Reading my life away...

One of my FAVORITE things to do is read. I've always been a bookworm. Summer allows me to do a lot more of that. It's fun to just get lost in a book.

I'm a big fan of chick lit for the summer time. They're easy and they're fun to read and isn't that what you want for summer? Here are a few that I've already finished:

This one tells the story of Charlotte, a twenty-something woman who is getting ready to jet off to Paris with her fiance. When she discovers that he's cheating on her, she decides to go to Paris anyways and just live life and date like a man. I saw the ending coming, but the journey of Charlotte was really fun to read. The setting made me want to book a trip to Paris ASAP! There's a sequel coming and I will definitely be adding it to my Kindle very soon.

I love British Chick Lit. Not really sure why, but my favorite chick lit books ALMOST always by British authors. This one has  fun premise: Natalie is someone who just doesn't like to cause trouble ever, so she tends to not be honest about how she feels. One day she gets hypnotised and all of a sudden, whenever ANYONE asks her a question, she must tell the truth. There were definitely LAUGH out loud moments and I almost didn't want the story to end.

I don't know about you, but I LOVED The Devil Wears Prada, both the book and the movie. So I was PUMPED when I heard she wrote  a sequel. And yet. It was a total let down. I finished it, because I don't like to NOT finish a book, but the characters bugged me. I didn't understand the title, because while yes Miranda shows up, she's not really a huge part of the book. The plot isn't really about her. Times like these I wish I could return ebooks.

I do read smart books to, just saying! I just tend to get lost in these fluff pieces during the summer. What books do you like to read?

Keeping busy...

Summers are for relaxing, but I've been go go go since I woke up this morning. I missed Zumba class (I think I shut my alarm off whoops!) so I'll be heading to the gym to work out on the eliptical after publishing this post.

That would be my seating chart, table number list and wedding binder.

Here's my to do list for the day:

• Order reception items. DONE!
• Call EdFinancial to check on loan forgiveness. DONE! Amazing how it takes following up for them to do ANYTHING about giving YOU money. 
• Head out to mall to find the following items:
• White dress!
• Cake cutter and toasting flutes (will be using giftcards for this!)
• Exchange J's shirts. 
• Eyebrows (they're beginning to look like furry caterpillars!)

I also need to get my butt in gear and pack and clean some more. My bff from college let me know on Saturday that she's coming down from Tennessee for my bachelorette party. So pumped, because I haven't seen her in over a year.

Have a good Monday everyone!

Linking up with Carly and Molly for Funday Monday!

Living for the weekend!

Summer vacation, every day is technically a weekend. But I can only spend time with friends and family on the weekend, because most of them have normal jobs.

I spent all day yesterday with my friend Jennifer and her adorable daughter. We went to the beach, where everyone seemed to want to chat with us? I don't know about you, but I can't stand when people I don't know just randomly come up and talk to me when I'm talking to someone else.

One person asked me about my bathing suit. (which was nice, but still) Two other girls wanted to talk to us about church. Which I do believe in going to, but I also think it's a personal thing ya know? It was just random!

We had some Rita's Italian Ice. (Yum!) There was a group of disabled children and adults ordering some treats. This sweet boy was enjoying some ice with his grandma. He gave up his seat to the group. It was just the nicest thing and made my heart warm!

The night finished at the mall. I WAS on a trek to find a cute white dress for my rehearsal, but everything is either too dressy or too expensive. We ended up having sushi at Sake House. I love that Jennifer is JUST like me and could eat sushi every day if she wanted too! Best part? Her daughter (who's five) loves sushi just as much!

Today was Father's Day, and my whole family went out for brunch at this Italian restaurant Brio. The food was AMAZING and we had such a blast. My dad is hilarious and I'm so glad he's a part of my life.

That would be my uncle on the left, my brother in the middle, and my dad on the right.

After brunch and drinks, J and I headed back to his place. I'm in TOTAL summer vacay mode, so I took a nap. What? Am I sometimes an 80 year old in a 27 (almost 28) year old body? Yep, and I have no shame. :)

The day ended with a visit to the pool. Which was relaxing, until I had to pull out my teacher voice. The cutest three year old girl asked this other little girl "May I please have my water thing back, please?" Bratty girl told her no I'm gonna spray this guy (J) with it. So I went excuse me, she asked you nicely, please give her back her water toy. Little girl proceeded to throw it at the 3 year old! I just don't get it. Teach your children manners please!

