Tough Titles

So just now, I realized that I'd spent 20 minutes just thinking while staring at the screen. First I was trying to decide on a title. Then who knows where all my mind went... It went from possible titles, to noticing that our heater is working again (yay!), to "where would i be if...", and so many more places. But anyways, I suppose I'm back from that far off place, and back into the world of blogging.

Today, was a very different, yet interesting day. It started off a bit sad, just cause I had to say goodbye to Matt. He'll be in Mesa for the break.... All 3 Weeks! :o) I was realizing that is just one week less than a month.... and about the same amount of time he was gone in the summer! That felt like forever!!! Whoa, when I think of it that way, it's just even more depressing. But yet, I know it'll be a great time. He'll be with his family, oh, and he's going to Six Flags near L.A., plus christmas, and all that jazz. I don't mean to be so negative, and selfish by singley thinking "Oh, Matt's leaving me." I guess I just mean that I'll miss him like mad while he's gone.

Then off to work at Gold's Gym I went. It was pretty fun. This cute little girl named Asia kept tagging along with me where ever I went throughout the gym. She had me read her a book while she sat in my lap, and she's pretty much adorable. Then, Nikole, of age 10, came in and we played with these top spinny things while she told me about school, and her family, and random things that were so fascinating to her. Then eventually this boy, David, who was probably about Six, was playing football with me. He was remarkable. I'm tellin' ya , the kid has talent. He had the spiral down and everything. I was amazed. And last, by certainly not least, Sebastian stuck out to me as well today. Sebastian has somewhat shaggy brown hair, big brown eyes, he has somewhat tanned skin, and he's always wearing these cute preppy little outfits. Today while David and I were playing catch, Sebastian would decide to join, so he'd tackle me - which I of course defended myself by tickling him (it seems like the best thing to do). His adorable little smile and laugh melted my heart. I'm a sucker for cute little kids, but I don't know who isn't.
One thing that happens a lot throughout the hours of work there, the kids don't know what to call you besides "Teacher." It makes me feel a little special, but I usually try to teach them my name. "Teri" doesn't seem too difficult, and it'd be cool if one day, one of these kids actually remembers my name. So Sebastian is a defiant character, as are most 2 year olds or 3 year olds. So I said "Sebastian, will you say my name? Can you say "Teri"?" and he was certaintly not going to say it. I'd never really believed in reverse psychology, but I thought, "hey, I might as well experiment... see if it works." Sure enough, it was the easiest thing ever. I said " Sebastiiiian, Don't Say My Name! Don't Do It!... Don't say Teri! Whatever you do, don't say Teri!" Then within 30 seconds, he yelled with a snickering face, "Teri!" It was awesome! Because not only did this reverse thing work, but then later on he was actually calling me by my first name, instead of Teacher! I'm sorry, but I truely felt accomplished, and a little more personal to the kids that I was watching. I don't know why some days I find these kids to be extraordinary, and then others I don't think any thing of it. But, they truely are amazing. Sometimes I'm baffled at how quickly they pick things up. And their personalities seem to shine, leaving me to imagine how they'll grow up. It's quite exciting.

Well, That was work. Then I went on home... I ate some food, took a nap... then when i awoke, Kimi and I decided who'd she'd married. Somehow we figured we could be related... but ya know, I'm not really sure how I didn't notice I wasn't thinking logically. I suppose not blood relatives, but... close enough. Anyways, no one probably has a clue what the heck i'm talking about, but that's alright. I do.

Then I was off to Trade Secret... that other place that I work. It was pretty laid back, I brought in the book "the Giver" because I can't for the life of my remember any detailsof it, except for the kids name is Jonas. I remember that I loved the book, but what happened? Don't know. But I had this book with me, and it was amazing the comments that I got on it. People would come in and ask, "Hey, are you reading this?" and we'd have this conversation about how wonderful the book was, and I'd tell them I can't remember any of it, and blah blah blah....... It was just one of those dumb things you find amusing at work because you have nothing else to amuse you. Well, that was the fun part, but Closing was a bugger. I don't know how to close! I have only closed by myself once, and I was $1.50 off in the till because I'm just special I guess. But this time was worse. I seem to confuse myself quite often. I just need a strategy, a system that works. But I had no check list, there was no stylist there, and they left me to just come up with the answer to this closing dealio. So... it ended up that I had to call a stylist, she tried to walk me through it, but the computer shut off because I took so long! Haha, the impatient little thing. Grr.. but that then kept me from staying any longer I suppose, which wouldn't have been any more "fun".

And, now I'm here, typing this boring detailed blog about my boringly detailed day. Okay, so it wasn't that boring to me, since it was in fact My day. I wonder what it'd be like to have a day of someone else's life. Hmm.. yes, I'm sure we've all wondered that once in our life.

