So I am finding that the only thing that gets me through my weeks right now is thinking about the weekend. I am stuck in some wicked rut that I don't know if I will climb out of it anytime soon and the only think keeping me somewhat happy and sane is Apex. I love our show! What am I going to do when this season is over? Hopefully I will have figured out the rest of my life by then. I need a career....interestingly enough, as I write, an advertisement for the PA Culinary Institute is sitting on my screen with the headline "Ready for a Career Change?" STOP with the subtle hints already! Hmm...

So I had a strange dream last night that we were at a competition and Raul decided he didn't want the girls wearing dresses anymore and went ahead and made new ones. They were these ugly maroon spandexish things...totally hideous. I was heartbroken because I have fallen in love with my dress and the way it twirls with me. Anyhow...I misplace my uniform in my dream and Raul and I set off to look for it. Some marching band had come in and set all of their shit on top of ours. It must have been a group 4 or something because they were huge and had a lot of shit. I woke up before we ever found it. What does that mean? I mean, minor changes and sectionals doesn't include uniforms too now does it?

I am loving the new beginning of the show. I am a little freaked about having to start the show balancing on my AP because falling off at such an early point would be a little traumatic. I don't want to be the girl everyone follows around for the rest of the show because they think I'm that sucky one that is an accident waiting to happen. I mean falling off at the end is totally different...plus much more dramatic with a flag flying through air. Being an expert at crashing to the ground at that part makes me a little bit more comfortable with it....tee hee.

So watching the video of our first performance really puts things into perspective for me. I always blow my mess ups way out of proportion in my messed up brain and think I stuck out like a sore thumb for every dumb thing I did wrong....when in actuality if you weren't watching me for some things you wouldn't have even noticed! I don't know why but I always feel as if everyone is watching me fuck up! So not true....gotta stop putting all that unnecessary pressure on myself! It would just be ridiculous if EVERYONE in the stands happened to be watching me. I mean, I'm good but christ, there are 11 other people who also need attention from the audience on the floor with me!!

So...I took Pierre in on Monday to have reconstructive surgery on his shoulder. He has moved past his fear of fast moving red objects and will be all better soon. I have been walking home from work since Pierre is out of commission. Thank goodness it has been so nice out. All of my regulars honk at me. The UPS guy pulled over and yelled across the street. He's funny.

My stalker has not come in the past couple of days. I'm starting to wonder if he has forgotten about me.

My boyfriend, who has no idea he is my boyfriend, did not take the subtle hints that he should ask me out and I'm just going to have to get over my severe shyness and ask him. Obviously he is quite shy as well...lol. I like that he blushes easily and his hair is so out of control like my own. :o) So cute!!

I met with my area supervisor for work cause I'm sick of doing a job I'm not getting paid to do and he kinda didn't really care to hear what I had to say. Jerk. He claims that the bitch that works at night is getting transferred. We will see if he was telling tales to get me to shut up.

I have off tomorrow and absolutely nothing to do. While I'm excited, I'm also bummed. I don't have a vehicle and it's supposed to rain. I guess I'll be getting a little wet. I can't sit in the house all day and do nothing!

Stupid old manager boy called me. He wants me at his store...yeah...keep lookin buddy! You had your chance! Jerkface. He keeps letting me know he's single. I DON'T CARE, TWAT!

Apex is rockin. I love my apex family this year. I look around and just feel like this is the best group! We are going to have so much fun this season. At Jolesch, Jackie and I realized we are the same person in different bodies. Quite interesting. We found we had the same reaction to things and often said the same thing and the same time...we even sighed together.

I'm just so happy today. It's weird!

Working fof Jolesch at DCA was a hoot. I got a little sun burn from putting the bleachers together and sitting in the sun for like a million hours. Why did they have us set our stand up on the west side of the stadium. We had sun from like noon until 7:30!! Worked with some very friendly boys who live in Iowa! Was offered a job if I ever move to Iowa by HMP's college roomie Tyler...totally a cutie.

Here are some highlights of the trip:

- Everyone in the car: "Nick, pick a lane!"
Nick: "I am an equal opportunity driver!"

- "I wasn't gay or straight, I was just horny."

- "Don't touch me, I'll bleed on you!"

- "Choquette. It's like chocolate."

- "What is that smell?" "Jackie opened her legs."

