Another Weekend Comes and Goes!

Here it is Sunday night. We are watching the Vikings vs. Saints game and trying to get ALL the laundry done before Nathan heads back to work tomorrow and another week of school starts for me. Here are some things I have been thinking about today!

If you noticed, the ALL in the previous sentence. It is meant to be exagerated. I can not believe how many clothes the two of us go through in a week. There are more outfits to wash than double the days in the week. Odd, I think! especially since Nathan washes all his work clothes on Thursday nights before he heads home on Friday.Where does it all come from. You know how some people keep a food diary, I think I am going to have to start tracking my outfit changes.

I am glad that American sports run all year long. There is always something to watch or go to. Football season ends in a few weeks with the Super Bowl (Saints vs. Colts) and then the following weekend begins the NASCAR racing season. In addition, college basketball season is jsut heating up and baseball season will start soon which will carry over into fall football! haha How lucky are we!

I hate the wall color in our house but am too afraid to ask our land lord if I can paint it. I really don't think that he would have a problem as long as there was no extreme color changes. I should really just make Nathan ask!

It seems like the weekends just fly by. No matter how hard we try, we just can not fit everything we need to into a weekend. It makes it harder I know with Nathan being out of town all week. This means that all family and friend visits have to be scrunched into two days. We haven't been balancing this well. For all of you that have noticed or been affected by this, I apologize. We are doing the best we can while also trying to spend time as a couple. Hopefully when this job in Atkins is finished Nathan will get a job assignment at home, but the reality is that we just do not know.

We went to the casino this weekend, I always think I am going to have fun and get excited to go, but then we get there and I remember that I really don't like it. The amount of cigarette smoke in the air takes your breath away immediately, I never win, and there is always really creepy people around that you can not seem to get away from. I need to figure out a way to remember these things so that I just don't go!

Well I need to get some homework done! Hope you all had a wondefull weekend and have a smooth week ahead.
Hopefully I start blogging more, I always have tons of stuff to say jsut never remember to get on here!
KMP

Student Teaching!

UGH. This week has been crazy and I am ready for the weekend. As of January 4th, I started student teaching. My first week would have been spent at the high school that is hosting me, but snow caused the school to close all week. Monday I started a 4 week "block" of class. We are learning about dealing with diversity in classes, teaching agricultural labs, as well as program planning and all the behind the scenes of running an ag program. This is 12 course hours all crammed into 4 weeks. I am so antsy by the end of the day that I have to get up and stand against the wall while listening to my teacher. There are only 9 of us in these classes so we all get to help each other out. After these 4 weeks I will venture back out to Springdale High for the remainder of the semster. That is, if I make it that far!
Also, I applied for graduate school and am ready to head down that road...I enjoy research and am excited to write my thesis. If you get the chance look into downloading SecondLife...Its free. It is an online virtual world that my reasearch will be using to look at the educational effectiveness of online atmospheres. If you decide to try it, look me up "Kristin Loopen" is my in world name!
I am headed out but felt the need to blog!