Where have I been?

Hello all! Where have I been?  I've been frantically trying to go through my IEPs, order stuff for my classroom, look at apartments, organize stuff for school, and occasionally have some fun.  My boyfriend keeps telling me to post, and although I think he's the only one who reads it, he is correct.

The apartment hunt has been depressing and frustrating, the school stuff has been super stressful and overwhelming, and I did not accomplish nearly as much with everything else as I had hoped. Suddenly summer is over-- how did that happen?!?  Oktoberfest beers are out (so tasty!) but I refuse to drink any until after the first day of school.  While it is delicious beer; I refuse to let go of those happy little bottles of summer until after I go back to work-- which is soon! August 27th & 28th are for teacher in service, and the kids come back the 31st! Seriously, where has this summer gone?

In between all the madness I did manage to catch up with some friends, go see a couple ska shows, and a friend's wedding.  All which were awesome.  Here are some pictures describing the last couple weeks.

 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones at Toad's place on July 11th. It was awesome, and it was also our friends' nephew's first show so he was like whoa.

So as if that wasn't awesome enough, Spring Heeled Jack came to Toad's two weeks later! So I went to that show with my wife and her husband and it was awesome fun as always!  Ari and I revert to 16 year olds again when we see them, and although we play it cool whenever we see Mike Pellegrino it makes us feel giddy but he's a sweet heart and remembers us and I get hugs and yay. 

 The awesome part about Toad's is that we make friends with the bouncers and they give us special seats.  A bunch of years ago, Bond carried me up to the secret area behind the sound booth. Now we have found a place on the side of the stage which is good, but I can only get photos from one side of the stage.  The show was great-- they started doing annual reunion shows a few years ago, and life has been happier since.

 I also went to my friend, Stephanie's wedding and she did EVERYTHING by herself for decorations! Oh, and the cupcakes.  She is amazing. She did all gluten free, did some dairy free for me, and vegan for her husband's niece.  Yeah-- that cupcake is one of the many she did. She decorated them, made cake pops and even did the tiny cute little fondant flowers.

Oh, and she made all these little cupcake boxes for to go cupcakes. There were also beautiful center pieces, decorations and so much more she did.  She is amazing.

Oh, and while we were in New York for the wedding, we went to Kmart and found these fun warnings on the propane tank cage.... See what you want. Since the boy and I have the mentality of middle schoolers-- we giggled... (seriously- what are those rhinos doing with the tanks?)





I also made some cupcakes, however, I will provide those recipes in different posts... for now it is time for sleep... I really need to start getting on the "Back to School" Schedule soon...