School starts soon

Well work sucks and I hate the management there. They say they need my school schedule printed off but they only tell me and not anyone else which isn't right.  Then they don't stick with rules with everyone.  One person is allowed something but another person isn't which is crap.

December 2011

So it is the start of the holidays.  I have a lot of places to go.  Nathan is taking me somewhere tomorrow Ans all I know is that we r staying at a hotel. I was not supposed to know but his mom likes to talk loud on the phone and heard that. We are then going to Grandmas for Xmas Eve and going to church.  The next day is Nathans moms and my mom is coming for that too so who knows how that will go.  Dad said he will come to our place on Monday since my step mom hadn't seen the place.

Visuals using pictures

This picture is one that I am using on my future presentation and it is very visual.  I never would of thought of this to be every thought of. I found this picture from http://www.switched.com/2008/02/13/fast-food-of-the-future/.  I think this is a cool idea though. 

There are many types of visuals that are really neat.  I have been learning about how to go green in my capstone class and I have learned that there is a website that is called ecofriend.com  and there are many visual things on there that is very unique.  They are trying to figure out different ways to use renewable resources to make our planet greener.

Group PBL lesson

I had a fun time working on this pbl lesson.  We found a program called artsonia that is free to use for your classroom or also your school.  it is a way you can publish your students artwork in a digital form and not just posting them on the walls in your classroom or in your hallway.  It lets the parents be able to see what their child is doing throughout their years in school without having all the papers lying in a box at home.  We had the people in class have a picture of their own and let them edit it with 2 programs online that we found that were free which is always a good thing since we all are poor these days.  It is kind of cool how we get to live our lesson through our classmates.  I had fun participating the other group lessons from the other people.  It let me see what type of programs there were on the web that was free also.

Another Wedding post

Well I have a bunch of updates for this wedding.  1st one is that i have my dress!!! I got it last Friday and grandma came up on Saturday to see about alterations and all it needed was to put a bussal in the back and taking the bust in a half inch on each side but other than that the length of it was fine and everything.  Grandma thought it was pretty great how it turned out.  2nd the bridesmaid dresses are done so we don't have to deal with simply i do anymore now.  I DO NOT recommend them to anyone at all.  Grandma has made the mints already and she said she made over 500 so I think we will have plenty of mints.

Interactive Whiteboards

I think these are a really cool idea that they came up with to get the students to interact with learning.  When I was in elementary school, we got to use the plastic overheads and it always hurt our eyes because it was always so bright when looking at it to edit what we were learning.  This way you can have no barriers in between you to teach or learn.  You dont have to have so many different gadgets to get this working either.  There are free programs to use if you do have an interactive whiteboard.  you can get on the internet when you are using it without having to stop and go to a computer.  The nice thing is you have everything digital so you can get away from having to make copies for everyone in the classroom and just have it posted on the board.  It's easy enough that the students can use it right along side you.  You can have 2 students working on the interactive white board at the same time even which is really cool.

Why Cant wedding planning be easy...

Ok. So I thought I would do another update since there is a lot of stress going on with it.  I will start off with the bridesmaid dresses...  

So we got them ordered and we were wondering when they were going to come in and the place where we ordered them (a bridal shop) said they would call me or one of the bridesmaids when they came in.  They never called so I had my maid of honor call them and they couldn't find any of our paper work except for the little sheet that they made me fill out the first day which they lost that when I went in there before and had to fill another one out.  They were going to call the company and let us know what they found out.  The lady at the shop I guess remembered the colors of the dresses what they were supposed to be and told us that there were some at the shop that were the same colors but as it turns out, they had no paper work on any of the dresses and they didn't have anyones names on them to tell which bridesmaid is which dress... 2 of the bridesmaids have tried on theirs that they think is theirs and they were big in the top and we are waiting for the on that is big in the chest to try on hers to make sure they didn't switch the tops on the dresses... and then when they were talking about do alterations, they wanted the bridesmaids to wait till after prom season to have the dresses altered... umm I don't think so since the wedding is in May. My maid of honor reminded them and they didn't see what the big deal was.  and then we found some shoes online that were green and we thought that they would look good with the dresses and i guess when the one bridesmaid got them, they were really green and the person at the dress store said that they look just fine with them but they are totally different shades altogether and the way the ladies at the shop are going, we are all going to check them out together to see what we all think because I do not trust them at the store since they are not very organized and the way they are trying to push off these dresses till after some stupid snotty girls who think they are all that for prom... i dont think so.

So that was those... now onto my dress....
I was supposed to get my dress today actually but we email the place where I am getting the dress and they told me that since February is a short month, they need 2 more weeks to make my dress.  That will give my grandma 3 weeks to alter my dress... hopefully she will be able to get it done by then.  If it was a week, I don't mind because my grandma and grandpa will be on vacation so hopefully it doesn't need too much.

My grandma made the flower girl's dress and she just wasn't happy with how it fitted her so she told me that she went to town and got all new fabric and pattern and started a new one. lol but she has it done and the flower girl thinks she is all that in that dress.  My aunt sent me a picture of her in it and she was standing on the table twirling around!!!

My fiance's best friend from high school was going to be the usher and piano player for our wedding but his band is going to open for Three Days Grace so he won't be able to make it.  But he did tell me that he can make me a CD of the songs which I think I am going to do.  That means I am going to make my half brother usher for the wedding which he is on my dad's side and I haven't told my mom the news which might make her mad...

We have the photographer booked and she knows what type of pictures we want and what not.  Things are starting to fall into place.. I just hope our dresses come out fine and done in time is my real big worry at this point.

Until next update....