Damn The Man

I just found out the worst news. As some of you know, Chad and I have been making plans to buy a house. The current plan is to straighten out our finances and work on my credit, buying a house in six month or so. I have also been working on getting my stuff together to get a teaching position in the Aug. I just found out that I would need to be at my current job for at least two years to qualify for a good interest rate on a home loan.
Two years of solid employment shows a stable income, without it, it could raise our interest rates. Checking out the calculation, there is a potential $200 a month difference between a 6 and 7 percent interest. Thankfully, I will have been at my job for 2 years this may; however, I will have to stay with my job until the first mortgage payment, which will be anything from 6 months to a year from now. I really, don’t want to say at my current job any longer than I have too, but … I would rather have a house than a better job.

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I hate to do this to everyone, but I need your help. I have to write this paper for school and it must be well written. The problem with it, is I am not very good at organizaton and I was asked to answer two different question within the same paper, so I want to make sure it sounds organized and the questions were properly ansewered. Don't leave out grammar correction either. I go a bit crazy with commas, so watch out for those also.

Question: What are your reasons or motivations for seeking a Master’s Degree from Regis? What do you feel is the biggest challenge facing today’s classroom teacher, and how do you think your skills and a Regis education will prepare you to face this challenge? (250-500 words)


My goal from the Masters in Education program is to obtain a teaching license through an accredited University. Teaching is one of the most influential jobs one can assert since teachers shape students, who shape the future. A teacher’s skills and actions can have vast consequences on generations, and if I plan to take the future into my own hands, I want the best skills obtainable. I believe the necessary skills needed to be a thoughtful, cultured, and sophisticated teacher, can be achieved at Regis University through its Jesuit commitment to education and the service of others. Therefore, I plan to obtain my teaching license through Regis and its Masters of Education program.

Regis has an innovated, up to date educational plan that is centered on academic excellence. It’s program is designed to address many of the challeges that teacher face today, for example, what I believe to be the biggest challenge is, understanding students’ individual- educational needs and meeting those needs in order to utilize their potential, but without infringing on the basic rights of other students. This issue would be discussed on multi levels, through classes including multicultural, ethnic, and current education perspectives, theories on human development and learning, teaching the exception child in the regular classroom, and other professional educator classes. Together, with my own experience in education and the knowledge and skills obtained from Regis University, I will be able to face such challenge and strive for the excellence needed to lead students who will lead the future.

Week Ramblins

Another week, another dollar. I wonder how much I have to put away in my 401K so I can retire at 30. Well, I made it through a whole week without the nanny, who took this last week off because she twisted her knee. It is nice to have family who will help out with April.

What the hell am I going to do this weekend…I have no idea. Although nothing too strenuous happened this weekend, I feel like I have had it rough and need to do something exciting. Maybe I will go to flea market. I think I have spring fever. Does anyone else think it is strange that Easter is in March this year? Isn’t Easter usually in April? I bought April a Barney DVD to put in her Easter basket; she is going to be so excited. My sister is hosting her annual Easter Lunch and Chad is going with me this year. I haven’t told him to plan on 20 or more people to show up for this thing. He comes from a small family and is not used to the big family stuff, and our family is BIG! I will be bringing Deviled Eggs, so I guess he will figure it out when I cook up 5 dozen of them to feed the troops.

I need to get something off my chest ***[DELETED]***. Wow, now that I have said that I feel so much better.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Nothing Important

I had so much fun this weekend, my car broke down and I had to spend $125 to buy a new starter. The best part was the five hours it took to put the darn thing in. (End of sarcasm) It actually was a little fun, there is nothing better than a bonding experience between, father, daughter, and boyfriend; boyfriend whom probably has years ahead of him to prove himself a worthy suitor. The best part was saving at least $200 in labor charges. There is nothing better than reeping the benefit of sowing ones own oats. (Did that come out right?)


