mmmm. cake.
Us basking in the glow of the kindness of co-workers...
Aw, the obligatory Garden Gnome. I luv it.
Still sifting through the SCRAPS of bows and tissue paper...
-Scraps
Monday, August 25, 2008
I Showered Again Today!
This time it was thrown by Boy Wonder's co-workers...and it, too, was amazing!
mmmm. cake.
Us basking in the glow of the kindness of co-workers...
Aw, the obligatory Garden Gnome. I luv it.
Still sifting through the SCRAPS of bows and tissue paper...
-Scraps
mmmm. cake.
Us basking in the glow of the kindness of co-workers...
Aw, the obligatory Garden Gnome. I luv it.
Still sifting through the SCRAPS of bows and tissue paper...
-Scraps
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Scrappy Days are here again!
I am sooooooo loving the new job and the new kids and even the new rural commute.
I will be posting photos of my commute, Lucedale, and Mobile soon.
In the meantime, just know that, though my commute never involves heavy traffic, on my first day to my new job I was stuck going 30 mph on a highway behind THIS for quite a while:
I was simply too amused to be annoyed. I am in no way making fun of Mississippi, Alabama, or my rural route--I am just fascinated by it all still.
Today I hung some of the precious vintage strawberry fabric Lauren got me ages ago on the bulletin boards in my classroom. I framed it with--yep, you guessed it--red gingham. Mere words cannot come even remotely close to expressing the insane levels of cuteness and cheese that my classroom has now reached. Soon I think I will make classroom curtains out of the remaining strawberry fabric.
If you don't love that, then I am afraid you do not know the meaning of the word cute!
The sisters threw a bridal shower for me this weekend. Yay for sisters and prizes and cucumber sandwiches! Here are some photos of the madness:
Me. duh.
Mr. (and soon-to-be) Mrs. Wonder.
Me receiving the ultimate love chickens in the love nest!
Cutting the cake.
Boy Wonder, Me, and my almost parents-in-law!
Amy, Me, Nat.
The Bridal Party: Lauren (pictured as an Ugly Doll), Emily, Me, Nancy, Wendy, Stephanie, Amy, Natalie, Allison.
Sister Nancy.
Allison and I were tired after the festivities.
AND Boy Wonder's fabulous co-workers are throwing us a shower next week! I am just dumbfounded by the supreme niceness of it all.
OOOOH--and we now have a mini-honeymoon! Johana and Stage went above and beyond and bought us TWO nights at the super fancy Battlehouse Hotel in Mobile for our wedding gift! Which is amazing and exciting because the hotel is deluxe and near everything, but it's also kinda crazy romantic because Boy Wonder took me there on our first date. Okay, that didn't sound right. Let me explain. He took me to dinner at Busaba's (where he sipped wine through a straw) and then we walked over to see the lobby of the newly renovated Battlehouse. A hotel employee told us about the whispering arches and the "ghost" stories, so we ran around the hotel looking for ghosts and whispering through arches at each other. Okay, we walked around--but it was still fun. Thai food and ghost stories; he knew what he was doing with his wooing!
So, basically: I am super happy, showered with gifts, employed, no longer in pain, and almost entirely stress-free. It's a good thing.
-Scrap diddly dee
I will be posting photos of my commute, Lucedale, and Mobile soon.
In the meantime, just know that, though my commute never involves heavy traffic, on my first day to my new job I was stuck going 30 mph on a highway behind THIS for quite a while:
I was simply too amused to be annoyed. I am in no way making fun of Mississippi, Alabama, or my rural route--I am just fascinated by it all still.
Today I hung some of the precious vintage strawberry fabric Lauren got me ages ago on the bulletin boards in my classroom. I framed it with--yep, you guessed it--red gingham. Mere words cannot come even remotely close to expressing the insane levels of cuteness and cheese that my classroom has now reached. Soon I think I will make classroom curtains out of the remaining strawberry fabric.
If you don't love that, then I am afraid you do not know the meaning of the word cute!
The sisters threw a bridal shower for me this weekend. Yay for sisters and prizes and cucumber sandwiches! Here are some photos of the madness:
Me. duh.
Mr. (and soon-to-be) Mrs. Wonder.
Me receiving the ultimate love chickens in the love nest!
Cutting the cake.
Boy Wonder, Me, and my almost parents-in-law!
Amy, Me, Nat.
The Bridal Party: Lauren (pictured as an Ugly Doll), Emily, Me, Nancy, Wendy, Stephanie, Amy, Natalie, Allison.
Sister Nancy.
Allison and I were tired after the festivities.
AND Boy Wonder's fabulous co-workers are throwing us a shower next week! I am just dumbfounded by the supreme niceness of it all.
