TANGENT!

Totally unrelated, but I SAW BILLY JOEL TODAY!!! My mom and I went to see him in concert, and it was soooooo good!!! Almost unreal, seriously! See picture below :)

This is just a quick update to say yay for snow and ice days (but that I am kind of bored!) and that I have been reading the Princess Diaries books, and am totally, officially, hooked. I know I am 23 and those are meant for teenagers, but they are so funny...literally make me laugh outloud at least once per book!

Oh, and, rock on thrift stores...had another super trip to another thrift store, yay!!

Thrift Store Wonderful-ness

So, as I often do, I went to the thrift store to look for any good books to get cheaply for my future classroom. I'm not psyched about paying full price for books that kids are going to read (translation: tear up), so I try to get them cheap whenever I can! I never buy crappy books just because they are cheap, but it's amazing how many good books you can find in thrift stores for pennies!

Today was a super day for thrift-ing, and in one store (Goodwill) I found and purchased the following:

• A Chick Fil A book (for Chels)
• A cute little poetry picture book
• A princess tales book (for Chels)
• Dear Mr. Henshaw (Newbery!)
• 5 Babysitter's Little Sister books
• A nice paperback Mr. Popper's Penguins (for classroom use)
• A novelization of Mulan
• The View from Saturday (Newbery!)
• Call it Courage (Newbery!)
• Johnny Tremain (Newbery!)
• Sounder (Newbery!)
• Harry Potter (paperback for a classroom)
• a little non-fiction fact book

Very good trip!! I spent about $7.00 on all of those...yee haw!

I re-read Dear Mr. Henshaw today...I had read it a lot when I was younger and really liked it, but I couldn't remember to whole story, so I didn't think it counted till I re-read it. Good book!!

Quick check-in

Finished another book and sent in the last parts of my application to work in Va Beach. The book is Thimble Summer and I really liked it...it's a very feel-good nice old-timey farm book. If you like that kind of book, I would recommend this one to you...kind of Caddie Woodlawn -esque!

The application stuff is crazy, the postcard asked for a couple of things (transcript, etc) and said they would invite me to the next job fair...job fair!!!! Whew! I might actually have a chance to have a job sometime in the not-so-distant future! Woo hoo!