I-HAULED my Birthday!

So this weekend I went to Reno to help David move some stuff from storage down to a storage place in L.A. I flew up on Friday night and he showed me around Reno on Saturday and then on Sunday (my b-day), we got up early and started our drive home in a 35 foot U-Haul.

It was definitely a rough morning as David was very sick after a bad reaction to the sushi he ate the night before (I ate chicken). David refuses to believe me that the ocean is dirty and so is everything that lives in it so he still eats fish and gets sick from it. The drive from Reno to L.A. is a little over 500 miles so we knew it was going to be a long day. Sadly, we ended up having to stop every 20-30 minutes because he was so sick and I just felt horrible for him. When we reached Fresno, I insisted on driving and letting him get some rest. I drove for two hours from Fresno to south of Bakersfield in a 35 foot U-haul truck. It was my first time driving such a large vehicle! Seriously, it was a little scary but it was cool.

Honestly though, I don't understand why people do road trips. I know some people like them and will drive all over God's green earth and enjoy it, but I feel that if an airplane travels there, then we should use them! Road tripping in a U-haul is totally the equivalent of the covered wagons on the Oregon Trail. I'm sure the brave men, women, and children who walked across the country, would have rather flown!

But anyways, the fact remains that I-HAULED my Birthday! Birthday wishes definitely can come true. ;)

Back to School Night

So here's an awesome story from my B2SN last night....

My mom and nana decided that they wanted to come and watch me (which is totally fine...I like that they're supportive of me and most of my student's parents are the same age as my mom so they didn't stand out at all). So they showed up and listened to my 8-minute spiel and then left. I called them on my way home to thank them for coming and then that's when I got the story.

Apparently they were a little turned around on the campus and walked into a few wrong classrooms but that wasn't a big deal because most parents are little lost on campus. Eventually mom and nana ran into a school employee on a golf cart and stopped to ask for directions to the car. The employee gave them directions but then offered to give them a ride and since nana has a bad knee, they accepted. The driver asked mom and nana if they were able to talk to their student's teachers, etc. and they told him that they were here to watch me as a teacher. Well, the employee knew me and they spent the whole ride to the car discussing me as a teacher.

When they made it to the car, my nana turned to the driver and said, "Well, thank you so much, what is your name." That's when the driver of the golf cart told them that he was the PRINCIPAL OF THE SCHOOL!!! So my principal met my mom and nana while they were there watching me give my B2SN presentation....awesome.

I haven't seen him since then but I feel like I need to laugh it off with him or else it might be awkward. What do you all think?

Floating Car

I was flipping through my pictures from our river trip and found the pictures I took of the car boat that someone had there. This man named "Captain Terry" (seriously, that's what he introduced himself to us as) had an old car that was built to be a boat as well. The undercarriage was sealed and the car has a prop in the back that moves it through the water.

He was taking random people around for free rides. Well, not exactly free since we paid him in cold water from the cooler and some red vines (he ate lunch with another group of people so he was already full and was looking for a snack). So anyways, here's the car both as a boat and coming onto the shore.

Boring

I have to say that since work started again, my life has been really boring but very busy. I know that sounds kinda strange in the same sentence but I since I find myself staying at school late for cheer practices or games, my personal life is boring. Some of my friends asked me out on Saturday night but I was too tired to go hang out with them! Instead I opted to stay home and crash around 10 pm. While 10 pm is late for a week night, I was kinda bummed to be that tired and miss out on girlfriend bonding.

So yeah, personal life is boring but work is crazy busy. For example, here's the schedule for next week and approximate times in which I plan to get home:

Monday: work, faculty meeting, cheer booster meeting = get home around 9 pm
Tuesday: work, Back to School Night = get home around 9 pm
Wednesday: work, cheer practice = get home around 5 pm
Thursday: work, JV football game = get home around 7 pm
Friday: work, Varsity football game = get home around 11 pm

I know that most people finish work around 5 pm but since I leave for work around 6-6:30 am, it seems like an 11 hour day to come home at 5. It's times like this that I wish I were paid by the hour and not on a salary!

Great Quote

I wrote down this quote a few years ago and just recently came across it again and wanted to share it with you all:

"We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel his presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us and it is in the unclouded night sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence." Jane Eyre