why i haven't been posting

i have been preparing for my ucsb graduate interview

and it was awesome

i don't get to talk about my passion for special education often, so when i got to talk about for an hour...i was pretty psyched

(for those of you who do not know, i am planning on becoming a special education teacher, so i am going to graduate school to get my credentials and masters)

even though it was rainy, i took it as a sign of good luck. i mean, it rained all of my wedding day, and that has turned out pretty awesome so it must be a sign. right?

so hopefully now that i have all of this big stuff done with, i can get back to sewing! hahahaha see you all on monday!

oh and p.s.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!!
GO IRELAND!!!!

all work and no play

means graduate deadlines are not far away

and while i wish i could be sewing right now

i have to make the admission boards say, "wow"

so off to my stack of papers and bookmarks galore

when all i really want is some ice cream from the store

have a great weekend you lovely people!

my christmas looks like...

the ornament we got on our honeymoon at disneyland

the ornament i made out of glitter glue and masking tape

jason's pwesents :)

my unfocused kitten and yarn ornament hahaha

and the best smelling candle ever! i love salt city candles

now that i am done with finals and this last quarter of school, i FINALLY have time to craft and more importantly clean. so while i am jamming out to brittany spears and scrubbing my bathroom down, can you guess what upcoming craft we are going to make with these pieces of fabric?

guess guess guess!

and have a great day!

normal people can do this

i'm just full of embarrassing little quirks, and one has been especially bothersome lately. so i thought i would share with you, and maybe you will all end up being like me! kind of like the other time i posted about my little quirks....

anyways

as the holiday season is closing in/here, i have been visiting many more websites, leaving more comments, and purchasing more items online. 

but i keep running across one snafu:

captchas

my sworn enemy!

they are supposed to be hard enough for a robot computer hacker to not figure out, but easy enough for any normal person do it in a jiffy

i fail at typing the captchas correctly almost every time

.....

awkward.

it's embarrassing. and you know what's so pitiful about it? after about two or three tries, the captchas actually get easier. as if the computer is saying, wow, you ARE dumb. here's an easy one.

sometimes i won't even comment on a blog if i have to fill out the captcha because it is just too difficult.

am i the only one who gets these things wrong?

please say no, please say no, please say no

ps- i finished all of my grad school tests! that's the right! the gre, cset, and cbest are dunzo! hello free saturdays, how you doin'?

it's beginning to look a lot like

christmas! lalalala

hahaha 

i love christmas. and i could say who doesn't, but there was a time a few years back when christmas came and went and i felt nothing. it was horrible. i remember asking my mother what the point of christmas was. being completely self-obsessed at the time, i don't even remember her answer. 

ah, teenagers....

anyway, since that christmas i have been in full swing. i love that random people feel like they can be kinder and give more. love love love

speaking of love, i LOVE this idea i found on pinterest

i mean seriously, why not give the elves donuts? they work hard too! not to mention i am obsessed with miniature items...

which brings me to my third point. miniature people aka children. tomorrow is my last day as a pre-professional at my local elementary school. i had a conversation with a student to day that went a little something like this:

student: you were in my class yesterday

me: yes i was

student: are you going to come back to my class

me: well, this is my last week here so i don't know

student: so are you coming back?

me: i don't know if i can

student: so when are you coming to my class again?

the student just didn't understand why i would leave before school was over. it just didn't register. and it doesn't register with me either! i have only been in the class for ten weeks and i can't imagine not going back. after 76 hours, i am definitely going to miss those kids.

but you know what you can do to help me?

go make some kid smile or laugh. 

it's psychologically proven to help them be more successful in life.

radio silence

i apologize for the radio silence going on here. 

i used to think that when people said they were busy it meant that they were just doing something a little bit more important than talking/hanging out with me. and this has been my mindset since, oh, october.

i go to a UC, so we run on quarters which means ten week classes. 

i am in week ten. 

week ten is crazy. 

then next week is finals week. and i have my last graduate school test. 

so basically up until next wednesday, i will be crying in my mind while biking all over campus and coming home when its dark.

alas.

i will try my very hardest to post something up here soon. but in the meantime, you should...

1- decorate for the holidays. no matter what the holiday, it's nice to feel some extra cheer

2- smile at people

3- be kind to yourself. you're really very important.

and most importantly, have a great day :)

and don't forget