I need to make an outline for writing things in my future, so bear with me. My life is everywhere right now. Sticky'd for convenience.

October
-Pick and loosely outline NaNo story. (Thank god for Writer's Cafe!)
November
-Write NaNo story.
-Fix SMMFC's archive like whoa.
December
-Finish Saveol
-Circlet Winter Challenge
January
-Outline FoS
-Write the rest of the Moments After Dawn entries.
February
-Edit the rest of DoS
-Try not to die student teaching kthx.

So for Halloween my bff Kyle and I threw a smashing party at my family's place of business. My family owns a motorcycle shop so we had a 'shop of horrors' thing going on. It was fun. We had a hookah there, which we had to google on how to work it because we are all noobs. lol. It was okay, I don't think I was doing it correctly so yeah. And we had one little fight between my two drunk friends. A couple dressed up in full fledged Blue Barricuda outfit from Legends of the Hidden Temple, helmets and ugly yellow sweatpants and all. They got the ribbon for most original costume. :) And this is what my boyfriend, my dog, myself and my best friend dressed up as.

My dog kept his costume on practically all night, I was so proud of him. I eventually just took it off to give him a break.

Oh and did I say my boyfriend? I meant my fiance yayay! He asked me to marry him tonight, whilst we were watching the minnesota vs green bay game. lol. I got engaged in sweatpants and a hoodie and watching a football game. hehe. I told him not in public or I would flip out, so it was cute. :) So happy yay! Here's a pic of the ring! It is hard to take close ups, even with my crazy should be totally awesome all the time camera.



:D

Now...I must resist the urge to plan my wedding and instead not fail student teaching next semester. It's going to be rough.

The last few days=ridiculous. The next few days= more ridiculous. This was not a good semester to procrastinate. Psh, this is really just not a good semester.

I have two block experiences to do, one 45 hours, one 60 hours. And they have to be done by Decemeber 1st. For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, block is basically 3 weeks where you prepare for student teaching the next semester by going to a classroom, observing and teaching a bit. Because I'm a dual major I have to do two, one for Earth Science and one for Library Science. You normally can't do two at once, but I whined and got one to be an independent study so it was possible.

Then my mom was like oh hai, you're going to Florida Thursday, not Friday! Which, yes is awesome, but now I have to take another day off block that I have to make up. I wish I was going longer so I could see certain Floridians, but I'm still not going to have enough time to play. It stinks.

I have lots of crap to do, the biggest being writing two units. 7 days worth of lesson plans. Gah. And a 7 page resource paper. I'm giving a planetarium show Thursday to a bunch of YMCA after school kids, planning and finishing the Christmas show, planning this Twilight party I want to have in the planetarium which involves buying the rights, which is close to 1000 bucks, and not trying to murder myself. Oh, and somehow not flunk out of the online class that I'm two chapters behind in, because by the time I come home the last thing I want to do is homework.

Plus, I had a really bad couple days food wise. Home is a freaking pit of despair when it comes to such things, and I'm 11 points in the hole right now. Just got my period too, so I'm feeling all girly and lonely and blah. Kind of felt this way for awhile though, like my friends are blowing me off and friendships I thought were cool are not really anymore and it blows.

I really want to explode. Student teaching is probably going to be a welcome release from all this. Or...it's going to be hell.

So I lost my first 10 pounds! Yayayayayay! Now if only I hadn't gained all that extra weight, I would be only ten pounds away from my super goal. But, alas, I am now 20. Oh well. I've actually LOST weight for once, and a good chunk of it, so I don't care. And I did it in a month basically, with minimal exercise too. Very minimal. I really must not be eating many calories in a day. Yeah it too me almost 3 months to lose 6 pounds, and then I gained 10 back. Yeah...not doing this by myself again me thinks.

Anyways. I am happy, but I am starving right now lol. Okay not starving, but I really just want to eat all the stuffed shells from yesterday that are left. They are taunting me, and they aren't even that good. Way too much oregano, but that's what it said! I checked like 5 times to make sure I didn't do the old tablespoon-teaspoon catastrophe I usually do. In other news, the chocolate banana wontons were deliiiiiicious. 

Weight Watchers makes you track your hunger signals before and after you eat something so you become conscience of what drives you to eat, and also just makes you think about if you're really full or not. I would say I am full, but I'm nervous about tomorrow(going to go to a school and observe for a little while and meet my co-op teacher) and I have homework to finish and I really just want to go to sleep for a really long time. So I think I just want to eat to distract myself/from stress.

The next 10 are going to be difficult, I can feel it. I had a lot of control this last month, but I'm still not used to eating so little and controlling myself. I also really didn't have to exercise much, but we're getting into the fat cells I've had since 5th grade, so this is going to take extra effort! lol. The last 10 are either going to be impossible, or I will finally get rid of my old mindset. I don't know yet. It's way too early to tell. Here's hoping I can hang in there until then.

So KR's post reminded that I have not mentioned my current dieting issues and if in fact I am still trying or just stuffing chocolate bars down my throat nowadays. And an icon with Benjamin Linus holding a chicken in oven mits is just perfect for whatever dieting scheme entries I make from now on. Diabolical and delicious.

So I signed up for Weight Watchers with my mom's help. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do it, but obviously I made up my mind. I'm doing it online, too. I was kind of eh on that, because I didn't know if I could actually hold myself accountable just doing it online and not having to weigh in, but it's all good. It does make me feel more accountable even online because you have to electronically weigh in, and just having a set limit of points helps too. Even though the program is not a real person, it still kind of feels that way, like you can't let it down lol. Points are just so much easier to count than calories, although it is still annoying counting.

