New House?

I think we found a house! Its quite small, but the kitchen has just been redone and it has a large yard and a fenced in patio. For our first place together I think it's pretty ok. Blue will like the yard, and I love the fact that is has a patio. I want to plant a vegtable garden out back and we are allowed to landscape as much as we want, in fact, we get $50 a month knocked off the rent for taking care of all of that. There are 2 bedrooms, one of which we would equip as an office and put my bed in the storage room...which will also function as a closet. I'm pretty excited :)

Spring Break

I'm not sure what spring break is supposed to be. As a teacher, you look forward to the week because the kids have usually not had a day off in over a month, they are whiny, refusing to do work, and the number of fights at school drastically increases. Students just want a week of fun. Are teachers supposed to be grading papers? Taking vacations? Cleaning the houses they have neglected because they are working at the school for 10-12 hours a day while only getting paid for 8 (there is no over time in teaching, sadly)? I'll tell you what I'm doing.

Monday: laid on my stomach all day because my sunbrn was flaming red and I was in pain
Tuesday: went over to my friend Jill's, played with her 4 month old daughter, and played with Mark Kay makeup (spent too much money on that)....then went to work at the Old Fort Pub at 4 until about 8
Wednesday: tutored a student who cannot attend school because of medical concerns, then went to work at Old Fort Pub from 3:30 until about 8:30
Thursday: have yet to be determined, but will be working at Old Fort Pub
Friday: have yet to be determined, but will be working at Old Fort Pub and then driving to Beaufort to see the kittens and stay with J
Saturday: we are looking at a house at 10am and then I have to work at OFP at 4
Sunday: still working at OFP

This is not a break. At least I will be paid well for it.

J

I love j. For any of you who might actually read this, we met at a rubgy after party about 2 1/2 years ago. We started hanging out at rugby parties almost 2 years ago....we traded numbers at some point but he managed to save mine wrong and started texting a complete stranger, and I thought he wasn't interested because I never heard from him. My roommate talked me into sending him a text message one night, and within 3 weeks we were together.

He makes me a better person. With him I am calmer, less nervous, less sad, and more confident about the future. I sleep better when he is near, and the sound of his voice is enough to make me worry less. For those of you who really know me, I inherited my tendency to worry from my dad's mom, and my tendency towards depression from my mom (and that is a huge load for anyone to bear). On Easter Sunday I had to work at Old Fort Pub from 10am to 8:30pm. He sent me text messages all day to cheer me up, and then when I came home he had made my bed (i hate making my bed), taken out the trash, and bought me roses. He wasn't there, but he came over after Easter dinner at a friend's house to rub aloe into my sunburnt skin. I wish I could be as good as he is. I don't think I know how to be that unselfish and caring.

J won his rugby game on Sat. afternoon (where I got my sunburn) and that means we are traveling to Columbus, GA for the next round of tournaments. We keep talking about taking a weekend and getting out of town....but this is not what either of us were talking about. It will be good to get away for the Hilton Head/Bluffton/Beaufort area though.

Sunburn and other things

I am very sunburnt. Anyone who is out there: please wear sunscreen. Sunburn hurts.

Today is the only day in which I had nothing planned for the whole of my spring break. I am working the rest of my spring break. Thank you Verizon Heritage....I really appreciate it. This island is going to be a madhouse for the next 6 months or so. Tourism season is here. There are out of state license plates getting into accidents, driving 20 mph because they don't know where they are going, and clogging up the roads. This wouldn't be so bad if I didn't hate to drive that much. Driving sucks. I can't wait to move to Beaufort.

First...

I decided to do this because I set up a blog today for all my cousins and aunts and uncles and my grandparents to post family news.....but then i read the news and went wow. I need to vent (so maybe I should set up a blog)

Here it goes with my first random thought (or rant if you will): the Duggar Family

I am the first to admit I am fascinated by the Duggars, but what makes having 18 children news???? Seriously. Congrats on your first grandchild, but shouldn't you expose your children to the world to make sure they understand how it works. The Duggar kids seem to have grown up in a loving household, yes. They seem to have had (some) social interaction with others....HOWEVER, it is irresponsible not to talk to your kids about what should happen if your dreams don't pan out. These kids are growing up in a world where mom and dad have no debt. VERY admirable, but not always possible. Hello, mom and dad have a tv show. They are not doing that show for free. Used car dealerships? Yeah, they own one or two. All well and good, but with this economic climate people are going to make do with what they have. I believe the Duggars are real estate agents. While I know several people who have bought houses lately, the market is not exactly booming. Their jobs and businesses are not paying for these kids. Their tv shows and book deals are. What is going to happen to their kids when they start having ridiculously large families? There will not be a TV show for each of their kids. I just hope that if mom and dad are going to preach the "quiverful" movement that they also talk to their kids about responsible family planning. If they don't want to use birth control, they should learn about abstinence. Make sure that the daughters in the family understand that it may not be possible to stay at home full time...not many families can afford that.

Now my rant is done.