May Confessions

**When my students go to turn in work & do the fake out where they act like they're not really going to give it to me I want to smack them upside the head.  Dude, it's your grade.  It is 100 times easier for me to put in a 0 than to actually read through & grade your assignment.  So turn it in or don't.  I do not care & do not have time for your games.  Can you tell it's the end of the year?**

**Pandora is killing me.  I have my stations set to 90s & 2000s while I'm at work & it tells me when any of the artists are in town... so now I really want to go see New Found Glory & Simple Plan...**

**We are so close to being in the teens for days left of school that I can taste it!  I'm like a kid on Christmas**

**Kids standing with my door open is one of my biggest pet peeves in the whole world.  In or out.  I don't even care which.  Just pick one...**

**I still have no idea where I'll be teaching next fall & it's stressing me out**

**As I am not an elementary school teacher, BOGO Chipotle is literally the best part about teacher appreciation week**

**I rarely eat lunch in my room but when I do I refuse to answer my door.  I will go as far as to pause my music when kids start yanking on the door.  That may make me sound awful but they never actually want anything.  And sometimes they want to yank on the door just because & they aren't even my kids...**

April Confessions

**I don't mind if people use my classroom outside of school, but when people use my classroom & don't return it to how it was it makes me want to flip all the desks.  I don't want to have to spend my time in the morning putting all my desks back to how I had them & fixing my computer screen settings because someone else decided they didn't like how I had MY classroom.  Especially when I wasn't told anyone would even be using my classroom**

**Similarly, if someone invented a way to lock desks down in place so that students could not move them unless the teacher unlocked them I'd love them forever**

**I decided to take a semi-break from grad school.  Instead of doing any face to face classes this summer & fall I'm only doing online & may wind up taking a real break after that**

**If I had known that all of my classes were going to be research/case study based & not actually relate to the field I'm studying I probably wouldn't have started grad school in the first place**

**Dating is the worst**

**When my students try to blame me getting annoyed at them on anything or anyone but themselves, I get even more annoyed.  No, it is your fault...if you would do what you're supposed to when I ask then we would all have a great time**

**I like keeping my nails relatively short but I have been so stressed out lately that I haven't been keeping them painted & have them bitten so short they almost hurt & I have hangnails like crazy**

**My downstairs neighbor is the worst.  She's so loud & bitches all the time.  It was slightly amusing one day when it was during the middle of the day & she was on the phone talking about some guy's love of bologna & claiming that's why she thought he was diabetic & then ranting about corn tortillas.  However, when she woke me up around 4:30 in the morning on Monday because she was yelling "she's a liar" & "fuck you" super loud I wanted to strangle her**

**I'm a runner.  Not the healthy, let's be fit & exercise type.  Think more runaway bride type.  Except in that when things don't work out like I planned/hoped, I will eventually get the urge to just leave & start over elsewhere.  Of course there were other factors involved but it was the push that got me to leave Minnesota & the same with leaving Houston.  I'd be lying if I didn't think sometimes that I wanted to do it again**

Miranda Lambert - Running Just In Case

March Confessions

**I was better at confessions when I did them weekly because I would just add to it every day**

**On the flip side I don't feel like I have that much to confess on a weekly basis**

**At least once a week I get fed up with the education system as a whole & just want to quit**

**I don't know that I can truly imagine doing anything other than teaching though**

**I was planning on using my last 2 allotted days off for a 4 day weekend in May...then late Monday I wound up with the flu & had to take yesterday & today off**

**Granted it's only been a week & a half, but I haven't gone a single date, or even gotten one lined up, since Mr. Awesome turned out to be NOT Awesome**

**Dating sucks**

**I find Tinder slightly addicting**

**I'm getting my 8th tattoo in just 10 days!**

**I wasn't going to even write this post because I had nothing in it but then at like 7:15 I got blogger guilt because I've been super shitty at blogging & IG lately, especially blogging...**

February Confessions

**In case I haven't already mentioned it...I started online dating again...get ready for some shit show posts**

**This is week 3 of grad school & I'm thinking I may have been a bit ambitious to attempt 3 grad school classes while working full time**

**In just 10 days I move into my own place & what am I most excited about?  Not having to deal with people who don't know how to properly load a dishwasher**

**People who can't hold a conversation make me want to pull my teeth out**

**My dream Super Bowl celebration this year would just be people bringing me all the delicious, bad for you food & then going home**

**Mostly I don't want to drive anywhere & it's not really my house to throw anything/I don't want to hang out with my roommates**

**Whenever I get my tax refund I split it up 50-30-20.  50% goes on bills, 30 % goes into savings, & then I can use the other 20% for whatever I want...I'm getting another tattoo with this one**

**I have a feeling February is going to simultaneously be extremely fun & extremely stressful**

**I fell down the rabbit hole that is my own Facebook page the other night & I want to know when I stopped being so fun & carefree all the time**

**Sometimes I really miss living in Houston**

New Year Confessions

**I will not be setting goals for 2017.  I have a 101 in 1001, a 29 by 29, & seasonal goals.  I mean the later 2 come from the first one for the most part, but that's enough goals.  Adding more specific goals would just be setting myself up for failure**

**I will be having a theme/word for the year though which I'll talk about more tomorrow**

**I want to make changes to my blog/social media this year I'm just not exactly sure what/how yet**

**I can already tell that 2017 is going to bring some pretty big changes my way**

**I'm going to be cautiously optimistic in saying that these changes will be great ones & 2017 is going to be my year**

December Confessions

**When I sub in a messy classroom it stresses me out**

**I have a job interview today & there's a chance I'm feeling over confident**

**I have become a horrible blogger...again...I am so behind on reading/commenting & unless scheduled a week or more ago my posts either get finished day of (like this one) or not at all**

**Grad school this semester has been so chaotic in an unorganized way that if I didn't want to finish what I started I'd probably not continue on**

**One of my professors has my grade currently completely messed up & has not responded to any of my messages about it...finals week is next week...**

**People who don't clean out the refrigerator from time to time...why?!**

**If I land this full time job, I'm getting another, small, tattoo**

November Confessions

**I love having my weekends free again...even if I'm currently broke**

**Some days I wish I could be a full time blogger**

**The little things that show that someone cares mean the most to me**

**I considered making a paper chain counting down the days until I move**

**I am one of the nicest people in the world, until you act shady & then all hell breaks loose**

**I wish I had known before I booked my flight home for Christmas that I wasn't going to be working at the bar anymore**

**It makes me feel calm & happy when I have a lot of blog posts planned out & I'm not flying by the seat of my pants**

**BIC Crystal pens are by far my favorite**

**This Is Us is my new favorite TV show**

**If my roommate doesn't drop his condescending tone & snarky passive comments soon I'm going to drop kick him**