Catching Up

I always forget how busy ending a semester is.  No matter how much time and effort I spend on not wasting time, time is always wasted.  There's an imaginary and literal to-do list: I check one thing off, and three more things are added.  Such is life I guess.  Such items included (verbatim):

1. Get Smith's stupid crap done. (Name has been changed for protection purposes)
2. Mail the Praxis packet that has been sitting on your desk since September.
3. Write a defensive argument for Smith explaining why I think rubrics are essential to students success (all so I can have a rubric for my unit plan assignment for a professor of Education who believes that students should learn material on their own without any prior knowledge or teacher guidance/direction all so they can become independent thinkers and thus be able to pass an assessment with flying colors).   B.S. I SAY!...and excuse me for that necessary rant. 
4. Write a test about assessment for my assessment project.
5. Write Katie a thank you note for being the most patient math tutor known to man-kind, and bake her cookies.
6. Practice tree-drawing.  Not literal trees, but ones that look like this:

 

And remember to have a good day. ;D

Enter: bulging eyes, tears, chocolate, and some serious plans for detox after this is all over.  Maybe taking off to Disneyland a week before finals wasn't the best idea in the world.  Who am I kidding???...of course it was!!!

 

 

Everyone will be happy to know that I survived this semester and operation detox came in full force on Tuesday at 11:05 am.  I've thoroughly enjoyed the leisurely activities of sleeping in, pleasure reading, watching movies, seeing friends, experimenting in the kitchen, and a much needed hour and a half phone conversation with the best friend.

Oven Baked Fajitas. Click here for the recipe.

 



grinch cookies, banana chocolate chip bread, and peppermint bark.

 

My friend Kimmy celebrated her birthday with ice-skating, and a princess themed birthday party.  I knew there was a reason why we're such great friends ;D.  My other friend savannah made that cake!

 Sorry for the pictures being a bit blury.

 

Have a wonderful Christmas!