New School and Stuff

So I started my job at my new school in West Jordan.

Yes I left Quail Run, which has since had it's name changed...idk what it is now.  But don't people who have something to hide change their name?  Just Sayin'.

I miss my QRPS students really badly though.  I love their stinking guts.  Even if they did drive me crazy sometimes.  I miss them though.

The new school is good.  I only teach 7th grade.  Which is so different than having 3 preps and teaching 5 different classes.  I feel kind of lazy.  Though my number of students has been multiplied by 5, so there is a lot more grading to do.

The kids all seem to be very nice.  I mean they're 7th graders slowly turning to 8th graders.  So some of them are getting into that stage where everything I do is stupid to them.  It's so weird to see that transition in them.  But I do like them all and I can't think of any of them I am going to be at odds with all the time.  So I am excited to get to know them.

I still miss my kids though.  Yes I call them my kids.

Let me just tell you, Adrian is the best.

Friday he asked me to go out with him.  He took me to Red Robin.  And then surprised me with tickets to "Oz The Great and Powerful."

He's the best.  I love him.

The movie as a movie and not associated with the Wizard of Oz was absolutely fantastic.  I thought it was a great film.  Funny, visually captivating, and it pulls on your heart strings a little.  No it may not win any awards besides for visual effects, but it's a Disney movie and they mostly always do a great job.

As far as being in line with the book...fell flat on its face.  If you dont know, The Wizard of Oz is one of my most favorite books.  But I will do a full comparison some other time.

Well I must go.  TTFN

February Post

So a lot of things are happening this month that are crazy.

And some things are making me mad.

So where should I start?

Let me just make a long story really short, I'm looking for a new job.  For the rest of this school year, seriously.  The place I currently work is taking a turn for the worst.  I'm not comfortable there.  It's a hostile environment. 

So I'm looking around and I'm excited. 

My sister is going on her mission to France.  She leaves on Weds!  Her and my parents are coming here on Monday so we can spend time together.  So that is grood.

The saddest thing about leaving my school is that I will miss my kids (I call my students my kids).  I will miss them so much. I love them all.  Today I showed my 8th graders a video that posed a physics question, and I asked them to figure out the answer, and they all actually started doing it and using their knowledge from what we've learned.  It was awesome.  And then in Earth Systems we were learning about clouds and I gave them all cans of shaving cream so they could make the cloud formations with the shaving cream.  I told them they had to make one big giant cumulonimbus cloud in the middle of the room (I had a dropcloth) and we ended up with a half a meter of shaving cream in the middle of my room.  It was awesome.  My 7th graders are doing body systems and we're learning about the circulatory system and taking care of your heart so we did aerobics today and took their pulse and then did corpse pose which they really did not grasp the relaxingness of it but it was still fun.  And I love them and I'm really going to miss them a lot.

And finally, I'm really sick of these Mormon Feminists.  I read this list of "grievances."  And all I could think is way to be offended by things you made up.  I'm starting to think that Mormon Feminists are girls who liked to start drama in Jr. High and never got over it and then of course hipsters because they always have to be "better" than everyone.  And what way to be better than everyone than finding fault?

So anyways as I was reading this list half the list made me react like this:

"You made that up in your head, because that is not even true." 
Like the one about turning a baby blessing into being about the man.  Guess what no one is thinking about the men as they are blessing the baby.  They probably aren't even thinking about the mom.  And if they are even thinking about anything it's the BABY.  Because the baby blessing is a blessing from our Heavenly Father for the Baby.  It's not like priesthood holders got together and were like "How can we make births about men?"  That didn't happen, I promise you.

And the other half made me think:
"You don't have to take everything people say in church as doctrine."
I just have never heard from a general authority that man has the final say in the home.  Just because some one says something in church doesn't mean it is true.  Doctrine is given or clarified at a time when the whole Church will be able to hear or have access to that information (General Conference anyone).  Not from Brother Smith in the Young Men's Presidency on a random Sunday in your ward.  I was in church once and the RS teacher kept quoting her mother on 'doctrine.'  This did not make me feel like questioning the church.  This just made me wish the girl had actually prepared for her lesson instead of talking to her mom on the phone for 4 hours.  Or when I was in RS and all the girls kept saying how we don't need science.  There is no official Church doctrine that says that.  So I just move on. 

I have never felt inferior when I go to the temple.  Or when I'm in church.  Or at mutual.  Or when I got my Young Women's manual instead of a Duty to God manual.  If you do, it's probably because you aren't understanding what is happening.  And you don't understand gender roles. 

I guess I just feel like maybe if they read and studied The Family: A Proclamation to the World they would understand a bit better.  I was telling Adrian how great the Proclamation to the World is.  It came at a time when same-sex marriage and relationships wasn't as big of an issue as it is today, and Mormon feminists were not even on the radar.  And it came because God knew that these issues were coming and we needed a resource and a guide to tell us of our sacred responsibilities as men, and women and as husbands and wives. 

And comments like this:
"I feel unequal when women have less prominent, prestigious, and public roles in the church, even before and after childrearing years." {via}
Make me feel like they just want the prestige of being seen and I just don't think that's why the men do those things.  I don't feel like they aspire to be Prophet or a general authority.  They may aspire to be like Christ in their actions, which I feel is worthy and something not exclusive to men at all.

