tomorrow a new point of view...

well i have been going back and forth about changing to word press. i have decided i am going ahead with the switch.

please don't forget about me! follow me into the dark at tomorrow a new point of view.

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so i love being a teacher. well most of the time. i LOVE having a 2.5 month sabbatical every summer. you know what i don't love so much? going back to work. i guess life was a little abnormally busy this summer with moving across the country and all...but still.

i DO have to say... so far my school and all its staff are fabulous. i am excited to get in the swing of things.

i am able to be at work at 9 this week but waking up with an alarm has not made it enjoyable. who knows what next week will hold when i have to be at work even earlier.

going to work all day, trying to "work out", and unpack has made me feel really tired this week. once our place becomes a little more organized i will feel like i can rest at home. soon enough.

samantha i will call you soon. thanks for your sweet message. allie...jasen has mislead you...i don't know his true intentions about putting a video up for you. keep asking him.

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last week i saw this psa and it got me thinking...

then today we had a full faculty meeting with a FBI agent talking to us about the dangers of minors and the world wide web. he showed us how easily he could locate the kids from our high school on myspace. in a few easy steps he had located over 50 kids with all their personal information.

really creepy stuff. he was telling us how employers and colleges now search myspace and such to find out more about their applicants.

crazy.

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jasen and i were just discussing how we haven't had the chance to walk around town and really enjoy why we moved downtown. tonight was the night. after a long day of first aid and cpr lectures...jasen picked me up and we headed home to park the car.

we headed to paesanos for a super dinner. on our walk home we stopped in at the beat. thanks to the walton's recommendation...e picked up the new eisley cd along with "once" soundtrack on vinyl.

good night in sacramento...with many more to come.

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so jasen and i just picked up 2 new additions to our family:





these sweet pieces are found at cost plus for about 3 times more than what we paid! score!

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thursday i went the crest with my new bff samantha walton. (hope she doesn't mind me labeling her that.) this independent theatre was fabulous! there was so much character and interesting architecture. i can't wait to go back and bring jasen.

we went to see broken english with parker posey. great movie. it kinda reminded me of bridget jones's diary with out the accents and british humor. boys and girls alike...you should see it. it was great.

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so we are at our new home in sacramento. wow...it is MORE awesome than expected. before moving i felt pretty guilty for spending extra money on a place when we could use it for something else...but now that we are here...well...i don't feel so guilty anymore.

when we moved in yesterday we were greeted to a stack of coupons and gift certificates...just for living there! we were especially stoked to receive gift certificates to temple coffee house. this place it totally awesome and a block away from our house! we also get a free unlimited imax pass for the length of our lease. so i guess between the free coffee and music...we will make up for it in the rent. and yet again...it all works out.

i am having to adjust to the new noises and sounds of city living. we decided to sleep with our windows open last night. the sounds of trucks and cars was actually soothing to us. however...i think the people in the building have been used to the building not being full. we had some late night chatters talking right in front of our door...and i am sure they thought no one had moved in yet. so that woke me up...then for about 45 minutes i listened to the sound of the elevator ding up and down the elevator shaft. (we are down the hall from it...but i have really good hearing.) so maybe in a small investment in some earplugs...or having our furniture moved in will help.

today we are on a mission to find: a mattress, couch and dinning table and chairs. we are at least hoping for the couch. ryan and samantha told us about scandinavian designs so hopefully we will find some sweet deals.

so if you don't mind...be thinking of a few things for us: our adjustment to a new city and jobs, finding community in our city and our jobs, to connect with those who live around us (people we don't know yet...but would like to), and for us to have wise choices with our finances. our goal it to get rid our consumer debt this year.

who knows...it could happen

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is that in the bible somewhere?

i've been on a (mad) search trying to find a job. it's really hard to do it when you are miles and miles away. i have had a couple of leads but i really didn't feel good about the possibilities. so i continued looking. i took a hit to the ego when i found out i didn't get the job i interviewed for...so i pursued one more lead.

i found a lead for an elementary assistant over a job search page. that sounded like the job for me. so i emailed my resume and didn't hear anything (around late july) so i called and left a message. nothing. next, i emailed the head of lower school and her assistant. still nothing. i made one more phone call and finally heard something back last thursday when we were driving to california. i was told the principal would call me back before the weekend...but i didn't hear anything until yesterday. the teacher i would be working for called to chat...and it went great! she told me i would hear back something early this week.

the principal called this morning and said, "we don't normally hire sight unseen been we have really loved talking to you...and we love your resume. we would like to offer you the job if you are interested!"

so sacramento country day school here i come!

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