Sunday, January 31, 2010
Pictures
I mentioned in an earlier blog that I like to take pictures and really wish the hobby of photography was something that I did a little more often. But I wanted to share some of my favorite pics I've taken throughout the years anyway...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
New J-O-B!
SOOO I was recently hired on with Austin ISD as a Teacher's Assistant for Special Ed. At first I was a little hesitant because the pay isn't the greatest, I'm only a TA, and it's working with Special Ed. But I swallowed some pride and looked at the positives and took the job. I mean, IT'S A JOB! Not just A job, but a job in the field that I want to work in. AND it pays much better than what I ever made at the bar and any other job I've had AND I now get benefits and paid holidays!! (and spring breaks and summers!!)
Working with Special Ed kinda intimidated me in the beginning, but I've worked with pre-school before, could it really be that much harder??
I've found that it's actually a bit easier!! There are four kids in my class and they are all so sweet and so cute!! With pre-k there were 20 kids running around screaming and crying. These kids usually keep to themselves and are very quiet. Yes, it's different having to adjust to their disabilities and figuring out behaviors BUT that's part of being a teacher no matter who the kid is!! You have to do that with any child whether they have a disability or not! PLUS this is the absolute best experience someone can get if they want to someday work with a full class of second graders!
All in all, it's going really great! I really look up to my lead teacher, Karin, who is a great leader and wonderful role model. She has taught me so much in just the week and a half that I have worked there. And we get along great. The "being new" feeling that usually sucks when you first start a job was nonexistent. Which is so comforting and makes things so much easier.
Waking up at 5:45 still has been rough for me ( I have to be at the school by 7am) but it's slowly getting easier each day. I'm very thankful I took this job and am very excited and anxious for what is to come. I pray that this will be great experience and help me reach an opportunity to someday have my own classroom of little goobers! Oh! And I get done each day at 3:30!!
GREAT JOB!! GREAT EXPERIENCE!! GREAT LIFE! :)
Working with Special Ed kinda intimidated me in the beginning, but I've worked with pre-school before, could it really be that much harder??
I've found that it's actually a bit easier!! There are four kids in my class and they are all so sweet and so cute!! With pre-k there were 20 kids running around screaming and crying. These kids usually keep to themselves and are very quiet. Yes, it's different having to adjust to their disabilities and figuring out behaviors BUT that's part of being a teacher no matter who the kid is!! You have to do that with any child whether they have a disability or not! PLUS this is the absolute best experience someone can get if they want to someday work with a full class of second graders!
All in all, it's going really great! I really look up to my lead teacher, Karin, who is a great leader and wonderful role model. She has taught me so much in just the week and a half that I have worked there. And we get along great. The "being new" feeling that usually sucks when you first start a job was nonexistent. Which is so comforting and makes things so much easier.
Waking up at 5:45 still has been rough for me ( I have to be at the school by 7am) but it's slowly getting easier each day. I'm very thankful I took this job and am very excited and anxious for what is to come. I pray that this will be great experience and help me reach an opportunity to someday have my own classroom of little goobers! Oh! And I get done each day at 3:30!!
GREAT JOB!! GREAT EXPERIENCE!! GREAT LIFE! :)
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Photography family
My whole family (dad, brother, sister, me...not so much mom) love to take pictures and we're all very much into photography. Of course Dad is the most talented because he's got a little bit more experience under his belt. (He had a studio while going through his doctorate program) We all have a good eye and enjoy sharing our work with each other. Especially since we all have different styles.
We all have some pretty nice Nikons. My dad has a few..not sure which ones. My brother I believe has the D700?? I have the D100. And my little sister just got the D90 for her 21st birthday in December.
Since she just got hers, she decided to use my lovely animals for models while we were home for Christmas. She's very talented and I decided to share them on my blog!
Oliver
Sweet Lola
You know you've got a great camera when you can take pictures and NOT have to edit them on your computer! Of course it would be fun to play around with these, but I think they're perfect how they are! Good job perkie! (I call my sister Perkie)
We all have some pretty nice Nikons. My dad has a few..not sure which ones. My brother I believe has the D700?? I have the D100. And my little sister just got the D90 for her 21st birthday in December.
