Janae Says...

Part 1: Well, a student found my blog. I'm not sure what the heck is up with these stalker children, but I am tired of it. I'm tired of the Facebook and MySpace friend requests. I'm tired of them looking through the little that I have public so that they can do detective work on my love life. What in the world? Since when did kids care that much about their teachers' lives? Today in sixth period, they started trying to get me to talk. "What's your favorite song?" "I have a lot of favorite songs." "Well then who's your favorite band?" And then somewhat randomly, my stalker student goes, "Do you like Josh-Joshua-Rad-Radin, or whatever?" And I'm a Slowy Slowerton so I didn't catch on. I said that I love Joshua Radin and have seen him twice and have a picture with him. So yes I love him. Then after class, said stalker told me he and his friend found my blog, and the blog of my ex. What in the world?! No wonder ...

So here I am... Feeling pretty good. Life is smooth sailing, except for those wascally wittle job applications I have to do. I'm putting them off. Seriously. They're in my bag right now, and I'm pretending that they don't exist. I thought yesterday of doing Teach for America, but I checked their website and missed the February deadline. That would have been an amazing opportunity and guaranteed job for next year. Should have thought of it sooner. I have been reading through tons of old blogs in the last couple of days. I realized that while my blog has been pretty light and happy for the most part, I haven't done three best things in a while. I'll probably have more than three. 1. The Book of Mormon . I read this morning about the Nephite and Giddianhi battle and how they hanged the leader on a tree and cut the tree down. So it wasn't too inspiring or fun, but I love being able to find things in that book and relate them to me or my life. Like in that ...

Kinko's, renowned for its quality copies, has been known to hold jump drives hostage after being accessed for printing. Customers are frequently surprised and inconvenienced by this fact once they have arrived home and look for their beloved flash drives. "It's not in my pocket!" one Kinko's customer reported on Saturday after having made a brief trip. Upon retrieval of the flash drive, the employees at one particular location (University Parkway at Brigham's Landing) act as though it is the customers' fault that they had left their jump drives there. "I think you've left this same one here before," one employee said to a customer this morning. "Indeed I have," replied the customer, a bit irritated by this employee's comment. ---- Seriously though? At Blockbuster, I remember to take the locks out of movies before letting the customer go home. Otherwise they come back unable to open their movie cases. If they walked bac...

I have one person on my mind. His name is Cadbury. He makes my life happy and complete. The second he proposes, I'll say yes!

Alright... I'll admit it. I'd coug' it up with Taylor Lautner. What? He's 18. And I do what I want! Don't judge me.

I haven't gone out to eat like... at all... in the last month or so. But I have been to the movies a few times. I love spending my money on movies. I've run out of space on my movie shelves. Normally I buy my movies 3 for $20 at Blockbuster because I get dibs, ya know. I rarely buy movies new unless they're at a killer price. But today, I pre-ordered my copy of Avatar because I love it so freakin' much. I got the two disc DVD/Blu-Ray edition for $24.99. That's super cheap. Used 1-disc Blu-Rays cost that same price so I'm pretty excited. In order to get free shipping I decided to fork out an extra $2 or so and buy Wimbledon because my husband Paul Bettany is in it. Um, a few minutes later I decided I really must own Finding Nemo , so I bought that used online through FYE (every time I check in the store they don't have it). $10.99 (plus shipping). Somebody stop me! Really though I'm very excited about my Avatar. Inexplicably excited! ...

I just busted out my Nestle White Fudge covered pretzels and pulled one out of the bag. Lo and behold, it was connected to another one. I took it as an omen to have two instead of one. Thanks, food gods.

Letting hot water run on me without rushing to get to work. Generally good health for five years straight all the way through school while I've been away from my family. Parents who are willing to pay my way home whenever I want. The sun setting so late. Sunshine and 50+ degree weather. Students "getting it." Students telling me if I've made them feel bad so I can apologize and improve. Thin mints. That's a lot of things to love right now I think. I also would like to add that I enjoyed New Moon much more than I am ready to admit. I will always have some core problems with it, and there are things that make me giggle, and I'm not sure if it was the story or the abundance of beautiful men... But I really did enjoy it. Also, I'm trying to figure out ways to make myself feel attractive. I've been working on this for a while now, but I haven't had a day where I felt really pretty in an extremely long time. It's getting wearisom...

This girl commented on my blog today. I wandered over to her blog and skimmed for about five minutes and found this . I giggled to myself. So true. Been there, done that. I am reading a book my friend gave me for my birthday. It's one of her favorites ( All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein). I loved a quote in it as I was working out today: "They faced what the morning would bring with the only weapon they had--their love for each other. Love is great, love is the foundation of nobility, it conquers obstacles and is a deep well of truth and strength. " Love that. Going to go eat poop with that same friend now. ;)

Whoever you are, I hope you enjoyed your immature Saturday night shenanigans. And I will rely on karma to get you. Hopefully it will give you some appropriate punishment. Like super gluing your hand to your zipper. Oh and by the way I hate you. 

Blockbuster is dirty. Money is dirty. Movies go home in dirty hands, sit on dirty floors, and ride in dirty cars. Then my hands get dirty. From the dirty money and dirty movies. I hate having dirty hands. Because then when I get my every-Friday-night-at-Blockbuster-allergies, I can't rub my eyeballs or my nose. Everything itches from the dirtiness. I have to use the back of my hands to try and relieve the annoyance. Then I look like I'm handicapped by not being able to use my fingers. Then any potentially datable customers aren't interested because they think I'm "special" (in a not-good way). Say no to dirties! 

