I fail!

I extremely disappointed my little kindergarteners today when I told them that I would not be dressing up as a Barbie Doll for Halloween. I thought one of the little girls was going to cry. I felt so bad! I wish I would have know that it was expected of me to be Barbie when I sold my perfect pink dress a few years ago. Dang! I really loved that dress too!!

I’m hoping that I can pass my fairy costume off as “Fairy Barbie” so they wont be so disappointed, but I have a feeling they are too smart for that. When I was a kid I had a “Barbie Fairy” and I thought it was the coolest thing ever!! You would dip the Barbie’s wigs in bubbles and then make her fly and bubbles would come out. Maybe I should bring a bubble blower… I’m thinking they won’t go for that either though :( What totally stinks is I went shopping for a costume with my little kindergarteners in mind. I tried really hard to get a cute costume that they would like. I had no idea they had an expectation for me. I failed! I’m officially a horrible teacher!

(With a stretch of the imagination I could be this no problem.)

I once modeled as a real life Barbie Doll making little girls dreams come true when they got to talk to me, “The real Barbie!” Now I’m just a big blonde disappointment! So sad!

I won't! I Won't!! I WON'T!!!!!

What do you say to a guy when he waits for you and asks if he can walk you home? Oh, I almost forgot… he is only 18 years old!

I straight up refuse to be a cougar! I have tried everything I can think of to scare off these little boys but they keep finding me. When they ask me how long I have been here instead of saying 2 years I say, “a really long time, I’m about to graduate.” When they ask me where I’m from I say, “San Diego, and I’m supper excited to be going back home in a few months after graduation!” When they ask me what my major is I make sure to include that I’m doing student teaching right now so they’ll know I’m just about done and therefore too old for them. I also make sure to compare them to my LITTLE brother and then add, “but he isn’t so little now, he’s 22.” What more can I do?

I would love to me like, “Back off little kid I’m too old for you!” But that’s pretty rude, and not to mention narcissistic. Despite what you horrid people say I wont give in, I WONT BE A COUGAR!!!

Anyway, to change the subject I had a really fun weekend with my friends! Here are a few pictures!

Can you see the croc purse? What the heck would posses somebody to make something so horrid? I’m convinced the person was high! What else could explain it? Or maybe they were possessed by the devil… (Dang you Alicia stop doing that to people!!)

Never to early

I know it’s only mid October but I’m getting so excited for the Christmas season! I love Christmas so much! Everything about this holiday is absolutely perfect in my opinion. I can’t wait to go home and decorate the Christmas tree with my family, cuddle with my little puppy in front of the heater, go ice skating with my friends, volunteer for my favorite charities and eat tons of delicious food!

Me at the homeless shelter on Christmas day a few years ago!

Tonight when I was listening to Pandora while doing my homework I decided to listen to my Christmas station. It made my entire week! I feel so much better after all the craziness that happened and I got so much done! Its midnight but I don’t want to stop working because I am on such a roll! I finished everything that I could do on my To Do list! It feels so great!! I think I owe it all to the spirit of Christmas. Me and my little baby with Santa a few years ago!

I know my friend ALICIA DEMPSEY (she told me I never use her name and I always just call her “friend”, so there you go!) is rolling her eyes because she hates Christmas! I know what the rest off you are thinking, how could anybody hate Christmas? Alicia is a devil worshiper, maybe not literally, but she totally does in her own little Halloween loving/Christmas hating way! Just think about it… Somebody who loves the celebration of everything dark, evil and dead and doesn’t like the celebration of the birth of our Savior? Dang, that person has to be the devil! We probably should all stay clear of her! HAHA!

Wow, this post is turning out to be way random! Anyway, check out my favorite Christmas song, unless you are a devil worshiper like ALICIA DEMPSEY!

You might not want to read this...

I like to think of myself as a pretty calm and easy going person who doesn’t get offended or upset easily. Things will annoy me and I’ll complain about them but I think its takes a lot to really frustrate me to the point where I’m upset. But when I do get to that point all hell breaks loose! And to be honest, I’m at the point right now and I have been for a few days!!

