Thankful

Exciting News:

I have officially been hired as a 5th Grade Teacher for the 2011-2012 school year!!!

I am so excited!!!!

I had pretty much given up on finding a job for this year, and I was so surprised when they offered me the job. It will be at the school I do a lot of subbing for, so I know most of the teachers and I feel comfortable working there.

Not to mention, fifth grade is my first choice of all the grade levels to teach. Yay!!!

Now I have to start planning and setting up my classroom…. I get a little overwhelmed just thinking about everything I have to do!

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Also, for the first two years of teaching, I have to do BTSA, which is a beginning teacher program that I hear is extremely time-consuming and tons of work. Hopefully I survive!

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I promised to show you the finished armoire that I painted for my friend Jess’s baby room:

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I also just wanted to thank everyone who reads my crazy blog! I noticed a couple days ago that I have had 1,000 page views since I started in June. I know that doesn’t really mean much, but it feels kinda cool to know that a few people other than my mom are reading this (I’m just assuming my mom hasn’t clicked on my blog pages 1,000 times all on her own…. right mom?).

I’m thinking about doing a giveaway sometime in the near future in honor of all the cool things happening in my life right now…. So stay tuned!

No Time to Waste

Time has all of a sudden decided to speed up on me. I recently realized I have 68 days until the Survivor Mud Run, and I’ve been skipping some of my workouts lately….

Time to get my booty in gear!

When I trained for the Tough Mudder last year I was doing 3-4 runs a week, along with 1-2 stadium stairs sprint workouts per week. I also did strength training about 3 days a week.

Um, yeah… I haven’t been doing anywhere near that. I want to do well in this race, even if it is just for fun. Need to find that motivation and get going!

So what did I do today instead of getting a workout in?

Oh, you know… just took a gazillion pictures of Dobby.

He’s so funny: that green turtle toy is his favorite, and whenever he lays down to chew on it, he falls asleep. And it’s still in his mouth! Then he’ll wake himself up and be like, Oh yeah, I was chewing on this! (yes, I like to pretend my dog can talk… don’t you?)

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Then this afternoon I headed over to my friend Jess’s house to start painting her baby room armoire. She let me pick out colors and pretty much go to town painting it! So far I just have the branches painted, but tomorrow I’m adding pink and purple flowers and then purple around the squares. I’ve never done something this big free-hand…   Hopefully it comes out cute!

I will post pics of it when it’s finished!

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ALSO: I will hopefully have some exciting news on Monday or Tuesday!

This upcoming week is going to be a crazy one!

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Question: How do you stay motivated for training for a race, especially when your life is super busy?