New Chair

When I went furniture shopping in January, I sat in a reclining fake leather chair that I loved. Unfortunately, they said it wouldn't be delivered until the end of April because it was sold out and they had to make more. I sat in two other chairs and then in that chair again. The one I had to wait for was the most comfortable. It was surprisingly the least expensive one too. I finally got that chair yesterday. I sat in it and realized it wasn't quite as comfortable as I remembered. Don't get me wrong, it's still comfortable. I'm guessing the other one was more comfortable because more people have sat in it. I'm glad that all of my furniture is finally in my apartment.

Money Pinching

There are some areas in life where I try to save money and other areas where I don't care. I do try to save money when buying food. I use coupons and buy products on sale. However, if I want something, I'm going to get it. I'll complain that I spent too much on it when I buy it. When I eat it, I'll be saying how delicious it is. Another area I have been pinching money on is my electricity bill. I've had 4 electricity bills since moving. My first one had a $17 start up fee in addition to the total price. The second one went up $3. The third one went down $15. This most recent one went down a dollar from the last one. The reason it keeps going down is because I try to never turn on my heat or in this case, central air. I'm pretty sure I'm going to change my money pinching habits with this soon because it is hot in my apartment! When it's 90° outside in May, it's about 80° in my apartment. I gotta save the money somehow or I won't have any left!

Decorations

I'm not someone who loves to decorate my apartment. It took me until yesterday to buy anything for my place. I don't mind the naked walls. Not only that, I have no fashion sense. I don't know what "looks good" or what looks bad. I don't bother putting in any effort in doing so either. I went to the store and saw so many cheesy love quote posters that were totally not me. I finally found a few sports posters to hang up. At least I have something up now.

On Demand

Now that I don't have DVR, I've been using On Demand. It's great, but nowhere near as good as DVR. You can get pretty much anything on On Demand. However, you cannot fast forward through commercials. So your half hour show will last the entire half hour. I guess I'll just have to get used to it. First world problems.

Yawning

It's annoying when people say, "Are you tried?" after they see me yawning. My response is typically, "No, I'm getting oxygen to my brain." I heard that from somewhere. People yawn to get oxygen to their brains. It also typically means they are tired. Yawning is also contagious. Once someone yawns, other people around them are likely to yawn too. My brother read a story about yawning during his SAT's and started yawning. He noticed that most of the people in the room yawned while reading that story too. I bet you are yawning while reading this blog post. ;)

Tough Love

I am extremely hard on my first graders. I do it because I care. Today, when they acted up, I wouldn't let several watch a movie. Instead they had to write "I will listen to my teacher and follow all directions" 10 times. I then made them apologize to me for their behavior. Naturally they acted all apologetic, but later in the afternoon, it was as if it meant nothing. I try so many different things to get my students to behave. It all boils down to how their parents raise them. I can't compete with that.

Dialect

As y'all know, the way people talk in the south is much differently than the way people talk up north. I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing. It's just the way it is. My friends and I have a lot of fun making fun of each other with the way each of us talk. We will often stop the other person when we hear them say a word much differently than we say it. It's hard to give examples on here because I have no idea how to spell some of the words. The south also just has different terms for things like children are youngens and when they misbehave they cut up and I could go on and on about different things they say. It's been fun listening to the different dialects.