I have religiously been listening to Astronomy Cast...which is completely awesome...because who doesn't like a weekly fact based journey through the cosmos?
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I filled the lawn mower with gas.  I pushed the little button thingy on the side.  I pulled the cord thing and MOWED THE LAWN!  I have never mowed a lawn before and I think I did a pretty good job.  And I mowed far enough around the bunny hole in the middle of the yard...so the little bit of tall grass is hardly noticeable!!!  YAY!

I found these when I was looking for some wedding stuff online...I think they are pretty great!

Pastor: Will you answer me right now
These questions, as your wedding vow?

Groom: Yes, I will answer right now
Your questions as my wedding vow.

Pastor: Will you take her as your wife?
Will you love her all your life?

Groom: Yes, I take her as my wife,
Yes, I'll love her all my life.

Pastor: Will you have, and also hold
Just as you have at this time told?

Groom: Yes, I will have, and I will hold,
Just as I have at this time told,
Yes, I will love her all my life
As I now take her as my wife.

Pastor: Will you love through good and bad?
Whether you're happy or sad?

Groom: Yes, I'll love through good and bad,
Whether we're happy or sad,
Yes, I will have and I will hold
Just as I have already told,
Yes, I will love her all my life,
Yes, I will take her as my wife!

Pastor: Will you love her if you're rich?
Or if you're poor, and in a ditch?

Groom: Yes, I'll love her if we're rich,
And I will love her in a ditch,
I'll love her through good times and bad,
Whether we are happy or sad,
Yes, I will have, and I will hold
(I could have sworn this has been told!)
I promise to love all my life
This woman, as my lawful wife!

Pastor: Will you love her when you're fit,
And also when you're feeling sick?

Groom: Yes, I'll love her when we're fit,
And when we're hurt, and when we're sick,
And I will love her when we're rich
And I will love her in a ditch
And I will love through good and bad,
And I will love when glad or sad,
And I will have, and I will hold
Ten years from now a thousandfold,
Yes, I will love for my whole life
This lovely woman as my wife!

Pastor: Will you love with all your heart?
Will you love till death you part?

Groom: Yes, I'll love with all my heart
From now until death do us part,
And I will love her when we're rich,
And when we're broke and in a ditch,
And when we're fit, and when we're sick,
(Oh, CAN'T we get this finished quick?)
And I will love through good and bad,
And I will love when glad or sad,
And I will have, and I will hold,
And if I might now be so bold,
I'll love her my entire life,
Yes, I WILL take her as my wife!

Pastor: Then if you'll take her as your wife,
And if you'll love her all your life,
And if you'll have, and if you'll hold,
From now until the stars grow cold,
And if you'll love through good and bad,
And whether you're happy or sad,
And love in sickness, and in health,
And when you're poor, and when in wealth,
And if you'll love with all your heart,
From now until death do you part,
Yes, if you'll love her through and through,
Please answer with these words:

Pastor and Groom: I DO!

Pastor: You're married now! So kiss the bride,
But please, do keep it dignified.

We are discussing rainbows and colors at school this week and I decided to do the rainbow flower experiment (where you put a white flower's stem in water with food coloring and the flower changes color).  After we identified the colors and put the flowers in the cups, I asked the kids what they thought would happen...the response was as follows:

R asks: So guys, what do you think will happen to the flowers that are in the colored water?
S replies, with finger on chin and very serious look on his face:  Well...I think they will explode...or maybe grow some more...

Earlier in the day we were discussing what we wanted to be when they grew up...

R asks: So, D, what are you going to be when you grow up?
D responds; I think I am going to be an Iron Man or a Batman...but if not, I'll be a daddy.

I love my jobs some days...

I am working on wedding invitations with my future mother in law!  It is really great that she drove down to help me because I am starting to freak out just a little bit!  Where did the last year and a half of our engagement go?!  And I am really worried that I will forget to send someone an invitation and they will be offended.  If you don't get an invite and you should have...please tell me!  I will definitely send you one and I promise you weren't over looked because I don't like you (well...unless of course I don't like you ^_^) but because I am a scatterbrain girl with two jobs and a lucky bastard of a fiance who doesn't have to do any invitations...but guess who will be doing the thank you notes!  Oh yeah...HAHAHA!

I walked past the produce section and smelled strawberries...
...I wish it were spring...

So my new favorite anime ever is Saiyuki!!!  It is based on a story from 16th century China called "Journey to the West".  Its about a monk, a pig demon, a half demon, and the monkey king traveling to India to prevent the resurrection of an evil people eating demon. There is a huge amount of swearing, drinking, womanizing, and fighting!!  The voice actors (in the dubbed version, I watched it instantly on netflix so I couldn't watch the Japanese version) are AMAZING!!!  I just started reading the manga and so far its awesome as well!  Anyway...it was spectacular and I can't wait to get the next part of the series in the mail!!!!

Anyone who knows me knows that I love anime and I watch it a lot.  I have been having difficulty dealing with the fact that the voices I hear in the shows I watch do not match up with the faces of the people that they belong to (yes I looked up some of the actors that are in some of the shows I watch).  I don't know if its attachment to the character they are portraying or if its just the idea you get from the voice (ie Crispin Freeman my fave voice actor has a really deep nice sounding voice but he is a really nerdy looking white guy with weird highlights...uh...not what I had envisioned in my head).  And I understand that is maybe part of the reason they are voice actors instead of stage actors, but it is still weird to me!!

Since I am talking anime...I just started watching a new series called Saiyuki and I love it!!!

After two months of being sad and computer-less...I am once again connected to the world through a series of small tubes.  I love the internet.  Now excuse me while I catch up on two months of secret fan-fiction reading!

