For Roomie K

Sorry guys, this blog is going to be reader specific so if you aren't Roomie K you can stop reading now. I won't hold it against you....much.

Here is your quiz for the day:

1. My favorite character from Arrested Development is.....

2. One of us wore red Chucks today to spite someone else. Name that person.

3. One of us fell in the driveway and bled profusely for a while. Name that person.

4. If I went to Sonic to order a soda, what size would I order.

Bonus:

This is a hangman type game and you only get one chance. Use it wisely.

_ _ _ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ _ !


Heart you.

Agility

Man, the vball girls looked good today.

Upped the training schedule since we really only have three weeks until real practice starts to agility, arms, legs, agility, and Fridays off. Each day lasts for two hours and is split up with some serious core workouts. Started the agility stuff today, and they rocked it. Partly, I think, because they could see how the drills immediately applied to volleyball - that's also why I chose to go two days a week with agility... We'll see how that pays off. Two different kinds of agility drills: straight agility and mental agility. The girls were really shaky with the mental agility drills. I think we need to do more of that. I'm all about muscle memory when it comes to sports, but I think I'm doing them a disservice if I don't teach them how to think while they play. Some, the champs, do this naturally; others need a lot of work. We measure hops Wednesday against their old stuff from a few weeks ago...also interested to see how that turns out.

Had the first parents' meeting tonight. They are some take charge, idea generating, super planning women. Love them. And my Booster Club mom is a saint! I'm very blessed.

Hurry up August!!

Catchin' Up

The thing about writing every day is you have to do it everyday…and I haven’t lately.

I’ve had my reasons: wrapping up the school year, visits to deliverance country, assorted weddings and festivities, the worst PD ever, no electricity for ten hours today… you know the usual…

I have been working on my 25 list; I just haven’t been posting about it. That’ll change now that I’ve got some time to relax and breathe and since deep summer is when laziness finds respectability I’m ready to get my lazy on.

In the days since my last post, I’ve managed to

That's Pujols in the middle
of all of those
happy people.

1. Not repeat a single outfit!
2. Attend two STL baseball games (Pujols homered in back to back games for the wins. Over the cubs. In extra innings. So many things to love about that trip: namely free baseball.)
3. Finish two novels: Key of Valor (nice summer fluff) and Summer and the City (Sex and the City without Charlotte which made me sad…I love her).
4. Create a binder an inch thick full of ideas for next year; however, I’m going to let them marinate for a week before starting up the school grind again. The big idea is the flipped classroom. Seriously, something so simple is soooo innovative.
5. Hold vball tryouts last week and we are stacked. I hope we stay healthy and focused in the next few months. Long time between now and August.
6. Figure out grad school...it was a pretty easy decision after creating a fairly simple pro/con T-chart.
7. Totally ‘helped’ grill cupcakes. It was fun.

**BTW...Go Dirk!!***

Also here are the new things I have going on in my classroom...

Velcro'd to the wall...

I think I'm going to plaster this wall with neat books.

Maybe I won't fall off of this if it's red...

You have no idea how much fun it is to pull these off of the wall!

pretty

All of this will be red...got a theme goin' on here...

This will eventually be the same red too

Best Classroom Ever

You know that Season 3 episode of Buffy where she gets the umbrella at her senior prom for being the class protector? I think someone should give me a can of spray paint for be the best class decorator ever. I mean my class just screams (in a gentle, comforting, caring way), "Welcome, this is a safe place! Feel free to learn and discuss and grow and share. Now hugsies!" (Not really, cause that's kinda frowned upon but you get my drift.)

Anyways, I definitely buy into the idea that a student's surroundings affect his or her performance so my class is well on it's way to rocking! (Still not as awesome as the Cheese Room though:()

Here are some pretty stellar photos:

**Well, there will be some photos up soon. The website is doing maintenance or something**

***I'm also counting this towards my goal of a 4 or 5 on my TVAAS! Go me!***

Epic fail

I know I haven't posted everyday but the trip to STL def took precedent. Pujols rocked homers in back to back games for the win! The whole trip was fun.

This video while slow is actually pretty fun and definitely sums up my week last week... you should check it out.

A new box

I'm filling out a survey for the Grizz in the hopes that there will be a place where I can brag on Battier. (He's so pretty!) Anyways, the first question asked my age: 18- 24 or 25-34.

I almost lied.

It hurt me not to.

Here's the thing...

about clutter: it falls into two categories.

1. things you don't want to give up because they remind you of the past

and

2. things you don't want to give up because you might possibly need them in the future.

Everything I own is cluttered with useless crap.  Knick knacks (which I'm MAKING more of....gah.). Photos of people and places I don't remember. Ticket stubs from Paranormal Activity. Really? CDs I'll never listen to again (Audio Adrenaline? Really?). T-shirts from high school. Shoes from college.

I seriously think I need to de-clutter my life starting with my possessions. All of this mess is keeping me from living fully in the moment. I will never need that packet of info from Pigg's HOE class. Ever. Why do I still have it?

I'd like to say I'm trying to be zen in 2010....but I'm a year late. I can say that I will begin to declutter my life.

Starting with my room. I can now see the floor! Yay.

(Also, I really REALLY like the word really. And this clip.) (Also, I think it's just wrong to still do really with Seth and Amy without Amy.)