AUTUMN

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Can I just say that Autumn weather makes me stupidly happy? All of the sudden, this impulse to bake molasses cookies/pumpkin everything/spice cakes kicks in. Ideal weather/temperature to open the window at night and bury into the comforter. Oh my goodness gravy....and the FOOTBALL. Football + cold weather + REM. It's going to be different this season. This cracking little knee of mine is keeping me in check. Keeping me humble. I'm thankful to even be playing. After practice this Sunday, I got home, ate a whole lot of turkey and pound cake and PASSED out for 4 hours. A phone call from Patti Look at 9pm, asking for late night Carmen's. We end up talking on the phone for an hour about how we were both huge losers in elementary school among other nonsensical topics. It's my goal to rack up enough cash so me and Patti can be re-united as roomies and resume cooking parties/running/synchronized stupidness.

These past 4 weeks have been retarded. Job-searching = sending out resume, sitting in front of computer all day long refreshing g-mail hoping for a response = lazy/anti-social bum. I was certainly getting impatient with God and getting down on myself for 4 weeks straight. I wanted to be back on the missions field. I missed having a schedule. I missed making an impact. Something I definitely miss a lot: being pushed out of my comfort zone and being forced to rely on God. I haven't grown much in these past 4 weeks and I hope I'd be a little/a lot more pro-active about making myself available to the Lord.

So yeah. Job. I has one. PRAISE THE LORD. Substitute/teaching assistant at Beverly Farms Elementary School. I spent all of yesterday with the pre-schoolers. It's kind of difficult to be around so much cute all day long. It sure does tire you out, especially that part of you that melts when you see and hear cute things. During lunchtime, I sat down at a table with 4 little kids and commented on each of their lunchboxes (little kids take a lot of pride in their boxes). Jaiden has this awesome transformers hologram box and is pretty certain that he doesn't have to eat his brown banana because his lunchbox "will transform it into a new banana". I tell him he's probably right and to put his lunchbox back in his cubby (i miss cubbies). After naptime, we have muffins for snack and then free-time. All the kids want me to read a book called "BB Wolf". They point and laugh at the pictures and clearly don't know how to read at all yet. But they love it and ask me to read the story all over again. During outside time, I am commissioned by 2 little girls to draw pictures of their families and everything else they want. I tell them to color in what I draw. I forget whether or not I was this uncoordinated when I was their age. The day comes to an end and kids start heading home. The look on their faces when parents come to pick them up = pure joy.