Facebook!

AHOY!

No...I am not on a cruise nor going on a cruise...just thought it was more fun than saying 'hi'. :) So...Tonight I was thinking about what to write, not alot is on my mind...quite frankly I am just too tired for anything to be going through my brain. I said a couple days ago...that non-teachers don't understand that most teachers use the school calendar to gage their year...well something else non-teachers don't understand is how tiring the first week of school is. It is exhausting but a good exhausting.

OK...back to my topic tonight...FACEBOOK. I googled "fun blog topics" and this popped up on one of the links "tell how you use facebook". Well...as a self-proclaimed facebook junky...how could I refuse this? SOOOO...here it goes!

I have a couple "uses" for facebook. My first and primary use for it is pure entertainment. I am very entertained by my friends on facebook with their statuses and pictures. Seeing and sharing pictures is probably my single most favorite feature of facebook. I really enjoy being able to look at pictures that people upload!! And in return, as to not be a FBS (facebook stalker, just made that up in my head...YOU'RE WELCOME!) I try to put up some amusing 'statuses' and post pics of fun things like my niece and nephew! :)

I also like to use facebook to get advice. You would be very surprised if you ask a question how much good advice you can get back. You of course must use your personal judgement but people respond and it is wonderful. Kind of like a real live "ask jeeves". HAHAHA!!  In that same catergory I have also sold/given away several things and they went to people I know will not trash it out!  which makes me happy! :)

Not my primary but my favorite use is keeping in touch with those you don't often see. I love dropping sweet "love notes" to people just to let them know I am thinking about them and I care. Life can be to hectic to call and have a full conversation but never to busy to take a second to drop a note! AND to celebrate when people are happy! :)

NOW...a better question is how I DON'T use FB!  I keep away from drama!!!! I don't like it and don't wanna be caught in the middle of it. I also don't make a post looking for sympathy or as my dad calls them "attaboys" when I did something good. Not the place for all that.  I think good deads should go unnoticed....after all isn't the point of a good dead to make someone else feel good...not yourself? just a thought!!

OK...enough about facebook!! Sleep Sweet!!

XO!!
Priscilla

Somebody to Lean On!

Hi Hi!!

Tonight's topic? Friends.

I was sitting at my desk this morning doing some work and listening to my favorite Pandora station "FootLoose" when the song "Lean on Me" came on. Glad my door was shut because everytime I hear that song for that brief few minutes my world stops and I sing and get lost in it. The beat, the message...it just sucks me in!  So as I was singing along it struck me....how amazing the bond between friends are. I mean think about it!! Your friends are people you CHOOSE to spend your time with.  That's a big deal! Especially as an adult, after working all day and taking care of whatever family members that need tending too it's almost time to crash for the night. TIME IS PRECIOUS! No one I know would waiste their time willingly to spend it with someone they didn't enjoy. Right?

So it's only fitting that those you spend your time with you are able to confide in and "lean on". Sometimes literally(baha haha!!!)! I am so grateful that my very inner circle of friends are such jewels! They mean the world to me!! As the song goes "some times in our life...we all have pain, we all have sorrow but if we are wise we know that there is always tomorrow". My friends are such reminders of this. I can go to any of my friends and be reminded of this, and I pray I do the same for them. If you are reading this I want you to realize that as well!!! If you read my last blog you know its not been easy lately for me but its getting better!! SO YESS there is tomorrow!! :)


well..that is it for tonight! I know not alot but something I have been thinking about today! I leave you with this.... "You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose...but you can't pick your friends nose". ;-) NO seriously love and be loved by your friends!! Hold them dear and treat them well.They are your chosen family!!

XO!!
Priscilla

A New Year is Upon Us..

Umm... HI!

Yes..it's been awhile. Sorry we had to break up for awhile. Soo...back to my theme of just blogging about what is on my mind...tonights topic is new begingings.

As a teacher...I tend to revolve my world around the "school calendar"...I admit sometimes I forget that most people don't do this soo I get funny looks when I say "This Year" or "A new year is starting" in August!! HAHA!! All that to say this, what do most people associate with a new year? New beginnings...I am gonna loose 30 lbs, I will be married...( my personal fav)...on and on...blah blah! They stick to it for maybe a few weeks and then OOOPPPPSS what happened? I am first in line to hollar GUILTY to this!!! GAWH, I am ashamed of it actually! Well, for my non-teacher friends...a "new year" to teachers is much the same. We go into the year with great ambition and by Christmas we are flat on our butts! This has happened to the best of us. One of my favorite things about teaching is the fact that each year is a new start...see the connection to the New Year (as in Jan. 1)?

This year I choose to work on my attitude. I am doing something alittle, ok ALOT, different. Instead of teaching as you would picture it, I see several groups of about 5-6 kids a day. Sounds wonderful right? To most YES! It's a dream job...but I am one of those weirdos who LOVES having "my ducks". AND yes...I had a group one year who would walk behind me and quack! It was quite amusing. Please don't be mistaken, I am very very very grateful for my job and fully recognize how lucky I am but the point is this is WAY out of my comfort zone. But my comfort that I am taking from it is God does his most beautiful work when you (us humans) are uncomfortable.  There have been many tears...both past and present (not right this minute so don't worry...I am not writing this while crying). I am so determined to focus on the good and try to forget what makes me uncomfortable.  I could not be more fortunate to work in a school where we praying together and lift each other up (i.e. the good!) and I have some amazing kids I see in group. SEE I can do it!!! :)

Also, and this may be even more enormous than the whole attitude thing...I hope to start on my master's degree soon!!! :)  Again...new beginnings...

Well, my loves...that is what is on my mind tonight! Hope you are well and I promise to be better about writing!!  XO!!!