What's Up Wednesday *6/30*

 

Linking up with Sheaffer & Shay.

What I'm Eating... summer food?  Stuff from the grill, salads, cold pasta

What I'm Reminiscing About... Pre-2018/2019 me... aka me stress & anxiety got bad.

What I'm Loving... Being back in MN with my family

What I've Been Up To... Applying to all the jobs

What I'm Dreading... The constant rejection emails from companies

What I'm Working On... Finishing my MN real estate license.  I have one class left

What I'm Excited About... Plans with friends & family

What I'm Watching/Reading... I'm not really watching anything.  I put on DDD for background noise a lot but I'm listening to Second Skin on Audible.

What I'm Listening To... currently my Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify but also Second Skin on Audible

What I'm Wearing... lots of new outfits from Shein

What I'm Doing This Weekend... Saturday I'm going to my brother & future sister-in-laws for some wedding planning, then probably out to the farm with my family, & then the show of an acquaintance with my cousin.  Sunday probably more time at the farm.

What I'm Looking Forward To Next Month... Starting therapy, lots of plans with friends & family, hopefully finishing my MN real estate license.

What Else Is New... I'm working on starting a new blog.  I'm not going to delete this one.  I may or may not still do link-ups & the surface level posts I've been doing for forever on here but I'm working on starting a new one that's going to go in a different direction.  I'm trying to do it on Wordpress which I've never used so if anyone has any helpful tips for how to start it up that'd be great!

What's Up Wednesday *2/24*

Linking up with Sheaffer & Shay.

What I'm Eating... Lots of pre-made salads & sandwiches.  My power was out at my apartment for 52 hours between Monday & Wednesday last week.  That meant when I got back on Thursday I had to throw out all of the food that I had had in my fridge & my freezer.  Even then I still didn't have any water back meaning I couldn't wash any dishes.  I already had some piling up from having to throw food out & so rather than make more, I decided to just take simple route this week.

What I'm Reminiscing About... being able to take a shower.  I finally got my water back on Monday night, & got hot water back yesterday, but we are under a water boil for a minimum of 48 hours upon the return of water.  That means that tomorrow is the absolute soonest I'm going to trust getting in the shower (after I call my MUD to see if our district is still under the water boil or not.)  On the bright side at least I can now boil up some water & bathe.  I just miss standing in the shower though...

What I'm Loving... The love & support from my friends, family, coworkers, & social media/blog friends over the past month.

What I've Been Up To... taking life day by day.  I had so many "big" plans about how I was going to change my life once I moved out on my own a month ago & thought I would jump in head first.  That did not happen because life.  However, I've been coming to terms with my "new normal" & am ready to really start working on myself & setting up a healthy/productive routine.

What I'm Dreading... nothing?  I'm actually really excited about the next few months & the future in general.

What I'm Working On... classes for my Minnesota real estate license.

What I'm Excited About... the FOUR different "vacations" I have planned already with different friends & my parents before the school year is over.

What I'm Watching/Reading... I'm catching up on Heartland.  I didn't realize I was so far behind.  I thought I only had one season to catch up on but turns out I had three!  I'm on season 12 now though & there are "only" 13 on Netflix right now.

What I'm Listening To... As per usual I listen to my Spotify "Liked Songs" on shuffle most of the time.  However, I've also been listening to Morgan Wallen's double album a lot as well as the song Treasure by Mary Heather Hickman because it's fun, catchy, & so accurate.

What I'm Wearing... I'm really working my way through my closest.  Luckily after the week we had last week in Texas we were allowed to wear jeans everyday this week.  I haven't done laundry since February 1st.  I am long overdue.  I should have done it on one of my days off the 11-14 but put it off thinking I still had the 15th off to do it before going back to work on the 16th.  But then Snovid happened & I was without power... and then without running water... so here we are...

What I'm Doing This Weekend... cleaning.  Cleaning EVERYTHING.  Now that I finally have water back I'm going to be doing dishes, laundry, bathing/showering like it's going out of style, etc.  If it's nice out I might try to take Nash to the dog park a time to too as well.

What I'm Looking Forward To Next Month... Spring Break!  Our spring break is officially the 15-19 (not including weekends) but the 12 is an asynchronous/teacher planning day so I'm taking it off since the kids won't be there, I have/had 13.5 days of PTO for this school year, & don't plan on staying in Texas to use them next year.

