Closing up Memorial weekend

Sunday:
Ray and I went on a fun shopping spree at Old Navy in the morning. I spent over $100 (I refuse to reveal the full price) but I am VERY happy with my purchases. I got 3 capri pants and I didn't realize how good it looks on me! hehehhehe.......
Spent the afternoon with Lucille buying things for Jen's baby shower. I can't believe how much goes into a shower. I never really understood the concept of baby showers. You play boring games and people just sit around and talk about babies. Eventually my ears start bleeding. I have decided that when I get pregnant my shower is going to either consist of:
a) a nice coed luncheon at a cool restaurant possibly followed by a mani/pedi or something else relaxing.

b) a coed shower that involves dancing, jello shots (virgin for me, of course), a BBQ (potluck even....the horror!)

For whomever has the privelege of planning my shower no baby decorations or stupid baby food tasting games!

The evening was spent hanging out with Ray's cousin (Lopez side) up in Union City. It was a lot of fun just sitting around and talking. Ray's family (both sides) are always a great bunch of people to hang with.

Monday:
Had a huge breakfast/lunch at Denny's, went hiking at Los Gatos Creek (6 miles, good Lord!), and then watching Ray play volleyball at John D Morgan Park. I'm not quite ready to play volleyball on an actual court, especially with people I don't know. Hopefully I'll be able to practice more to gain more confidence, but right now it's too soon.

Mid-Memorial weekend

Saturday:
Took the bike and rode up to Fairfield to visit the Jelly Belly factory. We've never been there before so it was a real treat! Thank God we took his bike because there was major traffic on 680 towards the Benicia bridge. It was a 5 mile traffic jam! Note to everyone: it is actually legal for motorcyclists to go in between the lanes where the white dashes are. Some drivers were really nice and actually moved more to the right to give us room. The Jelly Belly factory was cool. We got a free little baggie of samples after the 45 minute tour. We also bought 5 bags of Belly Flops, which are the jelly bean rejects. Still good enough for us!
Had a BBQ dinner with Jen, Steve, and Bella. It was nice having dinner with them. It's been a looong time since we did that and I really missed Bella, smelly and all! Had a great burger, great salad, garlic fries, and Steve's Irish Car Bomb. I was feeling a bit tipsy there!

Teachers unite!

Yesterday I joined a bunch of San Leandro teachers and headed up via charter bus to rally against the incompetent Cali governor. The word was there were 20,000 people there. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, teachers, supporters......they were alllll there. It was seriously 90 degrees out there but everyone came in full force. It was sooo crowded. There were some pretty creative posters out there. It's very hard to put into words what I experienced in Sac. It was a totally surreal feeling. Part of me was in awe and the other part was getting grossed out by how sweaty I was! The incompetent governor wasn't even there (coward) and he probably doesn't care, but maybe now more people will see what's going on and vote him out of office. I'm definitely gonna be in line to vote that asshole out. Besides, according to his plans he wants to close up the borders to prevent immigrants from coming over so I guess he has to deport himself back to Austria. Maybe he can go screw over Austria's school systems, firefighters, police officers, and nurses.

Another tiring weekend

So Ray and I decided to try and visit Bay Area locales that we or one of us have never been to before......

Saturday:
Spent an afternoon at one of the beaches in Half Moon Bay. It was extremely windy! So windy that the sand was pricking our legs! We had to wrap the sheet over our leg or be in constant pain. We perused some Bay Area books, played Hoopla, and ate KFC.

Met up with Marie, Winnie, Marie's old roomie, and Don, this guy Marie's been going out with. We met up in SF for the Kaboom concert by KFOG. Headlining was Wallflowers. Not really into the festival too much, I just really wanted to see Marie and Winnie.

Sunday:
Helped Johnny's gf, Colleen with moving this afternoon.

Today:
Had my first interview for my future. Interviewed at O.B. Whaley in SJ for a K or 1st position. Soooooo nervous! We'll see what happens with that. Gotta send a thank you card.....

One month to go........

One more month 'til school is over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Man, I love my kids but I am soooo ready for summer. Even though my summer won't technically start 'til my Europe trip since I start Tech summer camps right away, it's soooo nice just to do something less demanding and still make some $$......

Approx. 2 more months until our trip to Europe. I can't wait to share this experience with my Handsome. I've been seriously craving another trip to Europe.....

2 months and 6 days until our one year anniversary. It has been THE best 9 months and 6 days......

Boy time flies by fast!

Ups and downs

This past weekend was jam-packed!

