Good things come to those who wait...

OK! first off, a continuation of my last post...i'm an AUNTIE!!! Connor Bruce Reynolds was born this morning, Sept 29th at 9:34 AM. He weighed 7lbs 10 oz and is 20 inches long! Mommy and daddy and baby are doing FINE! my sister even had an amazingly easy labor..only pushed for 15 minutes! Here's the handsome fellow:

(awwwwww!)

in other GREAT news...i started my new job at Boeing Family Center today. Initially i applied as a Lead Teacher, but they filled the position w/ someone who had more experience than me. However, they still LOVED me and wanted me to work for them so they hired me as a Center Float meaning i'd just fill in when/wherever i was needed...but would be promoted to Lead Teacher at a later date...well, my first day, and i got promoted to lead already! When i got there this morning i was told i would be learning lead responsibilities this week, for the future...but by the time i was done with lunch they had decided to just start me in the Lead position instead!

I get a mentor who the company PAYS for me to go out with sometime during lunch this week and discuss my new job, benefits are AMAZING, i get vacation time AND paid holidays (during Christmas time we're closed for something like nine days straight and i get paid for 7 of those!)...this may be hohum to most of you...but to me, who's never really had a job that offered really good vacation/benefits i'm STOKED!

ummm...after i left work my day pretty much went downhill..but pretty sure the good stuff cancels out the bad stuff today!!!!

for my special "I had an amazing day" treat, i'm making myself breakfast for dinner...who wants some???

September 29th,2008

"Baby is coming! At the hospital, he'll most likely be here by tomorrow morning. Please pray for us!" -Samantha-

I just got that exact text message from my sister a few minutes ago! My nephew is almost here! I've never been so excited for someone to be born in my whole entire life. I can't WAIT to meet him!


p.s. the above image is of my sisters belly at about 6 months...husband got a little bored...

Day Zero

Today is my last day at Boys and Girls Club!! I'm sooooo excited! I'm so over working there. I've been over working there for the past few months, but it's been especially bad these past couple of weeks. In honor of my last day I wore our grey summer tee instead of the required blue polo. I'm so rebellious.

Every time I get on or off a bus this morning I keep thinking,"This is the last time I'm gonna get on/off this bus!" When the bus driver said "Have a good weekend, see you next week!" I thought "Noooo you won't!" I'm sure I'm gonna be thinking like that all day. I'm so weird.

P.S. Does anyone have any good band/singer recommendations? I feel like I listen to the same 5 bands...it's gotten so bad I've resorted to listening to the radio! Help!

I drank a mocha today...

for the first time in probably 4 years.
It was gross.

My weekend, however, was not!


On Friday night after I got off of work I went shopping for myself(quite possibly my most favorite activity in the world). There was an RPA show that night and I was in the mood to look super cute. Found something to wear, mission accomplished, on to dinner.
Me and Tiff ate at a delicious teriyaki restaurant in Tacoma. I dunno what it is lately, but I've been craving teriyaki chicken and gyoza like a mofo. That was probably my 3rd or 4th time eating it in 2 weeks. (Sidenote:one of those times was at the Cheesecake Factory...teriyaki NOT recommended. Totally disgusting, I couldn't even eat it. However, their potstickers=best EVER.)
After dinner was on to the show! Rocky Point kicked ass,which I'm pretty sure is ALL they know how to do, and a boy who I think is hot thought I looked hot that night...so that's always a nice bonus! All around a fun night!
Saturday I didn't wake up until ONE!!! I don't even remember the last time I slept in past 9! Especially since I've started waking up at 430, it's been really hard to sleep in late. Needless to say, my waking up extremely late was the start to the laaaaaziest day EVER. Which was welcome. I think I needed it to catch up on sleep lost during the week and to just take some time to breathe...which even that I've been having trouble finding time for.
Sunday I did the Puyallup, again! I'm not even exaggerating when I say I could go to the fair every day that it runs and never get bored and always find something I've never seen/done before.
There's this guy there who makes marbles with names on them. Well, with my name(Andraya,Andi) being so unique he did not have my name last year. I requested it for this year, he wrote it in his little book, and he actually made it!!! So now I have marbles with my name on it. Which sounds totally lame...but when you bring into account that
#1 I have NOTHING with my full name on it
And
#2 it's pretty much customized cause he wouldn't of had it if I didn't ask for it...I was pretty stoked.
This is my last week at Boys and Girls Club. I thought I'd be sad leaving all my kids...and I am...but I'm more sad leaving (most) of my fellow coworkers. They're so much fun and I enjoy talking to them and exchanging weekend stories with them. I'm sure I'll meet new ones at my new job,though. I go to my new job tomorrow morning to start filling out paperwork! I'm actually really excited about this!!!! Ok time to go back to work...

1 2 3 4

as most of you know, i'm a big fan of song lyrics and relating them to my life...these lyrics don't relate to my life as of right now...but i can't wait til they do...

