My vida loca...as it winds down!

Well it’s been a while since I last published! Let’s see....let us all see what has been going on with my ‘vida loca’. Wellllllllll, these days I’m so tired, extremely tired, perchance it’s the diet. I am down 18 lbs. Insane! I have never lost that much weight, but yes I’m down and I love it! I honestly have to start buying new slacks and jeans because my slacks, esepecially, are huge on me. They fall off my waist, and that has never happened before. I guess I had a preggers stomach and now it’s gone! I hope! But yes, my true test that lets me know I lost weight are my belts. I now use a different belt-hole, and that makes me happy! So yeah...I’m slowly but surely dropping-it like it’s hot! Anywho…but we’ll just have to ‘weight’ and see.
So, I’ve kinda been doing volunteer work for the community, you know doing my service as a participating citizen. I have become more aware of my surrounding and help out doing recycle-Wednesday here at the High School. I help the kiddos learn about recycling and how they can help to help save our mother earth. I kinda have been thinking about getting an ECO-ACTION group set up. But they already have a science club that sorta does that.
So, I’ve been thinking about a career change, not now, but in about 3 years. I want to finish 5 years of teaching, but I really want to get my Masters in Higher Education and/or Masters in French Literature. I don’t want to be the teacher who is still putting on Proms 30 years later. I want to, and I’m going to TEACH at a University….When? I don’t know, but I really hope it’s within 5 years. So my first step is trying to figure out I can take night-classes and start working on my M.HEd or like I have always said, go to VET school by the time I’m 30 because as we all know, I successfully finished a pre-vet sequence at UT. So, it has always been a dream of mine to become a veterinarian. Is it just me or is that word a hard one to spell? I always find myself phonetically spelling it….ve-te-ri-na-rian! I’m a mess!
I also want to TRAVEL. I want to go to NY and visit JOVI…but the fucking tickets are just too darn expensive. Perchance I’ll go on Spring Break! I’ll celebrate my 25th bday! Crazy I know! Twenty fucking five years old! Ugh!! Anywho, I’ve just been venting and I don’t want to do it anymore! Lol. I just want to be mess-free and living a cute life! And it sucks that all my bestfriends have moved away! But I have fun nonetheless with other friends, just can’t talk to them they way I wish I could. Signature!!!! “oh what a tangled web we weave…..”

Hello to you all!

Soooooooo work has been going by extremely quickly! It's already WEDNESDAY! Insane! Welllllllllllll not much has changed in my life, same ole boring me. Just trying to keep really busy with non-important things...ya know? Soooo this week I'm a traveling teacher, which means I go from Room to Room because they are using my room as a TEST SITE for seniors taking the TAKS. So they have me floating and I hatttttttttttte it!! But its almost over!

soooooooooo

i need to make cute plans for the weekend. I cannot stay indoors!!! ugh! I want to take a cute road trip to a neighboring city and just explore. U know!?

What to do, what to do?

so i have a peel-by-date calendar on my desk, and here is what it has on it today. --1915 Rules for Teachers, 1. you will not marry during the term of your contract. 2. you are not to keep company with men. and 3. you may not ride in a carriage or automobile with any man unless he is your father or brother.
Crazy right!!

here is a full list of the 1915 rules..[i guess mostly women taught back in the day!!]
Rules for Teachers (circa 1915)
1. You will not marry during the term for your contract.
2. You are not to keep company with men.
3. You must be home between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.
unless attending a school function.
4. You may not loiter downtown in ice cream stores.
5. You may not travel beyond the city limits unless you have
the permission of the chairman of the (school) board.
6. You may not ride in a carriage or automobile with any man
unless he is your father or brother.
7. You may not smoke cigarettes.
8. You may not dress in bright colors.
9. You may under no circumstances dye your hair.
10. You must wear at least two petticoats.
11. Your dresses must be not be any shorter than two inches
above the ankle.
12. To keep the school room neat and clean, you must: sweep the
floor at least once daily, scrub the floor at least once a
week with hot, soapy water, clean the blackboards at least
once a day, and start the fire at 7 a.m. so the room will
be warm by 8 a.m.

even older rules!!! loves them as well

Rules for Teachers 1872*
1. Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys.
2. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's session.
3. Make your pens carefully. You many whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils.
4. Men teachers m ay take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.
5. After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books.
6. Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
7. Every teacher should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden to society.
8. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in nay form, frequents pool or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will given reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity, and honesty.
9. The teacher who performs his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of twenty-five cents per week in his pay, providing the Board of Education approves.
***
Rules for Students 1872*
1. Respect your schoolmaster. Obey him and accept his punishments.
2. Do not call your classmates names or fight with them. Love and help each other.
3. Never make noises or disturb your neighbors as they work. Be silent during classes.
5. Do not talk unless it's absolutely necessary.
5. Bring firewood into the classroom for the stove whenever the teacher tells you to.
6. If the master calls your name after class, straighten the benches and tables, sweep the room, dust and leave everything tidy.

