Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Long awaited pictures of my classroom
These pics are not the greatest but I wanted to show you all my science room. I will have more later. (Thanks Erin for giving my your old stuff! The kids say that it feels so homey in the room:) )
What is BPA? Should we be worried??
Lately I have heard or seen the letters BPA and have heard that it can be toxic or cancerous. So as I am drinking from my NOT BPA free smart water bottle I started to look around on the internet to find out for my self,I love science, and I felt obligated to share what i found.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=just-how-harmful-are-bisphenol-a-plastics
"First synthesized in 1891, bisphenol-A came into use as a synthetic estrogen in the 1930s. Later, chemists discovered that, combined with phosgene (used during World War I as a toxic gas) and other compounds, BPA yielded the clear, polycarbonate plastic of shatter-resistant headlights, eyeglass lenses, DVDs and baby bottles."
Well I got my information mostly from that website. But the main thing besides it being toxic is that BPA is an estrogen mimic...(I know Teri, more estrogen to stay away from) meaning that it can over long periods of exposure it can cause infertility, prostate problems, obesity, and other ailments.
I don't know about you but when I was in college, all the cool kids had those Nalgene bottles, you know they made you look like you were an attractive outdoorsie person. Well bottles like those are BAD. They have started to pull them off the shelves because they leak BPA.(There are cool looking camelbak ones if you need to have a bottle to boost your self image. Also metal bottles are great as well. If you want to buy a new water bottle get one here Dry Tears it will actually help build a well in Africa) Anyhow you will find BPA in :Baby bottles, eyeglasses, toys, food containers...the list goes on for where you can find this poisonous plastic.
You may have been told by your friends, to not microwave plastic. When you do it changes the arrangement of the solid and then this BPA will off gas. I don't want to scare you or sound like a weirdo. But I want my friends to be aware of ways to keep your families safe. I'm not telling you to throw away your pampered chef or tubberware. Just don't buy anymore...buy glass instead. It is actually more cost effective in the end and it is green!
ok that is enough from your radical naturalist friend....oh yeah don't forget to recycle your BPA plastic!!
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=just-how-harmful-are-bisphenol-a-plastics
"First synthesized in 1891, bisphenol-A came into use as a synthetic estrogen in the 1930s. Later, chemists discovered that, combined with phosgene (used during World War I as a toxic gas) and other compounds, BPA yielded the clear, polycarbonate plastic of shatter-resistant headlights, eyeglass lenses, DVDs and baby bottles."
Well I got my information mostly from that website. But the main thing besides it being toxic is that BPA is an estrogen mimic...(I know Teri, more estrogen to stay away from) meaning that it can over long periods of exposure it can cause infertility, prostate problems, obesity, and other ailments.
I don't know about you but when I was in college, all the cool kids had those Nalgene bottles, you know they made you look like you were an attractive outdoorsie person. Well bottles like those are BAD. They have started to pull them off the shelves because they leak BPA.(There are cool looking camelbak ones if you need to have a bottle to boost your self image. Also metal bottles are great as well. If you want to buy a new water bottle get one here Dry Tears it will actually help build a well in Africa) Anyhow you will find BPA in :Baby bottles, eyeglasses, toys, food containers...the list goes on for where you can find this poisonous plastic.
You may have been told by your friends, to not microwave plastic. When you do it changes the arrangement of the solid and then this BPA will off gas. I don't want to scare you or sound like a weirdo. But I want my friends to be aware of ways to keep your families safe. I'm not telling you to throw away your pampered chef or tubberware. Just don't buy anymore...buy glass instead. It is actually more cost effective in the end and it is green!
ok that is enough from your radical naturalist friend....oh yeah don't forget to recycle your BPA plastic!!
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Your invited to my pity party...
