Yane you are so presh! I love the "10 things" thing! Here's the 10 things I can't live without:

1. My niece!! I can be having the worst day and Sara will skype me or send me a picture or video of Chloe bug and then I am just all smiles. She is so sweet!

2. My new Iphone. I just got it and don't even know how to use everything on it yet, but it is ALWAYS right beside me.

3 (The Wrubels-Mom, Dad, and Jenn) and 4 (The Oaks). My Family! We've been through a lot this year and I don't know what I'd do without them!

5. My boyfriend! I don't know how he puts up with me, but I thank God he does. If it wasn't for him I would have dropped out of Grad School and moved home a lonnnng time ago. He believes in me even when I don't believe in myself. We can laugh, cry, joke, or vent. Needless to say, I can NOT live without him :) (I know mushy, sorry! lol I didn't mean to!)

6. My baby boy!! Seriously, my dog is awesome. I think he is cooler than most ppl I know lol Everytime I go home I get so excited to see him and he is always so excited to see his sis!

7. I really don't want to put this after last nights preformace, BUT I still bleed blue! UK basketball is my favorite time of the year!

8. My planner/ to do list. I write in it/ check things off of it everyday...several times. I LOVE LOVE LOVE being organzied. I guess that's what happens when you live with Jane Ann for so many years haha

9. My faith quotes I have hanging up all over my room. I read them daily and they remind me what's important :) This one is my favorite: "And who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure to his stature or to the span of his life?" - Matthew 6:27

10. And last, but not least......YOU GIRLS!! I love you all and miss you so much :)

I am going to be honest. I am not really loving Wednesday. My kids who are usually soooo well behaved have been CRAZY since Friday. They. Are. Exhausting. Plus it is the end of the nine weeks so report cards are going home (I had no idea 1st grade has report cards til last nine weeks.) Plus my KTIP lady called today and she is coming to observe me in two weeks. Plus we had a staff meeting today and Ashland schools are having a budget cut (our coke plant in Ashland is closing) so they are going to have to look into where they can cut back. The principal brought up the fact it could be anyone from instructional assistants to teachers. Ugh. Major stressor. Prayers please. But for the sake of WILW...here goes...

I am loving Gilmore Girls these days. I mean Luke and Lorelai totally=love. And that Dean...major Hottie!

Even thought they are giving me wrinkles and grey hair at the tender age of 23...I am still totally loving these cuties.

(Have no fear, I have signed releases from all their parents to put their pic on the internet...have you all seen my classroom website?)

I am loving my elliptical. It makes me feel like I can have McDonald's Ice Coffees everyday.

I am loving that I was apparently a dancing machine on Saturday and my sweet boyfriend humored me and danced with me. See...

Reming you of something?

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=612874312930

Ten things...

I am so glad you all loved WILW as much as me =) As promised, I will start us off with my top ten list for the week. This week (as superficial as it is) 10 things I cannot live without.

1. You all know how OCD I am. When it comes to school, lesson plans, assessments, I am beyond OCD. Meet my lesson planning binder.

2. I forget how OOC my hair is until I have a day like today when I thought I was a freshmen in college and had a little too much to drink last night and didn't feel "up to" fixing my hair give my hair a break and let it air dry. Brent got me a new straightener for Christmas and it = love. My hair goes from this

to this

in just a matter of minutes. Oh and did I tell you all I got a new haircut. You like it?

3. My new addiction:

yum.

4.

I mean seriously, what did people do without cell phones?

5.

I know you are shocked. PS Brent and I just watched the Facebook movie. That creator guy is a douche.

6.

I looove some blog stalking.

7. I think I went from things I cannot live without to my favorite things. Maybe we should do that next week...

8. 9. 10.

Did you notice I skipped 7? My creative juices dried up.

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi loves! Okay so it has clearly been way too long since all of us have written on the blog and I have been feeling a little disconnected but was SOOOOOOO happy to see this the other day and I absolutely LOVE IT! This fun little things that we can share makes me feel like we are back in Lex hanging out and telling each other about our days. So instead of picking just one day this week, I thought I would share what I loved about the whole week, because since I worked all the dang time this week there really wasn't one particular day that stood out, but here goes....

