Well, today is Thursday, October 1. It's hard to believe that it is October already...Halloween stuff already in the stores (which, by the way, I bought Cody and me a Halloween gingerbread house to put together...we'll see if it actually gets done!) and within a couple weeks, the Christmas stuff will already be out. Which reminds me. I have some Christmas stockings that I bought last year, and before it's time to hang them up this year, I want to embroider (with some help from my mom) our names on them. We'll see if that gets done, too. I have high hopes for Christmas this year...including an official picture that we can use as our Christmas card picture and to have all the decorations up and stuff like that. I have a lot of fun with decorating. If I put my  mind to it, I could probably decorate for every holiday. It's just one of the many things that I love about the holiday season. Back to Halloween, I love to dress up, although there's hardly anyplace to go, but that doesn't matter since Cody and I are pretty much homebodies. I did buy Dakota a costume, his first Halloween!, and I want to at least get a picture of him in it before he destroys it. Maybe then that way I can get him a Santa hat and he can and will wear it for our picture. I'm also hoping to take him to Petco for his picture with Santa. After all, they aren't lying when they say your dogs become your children. He starts puppy school on Sunday, the 4th, and we will see how much he learns from that. If there is a good outcome, we (meaning I) are going to sign him up for the Intermediate and then Advanced classes so he can learn all kinds of things (not to mention it'll make things a little easier on us, too!)

New Dakota Pictures

I'm excited : ) I finally updated the layout of the blog, and so it's all nice and coordinated. Now if only I could remember to update on a regular basis...however, since there is hardly anything worth mentioning, I just blog it as I see it...

Anyway, if you do by chance happen to read this, let me know what you think, and leave some comments. My blog is like, naked without them, lol.

More Updates

Well, just to keep everyone up to date on things (though I don't really think that many people seem to read this), Cody and I got married August 10. Then, on September 13, we adopted the newest member of our family, a siberian husky we named Dakota. I will put up pictures as soon as I get them onto the computer.

Other than that, we haven't done much else, nor anything exciting. I have been working as much as possible, so that for the next few weeks I can devote my time to doing my PCE at St. Joseph, so I can complete this semester and then do my student teaching starting in January. The student teaching I'm not so worried about - it's the getting everything else done on time that I am worried about. I have to get ten more tasks completed and passed by Oct. 15, which shouldn't be TOO hard, and then getting everything else finished, as well as taking the last of my exams by Nov. 30. Although, the bright side is, that once I get all that completed, I will have the entire month of December to relax because student teaching doesn't begin until Jan. 5, so I will have some time to prepare before I start that. I met my host teacher and class yesterday, and I think it will be great. There are fourteen kids in the class, so I should be able to get everything done and completed on time.

More later.

It's On!!

It's official. August 10, 2009 I will become Jennifer Rebecca Nedbalek Schubert. What a mouthfull. Lol. I've often joked that in the classroom when students misbehave, they will have to write 1,000 times "I will behave for Mrs. Nedbalek-Schubert." Just writing the name will give them handcramps.

Everything has been planned, just about. The time, the place, the attire. We are just waiting for a few things to get here in the mail, etc. A week and a half. I'm so excited!! So very very excited.

And Finally, It Happens...

It is finally official! Cody and I are getting married : ) We have set the date for August 10, (yes, 2009). It is just going to be a small family affair with me and him, his parents, my parents, Amy (my sister), Brandy (his sister), Robert (Brandy's husband) and Lexie, (Brandy and Robert's daughter). We decided that just going for it would be the best thing and to just do it!!

More to come after more things happen (like when I get a picture of the ring).

My Book Facination

Let's see. I just started re-reading some of my old Baby-sitters Club books. The funny thing is the discrepancies that I have noticed, and how little they bug me as compared to those found in the Sweet Valley series. The funny thing is, when reading Mary Anne's Book, more or less, all of the plot of Mary Anne and the Secret in the Attic was recapped, yet the picture in Mary Anne's Book showed Mary Anne with the short hair, that is shown on the cover (right), yet during the time of the story, she still had long hair (left). I just thought that was quite funny and something worth sharing. However, I recently read an article talking about Ann M. Martin poured over each story before it was published in order to make sure that everything fit. So I guess we should just let the picture go.

There are 131 BSC books (just regular books, not including the Mysterys or Super Super specials). I have all of them. There are 35 (I think) mysteries. I have all of them. 15 Super Specials, yeah, you see where this is going. For the past few years all of those books have been boxed in the garage. When recently I started cleaning out the garage, I was afraid of the shape of what the books would look like. I was surprised (and grateful) that all of them are in good shape, except for a few stains on two or three, that actually could have been there to start with. I remember that my very first BSC book was Mystery #1 Stacey and the Missing Ring. I bought it at the school book fair in 3rd grade, and was hooked immediately, and after that point, I bought them whenever I could, and then finally caught up, and then waited each month for the next one to come out and then bought those, as well as the Little Sister books. (Which I have almost all of those, and am working on completing that series). It may seem nuts that I'm 26 1/2 (literally!) which puts me in the close to 30 range, and still reading these books. However, you must take into account that they first came out when I was about 3 1/2 ( so obviously I couldn't have started reading them then.)

My shopping at used bookstores, online, and at thrift stores, I have been able to get all of the books in the series. What'll happen after I read the ones that I haven't yet read? I guess they'll get put in the box with the ones that have been read. However, this time around, I'll keep up with the books, keep them INSIDE and always make sure I know where they are. It's a wonderful way to go back and mark special attention to certain books or passages that are metnioned by others in their blogs or on websites.