10:10am: This is the coolest website ever! If you do the survey, remember, be honest! http://www.livingto100.com
It's amazing how much being a vegetarian increases your life expectancy.

8:31pm: I finally did it! I bought a Global Santuko knife! If I wasn't so LJ illiterate, I'd post a pic.

6:47pm: What does "Xx" in the text messaging world mean?

6:55pm: My friggin ipod broke. It's not like I dropped it on the hard ground, or anything ;) Good news, though. Sent it in to apple, only cost me 40 bucks to get it fixed. Now if we could just get the Mac fixed!

4:37pm: Please read shannonxo last entry.

11:49am: I'm buying a Volvo 850 turbo-1st time owning a car that's fully loaded w/ leather! I am so excited!

6:17pm: My husband drank water from a river in Arkansas that had cows grazing near it. Yeah...he's sick as hell.

4:35pm: back to school
The summer was too short, even with my hiatus to D.C. I finished 3/5 of the lesson plans and have made 0 progress on the writing journal.

I've never seen Sam so drunk as last night. Maker's Mark is not his friend. Whiskey is never my friend. The last 3 times I've drunk red wine, I've managed to spill it all over the damn place. School starts in less than a week, I better get my shit together...

2:58pm: I feel so strange. It started yesterday. I'm so anxious my stomach hurts. I haven't been eating. I can't sleep. I might be going crazy.



I feel manic

Current Mood: distressed

10:42pm: I just googled my husband's name-a lot of people name their pets Sammy

12:50pm: O.K, I'm on myspace now. http://www.myspace.com/21155286

1:49pm: There is truly 6 degrees of separation. I met this cool kid in my class @ DBCC who just so happens to be good friends w/ this other cool kid that is in the photo program w/ my husband. Then, as we're getting shit faced, he informs me that he knows of one of my best friends(because they both surf the inlet) He has also recently traveled to some of the same places in Europe that I did and coincidently had some of the same experiences. Although i never heard a Euro chick fart aloud in mid sentence...

10:46am: more paris pics!





The Notre Dame @ night




Napolean's Bridge crossing the Seine

11:14am: paris pics


here's a pic of Sam, Rachel, and me




my beautiful husband

4:07pm: Well, it's the last day of school until August 2nd. Yay for summer vacations (probably the best part of teaching)! I plan on soaking up much needed R & R.

11:15am: Happy Mother's day to all the moms out there! Let it be known that you are appreciated!

8:47pm: As we watched a Cadilliac commercial advertising their largest SUV's yet, the logo came across the T.V screen, "Breaking through". My huband turned to me and said, "Breaking through the ozone". America is a sad sad place, and the more I travel out of country, the more apparant it becomes.

4:25pm: Went to work at 8. got off at 4. told the kids Dooms Day was near(hail storm). i love my job.

11:11am: Here's the dilemma:
Sam's friend wants to sell his house. he said that he'd be happy making $20,000 on it. That would bring the price to $107,000. The neighborhood is O.K. The house is UGLY, and I mean fugly ugly. I'm wondering if we should go for it....

9:18am: I just realized that I don't do enough ass kissing on LJ. I've been gone for almost a month and nobody's noticed. Oh well, I guess I'll have to start posting like a whore on other's LJs.

10:49am: Just got back from Paris. It was really exhilerating
Some things to note about Parisians:
They love eggs(eggs on pizza, grilled cheese(called a croque madame), and I'm talkin' raw sunny side up)
The metro rocks!(even in another language)
boy, do they love to smoke(even in the airport)
almost every woman wears a scarf somewhere on her body
no regular coffee-only espresso and cafe au lait
the Eiffel Tower is a lot bigger than it looks in pics
no fat people!(only the Americans)

Pics to come either later today or tomorrow

6:20pm: I guess I'll post an entry...
Mental illness freaks me out, I guess that's why i didn't go into Clinical psych... I mean, what the hell is wrong with people!?! It's exceptionally bad when it's your own family.

7:30pm: I have a new outdoor kitty and I named him Jack in honor of wet_paper_alibi's kitty.

4:48pm: Sometimes (well, actually a lot of the time) I wish there was a little less ass kissin' on livejournal. The shmoozin' makes me want to fucking vomit...

