thunderstorms are tornados I guess...

take cover everyone......

QUOTE OF THE DAY: (all from the same child, my favorite little boy!)

my momma was in da car drivin to food lion....

da tornado was followin us....

my broda saw it....

we were runnin....

I told ebybody to get in da house and get low...

dat ting wus loud, it wus black....

okay, my week is complete now! Thankyou Lord for making everyone unique and funny in their own ways, even when they don't realize all the personality that they do have :)!

arts and vino

Time for arts and wine with cam session 101...

I very much enjoy crafts and ecspecially crafts that you can use over and over again... aka the wine glasses :) It takes a lot of steps, you can't do it all in one setting because it needs to fully dry before you go on to detailing etc... This is great though, paint when you get home from work. Paint after the gym. Paint before dinner. Paint before bed. Its just enough arts and crafts time to just relax and do something fun for yourself, whether you are keeping it or giving it away. I tend to really love giving them away as gifts! This first one that I made, I gave to my principal who has helped me a lot over the past year with recs and just basically having that extra ear out for me whenever she heard of a job openings. Granted, I never landed one, but that is okay, the thought was all that mattered!

I will play Martha Stuart for a moment and name this wine glass:

Seaweed Noir

Close up of one of my fish I painted and its 3 little air bubbles.


Looks like the light got a hold of this picture, oops!

FIRST things first.... do the bottom always first. Its kind of the foundation for the whole project, and the easiest.

Make sure you get the right paint! Glass paint that is... You also need the clear (one posted in the middle) liquid. You HAVE to put this on before you do any kind of color or when your enjoying your vino the paint will just flake right off! Remember don't be so limited to these base colors, take it back to elementary school and MIX! Red and Blue make Purple! Yellow can always lighten up a color! Mix and match on a plastic lid and play around with it!

Have fun... I'm on to my next wine glass: Sand Castle Shiraz :)!

interviews... shmiterviews...

FREEEEEEEEEEZE....


No more interviewing in Wake Countyfor a while :( Wake County just went on their "yearly" hiring freeze, seems like da ja vu of this time last year for me. Pretty sad for us new teachers here in Raleigh looking for teaching jobs.





I was thinking yesterday about my previous interview I had last week and wondering what it would be like to actually interview for any kind of other job? Really all I have experienced is teaching interviews over and over again. Its pretty ritual by now, "I love children, have a passion for children, and have always wanted to work with children ever since I was a little girl + a little bubbly personality and smiles" usually does the trick, if not, heck, apparently wasn't meant to be! Anyways last night I have NO CLUE why I was thinking about this when I was going to bed (such a ridiculous thing to think about before going to bed, however my mind is always in curious GEORGE mode...) but I was wondering what it was like in an interview for say a Dentist position or Hygenist position...





I mean, I know they don't go in there and say, "Oh yeah I have always had a passion for teeth, always wanted to work with teeth and help them grow strong and healthy." Seriously what is an interview like for those type of jobs??





Random thought of my Thursday evening.............





Back to my FREEEEEEEEEZE update I have decided to take a HIATUS from teaching! During my HIATUS I'm going to Graduate school for Elementary Education with a focus in Reading at NCSTATE! Looks like the only "non wolfpacker" of the fam is about to truly be part of the pack! I literally never thought that graduate school was for me, or that I even had the motivation to go back to school, guess I have grown up and had quite the change of perspective. This economy sucks lets just get down to how we really all feel about it... but sometimes we've all gotta get a little "positive patty" in us and think about the good. In my case, I am thankful that it has pushed me to further pursue my education and not settle for a job that I would be unhappy at AKA preeeeeeeeeeeschool. I sware the next dirty diaper I'll change is my NIECE or NEPHEWS.... you guys hear that?!





So today I am thankful for: The hiring freeze, NCSU, and only 6 more weeks of dirty diapers :)

ohhh children are funny

"Mits Todd, wut you got dat ring on fo? Show me a piture o yo boyfrend since you got dat ring on"

Me: Girl, your crazy I dont have a boyfriend?!

"Yets you do Mits Todd cus you got dat ring on................ (10 second pause and staring at me)..... and you gots a baby too"

apparently............ this means you've got a boyfriend and a baby... interesting huh?!

I WILL write a book one day on the "funny things kids say".....

HAPPY WEDNESDAY :)

XOXOX
CAM

The Teachers Salary Smoothie

You just got home from a run, a sauna visit, and its a quarter to 12... what do you want?!

A SMOOTHIE!!

.....you check the wallet... nothing there

.....you check under the sofa for change... nothing there

.....you check your refrigerator and you find:

* way overdue to be thrown away brown banana

*Popsicles from wally world

*blueberries from wally world

...and the girl scout song comes in use

How's that song go.... "Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the others gold, make new friends, but keep the ollllllld one is silver and the others GOLD! - clearly that is all I can remember. I should have stayed a girlscout for one more year.

A great friend of mine from ECU, Kyle is moving to Indianapolis for a job promotion he got not long ago... He will be part of the start up team there, and while I am so sad to see him leave, I am so excited for him to begin this new chapter in his life! New city, and new friends aka (the silver ones in my girlscout song.)

In celebration of his job and to say goodbye we had a party for him and invited lots of friends over! Caroline, Wes, and I helped plan the shin dig and it was complete with ECU cornhole (in the garage... stupid cold) our "We'll miss you like a fat kid misses cake," a banner I made with supplies from work, a mini keg, and of course and awesome, tear jerker, gangster playing, hilarious slide show made by Caroline!! It completed the evening :)

WE WILL MISS YOU KYLEEEEEEEE!!!!

P.S. I seriously need help on how to move my pictures around on my posts... they won't move where I want them to go! All you natural born bloggers please help a girl out and let me know, comment below :)

xoxox

cam