- "Man that is one big bug on the windshield!"...Nick queens out screeching like a girl.
(The bug was on the outside.)

- Jackie: "I was clearing my mind."
Nick: "That was easy."

- "Ummmmm...Erin...." The entire car queens out by the next gigantic bug on the window. Erin proceeds to open the window thinking she can usher it out. "No, no it's on the outside! Close it, close it!!!"

- HMP- Hottie McPlaid Pants...AKA...Joe Jolesch, son of Mr Jolesch himself.

- Nick..squirt squirt (liquid nitrogen) HMP: "Ahhh. What are you doing? That can cause frost bite, you asshole!" Nick squirts himself to make up for it. "Wow, that is cold!"

I didn't get to write down all of our funny moments as there were many and I was working. I hope Raul put me on the list to work ACC's. IT is an easy fundrasier and a blast to do with my Apex family.

While I was away, my momma gets a call from my sister. She had her cell phone stolen at Temple and managed to set off the fire alarm by burning popcorn all in her first week there....funny.

Just joined facebook. Way tooooo much set up stuff and I get bored/annoyed easily. Hopefully I can keep it up. We all know how well I update on here. I'm looking forward to Apex this weekend. I hope she gives me Monday or Tuesday off though. I am exhausted!

So my sister was friends with one of the guys that died at Virginia Tech. She met him at Penn State...hung out with him all the time at his home close to campus. Needless to say she is devastated by the news. I only got to meet him once but he was one of the funniest guys I ever met. Totally outgoing, really smart and an incredibly nice guy. It's a shame his life had to end short. What is this world coming to? It scares me to think that school is unsafe...but you don't seem to be safe anywhere anymore. :o(

Vegas was AMAZING! I'm so going back soon. I crashed on the couch as soon as I walked in the door. Too much laughing on the plane caused me to miss some quality sleeping time.

Back to reality though....my bitch of a manager scheduled me to work 430am to 2pm today!! Ummmm...jet lag? My body is so confused right now. Work was long and tiring. Snow covered my car when I left. Being back just sucks.

On a positive note though...I finally broke my ridiculous dropfest I was having. I'm such a retard sometimes. Vegas finals felt so energetic and alive...I want to continue that feeling.

Tired...need sleep...or food...my appetite has been OUT OF CONTROL!! I think eating handy snacks for lunch that one day was not good...but I don't like jelly! so PBJ was out of the question. I've been making up for that meal ever since! Mmmmm..best burger ever is calling my name. Definitely going back for one of those.

I just realized how much I miss my guard family. I was reading my messages from people on my last post and I felt really loved. I miss Nikki!!! We never gave each other our phone numbers. Why?? I'm going through withdrawal.

I have my final dress fitting on wednesday. I'm really excited about the wedding but I wish all this dress shit was done and over with. Having to go to the damn place three to four times is quite annoying. It really kills one whole day because they always schedule me at 2!

I'm in a miserable mood today and I'm not sure why. I don't want to talk to anyone, go anywhere...I'm even angry about that fact that I have to work tonight. Boooo. Manager boy is pissing me off. Hot and cold. SO FUCKING ANNOYING. Sarah is getting on my last damn nerve too. She has to tell everyone everything! I need a vacation! Anyone interested in taking a trip?

So I worked at a wawa off of cottman today. Lemme just say I hate people who are on welfare. They send their ghetto ass children to the wawa and buy a bunch of junk with their freakin food stamps...oooh it makes me so angry! Plus it takes forever for teh freakin shit to go through and it's a whole process and then they get angry because they are not allowed to buy hot food with their food stamps...GET OVER IT! That will be the last time I help out my old manager.

Can't wait for the apex season to start..I need something to do during my down time. :o) I need to get my butt out and spin cause I'm going to be weak for auditions if I don't start building up my tosses and stuff.

I somehow forgot to eat dinner tonight...I came home from work at 3 and went to my store to do these stupid computer programs and just never ate. Now I'm hungry. Poo...

