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Winter Break
Jan. 3rd, 2018 10:05 pmThe last week of school before winter break was a whirlwind of putting fires out and planning for the coming year. Students were crazier by the day, but in all honesty it wasn't nearly as bad as previous years. However, unfortunately, I appear to have decided that I don't want my current job after this year. Once my brain makes a decision about a job I have found it to be impossible to rid of. Even today, the second I got to work, I found myself pulling up the employment pages in the nearby districts. I think the problem I'm experiencing is endemic within Saint Paul, not just at Parkway. But for comparison, I got no emails from Nokomis over winter break, and by contrast at Parkway I got about 20.
It's funny, you watch all those inspiring documentaries about ghetto schools rallying, or you read books like Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, and you think about how you wish you could be so amazing. You don't REALLY think about how those people literally dedicate their lives to that work. They eschew everything else for their job. I love making a difference and teaching is fun, but it is NOT my life. I do not live to work. All break I thought again, incredibly selfishly, about how wonderful it was not to work. GOD would that be the best life. Anyway.
My sister Bethany and I went to our first kickboxing class on that Friday, and it was really fun. We were both DYING and out of shape. There were only like 3 other people there, as it was right before Christmas. We got everything signed up and agreed to come at least once a week but twice a week is the goal.
Saturday night Steve and I exchanged gifts. I got him a Legend of Zelda engraved controller, a mashup hoodie of Dunkin Donuts and Donkey Kong, and a Gwendolyn figure from Odin Sphere that he's been dying to get for like 3 years. He got me a Twitch hoodie and an ITG shirt, both of which I wore constantly over break, a swift and winder, and the comics LIGHTS made to accompany her last album. It was a super awesome couples Christmas.
JWaid helped me make the vegan dessert cookies and those were awesome. Haley and I got drunk the night Noah left after spending the weekend with Steve and myself, and Noah really guilted me about being so busy that I didn't spend time with him. Haley spent the entire evening barraging JWaid with personal questions, and I was blown away that he answered them!!!! He's always been a super private person, but Haley is relentless. He finally lost his virginity and really likes this girl so I think that's spurred him into being more open. I learned way too much about his body and nether regions (not that I mind, it's just funny) and for the first time in the 9 years I've known him, he told us that he thinks that I'm hot. I legitimately have always thought he DIDN'T think I was attractive based upon the girls he's crushed on, both famous and not, and assumed he saw me like Harry saw Hermione - more of a big sister. That was surprising. It was really good to hang out with him, but I stayed up WAY too late before a big family event.
Sunday was Christmas Eve, and Steve and I drove out to my mom's house in the morning. It was a good time, pretty relaxed. We ate lunch potluck style, and I made this AMAZING vegan cheesy pasta. YUM. Gift giving was kind of a disaster with a lot of inexplicable duplicates, and Steve was soooo funny when Bethany was anxious about a dupe Steve probably got - he opened a tiny corner of each gift and said loudly "OHP! NO DOUBLES HERE!!!" and Bethany got all relieved and I could not stop laughing until she finally realized he was tricking her by being cute.
Steve and I needed to leave early in order to get up north at a reasonable time, as well as feed Nero and give him his shot. My parents were annoyed about it, but like, it's not our problem that Ann and Nicole didn't want to come over when our other family was there. The drive up north is like 4 hours and we needed to pack and stuff too. The drive up north was surprisingly easy, but it was damn cold out. All weekend it was -36* windchill.
The first night Steve and I played some Hearthstone dungeons for awhile, and continued some more the next day. I also worked on my knitting all weekend. We listened to a ton of Game of Thrones Book 4 on the way there and back. At Steve's sister's house we played white elephant (somehow Steve and I managed to get our gifts back AND Steve got a $10 gift card instead of random crap. It was funny). The rest of the time we spent with his niece and nephews, who are like 7 and 8.
