Fall!

I am so excited for fall, eventhough out here it only lasts about a month before the snow comes and the beautiful golden trees lose their leaves. The leaves are turning their wonderful reds, yellows and oranges as I speak. I will be taking pictures in a few days to show the progress of God's seasonal goodness. Too bad it's still eighty degrees outside.



Fall also brings a bit of panic for us. Our lease is up on Halloween, not sure if that's a good or bad omen. We will be very excited to move out of this apartment with half of it broken in some way, our noisy neighbors upstairs with a 3 year old and a pit bull they aren't allowed to have, and the neglectful parents across the small parking lot (I'm not sure her kids actually go to school and I highly doubt they're home-schooled). On October 1st the new rentals come out from our property management, we want a townhouse or a condo, which run from $750 to 1000/month. Jealous? The panic comes in from what else? Money! We have a wedding to pay for, plus the usual bills, hopefully a trip home for Christmas, and now a month's rent plus a deposit on November 1st. We've been struggling for awhile but hopefully with me subbing and tutoring at night we will be able to make it and move out of this place. Robert's been working so much too. After living in an apartment, we will never live above or below strangers again. We had no choice but to get another roommate for this next place too, which I'm not looking forward to coming home to after our honeymoon but we have to do what we have to do. Our present roommate cannot afford to rent anymore so we had to get another guy. We know him, he's a nice guy so I'm not worried.



Lastly, fall brings the new school year. I started subbing/networking about 3 weeks ago. I've been working every day I can and checking for jobs in an OCD fashion. I got business cards made and have been passing them out like mad and putting them in every elementary teachers lounge I'm in. Today I plan to talk to a principal at a school I was at last week and am at today. I talked to a pregnant Title I teacher who needs a long term sub starting in December. So I'm going to introduce myself today to Lamb, the principal, and mention my interest in the position and my experience in Title I. I just hope he doesn't already have someone picked. Too bad the long term sub pay is a whopping $90 a day. It's better than $84 a day for regular subbing and it will give me experience in the district. I'll keep you posted on this new job possibility. Say a little prayer.

Bacon Salt

I was on Facebook this morning and saw an ad on the side for Bacon Salt. Their motto is... "Everything should taste like bacon." I'm not sure EVERYTHING should taste like bacon. It's a seasoning that tastes like bacon, I thought that's why we had bacon-bits. The difference between bacon salt and bacon bits is that bacon salt is kosher and for vegetarians, for the people who've sworn off meat but still crave the pork they gave up.
On a sidenote I started subbing again yesterday, finally, and got a dollar raise for being at the tutoring center a year. Woo hoo!

We're #1!

I just wanted to inform everyone that The Dodgers are in 1st place in the NL West while the Rockies are in 4th, tied with The Giants! Although we have the least amount of wins, compared to all the other top teams. I'm still very excited. Go Dodgers!!!

Who should I vote for?

I have been asking myself this question for a few weeks now, so has Robert. We have a little of both parties in us so I decided to be a well informed voter and look at the issues from both sides. I found a pretty interesting site called Vote by Issue . You can take a quiz and find out which candidate you agree with more, based on the issues not campaign ads or their personalities. The answers are actual quotes from both candidates from interviews, speeches and statements made. I took it but I won't share who I agreed with more but it was a very informative quiz. Even if you are dead set on a particular candidate, you should take the quiz. You might surprise yourself.