So some of my friends know that I have been trying to get pregnant for over 2 years. Well I went and had my hormones checked and they are actually way out of sorts, so I have been put on some vitamins to help to regulate them. Well my "friend" came to town (boo hoo, not pregnant this month...again) and WOW I am an emotional disaster, I am so melancholy and could cry watching a bug get smooshed. Tears welling up just thinking of that poor bug. And one of my best friend just found out that she is pregnant, I am so so so excited for her, but this weekend is hard. And there are these two beautifully pregnant ladies in my church, and just seeing their beautiful bellies, makes me ache. It also doesn't help that there are tons of families with kids at church and when the cutie little girls run up to their mommies...ache again. I know that it is true, but when your friends tell you "Your time will come, be patient" or "When you stop thinking about it, thats when it will happen." or "Maybe if you gained some weight..." Any ways I think that my pity party has gone on long enough. I need to pull my act together and finish reading a chapter in my psychology class so I can write a 3 page paper and then take a quiz tomorrow, and then make some lesson plans for school... It is only the first week :C
Friday, August 22, 2008
Feeling this right now
Another sleepless night
I'm turning in my bed
Long before the red sun rises
In these early hours
I'm falling again
Into the river of my worries
When the river runs away
I find a shelter in your name
Jesus, only light on the shore
Only hope in the storm
Jesus, let me fly to your side
There I would hide, Jesus
Hear my anxious prayer
The beating of my heart
The pulse and the measure of my unbelief
Speak your words to me
Before I come apart
Help me believe in what I cannot see
Before the river runs away
I will call upon your name
Jesus, only light on the shore
Only hope in the storm
Jesus, let me fly to your side
There I would hide, Jesus
Sleepless Night from http://somethingelse.vox.com/
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
The 1st day of school
The long awaited first day of school is over. I really think that we have a great group of high schoolers this year. So far the only problem I foresee is that we have many talkers, but that will change. But I am exhausted. I think that the teachers have more anxiety than the kids, and we definitely have more responsibility. I was up at 5:45 this morning so I could get in early to make sure everything was in place. My dragged my husband in as well to help move the desks. Any ways I will have to take some pictures to post so you can see my wonderful classroom. Blah I need a nap.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Hurricanes a comin'
Alright so this is like my 6th hurricane, so I feel like a pro...to have no idea what to expect. But when they put Naples Florida on the map, you know that there could be trouble. But we have our hurricane shutters up, the generator is ready. Bring it on!! We will hopefully start school on Wednesday as planned, but again we have no idea what to expect. There will be some flooding for sure, maybe some branches down. Lets just pray that it doesn't get bigger or stronger to become greater than a Cat 1. Maybe it will even stay a Tropical Storm.
Anyone up to hittin' some waves during the storm?? Ha yea right :D
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Some days I wish that I was a little kid again. How wonderful it was to not have much responsibility, bills, a job, school, a care in the world. Still having your whole life ahead of you. Your grandparents still young. Your parents even younger. Oh the freedom to daydream and to play with your imaginary friends, fantasy was all you knew how to play. Just a thought wandering in my head.
Oh I start my Master's Program tomorrow....I wish I was a kid again
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Back to school
So I didn't go into my closet today at school. Many people think that there is in fact a mouse in my closet...Great! So since I didn't go into my closet I didn't start to decorate my room again, but thats ok Erin will be helping me tomorrow :D Horray!
But today was another day of meeting and well actually compared to last year the meetings have been cut down to half, which is awesome. Gives the teachers more time to complete what needs to be done before the students come.
I went to the teacher supply store and bought some cute posters and I bought an awesome skeleton! I mean every cool science teacher has a skeleton in their classroom! I am excited. It is not full size, maybe 2 feet tall, so his name is "Midge"...get it :D
But today was another day of meeting and well actually compared to last year the meetings have been cut down to half, which is awesome. Gives the teachers more time to complete what needs to be done before the students come.
I went to the teacher supply store and bought some cute posters and I bought an awesome skeleton! I mean every cool science teacher has a skeleton in their classroom! I am excited. It is not full size, maybe 2 feet tall, so his name is "Midge"...get it :D
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
I know I know...its been a little while since my last blog...sorry
I am officially back into the school year, does teacher inservice count? I have to sit and be in meeting for hours and then decorate my room (ERIN I NEED YOUR HELP :) )But anyways I am very excited about this year. There are a couple new teachers in the high school and I already enjoy them. It is also good just to see all of my fellow teachers and to catch up and hear how their summer was. So I have 6 days until I am a master's student, I am very apprehensive, because I have no idea what to expect, what exactly is entailed with an online course? There is another teacher who is also starting his masters and he says that he is nervous and scared...and he is only taking one class while I am signed up for two...pray for me please!! Thank you! Well I will fill you all in when things get more exciting....OHHH I didn't mention I was going to decorate my room today but there where "pellets" like little mice poopies...or maybe frog or roach... not 100% sure so I didn't touch anything. Gross what if I have a mouse or a RAT in my science closet.. yuck.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Dwell on this
This is from Greg Laurie, a few blogs ago I posted that he just lost his son in a car accident, so he knows about suffering....and I thought many of you could benefit from the message...I did.
