Monday Morning Coffee Vol. 15

Oh hey there!  Pardon me while I haven't blogged in 2 weeks because I've been lazy.

#TeachersInTheSummerBeLike

So rather than a weekend recap, here is what I have been up to since I last blogged...

**A guy who was a few years older than me in high school messaged me on a dating site & we have been talking for a couple of weeks.  I don't know how I feel about this seeing as how I am going back to Texas later this month...**

**I met up with a few friends from high school for a bonfire**

**I spent 4 days driving to Texas & back which is pretty ridiculous.  Day 1 I drove from central MN to just south of Oklahoma City.  Literally all I did that day was drive for 13 hours...  Day 2 I stopped in Dallas at my storage unit to pick up some stuff, loaded what I could into my car, & then returned my laptop to the district (the entire reason I had to make the drive.)  I was hoping to also drop off my keys & ID but I got the run around on that one.  Technology said I had to bring it to HR, HR said I had to bring it to Security, Security said I had to bring it back to the school... Seeing as how I hadn't officially resigned yet & my school had been bugging me about it for weeks I wasn't about to show up there & run into anyone who had been pressuring me to get the paperwork in without having it in.  So I drove down to my new apartment, got my keys, unpacked what I had in my car, emailed in my resignation, & slept on my floor.  Day 3 I drove back up to Dallas, turned in my keys & ID badge, hung out with Helen & Caleb for a couple of hours & met their baby, & then drove to Lawrence, KS.  Day 4 I drove back to MN.**

**The only reason I even had to make that ridiculous drive was because of said laptop.  My school kept pressuring me to turn in my resignation so they could post my job, however I only had 5 days from the date my resignation was turned in to return my stuff without getting charged... I looked into flights & car rental but that was WAY more expensive than just driving down & back**

**June 20th marked 2 years with Nash-o**

**I went to see Tracy Lawrence with my 2 best friends from college**

**I met up with 2 other friends from college for dinner, one who I hadn't seen in like 3 or 4 years & the other who I hadn't seen in a little over a year**

I mean really that's all that's new with me & why I haven't really blogged.  My days are pretty much: wake up, chill with Nash, watch the Today show, maybe do some stuff around the house, watch TV, go to bed.  The main takeaways from these last 2 weeks are:

1)I am officially done with my old school district

2)I officially have a new apartment & roommate

3)I have been talking to a boy who seems really great & I don't know how to feel about it since I'll be leaving in a few weeks for at least a year

Oh!  Which I guess brings me to something else that is not related to the boy but related to being gone from Minnesota...

As you may or may not remember, I was really hoping to move back to Minnesota this summer & stay here for good.  I even got my Minnesota teaching license back.  However, I was slapped in the face by the reality that I can't afford it without a Master's Degree.  

Well while I was still employed at my old job that really wasn't going to happen because coaching basically was my life so I sort of let the idea go.  Then, I found a new job.  A new job where not only am I not coaching, but my drive time is cut in half... aka I'll be home a whole lot more.  My initial thought was, I CAN DO ALL THE FUN THINGS!  

I don't even remember what it was that made me look into it, & I don't know why I hadn't thought of it sooner seeing as I had just been talking to a former co-worker about it a month prior, but I looked into Master's programs at WGU.  After talking to her again about how she likes the Master's program, and talking to my cousin who did her Bachelor's through them, I decided that I'm going to go for it!  While I still want to do some of the fun things, I plan on starting my Master's in either Curriculum & Instruction or Learning & Technology in October.  That will get me a month & a half into the school year before starting it.  And then, if I can get it done in 6 months, which my friend said she did, it will only cost me $3400.  That way, come the end of the school year I have a whole lot more options.  I can stay where I am & teach with a little pay raise, I can stay in Texas & get out of the classroom, OR I can afford to move back to MN & either teach without taking a pay cut or move back to MN & still not be in the classroom... either way it opens a lot more doors.  

Bonus: when I was talking to my cousin about it she said she was thinking about doing the same thing so we may get to go through the program together!