And if men do aspire to those positions they usually don't get them.

and yes I realize that this sounds judgmental.

Goals

This year I will be a better blogger.

At least once a month.

Though, I'm not sure if any one still reads my blog.

We really started the new year off well.  We drove back from Phoenix on New Year's Day.
From warm, sunny Phoenix to freezing, snowy, depressing Provo.

Our drive back was nice though. 

I asked Adrian what his goals were for the year.  And we talked about our goals as a couple for the year. 

I think it's going to be a good year for sure.

I was going to add a nice picture of my family but it's being dumb so you'll have to just imagine us all happy.

Ring Out Wild Bells

So 2012 is over.

That's good

Woah I just looked out our window and there was a perfect flying V of ducks.

quack Quack QUACK QUACK

If you think that is weird then you need to watch "The Mighty Ducks" more often than you have.

Anyways...

It was a great year.  I got married and now I live with my best friend and that is really fun.  That was the best part of 2012.

I got a job teaching.  It has been interesting.  Fun and hard.

I'm looking forward to 2013 though.  I think it will be good. 

This year we will spend more time on the important things, like family and taking better care of ourselves.  Spiritually and physically.

Though things in the world seem perilous at times I'm really happy to know that I have Adrian with me.  He makes me feel safe.  I love him very much.

I'm A Teacher

I'm actually in teacher training right now.

I'm nervous.

I feel unprepared.  But that's cool.

Prayers would be appreciated. 

This diagram describes me.

It's hot...

When we signed a contract for this place I didn't realize that it didn't have central air conditioning.

As a result we have two air units, one in our front room and one in our bedroom.  That means I'm pretty much being cooked like a lobster in the heat of the room where my computer resides.  Oh and also the AC in our room doesn't work because whenever you turn it on lately, it throws the breaker.  Even if the only thing on in the whole circuit is the AC.  Lame-Sauce.

Mostly I want to write this to tell you that if you haven't read The Help you should because it is my new favorite book.  I love it so much.  It made me laugh and cry and be embarrassed and almost every emotion there is.  Mostly though I like that it's a reminder that people are people, no matter their skin color, sins, or anything.  We can all reach the same potential.  And God loves us all the same even though we all make and do dumb things.

Read it or else.

Just Fantastic!

I am typing this on Adrián's computer so it says that every word I write is spelled wrong.  Also I just figured out how to do the apostrophe, but maybe I can not remember anymore so I probably will not be using many contractions...probably none contractions.

Being married is just fantastic.  What can I say?  I love it.

I put the laundry in just now and I am waiting.  I think all the dryers are being used so I might have to take it to another place to do the drying and that place may be WyView because I know they have those ginormous dryers where I can dry everything at once for two bucks.  Which is less than what I would spend here because these dryers do not dry very well...

Anyways...  Here is a list of things you should plan on doing in your life.

I highly reccomend that you do them anyways because they have brought me great joy.

1. Graduate from college and WALK in graduation-  No it is nothing like your meaningless high school graduation.  The biggest reason I hear that people do not to walk in their college graduation is because they walked in highschool and it was not special at all.  Well think about it people.  In high school you probably knew that you were not done.  You knew that you still had at least 4 more years of school.  Probably you went to public school so every penny you made the last four years, or even every penny of your parents money was sunk into your highschool education.  (Taxes: your community helped you get through high school).  You had a set curriculum of classes with very little choices of what you wanted to study and focus on.  High school was the bane of your existence.  But this is college where every penny you make is pretty much for school, you get to really start planning your whole life and study only what really interests you.  College has made you go through every emotion you have, it has made you sweat, bleed, cry, and even want to die at times or just drop out and go on no longer.  And now you have made it through, not only can you see the light at the end of the tunnel you are basking in it.  And it is glorious.  When you walk across the stage and they give you that empty diploma case (diploma comes in mail later) it is like you climbed Mount Everest.  You did it.  And nothing seems impossible to you.  You can do anything.  And you really can.  You are not only happy and proud of yourself, but you are happy and proud of every one of your fellow graduates.  You have all fought a good fight and won!
2. Get married in the temple-  I do not think I can accurately describe how amazing this experience is.  Knowing that I get to be sealed to my wonderful fantastic husband Adrián for eternity is the best feeling ever.  The temple brings a peace to life words can not describe and you will only know if you go to the temple.  Life is so much more beautiful, and meaningful after going to the temple.  You feel a renewed sense of strength to be good and righteous.  To stand up for what you believe.  Knowing that I can go there with Adrián and he has those same beliefs as me gives me so much hope and fills me with so much love for him.  Whatever path you are on that is leading you away from the temple STOP and repent, use the Atonement, go back to that straight and narrow path to the temple because nothing, I repeat NOTHING will make you happier than knowing that you will be with your family forever, knowing how much God and Jesus love you and how much everyone really has so much worth and life has so much meaning.  It is really the most wonderful feeling.    

Those are the best things and really getting sealed in the temple is the bestest thing I just put them in the order that they happened to me.  

If you have no idea what temple I am talking about, I am talking about the LDS or Mormon Temple, there are a bunch of them around the world.  You can go to LDS.org or mormon.org to learn more about mormons or to just learn more about temples you can go to http://www.lds.org/church/temples?lang=eng