Yabbu dhabi du Update!

So I havent been bloggin about the Abu Dhabi adventure because I was seriously in limbo. Jason isn't all gun ho to go, nut he's willing to go just b/c I am really pushing this dream. He's afraid of change and doesn't want to leave his job with the state to become a state at home husband/student, which is completely understandable. He's a man's man and that is one of the things I love about him, but I wish he'd completely see things my way for a bit. One of those things that know one really stresses about marriage is that your sharing your life and there are a ton of great benefits that come with that, most of which motivate one to get married, but then there is the dark side of actually sharing your life. There are the times when all you want to do is what you want to do or you simply want to shout, " It's mine, mine, mine!", but all in all the good still outweighs the bad.
Anyways, I logged on to keep you updated with abu Dhabi. I have an In person Interview on February 8 in Time's Square New York. I think I am a good candidate but, I'm afraid that there are so many people with years of experience that they may outshine me. I mean I have taught overseas before, I am teaching kindergarten this year, I am certified, and have a teaching degree in Early Childhood Education, but I don't know if it's enough. I really want this bad! I'm praying every day, but I'm so afraid to get my hopes up. I've been researching, and talking to people. I probably wont post until next month, but lets keep our fingers crossed!

Abu dhabi or bust

Sooo....I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Jason and I are trying to escape to Abu Dhabi for an exciting adventure in the future of 2011. I need this in my life. I applied to Teach Away a couple of months ago, had my phone interview, and am now trying to prepare my documents for the in person interview in February in Times square New York! The interview location sounds like more excitement than I've had all year. Im steadily praying about it because now that Jason is ready, Im ready,this could be the dream ive been waiting for! If I get the job we would move in August. They would pay for me and jason's flight. i would make 3500 a month tax free with paid rent, and every year we decide to stay they would give me a month's worht of bonus pay and fly us anywhere in the world with a paid ticket! We could live an entirely different lifestyle! Dinners on the weekends, camel treks, sand boarding, skiing in the shopping mall, and all the other stuff I simply loved about being abroad. I have a few hurdles to jump, but I pray that I will be writing you with the details of our flight next! wish me luck.ciao

goodbye 2010

What happened to all the wonderful posts that I'm supposed to be writing about life in Massachusetts? They don't exist! Not 1 exciting thing has happened in 2010. I know 2011 will be different. Two good things that happened are we had our first Christmas together and surprisingly, everyone bought me the gifts I needed/wanted. Secondly, we brought in the New Year happy, together and with 4 other children who are not ours, but it was great! I loved it. I should do it more often. for the rest of the exciting events, on New Years day I got a stomach flu that made e miss the first day of the school year. Terrible!!! I threw up nonstop for 12 hours, had a headache for another 12, body aches for another 12, and i couldnt eat the entire time. luckily hubby sweety pie stayed home with me because I was finished! and now to sum up the rest of 2010 after I returned home, um...I went to work, Jason went to work, paid bills, more bills, bills, stayed home, work, and that about sums it up. I have no friends really that I keep in touch with on a regular basis, and am still dying for an adventure.

1 and 2 and 3 and 4, get those sit ups right and...

So update: I did go to Six Flags water park with one of my friends for about two hours in the water park. It was an absolute blast, but because I was in the water park I didn't want to carry around my Camera. So no photos really and the ones I did take are lame. So What have I been doing with all my free time? You would want to know huh? I've been off for two weeks now and I was sure Id be killing myself by now, but I'm actually loving the relaxation. However, I have turned my attention to something...Fitness. I have hit another one of those motivation waves my friend. If you were 180 lbs or are, I don't know how you can not be motivated. I don't want to become the fat ugly wife which is a comingly rampant occurrence. No. Im 24 and I feel there is no reason I shouldn't look my best. i started a weight loss plan in Korea and was actually quite successful but, I didn't keep up with bloggin it, and right before I did. All my pictures, actually everything was wiped from my computer via a virus. I won't mention how it got on there in the first place. Ahem. anyhoo. In Korea I had lost 20lbs. As soon, as I came back though, I put it all back on quicker than you can spell FAT! So my goal is not only to lose the weight, which, thank God comes somewhat easily to me, but to get in the best shape of my life. i want abs, sexy arms, just sexiness. I started a month ago cutting my calories down to 1500 a day. Of course I didn't lose anything but It was a transition. This past week I cut down to 1360 calories a day, and worked out 5 days a week! Even though it was light weight home videos and hula hooping. This upcoming week Im cutting down 10 1300 calories and aiming to hit the gym 5/6 days a week. The goal is to lose at least a pound a week so that I can be 175/176 by October first. Small goals. The main goal is to be back in "just returned from Korea" shape by Decemeber when we go to Jamaica. I wanted to worout as a couple but there is just really no time. So, I guess I'm going this one alone. i also joined sparkpeople.com , which is a great site that counts up all your calories so you can really know what you're eating. So ... that's that. Until next time...

Fresh As Im Is!!

The title is inspired by Bow Wow's song " Fresh as I'm is".After my year long stretch of wearing wigs to achieve an image of beauty I had to cut my hair. My real hair underneath was destroyed and broken. i've worn my hair like this many times before, but I've never been feeling it quite as much as I am now. I've never worn it with so much confidence. Im considering dreads next but, I like it like this too. It's so funny to me but, my hair changes are always in line with major life changes. i had my husband cutg my hair a few days aftger we were married and it wasn't even intentional. so now for the debut...

Happier days

So after that little depressing blog entry I decided that I should post something on the days that I'm overjoyed to be married. Granted it is literally like week 3 but, since that last post I have been on cloud 9. I think laying everything out, even if it is just a website no one reads, is great for the soul. I've always believed life is what you make it. So why then didn't I apply that to y life here in MA. I don't know but, I've decided to change all that. I have to make an effort to be a little more social but I have a plan to do something fun every month. I have high hopes that this could turn out to be better than living elsewhere even. So i always lay out my dilemmas in a two choice option, like a book I read once.The book had 151 different endings according to what life option you chose for the main character. It was pretty cool actually. So option B is stay here, since we have a nice apt, good jobs, and family here but potentially be bored to death or make it great, or Option B which is move the following year, take a lower paying job in a major city, and see where that takes us. since we're working and have little time anyway I say we'll try option A first. Im excited to post about the potential excitement on the horizon. Next week starts September activities: Six Flags New England!!! I'll you keep whomever posted!

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