So...it's been a while. Last Sunday night around 10:30ish my mother decides to go down the basement. Our basement is unfinished and we get water in it when it rains and stuff. So she goes down there and starts calling my name...I'm thinking great, she wants to suck up rain water. So I go down...it's not rain water. It looks like our air conditioner threw up all over the floor. But it couldn't possibly be there air conditioner because the man was just there a few days earlier to service it. So we start sucking up the lake that is my basement. I dump the bucket in the sink and suck up more...this continues. About five to ten minutes into this my mom says, what the hell is that smell? and why isn't the puddle getting any smaller? Now we are both annoyed. So she says...you dump the pump and I'll look to see if we are just dumping it back out onto the floor....I dump the bucket and hear SHIT. So we spent all that time sucking up the same bucket full of water. Then she says...I have a really bad feeling about this...go flush the toilet and we'll see if that comes out. Low and behold...the sewer pipe is backed up and we have toilet water, shower water, wash water...now in my basement. 24 hr plumber is called. He plays around and flushes out the pipe outside of the house. He comes in and says all is well. He just got a ton of tampons out it. Mortified! SO to make it an even more embarrassing moment my mother turns to me and says, "Good job, Meg!" My jaw dropped to the floor. Well, water is all sucked up, basement is clean, it is now 12:30 am and I have work at 6.

Work: Hottie manager is on vacation so we all know what that means...everything decides to fall apart. I was on the phone with the call center 3 times trying to get various machines up and running...the screens in the deli, the computer in the back, the printer...when I was leaving, the cappachino machine had leaked all over the counter and spread under all of the coffee burners...not my problem! Next day, printer still broken, cappachino machine still leaking, all screens fixed though. Today...everything fixed, bills not able to be posted, Michele on phone with call center...they have no idea what to do. We made up the milk order and sent it in hoping we didn't order a million gallons of milk. Could be an interesting Thursday milk delivery....thank goodness I'm off.

I'm hanging out with Sarah tonight. She is a good time. She makes me laugh. OH...I totally forgot. On Saturday, hottie manager, Sarah and I went to some stupid wawa picnic. We had every intention of leaving early and going to 6 flags. Unfortunately we got lost going and got there late. So when we left we decided a trip to 6 flags would be wasted...hottie manager decides he wants to go somewhere and will surprise us. So car ride down Rt 1 begins. WE pass oxford valley, head into jersey, pass trenton, princeton, see signs for newark airport...I go OMG we're going to New York. Yay random trip to NYC!!! We had a blast, ate olive garden and talked for hours in the car. SOOOO much fun. Who knew hottie manager was so spontaneous!? He's in Vegas now. :o( He did send me some fabulous pictures over IM. He totally missed his calling. His pictures were really nice. That's about it. More later...

No more foul-mouthed, bratty second graders dirty looks. I am so glad that school year finally ended! I now have seven boxes of teacher stuff in my basement...an entire box of office supplies!! Who knew I would be so into post-it notes and staples!?

I am LOVING my whole Apex summer experience so far. Rifle camps are a blast and it's nice to be spinning a piece of equipment I am comfortable with spinning. Although that behind the back catch has made my left thumb all sorts of wrong. It aches and cracks and looks funny...but it still works all the same.

Cindy Lew is by far my newest favorite! We have more in common than imaginable. I talked to her almost my entire car ride home. I can't wait to see all the fun adventures this season brings.

Does anyone know where I could find nice, affordable bridal shower invites? I'm in charge of sending out all of the invitations to my sister's shower and taking care of the RSVP and it's something very new to me. Operation super-sexy bridesmaid has officially started. It's going to be a long, ugly summer!

I am looking forward to dance clinic tomorrow night...gotta get in shape for the season. My goal is to widen my second position, be able to do splits on BOTH legs and work on my performance. Of course getting into shape and being able to breathe easier are just added bonuses.

I got observed yet again today by the principal. She came in and observed me Monday. I think she was disappointed because all she saw was me giving a reading test. So I get another surprise visit from her today. My kids were really good today though. I'm guessing that was my birthday present from them. Anyhow...she got to see them practicing their plays and then performing them in front of the rest of the class. Surprisingly, I only had one problem and the groups worked really well together. Yesterday I had my goldilocks group acting like total jackasses...they were a little disappointed when they weren't allowed to make a movie poster because they had to finish reading through their play so they straightened out pretty fast today.

I'm getting a little down and out about the fact that all of my friends are engaged! My friend Delaney got engaged over the weekend...now I'm the only girl in my building not married or engaged! Why are all the guys my age such crap? Is it too much to ask for a nice, normal, straight man? I truly don't think they exist.

Boredom has set in. I really need to find a hobby. I don't know what to do when there is no colorguard in my weekend life!

