Merry Christmas! Again!

Merry Christmas! Hope everyone has a lovely day!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Eve! It has taken me a while to recover from writing 46 total pages of papers in about a week. Plus a 26 page lesson plan (although I only wrote about five of those pages--the rest was just worksheets that I had thankfully received from my cooperating teacher).

By now, everyone is done with finals, and hopefully chilling with family, eating cookies, drinking hot chocolate by a Christmas tree, and awaiting Santa.

Since today is Christmas Eve, I opened my last Lego Advent Calendar door today. It was exciting. I got some neat stuff and I've truly enjoyed playing with these Legos, but mostly the Lego items just made me go, "really?" or "yep" or "huh?"

Everyone in Legoland put aside their differences to gather around the chimney and share a mug of cocoa with Santa. A Christmas miracle. Beautiful.
Thank you Lego! Thank you for a lovely countdown...I can't believe Christmas is already here! I've spent the past several days buying presents, making presents, and wrapping presents. I've also spent the past four mornings selling gift cards at the theater. This morning was the busiest. People are such last minute shoppers. How silly.

Merry Christmas!

Don't worry, I'll be back.

So sorry to anyone who actually looks forward to these posts, but I have to take a break for a little while to focus on these papers. I've had enough distractions to last...all week. And they have. But don't worry, I will be back before Christmas, so I will fill you in on what the Lego Calendar brings then. In the meantime, check out Dan Bergstein's blog at laserfarm.com. It's really funny and it'll keep you updated on the important things in life, like the fact that today's Lego item included a tiny, working magnifying glass. The police theme has somehow turned down the CSI road and I'm now a little worried about the remaining items. Why is Johnny a criminal? There's probably a good reason we haven't asked ourselves this question before.

Good luck to anyone else taking finals! Thanks for understanding. Peace, Internet.

Almost forgot!

Let's not mention that I almost went to bed without blogging the 13th day of Lego Advent...Crap, already titled the blog about it. Well, too late now.

So it's been quite the day of stuff. Met with my professor about my paper, and she gave me permission to take an extension if necessary. Have I mentioned I love this professor? It didn't hurt that this meeting took place at 10:30 am, a mere forty five minutes after I crawled pathetically out of bed, so I didn't have much of a voice. Sounded a lot worse than I feel. Though I feel pretty crappy. I will feel much, much better with these papers done.

Soooo after my meeting I went to health services and got the secretary to let me sign in for walk in hours even though they had just ended. (Always say you might have something that needs antibiotics, which almost turned out to be true.)

Forty five minutes later and I was unofficially diagnosed with a viral sinus infection and a prescription for nasal spray. Woot.

I spent the rest of the afternoon finishing my education paper (it's SENT IN! TWO CLASSES DOWN!), and also receiving and eating delicious, homemade chicken noodle sick soup. THANKS MUM! Best mom ever. Bringing me soup. In a thermos. Still hot from home. How I can't wait to be home.

Also, it's TAYLOR SWIFT'S BIRTHDAY! Happy birthday to her! She's secretly my best friend, and it's a secret because she doesn't know this yet. If you haven't yet watched her newest video, "Ours," go do so now. It's just adorbs. I'd give you the link, but I'm sick, so leave me alone!

So today the Lego Calendar gave us..................

Steve. Officer Steve. He don't mess around. And that radio is literally half the size of his body.

Stan is thrilled to have a new cop friend...and a walkie talkie! And a cop friend to talk to over the walkie talkies! And a new white hat! It really is Christmas!

Now when Johnny tries to escape via bed ladder (he doesn't trust the doorway), Stan the Man can use his radio powers...

And call in the necessary backup. And you know Steve doesn't have time for petty criminals climbing out of jail. Neither does the Tank and his fish, but even they're a little worried that the power of the radio has gone to Steve's angry looking head.

Even when Stan tries to share a cup of friendship cocoa around the fire with Steve, the guy cannot give up his radio. I sure hope something crazy happens in this town to warrant such serious security.

So many papers. So many germs.

Nope. Didn't check everything off the list. Fail. But I did have a pretty productive day yesterday. Unfortunately more time than expected was spent putting together my lesson plan for my education class, which I'm now in the process of writing a ten page reflection paper on. 2.5 pages in about an hour. That's pretty good right? So I should be done in...three hours? Hm. We'll see.

In other news, I can't breathe. Somehow my lingering, two week cough has transformed into a raging cold. I either got a new virus and it attacked before the first virus had even gone away, or whatever I've had for the past two weeks is crazy and mean. Whatever the case, I woke up with a headache, a fever, and a very congested nose. Perfect for finals. Maybe I should reconsider teaching...kids are too germy.

Anyway, today we got the final Lego wall for the police station:

Yep. Just look at that wall. So wall-y. Now the police station is complete. It's cute. I like it. Now I'm excited to see what else we're going to get in the remaining 12 days. Half way to Christmas! Hope everyone is staying healthy and motivated as semesters draw to a close!

To Do

I was just thinking, that maybe if I published my goals for all to see, it'd put more pressure on me to actually accomplish them. Then again, this is the internet, and I could just lie. But since I didn't get as much work done today as I'd have liked to, I really need to step it up tomorrow. And by tomorrow I mean later today. Someone hold me accountable!

- Go to the library and check out two books.
- Read those books.
- Outline George Eliot paper.
- Listen to Christmas music.
- Finalize my lesson plan.
- Write the half of my education paper on my lesson plan.
- Eat food.
- Add more details to my "passing" outline.
- Watch a Youtube video featuring kittens.
- Shower.
- 20 push ups.
- Rewash my sheets and pillowcases.
- Write the second half of my education paper on my teaching reflection.
- Email my professor.
- Eat more food. And ice cream. Sundae Sunday!
- Check off everything on this list.
- Sleep.

Hopefully my day looks exactly like this tomorrow, although maybe not in that exact order.

If I do not accomplish everything on my list, someone please come and slap me on the face with the fire fish. And/or change my facebook password.

Lastly, before I sleep and before you begin your day (because I'm only assuming that whoever you are, checking this blog is obviously the first thing you do when you wake up), listen to my husband, Darren Criss, singing this adorable song he wrote when he was fifteen. It's called Human. Do it. Click my husband. It'll make you feel better.

I hate people. And finals.

Ten minutes late to take my clothes out of the dryer and now I have blue, sticky detergent on my clean sheets and pillow cases. Because people are stupid. And I hate them. Thank you, whoever took my clean, dry clothes and put them on top of the washing machine. The stress of finals must have made it difficult to see the bright blue detergent spills on the white machine. So I'm sure that seemed like a great place to put my clean clothes at the time. Don't worry about it. I'll just spend another two dollars re-washing and drying my things. You're the best.