What Else Is New... in addition to working on my Minnesota real estate license, and myself, I'm also looking for teaching jobs in Minnesota for next school year.  However I keep going back & forth on whether or not I want to teach full time & attempt real estate or if I want to just sub or be a part-time teacher & do real estate.  I guess we'll see as more jobs become available!

What's Up Wednesday

Guess who is slacking when it comes to blogging again?  THIS GIRL!

Linking up with Sheaffer & Shay.

What I'm Eating... Leftovers made from stuff that was grilled over the long weekend.  We grilled steaks, chicken, pork tenderloin, asparagus, & jalapenos.

What I'm Loving... That the weather has been warm/hot during the day but cool at night.

What I've Been Up To... still working on my real estate license.  I'm taking my 4th exam today & then have 2 more classes & my final exam to take.

What I'm Excited About... Summer school.  That's right.  I said it.  As a general rule I do NOT do summer school.  I was a sub/alternate summer school teacher my very first year of teaching & vowed to never do it again.  To me the time & what you deal with during summer school simply wasn't worth the money.  However, this summer it's all online!  I volunteered to do both sessions although the jury is still out on whether I'll be doing one or both.  Either way it's just 4 hours a day M-F that I have to be available to students online.  That kind of time/being able to be at home IS worth the extra money to me.

What I'm Watching... Danny & I are still slowly but surely getting through House of Cards on Netflix.  We're in season 4 right now.  I think we've already decided to watch/re-watch Sons of Anarchy next.  He's seen the whole thing.  I didn't start watching until season 5 so I have no idea what happened the first 4 seasons lol.

What I'm Wearing... lots of workout clothes again.  My gym is back open at 25% capacity, although there hasn't even been close to that many people in there.  Every other machine is blocked off & on top of everyone using the equipment having to sanitize it after use, there are workers sanitizing machines not being used the entire day as well.  

What's Up Wednesday

Linking up with Sheaffer & Shay.

What I'm Eating... a lot of chicken.  On Monday I made Cabbage Wrapped Chicken Enchiladas

What I'm Reminiscing About... being able to just be out

What I'm Loving... That we've been having really nice weather

What I've Been Up To... Trying to get some blog posts written & scheduled for the next couple of weeks

What I'm Doing This Weekend... Danny's birthday is on Friday, but ya know Covid so nothing.

What I'm Excited About... That the school year ends in a few weeks.  Online teaching is not for me

What I'm Watching... House of Cards at night with Danny, & Too Hot To Handle/The Ranch during the day.

What I'm Listening To... My "liked songs" on Spotify & The Good Soldiers on Audible.

What I'm Working On... The whole online teaching thing

What I'm Wearing... Mostly comfy clothes again with shorts or jeans occasionally thrown in

What's Up Wednesday

My last post was a month ago.  A month ago I was SO ready for spring break to hurry up & arrive because I NEEDED a break from my job & my students.  I'm not going to sit here & lie & tell you that I miss my job, because I don't.  But I do miss my kids.  A month ago I was just starting to work on my real estate license so I could get out of teaching for good.  I'm still working on it, but suddenly having my kids ripped away without getting to say a real goodbye, has me wanting to do one more year as a 10th grade teacher so that I can hopefully have some of my same kids again next year when we go back.  As of this moment, we may even be going back to school at some point.  We're actually set to go back on April 13th as of right now, but that was decided a week ago, & as well all know a lot could happen/change in the next 2.5 weeks.  Other schools in Texas have already decided that they won't be returning for the rest of the year.

Linking up with Sheaffer & Shay.

What I'm Eating

Dinner plans this week include:
Chili Cheese Dog Crescent Rolls
Nachos
Pork Etouffe
Salisbury Steak

What I'm Reminiscing About

Getting to see some of my favorite students

What I'm Loving

More time with Nash 

What I've Been Up To

Trying to find the motivation to truly get stuff accomplished during the day...aka spend more time on my real estate license since I should be flying through with all my new found free time. 

What I'm Doing This Weekend
Nothing.  We had plans to go to a crawfish boil, but like everything else, it has been cancelled.

What I'm Excited About

The fact that I'm saving money because I can't go anywhere

What I'm Watching

Danny & I are watching House of Cards at night on Netflix.  During the day I'm currently watching season 2 of All American, and then plan on watching the latest season of Schitt's Creek, after that I'm open to suggestions...