I got the 25th member of my adorable class today. She doesn't know how to spell her full name. Where do these kids come from? One of my parents called to tell me some story about her daughter and one of the boys in my class and something about a ring...have to call her back. I was not in the mood to listen to second grade relationship drama.

I am still on a high after Saturday night's performance. I had such a freaking awesome show. It's about time too. I was starting to think I would never have a good show. I think Kevin and I deserve an award for the best damn save ever. I still don't know how Alicia got her flag on time and in the correct direction. My head is still sore from the bus biting it. That's what I get for helping with the floor...I should stick to backdrops....or maybe even the flags since we left those on the bus. Talk about drama...it wasn't my fault this time though Steve...not like the floor markers all those years ago. :o) Was that in Milwaukee or Dayton? Oh how the time seems to all blend together.

Practicing at Darley tomorrow night. Who's joining me? You better all be there. We could have a good time. I need to practice that stupid five and the toss in the front that I'm so inconsistent with...I'm going to conquer that tomorrow night!!!

Thought it might be time for a little update...

Went to Winterfest last weekend. Held it together until I talked to Cindy..stupid bitch made me cry. ha ha. I didn't realize how much I missed marching until I saw the show and then talked to everyone. It was nice to be around people that are so much like me.

Work sucks. My kids are outrageous. I will have a lot of funny stories to tell in a few years though. It just doesn't seem too funny right now. My grade partner is a big flake. If she sends her kids into my room one more time to try and convince me we need to watch a movie, I might have to bitch slap her. Got observed for an hour by the principal and actually did really well. My kids must have woken up on the right side of the bed that day because they actually listened and worked hard while she was in. They did give me a wicked cold though. I can't seem to get rid of it. Just when I think I might be getting over it, my kids piss me off and I lose my voice and my nose starts to run. Maybe it's all in my head and it is somehow stress related. Who knows? My other grade partner...who I actually like...has a terrible twitch in her eye that seems to come back everyday. We all think we are suffering from tourettes and have mad tics now.

My family is still wacky. My mom has taken up quilting and I'm afraid she'll want to quilt my wedding dress now. Not that I'll be getting married any time in this decade... She's definitely gone over the edge though. However I will have a really nice quilt on my bed when I move out. She's actually quite talented.

Fallen in love with one of the guys I work with. He totally cracks me up. Of course he's married but I can dream right?

Got a fun phone call from Brandon the other day. My phone died though. I don't know what is up with it. I charged it last night and the stupid thing is completely dead already. I think I keep hitting that stupid side button in my purse and it's really pissing off my phone. I'll have to figure it out.

That's all I can think of now. Obviously my life is kind of dull. I have read about thirty books since september though. I would have to say I'm setting some sort of record...

Soooo.. Bensalem is hot. The girls are a lot of fun and really want to do well. The band has a lot of work to do though. The most impressive part about this whole season is that Lisa and I haven't killed each other. We've actullay had a lot of fun.

My class...oooooh...my class
I have 24 munchkins in my class. I like maybe 10 of them. These kids are the meanest group of second graders I've ever met. They are constantly punching, kicking, and spitting on each other. It's unbelievable.

My absolute worst child is probably somewhere in the autistic spectrum. He has no social skills, he doesn't talk unless he needs to yell at someone and he destroys all of his papers. I cannot leave him for more than a minute. He is constantly stabbing his pencil through his papers and god forbid he's actually using scissors...then he will have all these tiny pieces of paper all over the place. He has two desks both of which he is unab;e to stay in.

Another one is mainstreamed from an emotional support class. He is with me all day and he drives me crazy. He has this thing with licking people. I don't get it.

Then I have another one who talked about suicide in the beginning of the year. Now he just has outbursts during class whining about how no one likes him. He is absolutely crazy.

Those are just a few of my lovely cherubs that I deal with everyday. Needless to say I'm a little stressed out. I've gained like a million pounds. I have a year to lose it all for my sister's wedding. Oy..that is not a long time to lose all of the fat on my body. I'm gonna try though. I went running tonight. That is so not fun. I need to find something that doesn't make me wheeze like running did.

That's all for now. Life kinda sucks now but I know it will get better. There's no possible way my class could be worse next year. I'll get through this year and wave bye in June and never think about these little bastards ever again!!

