I am so ready for this election it is rediculous. Not only for a change in the leadership of this country but also because I am so ready for all the negative political ads to no longer be a major part of the tv lineup. Honestly, I dont care about all the personal bull that these people feed me about the other candidate, I care about the issues. Who has the stronger policies and who is going to pull our economy out of the shitter. Now I am a conservitive by nature, but I can't endorse a candidate who wants to keep us in Iraq and does not want to invest in education. The only way we are going to turn this country around is to responsibly leave Iraq and invest in our children and their future. As a future educator, that is the most important issue to me.
That being said, I am going to move on. There is so much going on in my mind right now. I still have almost three years of school left and I feel that each term in school I am getting into more and more interesting classes. This term it is critical thinking, death and dying, and environments in early childhood education. I have to say that critical thinking has to be my favorite class so far in all my education. This is in part due to my teacher, who I must say is one of the most intellegent teachers I have ever had. The other factor in this equation is that we discuss all the hot button issues in education, parenting and life. Recently much of our class has centered around the parenting issues that are sensitive, the biggest being spanking. This is an issue that really gets people stirred up, especially becuase Early Childhood Education (which is what my Bachelor degree is in) really stresses not spanking without coming right out and saying not to spank your child. Lets just say that things have gotten heated in class and the discussions are interesting to say the least.
I live in Central Oregon and I am looking foreward to the winter. Although I prefer summer weather, I do like the winter time and all the coziness that it affords. I like snow and being indoors near a roaring fire. I also get to try snowboarding for the first time this winter, although rather reluctantly because Mt. Bachelor decided to raise its rates this winter. This is utter crap in my opinion. They have poor service and expect us to shell out more money? Also I think that it is completly irresponsible in the current economy to ask people to pay more, especially when locals (who should be getting a discount) are given the shaft. This is why I beleive companies that are not inside that state should not be allowed to own the mountain. They really only cater to the wealthy out of towners that come to ski our mountain. If Powder Corp. really wanted more business, they would give the locals a discount and I garuntee more locals would buy season passes and encourage more business on the mountain.
On the home front, I have recently become a part-time single mother. My partner was laid off this summer after being with a company for seven years. After a four month "vacation" he finally got a job with BNSF railway. He was promised a job here in town, but when he got to Seattle for training was suprised to learn that he was lied to and would either be working in Seattle or be on a traveling crew. He got on with the traveling crew and loves the work. It was a difficult adjustment for us to make at first but we are just thankful for a good steady paycheck. Plus he has alot of promise for advancement because he holds a college degree and has good work history. I think I am lucky in that I don't mind being by myself, and his parents live really close when I need help. Also, we get three day weekends together. We are currently discussing marrige plans, and it looks like we may be getting married in the spring. We are a little non- traditional as we already have a house and a two and a half month old, but it works for us. I am getting excited about getting married, and I am just wating for the official proposal to start making concrete plans. We already know where they honeymoon is going to be...The Bahamas..how cliche right? Haha. Most exciting of all is that I feel I have found a good match in the partner I have chosen. Neither of us are anywhere near perfect and we know it, we just balance each other out well.
This holiday season is a really exciting time in my family. I had my first child this summer, my brother just had his first child a month ago, and in one month my sister is giving birth to identical twin boys. It is a season for babies in my family! Christmas is going to be fun, with four somewhat newborns all in one house. My hope is that all the cousins will be close because we three siblings are pretty close. I can't wait to see them grow up together. We are planning a great family photo for this holiday season after the twins are born.
I think that is all I am going to write for today, I will be back on again with the woes of school, the highs of family, and all the hum-drum of in betweens.
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