Gettin' down to brass tax

Lots going on, little time to get it all done. Luckily all good stuff!

Wedding

• 121 days! Hooray! And eek!
• Dress: to be picked up very soon.
• Excitement: at an all-time high!
• Stress? nah, never heard of it.

School

• Classes: (Math for Elementary Majors, Introduction to Scientific Inquiry, Introduction to the English Language) So far, so good! The second class has not met yet, the instructor has been very sick. Talk about bad timing! It's going to be a challenging semester but doable.
• Actual Transition to Teaching program: application is due early February. Fingers crossed!
• The State of Education address: teacher licensing changes, Indiana Growth Model, civil rights issues in Indiana schools, Indiana's first Education Reform Cabinet, and potential teacher merit pay. Some interesting ideas, time will tell.

Crafts

• Cross stitch: my first experience with waste cloth. I'll definitely be doing it again, I learned a lot and there's a lot of potential for really neat projects
• Sewing: A friend of mine and I will be taking sewing lessons (at some point) and I'm getting really excited! I still need to own an actual sewing machine, I guess that's step 1. I hope to do some house projects like curtains, pillowcases and tablecloths. Simple stuff to start out. Then move onto sun dresses and other fun and challenging projects.

Pets

• Stinky and ornery
• Happy and healthy
• Oh, and it turns out walking your dogs is a good thing. Who knew?

Happy Wednesday to all!

A quick update

So it's 5:50am and I have to leave for work in about 15 minutes but I wanted to make the first step at getting back on the blogging bandwagon.

School update:

• The entire program I am in focuses on collaboration and group work. It is quite a mixed bag. It is always a pleasure to work with new and diverse ideas but it is also a challenge in practicing patience.
• I am starting to get nervous at the amount of work I am going to have once I start in the actual Transition to Teaching program. Whoa.

Wedding update:

• Completed tasks include flowers, rehearsal dinner venue, photographer, block of hotel rooms, bridesmaids dresses, flower girl dresses.
• Next task is to decide on our officiant.

Dog update:

• Received this text from J yesterday: "on the bright side, Oscar came in [from outside] looking like he was wearing black socks. except they weren't socks. they were black mud." Awesome.