My vacation to Florida was AWESOME...and I didn't kill Puff while we were there! I think I might move down there sometime in the next couple of years. We'll see. There's not much keeping me in this area so I might as well do it. We spent ten beautiful, sticky days in Disney. It was great. I was extremely disappointed with Stitch's Great Escape. :o( Stitch is one of my favorite characters too. Mickey's Philharmagic was super cute and the only reason we went to it was because we got stuck in some crazy loop of roped off area for the parade. Ate in Japan...a little disappointing..I mean...when you say mixed veggies...you better give me something more than zucchini and onions!

While I was there I ran into this hottie that lived next door to me in West Chester! He is going to school at UCF and worked at my resort as some kind of manager. So cute. I got a picture! Puff and I went canoing while we were there. It was so much fun. I can't wait to go back!

All in all a great trip....I did however find out on my last day there that my grandfather died and his funeral would be during my flight home. My mom didn't want to call me at all but my sister persuaded her to. I'm SO glad I went to see him in December because I would have been so angry if I missed seeing him then and then missing his funeral. :o(

I thought I should update since i never do....


Worked at wawa from 5-3 today. It sucked. It was super slow and we had all of our morning/opening work done by like 7 so we found dumb cleaning jobs to do. By 10 we had the whole freakin store nice and tidy and nothing to do...time goes by REALLY slow when you just stand around. Needless to say it was the longest ten hours of my life. Luckily I didn't have to put up with annoying coworkers...I worked with my two sisters, Rory's sister and this guy Dave who is FUNNY.

I go to Florida with Puff in two weeks. SO EXCITING! We are going to have ten fun-filled Disney days. I can't wait. Our travel agent was some guy we went to school with. I hope he did everything right cause he was too busy hitting on Puff to explain very much to us. She's so dumb too...it took her forever to figure it out and by the time she did he was asking for her number...stupid girl! He's so not even cute!

Went to the Dave Matthews concerts on Tuesday and Wednesday. It was fabulous! Wednesday night was better...he played two step and jammed for like half an hour...we were smart and left after 25 minutes of the jam session and didn't get stuck in the parking lot!

White boys dancing to dave matthews is so hilarious. Rory was cracking me up. He gets all into it. I almost got into a fight with some dumb drunk bitch. Her and her skanky ass boyfriend came out of nowhere and started making out basically on top of me. I pushed her twice and she just didn't get the picture so I went all sorts of crazy exorcist-like on her and freaked out.

They left.

to the Kelly CLarkson CD. Bought it yesterday and LOVE it.


Everything seems to be working smoothly so far this week. My kids were actually good this morning. This afternoon is a totally different story but they were way focused for the PSSA stuff we did today. They only filled in their names and all that bubble stuff today. I figured I wouldn't overwhelm them too much on the first day. Tomorrow they are gonna have to do a bunch of reading and bubbling. Yay for a break for me. I'm not allowed to help them and they have different stories so they can't even cheat! YES.

I got directions to the airport, to the hotel, copied the hotel address and phone number and actually remembered to leave my guns with someone at guard so I wouldn't have to check them at the airport! YES!

Still have to do my laundry though...

I won't even have to fake sick too much at work cause I feel kind of shitty. Thank goodness I actually enjoy sucking on halls cuz they have saved me so far this week.

Got my sub plans done for Thursday...all typed and ready to go...working on my sub plans for Friday. I think I get way too detailed but I hated when I went to sub and the kids did the...that's not the way Miss so and so teaches. So I fill my subs in on everything. WOOO!

I also figured out my lesson for when Dr. Sexton (Mr. Burns...excellent) will come to visit me. He's the assistant superintendent who totally resembles Mr. Burns from the simpsons...unfortuntely, his personality matches as well as his looks. My lesson will be hot though. He's coming at 10:30...I hope he doesn't stay until lunch..that would be almost 2 hours of hell for me and my little bundles of joy.

Very excited for Dayton...not ready to leave yet though. I guess I better get to that pile of laundry.

See ya Wednesday night!!

soooo...thought I might update and all...

Aaaaahhh New York...

