XLI

I rooted for the Bears and sadly they did not meet triumph. I think SNL's "da Bears" thing was my main reason for rooting for them. Pretty arbitary I know. I enjoy watching football if it's on or if it's the Superbowl, but I don't follow it and wouldn't just turn it on for fun. Well anyway my little Superbowl viewing get together was lovely! My favorite parts were pizza, texas caviar, and welch's grape juice.





























































One of the best superbowl viewing parties to date! First in the rankings are superbowl XXXVIIII (2005) when a bunch of the girls watched it in our RA's room and we had soooo much food! We made Texas caviar in the dorm... that took forever! But always worth it! And the other year was when I was young and it was Cowboys vs. 49ers and all us kids made hats! Sooo fun!



























Mais le jour n'etait pas parfait... J'ai vu l'avenir aujourd'hui. Et l'histoire pourrait s'etre repetee. POURRAIT. Mais merci a Dieu parce que l'avenir que j'ai vu n'est pas passe. Cet temps-ci j'ai pris la bonne decision.

fyi

the orange bowknots are soo delicious! In my limited repertoire of foods I am skilled at making, these rolls are probably one of the best. I'm so proud of myself! Especially since my attempts at baking on Wed. night met unfortunate results.

the little things

I am a person who is delighted by seemingly insignificant small things. Some events from this week for instance...

-one sentence makes me smile
-sitcoms
-grocery shopping
-Whole Foods Market (only one in OC is in Tustin, but its amazing! It's like Vons... if Vons was organic, sold bulk products, and sold food from local growers)
-buying 3 bags of groceries for $25!
-being conscientious with my money (i.e. making a pie chart of spending)
-good phone conversations
-trying and failing to teach 3rd graders about cloning... the cotton ball sheep art project looked great though!
-learning some Spanish
-a spaghetti and meatball dinner shared with 8 friends
-cooking (tonight's specials: an original concoction of red onion, olive oil, chicken breast, red chili pepper flakes, carrots, cilantro, and salsa put over brown rice; and baking orange bowknots)
-chocolate soy milk
-the comfort of a warm sweatshirt
-French

Tonight has been just what I needed, except these orange bowknots take sooo long! All this rising and covering and rising is annoying, but I know they'll be delicious. One of my goals is to really develop my traditional and creative cooking skills.

So an update on the new job: I now have 3 new kids giving me a grand total of 20 3rd graders all to myself. A lot have been out sick this week, it will be interesting when I have all of them. Yikes. But this week I really cracked down with discipline and I wrote a lesson plan for the week and had everything prepared in advance as opposed to trying to think of something the night before. The week was much smoother and my problem kids are really doing well... quite a step up from being on the verge of tears and at my wit's end trying to think of what to do with them that first week. It's strange, even though I've been stricter the kids seem to like me more. One girl who gets in trouble fairly often told me she wants to live with me and some of the kids keep reaching to hold my hand... they are so much younger than I perceived them to be. Does that make sense? I just really care about these kids.

mmm orange bowknots are ready.