Choices
I have a little granddaughter named Stella, and she's the apple of my eye. Not long ago she was over at our house with her mom and dad, and my wife and I were playing some little games with her—or, as much of a game as you can play with an eight-month-old baby. One of her toys played a little song, and Stella was kind of bopping to the beat (amazing child!).
As she was moving around, every few beats she would turn over and reach out her hand to me, and wait for me to grab it. After we touched hands, she would turn around a few more times and do it again...reaching her hand out to me. She did this about eight or nine times. And I loved it. I could have played that little game all day long. It was so cute, and it was just her little idea. She wouldn't stop reaching until I grabbed her tiny hand.
Now think about it. Stella didn't play that little game with me because I forced her to. She did it because I'm the greatest grandfather that ever was! (She doesn't know this yet, but she will.) This was something that came from her own will. She wanted to play a game and reach out her hand to me.
It's the same in our relationship with God. He doesn't want you relate to Him and talk to Him and love Him because you have to. He wants you to do it because you choose to. He gave you that ability.
In the Garden, Adam and Eve used that independent will to make a wrong choice. So do we. And so much of the evil in the world and the wrongs that are done are made by people who simply make wrong choices...one after another.
"Okay," you reply, "I can accept that. But why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? And more to the point, why does God allow bad things to happen to godly people?"
I'm glad you asked. Because that brings us to one of the greatest—and most tragic—stories in all the Bible. The book of Job is in God's Word for a reason—actually many reasons. But one of the principal things this book does is to help us think through this whole issue of the goodness of God, and how it touches a world and a human race under the curse of sin.
Most of us can accept the idea of suffering in general, especially as an outcome or consequence of bad behavior. In other words, if someone lives a reckless, wicked life, committing horrible atrocities, and faces the repercussions of those deeds, we say, "They got what they deserved. It was poetic justice. They reaped what they sowed, and it finally caught up to them."
We can accept the idea of suffering in circumstances like those. But how does it strike us when an innocent and godly person suffers?
That was the case with Job, a man who not only avoided doing wrong, but also worked very hard to do what was right. So much so, in fact, that God actually bragged on his righteousness and integrity before the hosts of heaven.
That was right before the bottom dropped out of Job's life, and everything changed. Maybe you've heard people talk about "the patience of Job." In the next few days, we're going to see exactly what that statement means.
Choices
I have a little granddaughter named Stella, and she's the apple of my eye. Not long ago she was over at our house with her mom and dad, and my wife and I were playing some little games with her—or, as much of a game as you can play with an eight-month-old baby. One of her toys played a little song, and Stella was kind of bopping to the beat (amazing child!).
As she was moving around, every few beats she would turn over and reach out her hand to me, and wait for me to grab it. After we touched hands, she would turn around a few more times and do it again...reaching her hand out to me. She did this about eight or nine times. And I loved it. I could have played that little game all day long. It was so cute, and it was just her little idea. She wouldn't stop reaching until I grabbed her tiny hand.
Now think about it. Stella didn't play that little game with me because I forced her to. She did it because I'm the greatest grandfather that ever was! (She doesn't know this yet, but she will.) This was something that came from her own will. She wanted to play a game and reach out her hand to me.
It's the same in our relationship with God. He doesn't want you relate to Him and talk to Him and love Him because you have to. He wants you to do it because you choose to. He gave you that ability.
In the Garden, Adam and Eve used that independent will to make a wrong choice. So do we. And so much of the evil in the world and the wrongs that are done are made by people who simply make wrong choices...one after another.
"Okay," you reply, "I can accept that. But why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? And more to the point, why does God allow bad things to happen to godly people?"
I'm glad you asked. Because that brings us to one of the greatest—and most tragic—stories in all the Bible. The book of Job is in God's Word for a reason—actually many reasons. But one of the principal things this book does is to help us think through this whole issue of the goodness of God, and how it touches a world and a human race under the curse of sin.
Most of us can accept the idea of suffering in general, especially as an outcome or consequence of bad behavior. In other words, if someone lives a reckless, wicked life, committing horrible atrocities, and faces the repercussions of those deeds, we say, "They got what they deserved. It was poetic justice. They reaped what they sowed, and it finally caught up to them."
We can accept the idea of suffering in circumstances like those. But how does it strike us when an innocent and godly person suffers?
That was the case with Job, a man who not only avoided doing wrong, but also worked very hard to do what was right. So much so, in fact, that God actually bragged on his righteousness and integrity before the hosts of heaven.
That was right before the bottom dropped out of Job's life, and everything changed. Maybe you've heard people talk about "the patience of Job." In the next few days, we're going to see exactly what that statement means.
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