During the week last week, we played A LOT of Hearthstone, I knit a bunch, I organized my yarn in new cubbies (and updated my ravelry with my needles and stash), and dyed my hair. We also got the Playstation VR and EVERYONE played a shit-ton of VR games. It's REALLY fun.
( Pics! )
Nick loved the scarf, by the way. He was VERY cute about it. I was awkward about it, as per usual. ^_^
It's funny, you watch all those inspiring documentaries about ghetto schools rallying, or you read books like Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire, and you think about how you wish you could be so amazing. You don't REALLY think about how those people literally dedicate their lives to that work. They eschew everything else for their job. I love making a difference and teaching is fun, but it is NOT my life. I do not live to work. All break I thought again, incredibly selfishly, about how wonderful it was not to work. GOD would that be the best life. Anyway.
My sister Bethany and I went to our first kickboxing class on that Friday, and it was really fun. We were both DYING and out of shape. There were only like 3 other people there, as it was right before Christmas. We got everything signed up and agreed to come at least once a week but twice a week is the goal.
Saturday night Steve and I exchanged gifts. I got him a Legend of Zelda engraved controller, a mashup hoodie of Dunkin Donuts and Donkey Kong, and a Gwendolyn figure from Odin Sphere that he's been dying to get for like 3 years. He got me a Twitch hoodie and an ITG shirt, both of which I wore constantly over break, a swift and winder, and the comics LIGHTS made to accompany her last album. It was a super awesome couples Christmas.
JWaid helped me make the vegan dessert cookies and those were awesome. Haley and I got drunk the night Noah left after spending the weekend with Steve and myself, and Noah really guilted me about being so busy that I didn't spend time with him. Haley spent the entire evening barraging JWaid with personal questions, and I was blown away that he answered them!!!! He's always been a super private person, but Haley is relentless. He finally lost his virginity and really likes this girl so I think that's spurred him into being more open. I learned way too much about his body and nether regions (not that I mind, it's just funny) and for the first time in the 9 years I've known him, he told us that he thinks that I'm hot. I legitimately have always thought he DIDN'T think I was attractive based upon the girls he's crushed on, both famous and not, and assumed he saw me like Harry saw Hermione - more of a big sister. That was surprising. It was really good to hang out with him, but I stayed up WAY too late before a big family event.
Sunday was Christmas Eve, and Steve and I drove out to my mom's house in the morning. It was a good time, pretty relaxed. We ate lunch potluck style, and I made this AMAZING vegan cheesy pasta. YUM. Gift giving was kind of a disaster with a lot of inexplicable duplicates, and Steve was soooo funny when Bethany was anxious about a dupe Steve probably got - he opened a tiny corner of each gift and said loudly "OHP! NO DOUBLES HERE!!!" and Bethany got all relieved and I could not stop laughing until she finally realized he was tricking her by being cute.
Steve and I needed to leave early in order to get up north at a reasonable time, as well as feed Nero and give him his shot. My parents were annoyed about it, but like, it's not our problem that Ann and Nicole didn't want to come over when our other family was there. The drive up north is like 4 hours and we needed to pack and stuff too. The drive up north was surprisingly easy, but it was damn cold out. All weekend it was -36* windchill.
The first night Steve and I played some Hearthstone dungeons for awhile, and continued some more the next day. I also worked on my knitting all weekend. We listened to a ton of Game of Thrones Book 4 on the way there and back. At Steve's sister's house we played white elephant (somehow Steve and I managed to get our gifts back AND Steve got a $10 gift card instead of random crap. It was funny). The rest of the time we spent with his niece and nephews, who are like 7 and 8.
During the week last week, we played A LOT of Hearthstone, I knit a bunch, I organized my yarn in new cubbies (and updated my ravelry with my needles and stash), and dyed my hair. We also got the Playstation VR and EVERYONE played a shit-ton of VR games. It's REALLY fun.
( Pics! )
Nick loved the scarf, by the way. He was VERY cute about it. I was awkward about it, as per usual. ^_^
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