In hopes that a cup of tea can save this day...

   Today is the dreaded Wednesday.....and it feels every bit of it here at school today. The children have lost their minds, and in turn I am grasping at NEARLY anything not to lose mine as well. It's my off period and so I am turning off the awful florescent lights, opening the blinds, brewing a cup of tea and going to take a moment to remember to breathe and desperately try to reset and salvage today.

Wedding pic-a-palooza

I have heard a lot of girls say that they hardly remember anything about their wedding, or just that they only recall the BIG catastrophe and almost all brides say that they didn't even get to EAT! I was SOOOOOO not that bride! I ate so much, drank just enough and even managed to dance gangnam style...ALL because of some truly amazing women who came to the rescue and made sure that I had the best time ever, and I really did!

Major jumbo thank you to Danielle (Her awesome blog here) and a great friend of hers who is SUCH an amazing woman, Laurel..who planned and orchestrated our nuptials ON THE FLY (Here is her amazing website )! These ladies took everything that was in my brain and made it into reality, they are so amazing and potentially witches to have come up with this stuff so damn fast!
We seriously couldn't have done it without the whole family...so thanks to all of our aunts, cousins, uncles, MOM, dad, grandparents and brothers we got hitched without a HITCH!
EXCITING NEWS: Our wedding pics came in the mail today, holy freaking toledo they are precious....My Aunt Aubry was our photographer and SHE IS AMAZING! (be sure to check out her FB page! )

Now is the time to brag the pants off about our super excellent wedding.......

Wedding pic-a-palooza COMMENCE:

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.

For whatever reason, every spring since I have been a college graduate I decide that I really need to go to grad school....This year's bug has come a bit early. I am at a crossroad with my career, and not that I think that I truly need my masters to do the work that I am inspired to do,  more so I truly hate knowing that other people have a Master's and I don't. That sounds an awful lot like I want to get a Master's for my prides sake...which isn't true but is still a little bit true.

Long Term Goals vs. Short Term Bliss 

My ultimate goal in the next 5 years is to own and operate my very own behavioral consulting business. Having a Masters would open a lot of doors in that area, but there is so much work involved.....being a wife, having a career AND being a student sounds more than a little exhausting. Of course there is always the option of becoming a professional blogger, that would be the ticket there!

Anyway it's Wednesday and feels like Tuesday so that's awesome...However, I go back to personal training today after a week's absence ...which is distinctively NOT awesome.

Yadda, Yadda, Yadda happy TuesWednesday !

Wanderlust

As promised I am home sick today, what JOY! Being home alone and not being able to do ANYTHING not even the lower totem pole activities i.e., clean, do laundry, organize or do anything worthwhile has left me stranded on the couch. As my body attempts to melt into the couch while watching my DVR collection of The Big Bang Theory and reliving the past 8 years of my life on Facebook I am reminded that I have lived a really exciting life! (I have little proof of that today as I am now a half couch half girl humanoid.)

 So I decided to think on the adventures that I have already had, and plan for the ones to come. I spent a summer in Mexico, I have traveled to Europe, I have gone on epic road trips all over the country. Jerrett and I visited Bean town, Hogwarts, the ocean and The Big Apple all within the last year and a half! Not a list to "pooh pooh" at by any means however, I haven't tackled even 1/8 of my "must see"destinations!

Rather than spend the whole day wanderlusting and getting crazy angsty over ALL the travels that are yet to be, I decided to make a list of where I would like to go in 2013- a top 5 list. In the name of patience, and indecisiveness I am not going to create the list all at once rather, I will submit my top 5 places that I need to visit this year once a month for the next five months. Shall we start with #5.......
                         

5. The Grand Canyon



I have always been awed and inspired and a little terrified by this beautiful monster but have never been able to take a gander over the edge. (which I will probably have an anxiety attack about so I'm not sure why I'm all excited about this.).  I think part of the allure is that it brings to mind some seriously nostalgic feelings about classic American family vacations. So why not have our little family's first vacation be an awesomely bad Americana road trip to the Grand Canyon? Bring it. Look out Grand Canyon, this B is coming to visit circa March 2013!


