Hi guys! Im alive! Im here. Not been in a blogging mood as of late. Not too much to talk about. I have a new place, im still working, looking at grad schools, etc. Just enjoying life.

I honestly don’t think I will be blogging much longer. I really can’t blog about most things in  my life because of liability issues, and those who are close to me know whats going on.

So I am officially ending my blog. If you want to know what is going on with me, find me on myspace or on facebook. I tend to update there more than here.  So that’s it. You know how to contact me if you want me.

Who knows, maybe one day I will return to the blogging world, but for me right now, I am done. Best of luck to all! And thank you for reading!

my computer is mort-or rather the hard drive. i should be getting it tomorrow. in the meantime I am at an internet cafe with a wierd keyboard. I shall take a picture. Otherwise I am well and fine!

hope to blog more soon!!

Im currently in Paris! Im sitting in my tiny little pink apartment and I am so tired! I got in last night.

Follow along at: American En Paris for all updates. Please keep the comments nice since I am doing this blog for my family and my students!

I will continue to blog here as well

I miss you all!!

David and I went to Fargo, ND last weekend for his buddy Will’s wedding. We had so much fun!! I love all of his friends, and it was a BEAUTIFUL wedding! The dj was fun, the booze was free, and the food was good. I got there friday night no problem, we had dinner, and then hung out in the pirate themed pool at the hotel with David’s friends. Saturday we went to the wedding at the local church, and then went to the rehearsal at the hotel. Since david had to sit with the bridal party, me and Kristen (ryan’s gf..who was also in the bridal party) sat with some other people from VA our age. It was kinda cool because most of them knew David in High School and/or were good friends of his. And I had a BLAST with them! We drank, ate, and danced like fools. There was some Karaoke too. All around AMAZING night. What more could a girl ask for? Hot boyfriend to dance with, a great dress and hot pink shoes, great people, and free booze. Here are some pictures to enjoy:

Long time no post! lol Sorry!

Things are good here. Just busy packing and trying to get ready for France in just over a month!

Selling my car and computer desk if anyone is interested.

The next few weekends are busy. Going to Fargo for a wedding, coming down to Lejeune area over Memorial Day weekend for a bridal shower and to see some old friends! Other than that, just packing and getting through the work week!

Gotta run! ciao!

I got to see Jason Mraz last night in concert! It was AMAZING!

Jenn and I drove down to Richmond last night, blasting his music full blast, singing out hearts out, being stupid. We got there with time to spare, so we walked around Downtown Richmond trying to find place to eat near the venue. There was …. nothing. You would think there would be restaurants near a theatre/concert hall like the National. But no. We ended up going in to the Mariot and found,  by chance, a really good restaurant there. We had fun just speaking French and being us. These two guys sat down at the table next to us, and we ended up talking to them and then hanging out with them at the concert! It was this undergrad student from GW and his older uncle. The younger guy was a huge Jason Mraz fan like me (well more so!) and we had a good time.

Inside the National was very cool. Very old school theatre. Nice vibe.  There was a host for the show- Justin Crediable (sp?) who is a magician. Then the “Make Peace Brothers” played a few songs. They had a good sound, but definitly hippies. What was cool was that Jason Mraz would slyly come out on stage WITH THE OPENING ACTS and play in the band as different characters!! Then, more magic when Jenn and the younger guy we met, Alex, got on stage for a magic trick. It was very cool. He got jenns ring into a wallet in the magician had her put “near her heart” and his car keys Alex’s pocket! (Its kind of hard to explain on a blog!) They didn’t know how he did it!  They were adorable up there.

Then this guy, bushwalla came up and sang. He sucked. He was like a 70’s hippie reject. He maybe had like one good song. Then Jason Mraz came up and he was AMAZING! He played a lot of his stuff from his upcoming album-out may 13th, like “Live High”, “I’m Yours” (which was AMAZING live!), “Make it mine”, “Only Human”, and “Butterfly”. He also sang some older stuff like “The Remedy” (so great!”, “No stoping us”, and “Geek in the Pink.” He did play a few songs from some of his live albums too.

He ended the show with “You and I” which is one of my all time favorites of his. And it was just incredible (hahahaha get it? thats the magicians name!) He really drug it out. And the last lyric is “And now I’m out of words”, which was a very poetic way to end the show. It was just amazing.

He has such a great voice on cd, but live it is so much better. Its so clear and pure and articulate! I was just blown away. I had such an amazing time with Jenn and our new found friends I didn’t get home until like 2 am, and slept until noon this morning, but it was so worth it! Tonight Im heading to DC to go and dancing with my TEFL friend Kelly. Im going to be so tired tomorrow!!! lol

I got bored and made a meez. If you make one, list me Retrobebe83 as your reference!

I wrote a song for kiki (my mom’s dog) with Davids help. When I get bored, i come up with songs for my dogs. Bella has one. Yankee has half of one and needs a new one made up-thats still in progress.

Sung to the Irish tune of “wild rover”:

I’ve been an achilles for many a year,
I sniffed my way up from the foot to the rear.
Ive come home now to nap and to snore,
And ill be an achilles for ever more.

