After school the other day I checked my voicemail, and amongst my voicemail messages was THE cutest message I have ever received. It was from my two year old nephew and it went like this:
"Hi Sarah!"
(pause)
"Sarah?"
pause
"Sarah, where are you?!"
Where are you SARAH?
Sarah where are you?
SAAAAAAAARRRRRRRAAAAAAAHHHH!
awwwww, man!
Love you!
I think I played it over 3 or 4 times. I even made my husband listen to it. I EVEN told my students about it the next day at school.. which is why I am still thinking about the message today even though this message was left a week ago... My students keep asking me to tell the story again. I guess they thought it was that cute. Well, it's either that or they enjoy hearing me call myself by my first name. I'm not sure which..
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
5 things that make me unique are...
My writing prompt for my students today was "5 things that me me unique are..."
So, I thought I'd complete this for myself.
1. I am a complete and total homebody. My idea of an ideal weekend is to spend it in the house relaxing with my husband and my two dogs.
2. I am the complete opposite of a neat freak. If you were to stop by my house randomly, you would probably be shocked to see that my house regularly looks as though a tornado has just hit it.
3. I love cars. In the 3 years that my husband and I have been married we have owned 6 cars. We just can't get enough of them (and actually just bought a new car this weekend!)
4. Every time I leave the house, I convince myself that I have left the stove, hairdryer, curling iron, etc... on. or that I have left the garage door open. In order to avoid this panic, as I leave the house I say out loud, "I turned the oven off. I closed the garage door", etc.
5. I've been telling myself that I was going to start exercising and get myself in perfect shape since 8th grade. I have had a few short spurts of doing so, but nothing that lasts... but this year will be the year.... (or so I think!)
(and I don't quite think I'm finished at 5, so here's a few more)
6. I am one of those people who can change my hair to just about any color and it will look good. I never get nervous at the hairdresser because I know my hair will turn out fine.. no matter what color it ends up.
7. I am 100% addicted to chapstick. I start to panic if I get to work and realize I've left it at home.
8. I am wanted in the state of Arkansas for a speeding ticket that is 1.5 years old that I constantly forget to pay (I really have to do that!!)
9. I get teary-eyed when anything military-wife related comes on tv. I even teared up at Sea World's salute to the hero's before Shamu's big show. (thank God I had on sunglasses- how embarassing) -- Last night I watched Deal or No Deal and cried my eyes out because the player was an Army wife whose husband was deploying in a month.
10. I am sooooooooooo happy and at peace now that my husband is back from deployment. All of the memories of his deployment had seemingly disappeared until he began talking about a possible November deployment... at which point my stomach sank to my feet and I realize those memories are not gone.. just buried very deep.
11. I purposely do and say weird things to make my students laugh at/with me. I figure they're going to talk about me anyway, I might as well give them something interesting to talk about!
:O)
......
So, I thought I'd complete this for myself.
1. I am a complete and total homebody. My idea of an ideal weekend is to spend it in the house relaxing with my husband and my two dogs.
2. I am the complete opposite of a neat freak. If you were to stop by my house randomly, you would probably be shocked to see that my house regularly looks as though a tornado has just hit it.
3. I love cars. In the 3 years that my husband and I have been married we have owned 6 cars. We just can't get enough of them (and actually just bought a new car this weekend!)
4. Every time I leave the house, I convince myself that I have left the stove, hairdryer, curling iron, etc... on. or that I have left the garage door open. In order to avoid this panic, as I leave the house I say out loud, "I turned the oven off. I closed the garage door", etc.
5. I've been telling myself that I was going to start exercising and get myself in perfect shape since 8th grade. I have had a few short spurts of doing so, but nothing that lasts... but this year will be the year.... (or so I think!)
(and I don't quite think I'm finished at 5, so here's a few more)
6. I am one of those people who can change my hair to just about any color and it will look good. I never get nervous at the hairdresser because I know my hair will turn out fine.. no matter what color it ends up.
7. I am 100% addicted to chapstick. I start to panic if I get to work and realize I've left it at home.
8. I am wanted in the state of Arkansas for a speeding ticket that is 1.5 years old that I constantly forget to pay (I really have to do that!!)
9. I get teary-eyed when anything military-wife related comes on tv. I even teared up at Sea World's salute to the hero's before Shamu's big show. (thank God I had on sunglasses- how embarassing) -- Last night I watched Deal or No Deal and cried my eyes out because the player was an Army wife whose husband was deploying in a month.
10. I am sooooooooooo happy and at peace now that my husband is back from deployment. All of the memories of his deployment had seemingly disappeared until he began talking about a possible November deployment... at which point my stomach sank to my feet and I realize those memories are not gone.. just buried very deep.