I feel on the verge of sickness today. I should have drank some Emergen-C. But I'm pretty sure that since I was sick two weeks ago, this is NOT ALLOWED! I make myself sick--and we're talking infection, virus-like sick. Greenish congestion sick. I make myself sick by stressing about things I have no control over. You know, like finding a job for next year, and getting my students to pass my class. Because The Hurt Locker won so many awards I rented it. But today I also rented New Moon . Notice I waited till it was free. My ambivalence toward this movie remains. So because I am sick, the debate is between the award winning movie and an "I don't want to think right now" movie. In other words... Should I watch The Hurt Locker or New Moon while I bask in my sickness? Then I realized that asking that question was basically the same thing as asking... Should I eat a chocolate cake, or poop?

American Idol eats up a lot of my time. When I am on a regular salary I will have TiVo. That's all there is to it. After the gym, my face gets really red. My ex-fiancee once told me that after a 5:30 AM workout. I sure felt pretty. haha. I re-noticed today as I glanced at the mirror while leaving the gym. Red faced Nae. Glee starts again in less than a month. I'm going home in a few weeks. I will visit the beach. I am assigning an essay that I'll have to grade over spring break. Oh well. I can knock those suckers out at three minutes each. I'm immensely enjoying this spring teaser Utah's giving me. 60-64° and sunny is totally OK with me.  I've lost seven pounds. I'm cool. I'm home sick.  I got a sweet deal on my new favorite soda today. $5 for a 20 can pack of Coke Zero. I'm not a chronic soda drinker or a caffeine addict. I just enjoy the lack of calories in this delicious drink. Don't worry though, water abounds in my system.  ...

For real? I don't know why I did this to myself. I hate watching scary movies because I get scarred for several months after, even years if I somehow bring myself to think of it later. So I thought this one would be interesting, but I should have known that the "based on a true story" element would be the worst part for me. I have an issue with aliens. And images get stuck in my head forEVER. And I'm dumb for watching that movie even in daylight.  Good thing I have my dad to put things into a governmental conspiracy perspective so that I can get over my fear a little sooner. The good news is... Gene Simmons Family Jewels starts on Sunday. I love that show.

My man Tim Burton didn't let me down with Alice in Wonderland. I saw it with my roommate tonight. I thought it was beautiful and brilliant and funny and so good. I don't want to lose an hour tonight but I LOVE having the daylight last longer. I'd rather have it this way than dark at 5 PM. Keep that in mind, kids. Also I just want to add that Alice had many advantages while she was in her smallest state of being. So the next time y'all want to hate on me for being five feet tall, you just remember... Short people represent!

Just got some interviews at the Teacher Fair at BYU. One was with Tooele, and it went really well. The other one is with Page Unified School District in Arizona, which is tomorrow. Oh, it's just right next to Lake Powell. You know. No big.... muahaha.

Sisters-in-law. Books of Mormon . Students of the day. Not "sister-in-laws." Not "Book of Mormons." Not "student of the days." Now, let's look at the words we're pluralizing here and just laugh at how little sense the latter three make. Silly. Just silly I tell you.

Well in this new and fun and exciting and stressful and sickening stage of life, I have to ask people for letters of recommendation. Again. I was sitting here at work thinking, "Man, it must suck to be in a position where you realize that writing letters of recommendation is part of the job expectations." Then it dawned on me. I'm now in that position. In a couple of years, my students may be coming to me for one. Whoa. I'm old.

I have had my cat since I was 14. His mom was a well-known stray in our little Glendora neighborhood. She was harmless, and we saw her all the time. Not once, but twice, she walked in our front door and walked out my parents' bedroom door. Both times, everyone was in such shock, they just watched her walk by, heads following her slowly and silently asking, "WTF is this cat in my house for?" Turns out she was checking out the environment. She had every intention of setting her baby up with an adoptive family. One night, there was meowing outside our front door--a begging, loud meowing. We opened it, and there was the stray mom cat and her new baby next to her. She sat there and looked at us, meowing, asking us if we would please take him in. Now let me just reaffirm that my family has never, ever been a cat family. Only dogs, people. Only dogs. But who could resist this intelligent and sincere and responsible mother begging us with this sweet kitten beside her?...

There's a quote on my little day calendar today from him. It says, "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Usually, just coming from the place and people that I do, this is super challenging for me. Everyone who knows me knows that. I was trying to get to the gym by 5:30 and had my hardest workout today (lower body + cardio), so when six inches of snow was on top of my car, I was a little bugged. I had to repent for what came out of my anger. haha. Anyway, I scraped my car off completely in the dark at 5:07 AM. But I'm proud to say that while I was super pissed off about the snow this morning, I tried to find the good in it. I decided to focus on the fact that, "If I'm doing it right now, it's just less for me to do before I go to work! Everyone else around me will have to." So then I was glad I was up so early to complete such an annoying task. (But notice I couldn't...

Why is it that I hate cooking frozen vegetables or putting anything in my freezer? Oh yeah, I remember... Why is it that I always think my fish is dead? Oh yeah, I remember...