2008 Highlights Scrapbook

Some items may not have lists to follow but others do have lists but rather smaller tasks that are necessary to complete it.

2008 Highlights Scrapbook:

Pages/Sections to Create

1. 2008 Entry Page
2. The Move Out West
3. The New Apartment
4. Halloween
5. The Coyotes v. Red Wings Game
6. Christmas

Breaking Down the Steps

Some items may not have lists to follow but others do have lists but rather smaller tasks that are necessary to complete it.

Chiacgo Scrapbook:
1.

List of Possible Jobs

Completed: #84 Make a list of possible jobs for the summer of 2009. I decided on going with retail, Hobby Lobby, Michaels, and Joann's being my first three choices to work. I have yet to send in applications, I want to wait until March or April since I can't start until Mid to end May, what with me still teaching 6th grade and all. hehe.

Hobby Lobby
http://www.hobbylobby.com/

Michaels
http://www.michaels.com/

Joann Fabrics
http://www.joann.com/

Wal-Mart
http://www.walmart.com/

Target
http://www.target.com/

Best Buy
http://www.bestbuy.com/

Barnes and Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/

Borders
http://www.borders.com/

Kohl’s
http://www.kohls.com/

JC Penny
http://www.jcpenney.com/

The Dollar Tree
http://www.dollartree.com/

Manpower
http://www.us.manpower.com/uscom/index.jsp

Complete: 11/101. SWEET!

Update

Just a small note. I'm on a knitting frenzy. Still not done with my poncho but yesterday at Hobby Lobby I picked up a kit of circle looms and am currently knitting a hat. I'm straying WAY off track with my list but I can't help it. Loom knitting is easier than knitting with regular needles and much, much faster. At Michael's last night I also picked up a kit of long looms and hope to learn how to do knitting on those later.

Progress...

I'm still chugging away about my "arrive at work after 7:15am". I'm loving this goal and that I'm meeting it. If I keep it up I'll be done with this goal mid-March. Yippie! Hopefully I'll keep up the habit.

Went to bed before 10:30 last night... so another day chalked up on that one.

Got a list of 1-10 in French. I'm going to practice these until I have them down then move to Czech.

Finish Season 7 of Homicide Life on the Street. I didn't like the way the series ended. Man Bayliss! Really!? The library doesn't have the movie on DVD (and I'm not sure Netflix does either... I haven't checked).

This weekend I want to finish Season 3 of Star Trek: Enterprise. Then I only have 1 season left to go and this goal is Com-plete!

The library is currently holding Season 1 of the org. Star Trek for me... I'm waiting until Saturday to pick it up along with returning other items checked out... mostly DVDs.

My cookbook is chugging along nicely... It's almost organized. The hardest part is not putting new recipes in there while I'm currently organizing the ones I have already!

Counting To Ten

Changed #86 from "watch Mom graduate from LSSU" to "Be able to count to ten in ten other languages" (not including English!). As previously mentioned, my mom is no longer walking in graduation. With my students (I teach 6th grade) I always count to ten and then the students hold up their whiteboards. I spent 5 months in Germany and learned to count to 10 while I was there (from Kate's mom!) The kids love counting to ten in a language they don't know (the majority of them know both English and Spanish), so this is also a career focus goal becuase my students enjoy it so much.

Here's the languages I know so far:
1. Spanish
2. German
3. French
4. Czech
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Spanish 1-10
1. uno
2. dos
3. tress
4. cuatro
5. cinco
6. seis
7. siete
8. ocho
9. nueve
10. diez
Known this since I was a kid, probably in thanks to Seasame Street

German 1-10
1. eins
2. zwei
3. drei
4. feer
5. foonf
6. zecks
7. zeeben
8. ahkt
9. Noyn
10. Tsayn
Learned in the fall of 2007 while I was in Germany. Kate intially taught me how and her mom worked with my on pronunciation.

French 1-10
1. un
2. deux
3. trois
4. quatre
5. cinq
6. six
7. sept
8. huit
9. neuf
10. dix
Got the list on Feburary 5, 2009, am currently practicing and looking to teach my students (provides great practice for me too!).

Czech 1-10
1. Jedna (Yeh-Dnah)
2. Dva (Dvah)
3. Tri (Tri)
4. Pet (Piet)
6. Sest (Shest)
7. Sedm (Seh-dum)
8. Osm (Os-um)
9. Devet (Deh-viet)
10. Deset (Deh-set)

Other Accomplishments

I've decided not to minimize the other accomplishments I've made during this 2.75 year project. So this post is going to be used to keep track of all the accomplishments that go +101.

102. Chris moved in (January)
103. Put together 9 cube organizer (January)
104. Move into a new apartment with Chris (02-01-09)
105. Designed a new 5-point reward/disipline system (02-02-09)
106. Implemented the new system in my classroom (02-04-09)
107. Learned to knit using circle looms (02-09-09)
108. Knitted a hat on a circle loom (02-10-09)
109. Hung up pictures on the wall in my new apartment (02-11-09)
110. Knitted a gray shrawl (02-15-09)
111. Knitted a fun fur tube scarf with pom poms (02-25-09)