The Good, the Bad, and the Undecided

Well, it's official.  I'm getting old.  The big 2-7 was a week and a half ago.  It was a great day filled with surprises and a nice dinner out with the hubby.  The kids across the hall were pretty stealthy and filled my classroom door and surrounding wall with giant birthday cards.  It was incredibly sweet.  I came home after tutoring there were a dozen red roses and two bottles of wine on the table and Pat was dressed and ready to go get dinner at Gigi's where on Wednesdays they have 1/2 off bottles of wine!  Winning!  When we got home there was one more surprise...an ice cream cake from Coldstone!!

News came that Pat's third rotation was cancelled and rescheduled for internal medicine in the Keys.  I'm slightly jealous....ok, I'm beyond irked.  On top of that, we won't be decorating for the holidays which makes me as grumpy as him not being home for six weeks.  I always get "north-sick" around this time of the year and I love decorating but not this year. :( 

In other news, I've decided to drop out (I hate that choice of words) of the UF Teacher Leadership Master's Program and start my Master's degree in Educational Leadership at St. Leo's.  I'm looking forward to getting started and working my way up to administration (dad was always right!).

Finally, yesterday was the 7th anniversary of Pat and I meeting at the Ohio State at Purdue football game.  We had some fun picking on each other....until Purdue won....again.  He's quite the sore loser.  Regardless, we took some fun photos with the helmets from the wedding and another at half time.  You can tell who was up at halftime ;)

All in all, it's the same as always, crazy, busy, lots of unknowns and tons of things to do, both fun and not.  Here's to surviving the holiday season...solo.

It's been forever and a day...

At least that's what it feels like since I've last posted.

Pat and I have been pretty busy since school started back up for each of us.  While nothing exciting has happened we've both been incredibly busy.  Pat started and finished his first rotation already at Planned Parenthood her in St. Pete.  The hours were different each day and he was always leaving herpes pamphlets on the counter so needless to say I'm glad he's done with the rotation!  Although they really seemed to enjoy having him there!  Check out the picture of the card they gave him on his last day.  He's moved on to family medicine in St. Pete and now feels the pain of having to get up while it's still dark out.

On my end, school is leaps and bounds better than last year.  The students are much better.  I only have about four that make me go crazy but with the new bell schedule it's eliminating a lot of the issues.  Tomorrow marks the opening of our new building on campus and it's beautiful.  I've moved rooms last week from the third floor to the first.  I'm not feeling as stressed out which may be why I've signed up for just about everything else this year.  Outside of teacher, I tutor now on Mondays and Wednesdays, work ABS (alternative bell schedule - 4 hour after school suspension) every Friday, I now lead the Student Literacy Team, and the University of Florida Inquiry Coach.  I'm still taking UF Master's classes and working on my ESOL endorsement too.

A few weeks ago Momma and Papa Beyer rolled through St. Pete for a weekend and we had fun.  Some Boilermaker chili made watching college football just perfect.  While Pat was working, the three of us headed to John's Pass and did some shopping and some wine tasting, but mostly some wine tasting. :)  It was a great weekend.

Just this past weekend Pat's parents came down to visit and surprised me with an early birthday get together complete with a birthday cake and singing.  I was a lucky girl and they gave me a gift, my new "beep beep"...you know one of those things that locks/unlocks your car for you.  :)

Brutus, well, he's doing just fine.  Although, he got bit by something this past week and looked a hot mess, covered in big bumps. Come to find out, he loves relaxing just as much as anyone else...

Overall, life is good...busy as ever, but still good.