Since she just got hers, she decided to use my lovely animals for models while we were home for Christmas. She's very talented and I decided to share them on my blog!
Oliver
Sweet Lola
You know you've got a great camera when you can take pictures and NOT have to edit them on your computer! Of course it would be fun to play around with these, but I think they're perfect how they are! Good job perkie! (I call my sister Perkie)
Un-Married Woman
I see all these people that I've known throughout my life who have blogs. And when I look and see who exactly these people are-they have a few similarities. They're married, usually the wives, starting or have a family and want to share their life and words with family and friends.
But what about me? I love to write! Butttt--I'm not married...I'm not a wife...I'm definitely not starting a family (unless you count Lola and Oliver-dog and cat)..and the big question-who would read my blog??
Who will find my life and thoughts interesting enough to take the time to see how I'm doing and what I have to say? Well this is my conclusion:
I'm an unmarried woman at the age of 23 who LOVES to write.
I love to share my thoughts and life with pretty much anyone! At my age I'm still learning and going through a lot of developmental and life changes that writing about can benefit me in so many ways!
Though I don't have the same life as some of my fellow bloggers, I still have a pretty eventful and joyful life that is very much worth sharing with friends and family!
And if they don't want to read my blog...FINE! I don't care because I still get to write! :)
So here we go!! Young Un-married woman ready to blog!
I graduated a little over a year ago from Texas State, Dec 2008. It's been a pretty rough year trying to find what I want to do, follow my passions, and landing my dream job--WAIT A MINUTE! This economy is much too awful to be able to follow and land anything! Find whatever you can and just put up with it! Feel lucky! :\
Not exactly what a recent college grad goes to school dreaming about. And I definitely didn't go to school for 4.5 years to wait tables!! Which is exactly what I did for almost a full year.
Last January I started waiting tables at a piano bar in San Marcos. (Secretly dreaming that one night they would call me to stage to sing a ballad and my voice would be loved by all and my stardom dream would take off!!)--Didn't exactly happen that way. After many nights of not so much business and walking out at around 2am and only making $13, things started getting stressful. My whole life I heard that waiting tables was quick, good money. And this piano bar was one of the nicest and coolest places in San Marcos...where was everybody?? For months I struggled to make ends meet. I had to swallow my pride and call Mom and Dad at least once a month to help me out with bills. There were many times, most the times, that I literally had no money... no loose change in my car... no savings... no credit card. Literally nothing. Every night I would worry about how I would make it to work without running out of gas and praying that I would at least make $10 so I could put $5 in for gas and have a little more to be able to get some food. This waiting tables thing was not working out for me!
Many events happened while working there (got a concussion from somebody throwing a keg shell across the bar and "luckily" hit me right in the noggin!) and 6 months later, I took my low tips, walked out and never returned!
*I must add that a few nights they DID call me to the stage to sing, this is when I discovered that I truly do have stagefright but made it through some songs just fine! It was fun but made me oh so anxious!!
While I was waiting tables at the bar, I also decided to get my teaching certificate. And I also had found a preschool teaching job in Buda (only 10 min from San Marcos). Yay! Things were coming together! I was on a path and knew what I wanted to do. --Not so quick...
The preschool job paid $7/hour--whattt??? I didn't even make $1000 a month. AND I was still working at the bar so making little tips there, working till 2am and then having to wake up around 6 to get to the school by 8. And on Saturdays I had my teaching certificate class from 9 am-4pm. No rest...No money...No life...NOT WHAT I HAD PLANNED FOR POST-GRADUATION LIFE!
Seeing what other people my age were doing really depressed me. So many friends from high school had found jobs, had gotten married or engaged...and there I was working at a bar and not making anything of myself. I was so envious.