What I'm Listening To

The birds...and my dog bark... a lot...

What I'm Working On

My real estate licence

What I'm Wearing

A mix of workout clothes & actual outfits... I'm trying to force myself to get dressed during the week so that I have more motivation to be productive...

What's Up Wednesday

Linking up with Sheaffer & Shay.

What I'm Eating

Salads, Philly Cheese Steak, Spaghetti, Tacos, Tamales, Pulled Pork Sandwiches

What I'm Reminiscing About

Having students that were more respectful and that I bonded with more

What I'm Loving

Living with Danny & not having a roommate 

What I've Been Up To

Working on my real estate license 

What I'm Doing This Weekend
Houston Rodeo BBQ Cook-off

What I'm Excited About

The possibility of not having to teach in a year or so

What I'm Watching

Blacklist -- We're on season 6 which is the last one that's on Netflix.  We've been watching this show since we started dating & now we're almost done & we need to find a new show.  Suggestions??

What I'm Listening To

A lot of Tik Toks...

What I'm Working On

My real estate licence

What I'm Wearing

A lot of workout clothing now that I actually go to a real gym 5 days/week

What's Up Wednesday

Linking up with Sheaffer & Shay.

What I'm Eating

Danny is sick so I made Chicken Noodle Soup for the week but then also made Mississippi Pot Roast

What I'm Reminiscing About

Not having a roommate

What I'm Loving

Wine in a can

What I've Been Up To

Trying to not lose my shit in class on a daily basis.

What I'm Doing This Weekend

Danny & I are going to Dallas-Fort Worth because a friend of mine is getting married.

What I'm Excited About

Getting to visit DFW for the weekend.  We'll be staying with Danny's cousin but I'm hoping we can go out somewhere at least one night that we're there.

What I'm Watching

Blacklist & Shameless

What I'm Listening To

A lot of Logic & Skitz Kraven

What I'm Working On

My resume & cover letter so I can start applying to non-teaching jobs.

What I'm Wearing

Jeans & leggings.  I've lost pretty much all f*cks when it comes to my work wardrobe & just want to be comfortable.

What's Up Wednesday

Linking up with Sheaffer & Shay.

What I'm Eating

Lots of frozen food, specifically burritos.  My stuff still has yet to be delivered, although it's supposedly coming today, so I have nothing to really cook with or more importantly put leftovers & such in.  Not the best for getting back into being healthy but it'll have to do for the time being...

What I'm Reminiscing About

My time in Minnesota

What I'm Loving

How cuddly Nash has been.  Granted it's because he's having a rough time adjusting not only to not having my parents, brother, & 2 other pets around, but also having to move into a new place.

What I've Been Up To

Moving & trying to get settled into a new place & new school year

What I'm Doing This Weekend

I have 0 plans as of right now.  I'll most likely keep it that way so that I can get everything settled in my new place & get some grad school work done since classes start tomorrow.

What I'm Excited About

The fact that I seemed to have lucked out this time around with my roommate.  The last couple of times I had roommates it was awkward AF.

What I'm Watching

Nothing because none of my stuff has been delivered!

What I'm Listening To

Either Spotify or relaxing music for dogs on Youtube to get Nash to feel calm

What I'm Working On

Getting settled into a new routine

What I'm Wearing

Lots of shorts & tank tops because it's hot as hello outside

What's Up Wednesday

What I'm Eating This Week
Breakfasts: Scrambled Eggs w/Cheese
Lunches/Suppers: Turkey Taco Lettuce Wraps or Cilantro Lime Lettuce Wraps
Snacks: Celery & Apples w/Peanut Butter, Bananas, Banana Chocolate Chip Lara Bars
Game Day Suppers: Peanut Butter & Grape Jelly Uncrustables

What I'm Reminiscing About
Spring Break.  Those 9 glorious days where I didn't have to go to work & when my parents came to visit for a few days.

What I'm Loving
The weather.  It's finally warm out most days.  The pollen however...not so much.

What I've Been Up To
Work work work work work....and softball, which is technically work.  Our season ends in 23 days though.  I've also started applying to jobs outside of the DFW area for next year.