1,2 - 1 2 3 4
give me more lovin then i've ever had.
make it all better when i'm feelin sad.
tell me that i'm special even when i know i'm not.
make me feel good when i hurt so bad.
barely gettin mad,im so glad i found you.
i love bein around you.
you make it easy,as easy as 1 2,(1 2 3 4.)

theres only one thing two do three words four you.i love you.(i love you)
theres only one way two say those three words and that's what i'll do.i love you.(i love you)

give me more lovin from the very start.
piece me back together when i fall apart.
tell me things you never even tell your closest friends.
make me feel good when i hurt so bad.
best that i've had.
im so glad that i found you.
i love bein around you.
you make it easy as easy as 1 2,(1 2 3 4.)

theres only one thing two do three words four you.i love you.(i love you)
theres only one way two say those three words and that's what i'll do.i love you.i love you(i love you)

you make it easy, its easy as 1234

theres only one thing two do three words four you i love you(i love you)
theres only one way two say those three words thats what ill do i love you(i love you)
i love you
i love you.one two three four i love you.(iloveyou)i love you(i love you)


(i'm sure this song came out 53287 years ago and i'm just now hearing it but for those of you who don't know this song it's by Plain White T's and it's a really nice acoustic song...check it out!)

highlights

i'm not gonna lie, today was a pretty crappy day at work..and it was all because of two 11 year olds. they are the most disrespectful kids and it irritates the hell outta me. anytime you ask either of them to do anything i am questioned as to why they have to do it, or they make some argument on as to why they shouldn't have to do it, or they just pretend they don't hear you. at one point today, i was called rude because i didn't let one girl wait to stack chairs when every single other kid, including the FIVE year olds, did it without questions. anyways, i digress...

earlier that day, before the dumb 11 year old kids started making me homicidal i was helping one kid, Daniel, with his reading homework. Daniel is a bright kid and usually has a breeze with reading, it's math(particularly division)that kicks his butt. However, for some reason today he was having a tough time with reading. I was doing my best trying to explain, and breaking the problems down to make it easier for him but he was just not understanding it, no matter what. When he found out all the other kids were going outside to the playground that just made it worse and he broke down and started crying. I once again tried to break the reading problem down even MORE when Daniel says to me, "it's just not fair, my teacher assigned SO much work on a Friday!"(when you're in elem school, usually Fridays are homework free). I then said "Daniel, it's Monday." he replied with "...oh yeah..." It was then he stopped crying and we were both laughing our heads off and he became less frustrated and got his homework done pretty soon after that.

It's stories like that that make me realize how much i love my job and why i love working with kids so much...even though the 11 year olds were irritating as hell, i just have to remember that moment i shared with Daniel today and all my feelings of resentment and irritation and anger towards the other kids go away. I feel that working with kids is where I'm supposed to be..i just haven't found my EXACT place in working with children yet...this is why i'm so excited to start my new job, maybe this is the place i'm supposed to be, as a preschool teacher. i know i'm for certain wanting to work mainly with the younger kids because they are at the age before they become so defiant and blatantly disrespectful and rude. that's about it as far as that goes...

now i'm just sitting here wondering...isn't americas got talent usually on ABC on mondays? some Christian bale movie is on right now and i'm incredibly dissapointed...

inspired

care:hair:fair

well i am super duper extremely amazingly excited to announce that i have a new job! i have been pretty unhappy at the boys and girls club for quite a while now...it's a mix of my supervisor walking around with a stick up her ass, to not feeling like i am ever gonna be able to move up in the company,to the crappy school year split shift, to it being SO far away from where i live right now that made me DESPERATE to find a new job. my new job is at Boeing Family Center which is a preschool for infant age to 5 year old children. i applied for a lead teacher position for 3 year olds. I did not get the position i applied for (that went to some lady who had taught preschool for 18 years) but they still REALLY liked me and wanted me to work for them, so they offered me a position as a floater, which,basically, i will fill in for other teachers who call in sick or have emergencies or whatever. it's a full time position, i get paid more than at B&GC, there's benefits and i get first dibs at the next lead teacher position that opens up(or so i'm told). my first day is september 29th and i can't wait. i love moving on and learning new things and i think this position will be perfect for me for now while i'm learning about all the different age groups of kids so i will be an even better canidate when a lead teacher position does open up. sooooo,that's my best news for now!

other then that i've been keeping myself pretty busy and running myself ragged. i have to get up at 430 in order to catch my bus to work so i can be there at 7...i'm no morning person so that alone wears me out...on friday night i went and saw Rocky Point All Stars play at Brewskis. Their energy was great, their playing was great and the crowd was AMAZING! i've seen RPA play about 4 million times and that was one of my top 3 favorite shows.

