Sunday, April 26, 2009

Time for a New Post I Suppose

I have been kinda busy lately, but here's a quick run down of what has been happening!

1. Kody and I celebrated our first anniversary last Sunday. We went to St. Martinville to the Evangeline State Park, had lunch at a place called Possums (it was delicious and NO we did not eat any possum - haha). He gave me a monogrammed Slanket and it is so ridiculous and funny at the same time. We didnt eat anniversary cake because after the wedding we both agreed that would be disgusting to eat year old cake, so we went eat ice cream at Baskin Robins instead! We had a wonderful day!

2. I have been applying like crazy for jobs. I go to 2 teacher job fairs this week, so I will see what happens there. Also, I applied for some state positions, mostly at ULL and at UMC. I took some required tests and I passed them. I am going to follow up on those positions this week.

3. I subbed for the first time ever on Friday for a kindergarten class and it was fun!

4. I am real serious about bargain hunting now that I am unemployed and this is something that I am going to keep up with after I have a job again because I am saving insane amounts of money on items we need for the house.

5. I enjoyed Festival International this year, the weather was awesome and the groups were great. I know they broke records with the crowds this year, it was insane.

6. I baked a carrot cake for Easter and it was delicious. I am baking another one in a few minutes. I love baking.

I hope everyone is doing ok!

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Going back to teaching sooner than planned...

I got laid off Friday. The economy down here is beginning to catch up with the rest of the country. The oil companies are freaking out and starting to lay off workers and in effect, that is slowing down the business where I worked (ALOT), and so I lost my job. So I went to the school board office and applied to substitute teach. I have to do fingerprints tomorrow or Tuesday and then I am good to go.

So everything is figured out for until the end of May, now I need to lock in a job for the next school year and for the summer, bummer, just to make sure ends meet. I am hoping Kody gets his stuff locked in so I dont worry so much.

Everyone keeps telling me that things happen for a reason, I just wish I could figure the reason out, I feel very defeated right now as this technically the third job I have lost since August, all for reasons completely out of my control.

I am just keeping my head up, going to enjoy my anniversary on the 19th, Festival on the 23rd, and the fair in Thibodaux the week after that. At least April is an inexpensive, but fun month!