Time Saving Tips

I had a long, tiring day yesterday while writing a paper for finals and trying to get things done for Best Buddies and Friends For Life. I also spend a good chunk of time every day listening to messages and returning phone calls. The one thing that made my day yesterday was...are you ready for this?...discovering how to text in the shower!
I'm a genius! Granted, this probably won't save that much time but it is pretty fantastic. I wonder if I could use the same method to return phone calls while in the shower. Ok--that's kinda weird, but I could listen to messages.
All I did was slid my opened flip phone into a plastic baggie, sealed it closed, and viola! You are now ready to text or listen to messages in the shower!

Mmmm

After cleaning out my fridge to leave for Thanksgiving break, the mere contents of my fridge now consist of 2 beers, a bottle of wine, and a bag of carrots. Ahh...the college life. :)

Update in pictures

When your paperwork gets higher than your morning coffee, it is time to quit and carve a pumpkin!

Do you think we look alike?

I had to dress like the 80s for school on Thursday So I continued the theme through my other halloween festivities. Above is me with some Buddies and the Best Buddies halloween party and below I am with my roomies at our party. And yes, those are leopard print tights that I found in the regular section of Target--not the halloween section. Now that's scary!

Police on halloween

Well, it just wouldn't be halloween if something eventful didn't happen. I just finished giving my statement to Auburn Police for our lovely neighbor banging on our door at 3:30 in the morning for about 30 minutes.

At About 3:30, I woke up to someone banging on our door and decided to ignore it since all the roommates were home and I figured someone was probably just too trashed to remember where they lived. A few minutes later someone starts to pound again then walk off. By now, I am just pissed. One of my roommates is up and looks through the peep hole to check to see if anyone is out there but doesn't see anyone. And another one of my roommates is awake because her dog is barking at the little felon.

After a few more times of him pounding on our door and my bedroom wall, a roommate and I decide to call the police. It just doesn't sound like your typical lost drunk. He has been pounding on other people's doors too and he doesn't stick around at all after knocking, just moves on to the next one.

By now, 2 of my 3 roommates are sitting in the kitchen with me waiting for the police to arrive. The police arrived a few minutes before 4 am and apprehended the dude. They spend some time doing drunk tests which are kinda pointless because he is beyond wasted. Then they ask one of my roommates to identify him--she saw him out of our peep hole as he stumbled up to pound on our door the last time. Eventually, they charged him with something (attempted something or other).

The police officer said that people have been knocking on others' doors and if no one answers after a while, they assume that no one is there and kick the door in to rob the place. They think this is what he was doing but said that he had another excuse. Do you want to know what our friendly neighbor's excuse for scaring us half to death was?!... "He wanted to ask one of us out!" Hah! You are guaranteed success with that method mister. I'm shocked you're still single.

And after all of this, my roommate Ann is still out like a rock! She hasn't budged through the pounding on the door, the dog barking, police coming in to take my statement, or the 3 of us sitting in our living room talking. It must be nice to be a heavy sleeper.
Now that it is 5:30 am, I'm going to sleep--praising the Lord that we are all still alive and that tomorrow is Saturday. :)

Peace and Joy

"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverence; perseverence, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." Romans 5:1-5


I am constantly guilty of focusing on all of the things that are going wrong in my life or obstacles that I am faced with. It is so easy to forget that I have been shown grace and that I am forgiven. I do not have to earn grace, it has been GIVEN to me. It was not free by any means, but God sacrificed his only Son to give me grace. I can't imagine what they would be like! To watch your son be beaten and spit upon. Despised and rejected. And all this for people who were created in his image to worship him but then doubted and are constantly sinning against him and looking for satisfaction in everything but God. For me!

Thank you God for reminding me of the greatness of my sins and of your grace!

Blagh!

I feel like every time I open my mouth to speak that I am throwing up words. I have so much on my mind and feel like sometimes nothing comes out (dry heaves) and sometimes everything comes out (you-know-what).
Things I am thinking about:
1. Which Buddies to mail another application.
2. Email college students to pair them with a Buddy.
3. Get paperwork from everyone so I can mail it to regionals
4. Call everyone back that left me a message today
5. Email everyone who emailed me today
6. Fill out and mail my adsentee ballot application
7. Mute the debate!--I can't take all this politics, confrontation, and arguing.
8. Pack everything I need for practicum tomorrow (notes, snack, caffeinated drink)
9. Set alarm- 5:30 am
10. Read the book about copyright laws for class thursday.
11. Did I turn in my project that was due today?
12. Fix lesson plans from last week
13. email practicum supervisor my self-evaluations, intervention plans and lesson plans from last week
14. write next week's intervention plans, lesson plans, etc
15. am I going to go to UNO for grad school
16. where will I work?
17. where will I live?
18. where will i go to church?
19. how am i going to pay for it?!
20. Stop thinking!!
I am now going to finish my glass of wine while I listen to the rain and fall asleep-- I'm pooped out!
"God is good, all the time! All the time, God is good!"

A little peek into life in the special ed classroom

1. Today we had a funeral for the month of September. (It had to die so October could take its place)
2. Apparently the word salt is sounded out as "slut".
3. One of the student's parents had a birthday this week and turned 104.