nothing beats breaking out a fresh calendar and marking it up!

i don't have a lot of nifty little sayings about last year, sorry. although i did text one of my friends :happy new year which swype translated as happy new yeast umm..not the most attractive greeting (unless you're a baker or a beer brewer); good thing i double checked.

but i am looking forward to 2012. we're going into it with a positive attitude. i attribute the positive attitude in part to the calendar that mom got me for Christmas. smile.

you DO remember that i mentioned my mom gets me one every year, right? now i have 13 more quality pages that i can use to create new envelopes!

and the best month so far is....

there's just something about january-perhaps its the fresh beginning-could be that my birthday is in january on the same day as my aunt...oh, and i am hoping that my friend hellen has baby sophia a day early so she will be born on my bday as well!!

i am glad that tomorrow will not be a full day of staff development and we get to work in our classrooms half the day. i am more than willing to exchange half day for the next teacher work day! good call.

i'm sure this year will bring much dining out for many of you, so i would like to share with you something that i read in a magazine just yesterday. i love eating fish when i go out. i am especially fond of gloria's 'pescado acajutla,' which is a delicious tilapia...and i usually have leftover because it is a generous portion. but, for those of you who enjoy fish, please be wary...

don't go paying top dollar for what you're not really getting!

i also noticed that facebook is trying to hook me up. they've been trying to introduce me to: successful men, single men, Christian men, rock climbers, millionaires, single dads...

one thing i have decided might be a good idea (not really a resolution, because like the comic strip said a new year's resolution is a to-do list for the first week of january) is to start saying great great things about people when the walk by or when i think they're just out of ear-shot because you never know if they might be wearing the 'micro plus sonic ear' the thing about the commercial is that they're always saying nice things about the person wearing the thing, but in real life, i don't think i'd want to hear the things that people say-you just never know.

gearing up for tomorrow,
julie

p.s. tomorrow will be very strange not having gigi across the hall. boo. i'm sure it will hit me tomorrow.