I hate feeling this way but I just can’t get passed it. Normally when I’m upset about something I just go to sleep for a few hours and wake up feeling a million times better, but that isn’t working. I’m so upset to the point where it’s making me sick. I can’t concentrate on anything else either. I have a huge to do list hanging on my wall which I was about to start and finish on Monday when everything blew up. In the last 3 days I have only crossed 3 things off the list, and one of them was something that it was to late to do, so I really only did 2 things.

Lucky for me this week is kind of a slow week. Although I need to do a million things none of them are do or die right now. I just need to hurry and finish them or they will turn into that (or just the die part when I run out of time to do everything). Maybe it would be better if it was do or die because then maybe I would get my mind off everything….

I’m probably sounding like a huge brat and I totally understand if you never read my blog again. I just don’t know what to do. I have never been so upset and frustrated in all of my life!

(This is my angry face!)

(Can you see the death coming out of my eyes?)

On a some what happy note I bring to you my kindergarten moment of the day:
Kindergartener: “Ms. Tyler, I want to see a movie so bad but my mommy won’t let me.”
Me: “What movie do you want to see?”
Kindergartener: “The first part is called ‘Jack’ but I can’t tell you the second part because it’s a bad word.”

Just to make you laugh!

Today I received this email and picture from my friend Mike:

Mel,

I saw this warning today and I had no idea that so many people were on to you. Stay safe!

Love, MB

I share this with you only because I know a few people who are in need of a good laugh and I know this will do the trick! But I would like to take a moment and set the record straight, I am NOT now and I NEVER will be a cougar! I think this little joke is getting out of hand.

It's time to move!!

People never believe me when I tell them that my family lives in the ghetto, but it’s true. My neighborhood wasn’t always like that was though. When we moved in it was just a quiet neighborhood full of old people. Little by little the old people died/went into a nursing home and it got more and more ghetto. We have been telling my mom for years that it’s time to sell the house and move out of the ghetto, it’s not like she can’t afford something better. But she hates moving and doesn’t want to do it until all her kids are gone for good.

Sometimes it can get a little embarrassing when people come over because we never know what the neighbors are going to do. But this week they hit an all time low! Check out the picture my mom sent me of their house.

Yes, that it a port-a-potty in their front yard! It has been there all week!! What would provoke them to do such a thing? We aren’t really sure. Maybe they got sick of having only one bathroom for the 20ish people who live there. Or maybe they are just remodeling. No matter what their excuse is for having a port-a-potty, they have no reason to keep it in the front yard! Come on? That doesn’t embarrass you just a little? At least hide it in the back. This has to be against some kind of zoning law!

Desperate?

I’m going to change my kindergartener quote on the day to kindergartener moment of the day because I realized that sometimes a quote just doesn’t suffice. Anyway here it is…

The teacher over me had a talk with the parents of one of the little boys in my class. Apparently the little boy told his mommy that his student teacher from BYU is prettier then she is. I didn’t know what to do when she told me. Luckily the mom laughed it off, so I don’t feel too bad. Oh, and now they want to set me up with somebody in their family. Hahaha! Am I really looking so desperate that even my kindergarteners want to set me up?

Also this week, a girl called me desperate because I made a guy a PB&J sandwich because he was complaining he was hungry and it was late so no food place was open. I think I offended her when I made a super sarcastic comment back about how the quickest way to a man heart is through his stomach and how he just had to ask me to marry him tonight after that sandwich! I felt bad for about 10 seconds and then I got over it.

Karma!

When I was growing up I knew this girl who was allergic to just about everything you could possibly think of. It wouldn’t have bothered me so much if she didn’t have a horrible attitude about it and get mad if everybody didn’t cater to her. I couldn’t stand this girl and would make fun of her all the time.

I feel like karma is slapping me in the face now as little by little I develop allergies to the whole world! It started out with just an itchy nose when I touched a cat and then it got worse and worse. My eyes started to swell up when there was some kind of pollen in the air, then waterproof mascara, after a while I would start waking up with a horrible pain in my lungs and the doctor traced it back to being hyper-sensitive to mold in the air. Next it was eye-liner, my eyes would itch and puss and swell super bad. And what is it now?... Band-aids! Crazy I know!

