wow, ms. b! great lesson!’?

i know all about the suicide planning. i did it, too. thank goodness for my unwillingness to leave my sons motherless. i thought i was a pretty well grounded individual until i tried to teach high school. i think that job can break a perfectionist faster than any other job. i truly believe that in order to survive teaching you either have to be totally loopy to begin with, OR have a martyr complex, OR not give a shit what anybody thinks. you have to be incredibly strong willed to put up with the continual assault from all sides and keep going with minimal positive feedback and constant surveillance and criticism from peoeple who have no idea what you’re doing every day.

*shudder*

We just went out for a walk and I am not happy. Guess what folks! It’s time to pull out the ear muffs. It’s August 5th and I need ear muffs for a simple walk around the neighborhood! I hate living here. Have I mentioned that before? I’ve discovered something that could be good or [...]