2010 in a nutshell

This year I will go through my top events of 2010. These are good, bad and ugly. So, here goes.

1. Graduation. Of course this is No. 1. Did you expect anything else? Holla! Three years of books, lesson plans, observing, papers, tests and student teaching. It took a long friggin time to get here, but I made it. I also made some awesome friends along the way.

2. Babies. This was the year of the babies. 2008 was the year of the weddings. It seems like nearly everyone I knew popped out a kid this year. And I love all of these babies. Adley (Caroline and Dave), Anna (Lacey and Brian), Reese (Daysha and Brendan), Leighton (Abe and Sally), Jude (Mike), Helen (Travis), Colton (Amy and Kyle) and Colt (Dan and Heather). 4 boys, 4 girls. And I love my babies and snuggling with them makes me happy. Just saying.

3. Praxis passed. Third times a charm. Seriously. But, it's done. Now I get a real license. Yes!

4. The break-in. The famous, kick-in-the-side-door, all while I'm student teaching. Yeah, they stole my baby- not Journey but my laptop and my gym bag, a pillow case and a bank from my dresser. Assholes. I did get a new laptop, gym bag and my aunt hooked me up with a new bank. 5 years of pictures are gone from that laptop. Freaking jerks. They also probably saw my sign next to my desk, where my laptop was located- Run Like You Stole Something. Depending on my mood, I might find this humorous.

5. Long term PE. Yeah. I got to teach PE for about 7 weeks, while the teacher was out with an injury. It gave me a chance to try to make things work my way. I learned some things did, some did not. That's the glory of subbing. Try and if it doesn't work, try something else somewhere else. This also let me meet some very cool people, whom I have become good friends with.

6. The A/C and water heater. Apparently 2010 wasn't a good year from my house. The A/C went out this summer when we were breaking records of heat and my parents were out of town. Then this winter, the water heater decided to leak. I don't know much about water heaters but I know they aren't supposed to leak. So, I got a new breaker for my AC and a new water heater. I got to have another conversation about a roommate.

7. Yard sale of 2010. Heh. I had never done a yard sale by myself before. My mom had always had them but this time it was my turn. Teresa and I put our crap together and attempted to sell it in my front lawn. It worked for the most part. We took everything else to Goodwill after the sale. We each had 1 car load and that was it. I was pretty impressed. We had 5 lamps, 2 sold. Mine. Then I found the same halagen lamp at a thrift store. The stupid thing is everywhere. But at least it isn't at my house. :)

8. I gained new friends and lost a few too. One of my best guy friends decided we shouldn't be as good a friends as we once were. Whatever. But I found a couple of friends at my school where I did my long term subbing. So, I think it's a good trade off.


I'm sure there are other things, which effected my life, such as Missouri deciding they want out of the Big 12, so Nebraska and Colorado leave. Mizzu is still here. Jerk faces. My thought- Become the Big 10, kick Missouri out and become the Big 9. That's what I vote for. But then, no one asks me. I got a new Christmas tree. I went from a 3 foot tree to a 7.5 foot tree. I realized I didn't have enough stuff to put on this monsterous tree. And a tree topper. This would be hard with 8 foot ceilings. After the help of some friends, I got the damn tree up on the 3rd try (I'm telling you, 3rd time is a charm!) and it stuck. My boss informed me I am one of the best people people we have at our branch, I deal with change but it's not a favorite thing and I knitted a killer blanket for Adley this year.

I didn't run as much as I wanted this year, but I did swim and bike and do different cardio machines this year compared to the last year. I'm determined to run more, especially if I'm going to run another marathon this year. Go me!


There ya go, 2010 in a nutshell.

I'm out.