But here I am a year later with a teaching job that I start next week! In south Austin! I'm so excited to start! I live with my boyfriend and we are going strong after 3.5 years! AND I am independent! (Not as independent as if I lived alone but you get what I'm saying)
Life is good. God gave me a year of struggling and growing so I could learn the hardships that some go through. I am so thankful for everything that He has given me including the life-learning and building experiences that I had to rough through the past year. All I have to say is...
GOODBYE 2009, HELLO 2010 it is sooo nice to finally meet you! :)
But what about me? I love to write! Butttt--I'm not married...I'm not a wife...I'm definitely not starting a family (unless you count Lola and Oliver-dog and cat)..and the big question-who would read my blog??
Who will find my life and thoughts interesting enough to take the time to see how I'm doing and what I have to say? Well this is my conclusion:
I'm an unmarried woman at the age of 23 who LOVES to write.
I love to share my thoughts and life with pretty much anyone! At my age I'm still learning and going through a lot of developmental and life changes that writing about can benefit me in so many ways!
Though I don't have the same life as some of my fellow bloggers, I still have a pretty eventful and joyful life that is very much worth sharing with friends and family!
And if they don't want to read my blog...FINE! I don't care because I still get to write! :)
So here we go!! Young Un-married woman ready to blog!
I graduated a little over a year ago from Texas State, Dec 2008. It's been a pretty rough year trying to find what I want to do, follow my passions, and landing my dream job--WAIT A MINUTE! This economy is much too awful to be able to follow and land anything! Find whatever you can and just put up with it! Feel lucky! :\
Not exactly what a recent college grad goes to school dreaming about. And I definitely didn't go to school for 4.5 years to wait tables!! Which is exactly what I did for almost a full year.
Last January I started waiting tables at a piano bar in San Marcos. (Secretly dreaming that one night they would call me to stage to sing a ballad and my voice would be loved by all and my stardom dream would take off!!)--Didn't exactly happen that way. After many nights of not so much business and walking out at around 2am and only making $13, things started getting stressful. My whole life I heard that waiting tables was quick, good money. And this piano bar was one of the nicest and coolest places in San Marcos...where was everybody?? For months I struggled to make ends meet. I had to swallow my pride and call Mom and Dad at least once a month to help me out with bills. There were many times, most the times, that I literally had no money... no loose change in my car... no savings... no credit card. Literally nothing. Every night I would worry about how I would make it to work without running out of gas and praying that I would at least make $10 so I could put $5 in for gas and have a little more to be able to get some food. This waiting tables thing was not working out for me!
Many events happened while working there (got a concussion from somebody throwing a keg shell across the bar and "luckily" hit me right in the noggin!) and 6 months later, I took my low tips, walked out and never returned!
*I must add that a few nights they DID call me to the stage to sing, this is when I discovered that I truly do have stagefright but made it through some songs just fine! It was fun but made me oh so anxious!!
While I was waiting tables at the bar, I also decided to get my teaching certificate. And I also had found a preschool teaching job in Buda (only 10 min from San Marcos). Yay! Things were coming together! I was on a path and knew what I wanted to do. --Not so quick...
The preschool job paid $7/hour--whattt??? I didn't even make $1000 a month. AND I was still working at the bar so making little tips there, working till 2am and then having to wake up around 6 to get to the school by 8. And on Saturdays I had my teaching certificate class from 9 am-4pm. No rest...No money...No life...NOT WHAT I HAD PLANNED FOR POST-GRADUATION LIFE!
Seeing what other people my age were doing really depressed me. So many friends from high school had found jobs, had gotten married or engaged...and there I was working at a bar and not making anything of myself. I was so envious.
But here I am a year later with a teaching job that I start next week! In south Austin! I'm so excited to start! I live with my boyfriend and we are going strong after 3.5 years! AND I am independent! (Not as independent as if I lived alone but you get what I'm saying)
Life is good. God gave me a year of struggling and growing so I could learn the hardships that some go through. I am so thankful for everything that He has given me including the life-learning and building experiences that I had to rough through the past year. All I have to say is...
GOODBYE 2009, HELLO 2010 it is sooo nice to finally meet you! :)
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