Now off to watch some RHONJ. My future mother in law got me hooked on this show. It's really the perfect summer show: totally brainless yet entertaining.

Hope you all had a fantabulous weekend as well!

Recap shall we?

Admist the wedding CRAZINESS, I want to get back into blogging. It will be my blog anniversary next  Sunday. Maybe a giveaway in the works?

Anyways, here are my top five for this week.

1. SCHOOL'S OUT! I love my job. Really I do. And I'm sorry to those who don't get the summer off. But I'm just glad to relax, get married, and rejuvenate. I always joke that summers off are to prevent anything to happen to children. If I dealt with them all the time, I'd hurt them. And if parents dealt with them home for more than 2.5 months, they'd probably hurt them too. :)

2.

Seating chart is done. Unless people decide to come that said they weren't. I've been really proud of how I've been handling any wedding stress.  (Oh and FYI this seating chart app is on TheKnot.com)

3. Jimmy and I found a place to live! Well, we had already found one, but we found an even better one. A super cute 2 bedroom townhome a hop skip and a jump away from our work. Eeek! Can't wait to move in!

4. 

Speaking of wedding, in EXACTLY four weeks, I will be getting married. Seems far away but RIDICULOUSLY close at the same time. J sent me a text saying he's getting impatient for our lives to begin and I couldn't agree more. 

5. 

So my favorite chocolate is WHITE chocolate. I know, I'm weird but at least my closest friend and fiance share in my love. My favorite candy bar is Hershey's Cookies and Creme and J told me yesterday that they made it into a cereal! It's quite yummy and actually not HORRIBLE for you. 

Have a fabulous weekend y'all!

And so it begins...

wedding preparations that is! In 50 minutes it will be OFFICIALLY 30 days until my wedding. Cray-cray!

I've spent the last hour working on this:

Seating chart. I'm actually kind of AMAZED at how easily I was able to put this together. I guess it helped that different tables have different numbers of people sitting together. Glad to check something else off my list.

I'm still not feeling 100% so I can't sleep. While scrolling through Netflix, I found this little gem:

Just like every other girl growing up in the 90s, I was OBSESSED with the Babysitters Club. I even still own a few copies and the new rereleased copy that updates things like Walkmans to MP3s.

Sometimes you just need a little cheese in your life, ya know?

Like clockwork,

I was just saying the other day... I made it through the year without being severely sick. Cold here and there, but nothing that made me want to just sleep all day.

I totally jinxed myself y'all. Today was the first day of post-planning and I don't know if it was the weather or the millions of dust bunnies in my classroom, but I am so stuffed it's not even funny.

The more I think about it, the more I should have seen this coming. I think I've been sick every last week of school for the last few years. It's like my body knows it's about to relax so it starts it off with a bang!

So off I go to take a hot steaming shower (my mom's favorite cold remedy) and just snuggle into bed. One more day and then it's summer vacation!

School's Out For Summer!

School's out forever! Haha, that song always pops into my head during this time of year. So as you're reading this, I'm finishing my kids memory books up, grabbing some lunch for them and sending them on their merry own way.

This has been an incredible year, full of ups and downs.

The ups:

• I love my ESOL babies. I love teaching them and watching their eyes light up when they get it. This year reinvigorated my love of teaching and I made the BEST decision to transfer. I miss the people I worked with at my old school, but other than that I know I'm in the right place. 
• I survived working on a 7 member team. 
• I handled 24 kids this year. I will never EVER complain about class numbers again! I managed a lot with these 24 kiddos. I know I can do even better next year!
• My evaluation was fantastic and I met my own personal professional goals. 

The downs:

• 24 kids. It was an exhausting year. I had 16 show up yesterday and was like "Wow. My room would have been SO much quieter." :)
• Principal number six. I've taught for 6 years and worked for 6 different principals. He likes me but I'm still waiting. All principals show how they really run things when they get to start a new school year from scratch. 
• Discovered I can be a bit impatient with people who just don't get it. That impatience turns into bitchiness and I just don't like that. 

Once I turn in my keys next Tuesday, my focus turns to WEDDING. The countdown hits 30 days on Wednesday! Eeek!

Happy weekend everyone! What's your favorite last day of school memory? Mine's playing video games in my Algebra 2 class sophomore year!