A Fresh Beginning :-)

I'm so excited I can't stand it!!!!!!!!!

After our last failed attempt at starting our family, John and I made an agreement that we would take care of ourselves. We would continue to work on our marriage to improve it more every day, get ourselves healthy (physically and mentally) again, and learn to enjoy life again. So we are taking the last resolve to heart. John's never been to Vegas, and in the past hasn't really shown much interest until lately. After getting his vacation time switched from July 4th weekend to the end of July, I went to work on getting hotel and airfare.

We will be staying at the Fla.mingo hotel. I've never stayed there but it comes highly recommended by my parents and my sister. ;-) We got five nights for just under $300. My mom is the QUEEN of great deals, so with her help I'll be checking the price of the rooms often to see if they go down at all (one night is $99, the other four nights are $49). I then worked on some flights. We'll arrive in Vegas at 1:15 PM on Saturday the 25th then head home at 3:30 PM on Thursday the 30th. This too was a good deal, and like the hotel, I'll be checking the website often to see if there are better prices, as this airline will give a refund if the price goes down.

I think it will be a PERFECT getaway for us. :-)

And without further ado, the big reveal. I've had people asking to see my hair. I can't find a good before shot. This is the best I can offer, a picture of John and I taken around Christmas:

And here are two pictures I attempted to take tonight...by myself...in the bathroom. It isn't easy to hold a large digital camera in your left hand when one is right handed! But something is better than nothing...
I got it cut SHORT and then added blonde highlights, which are a little difficult to see. I LOVE it. Mandy, my hairstylist, did a GREAT job. I have gotten so many compliments on it that it has really brightened my mood the past few days.

John is not a fan of "short" hair, but he told me tonight that I look sexy with this new do. That too made me feel like a million bucks!

The Roller Coaster Continues.

Just when it seemed like we were ready to get off the roller coaster I know as Infertility (IF) and move onto a steadier, more stable ride, we got thrown back into another loop.

I'm sorry I haven't been blogging. Honestly, I just haven't felt up to it since last week. For those of you who follow my blog but don't know, John and I suffered another loss in the IF boxing ring. IF beat us with a one-two sucker punch...our round using a gestational surrogate (my incredible cousin) with two beautiful embryo's failed.

So I've been staying away from the Internet and away from the blogging world. I haven't commented on blogs much lately either. But as time always moves forward, I will soon take some baby steps and I do promise to get this blog back up and running. And I promise I will resume my weekly fly-by's of the blogs I so enjoy reading.

Senioritis as a 30-something?

Is it possible to have graduated 15 years ago from high school, and 11 years ago from college and STILL suffer from senioritis? I think it just might be.

I can't believe it, but I have just three weeks left with my seniors (only 14 school days) and four and a half weeks left with my sophomores and juniors (only 21 days). I'm not quite sure where this school year went, but I'm kind of glad it is almost over because I have some SERIOUS senioritis going on. I have no motivation to grade a single thing. My poor sophomores have been bugging the dickens out of me to get their research projects back (they had the opportunity to revise them). I've had them for a week now and have no desire to look at them. My juniors turned in their journals a week ago and haven't touched them, but need to as they have another round of journals left to submit in three weeks.

I should be thrilled to grade, knowing that I'm hitting little milestones, ie: last research papers for this school year, last essays submitted by my seniors, last test before their exam, etc.

If anyone has a good cure for my senioritis, I'd love to hear what you have to say!

I'm (gulp) getting old!

I have a wonderful student who comes into the writing lab to sit with me from time to time. Unfortunately I don't get too many visitors during the time I'm supposed to be in there, so I enjoy my visits with Grace. I had her as a sophomore two years ago and now she has just weeks before she graduates. She is one of those students who has kept in touch through the two years and her presence makes me smile. She has an infectious laugh and shares the best stories.

Well, Grace also gives the best shoulder massages (this is widely known by all of her teachers). While she rubs the horrid knots out of my neck and shoulder she yells at me for being so tense. She makes me laugh.

Yesterday, however, Grace started a hunt for gray hair. I don't know what possessed her, but she was bound and determined to check my hair for little strands of stress and old age.

She found a handful of gray hair! WHAT? She even plucked one out to show me. I about D I E D!

Thankfully I have an appointment coming up to highlight my hair. Gotta hide those suckers! ;-)