depressing blog...beware!

Once again...we don't have anything interesting to blog about. We are both just trying to not drown in school work. I'm trying to be positive, but this is seriously one of the busiest/craziest points in our lives. Dan spends 1/3 of his time riding the train back and forth from Wilsonville and Portland, 1/3 in class and the other 1/3 working on art projects. If you don't have a phobia of fractions, you can see that there is hardly enough time for sleeping and eating or anything else entertaining (yes, at this point sleeping and eating are a luxury!)

I don't even want to go into the details of my crazy life as a 1st year teacher. Just trying to describe what I do on a daily basis gives me a headache. How do teachers stay sane? It's a struggle every day. I love working at my small high school....science is fantastic....I love my students. But I am stressed. I am almost wishing H1N1 on myself, just so I can stay home for a day or two...

So here is what we do when we are 1) Avoiding our work or 2) Celebrating our minuscule minutes of free time.

• watch The Office (we're finally caught up!)
• shop online for the things we wish we could have (Goorin Bros. hats for dan, vacations for Carlie)
• edit photos
• watch any of our recorded tv shows on DVR (heroes, greys anatomy, private practice, project runway, HBO movies, jon and kate plus 8, top model, etc...)
• take naps
• pretend like we have time and motivation to work out
• facebook (carlie has an addiction)
• try to make dinner/game plans with friends

We hope you all are staying A LOT less busy, but we know many of you are in the same boat. We miss everyone who we've been neglecting lately....call us! We'll get better at our hectic lives!