Let me take my earrings off....

Ok just bear with me because I am about to vent.....

Let's start off with an explanation....I'll even just give the basics and not the whole year long story....there is this first grade teacher at my school that is REDICILIOUS! She has something like 10 or 11 kids in her class, and talks all the time about how it is so hard to manage them. On top of that she has had two parents go into the office and demand that their kids be pulled from her class, and one parent that pulled their kid from the school so he wouldn't be in her class anymore. NO ONE likes this first grade dingbat (which is a REALLY NICE thing for me to call her right now!!). NO ONE! During the year she has shh'ed several adults durring mettings. She does not know how to speak pollietly to anyone. Even the other day she was yelling at her kids for not knowing what a holiday is. COME ONNNNNNN they are in 1st grade!!!!!!!! Don't be a bitch! I could go on and on, but I think you get the point. She's horrible and no one likes her.

Well today we had Multicultural day at school. At 12:30 the whole school went into the assembly room for several different grades to put on performances. My kids were sitting up in the front right behind first grade. I was standing in the back of the room because we had already preformed and I wanted to watch the other preformances. Well apparently my kids were getting a little too loud in between the performances, and I was called over to them. I walk up and say "Is there a problem?" because I wanted to know if there were some specific students that I needed to talk to, and she comes back at me in the most horrible tone "Uh yeah you could sit with your kids, please!" (which doesn't sound bad at all when you are reading it, it was the WAY she said it!!!) Right then and there I had to bite my tounge, litteraly, because I was about to rip her a new one. How dare you be so disrespectful to me in front of my students and your students. But I decided I would be adult about it and wait until I had calmed down some, and all the kids were gone to talk to her about the situation.

So at 3:00 once all the kids and buses are gone all the teachers were still outside helping to clean up and just talking. She had kinda walked away from everyone else so I decided that this would be a good time to let her know she needs to be respectful to adults in front of children if she expects them to act the same. I start out very pollite and calm, and as I'm trying to tell her what the problem was she cuts me off and starts talking about a WHOLE other situation that has NOTHING to do with her speaking to me respectfully. She tells me that at breakfast duty I need to be watching my kids more, because the only time that I get on to them is when they are running around. Well shit if that didn't confuse me. Because I figured that if they were sitting down at breakfast then there wasn't a problem. Though again that is not what I was talking to her about. And I have no idea how breakfast duty has anything to do with her talking to me with respect in front of the kids. So I try to get back on topic and then she tells me that I wasn't teaching my kids well enough during the assembly. So I was like well shit what the f*** is she talking about now b/c I know we were not teaching during the assembly, we were watching an assembly. So again I try to get back to the point at hand, and the she just decides to stand there and stare at me. So I say do you understand? Again she says something to the effect of me not teaching my children correctly, so I just walked off and said "I'm not even going to talk to you about teaching." I was really trying to not hit below the belt and she was really trying to pull me down there. It was I walk away or I really start to rip into her.

Well durring all this pretty much all the other teachers were standing in the background listening. The best part of it was that when she moved away from me she stood there and looked around to see that everyone was moving towards me and not her, and then she just walked away.

BUT WAIT! It gets EVEN BETTER!! The BITCH had the balls to say under her breath as she was walking away "Well that's why I'm going to be here next year and your not!" Another teacher and her aide her this INSANE woman say that! When she told me that's what she heard I about went postal! I wanted to go find her again and rip into her again! Not once did I say anything mean or negative towards you. Not once was I caddy or degrading. First of all you should get your facts straight before you say shit like that! Because I would be there next year if I wasn't MOVING TO ANOTHER FUCKING STATE!

I'm just glad I'm not going to work tomorrow, because I'm pretty sure I would rip into her again. I am really going to need 3 days to calm down from this! She is a freak! The whole time she had no idea what I was saying to her. The WHOLE point of the converstaion was to let her know that when children are around you need to treat all adults with respect if you expect the children to do the same. They learn more by watching you than by what you say! And them seeing you talking to another adult like that shows them it's okay for them to talk to each other or another adult like that. It is NOT OK!

