Camping...

Eric and I went camping with Tye and Andrea this weekend for Tye's birthday. We had a blast. At times it was quite cold, but with Tye as the fire Nazi, he kept it blazing and kept us warm. It was awesome. I would love to go camping more often. Perhaps today or tomorrow I will put some more in depth stories on here.

As a side note, the Red Sox won the World Series last night. I have to admit, I did not watch any of it. For some reason, it just didn't really appeal to me this year, and seeing as how I was not at home most of the 4 nights it was on, I didn't see any of the games. But, I woke up this morning to the disturbing news that A-Rod has opted out of the rest of his contract with the Yankees. Don't get me wrong, I like A-Rod. He does some bone-headed things some times, and can be arrogant sometimes, but for the most part I like him. He's a great ballplayer. But, I call it disturbing because he couldn't even wait one more day to announce it so that the Red Sox could celebrate their victory without fighting with him and the Yankees once again. Some are saying it wasn't his decision, that it was Scott Boras' (His agent). Still. What a jerky thing to do. Sometimes people are idiots.

First Quarter Down

Well, today marks the final day of the first quarter of my school-year. I gotta say I feel like we're only now getting into a groove with this whole tutoring thing. But, starting next week, I will only be dealing with math, which I'm excited about. I remember now why I loved math so much in high school (so much that I considered being a math teacher). I still don't think I would want that to be my main subject area, but I am beginning to consider maybe trying to get my math certification. At the very least it would make me more marketable. I gotta check into it some more first. It may be financially not possible right now.

But, at the very least, hopefully only teaching math will make me enjoy my job a little more. Language arts just really isn't for me.

Eric and I applied for car and renter's insurance this week. So sarting next week, we'll no longer be dependent on our parents for that part of our life. Kinda of a weird feeling. I really feel like I'm continually having those moments of "adulthood." I know that's a good thing, but it's weird. Sometimes I wish we didn't have to grow up, just because responsibility can be a scary thing, but it's also freeing. I'm ready to have a salaried job...that would help a lot too. Someday, I know.

I just found out my mom is going to start her own business again--bookkeeping. So, pray for that. I hope she gets a lot of business. That would be awesome. And if you know anyone in the St. Louis area who needs bookkeeping or payroll services, tell them to look her up.

Delayed Update

To those of you who check this for updates with any regularity, I apologize for not keeping it up. It's been kinda busy around here lately.

My work's starting to get a little bit better. We're getting ready to start units on math, which I'm pretty sure I will enjoy teaching much more than language arts (reading). Once we're done with that unit, we're actually going to split up our classes into 2 groups: a language arts group that Glenn will teach, and a math group that I will teach. So, if that works out, I will be teaching math at least until the end of the semester.

The free dinner thing at Miami is still going well. We've had one kid that's been there every week (Zack), and a couple of others who have been there almost every time. Zack is in a band, and they have started using our building to practice. We were pretty encouraged by the fact that he felt comfortable enough to ask us.

Today, Eric and I finally got both the titles for our cars transferred over into our names. That's kind of a weird feeling. I jut keep having those moments of grown-up-ness (I'm pretty sure I just made up a new word). It's just weird. Add onto that the fact that we now have Ohio plates on our cars...weird. Good weird...but still weird. Now if we can just figure out where we're gonna get our car insurance from, we'll be doing good.

Be back later with other updates :)