Final Monday Meet Up!

It seems like I haven't blogged in so long! I have been busy making new products, working, and getting all of my teaching paperwork together. I have also been pinning up a storm! There are so many ideas I want to try in my classroom! Today I am linking up with The Teaching Tribune.

This is the LAST Monday Meet Up! This weeks post is simply random facts about myself. I have already shared some random facts, so I will try and share some different ones!

 I have Narcolepsy: When most people think of Narcolepsy, they think of people falling asleep while they walk down the street. My case is no where near that extreme! I just can't pull all nighters stay up past 10pm.

I hate coffee: I REALLY hate coffee. Luckily, I can still be a Starbucks fanatic because of my love of tea!

I will probably live in Seattle one day: Once the boyfriend graduates in a couple of years we will have to move indefinitely. Our choices are San Francisco or Seattle so I am pushing for Washington! I recently found out that it snows there a bit each winter, which is so much better than Vegas' dusting of  snow every 3 years!

I had such a great time linking up with The Teaching Tribune this summer! To help celebrate all of the new bloggers I've met, I uploaded a new clipart set on tpt today! It is a 5-piece back to school set for free!

It's free today only, so head over to my store if you would like to download it :)

Thanks for Reading!
Suzanna

Summer Time Blues

Happy Wednesday! Time for another addition of Wordless Wednesday hosted by the fabulous Christina at Sugar and Spice . Well, today it's going to be Not so Wordless Wednesday! Sorry for the novel. ;)

On Saturday the boyfriend and I went to his aunts wedding and he actually took a decent picture with me! It was like Christmas!

We had a good time and it was great meeting so many people in his family! We have been together for 6 years now and before this I had only met maybe 25% of the Torres clan. To be fair though, he has met my entire family and still met less people in total then I have...his family is gigantic!

It was good to have a little fun because I have been a little down the past few days, but I'm trying to shake it off. All the stress of not being stable financially is bringing me down and I just want September and my first teacher paycheck to get here...like now!

Everyone tells me to enjoy my last summer before my first year of teaching but it is really difficult to do that! Not only did I just come out of working full-time for free for an entire semester, but now so many expensive things are popping up left and right. Transcripts, licensing fee, finger printing, and don't even get me started on the Praxis test I took not too long ago! When you add in the the regular life expenses like broken cars and doctor's visits its enough to financially smoother any undrgrad student!

My question is, what do you remember more about the last summer before you started teaching? The struggles or the good times? People who remember the good times, please share ;)

Suzanna

July Currently and a Freebie!

I am SO excited to be linking up with Farley over at Oh boy 4th grade! I have wanted to do this link up my entire blogging career (approximately 5 weeks) so I'm glad the wait is finally over! ;)

Here is my July Currently

I have been super busy the past few days working on items for my tpt store. I made my first batch of clipart ever. Seriously, I rarely doodle and I never even thought about making digital clipart before. I just got a creative bug the other day and went with it! Here is my first set! What do you think?(Honestly! haha)

I want to give away one of my sets of clipart kids! If you would like to get a set of these kiddos for free, please leave a comment on this post saying you want to win! I will randomly choose a winner within the next 24 hours.

I have a lot more clip art items in the works including borders and more kids! I will be doing some flash freebies when my new items are ready, so please follow me on tpt and bloglovin to get some cute stuff!

Happy Tuesday!
Suzanna

Five for Friday! (June 27th)

Another Friday, another chance to link up with Doodle Bugs Teaching!

It's the end of June, so that means the end of "bearable" temperatures here in Las Vegas. For any of you traveling here for the TpT conference and/or blog meet up, I would just like to apologize for our weather in advance! 

On that happy note, here is my Five for Friday!

This is a photo of my sisters car...broken down....on the side of the freeway. We aren't exactly sure what happened to poor old Jewel Rust Bucket, but since all of the oil was spewing out of the engine we aren't very optimistic! My mom and step dad live about an hour away from us, so after I took the twin to work they were already here to help.

I wasn't needed to help because of my amazing mechanical abilities, or my ability to get inside the car. Nope...I was needed because I was the only one small enough to ride in the car while it was hoisted into the trailer and then climb out the window. Anyone who knows me, knows I have a fear of ramps. I am always terrified they will either fall off or slip out from under the car.

The process of hoisting the car into the trailer took about 7 minutes. Seven minutes of me trembling as I can't see anything since I'm at a 45 degree angle being hoisted into a trailer at .5 miles per hour. My stepdad was very reassuring though...he said "Remember to keep your whits about you! If something happens, slam on the brake." I felt so much better after that! HAHA!

