Watch and love. hahaha
Shop Girl*
Shop Girl*
Daily Archives: November 18, 2008
Not So Impressed*
Okay. Let’s talk about how unimpressed I am right now.
We all know I’m the world’s best procrastinator (as I am here writing in my blog instead of doing the TWO assignments I have due tomorrow HA) and I have left my work until the last minute. Fine. I always get it done though… I have never ever not handed in an assignment, and I abhor handing in things late. I may leave it, but it always gets done.
So this afternoon when I get home from my workshops already not feeling terribly great I find an email from my not-so-lovely prof announcing that she’d like us to add on an additional FOUR pages to our already 12 page assignment, due tomorrow.
…are you kidding me?
She gave us less than 24 hours, which were spent in placement and in workshops until late this afternoon, to tack on an extra few pages. That is just asinine! Honestly… who does that? Not like we don’t already have enough to do or anything… sheesh. We’re all contemplating just not doing it and pretending like we didn’t get the email. haha
It’s going to be a very late night…
Shop Girl*
Posted in Complaining about something*
Teacher Shop Girl*
I become Teacher Shop Girl* on Monday.:)
I’ve been working in a school as a tutor for the past 6 weeks and it’s been AWESOME, but I’m so excited to actually get into a classroom and start teaching. As it turns out, I’ll be teaching a grade 10 applied English course and I am SO excited.
Now you’re probably wondering why I would pair this post with a picture of Billy Idol. Wellllllll that’s because I’m freaking working with him! Well, not really, but I swear it’s my associate teacher could be his double… haha! When [Mr. Idol] walked into the office to meet me I was sooo shocked. He was so not what I expected! He definitely has the blond spiky hair AND the earring (only one though) and even has that kind of attitude. Iiiiii loved it.
Well, I’ve learned that my class is tiny. Seriously. I anticipated being with a class of 20 – 25 students. I get NINE. There is another grade 10 applied English class in the school that is much bigger and I have yet to learn why his is so small, but I am pumped. He also teaches a couple of 11 and 12U courses that I’ll be observing, but he told me flat out that he doesn’t want me in his classroom for the full three weeks that I am in the school. He’s going to send me into as many different classrooms as possible so that I can see how a variety of different teachers work.
How freaking awesome is that!??!
AH. So excited. As I learn more I’ll give you more details… apparently there is one student in my class that has issues with “women in authority”. That should be interesting…
Shop Girl*
Posted in Exciting News*, Teaching*
The Sky is Vomiting*
Well, I am determined to end my posting drought so I decided to come here and let you all know that the sky is VOMITING. In OCTOBER. Ugh.
(for those of you who weren’t reading last winter that means that it is snowing outside.)
It started this morning and hasn’t stopped yet… but it’s not even staying on the ground. It’s just the really gross, wet, slushy kind that makes the roads bad after dark. *sigh* Is it too early to start wishing for a snow day? haha
Shop Girl*
Posted in Complaining about something*
Chapter Nine* The Invitations
I last told you about our “Almost Fight“. I was happy to put those big discussions behind us and start working on something a little more fun–our invitations!!
I was a little apprehensive about this task for two reasons: first, invitations can be REALLY expensive. Second, my family is HUGE. The “Guest List” was not a task I wanted to undertake! haha! After shopping around a little online we decided to do them ourselves to cust costs. I ended being REALLY glad that we did this as we had complete control over style, text, font, detail, spelling, and best of all–PRICE. I’ll tell you how much they cost a little later.
So, I started shopping. This wasn’t exactly the Hubster’s department so I took mom along. We went to all the artsy-type shops but I wasn’t thrilled with anything I saw. I am not one for anything frilly, I like things to be simple and elegant. I was really surprised when I found invitations I loved at the place I least expected to: Staples! There were actually two styles I liked, so I called the Hubster and got him to go out and look at them. I knew we were meant to be when he picked out the same ones I had loved… I mean, if that’s not love, what is? haha
The next task was to decide how many we needed, which meant drafting a guest list. This was quite possibly my LEAST favourite activity of my wedding planning. Seriously. I wish someone could have just handed me a list and said, “Ok. Here are all the people that are coming.” It was SO stressful–you always feel like you are leaving people out, or have people pressuring you to invite people because it’s just the right thing to do, etc etc etc.
We spent an entire weekend hammering out the first draft of the list. We knew we could have no more than 185 people as that was the fire code of the building we were using for our reception. I was immediately limited because my immediate family is HUGE. If the Hubs and I split the list evenly (ex: we each get to invite 92.5 people) my family took up about 70 spots on my list. Then there are your family friends, parent’s friends, people from work, from church, from the community, which leaves, oh, 2 spaces for your other friends. *sigh* Luckily the Hubster’s family isn’t nearly as massive as mine, so we were able to balance it out a bit… but in the end I still wasn’t able to invite half the people I wanted to which was really really hard for me.
But, that’s getting ahead a bit. Once we had our “final” number I started shopping. When I looked at having our invitations made the prices I looked at were at least $500 at a minimum price. We bought our invitations, printed them, included photos AND mailed them for less than $250.
We decided that our “mail date” was going to be June 15th in order to allow plenty of time for people to respond and book it off work. It took us a few days of hard work, but I was so so happy with our finished product. We wrote the invite ourselves, and it said:
Big Dad and Mom are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter Shop Girl to The Hubster, son of D & D on Saturday, the twentieth of August two thousand and five. The Hubster and Shop Girl will be sealed together for time and all eternity in the Toronto Ontario Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. You are invited to attend a reception held in their honour from seven-thirty pm to eleven-thirty pm Btown LDS Chapel.I’ll post a picture next time.
Shop Girl*
Posted in Our Story
