Oh please for a single night, can't I have the right do wrong?

So today marks one week until I go back for pre-planning. I got my room kinda set up (still waiting to see if I need to take everything down if they plan on painting), but I've got to work on getting things laminated (WTW, Math games, ect). I'm really excited about this year. Lots of new plans to impliment and new kiddos to teach. Should be a great year!

A and I went shopping yesterday and she helped me pick out some shirts for the multitude of skirts I have (I have a slight obsession with long skirts and jackets, though I'm weening myself off the jackets since I'm back in Florida). We got some chunky belts, which I've loved since I saw I Love You Because and Farah Alvin's character has the best chunky belts and style. I wish my style was more like her characters. It is at times, but since I'm a horrid matcher, it doesn't always work.


Is it not totally awesome?! I could totally rock that look, like I had a sense of what goes together, which I don't...That's where S always came in and helped me pick out clothes but I don't think she'd approve of that. :)

 Gonna do some more school stuff and get to work on my ESOL Endorsement, which, btw, is BAH! It's so much more time-consuming that my Masters, which is redic!
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Title via Take the World Away from Little By Little. I just found the song and it's gorgous! Definitly is going to be my new audition song since I plan to try out for 2 shows this season!

Learn the language come what may!

My first blog posting. I read so many blogs (teacher and food mostly) that I figured I'd start my own. I have stuff to offer! Well. . . maybe not really during the summer cause my life is so boring.

Strange huh? All through the school year (well, mostly those horrid weeks after FCAT when the kids are done) I want summer. When it finally gets here, the first week is nice. I enjoy sleeping late and checking items off my "To-Do" list for the new school year. Then, the third week hits and it's like . . . *snore*. Most people would sleep, but if I sleep to much, I never fall asleep. It's a never-ending cycle.

So in the boring summer that is my life right now, I decided to cook something new for lunch. I was feeling Morrocan-y so I made a tagine (only without the really nifty tagine). It called for monkfish but since our fishmonger seemed to be all out (I don't even think I've SEEN it in Florida) and their was a sale on swordfish. I got that.  Add to it a garlic (Oh yah! What dish doesn't taste better with garlic?!), lime juice, cumin, and paprika marinade. Cooked in the oven with roasted peppers, potatoes, tomatoes, and more marinade and you have a lush dish.

It has the perfect amout of garlicy-ness with the firm texture of the sworfish, the bite of the new potatoes, and the pop of the tomatoes.

Only thing that would have made it one step better would have been bread. Yup, the recipe said 'mop up those delicious juices with some crusty bread" and I didn't pay attention. I totally just drank those delicious juices and will be doing to the store before I eat leftovers.Yum-o!
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Title via: Raise the Roof, a song from The Wild Party, (Lippa version). I love me some Julie Murney and while I LOVED the OBC album, her version on her CD I'm Not Waiting is so much better. Maybe I just like that it's totally slowed down.