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! She makes me insanly angry! I have to stop talking about it now so I can calm down again! haha

Day 1....well really hour 1....

David is gone...:( He just left about 30 minutes ago for Texas. I cried....of course! haha I'm even going to see him on Thursday, but still I cried. I know that we are finally going home and we are both very excited to be back there. But I think that being here alone for this month is really going to suck! I hope it goes quickly. I have a lot of packing to do, and a lot of packing to do at work. Plus I have to say goodbye to all my friends and all my kids. I hate goodbyes....they are sad....

Best chicken I've ever cooked!!

So last night I tried a new kinda recipe that my friend Amanda gave me just with words. So I had to do my best to remember it. But it was mega easy to remember. Anyways....it was soooooo good that I just have to share it! Also it all only cost about $10...that is my guess because we already had the chicken and cheese. What I paid is $4! I have no idea what it's called so I'm just calling it

Ooh Ooh Good Chicken! (this is my recipe)
4 pieces of chicken (next time I will also put 6 pieces of chicken, or 4 large pieces)
1 box stove top stuffing
1 can rotel
1 can of mushrooms (I added this b/c we both love mushrooms)
1 can of chicken broth
shredded cheese

Turn the oven on to 375. Put chicken on bottom of pan, the pour on stove top (which I used the walmart chicken flavored brand), rotel, mushrooms and chicken broth. Mix it all up. Put it in the oven for 30 min. Take out and put the shredded cheese on top to cover the whole dish. Put back into the over for another 10 min. Ding....it's Ooh Ooh good! haha

**actually when I made this I also put 1/2 a can of water in it. But I thought the stuffing was too soggy, though David said it was perfect. Next time I make it I'm not going to put the water in, and that is why I didn't include it in the recipe**

(this is what my friend put in hers)
4-5 pieces of chicken (that she cut up before putting in the pan)
1 box stove top stuffing
1 can tomato chuncks
water to cover to the top (I just thought the chicken broth would have better flavor than water)

She cooked it the same way I did but she had the cheese on the whole time.

May 9, 1995

Dear Diary,

Sorry I haven't written in a long time well I'll just sum up what has happened in the past week or 2. Me and Joe broke up again, then got back together. Me, Joe and Neeley are playing a big trick on Stevie the BITCH Mayo. Okay it started Mon morning Neeley told Stevie that Joe was going to break up with me for her. So Tue. Joe fake broke up wht me (were still going together)then Thur. he's going to ask me back out and tell Stevie that he's only asking me out to have a date to the dance, then at the dance when there song comes on I'm going to go over to Stevie and Neeley and say he broke up with me again then act really upset, then Joe's going to ask her to dance and ask her out Then of course she's going to say yes, so after she says yes, he's going to tell her off and tell her that we just majorly pulled a very BIG joke on her so then me and Joe are going to dance to the rest of the song if it's still playing. Well Robby did something I never thought anyone on the face of this earth would ever do. He was going out with Virginia and asked Allison Six to the dance, and then wrote Virginia a note telling her he had ask Allison to the dance and she said eys, then dumped her. Well GTGTB

Love,
Natalie

So I picked this one totally because I think it's funny that Rob made it to my diary! haha He was a teenage boy! I would have done the same thing if I was him!! haha Allison Six or Virginia? Hmmm....haha....

I don't even know what to say about the whole Joe/Stevie thing.....I don't know why I thought that was even funny. First of all it didn't happen...but no matter how big of a bitch Stevie was that was just mean what we had planned! And still with Joe?? Why didn't anyone slap me?? haha

Oh also, I tried to read some of this to David and we just couldn't get past the part where I start each entry to my diary with hello, how are you, or sorry I haven't written....it's not a person! haah Who was I writing to?

Dear Diary,

So the other night I went into our guest closet to get a book to read. While I was in there I found my diary from jr. high and high school. So I decided that could be the next book I read! It has so far made me laugh out loud! Some of the things I wrote were just too funny!! I've made it all the way through jr. high now, and I thought that there we some entries I just had to share....so for the next few days you will be reading my jr. high/high school diary! I hope you laugh as much as I have!