At a pumpkin I stare!

So this morning I walk into my room and sit in my desk and to my surprise as I look up I have a cute small pumpkin perched on the computer monitor. On it is written my name, Mr. Hernandez! Kinda cute right? It's from my colleague...she's so nice. But yeah...how I loves it!

So a fun filled weekend, I suppose. Kinda seemed like it lasted forever. On Friday I went to the HS Football game where we won our SECOND district game. So now we are 2-0 in district standings! Hopefully we can win again this year. But it was a fun game. Then I went home and now that I have DVR I have all these channels I rarely see...but there is this one channel that shows nothing but old movies...the silent ones. So I got to see DRACULA...which was kinda scary. Loved the makeshift piano soundtrack! But I really did enjoy the movie. Later that night I was called upon by DRUNKEN FRIENDS, Kelly and Eugene, and I met up with them at Plucker's by campus. I just watched as they ate! [Hello...im on a diet!] but it was fun. Stayed up till 6am! Went to bed and woke up around 10ish and went back to my place, and slept some more till about 2am. Went to the mall with my brother and emily. Got some more Seven Jeans, and a La Coste jacket. I now have 6 Seven jeans. Insane right? Market value...around $1,200.00 dollars. But now that I think about it...I also have two pairs of Diesels and a pair of Lucky, and a pair of Citizens of Humanity...so all in all...my new jean collection is valued at around $2,200.00 dollars! OMG....I'm insane! That doesnt include all my La Coste shirts...omg I'll stop now before I go insane thinking how much money it's all worth!

Anywhhhhhhhhhhhhhhho...I made a really cute dinner on Saturday... I made pork ribs which took forever to cook but was well worth it. I made my mother's signature family BBQ recipe! It was really good! We also watched a movie..."Sreaming and Kicking" kinda cute, kinda stupid! But had another late night....till 3am.

Sunday was just a blurr..........did laundry and cleaned the house and prepared my meals for the week. Kinda weird right...here I am making dinners, cleaning my apt, and making my weekly meals! What am I!??? I kinda feel like I'm marrried or something doing all these house chores!

N E WHO...back at work...doing the Teaching thing...this is my conference period and I've used up 10 minutes to do this entry. now its back to Entering grades for the progress reports!

TTYL....

hek~

TGIF

So..its FRIDAY. Thank GOD!

Anywho, usually my fridays at work are chilled. We are usually on PepRally schedule which means classes are shorter by about 10 minutes. So its all good. I usually do an activity with vocab on Fridays. Last week was Scrabble but today we are doing a Game Show. I'm the host of course and I ask the questions. As the students or rather the groups answer the correct answer, they get to move up the EIFFEL TOWER...first one at the top, WINS! Cute right! Next week we'll play picturenary or that drawing game!

anywho...all is good. I'm actually down 10lbs. I still can't believe how much weight one can lose if they freakings dont eat CARBS! But yes...I'm down 10 lbs and I loves it!

So yesterday was the second social thursday at Crissy's and Richie's Place. Last week I hosted at my place. Kinda cute that we are trying to do that. I think next week, Emily is hosting. We just gather and eat finger foods! Thank You, Crissy for making carb-friendly snacks yesterday. Loves it!

So in other news, Raquel had a car accident yesterday. Her car is f*cked. Air bags deployed and car got taken by the wrecker. and if that's not bad enough Raquel broke her forearm....and must be in a cast for the next 6-8 weeks. What a mess!


So yeah thas Raquel....bless her... our dear friend Richie said that Raquel was doing the "Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeend and SNAP!!' ha ha Anywho...Thank God It's Friday!

a vision......

so why am I still at the HS and its SIX PM! I know why.....because I am too freaking involved with the school. I had two things going on after school, one was my Spanish Club. The students are currently working on their decorations for the Dia De Los Muertos Parade sponsored by MexicArte, which is where Cristina works as the event planner, it's actually her event. But yeah my kiddos are preparing for their public appearance. Secondly I had to meet with my SENIOR since Im also the Senior Class Sponsor. We are currently doing our first fundraiser of the year, selling PENS! The money all goes to prom...so as I sit here doing all the book-keeping, I'm like.......wow wow wowwwwwwww am I gonna be that 60 year old teacher who still is trying very hard to be cool and yet is not and all the students talk about!? I tell myself that I am only in this profession for about five years but I can honestly see myself here till retirement, well not here at the HS but in the same field. My real vision is to go back to school and finish a Masters Degree in Higher Ed. I love the collegiate life, i love all that it entails. I want to be a Professor, and amazing Professor like the ones that I always had. I aspire to be them. But how? How do I simply up and leave my currently profession only to put myself back in the mysery of a broke college student. I can't just leave my SALARY! It's amazing! I loves it! I can't drop it to get into debt. How do other teachers do it? U know the ones who go to night school. It just seems a bit too much complicated for me......ughhhhhhhhhhh what to do!