My new boss thinks she is some type of superstar and has not been passing any of her projects off to me; so basically, I have been sitting at my desk for the last two weeks with nothing to do. I did, however, finish another e-book called the Last Vampire. As for books go, I have read better, but for a vampire book it was pretty good. Although the ending felt a little rushed, the book had a lot of exciting turns. The Last Vampire was a bit racier that I had assumed. There is a big difference between a romantic novel about vampires and a sci-fi novel about vampires; this one was in between. In fact, at times I felt a little weird to be reading such a thing at work; getting hot and bothered is something I usually save for home. John has turned me on to a new web page called gutenberg.org where I can read all sorts of books for free, so I will be hanging out there for a while. If anyone finds anything interesting, let me know, God knows I have time to do a bit of online surfing.

Tomorrow April and I are going to have some girl time. I think we mightgo some place fun, like the mall or Boondock’s. If it would quit snowing, I would love to go to the park or out for a hike, but I do not have that kind of luck.

Tomorrow April and I are going to have some girl time. I think we might go some place fun, like the mall or Boondock’s. If it would quit snowing, I would love to go to the park or out for a hike, but I do not have that kind of luck.

Reality Bites

I had an interview this morning at Regis University. I was very excited for the interview and was feeling fairly confident that I was going to do a bang up job. I was a shoe in for the position. Feeling full of confidence, I walked into room 418 and shat myself when I saw the other twenty five people waiting to interview for the same position. Ouch! My confidence was crushed. No biggy though, I went on just as if I would be the perfect one for the job and all the other looser applicants were wasting their time. In the end I felt good about my interview and was told that if I get a call back before 5 today, I will be able to go to the next round, if not, it was a waste of PTO hours. The whole thing had an eerie reality show feeling; everyone waiting to shine for the boss, hoping to get to the next round and not be voted out. As of now, I am not stressing over it, there is a plan for me and time will tell what that plan is. By the way, thanks Chad!

A bit of this, a bit of that

Dinner at Maggiono's was sooooo good. The best part was the big chunk of Tiramisu I had for desert, it was the best I have ever had. It was a nicely- celebrated 1 year anniversary; not too mushy, yet not to underdone.


I am working on my entrance paper for the Master’s Program at Regis. The first part of the paper requires me to respond, within one page, the following statement: with the understanding that leadership involves influencing others, give your personal definition of leadership. To start, I had no idea leadership involved influence, but since reading about it through the all knowing oracle, Google, I can see how it relates. I would normally like to come up with some type of spectacular response, but since I am not too familiar with the concept, my goal is to write a well written coherent page, which simply answers the response. I will try and throw some pasazz into the next required portions of the paper.

I finished the book Medici Dagger by Cameron West. It was a bit of a let down. The problem was that too much thought went into the action scenes and not enough thought went into the actual history and mystery surrounding the Medici Dagger. The story line did not pan out well and it seemed to skips steps in the treasure hunt of the Dagger.

The reason I got the book in the first place was because it was the 2nd most popular downloaded book on ebooks.com. I had already read the #1 book, which was The Da Vinci Code. I think the Medici Dagger was the 2nd because it had almost the same plot as The Da Vinci Code, but with a different Da Vinci artifact.

For my next book, I will not be downloading the 3rd most popular book, because it is How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends. Instead my newly downloaded e-book is The Last Vampire. I am only a few pages into it, but so far so good. I will let you know how it goes.

OMG 1year

Chad and I celebrate our one year anniversary this sat/sun. I don't want to make it a big deal; with presents and stuff, but I did tell him, he at least owed me dinner for putting up with him for a full year. He knows me really well because he had already made dinner reservations at Maggiano's in the tech center.

Saturday night I was going to go to Central City to see my cousin Mike's band, Octane, but dinner sounds much better. I will try and catch Octane the next time they are here.

Welcome All!

Welcome all to Spastic Matters, my new blog site. I have had a lot of down time at work and will, hopefully fill the void here. Also, most of you know I am not the best at spelling and grammar, and the blog will keep me in practice. Since I am not in college anymore; writing all those papers, I need something to keep me fresh. Practice will not make me perfect, but it will make better (hopefully).

Be for warned, I am random, and my paragraphs and ideas reflect that. Hence the name of my blog; Spastic Matters. So, if things seem a bit off, it is because they are. Thank God for grammar check, but I still await the electronic thought and paragraph organizer.

Those of you who had the privilege of visiting my last blog at httcb you will find the blog empty. This is my new blog home and, again, welcome.

(Spastic Matters is still under construction.)