Choices

Another Haircut

Knowing that my sister in law has wonderful abilities to cut hair, I take advantage of that to try out the kind of hairstyle that I like. I decided to have a hairstyle that I have wanted to try for a while.  Short in back, long in front, like a reverse mullet.

I think that it turned out cute.  I also kept the bangs. 

Side view...

Back view.

I guess it is a little bit hard to see in pictures, but I love it.

New Lappy

I got my new laptop today.  It is adorable and lime green.  Endrit let me get the lappy that I wanted.  I am in love  with it.  It has a lot of memory, separate volume control for everything.  That is good when you are voice chatting and listening to music at the same time. So, I am still learning about all of the gadgets that the computer has.

Sweet Potatoes

I have never been a fan of sweet potatoes.  So, when Bountiful Baskets had 2 weeks with sweet potatoes in them I had to figure out the way to prepare them so I would enjoy eating them.  The first week I made sweet potato mashed potatoes for Shepard's Pie.  It was really good.  This last week I was at a restaurant and on the menu it had sweet potato fries.  So, I went home today and for dinner I made a couple of my sweet potatoes into fries.  They were really good!!  I am starting to be a fan of sweet potatoes.  It is good to have things thrust onto you so that you can learn to like what you receive.  At least I am willing.

If you want to see a grown woman cry...

Send her to watch the last test of the solid rocket boosters for the space shuttle program.  I literally bawled for 20 minutes after I saw that.  All of my childhood dreams were summed up.  The space shuttle is on its last leg. I shook the hand of a man that was orbiting the Earth less than a year ago.  To see the huge flames from 2 miles away and feel the ground shake beneath my feet and the roar in my ears makes me want to sing!  It makes me want to fly to Florida and actually see a real launch.  I have no great words to explain today, I just stand in awe.

A couple of pictures

The first picture that I have is of Jimmy.  He still sleeps on his back.  I think that it is adorable!

Last night my kitties both wanted to snuggle so I made Endrit take a picture of it.  They are so fun when they are snugglie.

Writing Tests

I had to write my own test for motion, speed and acceleration.  It really is harder than people think. I open up the chapter summary.  I have to write a paragraph summarizing all of the concepts and then making sure that I can delete the vocabulary words in them and it still makes sense.  There was a graph that had to be made.  It is really time consuming, but once it is done, it is done.  That is the great thing.

So, I have 2 versions of the test written.  There are gimme questions and there are questions with extraneous information to really test how much they know.  There is vocabulary and knowledge of units testing.  I personally think that it is a well written test.  My site teacher thinks that it is pretty good too.

It is always interesting to be able to move onto the next thing that I need to do to learn how to be a teacher.  Everything that I do is fun in the end.  I really like teaching the math.  I think that I am okay with it.

I have to admit that I thought I knew how to teach.  I am glad that I have the mentors that I have because I learn a new thing every day.  I love it.