What I'm Dreaming About
Well my actual dreams have been so bizarre!  Between the Gossip Girl dreams when I binge watch too much & the completely random dreams, such as the one where I showed up to work in black flats, black yoga capri pants, & a white "I Touched A Shark" shirt and didn't even care, I have been waking up thinking WTF a lot lately.

My day dreams include summer vacation & relocating to the Houston area.

What I'm Working On
Applying for teaching jobs that will get me back to the north Houston area.

What I'm Excited About
The fact that there are only 43 school days left & I'm only here for 39.5 of them...  Thinking about living in north Houston again gets me really excited too so fingers crossed it happens.

What I'm Watching/Reading
I'm watching Gossip Girl & "reading" Girl, Stop Apologizing

What I'm Listening To
Lots of Cody Johnson & Luke Combs

What I'm Wearing
Nothing but jeans & tshirts/sweatshirts.  I donated $20 so that I could wear jeans every single day for the rest of the school year.

What I'm Doing This Weekend
Going to dinner with some friends

What I'm Looking Forward To Next Month
-My friend from grad school coming to visit for a Wild v Stars hockey game
-Getting to see a friend from CO while they're in town for work
-Nash's birthday
-Eric Church concert
-Softball season ending, aka more free time
-A 4 day weekend for Easter, possibly going to Houston

What Else Is New
I discovered the other day that at this point in time, going back to Minnesota to teach is not an option.  The pay difference is so drastic that I couldn't afford it.

What's Up Wednesday

1. What I'm eating this week: A little bit of this, a little bit of that.  Since I'm leaving for MN tomorrow right after I get out of work at 1, I didn't want to have to go grocery shopping or do any meal prep for this week.  Lunch has been provided a couple of times for work, I had some leftovers from Sunday, & I also have a couple free chicken sandwiches from Chick-Fil-A

2. What I'm reminiscing about: All of the things that made me fall in love with Texas

3. What I'm loving: That I get to head back to Minnesota for 2 weeks tomorrow

4. What I've been up to: Trying to survive the last couple weeks of the semester

5. What I'm dreading: Nothing at the moment

6. What I'm working on: I've been pulling things together to help grow my business as well as plan for next semester

7. What I'm excited about: Heading back to Minnesota

8. What I'm watching/reading: Watching: Grace & Frankie.  Reading: You Are A Badass At Making Money

9. What I'm listening to: I've been listening to my Top Hits of 2018 non-stop

10. What I'm wearing: Lots of jeans & sweatshirts

11. What I'm doing this weekend: I'll be back in Minnesota!

12. What I'm looking forward to next month: *something vague about work*

13. What else is new: I applied to get my Minnesota teaching license

What's Up Wednesday

Happy Wednesday!  Happy last Wednesday in November at that!  I've been such a bad blogger lately.  I had a post idea for yesterday even but then didn't get it done so it has been moved to tomorrow.  For the first week back from a long break, this week is going by surprisingly fast & I am a-okay with that!  Linking up with Lindsay for What's Up Wednesday! 

What I'm eating this week... I'm doing a 2nd round of the 21 Day Fix with a 3 Day Refresh mixed in.  So Part of the week is Chicken or Catfish with brown rice & broccoli for lunches & suppers while 3 of the days are shakes with spinach, avocado, & blackberries for lunches and another shake along with lemon garlic asparagus for supper (the lemon garlic asparagus does NOT go in the shake for the record lol.

What I'm reminiscing about... being back home in MN for Thanksgiving Break as well as the first time I met Bumble Boy 7 years ago.

What I'm loving... that this week is flying by

What I've been up to... getting back into the swing of things after being away from work for 9 days

What I'm dreading... nothing actually.  I mean I don't particularly want to go to work for the next 17 days but I'm not dreading them.

What I'm working on... building my coaching business

What I'm excited about... knowing I'll be back in Minnesota in 23 days

What I'm watching/reading... I just finished season 6 of New Girl yesterday so I need to find something else now.  I'm "reading" The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck on Audible.

What I'm listening to... a lot of Eric Church

What I'm wearing... all the jeans.  It's been too cold for dresses but I'm still refusing to wear slacks to work...

What I'm doing this weekend... The only 2 for sure things I have planned are an appointment at 2 on Saturday & watching the Vikings game at 3:25 on Sunday.  If we want to throw Friday in then also hosting a dodgeball tournament as a fundraiser for softball.