- loved my roomies although stupid tucker needs to stop farting in bed...nasty nasty boy
- becoming good friends with Kim makes me happy
- rifle line meeting was a good time and we finally have the shirt idea down!! YES!
- cleaning out my colon seems to be a Saturday routine I'm getting into
- Raul knocking on the bathroom door while I'm showering... not cute
- the bus driver trying to plow down Darley...kinda funny
- prelims...not a good time
- finals...better but still not a fantabulous show for me...
- realizing Brandon is my long-lost brother...yay for being as dumb as me when it comes to learning work. :o)
- Oh Christopher Tigan...how I love that boy...he was just so cute in his green shirt on Sunday

That's about all I really want to type tonight...hoping for a snow day tomorrow..they better call me tonight though.. calling at 4:30 in the morning is not cute and should be against the law!

For real...I think I poop more at guard then anywhere else...I'm all pooped out.

Anyhow...I found out the other day that the district I work in is offering some big deal to get teachers to retire...so let's all cross our fingers and hope they actually offer the deal and all those old farts get out so I can get a permanent position.

My kids were actually kind of mellow today. They must've had a long weekend. I think my weekend was way too short and yet I am exhausted. I am so completely thrilled with the stuff we have learned so far. Yay 7!! That bitch is some hard stuff but we'll all have it down by the end of december. I actually don't hurt as much as I thought I would. The only thing that really hurts are my stomach muscles. They were really burning after we did sit-ups...yay abs of steel!

I love my rifle buddies. They are tons of fun. I didn't realize how much I missed marching with Chris Tigan either until now. He's cute. :o)

Jen Lube is funny. I'm glad I get to bond with her in the car every weekend.

Goals for this year...don't be so bitchy (my present to Raul), have fun, be a really awesome, competitive world guard....I want those other world guards to fear us...and they will. :o)

I have not been this bored since the summer. It's fantastic!

So...kids are really funny. They say some of the craziest things.
For example:

-My new girl just came from Jersey...she's very needy and is constantly coming over to me to tell me the stupidest things...like "my pencil broke"...who really cares?
SO...one morning she comes up to me with a picture. She tells me it's her uncle...well at least she thinks it's her uncle. He was shot and killed and she was supposed to change her last name to his last name but her and her dad have to get a test done first! Well I nearly fell off of my chair because she just casually tells me that she has no clue who her real father is...the worst part is she has two younger sisters and all three of them have different last names!!

-We were planning how we were going to make our props and scenery for out Charlotte's Web play. I tell them I have to get all of the paper from the art room. About five kids tell me that there's this wonderful cart of roll paper that I can bring into my room.
Miss T: I don't know if that's a good idea.
kids: Mr. O took it into his room.
Miss T: well Mr O is a pretty special guy.
kids: "You're special too, Miss Thomas"
So I try to get them off of the subject because we are way off topic. Of course ten minutes later when I'm walking to them to lunch, the damn cart is sitting in the hallway outside of third grade and almost the entire class points at the cart, waving their arms wildly to get my attention. Well..this poor old woman who volunteers is standing right next to the cart looking mortified becasue my entire class is pointing and waving in her general direction. I had to loudly say, Yes I see the cart, thank you. Just so the woman didnt think my kids were pointing at her. They are funny.

-During snack I let them listen to music. Usually I just put on classical music or Disney stuff but one of my kids brought in 100% Disco. Half of my class goes to the back of my room during snack time and begs me to put on the CD...I let them since I know the songs and they are school appropriate. They choose Shake your groove thing....well...now they are all dancing to shake your groove thing in the back of the room and singing..off key...so FUNNY...then my crazy boys put on the YMCA song and do this whole routine they have planned out. I wish I had a camera.

Enough of my kiddie stories though.

I went shopping today and basically finished my entire christmas shopping. Yay for me! I need to get an Apex gift and something for my grade partners but otherwise I'm done. wooo.

I think it's nappy time. That damn turkey has completely wiped me out.

I have been so completely tired lately...it has to be a disorder. Anyhow...my classroom is coming along nicely. I had a girl I work with at wawa come and help me set up. I'm still far from liking what I see but I hope the kids will help me decorate with their fantastic work. I have overplanned the first two days of school and not planned at all for Friday...so we'll see what happens.
The other teacher have helped so much. I love this building!! They gave me ideas and all. I ad some of my own but they definitely helped my overplanning. I made up my rules and silence cue. Yay. We'll see how they work. I also have fun leaves and stuff to hang from the ceiling. I wanted to find motivation saying to put on them but they might just go up as decoration cause I'm too tired to care lately. I have to make a welcome letter to put in their mailbox. So much to do so little time. If anyone has ideas to make my room extra beautiful, let me know.