It sure has been a LONG time since I have written in here. So where has lovely Lisa been?? BUSY for one, and TIRED for another. But nothing new really. These past few weeks with my re-introduction to being in the school settings and working, in addition to going to school has been a hard knock. Mondays and Tuesdays see me pulling in no less than 12 straight hours of school (practicum) and teaching (my music stuff), THEN going home tired. Wednesdays and Thursdays are seeing me in school for 7 hours with those ghastly wake up times at 7:15 am. I don’t work at night, but I am finding myself to be more exhausted when I get home regardless. (more…)

Yawn, I am SO tired-I really should be in bed, and I think I will go directly to that padded sanctuary on the 2nd floor and lay me down to sleep. This morning I went to school-even got there at 7:55 AM and my partner teacher was already hanging around doing her stuff. Remember this was the same lady who last week reamed me out for coming ON TIME. At any rate, I honestly did NOTHING by being at the school 45 minutes early. I don’t see why I have to be to tell you the truth-30 mins early I can understand, but really there is no point. I basically just hung around looking for things to do. (more…)

Oh goodie, I get to rant and vent! How fun is that? Well it is with due cause and I hope that this gets solved right away.

Last Monday I was due back to the school where I have been spending 2 days a week as part of my practicum being a student teacher. I wasn’t there before the holidays because I had to be part of the Humane Society as part of my work placement. So it was the first day back. Thankfully it was a Professional Development day so it was low key. I saw my partner teacher again and she was quite nice as always. The first part of the day was just chatter-teacher stuff, blah blah. I am not even sure why students (us that is) are supposed to even BE at these events. Anyways, there was a lunch break scheduled for 2 hours at a restaurant. All of the teachers were going-well most of them. Since my back and neck were completely out of whack and I could barely sit normal, I had decided to make a chiro appointment instead (he is in the far south, the school is in the north east) and skip out the lunch.

I just wasn’t feeling good-had little sleep the night before because my neck was just too sore. At any rate, before I left the school, I told another student teacher (male), that I was going for a chiro appt in the south and most likely would not come back for the last part of the day. It wouldn’t have made sense to do it because I had to teach at 4:00 in that same area. From what I gathered, when the teachers would come back from their eating, they would spend the last part of the day doing school budgeting-something none of the students have a say in. Mistake number one, I should have told the teacher, but she had left earlier on, Mistake number 2-I should have never told a man to incase “pass on the message as to why I am not here if you don’t see me back” (see Men are Idiots)

I just thought I would test out a new plugin, darling Russel added to my blog to see if it works-and voila it does. But I couldn’t just type a testing blog, I needed something to ADD to it. So why not get a tad mushy and use this opportunity to share a new picture with you? (more…)

I got this great email today from my friend Alicia-have a read:

Love or Infatuation

Infatuation is a fleeting desire one set of glands calling out to another. It is marked by a feeling of insecurity. You are excited and eager, but not genuinely happy. There are nagging doubts, unanswered questions, little bits and pieces about the relationship that you would just as soon not examine too closely. It might spoil the dream.

Love is a friendship that has caught fire. It takes root and grows one day at a time. It is quiet, understanding and mature acceptance of imperfection. It gives you strength and grows beyond you to bolster your beloved. You are warmed by his presence, even when he is away, miles do not seperate you. But near or far you know he is yours and you can wait.

Infatuation says “we must get married right away, I can’t risk losing him.”

Love says, “be patient, don’t panic, plan your future with confidence.”

Infatuation has an element of sexual excitement. Whenever you are together, you hope it will end in intimacy.

Love is not based on sex. It is the sweet maturation of friendship that makes sex so much sweeter. You must be friends before you can be lovers.

Infatuation lacks confidence. When he is away, you wonder if he is being unfaithful, sometimes you check.

Love means trust. You are calm, secure and unthreatened. He feels you trust and it makes him even more trustworthy.

Infatuation may lead you to do things you will regret, but love never steers you in the wrong direction.

Love is elevating. It lifts you up.

It makes you look up. It makes you better than you were before.

And so there you have it…I believe this very much. What are your thoughts?

Just thought I would throw in a fast update before I go to bed..yup..my goal is to be sleeping BEFORE 1:00 am today. I started my first day back at the school where I am doing my practicum at-thankfully it was a Professional Development day so it was VERY low key-the kids come back tomorrow. I left the house at 8:00 am because the meeting was supposed to start at 8:30. The school is about 15 minutes away from my house, well with the roads and traffic, I ended up GETTING to school at 8:50-almost an hour later! I could not believe it-thankfully the meeting didn’t start till 9:00!! (more…)

Tonight my family had quite a scare-the kind that makes your stomach turn and your face go white. The big “C”. Yes, cancer. I hate even writing that word down, anytime I hear of it being close to me or anyone I know-I feel sick. Not too long after Christmas, my dog had developed an abcess on his lower jaw-but this came after my dad felt a golf ball sized lump on the side of his neck. About a year ago, there was a small marble sized lump that grew on the bottom of my dog’s tummy. We were scared just incase it might be cancerous, but it turned out that it was some sort of fat deposit-rather normal in dogs. My dog is very slim, athletic and healthy so that helped. (more…)

A long while back I had come across an article in FLARE magazine from 2004 that talked all about Kissing. There was an exerpt taken from a lady’s book called Kiss and Tell by Julie Enfield. Then there was a top 10 list of HOW to kiss-I never knew that there was even a specific WAY to kiss until I read this! So according to Ms. Enfield, these are the best ways to plant that pucker on your lover: (with commentary by myself in brackets) (more…)

Isn’t it funny how you always find something you need when you could have used it before, but don’t really need it now? Seems that this was my day today, but not a bad thing at all! I finally decided to get my black wire framed glass lenses replaced today. After putting it off for about 3 months (because they are SO much money to replace), I made myself go over to Lenscrafters and ask for a replacement set of lenses. Last year I wanted a new pair of frames-I tend to get that way after a while, so I got these thick funky brown pair-actually about a year ago to the T. I liked them a lot at the time, but had this feeling they would be too big for my face. Oh well it was something new-so I got my new prescription put in them and kept my original black ones to use for fun. (more…)

Tonight was the first time back to teaching-it honestly felt like I never left. This time I came equipped with a few things to decorate my room with. Russ’s sister Pam gave me 2 great photographs that she took and framed-so I put them in my room-I LOVE pictures! A few hanging ornaments to spice up the place and some cool candles my student gave me. I really wish the painters would paint my room though-it is the ONLY one that hasn’t been painted and REALLY needs it. Oh well. (more…)