Day 147

I love when your in those situations where you look at everything around you, and think to your self if anyone looked in on you from the outside they would really wonder "What the heck?"! When you think about what is going on, what it would look like form the outside, and cant help but laugh! So, here was my moment from today. . .

We are driving around in, not the nicest part of Thornton. Meaning this with no offense it is a bit ghetto, most everything is in Spanish, and everything is cheep and in the flavor of spicy with lime! We are right next to the High School, and it appears to be some time around lunch time. We are on a quest for Mexican Smoothies. Smoothies made in a little tienda, by a medium nice Mexican woman. As we pull into the little shoppette we notice a few police officers and a police car around the store in the corner. Hummmm. Not the store we are headed to, so, guess we will still go in! As we park, I swear like 50 kids pile out of the little store!! How did they all fit in there? So we park, and out of the Beetle we pile. A vision of the oddest looking family ever! There is me, Chris the built, blond haired, blue eyed passenger, Nick the tall, lanky, and bearded fellow from the back, and little baby girl Lucia in the car seat with Nick in the back! And, out we all pile and into the smoothie shop we go. A bunch of clearly whities looking for a Mexican smoothie. And for anyone acting as an outside observer, I cant help but smile thinking about the humorous family we portrayed next to a group of busted high schoolers on our quest for smoothies!

Day 146

Yep, definitely had a good day, had a lot of fun, got to meet some amazing students, made an awesome video, and got posted to YouTube! Unfortunately I can't post the link to the YouTube video, I have to take it down because it has students in it, and for what ever reasons, shouldn't post videos of students online I guess! But I was there, I was on YouTube! I am thankful for all the amazing students that I got to meet today, they stories they shared, and the success's I see coming there way! Im thankful we were able to play and make a mocumentary while "working", and Im thankful our students who helped us out! Couldn't have done it without them! And, Im thankful for the "adults" I go to work with today as well!! Fun times, fun times!!

Day 145

I am so grateful that I finally have some time to take care of things around the house!! As my work load and stress level really started to increase the past few months, my time to clean the house and keep things in check really went down! I am SO thankful I finally have time to take care of things, and even spend a shared day off with Will! It feels great to get the house cleaned up, it looks so much better!! Ironic how when we have less and less time, our house chores really seem to lose importance. But at the same time our stress levels are usually up, and having a messy house stresses us out even more! Funny how that works. Well, now that I am finally relatively unbusy, I have time to take care of that final major stressor and get the house cleaned up! Not going to lie, definitely with is was a more shared priority in our house! But as long as I have the time I guess Ill be the main maid. Now, on to organizing my office/studio. . . .

Day 144

I am thankful for GT Dave's Kombucha, and Kick Ass Immune! These two amazing products, I swear, have kept me healthy and illness free through the two most stressful and monumental semesters I have ever had!! throughout my entire college career I had a pattern of always getting sick at the end of every semester. And working with kids and being in schools I typically got sick one or two times a semester! It was ridiculous! While I am sure there were several contributing factors, these two guys I am sure were the main reasons I never got sick this past year. You know that feeling you get as you just start to get sick? That creepy sensation in the back of your neck, and upper shoulders? Take these guys when you start getting that sensation, and I can't guarantee you wont get sick, but you sure wont get as sick! Try it!

Days 142-143

Yes I am again combining days, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. And when days are so similar, I would prefer to combine than be monotonously repetitive! For your sake as much as mine!

This weekend I went on a little road trip / camping trip down to the Sand Dunes of Colorado! I'll say that I am thankful I went, did the things I did, and had some cool experiences. But man am I thankful to be home as well! I really do like to camp (if you can even call running water and flushing toilets camping) I grew up camping. I love the grilling, hanging around the campfire till late at night, and I really like the excuse for not showering! But when it is horrifically windy out, your body has been sandblasted by the dunes, and the incessant wind has started paying a toll on sanity. It's nice to be home, in the quiet, in a shower! I had a good time, loved the company I was with, and enjoyed camping with Will for the first time and an thankful for the whole experience! But, a shower has never felt or sounded so good!

Day 140

I am thankful for the 11th grade Junior class that I have just been teaching. They are an amazing bunch, full of like, character, personality, and enthusiasm! They are a unique group with many different individuals, and/or small groups. But, it appears to me that they can also easily come together when they need the strength and support of one another. I'm thankful that I have had to opportunity to work with such an amazing group, and I hope that I am able to continue working with them next year!!

Day 139

I am so thankful for finding cool threads at affordable prices shopping at Buffalo Exchange! The styles very, and definitely suit specific tastes, but there is always a buried treasure waiting to be discovered in the racks! Don't you love when you find an unexpected sunrise? A shining, beaming, object of beauty catching your eye as you wage through monotony? Sure I went in looking for a pair of Wellie's and came out with 3 new shirts, you never know what to expect! That's half the fun!