 I went to one of my fave places, Raising Canes with the twin and some friends for lunch! Yum!

 

 At Raising Canes our friend Carol gave us the CUTEST teacher bags! As you can see, Max is also a huge fan! 

I have been torn about which Masters program I was going to enroll in for some time. I know that I want to start immediately but I have been scared since I will be on a time crunch.  My boyfriend is going to graduate in about 2 years and, when he does, we are moving indefinitely. He wants to be a game designer and all of the jobs in that field are in San Francisco or Seattle. I was worried about not being able to finish in time, and then either having to hold up Nick's carreer or having to stay behind while I finish.

I looked up online schools because then, if I didn't finish here, I could just finish wherever we moved to. Then I saw the prices and almost went into Cardiac arrest! $25,000 to $30,000 for a Masters degree just isn't something I'm willing to do when I could complete it at UNLV for half of the price.

I knew that UNLV didn't offer any online degrees but then it occurred to me that I never check with UNR. Sure enough, they have entirely online degrees AND it will be the same price as UNLV! Problem solved!

I finished up season two of OITNB and all I can say is AMAZING! That ending was perfect!

To Union, or Not To Union? SOS!

SO happy to be linking up with Sugar and Spice for Wordless Wednesday this week! :)

I was so excited when I received my employment contract from the school district this week. The fact that I am only a few steps away from being a teacher after years of hard work is very exciting!

My biggest concern, which may not seem like a big deal to some, is whether or not I should join the union! I really don't know much about it, I Just know it costs a lot of money. I'm terrified that when I go to the district I'm going to have to make the choice immediately!

My question is, do you have any advice on the pros or cons of joining a union? Do you know of any better alternatives? Please help! Ha!

Suzanna

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School Year Calendar FREEBIE!!

After some VERY helpful feed back from Erin at Learning to be Awesome, I have updated the freebie calendar on my tpt store.

I have added days of the week on each page, major holidays, and some cute fonts on the cover. ;) If you would like, download it and let me know what you think! Since my tpt store is only 1 week old, I would love love LOVE some feedback! :)

Suzanna

Monday Meet Me! Interesting things about me!

Greetings!

June 23rd already? I am certainly happy that this summer is going by quickly. I thought it was going to drag on for sure since, you know, I'm just siting here waiting to being my career life in August! Don't get me wrong, I'm all for relaxation, but I will enjoy it soooo much more next summer. When I am employed. And have money. And can go on vacation ;)


Now that that mini-rant is out of my system, I am linking up with the Teaching Tribune for Monday Meet Me!

The topic for today is 3 things that you probably didn't know about me. Since I'm such a new blogger there are a lot of things that you don't know about me. But I will try to make this interesting.

1) I have an identical twin and, believe it or not, we actually share a birthday! Shocking, right? What is a little surprising is that we have an older half sister who has the same birthday, she is just 5 years older! We didn't grow up with our half sister but were able to connect with her via Facebook when we were 17. Every year since then we have wished each other a happy birthday and gotten a huge kick out of it!

2) Allllll the way back in 7th grade I walked into my beginning orchestra class thinking I wanted to play violin. When it came time to get assigned our instruments and almost the entire class also wanted to play violin, I settled for viola instead. Little did I know that that decision could have changed my entire life. Nick was a year ahead of me in orchestra so we weren't in that class together and didn't really talk. Come eight grade, we were in the same orchestra class, and talked a little bit. Nick doesn't remember me much back then though, he says I was too quite and weird! HA!

High school is when everything changed. We played viola together, went to all of the orchestra concerts and festivals and trips together. We became best friends that eventually turned into so much more.

I have become very nostalgic about this lately since I will be teaching 7th grade next year. I'm certain that I will have some girl come up to me who is soooo in love.. Logically, I know she won't find the love of her life in 7th grade, but based on my personal experiences....you never know!

3) When I was younger I absolutely hated movies! I wanted to be outside. Running around. Not sitting. Whenever I went over to a friend or family members house and they asked if I wanted to watch a movie, I would literally cringe! I would have rather taken a nap then watch a movie. And since I was never interested in the movie, a nap was almost always involved. I honestly didn't really get a taste for movies until I was almost out of high school. The boyfriend loves going to movies, so it's a good thing I have grown to like them!

I really enjoyed the topic this week. Hopefully I will learn some interesting things about the other awesome bloggers who link up!

Happy Monday!
Suzanna