And its arr arr arrarr
One more biscuit please!
And ill be an Achilles as long as I please.

I came to this family on a cold winters night,
And they’ve loved me since with all of their might.
I love to chase frogs and bark at the door,
And ill be an Achilles for ever more!

(repeat chorus)

Still a work in progress. Ill update when i add more lyrics!! Enjoy!

I am home from my weekend vacation in Vegas with my bff, Eileen! I took SO many pictures, so make sure to check them out. Well, I flew out thursday after school. My first flight got delayed from 6 to 8 pm, causing me to miss my connecting flight in Atlanta. So, they booked me on the 1030 pm flight from ATL to LV. The flight over was ok, I was stuck in the middle seat (aka the bitch seat), but it wasn’t too bad. I get out of the gate, go get a smoothie, and go sit down at what I think my gate is. I sit for a minute, and realize everyone is talking about Tampa. Turns out my gate got chanced from concourse D to the END of concourse C. I barley make the tram, almost falling on a little girl, and I finally get there only to see my 1030 pm flight has been delayed until 1240 am! SO I didn’t get into Vegas until almost 3 am VEGAS TIME. Poor Eileen waited for me at the airport for almost 4 hours.

We finally get to our hotel- Harrah’s on the Strip- and we pass out. We get up leisurely, we go get lunch, and then we walk around. We take a shuttle to the Rio hotel, and we sign up for tickets to see Penn & Teller. We walk around Rio, we shop, and we take the shuttle over to the Las Vegas Paris hotel. Ok, no surprise, but I LOVED THIS HOTEL! lol. It is so cute! It has a huge Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, and inside….it was like you were walking the Parisian Streets. Tinny shops, a painted sky on the ceiling, and lots of french stuff everywhere! I found the cutest Tee shirt that doesn’t look like a  tourist tee shirt, and so many other things! Then we went back to our hotel, changed, and took the shuttle over the Rio again. We ate dinner and then we went and saw the Penn & Teller show. It was a beautiful theater, and it was very cool to see such legends live! The show was amazing! It was very simple and subtle. Nothing to big or flashy (I know, in Vegas right?) but it was perfect. I liked the show because they would explain some of the tricks. Also, Penn talked so fast that you had to keep up with him! It was so cute that Teller never spoke. He still was very expressive.

After the show, both Penn & Teller were out in the hall way taking pictures and giving autographs. So, I actually got to meet Penn, get a picture, and get an autograph! Its not the best picture (it was taken with  my phone), but it was very cool. He kept calling me Boss. It was cute. I told him the show was awesome, and he said “Great Boss!” lol. Then we ended up going back to the hotel. I was so exhausted. Stupid jet lag…

The next morning we got up, got breakfast, and checked out almost ALL of the casinos on the strip. We saw the MGM, New York, New York, the Bellagio, Ceaser’s Palace, etc. We walked through the Forum Shops-where they have all the designer shops there and where we also saw Pete Rose. Then we got lunch at Planet Hollywood. We ended up having Ceaser Salad’s in Ceaser’s Forum Shops!! lol. It was really good too. The ceaser salad we had the night before was amazing too! We went to vegas and found great dressing! hahaha. That night we went to see Rita Rudner (the comidienne). We got to meet her and got a picture with her too! She was really funny.

My favorite line was “I’ve told my husband that he could replace me with another wife, but she is going to do all the same things that annoy him.” lol. After the show, we went to dinner, the venetian hotel (which has a real canal and gondola rides in it!) and walked around. We went back to our hotel late and passed out. lol. Sunday we got up, checked out, and walked around. We went to Madame Toussaud’s Wax Museum. (See me here with French Actor, Gerad Depardieu!). Eileen and I had WAY too much fun posing with the statues. lol. So enjoy those pictures After that we went over to the Mile Shops and saw Popavich’s Comedy Pet Theatre. It was completely campy, but the dogs and cats were so freaking cute!!! After the show we went to the Paris hotel and gambled a bit (I sucked at it lol) and we went and had dinner at this AMAZING french restaurant called “Mon Ami Gabi”. The food was so amazingly good! After dinner, we went to the airport, and the rest is history. Nothing really exciting happened on the flight back except it wasn’t delayed or anything! lol. I came home and passed out for 6 hours-and Im about to go to bed again here soon.

Anyways, check out my pictures and enjoy! I had a really fun weekend and it was so great to see Eileen. Ciao!

So, for those of you who don’t know, I am obsessed (kinda) with penguins-well at least in my classroom.

I have this HUGE penguin that a student gave me for Christmas who I have named “Papa Pingouin”. Well, Papa has become quite popular lately. To the point that Penguin-nappers have taken notice. He has been taken like 6 or so times in the past week and a half. Sometimes a ransom note is left, sometimes a clue is left.

I have found him in the display case by the elevator, i have found him in the workroom! Well, he was taken again last friday. I started to recieve emails in A-1. Here are the pictures….

The first email said “Do you know where your penguin is?” then it was this picture- (right). Then i got more emails that said I should turn on the radio. Then the last one said “Sayt good bye to your little friend…”

Its incredible. I laughed so hard!!! I can’t wait to see where he goes next….