8:26pm: I want to know what all of my LJ friends look like, post a pic...pretty please!

3:04pm: Here are 2 pics of my crazy husband-@ 3 a.m, on Main St. in Daytona-he's lucky he didn't get arrested

8:58pm: If one spends their life envious of what others have, they'll live a bitter, bitter life. Experiences are worth far more than materialistic objects.

12:53pm: I had a meeting with a financial advisor this morning. Get this, $70 a month adds up to around $200,000 for retirement. I'm in.

5:23pm: I'm an asshole
That's right, I just ate a BEEF hotdog. Shameful. I have come to the conclusion that deep down inside, men are whores. I'm glad I'm married....

5:56pm: Who loves Kitty.(that's angiebat and the Agent in the background)

9:49am: O.K, so I'm not technologically gifted. I have NO IDEA how to post a picture, and I want to! What do you want, I'm a frickin' History teacher?!

8:10pm: The Paris trip is booked. March 25-Apr.1. I'm so excited, I probably will get little sleep tonight,

8:48pm: so this is Christmas...
John Lennon came to mind on this beautiful day...Anyway, I had a wonderful holiday,we ate dinner with my ex-step-father in law. You figure it out! wonderful dinner, great times.

6:46pm: Well, I'm bad. I let my husband open his wool coat which was one of his biggest christmas presents. Oh well... it was fun :)

7:30am: christmas
I'm thinking about getting my husband a corduroy blazer for x-mas. I'm sick of him wearing his snowboarding jacket out when it gets cold. For all you men out there, what do you think? It's on the j crew website.

7:27am: I love the holiday season. My tree is beautiful, and it was even free! This year I promise to purchase a fake one when they go on sale. They are so much easier to deal with...

8:35am: happy Turkey Day, I think my husband and I have made up. No need to drag it out. I have a 25 pound turkey stuffed and ready to go in the oven, pies are made, last thing to do is the green bean casserole. Give me a beer.

5:14pm: stolen from douglain

The problem with LJ is that we like to perceive ourselves as being so close, but then we realize that we don't really know much about each other. I'd like to rectify that.

I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about.

12:33pm: sparked by a New York Times article
This sudden religious surge that is spreading through our country like the plague can accurately be explained by the Terror Management theory.
This is a social psych theory that states that when we face the mortality of our pitifull existence on earth we freak the fuck out and develop projects to ease our minds.
these projects include religion and procreation. My thesis went as far to say that even astrological horoscopes could be one of these projects.
Anyway, you may ask, "well, what caused this sudden unconcious fear in americans?" It's all about terrorism and the culture of fear.
So, grab hold of those Bibles and you'd better pray that God has a place for you up there in heaven...

1:25pm: I have completed 2 more tasks for my ACP(alternative certification program) only 36 more to go *sigh*
It really is never ending
I can't wait for this school year to end
I'm ready to never again be a first-year teacher

7:26pm: Kids crack me up, I actually had to explain to a student that Alaska was north of Canada, not down by California like the map shows...

On a positive note, I finished my midterms today.

8:32am: I love having the weekends off. I was actually able to have a few beers with my friends last night. it was so beautiful out- chilly, clear skies. It was just perfect. sam and I ended up laying in the backyard picking out star constellations.
I have come to the realization that the best memories don't involve money, they involve the people that you care about. It's amazing that a vast majority of people spend their life worrying about aquiring STUFF. I mean, it's just stuff, right??

5:33pm: remind me to cremated
Yesterday was pretty gloomy, an open casket is never a good thing. On a lighter note, being in Arkansas is rather nice, the weather is absolutely gorgeous. There is no humidity and the temps haven't been above 80. The leaves are changing on all the trees and I'm actually getting to experience fall.
My mother-in-law's dogs are to die for. She has chocolate brown labs that are less than a year old. They're litter mates, so they adore each other. Her house is like a castle, it's amazing. All in all I'm having a decent time. My husband's Uncle is turning 60 tonight (he acts about 20 and looks about 40) I guess 60 really isn't an old age. I was talking to Sam's cousin's wife who has a 16 and 17 year old. Sam's cousin is only 34, WOW!!! Made me think of D having kids that were in middle school, yikes!!! Anyway, more to come later...