OOOOH--and we now have a mini-honeymoon! Johana and Stage went above and beyond and bought us TWO nights at the super fancy Battlehouse Hotel in Mobile for our wedding gift! Which is amazing and exciting because the hotel is deluxe and near everything, but it's also kinda crazy romantic because Boy Wonder took me there on our first date. Okay, that didn't sound right. Let me explain. He took me to dinner at Busaba's (where he sipped wine through a straw) and then we walked over to see the lobby of the newly renovated Battlehouse. A hotel employee told us about the whispering arches and the "ghost" stories, so we ran around the hotel looking for ghosts and whispering through arches at each other. Okay, we walked around--but it was still fun. Thai food and ghost stories; he knew what he was doing with his wooing!
So, basically: I am super happy, showered with gifts, employed, no longer in pain, and almost entirely stress-free. It's a good thing.
-Scrap diddly dee
Monday, August 4, 2008
Ole Miss Scrappy?
Happy update below!
Since I last typed I:
Mostly recovered from the Tonsillectomy--although I will always be a bit traumatized.
Quit the bookstore--they wouldn't give me enough recovery time, so I kind of had to quit or just not show up. Plus, you can't work there and teach!
Have made most of the wedding plans, and had several planning "meetings" with the siblings and mom (this means we get together to eat a lot).
HANDMADE the invitations--with help from the Sisters, Trina, and even Michael! (More on this on the craftiwoo site later).
Sent out most of the invitations (my poor mother had to write the addresses out herself--no one would let my handwriting near them. Ouch).
Found out that I had THREE schools that wanted to hire me: two in Mobile and one in Mississippi. I decided to take whichever one would pay me first, thank you.
At long last the job search is over:
And the winning town is: Lucedale, Mississippi!
I actually started TEACHING Special Education high school yoots on 8/6.
They do the inclusion/resource teacher thing there, so it is VERY different from what I did in Los Angeles, but I think it's going to work out for the best! Each class is 96 minutes (!) long, so there are only three classes per teacher a day--and one 96 minute prep period (so very deluxe). My first period is 6 students with mild mental retardation/autism. Second period I go into a 10th grade English class to teach collaboratively and to help the students. Third period I get to eat lunch and prep for 96 minutes--which is really great for someone (me) who got hired the day before the students came! Fourth period I teach 13 students of average cognition but with some learning disabilities and ADD (this is most similar to what I did in LA). These kids keep me on my toes! Never a dull moment. They already started calling me "Ms. D" yesterday; I got a tiny tear since that is what the babies in LA used to call me! Sigh.
It feels great to be in the classroom after almost an entire year of unemployment and bookstore jobs!
Soon I will post photos of the interesting things I see on my very long and very rural commute to this quaintest of quaint (I mean, I sooooo LOVE it. Seriously) towns.
If anyone nearby has any couches, bookshelves, coffee tables, etc. that they don't need/want I may be very open to scavenging once we have a place to put stuff in!
-Ms. Scraps
Since I last typed I:
Mostly recovered from the Tonsillectomy--although I will always be a bit traumatized.
Quit the bookstore--they wouldn't give me enough recovery time, so I kind of had to quit or just not show up. Plus, you can't work there and teach!
Have made most of the wedding plans, and had several planning "meetings" with the siblings and mom (this means we get together to eat a lot).
HANDMADE the invitations--with help from the Sisters, Trina, and even Michael! (More on this on the craftiwoo site later).
Sent out most of the invitations (my poor mother had to write the addresses out herself--no one would let my handwriting near them. Ouch).
Found out that I had THREE schools that wanted to hire me: two in Mobile and one in Mississippi. I decided to take whichever one would pay me first, thank you.
At long last the job search is over:
And the winning town is: Lucedale, Mississippi!
I actually started TEACHING Special Education high school yoots on 8/6.
They do the inclusion/resource teacher thing there, so it is VERY different from what I did in Los Angeles, but I think it's going to work out for the best! Each class is 96 minutes (!) long, so there are only three classes per teacher a day--and one 96 minute prep period (so very deluxe). My first period is 6 students with mild mental retardation/autism. Second period I go into a 10th grade English class to teach collaboratively and to help the students. Third period I get to eat lunch and prep for 96 minutes--which is really great for someone (me) who got hired the day before the students came! Fourth period I teach 13 students of average cognition but with some learning disabilities and ADD (this is most similar to what I did in LA). These kids keep me on my toes! Never a dull moment. They already started calling me "Ms. D" yesterday; I got a tiny tear since that is what the babies in LA used to call me! Sigh.
It feels great to be in the classroom after almost an entire year of unemployment and bookstore jobs!
Soon I will post photos of the interesting things I see on my very long and very rural commute to this quaintest of quaint (I mean, I sooooo LOVE it. Seriously) towns.
If anyone nearby has any couches, bookshelves, coffee tables, etc. that they don't need/want I may be very open to scavenging once we have a place to put stuff in!
-Ms. Scraps
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