A Toast to New Beginnings

Mother of God I'm bad at blogging. I'm apparently really not cut out for this. Oh well.

I thought I'd write because tomorrow is going to be the start of some new things and I'm excited. My new job starts tomorrow and FINALLY, after four years of working as an assistant teacher and twiddling my thumbs out of boredom each work day AND busting my ass in off-hours to get my Master's and a few licenses, will be using my brain and my teaching skills (run-on...deal with it). It's going to be a challenge for sure...I'll be a special educator in a specialized high school program, but it will feel good to (cheese alert) finally be working hard to learn as much as possible and be the best teacher I can be. I even have my very own office! With a window! I feel pretty important, as you can probably tell ;)

Secondly, I'm going to meet with a personal trainer tomorrow in hopes that I will be able to start some kind of personal training regimen. With my dramatically increased paycheck (which would sound braggy if I weren't talking in terms of teacher salaries...), I've decided it's time to make an investment in my health. I'm hoping to work with her maybe twice a week and then on my own a couple times a week to just...be healthier. I'll let you all (Meghan and Emily) know how it goes!

It feels sooo good to not be in school anymore and to finally have the qualifications and time to lead the life that I've been working toward for the past couple years. I feel like this is kind of the beginning of lots of cool changes...although I don't yet know what the others will be!

You gotta take the time to appreciate the good things, right?