Happy Birthday Matt

Happy birthday to my handsome, sweet, and smart husband...how did I get so lucky? Although he's less than thrilled about it as usual, I hope that he'll have a nice day and fun celebrating. He's got a work dinner thing and neither of us can get away for lunch, so we'll really celebrate on Friday night when I take him to dinner. And, now since he just loves me posting pics of him on the blog, here's one of my favorites from the wedding....Love you honey:)

Happy Father's Day!

....To all the fathers out there:) We're going to dinner with my dad soon and we're sending lots of love out to CA to my father-in-law. Happy Fathers Day to two wonderful dads!

It's that time again...

Wait, didn't the last semester just end last week? Oh well. Tomorrow starts the official 'summer semester' ...taking a class and teaching a class, so the 6 week semester will be fast and furious. Wish me luck...

This weekend started off well...After winning 'Camper of the week' at Boot camp (oh yes, get excited), I had a wonderful breakfast with Meg, then finished off my syllabus and plan for the class I'm teaching. Then, we celebrated Sarah's last day as a classroom teacher at a really fun get together in Midtown. Saturday, we went to pick up Matt's new bike. I drove home while he biked home...I was so nervous (I do not trust Atlanta drivers one bit) but he made it home and loves his bike! I am impressed with his bravery and am considering getting one just to tool around our neighborhood or trails with....I think riding a bike to school would interfere with my wardrobe (I like skirts too much) and ability to lug large amounts of books back and forth.

Today, I worked for a bit, then saw the SATC movie for the 2nd time with my mom, sis, and Sonia....It was great the 2nd time too! Now, I need to go to bed early to get ready for boot camp and my first day of teaching.

'Night!

Sarah is the teacher of the year!

This morning I went to the Teacher of the Year celebration for my dear friend Sarah. She and I in our first year of teaching and we taught K next door to each other basically. Sarah has remained at that school and has been through a lot there. She is an amazing teacher and a wonderful friend. I am so proud of her! It was a nice celebration for her, although a little last minute. I always enjoy going back to that school for a visit since there were so many nice people there that I worked with. Sadly, Sarah is leaving the classroom this year to pursue a job with Primrose Schools (I believe they are daycares and have Pre-K and maybe K too, but correct me if I'm wrong Sarah). I think she'll be great at this new adventure, which will be a great way for her to use her knowledge of curriculum, leadership skills, and vibrant personality in traveling a lot...but I am sad because it is a loss for the students.

Congrats Sarah!!!!

Boot camp is going to kick my booty

I had been thinking about doing a boot camp (there are a bunch in Atlanta and several in the park and high school near us) for awhile, but sort of decided at the last minute last night to sign up for one that started this morning. From 7-8am 4 days a week I'll be at the park nearby (walked there today, but the walk back was rough!) getting my butt kicked. The funniest part today was that when I was walking up to the track where we met today at the high school, there was a group of ROTC students all dressed up getting ready to go on a trip and for a minute I thought they were the trainers!

I got home at 8:10am and laid on the floor for about 15 minutes watching the Today Show (didn't want to get the couch sweaty) before I could move again.

Apparently, the consent form I signed gave permission to use photos of my likeness on their website (this will remind me to read the entire form from now on...!) so if you are interested, apparently there will be photos on their blog today of the 'newbie' group- i.e. people who have never done this before. The veterans group is much larger than the newbie group, which I thought seemed promising. For the first 2 days, they keep the newbies separate and I thought what we were doing was pretty hard, so I'm worried about what will come next! They recorded our numbers of sit ups, squats, and push ups to compare to our last day....I figure I can only do better than the pitiful number of push ups I did today!

http://www.fitwitbootcamp.blogspot.com/

This week

Wow, what interesting titles I come up with for this blog:)

Anyways, Matt has been out of town for work all week (should be home any minute!) and you would of thought that I was terrified of being alone with all the plans I made. Tuesday night, I had a great evening with Sonia in Decatur, Tuesday night was a fun dinner with "The Allison/Alyson/Alisons" and "The Lara/Lauras" in the Highlands. Then, last night was a doozy! Sushi with Allie and Sarah, then I joined a group of girls at Rosa Mexicana at Atlantic Station before going to see the "Sex and the City Movie" at 12:01am. That's right: You heard me right...a movie a midnight on a Thursday. They had 2 theaters playing at this time and believe me when I tell you our theater (we had a group of eight) was packed full. It was amazing and the movie was just awesome...even better than I expected or could of imagined. Yes, it was a little long (you especially feel that when it's 3am and the movie's wrapping up!) but SO worth it. Getting out of the parking lot at Atlantic Station was terrible and so I wasn't in bed until almost 4am....which means I am DRAGGING today...:( Oh well, it's my fault.

Have all my final stuff for my class due Monday, but I'm almost done, so hopefully this weekend will be pretty relaxing. Hope yours is great!

Cheesy music

I see myself as having pretty good taste in music. However, for as long as I've chosen music on my own to listen to, I have made somewhat random choices. For instance, I was discovering and listening to REM at the same time still listening to Debbie Gibson and NKOTB. While I don't generally like most of the 'popular' music on the radio, I tend to always 'allow' myself at least one guilty pleasure song at a time to love and listen to obsessively.

I think this really accelerated when I was living in Ireland and loved the fact that radio stations there played such a random mix of music- U2 one minute, the Outkast, then some cheesy all-girl British group. I really got into some of these British pop singers (I watched the original show that inspired American Idol), and so now I tend to gravitate towards British pop artists that are played here. I am totally obsessed with Leona Lewis's song "Bleeding Love" (you must listen to it, if you have not heard it before) and bought it on itunes recently. I only buy the one song, which is the great thing about itunes. I am also loving Natasha Bedingfield's new song, "Pocket Full of Sunshine" (adding of course to the 2 songs that I already own). These are the songs I make playlists with to help pump me up when I am writing a paper (and this tends to be when I make those impulsive purchases on itunes:)

This is all to Matt's chagrin, since we now keep all of our music together on my new Mac....This is why he manually adds songs to his ipod - so he doesn't have "Sexy Back" on his ipod and ruin his music cred:) However, I get great pleasure that one of my guilty pleasure artists Kate Nash is now on Matt's ipod and he likes her! Matt introduces me to a lot of new music (most of which I like), even though I feel like I had good taste before I met him and I refuse to like something just because he does:)

I should add, just to up my music cred, that there are lots of new good albums out by less radio-popular artists...Old 97s, REM, Kathleen Edwards, Decemberists, Radiohead...if you're looking for new music to get into.