I'm so incredably tired. I think that I'm on this no sleep high, cause I just keep typing and yet I really have nothing to say. It's quite strange. and my eyes are nowwww shutting...............zzzzzzz

No Tag Backs

Keep this on the "Low Down" "Down Low" "No Doubt"

1. In Elementary, I was the one who pulled Jon Normans seat from under him in music class. But Miss. Larol didn't think I'd ever do it, so I didn't get my name on the board.
2. I got detention for not wearing my boots at recess in the 5th grade.
3. I ran out of perfume once, and used cinnamon Glade in hopes that I'd have some sort of scent.
4. Once in band my pocket caught on my chair and my pants ripped. I then waited for the entire class to leave so I could run to my gym locker with my instrument hiding me from any small portion of embaressment it could.
5. When I was extremely little, of course, I was being babysat by these people who had a trampoline. I hadn't experienced much trampoline jumping , so I was having a blast. Despite the fact that it was much too cold to be outside, and that I had to go to the bathroom - I played and jumped on that trampoline for hours. At first the girls watching me were with me too, and they asked if I had to go the bathroom (apparently I wasn't fooling anyone). I said very confidently that I did not, because of my rebelious little heart that didn't want to stop jumping. They eventually left, I peed my pants, and then tried to hide the fact by sitting in a puddle. When they came back out, I wasn't jumping on the trampoline, they asked if i'd peed my pants, and I being incredibly embaressed told them that I undoubtedly fell into a puddle.

I Tag Matt (again, in case he didn't see it), Jo, Autumn, ... and that's all I can think of.

Pow Wow

Last night, Kimi decided to sleep in the living room because of the lack of heat that ever makes it to anyones bedroom. Dorothy sleeps with this huge-no- gigantic down comforter at night that looks so extremely cozy. I ought to get me one of them, that's for sure. Blankets are so handy, I think they got the saying wrong... it should be "cozy blankets are a girls best friend" (or anyone for that matter). I mean look at Linus from Charlie Brown. He seems to have the concept of just how great those "blanky's" are. Anyways, Last night was comfortably warm because I decided I'd sleep on the little couch in the living room since Kimi was in there. It was a great time let me tell ya. I walk in and the living room light was on, so I went to look and see if anyone was there. I can't really tell you why, but I looked at her, and she looked at me, and we both started laughing pretty hard. So then I changed out of my freezing, wet clothes ( we went and played in the snow... mostly chucking snowballs..... which is always interesting because I get hit all the time, and yet I can't seem to do anything about it. ) I put some warm pajamas on grabbed my "blanky's" and sprawled out on the couch. Kimi and I talked for a while about a few things. She told me about how she thought, "What if I died today? I wonder how long it would take for all of my friends to find out."

Intermission: I just witnessed something that seemed a bit interesting. It was kind of cute. This guy was on one of the computers in this here lab, and a girl not right next to her, but the next computer over was just sitting working on something. Now, this is me judging people again, but just by observation she looks like the intellectual, and she seems pretty shy and reserved. But this guy, stands up and he starts talking to her because he thinks he recognizes her from his hometown. He tells her what he's doing for christmas, and about someother stuff, and tells her his name, and she says she rememebers his brother. He then smiles, and shakes her hand, and then gives his name. She shook his hand and then gave her own name. Then he left and I was left to observe the reaction. It was great. Her face seemed a little rosy from, and she was letting a somewhat conservative smile show. Girls you know what I'm talking about. It was twitterpation for sure. It was that, "wow, what a nice person. He just made my day." and then you have a temporary self confidence boost, that you wish would last forever. I doubt that guy knows that she thought anything much of the their conversation, but he probably just gave her one of those boost's with just a friendly conversation. (here I am completely making this conclusion from observation... but it just seemed as if this was the case... it's very possible it wasn't.. but these are my thoughts.) Don't you love those moments?

... Continued....
So Kimi was analying the death situation, and we concluded that she'd make a list of all the people we should tell for her since her parents wouldn't ever remember to tell everyone and they'd be too stressed trying to cope themselves. We talked about our relationships with our families... mostly our parents. And then many other things were mentioned. It was just great, cause sometimes you need people to talk to. Sometimes it's hard to find someone to talk to. When you don't have those friends that were always your best around at 1:00 in the morning what are you to do? Well, this time Kimi was there to save the day. Way to be Kimi. It's funny how you can adapt to mostly anyones personality. It's probably hard not having these roomate experiences before you go on a mission... cause then you're new to that concept of being with a complete stranger 24/7. Not that having roomates is all that similar, but It's probbaly hard having to deal with that among a million other things you need to be doing, and stressing about. ANyways. It was just time for a new blog, and this is all I got, so Have a Wonderful Day everyone, and I hope to see everyone's bright and smiling faces sometime in the near future!