Eleven Random Things

The inspiration for this post is from one of my favorite blogs written by Krista. Before reading her post, I have had a bunch of random things on my mind and was wondering how I would work it into a post. Now I have the answer.

• If you have seen my goals page, then you have seen that I wanted to do a mini shopping spree for new clothes when I reach halfway to my goal weight. Well, I’ve already begun buying size 12 pants on sale/clearance and a few tops. I probably won’t need to buy much when I get there now. I think that I have a brown and black pair of dress pants, a tan and brown pair of lightweight corduroys, and four pairs of jeans. I don’t have these pant sizes stored away, because I was working at Wal-Mart the last time I was a 12. Those Wally World duds are long gone.

• I hit up the K-Mart in Portage to get most of those pants I was talking about in #1. It is going out of business and they have everything at least 30% off. I also got my reward for when I reach 180 which is Queen Singstar.

• The snacking monster has returned this week. I’ve been eating good meals, but too much junk and high calorie foods for snacks. I really need to refocus next week and watch the snacking again.

• I already have flowers pushing up around my yard. They actually have been for a week or two now. I was kind of worried that winter might hit and they would die, but it doesn’t seem like we are going to get a “real winter” this year.

• I used to be really good at playing the Pennywhistle. It is similar to a recorder, but it is made out of metal. I did all the ornamentations that made the songs sound like authentic Irish, Scottish, or English music. I should probably get it out and practice up for St. Patrick’s Day. I could bring it in and show it to my students.

• This is the outfit I wore to work on Friday. I got a lot of compliments, especially on how great these jeans look on me!

• I know this might be hard to believe, but I used to not like dachshunds. I’ve come to realize that I love the personalities of longhairs. Shorthairs really do have a different personality that I don’t like as much.

• I’m going to spend quite a few hours this President’s Day weekend getting things ready for upcoming concerts and work.

• I had a student in choir come up to me and try to convince me to bring my 3DS to school! I said that I want to keep it safe at home. We then talked about games for the 3DS and she found out that I liked Mario games. She told me I was a cool teacher for liking Mario. I told her that Mario games started to come out when I was a kid.

• Although I state the Beatles as my all time favorite band, I do have two others that I put at the top of my list with them. They are the Grateful Dead and Nirvana. As far as rock tastes go, they are pretty far apart in style. The Beatles were the original boy band and started the whole British Invasion. The Grateful Dead was the best jam band ever. Nirvana was totally ahead of their time and anti-establishment. Of course, there are many, many others I love, but there are my top of the top.

• I will have to decide soon what I’m going to do when I start going back to school to get a masters or Ph.D. My hubby is almost done, so I should hopefully be able to start soon. Going the music route would be the easiest, but I still am thinking about psychology. If I go with music, I’ll get a pay raise if I stay where I am at and maybe be able to teach at a college or university some day. I’d love to teach at St. Joe if I ever had the chance. I also think about psychology a lot. I had a better GPA in psych than music! That would be a lot of work though and I do plan on having a family at some point in the next few years.