My new favorite thing ever is the new iPod nano touch. So I joined the JCC which is the Jewish Community Center (aka where Jews go to gossip and drive so freaking slow in the parking lot, that it takes me longer to find a parking spot than workout!) Anyways so I joined and got a free iPod, no really FREE, I just joined paid $60 and they said,"What color would you like?" Okay so I have this awesome new iPod, which did I mention was free?, and I was so excited to make a rocking new mix to motivate me to workout. So I go to run the other day and I was really having a great run, so good in fact that I starting grooving to my music. And by grooving to my music I mean I fully starting dancing while running, which normally probably isn't the brightest idea on a treadmill, but on that particular Tuesday it was. And to give you a visual this is what I
Also this week I reconnected with my fat kid inside. I do not know what my deal is but I have been inhaling food like nobodies business. I am constantly hungry and nothing in my apartment is satisfying enough. So the other night after my awesome workout I made a dank burger on my George Forman and just kept thinking about what else I wanted to eat. Finally a few hours later I remembered my long lost love...YOGURTLAND. This is so appropriately named because it truly is the holy land of yogurt. You walk in and there are 20 flavors of frozen yogurt (that change daily) and it is self serve. Not only that, but there are no sizes, just one big cup and you put whatever you want in it because besides the wealth of flavors there are a wealth of toppings. It is like a dream come true because naturally you put a bunch of different flavors and a bunch of different toppings and create a masterpiece. This was one tasty treat that really made my week! Here is a visual...
The other thing that I was really excited about this week is the fact that I leave for Israel in a week! I think that I have told all of you that I am going to Israel on a free trip for 10 days. I fly out of New York so I thought while I'm on the east coast why not go and see Matt. So I am going to stay in Rhode Island for a few nights then it's off to New York (well just the airport) and then Israel. I actually really wish I had no life obligations because I was daydreaming yesterday about backpacking around Israel, and then Greece, and then wherever else my travels might take me. But school and work of course are getting in the way of that dream so maybe in another life. Well that is my week in a nutshell...awkward dancing on the treadmill and pigging out a Yogurtland. I'm telling you I lead quite the exciting life! Love you all and I can't wait to share my travels with you when I get back from Israel!

Inserting "What a great idea Jane Ann"

I LOVED "What I'm Loving Wednesday" and your post!!! My sister also loves "What I'm Loving Wednesday" on her blog (must be a teacher thing). Since I had no time to share what I was loving on Wednesday I'm sharing...

1. I'm loving old people! It is pretty much all we see at my new clinic placement and I am in Heaven! They are just too cute and so appreciative. Best of all, they don't scream in your face when you try to put things in their ears. Love kids, but the geris definitely have my heart.

2. I'm loving Skype! Because we can't see each other and we've been working on the whole "trust" issue and re-getting to know each other, TJ and I have been skyping almost every night. It's so fun! I am pretty much obsessed with it and think everyone with a camera on their computer should get it so I can talk to YOU on Skype! lindsaywalker11- find me :)

3. I'm loving hearing aid technology!! (Yes, I'm more than aware that I am a total nerd!) They have so many new things that pediatrics and adults can both use. The hearing aids are getting really small too and can hardly be seen! Yesterday in clinic we played with some things on our downtime and I can honestly say I am jealous of people that get to use this stuff. Some of the stuff is like wearing a bluetooth headset without having the horrible bluetooth thing on...since you can barely see the hearing aid under your hair! You probably thing gross but check it out for yourself if you need convinced. And look how small!!!...

4. I'm loving my new Keurig Coffee maker!!! It's so easy and fast and delish! And since I somehow found a way to get coffee grounds all over the counter every time, it's much cleaner too!

5. I am loving Zac Brown Band and the songs Colder Weather and Knee Deep! So good! In honor of the FREEZING weather here in the Lou...

6. I am loving my super supportive friends that will love and support the decisions I make! And even if they don't....they act like it!!! LOVE YOU GIRLS SO MUCH!!!! :)

I, Jane Ann Norris, have an addiction. I am addicted to reading blogs. OK sorry, that was kinda gay. But seriously, there are tooooonnns of good teacher blogs out there which are perfect for new teachers like me to get ideas to do in the classroom. Anyways, these teachers blogs, sometimes every night, lead me to people I don't even know (but now feel like we are the best of friends) personal blogs. My favorite blogger wrote about how she and her friends from college don't talk as much as she would like but they email a lot. Each week they would have a list they would all write 10 things to go along with the theme that week (10 favorite things, 10 things I am looking forward to, 10 things I dred, etc. etc,) I was thinking how fun that would be for us to post on the blog each week! Insert "what a good idea, Jane Ann" here. Anyway... another fun thing I have seen is...

I'm loving that my front yard/ road looks like this...

So that means... snow day for me. Do not get me wrong, I love my job and my kiddos but I was supposed to have a meeting at central office today alllllll dddaaaayyyy so I am very grateful for the snow day, even if that just means the dumb meeting would be rescheduled.

I'm loving that I am no longer scared to drive in the snow. Gina, Britney, meet LL Cool Car (named by my mother). This of course is not my car because she is all dirty and sitting in the garage but the resemblance is uncanny.

I'm loving that tonight is my favorite night of TV. (Thursday, you are a close second these days, but I love my laugh on Wednesdays.)

I'm loving this video of my brother doing the "expert level" Thriller dance on the Michael Jackson game for wii. Seriously, I die laughing every time I watch it.

(Please do not tell him I showed you this video or the fact that it is on the world wide web.)

Happy Wednesday lovies!

A Squirrelly Connection

A little time and facebook stalking lead me to seeing this:

http://www.alphagam.org/

I was going to put us on there but decided I should ask y'all first. haha I don't want to air anyone's "dirty laundry" or what not. But I just though tit was cool. If nothing else, it'll give us something to read every once in a while. And in the spirit of AGD's connecting: