Wednesday gone weird… September 24, 2008

What a day! Let me preface by saying that I usually like Wednesdays, but today was just odd. The first reason was that Taco kept me up all night!! She is such a stinker! She thought it would be fun to bat at my eye lashes until I opened my eyes to look at her. I finally put her out in the hallway so I could get a little sleep. I ended up sleeping until 12:30 and got nothing done.

Then I went to work…it was early dismissal day and the kids were effin crazy!!! Yesterday they were all so well behaved, so maybe they felt they had to make up for that by not listening. The only time in four hours they were quiet was when we had a coloring contest with Hannah Montana and Power Rangers coloring sheets.

I came home and chilled with Christy for a few minutes before heading over to the gym. I haven’t been in months!! I’m always really glad I went once I get there…no exception today. I guess I’m more motivated when there are 10 other people more in shape than me running next to, well…in front of me I did pretty well though. I may just be a runner after all! Afterwards I met up with someone on campus and chatted for a while before I went home. That was definitely the highlight of my day.

I had a phone conversation that was interesting. It wasn’t bad or what I thought it might be about, but it was just unexpected. I think my part of the conversation was far more awkward, but I felt like it was important that I inform them of my current situation. Ugh.

Now I’m sitting in the dining room taking a break from homework. I hate my online class I feel like everything we are doing is busy work because our teacher got knocked up and can’t handle teaching the course. That was really harsh. It’s awesome that she is having a baby, but I don’t like that the quality of my education is lacking because of it.

That is enough ranting for tonight. I am sure that tomorrow is going to be a terrific Thursday! I’m just glad the week is half way over…I LOVE my weekends!

Taco!! September 21, 2008

I am proud to announce a new addition to the KCKC house…*drum roll*…TACO!

She is such a sweetheart and is so playful! I pretty much spent all of my free time today playing with her I <3 her!

This morning was great! I love C3!! I got to play Kit Windswept in Powerhouse with Adam, which was interesting! Neither of us really knew our lines very well, so it was ALOT of improv! It’s so funny when the kids come up to me later asking me questions about my character after I’ve already changed out of my costume. I tell them that I am Chrissy, not Kit…and that Kit is my cousin…who is British. I of course am German and do not have a British accent. They get so frustrated! This one little girl argued with me for 10 minutes that I HAD TO BE Kit! Priceless. Service was great too. Byron talked about loving your enemy and forgiveness, which is one of those things that I struggle with. I love that the series is “I wish Jesus hadn’t said…”. I know hearing that I need to forgive the people who have hurt me is not exactly what I want to hear. I thought the playing cards were way cool!

I am finally working at Avalon Elementary, which is awesome!! I am in the first grade group with one other teacher. We have 32 kids, so it’s a little stressful at times, but for the most part they are really sweet kids! I would love to say that I don’t have favorites, but I definitely do. There is a little boy and a little girl who literally attach themselves to my side all afternoon. It’s so sweet, but makes moving around a little bit awkward They all make me smile.

I would love to type more, but Sundays wear me out! So I’m gonna hit the hay early tonight!

Characters September 8, 2008

So I am working on an assignment for school, one which I am actually quite excited about. I have to create a “learning center” on something to do with story writing for my language arts class. When I was assigned to the story writing group, I immediately decided I would do my center on creating characters. I love to write fiction short stories (although I haven’t done anything recently), and making up characters and developing their personalities, appearance, and lifestyles is my favorite part.

It got me thinking about my own traits. Sometimes I wish I could create my own “me” character. I am in no way dissing my creator, but how nice would it be to modify the things about yourself that seem to always get you into trouble throughout your story. For me, it’s always the same traits and quirks that seem to work against me. If my life were a story, I would be the type of character that keeps getting herself into the same sort of trouble again and again and again, but can never get out of that cycle. Yet the whole time the reader is yelling at the book saying, “What are you doing! Stop doing that already!” It’s comical yet sad. I feel like that character, trapped in the cycle of behavior, not able to escape the irony of the situation. I am desperately waiting for the climax of the plot, where everything finally falls into place. The light bulb moment. I’m waiting…..waiting….any time now…