I really like it. I mean, I basically want to kill myself some days when I run out of points, especially last weekend when I went home and spent my daily AND weekly bonus points in one day on chinese food, but it's been really good. I've been eating TONS better than I ever did, and I ate pretty good to begin with, and I've been making a lot of things. Made Salisbury steak and French toast with blueberry sauce today. Chicken Gumbo was delicious even though I put LOTS of Creole spice in it. Totally making chocolate and banana wontons this week.
And it actually works because I lost 7 pounds since the 1st of this month, so yay! Have to ramp up my exercising though or else I'm going to get stuck. I know it's almost sounds too good to be true in regards to advertisements and such, but I would recommend it. I almost hate saying that because I don't like being a conformist lol, but it's the truth. I feel like I spend a lot of money on food too, but it's because I really do not have a very well stocked kitchen here. I just can't. Not enough space and such. It is a pain in the ass to go out to eat too, unless you go somewhere with points on the menu. They do have a lot of restaurants on the website though, but not ones like Friday's and EatnPark. Got to do the math yourself.

Anyways, I'm really hopeful with this. I feel like a lot of the pressure has been lifted off of me and that helps.

So my boyfriend did not get this Mitsubishi job, which means no Japan for either of us in 1.5 years. :( I was grumpy for the rest of the day when he told me they'd called. My only hope is that the person they wanted (which it was only down to two people at the end) realizes in the next week that it's OMFG JAPAN FOR SIX MONTHS! and rejects the job and they come crawling back to Tim.

All he has to do is say yes to another job and he's basically got it, but he was waiting to hear from Mitsubishi. It's in...Alabama, and it's only for a year. Alabama, Japan, Japan, Alabama. Yes I would rather uproot my whole life for 6 months and move to Japan than spend even a second in Alabama. I would only be there for maybe half a year because I still have school to finish, but then HE'D be in freaking Alabama and not 2 hours away from me. At least we would've went to Japan together. And after a year, he won't have a job again with this place. Lovely. After living in two places for the last 5 years, I'm not really all that thrilled at the prospect of moving place to place every year or so, but apparently temp. contract jobs are the only ones out there right now for entry level mech engies.

So now I am tasked again with posting his resume on every job site and finding companies that look promising.

Whatevs, life. And it's technically not even my life.

So I'm doing NaNo this year, or at least attempting to do it this year. It would be my first time and the prospect doesn't scare me so much because I'm pretty good at just writing lots of crap when I get down to it, but I just don't know what to work on. I've been getting tons of ideas lately, not sure why. Everything just becomes, "oh, that would be fun to turn into something!" Not that I'm really complaining, but now I have my laundry list of old ideas and a bunch of others and it hurts my brain.

I should probably work on my prequel to DoS and be a good fanfiction author, but I don't know. That's a lot of prep stuff that I haven't done yet, but I feel like my days of fanfiction are coming to a close and I should do my best to get this stuff out as soon as I can. Okay this post really has little point, besides to say that I'm doing NaNo. And now, I go back to watching Star Wars. :)

This semester hasn't been all that great. My recent yo yo of weight has made me quite miserable and I think these new BC pills are craaaaazy, but we'll give them another month. I wish my boyfriend would just get his penis snipped already.

Anyways.

We have an antique house here in my small town college...town, and my grandmother, mother and I went there when they came up on my birthday. We found an antique library desk and it's pretty sweet. I can't find a picture of it on Google so you'll have to wait until I take pictures. But my mom got it for me! I'm going to go pick it up Thursday where I hope there will be many strapping young lads, because I'm not carrying it down those steps. I will officially be on my way to being a cool librarian with this desk.

I'm interning in the planetarium, as some of you already know, and my one project is to make a show about constellations and their stories. Well my professor gave me a book on Indian legends and I found some entries for the Quilette, or however you spell their name. (You know, those guys in Twilight ;) So I thought of a cool idea to have a five-ish minute presentation on their star lore, and then watch the movie in the planetarium. And my professor agreed! Good timing too for New Moon coming out. Twilight finds ways to be in my life; it's a sneaky bastard.

I'm also throwing a hopefully awesome Halloween party at my family's place of business this year. We're planning some fun times with drinking games, dancing and hookahs (and possibly a haunted quad ride), so I'm looking forward to that.

I'm going to Florida for four days in November, yay! I don't really like Florida, but I could use some sun considering we saw so little of it this year. My grandmother's 90th bday is that month, and I didn't think I'd be able to go because of college, but I asked my prof and she said I could just make up my assignments, so I'm excited. I think I got over the hideous pain I get every time we land too, I don't know what fixed that, but I don't care!

And for Christmas break, I am going to watch the most awesome dog for two weeks...oh and get paid, but I don't really care. He is a brindle long haired LAB mix, he is so freaking cool looking. His name is Rhett, and even though I hate that book/movie, I love him. These people have a house that I would buy in a heartbeat and I get to stay there and play in their huge backyard and enjoy life. They make him wear a stupid electric collar, so I'm going to try to use my dog whisperer skills and train him so they don't use it anymore. But shhh.

And that's the happy in my life. I'm going to try and concentrate on this stuff when I can't take my life anymore.

Thanks to everyone who took my survey last week! You were a big help. :D If anyone's interested in the real answers, most of them can be found at this website. I suggest uh, some of you check it out. haha =P

Can any who happens across my LJ please take this survey by Wednesday night? It's for my teaching class. I'll screen the answers so don't worry about being stupid or whatever in front of people. And don't CHEAT. I won't think you're stupid if you get stuff wrong, and it's the point of the survey- to see what misconceptions people have about science. Thanks!!! :)

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