BUSY BUSY

Well have been looking for a REAL job....on vacation...and working at Cato's and Weight Watchers!!! Still haven't found a teaching job...still looking...quite a bummer especially since I just completed 4 years of college to get a degree that I can't even find a job for now...still hoping and praying for something to come along!!! Went to Gatlinburg with BJ we rented a cabin up there and had an ABSOLUTE BLAST!!! What an amazing place and time we had!!! I MISS IT!!! Work at Cato's and Weight Watchers is still trudging along!!!

FUN FUN FUN

I have started training with weight watchers...and I am loving it!! It is a lot to remember, but once you get the hang of it it isn't so bad!!! My last day training on the paper tally is on Saturday and then I will have to start training on CHAMP their computer systems!! Then I will become a receptionist as I train for a leader position!!! I am so excited!! I will be nervous at first about doing the meetings I know I will be but once I do it a couple of times and get use to my group I will get use to it and that is when it will be a BLAST!!! I just want to be able to give back to the people that helped me along my weight loss journey!!! On another note me and BJ went to Lake Lure and Chimney Rock Wednesday we had a BLAST...we went Kayaking out on Lake Lure, and then we walked around for a bit then we headed up to Chimney Rock, we were going to go Rock Mining but they were closed because their mine was clogged up, so we went shopping in some of the stores and sat out by the river on the rocks for a while then came in and ate at a place called Genny's it s REALLY good!! Then we walked back down to the river for a bit then came back to Spartanburg and saw Transformers...which by the way is an awesome movie!!!! We had a BLAST!!!

NEW JOB!!!

Well the church I intervewed with for the teaching position...filled it but not with me...and I am still waiting to hear back from the charter school!! Hoping to find a teaching job especially since I have been in school for four years working toward that degree!! But, I got the job with weight watchers, which just thrills me to death because I really really wanted this job!! I start training thursday night, at the boiling springs location. I absolutely cannot wait!! I will start out training as a receptionist because you have to know how to do that before you become a leader...it is a 4-6 week span of training and then you have to start training as a leader if that is what you want to do!!! I hope to one day become a leader at Weight Watchers, but that will all come with time, going to take it all one step at a time!! I was so excited when I received the phone call because this has been a long time coming and waited for, for a long time!! The centers are becoming computerized but we all still have to be paper trained in case of emergencies when the computers are down or when the power is out and then we will be trained on the computers!! I am so excited about starting...I cannot wait!!! I will continue working with weight watchers even when I do get a teaching job!! If I do not get a teaching job for this coming year I plan to eventually go full time with weight watchers, where I will be scheduled for certain days that are consistent week to week and to sub on the days I am off at weight watchers....that way I can get my foot in the door at some schools for the next year...and when I get my teaching job I will go part time with weight watchers!!! I believe this will be an outstanding job to have, the atmosphere always seems friendly and welcoming!! It will also be so much FUN!!! So ready to start!!!

CHANGES and NEW THINGS to COME

Well I have had a couple of interviews with schools and waiting to hear back from them. Praying that they went well and that I will hear back. I also have an interview coming up June 11th with weight watchers!! This I am very excited about because it is something that is very near to my heart seeing that just this past december I hit my weight goal from doing weight watchers and am in a size four...a size I have NEVER seen before until now and NEVER though I would even starting weight watchers I was expecting an 8 maybe boy did I surprise myself...quite amazing really. With all this going on I get stressed and bogged down worrying as I wait to hear back and know which way my life will go next! I know it is all in God's hands and He is in control, but at the same time being human I still worry and wish I knew. It is hard to know that this could be the start of my career or that I may be waiting another year for it to come to me. I know either way, whatever happens it is in God's hands and what is meant to be will happen, but I am not much of a person who likes to wait!! SO keep me in your prayers. On the other hand on the 23rd and this month me and BJ will be together for a year and a half which floors me, because this is the longest relationship I have ever been in, I believe he is the one for me and hope he feels the same!! I know there are some out there that NEVER thought it would be possible for me to be "serious" about anyone and that I would always date someone for a few months and then break it off because of an uneasy feeling that I get!! BUT believe it or NOT I have made it and boy has it paid off!! And Honestly i think the reason none of those others worked or that I got that feeling is because it just simply was not meant to be!! Anyone that knows me knows that I have always said what is meant to be will happen!!! I am the luckiest girl alive and wow am I glad that waited it out because I have met the man of my dreams!!! It is hard for me to believe that me and BJ have been together this long...it feels like just yesterday we met and started dating!!! I have so much fun with him...from fishing...yes me fishing, I LOVE it it is so much fun...going new places we have never been, going hiking, going to see a movie, going to downtown greenville to walk around and spend the day together, and so much more!!! No matter what we are doing together is always fun...at least I think so!!! :-D Well I just wanted to bring an update...because I am trying to blog more!!!

Busy Busy Busy

I know I haven't been blogging very much lately! I have been staying very busy...between looking for a teaching job and working at Cato's and babysitting I have been very busy! I haven't had much time to blog!! But summer has started and I am loving it!! This satuday me and BJ have a fishing tournament that we are in together at Lake Wiley. It is there his and her tournament that his mom and dad puts on. I am very excited...lol yes excited about fishing!! I have really started to enjoy going fishing with him, we usually go about once or twice every two to three weeks or so at the pond, or when it is pretty and have time and are off together!! I haven't actually caught anything but I have had some bites. I am hoping this luck turns around on Saturday lol we shll see!! I am dstill going to Weight Watchers...I am a lifetime member there and have hit my goal weight but still go to stay on track and to get the support from the meetings because that is what really makes the difference!! I am telling you I absolutely love it and I feel amazing!!! I have lost 35 pounds total...and have dropped 4 sizes!!! WOW I know its amazing!!! I NEVER thought I would be saying I wear a size four and NEVER thought I would have lost 35 pounds. I started out saying if I could get in a size 8 I would be happy and wow did I surpass that thought and blew myself away!!! Weight Watchers is the first thing I have done been able to stick to...and its not about dieting for a week or however long it takes you to lose your weight and then going back to how things were...it is TRULY a lifestyle change it teaches you how to eat better and to be more aware of what you are eating. Well that is all I have time for now...trying to get back blogging regularly but we all know how that goes!!!

Graduation Pictures taken by Sonja Jameson from For Keeps Photography...She does an awesome job!!! Will have more up later

Super Long Time...and SO much has happened!!!

Well...where to start?...I have finished my student teaching placement...wow what an experience...I had a BLAST and am very blessed...I learned so much and had a GREAT class...not the end though I still plan to go back and see them...through attending a zoo field trip with them, their end of the year program, and for field day! I have finished everything school related and graduate on Tuesday. It is so hard for me to believe that four years ago I started college and now in less than 4 days I will be graduated! It seems like just yesterday I graduated high school and was just starting college. I will have a degree in Early Childhood Education and now it is facing the battle of finding a job teaching...with the job market we have today. Me and BJ are GREAT...we have been together for a year four months and eight days! Hard for me to believe but I wouldn't trade our relationship for the world...I LOVE him with all my heart and soul! He is honestly the BEST thing that has and could have ever happened to me!! He stays by my side through it all...he is always there for me no matter what!! I have lost 37 pounds on weight watchers and I feel GREAT...it is the best thing I have ever done!!! I went from a size 12 to a size 4...its amazing!! I am loving the way I feel...its fabulous!!!