Like a lot of things, adventure is one of those wonderful things in life you know is healing while you are "in it", but when you come back home it is easy to forget how alive you felt while you were out there, actually living your life. That's not to say that you cant epically live your life in your typical 40 hour workweek, but it is prone to the more mundane. Days like this I am tempted to quit my job, sell the house and empty our our retirement funds and go SEE THE WORLD together in a really dramatic and romantic fashion! Alas, that plan is just a bit too rash and hipster for me, and there are so many things that I actually really love about my little mundane life. So I will keep my job, put my nose to the grindstone and purposely make time for adventure in my life!

Here's looking at you spring break.

J'ai la nausée

Of all the ways to be home on a weekday, sick at home is for sure the worst. Tomorrow will certainly be a day of sleep, doctors, tea, TV, pinterest and blogging.

Thank you kindergartener who threw up next to me yesterday.

Reading club

I happen to adore a great YA book, yes that’s right- I said it…to hell with Kafka give me J.K. Rowling. Don’t get me wrong, I also tend to adore anything magical, mystical and other worldly! I basically married all of the Outlander books & the A Discovery of Witches series- which happen to be fabulous and written AND for grownups. like most readers, I tend to be very hot and cold with literature, either loving it; eat, sleep, and drinking it….or It takes me one million years to read fifty pages.

 As a connoisseur of all things fabulous I would love to hear what you are reading, is it to die for?



The best is yet to come

Learning how to be a wife, to me is the hardest thing I have ever attempted. Those who know me, and know me well, know that I am in no way domestic.  I can’t cook more than hamburger helper (which I don’t even eat beef so a fat lot of good that does me). I am not naturally an organized person and my cleaning skills are the equivalent of a college freshman. So, it’s safe to say that the hubs didn’t marry me for my mad domestic skills. Even more so I am not and have never been “an easy person to live with”, I am VASTLY opinionated, loud, dramatic, emotional and on occasion unbalanced.

I know what you’re thinking, I sound like a total gem- right?

All of my short comings aside, there still is this man who loves me enough to know who I am and want me anyway…. which is of course fabulously romantic and should put my life into this wonderful perspective.  I should be aspiring to take long walks on the beach with him, write him sonnets and dedicate my life to figuring out the mystery of food preparation. Alas, I am still moody, I am still critical and all of my rich blessings and warm gooey feelings haven’t changed my behavior, which is still- struggling.

 What is a little ironic about that is the fact that I am in fact a behavior therapist ….. That’s right, I spend all day correcting others behavior, taking data on behavior, creating intervention plans and yet I can’t stop myself from stomping my feet and saying rude things at the drop of a hat.

I’m still hoping that with some practice, a lot of prayer and a few good books I will get a hold of this bizarre concept: the concept of spending the rest of your life with another person, enduring all the daily mundane tasks, jumping every imaginable hurdle and still loving them ….. Marriage. There is no one else I would ever try this with, and not a doubt in my mind that I am in fact, the lucky one.

 

 

Rainy days and warm cups of tea.

Rainy days and warm cups of tea may just be the best combination of all time, all the better when you are at home on the couch snuggled up with a great book and a fur baby. However even at work in a cold, fluorescent lit classroom …rain + tea = better than average Wednesday. Wednesdays in my line of work are typically the dreaded “worst day of the week” the kids are normally really ramped up from equal parts of mid-week school stress and the ever present promise of the weekend. Today has been a fairly A-typical day with only a few minor melt downs and zero F-bombs so far. Cheers to you mid-day Wednesday, it could be worse!

Did I really just sign up for personal training?

Lord help me, I have signed up for an intensive 6 MONTH personal training regimen....starting tonight. I have always (like most women) been concerned with my weight, that is not to say that I think I am obese but I totally have some problem areas that have bothered me FOREVER. So, what they hay-I'll give it the old college try (and A LOT of money) to see what we can accomplish.

Let me be clear, this isn't a New Years Resolution, but more of a "I married a bean pole who CAN and DOES eat anything he wants and if I don't get on this now I will end up so fat they will have to use a crane to remove me from the house" kind of situation. If I don't die tonight I will be sure to post an update!

Enjoy this all too honest video, which will no doubt be my mindset for the next month or SIX.