11. I purposely do and say weird things to make my students laugh at/with me. I figure they're going to talk about me anyway, I might as well give them something interesting to talk about!
:O)
......
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Life.
So, it seems that our future is still very much up in the air. It's a strange thing, because I can't believe how little I think about this. In a strange turn of events, I actually believe that Hubby spends more time fretting about all the possibilities of our future and how we would deal with these possibilities... than I do. If you really knew my husband, you would see that this is VERY strange. But, I'm not too surprised. Since he's been back from Iraq there have been other changes too, not the least of which is the fact that he goes to bed with me every night.. at 8:30 pm or 9:30 pm or whenever we are tired and ready. That may not sound like much, but it makes a world of difference to me.
He's happier though. Now that he's not flying, he's noticably happier. A weight has been lifted for him, and though he now has to worry about our future.. I'm just not all that concerned about it. In my heart of hearts I fully realize that having to move from our San Diego home at this point in the game would be a bad situation for us.. but I also know that we're young and FLEXIBLE, and though I'd cry and be sad about it.. we'd manage... and though we'd be poor and possibly have to borrow money, we'd survive. So. that's that.
Last night was a fun night. For Christmas I received a $150 gift card for Costco from my principal, and over the summer we had received $175 reward cash back from our "rewards" membership we have there. So, I told Hubby we should go to Costco and buy something fun! Sure, that $325 could have sustained us in deoderant and soap for the next three years, but with free money like that, I think it should be spent on stuff you can enjoy. It was fun searching the aisles of Costco for that pefect "present" for ourselves. First, we looked at jewelry, but I found nothing that peaked my interest. Next, we moved onto patio furniture (too expensive), a grill (too flashy), a dresser (Hubby didn't want to spend money on a dresser), a new digital camera (ours is good and doesn't really need to be replaced), an ipod (neither one of us has ever really gotten into the whole ipod phenomenon), surround sound for our living room (we REALLY thought this one over and then decided it would be better for when we have a family room type situation and that our TV is currently LOUD ENOUGH!), and finally We decided on 1) Rock Star for xbox 360 (comes with a drum, guitar, and microphone), an area rug for our living room (since Ramsey ruined our other one during Hubby's deployment), and a new comforter for our bed.. oh yeah.. and a movie and two bottles of champagne. It was a really fun shopping event, and I feel that we made good decisions. I am REALLY excited about the rug and bedspread, and Hubby had been salivating at the mouth over the idea of getting Rock Band for the past month or so. We ended up popping open a bottle of champagne and spending our evening rocking out to bands such as Blue Oyster Cult, The Chili Peppers, and Bon Jovi! We had a blast!
He's happier though. Now that he's not flying, he's noticably happier. A weight has been lifted for him, and though he now has to worry about our future.. I'm just not all that concerned about it. In my heart of hearts I fully realize that having to move from our San Diego home at this point in the game would be a bad situation for us.. but I also know that we're young and FLEXIBLE, and though I'd cry and be sad about it.. we'd manage... and though we'd be poor and possibly have to borrow money, we'd survive. So. that's that.
Last night was a fun night. For Christmas I received a $150 gift card for Costco from my principal, and over the summer we had received $175 reward cash back from our "rewards" membership we have there. So, I told Hubby we should go to Costco and buy something fun! Sure, that $325 could have sustained us in deoderant and soap for the next three years, but with free money like that, I think it should be spent on stuff you can enjoy. It was fun searching the aisles of Costco for that pefect "present" for ourselves. First, we looked at jewelry, but I found nothing that peaked my interest. Next, we moved onto patio furniture (too expensive), a grill (too flashy), a dresser (Hubby didn't want to spend money on a dresser), a new digital camera (ours is good and doesn't really need to be replaced), an ipod (neither one of us has ever really gotten into the whole ipod phenomenon), surround sound for our living room (we REALLY thought this one over and then decided it would be better for when we have a family room type situation and that our TV is currently LOUD ENOUGH!), and finally We decided on 1) Rock Star for xbox 360 (comes with a drum, guitar, and microphone), an area rug for our living room (since Ramsey ruined our other one during Hubby's deployment), and a new comforter for our bed.. oh yeah.. and a movie and two bottles of champagne. It was a really fun shopping event, and I feel that we made good decisions. I am REALLY excited about the rug and bedspread, and Hubby had been salivating at the mouth over the idea of getting Rock Band for the past month or so. We ended up popping open a bottle of champagne and spending our evening rocking out to bands such as Blue Oyster Cult, The Chili Peppers, and Bon Jovi! We had a blast!
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