1 month until Christmas!

My Thanksgiving break was absolutely wonderful and I have so many things to be thankful for this year.  Unfortunately, now that the break is over, I'm having a hard time re-gaining motivation for the next month.


Highs:

• Spending Thanksgiving with my parents, Chris, and our next door neighbors
• Meeting Chris' wonderful family and friends and getting to see his hometown
• Seeing Jackie, Allie, and Sierra and having a great night in PB together!
• Homecooked meals and copious amounts of wine all week
• Oregon beat Oregon State in the Civil War game! Not that I am surprised, but you never know after last week's game
• 1 month until Christmas!

        

Lows:

• My Thanksgiving break was awesome but there was definitely not enough time to relax 
• I spent ALL day Wednesday grading and going through 60 thirty-question scantron answers because our scantron machine is messed up...that's 1800 questions
• 4 days is simply not a long enough break and now I feel like this next month is going to go slower than ever
• Long distance never gets easier.  Who wants to live 10 hours away from their boyfriend?
• USC, FSU, and UCLA lost--normally I would never root for these teams, but I was rooting for every team this weekend that could possibly bring Oregon up in the rankings
• I'm back to late night lesson planning tonight

Here's to hoping the next month goes by quickly so it can be my favorite holiday already!

2 days and counting!

Highs:

• My personal day Friday was amazing.  I slept till 11, got my nails done, and did some shopping!
• I got to see Chris this weekend, and get to spend most of my Thanksgiving break with him as well! We are really working hard to make the long distance seem as little "long" as possible
• I got most of my planning for Monday and Tuesday done last week so I didn't have to stress too much this weekend
• Tomorrow is a test day...aka I get to rest my voice all day! Let's hope my students' grades on the test keep this high a high
• I fly back to San Diego in 2 days!! I simply cannot wait to be home

Lows:

• I have to move my entire classroom in the next 1 1/2 days
• I missed Kate's bachelorette party and had major FOMO (fear of missing out) all weekend hearing about all of my girlfriends reuniting in Portland to celebrate the bride-to-be...but regardless, I'm very glad they had a wonderful time!
• I have a ton of grading, packing, and organizing to do before my plane leaves on Tuesday night
• Finally, the lowest of the lows...the Ducks lost last night to Stanford and fell to #5 in the BCS rankings

Can't wait to report back with hopefully all highs after Thanksgiving break!

Let the Countdown Begin!

Highs:

• Only 10 days until Thanksgiving! Chris will be with my family on Thursday and then on Friday we are driving up to Moorpark to see his family!
• I'm taking a personal day Friday---aka this week I'm only working 4 days, and next week I'm only working 2!
• 48 days until two of my amazing friends, Kate and Mark, get married!
• Briana, Emily and I got Thai food last night...never a bad choice
• We got to pet-sit a black lab puppy this weekend!
• Oregon is ranked #1 in the AP polls...hopefully #1 in the BCS rankings tonight too!

Lows:

• I am missing Kate's bachelorette party this Saturday...I'm so jealous I can't be in Portland for what I know will be an amazing girls night
• Grading the Fall writing assessments is taking me FOREVER
• We had training all day Saturday...enough said
• Tomorrow is Monday, the worst day of the week

I'm back!

After a long vacation from blogging, I'm back!  Since I don't have much time to blog nowadays, I am going to try to take on the blogging format of my dear friend Caitlin, who always posts her highs and lows for the week.  Seems simple enough, right?

Highs

• Chris and I met up this weekend right outside of Dallas.  We got to relax, do a little shopping, and watch the Oregon vs. USC game at a local bar.  Chris is a USC fan so it was even more awesome that I got to watch my team beat his, since we all know the Ducks are better anyways
• The Ducks are now #3 in the BCS rankings (but let's be real, we should be #2)
• I finally went grocery shopping today and no longer have to walk around my school asking to borrow $1.50 from anyone in sight to buy a Diet Coke from the vending machine
• I've been getting to bed a lot earlier than usual lately...maybe I'm starting to get the hang of nightly lesson planning?

Lows

• District testing is this week, and so far my teaching schedule has been all over the place
• Walking around and monitoring kids taking tests for 2 hours straight is surprisingly exhausting
• Kids are very hyper in class after testing all morning
• I'm super stressed about how my students will perform on the reading test tomorrow...
• I took away one of my student's football during an assembly because he was playing with it, and may or may not have misplaced it...this resulted in a trip to Sports Authority today because I felt guilty and decided to buy him a new one.  Who knew Nike footballs were so expensive?
• My coffee tumbler tipped over and spilled coffee all over my students' tests

I can't believe it's only Monday...here's to what's hopefully a good week!  Keep your fingers crossed that my students do well on their reading and writing tests!