Friday:
On our way to L's surprise 30th birthday Ray tells me that his ex was in town. He also explained that he didn't find out 'til the last minute when he was on his way to have lunch with his co-workers. As much as I don't like the fact that he's still friends with his ex, it's good to know that he can be honest with me. It helps me to trust him even more and believe that he truly loves me that much to not want to ruin it with secrets.
L's birthday was at Cielo's on Santana Row. Quite a ritzy place. Got to meet J's new main squeeze, C. She's very nice and cute. I like her. Hopefully this one will work out. He's finally found someone who's not working 80 hour weeks! Birthday was ok. It was a clear division between her high school friends and us. The only reason I wasn't moving around was cuz it was frickin' cold there!

Saturday:
Ahhhh....traffic school....you make my heart flutter...
Ray, J, M, and I went to S. First Billiards for this social event put together by the Pink Angels. Quite interesting and fun. You get to meet a lot of people. Went to Glo for some dancing afterwards.

Sunday:
Ray and I volunteered at Bay to Breakers. We worked the Muni Sales tent selling shuttle tickets. Pretty cool. We got a lime green volunteer shirt. Lots of interesting costumes there! Gavin Degraw (of the famed One Tree Hill theme song) performed. He's not that bad, live.

Monday:
Found out that L cancelled the birthday party she was having me help plan for this Saturday. Feeling kinda hurt and betrayed by that right now. Despite all my time, effort, and money along with J and R's time and effort she could've just kept it on for our sake but I guess that didn't matter as much.

Oh UNhappy days.....

So what I've been stressing over for the past month has finally happened. I am, once again, out of a job. I knew that the ending wasn't going to be good, but it still hurts. My position was barely posted on the inter-district mail when someone already snatched it up. It was so hard hearing this first thing in the morning, 15 min. before school started. I felt like crawling in a corner and bawling my eyes out. Once again I have to say goodbye to my students and co-workers. Once again I have to take down and pack up my belongings. Once again I have to sift through all the classroom items figuring out what's mine and what's the school's. ONCE AGAIN I have to deal with districts and interviews and the looming thought that September might roll around and I won't have a job right away. Teaching can really SUCK ASS sometimes. And they wonder why no one wants to go into this profession.......

"Death" of a friend

I feel like I've lost a friend. This person didn't die or move away. In fact, they are very close to me in proximity. Many events have occurred in this person's life this past year and as a result this person seems to have chosen one of their other friends to put all their focus on so they do not focus on the negative events that they have experienced. As a result, I have been left out of this person's life considerably. It has gotten to the point now where I get a negative reaction when I see their friend's car. I feel like I don't know this person anymore. As though they are just another person in this world. It pains me to feel this way, as though this person has decided that in their journey towards healing they have not felt like I could be one of the friends they hold onto. This jealousy I feel towards the other friend is horrible. It truly feels like my friend is dead to me and I can never get them back and I don't know how to tell them this.......

Bad end to a weekend

Everything has been such a blur after the horrible Sunday.

Thursday:
Went to Joanne's bday party at Banana Leaf in McCarthy Ranch. There were a shitload of people there! Jon & Lorraine + Charlize and Colin, Cheryl & Eric + Eliza Reese, Arlene & Noel + Brady/Bruce Wayne, Joanne and Francis' parents, Francis brother & gf, and I believe that's it! It was a serious babyfest. Totally cute but overwhelming! Aside from Francis' brother everyone else was married with kids! Half the time was spent trying to take cute pics of the kids. We were across from Cheryl, Eric, and Eliza Reese so I got to enjoy a lot of the cute moments. It really got me thinking of babies.....*sigh*......
Dinner was 2 hours. Food was great, as always, except a left smelling like the restaurant. It was soooo gross! I had to take a shower but unfortunately the smell did not leave my clothes by Friday. I was staying at Ray's so I had to borrow his T-shirt and jacket because I didn't think I could survive the whole day smelling like food!

Saturday:
Had a GREAT yoga workout. I could feel every bit of my body being stretched! Had lunch at Arby's, cancelled my joint savings with Ly, had Ray teach me some volleyball (apparently I'm quite the setter!), lounged around, went clubbing with Johnny, Shirley, and Xuanthao.

Sunday:
As I was leaving my parents house I got into a car accident. It was too traumatizing to even talk about. A lot of tears, a lot of headaches, a lot of stress. I'm just glad it's over, but now I have to deal with the financial ramifications. Ugh....I swear this car is BAD LUCK!