What a Week

Tristin's Birthday went absolutely wonderfully. I was able to make a delicious paella, have Spanish wine, an awesome salad, and a great desertish platter. What made it really special was just being together!

Pondering...

So after much time, thought, and effort, I have decided to start a master's program in education. I had my first class this past Thursday and it was really great. Although I am nervous about this whole new phase I am more excited than anything else. Although I would love to get a full time teaching position, I feel like my time will come, and I am not sure if it is with this current economy.
So to better serve myself the master's program and various other hobbies are keeping my mind out of the current state of things. But it doesn't take much to get my mind out with my new and wonderful husband to make me smile when I am down, my crazy cats run around and just make me laugh, and inventing new recipes helps me to keep my focus on things that are positive (so that I don't get down on myself).
So here is to a new road with school and a new marriage!

I am a serious blogger....can't you tell?

So after a few long months, all I have to say is WOW! This has been a wonderful, frustrating, eye opening, scary, financially strapped summer.

I moved up to the woods where I don't have cell phone reception, which can be both a blessing and a curse. It is amazing to have the peace and quiet but then when you need to use the phone, you can't. Or when you tell people over and over I don't get cell phone reception where I live, and they still get upset that you don't answer your phone. Hmmmm....

Moving has also made me understand myself better as well as my future husband. We are learning how to better communicate as well as work our schedules together. We are finally starting to get better about talking about our finances together. This is always challenging. Finances can be the cause of a lot of problems so I think it is best to be open about it. So we are definitely working on it.

Now after finally getting used to the summer, having a sugar daddy and looking for jobs, I am back to subbing again. It is bittersweet really. I am thankful that I have the work, but I would really love a full time job. The thought of having my own classroom makes me so excited, but this may not be my year. There is still hope.....

Well I will try to be better about this blog thing. I like having an outlet...

At last...

So here I am writing yet again. After substituting for 2.5 weeks in a high school history class. It was quite an interesting experience, although I have to say that it did get a little repetitive after a bit of time. But there is always that saying, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." I had a job until the end of the school year, which is more than a lot of people, and I was requested for it.

But now after working almost every day since January, I have not school anymore. What's a girl to do? I have decided that I would like to start a masters program, but I decided a little to late, and I missed the application deadlines. But I have been contacting the programs to see if I can take one or two classes before enrolling. That would be perfect and would help me to reach my goal, which is to have my masters before I am 30.

So since being out of school I have been able to relax a bit and work on things that needed to get done, like Tristin and my wedding website: http://www.evanandtristin.weddingwindow.com/
I have also been doing a lot more cooking lately as well as trying a gluten free diet. I have realized that gluten an I don't agree to much, but so many yummy things have gluten....like apple pie!!!! But I have found it like a fun challenge.
Food and I have this relationship....I like it and it likes me. It is quite revolutionary really. So I am trying to come up with some new recipes and put them up here.

Well I think this is a pretty impressive entry for myself. I am trying here, one small step at a time.

The worst blogger ever....

So I know, I know. Blogging isn't my thing. But let me try to get better at this. I need to just make time and now I have download an app for my phone, so now I can try and do it without always having to be on my computer.
In other news....I am engaged! Well not like two days ago, more like two months ago. That is how good I am at blogging. We have the date: December 20. We have the place: Casa Feliz, in Winter Park, FL. We have the caterer and the music. Now we just need to work towards the flowers and dresses along with everything else.

Of death and dying...

Death, even when expected, is never easy.

Ode to the best pizza ever...CHEESEBOARD!!!!

I don't know about you, but there are days that I just think to myself, "Oh, how I would love a piece of pizza." But the thing is, is that when I crave pizza I don't crave just any pizza, I crave the best pizza, Cheeseboard (http://cheeseboardcollective.coop/Pizza%20Collective/z.htm). Unfortunately, it is not that close to my house, so I have to eat some pizza from Trader Joe's. But this never truly takes away my craving for Cheeseboard.
Once you have had this you will understand. It is an addiction. It is a craving. it is a delight. It has this following of "Cheeseboard-ites" or people who will go out of their way and just come there by themselves, and you can tell, because they are often there with this look of extreme hunger.
To make a long story short, if you ever have the privilege to be in Berkeley, Cheeseboard should be on your list of places to stop.