Charmed Life

This is pretty much how I feel about life these days : )

It's a Good Day

I am in such a good mood. I know I have been slightly absent from the blogging world lately, since summer vacay has started every day feels like a weekend, and generally I don't blog on the weekends. Eventually this will sort itself out. 

Sooo I checked my grades online last night. Normally they don't come out till Wednesday and normally I don't check them until the Wednesday after that. But this semester I decided to check it asap. I took way more credits than are necessary and generally even allowed but man I pulled it off with flying colors! Not to toot my own horn or anything : )

Generally when I get all A's I take it as a sign I've been working too hard and slack off accordingly. I found out an a veeeeery early age I can totally slack off and still get all B+'s with some A-'s. It's a gift, and the secret to my having time to blog. But this time, I got five (count em, 1,2,3,4,5) five A's and 1 B+! Oh yeah!

Yesterday was just a good day all around. I started working.

Oh my gosh I love the POC. It felt sooo good to walk in the doors and have Digger stop mid-sentence and run up and give me a hug! Shortly followed by the equally lovable Meeko and Bingo. My friends in high school were not the best. I've kept the few that were true friends, but I have abandoned most of the rest. I have not, however, abandoned the feeling that I love everyone a little more than they love me. It feels good to know that my POC girls love me too : ) It also feels good to be called Twinkle Toes again. Whoever came up with the idea that we should all have camp names is a genius. Anyway, I'm ready for camp to start, and although I'm really worried I won't get my K-1's again (fingers crossed), I'm just happy to be back. The new counselors seem amazing and I'm just itching to write out the first homegram of the summer!

More than that I'm itching to write the first blog of the summer that has quotes from five years olds. Those are always the best quotes. 

Break Me Off a Piece of that Kit-Kat Bar

Just when I'm celebrating Love 21, I see this. 

Know what that means? I didn't. So I looked it up. It means everything (waist, bust, inseam, etc) is on average two inches larger. 

Come. On. Give. Me. A. Break. 

It's not more modest if it falls off of you, fyi. 

You can't convince me those girls in the pictures are two inches larger... That's for sure. Where can I get their clothes?

Love 21

Forever 21 has launched yet another line, Love 21. And I love it. 

Lately F21 has been lagging a bit to me. With student teaching on the horizon I need to make some better decisions about clothing options, less short-shorts and more button ups. : (

Love 21 is a great grown up option to F21, and is a little less fashion forward than Twelve by Twelve (another F21 line...). It's full of pieces that I can easily throw a cardigan over to teach in, and then still wear it out that night with friends. And I am soo excited that it will be available in Chi-Town! Yet another excuse to grab the train this summer : )

Here are some of my favorite pieces. 

The best part is the prices are still way reasonable and every time I've checked the website today there have been new additions! I love it!

Craiglist

Have any of you ever used Craiglist? I haven't and quite honestly, I've only heard creepy things about it. But in my recent search for furniture for Hermione and mine's house I decided to check it out. It was soooo easy. It gives you a list of cities where they are located, you pick the one closest to you (South Bend). I clicked furniture, I typed in Desk, and I put my max at $30 and 49 hits. Now some are fairly boring, run of the mill finds, but some are ridiculously cool. Like this. 

This desk is form some old school building and comes with chairs. How freaking cool is that? Think of how cool that could look. A little sanding and either some varnish or paint and this is a top notch addition to any house and it comes with such a great story! Best part? $25. Hallelujah! 

Or what about this? They must not have any idea what a find this is or else this art deco desk would be waaay more than $30. 

Ugh I'm in Heaven. 

Such Silliness

Word on the street is that the BF and I have a weird relationship because we do our own thing... 

Apparently we are just not seen often enough eating together in the union, holding hands in the mall, or making out in corners of the library. 

I do apologize. Sincerely. 

I kind of take it as a compliment because I always wanted a relationship where I got to be me and he got to be him and then we got to be me and him. We are "Char and the BF", not "them" and at this moment I like it that way. 

More than the Sears Tower? That's Impressive...

Teaching econ? I probably shouldn't be...

So at Warsaw I will be teaching just economics. Guess who's not concentrating in economics? That'd be me. I've taken the two required courses but that's it. 

Now I work in the econ dept at my school and I get along really well with both the profs. But I think it's a bad sign when you tell them you'll be teaching econ and they look at you and say, "Reeaally?" with worried eyes and grimaced faces. (That's right, I turned  grimace into an adjective, deal with it.)

Those poor children. 

Student Teaching...

So Hermione and I went off yesterday and met all four of our cooperating teachers. It was quite the undertaking, it involved a lot of scheduling, synchronized watches, and somersaults ala the Matrix. Very Jason Bourne. 

Maybe not. 

My high school placement is at Warsaw. The school is massive. My school? Yeah it was K-12 in one building. I graduated with 40. Warsaw has 2000 students. That's more than my college! 

So this is how it went down when I went to the office to sign in. 

Char: Hi, I'm looking for ****** Riley.

Secretary: Oh ok! Room R252

C: Oh I don't know where that is. 

S: Oh it's really easy. Go out that door, take a left and go to the end of the hallway. Go up the staircase and turn right. The at the first hallway take another right. They grab a pair of roller skates and skate down the third corridor on your left. Then do cartwheels until your dizzy and fall over. There should be a hall in front of you. Spin four times and go down it, the 35th door on your right will take you to the hallway of Mrs. Rileys room. She will be the 17th door on your left. Ring the doorbell, guess the code, and you're in. 

C: Ummm...

S: (to a student sitting behind me) Will you just take her?

I am so in over my head. 

Izzie and George? Seriously? Seriously???

The title pretty much sums it up. Seriously? Seriously??

And I have never been so scared as when Merideth figured out who 007 was. Seriously, I had chills. Seriously.

I don't think they can kill off both at the same time, it would be too detrimental to the show. Izzie's elevator doors are going to close and she'll go back to the lobby and live happily ever after. I'm calling it. I choose to live in my bubble of optimism until next year. 

Adventurers with Razors

Due to the aforementioned pink eye I am glasses bond and have been since sunday. I could probably put my contacts back in today (yesterday, probably even the day before that...) but I'm too freaked out to get it again so I'm still on the drops...

Anyway. Last night I had my first experience in many years with trying to shave my legs without vision. I haven't had to do that since junior year or high school, and my vision was quite a bit better then than it is now. Since I have been sick and germy and pale there has been no reason for shorts and thus no reason for shaving. Well I got tired of it last night. 

Seriously, I'm blind. I literally had my knee pulled up to my chin and all I could see was my knee, no shin in sight for me. And I'm not a flexible girl so this was not easy for me. All in all not a good experience. I about skinned myself. 

I need those glasses they had on Saved by the Bell. They had wind shield wipers on them.

Genius. 

You Don't Know Me At All

Check it out! 

Making this video looks like fun. I just love it!

After watching it I'm pretty sure Regina Spektor and Ben Folds should get married, even though this isn't a love song per-say, I just feel it. I am the female Cupid ya know. I've decided and so it shall be. 

Is it weird that I totally dig the guy in this video even though  all you can really see is his giant adam's apple? I don't think it's Ben Folds, but I'm not positive..