Well, at least my vision remains the same....and that is to EDUCATE. Educate all I can and to whomever I can. I love walkinng down the hallways and hearing 'hey Mr. H what's up?' I love seeing my old students. And because of them I probally will be here 20-30 years down the road. Is that bad?

Mr. H

ME!

Here I am now.....hopefully in a month I will repost and I will be eskinnies!!!

Carb Free

soooooooooooo
Ive been doing this carb-free diet for the past week, and suprisingly it's working! Im down 7lbs...guys lose much more weight than girls...but yes I'm really excited that Im losing weight! After two weeks, I can slowly add carbs back to my diet. I can also beging working out...like doing weights since I jog now adays, but I need to start running, at least 3 miles! I need to be eskinnies for several reasons, one is because Im going to NEW YORK for NEW YEARS to visit Joviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! And I cant be a fat ass at central park or at Times Square. Also I have to kinda be fit for Spring Break...because I turn 25...Insane right......fucking 25. In the famous words of Jessica Simpson; 'I'm gonna be 25 which is almost mid 30's' And I also have to look hott for our dear friend TESSAS wedding in MAY and for the PROM, since I am a class sponsor and Im organizing it.......so i have to be the hottest teacher there! so yeahhhhhh lets see how much i lose!


catch y'all later

OU weekend

sooooooooooooo
it was a fun and eventful weekend in DALLAS!

Firstly, thank god UT WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON! Now we have bragging rights for at least this upcoming you....finally the words came true...'beat the hell outta OU!'

So we all took off on from work on Friday and left around 10ish. It was me, raquel, richie and Eugene! When we arrived to Dallas we went to go visit Isaac at the Crescent...where he works for Vidal Partnership...cute office and an amazing location. [http://www.vidal-partnership.com/] and here is where he works at [http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/texas/dallas/crescent/johnsonburgee.html] anywho...so it was cute and all! hmmmmmm then we went to the Gallaria, of course! and went shopping, or kinda shopping. It was fun...for a long time we were staring at the ice skaters...and making fun of them of course and trying to be commentators. Loves it! hmmmmmm ended up getting stuck in traffic and trying to find a liquor store, and finally found out!

We stayed in one of our friends, Raquel's, apartment. It was cute! and all for us to USE! soooooooooo we began the drinking festivities while we all were getting cute! shots and shots and shots, and more shots! Our dear old friend, EDITH came by and went out with us. We ended up clubbing and dancing the night away, being drunk and all...signature! sooooooooo one thing leads to the other and blah blah blah....but whatever happened in dallas, must stay in dallas!

Of course no road trip is complete without DRAMA! and that we had! but im not gonna post it! because its all good now...and thats that.

annnnnnnnnnywhooooooooo the Fair was so much fun, ive never been. we bought turkey legs, hot dogs, cokes, and fried oreos!! they were ammmmmmmmmmmmmmazing! loves it!



Richard and I, did the zipcoaster, where its like a bungie coard that cranks you to the top then it realeases you and you soar...as if your superman...it was funnnnnnnn! a two hour wait in line but it was all worth it! i loved it!

but yes........a lot happpend and it was fun! i loved it!






anywhooooooo ive posted pics on my yahoo account!
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/heknuno1981/my_photos

Oh yeah so.......im doing the South Beach Diet. Several of my friends like Richie and Miles have tried it and have lost weight! Miles....has lost sooooooo much weight and Richie is on his way!

For the first two weeks its a NO CARB diet. So you can eat but no carbs! which is good because basically you get rid of all breads, pastas and breaded food. You can however eat MEATS, like bacon and steks, because its CARB free. Cheese is a good snack because its CARB FREE...TUNA which i love is CARB FREE....of course no mayo :( but im doing okay. Im on day TWO, I at least want to survive one week and see how it goes!

anywho....hit me up!

ttyl!

....and here I go again!!

so for somereason, I cannot seem to keep up with XANGA. I loves it, but I simply can't! Anywho, blogger is more convenient for me to use during regular school hours! So until then, I'll use blogger and hopefully my friends will soon follow!

Today has been a relaxed day. My students are testing so I just get to hand out the exams and grade them. Not much of a lecture today. I also need to lesson plan as I will be out tomorrow because I'm going to DALLAS! for the annual OU-TX Red River Shootout! They changed the name but I forgot what they call it now. Something lame, I'm sure!

Anywho, just trying it out. Hopefully, hopefully I can keep up with this.


Here are some pics of my new apartment. It's just a view of my in progress living room! I loves it. Do you?