Tomorrow

So tomorrow is my dads last day as a teacher! He's finally retiring! So Hubby and I are going to the house before he gets home to surprise him with a little retirment dinner. I'm pretty excited. He so deserves this! To be able to golf and go fishing as much as he wants! He is the best dad in the entire world! :)

Thought I'd share...

...I stumbled upon http://weight-watchers-points-recipes.blogspot.com/ today, and I'm REALLY excited to start making some of these recipes! I was doing really good on my diet last summer, then Sept/October hit, we got the new puppy and went on our anniversary vacation and haven't gotten back on track since. So I've been wanting to start it back up. I just wish I would have found this website PRIOR to my grocery store trip Sunday! lol. I'm finding some really yummy recipes I can't wait to try!

If I Stay

So I finished "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman today. I started reading last night, and about 3am I decided I should probably go to sleep! And I finished it today. VERY good book, but very sad. I also read that it's being made into a movie, AND Catherine Hardwicke (who directed the first Twilight film) is apparently set to direct If I Stay as well. Although, I read an article from December that says she might not do it after all. Either way, I'm just excited it's going to be made into a movie! I've been reading that people are saying its the Young Adult version of The Lovely Bones, although, I didn't once ever think it was like that at all. Granted, I didn't like The Lovely Bones, and loved this book.

I'm thinking my next book is going to be The Hunger Games. I've had the book for SO long, but the ugly cover keeps putting me off from reading it. BUT, I have heard from MANY people is a pretty good book. :)

The Lovely Bones

So tonight my sister in laws and I went to see The Lovely Bones. It was a pretty good movie. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it. I was NOT a fan of the book however. I just couldn't get into it. I definitely felt like it made a better movie. Although there were a few things I wish had made it into the movie from the book, but the things they added worked very well also.

Also, I'm getting ready to start a new book! :) On my way to try to accomplish my goal on reading 100 books this year!

Dear John

Ok, I cannot WAIT for this movie. I read the book the beginning of this month, and if you haven't read it yet, you need to. NOW! :)

Plans

So tomorrow we are going in to file our taxes, and afterwards we are going to pick up Louie's sisters to spend the night. We are planning to go see The Lovely Bones Sunday afternoon. I read the book, and COULD NOT get into it. But I forced myself to finish it. I hate not finishing books lol. Although there were a few parts of the book I liked, overall, I wasn't a fan. BUT the movie looks AMAZING! And I heard the actual murder scene isn't in the movie, not sure if that's true, but either way, we all really want to see it, and I've heard both good and bad reviews so we'll see. Its rated PG-13 so I think its ok for a 15 and 16 year told to see. I hope anyway!

Last night I made a new soup recipe! I've been making alot of soups lately with the weather being cold and rainy, and this one is by far my favorite I've made! I got it from rachel ray, and I'll post the link. SO yummy.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/three-bean-pasta-e-fagioli-recipe/index.html
Although I only used just the white beans, and used shell pasta instead of the kind she used. And the green beans, were WAY to crunchy for our taste, so next time I'm thinking of either trying to cook them longer, or maybe use the canned green beans, and just strain them before putting them in the soup. Oh and I also omitted the rosemary, because I HATE it! lol. Honestly, the only herb I use alot, is parsley. I don't really like any other ones.

Disapointed

So yesterday I went to the school district to take the test for the Special Education Teachers Aid position. I open the test, and over half of it is questions regarding situations with special education children, uhhh whhhaaat? I wasn't told this would be on there! SO I had no clue what to answer for most of them, but tried the best I could. Got the call today, missed 3 more than I was allowed. UGH! :( TOTALLY disapointed. I can go in, review my test, and in 30 days I can take it again. So I'm going to see if I can go in tomorrow to review it. Although, Im sure by 30 days they will have already filled the position. Oh well. I guess it wasn't meant to be. Something else will come along.

Louie and I went to the office today to get the last of the money they owed us. We were SUPER nervous, because they still wanted us to come help them out a couple days a week, but I'm sorry, you chose you lay us off, we have to move on with OUR LIFE now. So we were really worried it would be a fight when we got there. I said a little prayer before we went in, and luckily it went very smoothly. We gave hugs, said our goodbyes, and said we wanted to stay in touch. Although, I doubt we will. We'll have to see. I am so glad we finally got the money though, that will help us out SO much until our unemployment comes. We're still looking for jobs, every day. I keep checking my dads school district, because he's friends with the guy in charge of hiring, and when I talked to his friend the other day, he told me that right now there really isn't anything available, but when I see something posted online that interests me to call him directly. So thats great. Now I just have to keep checking on that. I'm sure something will come along soon. I hope anyway.