Saturday i went and got my hair did by future up and coming hair stylist to the stars, Tiffany. She put some blonde and red highlights in my hair and made it pretty much kick ass(thanks tiff!). After that i rushed home, got cute looking and went to some random bar in Enumclaw called The Crystal. At first i was skeptical because,well, it was a random bar in Enumclaw but it was actually a pretty good time! the bar itself looked somewhat new and the guys in there were pretty HOT...and with their girlfriends. it has a restuarant in the bar that's kinda pricy but the food is deeeelish!

Today, Sunday, i went to the Puyallup Fair with my mom and a friend of hers from work. i LOVE when the fair rolls around...every year, no matter how many times you've been, you experience or see something you never have before. Today was the ultimate new experience day. I started off by 1. Eating an elephant ear...after years and years and years of people telling me how good they were (THEY ARE!) 2. seeing the hypnotist...after years and years and years of people telling me how funny the show is(IT IS!) and 3.managing to walk out of the fair spending less than 20 dollars, which i'm pretty proud of myself...

my mom is making sesame chicken wings and they smell like heaven so i'm gonna scarf some down...til next time!

babies:mamas:dramas

I just flew in from Houston and boy, are my arms tired!

I arrived in Houston at around 2 pm and was instantly greeted by the 90 degree weather. It was so welcome considering it had been chilly these past couple weeks here in Seattle. I don't remember much about my flight there since it left at 510 AM and I had gotten NO sleep the night before, I slept the whooooole way! I don't even remember the take off or landing...

The whole purpose of me being in Houston was to help my sister, who is 8 months pregnant and my mom prep for my sisters baby shower the next day(Saturday), so the whole rest of my Friday was spent running to various places picking out the best appitizers, finger sandwiches, decorations, and ironing boards for the ocassion(ok, maybe my sister just needed an ironing board). I was literally amazed at how my sister, being 5'2 and carrying a big ole baby in her stomache could run from place to place in four inch heels without tipping over. Oh, the wonders of science.

Saturday we woke up early to finish the food and decorating the house for the baby shower. At about noon people (when I say people, I mean mostly NFL cheerleaders who I'm pretty sure are superhuman robots) started showing up. I haven't been to many baby showers, but this was one of the best ones ever. There was never a dull moment, the food was DElish, and my sister received SO many nice gifts, and most of what she needed for the baby when it gets here. I was pleasantly surprised at how nice all the girls were and was not surprised at all that the combined weight of all of them equaled the weight of my left leg.

I could only stay the weekend because I have to work on Mon so I left Sunday night. I was/am so sad, I wasn't ready to go! I miss my sister so much and feel like I am missing out on so much by not living near each other. I'm jealous of her friends and her husbands side of the family because they get to experience and see everything before I do. For instance, when baby Connor is born they get to be one of the first to hold him, where I have no idea the next time I'll be able to get to Houston, when my sister is shopping for bridesmaid dresses her friends get to be the ones to help her pick them out...I dunno, it just got me thinking about why I'm still in Seattle. Not that I would pack up and move to Texas tomorrow, but it does get me wanting to get out "there"more...once this whole living in Seattle/straightening shit out period is over I think it's time for a change...a big one...

tattoos:weekends:blackberries

I was soooooo fortunate where a lot of people had a three day weekend, i got a FIVE day weekend! holler! since i'm too poor to take advantage of these days off and go somewhere exotic like eastern washington or oregon, i hung around my area and occupied my time with some normal(and some not normal) things...

pretty much everyone who's known me these past 6 or 7 years has heard me complain about how i would like a tattoo, but never knew what to get or had the funds to do it(both key components to getting a tattoo)...well, on thurs i actually stopped talking and DID it! i took a trip to lucky boys and super hot Chris inked a couple of sparrows on my shoulders. they turned out wonderful! i only winced a little! i'm already planning my next two...ooops, i think i got addicted already...

that night i went to Winterland to watch kw and jack play for the first time in like, a month. it was same ole same ole but nice to see everyone and catch up.

Friday Saturday and Sunday i did a whole lotta nada...nothing worth mentioning anyway...

Today, Monday i took the hour long ferry ride to Bremerton and experienced the Blackberry Festival. This may come as a shock to EVERYone, but i mainly was interested in the food...i spent about 4 million dollars and had some coffee(absolutely necessary)roasted corn, blackberry "slug"(blackberry donut w/ powdered sugar on top),2 slices of cheese pizza that tasted like lasagna,and pink lemonade. OH and i tried some blackberry wine which was goooood! i don't even like wine! all in all it was a fun time seeing people i hadn't seen in a while and getting to chat w/ some others i had...thanks tiff for the suggestion,it was fun!

tomorrow...it's back to work...blah. school starts on wed so i gotta start showing up to work at 730! EW! i don't even wanna think what time i'll have to wake up in order to catch the bus to work...i'm supposed to know whether or not i got the preschool job by midweek...wish me luck!!

i'm watching deal or no deal and the girl on here is possibly the cutest pregnant lady i've ever seen in my life...i hope she's the million dollar winner!...ok bye