your fired!

yes, if the donald were in charge of my future as a blogger, he'd have me hitting the road, jack. so it's been a month and a half since my last (extremely short and boring) entry, i've been busy!

so busy, in fact, that i finished school. yes, i completed my student teaching on the 30th of november and attended my last class on the 7th, last friday. wow. i finally have that illusive b.a. i've been trying to get for the last 15 years. ouch. nothing like laying all out.

but it's mine. not to jinx myself - i don't actually know if i passed yet - but i should be receiving my degree in the mail any day. now i just sit and wait...wait to see if i passed the state test, wait for my license and certification. then i can start subbing. well, after i get fingerprinted - can't have any criminals roaming the classrooms.

so i've been busy. and when i'd have a moment where i wasn't commuting, or working, or teaching, or lesson planning, or writing reflections, or making my peanut butter sandwiches for the next day's lunch...well, i just didn't feel like blogging. forgive me.

now it's the christmas season, and i'd almost rather be doing all of that over again rather than brave the malls to buy gifts. especially when i have no idea what to get anyone. any suggestions? my husbands family just draws names every year so everyone is only buying for one person. i like that (though not everyone sticks to it. i will, stickler for the rules and all...) this year i have one of his sister's names and so far i know she wants socks and bland recipe cards. whoo hoo. i can't wait to see the look on her face this year when she gets tan, black and grey! imagine the outfit possibilities!

this is the first year that my husband and i will actually spend christmas together. up until now we had gone our separate ways, neither of us willing to part with our own family's christmas traditions (christmas eve horsdevours at my house are gift enough, mom!). but now we're married so we have to act like we want to become a part of our spouses family's christmas. and it's not that we think the other's sucks, we just love ours so much...anyway, we probably would've gone our separate ways again, but our families feel that since we're married now, we should probably start acting like it.

we thought maybe when kids came, we could send one with one family, the other with the other. trade every other year...

anyway, glad to be back and all. happy to have survived the last three months.