I had a band-aid over the hole in my flesh where they removed a mole a few days ago. Where the band-aid was it now red, swollen with little bumps and hurt like crazy!!! It hurts more then it hurt to get the mole removed! Who in the world is allergic to band-aids? That has to be the stupidest allergy ever! Pay back for sure!!!!

Quotes from a blonde

I don’t know what happens but whenever I get together with my friends something crazy happens. It’s always an adventure! My friends all blame everything on me but I don’t see how it’s ever my fault. One of my friends is starting a blog about all the crazy things that happen when we go out. It’s going to be a must read for sure! But for now here are a few quotes from our day together. Use your imagination as to what happened!

“OMG! Lock the door we are about to be gang raped!”

“I would date a pedophile before I would date a guy who works at Hot Topic!”

“I’m going to go to a jail, take a picture of a child molester and have it tattooed on my arm.”

“This is how horror movies start!”

“Congratulations! You have just been demoted to White Trash!”

Grateful!

I like to think that I’m a pretty calm person and things don’t really freak me out that easily. (Unless of course it’s involves death, which as you all should know I can’t stand to even think about!) Today on the other hand I had a little moment and now I feel pretty stupid about it.

The story starts off yesterday when I went to the doctor to have him look at a mole my mom has been telling me for a while to get checked out. The doctor told me that it is probably fine but it looks kinda sketchy so he wanted to remove it right away and get it tested. This didn’t scare me one bit. Ok, that was a lie; I hate needles and pain, so I was scared of the pain but not the mole testing part. Other then the hole in my flesh and a little bit of pain when I moved my left arm I was perfectly fine and not worried at all.

Ok, so fast-forward to today when I was in class. I get a phone call from a strange number. After class I check the message and it’s the doctor saying he needs to talk to me ASAP and to come by and see him or call back as SOON as I can. My next class was about to start, I tried calling but no answer. I went to class and at first I was fine, totally calm and composed, but after a few moments all the thoughts of what the doctor could need to talk to me about flooded my mind. For me there is nothing worse then not knowing something, that’s way I hate surprises. It’s so awesome to get a surprise but when somebody says, I have a surprise and you have to wait for it, it drives me crazy!

Anyway, finally I got a private second to ask the teacher if I could leave for a minute. (In the school of ed if you leave for too long for are late for class they drop your grade, not cool at all!) I practically ran outside, and I called the doctor. When he picked up the phone he was cheerful so I was pretty sure he was going to say everything was fine. After asking about how my wound was healing, he gave me the good news. The test came back negative, I was fine! It felt so good but then after a second I felt so stupid for getting all worked up! I was so worried that for a minute I was shaking like my little Chihuahua, (except she doesn’t really shake unless she is cold because she is awesome like that.)

(My little baby! She is so cute! In this picture she had just pulled her bed across the house to in front of the heater because she was cold! )

Now that I had time to think it over I’m so grateful! Being in that situation for just those few minutes helped me realize what a big blessing it is to be healthily. Along with the great blessings of a school that provides health insurance for the students, a doctor who cares and modern medicine. I still feel pretty dumb but I think this tiny scare was all I needed to be grateful, and maybe I learned it well enough that something big doesn’t have to happen to teach me!

Love Letter

This is a message I received from one of my friends today.

Melis,

I love you so much when you are funny, carefree, spontaneous, cheerful, and well…. BLONDE! Not so much when you are worried, stressed, exhausted and on the other side of the world. Please change the before mentioned! I miss you!

Love your BFF

My response:

My Dear friend,

I’m sorry that your love for me is so conditional! Maybe if you would get off your lazy butt and come visit me I would be able to rekindle the before mentioned attributes! I miss you too!!

Love your BFF

PS. Hawaii isn’t on the other side of the world (see map below).

Welcome to the rest of your life!

Today in class as we were all complaining about the stress we are under and all the work that our teachers are throwing at us when my teacher stopped us and said “Do you realize that this is your last class ever?” She reminded us all that after this semester we will no longer be students, we will be teachers. The few classes that we are taking right now are our last chance to learn everything we need to know to be successful in our future.