Tonight is my last night of CDA class.  I am kind of sad because my Monday nights will no longer be occupied, but I can console myself with the fact I have four more months to finish my paperwork before I am actually done!  

Also...sometimes people are crazy and it scares me a little bit.  Thanks!

I was supposed to work from 7-2:30 today...but no truck came in to B&N so....I don't have to work today!  GO ME!  I slept in til 10:30!!  I am going to get my laundry done!!  I am going to have clean dishes!  I am going to vacuum the two carpets in my house and sweep the rest!  I am going to have dinner and go to karaoke with a friend!  YAY! Oh Happy Day!

...can you tell I don't get out much?...

I went to the movies last night!  I saw Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.  I thought it was super cute and liked it a lot.  However, before the movie there was an Army advertisement that involved Kid Rock singing a song called Warrior or some bullshit like that.  It had the whole Army motto running through it, the "I am a soldier, I will not accept defeat" blah blah blah, and it just pissed me off to the point of almost being in tears.  My mom just told me a few days ago that her deployment was more than likely getting moved from July to April (if not sooner) and that she had gotten a copy of her dog tags to send to me to have while she is gone.  So, not only is my mother going to be gone for 15 months missing out on her life, but she is going to miss our wedding and whatever happens in our lives over that time period, and for what?  To save me from the terrorists that are going to come over here and blow up my cat?  To protect the American way of life...which is being in a country which is skipping to hell in a handbasket?  I am sorry to say that I can not willingly say that I am prepared to risk my mother's mental wellbeing and her life for that.  I am not willing to watch one of my little boys at school cry because he misses his mom because she is gone too.  Let alone knowing all of the kids and spouses and other people who will never see their family members again, and for the people who will never get to be grown ups because they died over there, and for what?!  I hate this war, I hate anyone who supports it, and if you really want to support the troops, then do whatever you can to bring them home, where they belong.

So I got a personal trainer.  His name is Wayne.  He makes me hurt and he smiles while he does it.  I have sore muscles in places I didn't even know I had muscles!  But its good.  I like it and hopefully he'll whip me into shape!  YAY workout!  

When I got to B&N last night and read the daily planner one of my duties was "costume".  Costume?!  After asking my manager what that meant and she told me I got to dress up like little nutbrown hare!  So I put on this awesome bunny costume  (the coolest part was the little body suit you had to wear underneath the fur to make you round.  It was padded with a mesh shoulders and crotch!) and then I walked blindly through the store to the kids section and was hugged and high fived by the kids and then stumbled back to the breakroom, drenched with sweat and sporting an awesome bruise on my nose from my first attempt putting the bunny head on.  It was awesome and I would totally do it again.  I like my job!
  <---Thats not me...but when I get the photos of me in the outfit...I will totally show them to everyone!

I just got home from Seattle...still running a bit on PST!!  Boo!  My trip was fun! I got to see my mommy, Andrea and Steve, and my honey!!  Spent a lot of time wandering around Seattle, hanging out with Army people, and enjoying the fact my mommy cooked food for me!!

Last night, my last evening in Seattle, we (we being Andrea, Steve, and I) were eating at this place called Bamboo Garden and Andrea noticed a dude who looked like the lead singer of Band of Horses.  She went and asked them if thats who they were...they said no...but upon further investigation...picture looking...we decided that it actually was.  *sigh*...being lied to by an awesome band is almost as sad a finding out that they are Mormon...oh well...we saw Beck there too!

So when I got to school this morning, I made the sad discovery that our good friend Icabod the fish had died.  I knew from the moment I brought him to school that there was going to come a day when I had to have the "Icabod died while we were at home last night" talk...but I was hoping it would be longer than a year and a half.  However, despite his short time with us...he survived three classes of three year olds, getting spilled in the car on his first day to school, getting pulled out of his bowl and set on a table by a child that didn't even belong in my room, and did I mention a year and a half with three year olds!  He was a noble fish, a happy fish, a spanish speaking fish and we will miss him terribly.

 

And to add a bit of humor to the situation...one of my little girls asked me if I was going to die like Icabod while I was gone on vacation.  I said no.

One of my little guys at school decided to take too big of a bite of hot dog during lunch today, then not chew it and swallow.  He stands up, drops his spoon and starts waving his arms.  I look at him, ask him what he is doing, realize he is choking, smack him on the back a couple of times, he starts turning blue, I feel like someone just kicked me in the stomach, turn him around and start doing the Heimlich Maneuver, and pretty soon we have projectile piece of hot dog flying onto the table.  He sat down, I sat down and told the other kids this is why we chew our food all the way so we don't choke on it, and we finished our lunch.

All I can say is I NEVER want to do that again!

I am now a proud Barnes & Noble worker!  My first day is tomorrow!  Good thing I stayed positive!

It's been a week since my interview at Barnes & Noble.   I talked to my interviewer today and she said that she had gotten all my references and that they would make a decision soon.  *sigh* It's torture!  I wish that they would decide!  My ego is on the verge of being damaged!!  However, we need to be positive people...so chin up!

I applied for a new part-time job ( I tried to be a one job kinda girl...what can I say...I am a job junkie)!  Someone I knew from college told me that Barnes and Noble is hiring and I put in an application today.  Thinking about it...I don't know what I will do if they A) Don't call me for an interview or B) Interview me but don't hire me.  I have never applied for a job and not gotten it....my fragile ego might not be able to handle the blow.  But...I just handed it in today...so I will worry about it if they haven't contacted me by next Friday.

Its 95 degrees with 60%+ humidity outside....and our air conditioner is broken....so just about as bad inside.

I saw my first fireflies of summer tonight!  ^_^!