Good Afternoon everyone!  Yes, this is probably the best mood you will see me in the entire week (aren't I optomistic)?

First, I had a very nice weekend.  I didn't even do anything that significant.  Friday night Brian and I went to Seigos for dinner....one of those Japanese grills where they grill in front of you and throw things in the air and light things on fire.  It was in celebration of Brian's little brother's 10th birthday.  So that was fun, eventhough I felt like crud.  But it was Friday, so I was happy!

Saturday we went out for lunch and spent some time driving around looking at houses.  We're currently trying to get pre-approved for a mortgage loan and are starting to look at houses.  Technically, we're stuck in our apartment lease until the end of June and I think we're into a period of no-moving out of the complex, but we're starting to look anyway.  When our lease is up in June, our rent will increase by $100 a month.  By the time we pay that new fee, we could be paying a small mortgage.  At least our money would be going somewhere.  So, we're starting to look.  Unfortunately, it's hard to find nice stuff for under $200,000, which is about what we're able to afford.  It'll be small and old, but at least we'll be putting our money into something.  That evening, we decided to splurge a little.  We got pizza from Papa Johns and rented Saw II and Lucky Number Slevin.  We vegged that night.  We ate pizza and chips and salsa in our living room and watched two movies.  It was so nice.  We were relaxed and eating yummy food that really hit that "I'm having a craving for this food" spot.  And yeah, there was just something really nice about spending the evening relaxed and in the arms of your best friend.  It was precious.

Sunday was nice too.  Church was great, we had lunch with Brian's parents and then we drove around and looked at a couple more houses.  We've been looking at them on the internet and then driving by them.  If we don't like what we see on the outside, we cross it off our list.  We then cooked big burgers for dinner, did a little miscelleneous work and then relaxed.

Unfortunately, now comes Monday.  At the risk of complaining yet again, I don't like my job.  I woke up at 6:30, 15 minutes before the alarm was going off and felt that ball of dread creep into my stomach.  The age group I work with is just not the age group I want to work with.  I don't know what to do, though.  If I quit and go back to subbing, I may not work everyday and I won't make as much money as I do here (which isn't phemoninal, but it's more nonetheless).  If I get a non-education related job, I defnitely won't find myself with a real teaching position next September.  So I guess I just have to stick it out, make the best of it, and keep praying for patience and a good attitude.  On the upside, though, I got off 3 hours earlier than I usually do, and at do detriment to my paycheck.  On Friday night we have a Fall Family Fun Night (a.k.a. Halloween party, but shhh! we can't call it that).  So that requires me to work 2 hours on Friday night (inward groan).  Soooo that means that somewhere during my usual 40 hour per week schedule, I have to shave off 2 hours (heaven forbid anyone get overtime!!).  So we just so happened to be low on kids today, so I got to go home 3 hours early!  (one for my usual break and 2 to make up for this coming Friday).  So yea!  Fabulous mood because I'm off early!  Now I have to last for the rest of the week.......

Aaaanyways, depsite my occasional negative attitude, I know that I am so blessed right now.  I just need to keep reminding myself of that and trying to see the good in every situation.  Thank you to those of you who have been encouraging and don't be afraid to keep it up!