When she was talking it kind of hit me. After December I will no longer be stressing about homework, grades, teachers who give pointless assignment, not wanting to go to class, etc. I knew that it was coming but since I’m still here till May for student teaching I didn’t really think about this semester being my last chance.

I’m super excited for this all to be over but I’m scared at the same time. I have been going to school since I was 4 years old. For 20 years of my life school was my main focus and after December that’s all going to change. I’ll have a little transition period I guess thanks to student teaching but I’m pretty much about to be a real adult and that kind of freaks me out a little.

I still don’t know what I want to do. I know I want to teach kindergarten, but where? I would love to go back to California but it’s almost impossible to find a job there right now. Parts of staying in Hawaii and teaching sound great but I hate being so far away from my family. People keep suggesting going to Utah but I promised myself I would never! And of course there is always going to a whole new state, but the thought of that freaks me out even more.

I do have a little bit longer to decide but the time is coming faster then I thought. It just kinda hit me today in class. I hope I can figure this all out soon. It’s so exciting but so scary at the same time.

BYU- California!

Even through I have been a member of the mormon church my whole life, until I came to BYUH I was never surrounded by other members. I didn't dream about coming to a church school either. In fact, if you would have suggested it to me in high school I would have laughed in your face and thought you were crazy. I thought BYU was where all the “good mormons” went and I was a rebel. I didn’t do anything to give myself this bad reputation but I was the girl that parents told their daughters to stay away from because I was a “bad influence”! The only reason I looked into going to a church school was because my boyfriend wanted to go and after he had left me for 2 years for a mission there was no way I would let him leave me again. When I saw that going away to a church school was way less expensive then staying home and going to school my whole attitude started to change. I didn’t think I would get in; after all I was a “rebel”! Hahaha!

Anyway, here I am today, I have been at BYUH for almost 2 years and I will be graduating soon. My opinion about going to a church school has changed so much and I no longer think of myself as ever being a rebel. Although, I’m sure if you went to my home ward and asked, a few people might say something different. I have learned a lot academically but I have also learned a lot about mormon culture and to be honest I think it’s the funniest thing in the world. I understand completely now why there is no BYU in California! BYUC as they would call it wouldn’t last! California can not handle the mormon culture. To illustrate my point I made a list of the things I find so funny/weird/cool/unusual/interesting (whatever word you would like to insert) about going to a mormon school.

• Publicly praying in the cafeteria, before class starts and before taking a test
• General Conference is a school holiday – this past weekend was general conference and the bathroom didn’t get cleaned on Saturday because they took the day off to watch it. Teachers will also assign less homework so you have time to watch and the topic of class on Monday will be what you learned.
• All soda is caffeine free
• Random people will trust you - one night I was doing homework in my room and a girl I had never met knocked on my door and asked me to hold a plate of food for her while she went somewhere. She didn’t seem to think it was weird at all even though I had no idea who she was. I held her food because that’s just what mormons do.
• In class teachers will relate what they are teaching to the teachings in the scriptures.
• School shuts down for an hour once a week for a spiritual devotional and everybody goes!
• Students get drunk off of energy drinks
• You go to church in the same room you go to class in
• The whole town is closed on Sundays
• People flash gang signs like it’s the cool thing to do and they don’t get shot
• Hitchhiking is the main form of transpiration
• Parents let strangles hold their babies
• All doors are unlocked all the time

If you have any more please feel free to add them. These are just the few that came to the top of my mind.

(This is a real sign that you see all over school!)

I should be doing homework!

A 3 page paper to be exact… but I’m not… I’m blogging…. and not even about anything… just to procrastinate homework. Normally that’s what facebook is for, but it’s failing me!

My kindergartener quote of the day:

“Ms. Tyler, Ms. Tyler, MS. TYLER!!! The Justin Bieber concert ran out of tickets!”
(Not so funny when you read about it on a blog but supper funny when it’s the first thing a little girl says as she runs into the class in the morning!)