What I'm looking forward to next month... going back to Minnesota for TWO weeks & meeting up with Bumble Boy

What else is new... I have been seriously looking into teaching jobs in Minnesota as well as a couple of non-teaching, but still education related jobs that allow me to work remote.  Thanks to Sara for tipping me off on one & shoutout to my therapist for suggesting the other.  Fingers crossed that by the end of this school year I have a job lined up that allows me to be back in Minnesota!

What's Up Wednesday

Linking up with Shay, Lindsay, Jenn and Jessi.

What I'm Eating This Week:

Breakfasts this week are a Sausage & Egg Casserole.  #Obsessed

What I'm Reminiscing About:

My birthday trip to Arkansas

What I'm Loving:

The results I'm seeing already from the 21 Day Fix

What I've Been Up To:

Trying to build a side hustle

What I'm Dreading:

Work, pretty much daily...

What I'm Working On:

"I be up in the gym just working on my fitness"

(really I'm working out at home...)

What I'm Excited About:

I won $19 yesterday on a $1 lottery ticket

What I'm Watching/Reading:

I've been watching Godless on Netflix.  I don't really know how I feel about it.  It's definitely in the genre I like, & I don't hate it, but it also doesn't hold my full attention...

What I'm Listening To:

Spotify in the morning & Girl Logic on the way home (for the second time)

What I'm Wearing:

Whatever I can to not have to wear work pants...

What I'm Doing This Weekend:

Saturday: I have a couple of appointments & am going to a concert/festival with a friend

Sunday: Watching the Vikings & possibly getting a pedicure

What I'm Looking Forward To Next Month:Heading home to Minnesota.  I'm so ready to be back in MN, see family/friends, & enjoy THANKSGIVING!!!

What Else Is New:

I think I am officially over dating, & the attempt to date.  I don't even currently care to be swiping through people let alone having half ass conversations & mediocre dates.

What's Up Wednesday

Linking up with Mel @ The Larson Lingo for What's Up Wednesday & Andrea for TBB Fall Fashion Frenzy!

What I'm eating this week...

I'm finishing up my remaining Burrito Pie Casserole leftovers as well as cooking up some meals from Home Chef.  I don't regularly subscribe to any meal subscription boxes, but when I see a good deal I try them out.  If you click the link above we will each get $30 credit.  Getting 3 meals for 2 people is normally $60, which is the option I chose.  I live alone so 6 meals for $25 was a great deal to me.  I did the same thing with Hello Fresh back in March.  The 3 Home Chef Meals I chose were:

-Pork Chops w/Pine Nut & Parmesan Butter w/Garlic Swiss Chard

-Barbacoa Steak Tacos w/Queso Fresco & Pickled Vegetables

-One Sheet Pretzel Crusted Chicken w/Roasted Broccoli & Honey Mustard

What I'm reminiscing about...

The freedom of summer.  The kids have been back for 6 weeks, I've been back since the end of July, & I'm still not completely over the loss of my freedom.

What I'm loving...

That highs are no longer in the 90s or above on a regular basis.

What I've been up to...

September could pretty much be summed up as: at work, with Nash, or with The Boyfriend.

What I'm dreading...

I honestly can't think of anything.  This month, which has been less than stellar, is almost over, birthday month is coming, then it's short work months because of Thanksgiving & Christmas which also mean family.

What I'm working on...

I am forever lesson planning & grading.

What I'm excited about...

Two weekends away in October.  One to a fancy resort & one to a cabin for my birthday!

What I'm watching/reading...

I'm binge watching Heartland on Netflix.

What I'm listening to...

Spotify always

What I'm wearing...

Fall means plain/flannel & I am all about that!

More flannel/plaid inspiration:

What I'm doing this weekend...

I'm not doing a whole lot.  I'm hoping to go to a pumpkin patch on Sunday but that's about it.

What I'm looking forward to next month...

My birthday month!!

I'll be turning 30 at the end of next month & because it's a milestone birthday a few of my friends are coming along to help me celebrate.  Rather than do something really big, I oped to do a weekend at a cabin in Arkansas.  Paperless Post has some really cute invitations for just the occasion!

They have really fun invitations for all types of events as well as cards to send to your loved ones!

What else is new...

For those of you who have missed the very casual mention in my posts recently, I started seeing a guy at the beginning of this month.  AKA The Boyfriend, who someday may or may not get a more creative nickname for the blog.