2012. Good-bye facebook, hello friends

Howdy howdy howdy (in the voice of Deanndra Reynolds)!!
Wow. It's been a while since I've written anything on here. The last post I had was from over the summer, I believe. A lot has happened since then! I became a Mrs., I officially started my 8th year of teaching 2nd grade, I have become more settled with the idea of being an actual home-owner, and more importantly, I've discovered quite a bit about myself... that sounds generic and cheesy, huh?

I did something that I was wanting to do for a long time- get off of facebook! I find it somewhat humerous how people have reacted to that. I get the "WHAT!? What are you thinking?" and the "I've really wanted to do that, but didn't think I could ever live without facebook" or the "I'm never on. I should get off of it, too." No matter what the opinion is, people always have the same,three lettered question that follow their initial response - "WHY?"

So here it is,for anyone who happens to care:
1. Work. Some teachers that I work with accept their student's parent's friend requests. That's totally cool, but not for me. I'm not doing anything that I'm ashamed of, but I'd rather keep my personal life seperate from what goes on in my classroom.
2. I don't need to know when you took a dump.
3. Connections. I realized that I stopped having one-on-one conversations with my closest friends. I would read status updates and see pictures that were posted and think to myself, "oh good, we're staying in touch" when in actuality, we hadn't talked in months. Since getting off the 'book', I have been able to catch up with people on a personal level. Not the generic, "have a great day! hope everything is going well!" It's been really nice and absolutely refreshing.


On a positive note, I'm signed up to run the Austin 10/20 in April. I REAALLLLY need to get my ass in training for that. More on that later,too.

Happy rainy Saturday. big hug,big smile from me. xo