Amandoo’s Handle of Realitumtum

i did it. i am so tired that i can’t see straight, and i have to finish planning for tomorrow still, but i made it.

and it actually went better than i thought it would. it went well! sure there were good times and bad times, but i had a few laughs, a few sparks of interests in students’ eyes- and- i really feel well-versed in at least theoretically planning out a lesson and carrying it out as best i can.

did that make any sense?

who knows. but i am getting my life in order, and it’s exciting. fo sho.

signed,

miss teach

tomorrow is basically my first day of school and i can barely handle the anxiety. luckily my mom sent these, of my niece:

(ps thanks for your patience while waiting for these- i have yet to add the other two!)

i have her pic tiled all over my screen as the desktop background. she inspires me.

ok fine dawgs. here they are all small for now and whatnot.

aww what a special

Zenhabits, an amazing site to help you improve your life, has an excellent article on 7 Habits to Change Your Life - And How to Form Them! I am going to go over the 7 steps, as I prepare for my public procrastination challenge (for myself). You should check out these habits too!

Before:
1) Do a 30-day challenge focusing on just ONE habit.
2) Write, on paper (or computer?)-> motivations, obstacles, and strategies to overcome them.
3) Commit fully- in a public way. Then log your progress. And then keep it public so you remain publicly accountable- report on your progress.
4) You’ll need support for when you falter- in real life, or online (I wonder if I’ll have any online support hmmm).
5) Reward every little success (I like that idea!).
6) If you fail, figure out what went wrong, plan for it, and try again.

So far I have the idea, and some of the background written out, but I’ll have to put up a whole written thing on my motivations and obstacles. Then I need to get more support. But I’m making it public right now.

Now for the 7 tips:

1) Develop positive thinking- something I strive for, and I do on occasion, but, alas, it’s tough. Positive thinking, moving forward, focusing on the half-full part of the glass. I must keep it going, and I know that it’s almost like rolling a ball uphill, but it can roll. Rolling a ball downhill is negative thinking- it’s easy, and it gains and gains. But uphill? You have to work, and it can roll after all…You see?
2) Exercise- DONE! I hadn’t been exercising for years besides walking and I recently started working out twice a week and it’s been great! I run and lift, and I know the only reason I’ve been keeping with it is my workout buddy!!
3) Single-tasking- aka the opposite of multiple tasking. I am a crazy multiple tasker and that’s part of the bad procrastination. I must focus and finish. One. Thing. At. A. Time.
4) Focus on one goal- procrastinating is vague and large, but if I fine-tune my thoughts and goals here (which I will honestly in a few hours when I get home), then, I can focus on changing my habits there.
5) Eliminate the non-essential. This one is great. Recently I started changing a bunch of email preferences so I get most of my important mail in one account. I could do it in A LOT of areas- so I’ll take number 4’s advice and focus and finish in each area I think of that I can eliminate non-essentials.
6) Kindness- yeah yeah. I guess I could work on this one.
7) Daily routine- this will probably get easier naturally as I progress through my first year in the teaching world, but I know that I must do my part to establish a regular eating, sleeping, email-checking, planning, working out, and RELAXATION time!

Check out their article, as mine is discombobulated and I like to confuse things. I really like their ideas, and I’ll get back to you about the details of my Personal Procrastination Challenge.

…i’d probably just cry a river, and i wouldn’t be saving myself any time. valuable, precious time.

but i’m frustrated because i’m not getting what i need for planning my teaching.

that said, to be a positive thinker- at least i have some of the resources i need. it could be much worse if i was in a public inner-city school.

eh, what can you do. cry. no. not productive enough.

just do. relax and breathe. maybe.

and then, whether i want it or not, time will pass.

Take cover peeps! They’re spraying near and far and it might come get you or your baby!

Read up on the areas on your local news online channel, or read about DEP to Conduct Aerial Mosquito Treatment or any other googling product.

Most importantly : Telepathic Giraffe Tells Us It Like It Is ! and shares my dinner in the midst.

Gotta love a delicious vegan hoagie and steamed kale and raw food pad thai. Health factors!!!

Here I am hangin with my whole-wall projector tv screen machine.

Do you really need any more reasons to believe that my new apartment is simply the best?

it’s sad how they money system in america works. money sucks (causes problems) all over the world, but it’s really sad for me to think about how much teachers do get paid versus what they should get paid. and a lot of professions for that matter. and then i think about iraq and the gazillions of dollars the people in hierarchy over me are wasting like water.

i would do this, i would do that, if i had the money.

i am happy to have a decent job this year monetarily, but it still won’t get me anywhere near out of debt. i have credit card debt (boo! the worst!!) and oodles of school loan debt (payin until i’m decayin’)

but heck. you only live once! wellllllll i do need to live more frugally. the key is now that i’m making a little bit more money, i need to save it, and pay off the right things.

woh is that ol’ stuff. but yeah, focus on the positives, and hope that blogging will make me money?! or make it make me money!!!

Like my awesome old Sound Guard 8402 117 V.A.C. 35 Watt AM radio?!

Tippy Canoe and Luna were on the floor today, loungin’, as usual, when all of a sudden…

They are not actually holding hands. Well, they sort of were, and I caught them (which makes me proud), but one second later they were fighting. A lot.

I don’t have a flixwagon account yet because I don’t have an i-phone or other catchy device that can capture video and send it straight onto the internet tubes.

This site lets you put up clips from a second to maybe an hour (I guess I should have researched more) but whatever you want, and you can choose categories such as music, travel, entertainment, or the default ‘my life’.

Here is a great Fresh Cut Salads in the recording studio video that I’ve watched quite a few times. The Fresh Cut Salads videos are fun, and I think the site has great potential for bands to put up practices and concerts and such.

But there are also stupid videos, of which I imagine there will be a lot. The most viewed videos right now are mostly from some girl named SarahM and she seems like a pretty dumb blonde to me. She might work for some company that would make her seem smart, but I don’t care enough to watch long enough- it’s torturous and just as so many other things on the internet- it’s either because she might be seen as “hot” or because there keep being more and more views, that people watch it.

Anyway, check it out, it’s a decent idea and we’ll see where it goes.