P.S. I am going to type it just as it is written with spelling mistakes and all...sometimes that is more funny than what I'm talking about....

3-19-95
Dear Diary,

Howdy, How R U? Me - OK :) I'm so upset though. I was so close to going to Stoval Park with Kelsey, Joe :), Loren :), Jessica, & Sarah. But mamma said NO because it was to far. But oh well Spring Break is almost over, and I will soon see all of them except Sarah, she goes to Young. I'm also happy because I won a bet with Joe last night. He bet me that I could not last on the phone till 5:00 am If I hung up and went to bed that meant that Tue. when we went back to school I had to give him a kiss which would not be that bad, but I won so sometime this summer we both have to go to 6 Flags together and with none of our friends, just us 2. Which I don't mind either. Joe also said that probly by the end of the year we will be going out. :) But soemtimes I wish Kelsey had never come to Boles because I would be going out with Joe as I write :). Oh well, I can't wait until 7:25 because were going (mamma, Nick, Cliff, Catie, & I) to see The Tall tales of Pacos Bill, then MAN OF THE HOUSE (Doubel feature) I miss TJ, and Joe, except for the fact that I have talked to Joe everyday of Spring Break, except for today. But hey the days not over yet. Well I GTG mamma wants me to make some sugar cookies with easter M&M's in them. Bye Bye

Love
Natalie :)

P.S. I forgot to tell you that I dumped Zack, then went out with a major dweebe named Nathan But then I dumped him. I'm also very happy because Joe always says he loves me and I think he really means it I know he really cares about me because he says it all the time and Kelsey also said it. Loren also said I was his baby, and he loved me too, but I think he means as friends, well GTG again

Love, Natalie :)

So my first favorite part is when I am talking about going to the movies and then jump right into missing TJ and Joe! haha Plus wtf am I missing about TJ!!??!! If I had known then what I know now I wouldn't have wasted so much "love" (hahahaha) for him!! I am kinda mad at myself for calling Nathan a "major dweebe" haha. He was so sweet in jr. high.....I was so blinded by Joe!! And OMG I would sooooooooooo much rather be friends with Kelsey than Joe anyday!! I also love how I talk to my diary as if it is a person, and that I sign it all Love Natalie....as if it could possibly be someone else! haha.....another to come tomorrow....I hope this one has made you smile!

Testing Day #3

Did not go as well as day 1 and 2. Today was their Language Arts day and they had 3 timed sections. I had kids not finish the first timed part and the last timed part. I hate having to turn in tests with blank answers. Blanks are so much worse than a guess! At least with a guess you have the possibility of getting it right....but oh well.....I also watched a kid fail the test today. She chose for almost 10 questions in a row that there were no mistakes in the sentences. Which was not at all correct :( Oh well at least they have a 2 day break before we finish the test. All that is left is Science and Social Studies. Which is probably going to be the hardest part! Oh well......I did get two good days!

proof that I do know how to do my job

Testing Day #1

So yesterday, day 1, was math. I have to walk around the room and watch them take the test to make sure they are doing all the "things" right. Like bubbling in the right places, not marking on the answer sheet where they are not allowed to, not opening another part of the test we are not on, not going back to a part we are already finished with, etc. etc....the list goes on and on. So anyways....I'm walking around and I can see that for the most part my kids did pretty well on the math section. Well at least I think/hope so. None of them got stressed out. They all took their time and I could tell they were doing the work. So we will see when the scores come in....

Testing Day #2

Another successful day. Today was our writing and informational text part. So the writing topic was to write a letter to a friend that you went to school with last year and tell them all the fun things they missed out on this year by not coming back to your school. I about cried tears of EXTREME JOY when I saw this topic!! I can't tell you how many times we have worked on writing letters! I had my kids write a letter at the first of they year and they did so bad on it that we would write letters often just to get into the practice of what a letter is supposed to look like and sound like. I know they had to of done well on that part today! Again I'll have to wait for the true results when the scores come in.....but I am confident! Plus my kids have been extremely confident in themselves these past two days which really really helps!

So.....so far so good!!

YAY!!

I sure did have a lot to say today.....:)