February 25, 2008

• …Life as we know it
  and I feel fine!

  Work: is going wonderful!

  • We have had some really short hours this week, because we don’t have many surveys in and we don’t have any late night projects going. Normally this would be a bad thing, but I am using those extra hours to catch up on house work and homework.
    
  • I am also having a good time with work, because we have stopped hiring and training for a while. I love training, but it is really nice to have a break, and it gives me an opportunity to work on some other projects.
    
  • I have fully come to appreciate my manager Christine. She reminds me of Bridgette, the playmate from The Girls Next Door (at right). She is positive and bubbly and I have thoroghly enjoyed working with her lately. She reminds me a lot of our old manager Dusty and she is really focused on employee recognition. I love it because she is really bringing back the positive atmoshpere that was always one of my favorite things about Precision. Additionally, she does try to get me fired like Amy!
    
  • I also got my annual review. It went really well. It wasn’t all positive, but I was already aware that I need improvement in those areas. I also got a $0.55 raise and I was über-excited about that, because I can really use the money!

  School:  

  • Field Experience: I started my intership. I am in a 6th grade language arts class at Landmark Middle School. It’s a bit of a drive, because it is on 57th and Orangewood, but I like the school enviroment. It’s very different from Ironwood where I did my first observation. Landmark is a middle school, so the 6th grades rotate classes just like we did at Desert Foothills. Additionally, it is a school with uniforms and I have never been to one of those so I am enjoying the experience. The teacher I am working with so far is super nice. I am really excited because her first period is an ELL (English Language Learners) class, so part of the class was in English and part of it was in Spanish. I loved it. I am really glad I took Spanish in high school. I followed pretty well. One part that I really liked is that when they were going over the English vocabulary words they were able to relate it to similar words in Spanish and excerise some associative learning skills. I asked one of our bilinugal interviewers at work how to say I only speak simple words in spanish so I would be able to participate as well. I am pumped, but I am also just going to try to get through my 65 required hours as soon as possible, so I can focus on everything else I have going on this semester. When I went back on Friday it was really cool because I was wearing a shirt that I was showing in and all the kids were asking me about my pregnancy.
    
  • Classroom Assessment: This class drives me a little insane because the teacher is really unstructured. He reminds me a bit of Mr. Southall at Greenway. I have come to appreciate his class, because it is really easy and does require a lot of effort or reading. I was speaking with another girl and she gave me the good advice to not let his teaching style bug me but to just get through what I need to for the class.
    
  • Math for Elementary Teachers: This is my favorite class. I already loved math, but Sue, my professor, makes it super awesome! She has us think about tings in a way I haven’t before, so it is great brain excerise. I can wait to take her classroom Methods class when I get to block 3. She had us play with the little plastic counter chips and playdough. It was a trip and made my day! Plus I have a wonder group that I am working on my projects with and that makes all the difference. I was all pumped up because I thought we had our test on Tuesday, but it isn’t until thursday. You know it is a good class when you’re looking forward to a test. Or it it possible that I am just a freak. You decide.
    
  • Educational Technology: I really count myself fortunate for this class. Casey partnered with me on 2 projects and she is a truly dedicated partner. She puts me to shame; she has worked so hard. We are putting together a movie about the 5 C’s of Arizona state economy and I will be honest she has logged way more hours working on it than I have and I am grateful and proud of her.
    
  • Classroom Management: Ack! This is the class I am struggling in. It seems I am so far behind! I need to finish writing a lesson plan. There is so much more work that goes into those than I ever though possible.

  Family: Mom and me went for a walk today. Rachael is driving me loopy with her capriociousness. Ben and Dan don’t really talk to me. Aunt Kathy sent an adoreabe outfit for the baby and a super cool big gay moo moo that I have been wearing around the house because it is tres comfortable, but when I wore it out to the laundry room Adam our next door neighbor made fun of me.

  Social Life: Lindsey and I have been spending quality time together planning and making all the preporations for the baby shower. It’s coming up on Saturday and I am stoked but so afraid I am going to mess something up. We had to change he location and I know it is going to throw some people off.

  BABY AND ME AT 33 WEEKS!

  How he is growing:

  At 33 weeks, he is approximately 19-19.5 inches inches in length head to toe, which is roughly the size of Medicine ball or big kick ball from elementary school. He weighed approximately 5 lbs, which is like carrying around a pineapple.

  This week he’s rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull aren’t fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap, thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. The skull bones don’t entirely fuse until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue expands during infancy and childhood.

  The preggo effects on me:

  I am all belly. He sticks out in front of me. I can no longer fit into any of my jeans and all my work pants are now riding under the belly, which is throughly annoying because they have a tendency to want to slip off that way and I can’t exactly wear a belt. I am walking different, I have “the waddle” mostly when going up stairs, but otherwise it is not too terribly noticable. I have taking to sleeping with as many pillows as possible, because being this huge is terribly uncomfortable. My new favorite 3 trimester symtom has started: Back pain! This is because my little darling is sitting on my sianic nerve and it’s uncomfortable. My second favorite symtom causes me great amusement, I am now up and in the restroom at bare minimum once and hour (usually more) I am going to start counting how many times I go a day, just because I find it amusing. TMI WARNING!!! Strange pregnancy fact I discovered, one’s urine during pregnancy looks different. It is cloudy with preggo hormones. I find this intriguing and wanted to share.

  Good websites for baby info if you are interested:
  Babycenter.com
  Parents.com
  Realsavvymoms.com

  COMICS
  (Because I said so)

  Luann:
  Monday, 18-Feb
  
  Tuesday, 19-Feb
  
  Wednesday, 20-Feb
  
  Thursday, 21-Feb
  
  Friday, 22-Feb
  
  Saturday, 23-Feb
  
  Sunday, 24-Feb
  
  
  

  Rose is Rose:
  Monday, 18-Feb
  
  Tuesday, 19-Feb
  
  Wednesday, 20-Feb
  
  Thursday, 21-Feb
  
  Friday, 22-Feb
  
  Saturday, 23-Feb
  
  Sunday, 24-Feb
  
  Monday, 25-Feb
  

  Zits:
  Wednesday, 20-Feb
   
  Thursday, 21-Feb
  
  Friday, 22-Feb
  
  Saturday, 23-Feb
  
  Sunday, 24-Feb
  
  Monday, 25-Feb
  

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