So me.

I was having a hard day today and look what my sister sent me to make me smile. I wanted to save it so that I can look at it and smile whenever I see it. 

Ladidahs Nails.

Later on today we will be having a Passion Roots meeting and so to calm my nerves down, I decided to paint my nails with my sister's nail polish. For some reason, I have been attracted to the mint and aqua colors, and so my sister recommended me to try the new nail polish that she had gotten the other day.

And of course, I couldn't help but add glitter to my nails. :)

I like the way that my nails turned out. It was a lot harder to paint my nails with a design because I didn't have my brushes...but I think that it still turned out really cute. :)

As for the nail polish, I really like how it applied. I might have to go to Charlotte Rouse to get me some of this brand of nail polish. :)

Bubble Wrap.

So, since I don't have school tomorrow, I decided to go and visit my niece. With bubble wrap. She enjoyed it...and I had a lot of fun with her. :)

Not only did we have a "beauty pageant" where we practiced our model walk...but we did a lot of texture activities with the bubble wrap and art projects. I really do love my lil DollGirl. :)

Day Seven: Running.

One thing that makes me sad is that I don't have a camera to document the amazing views when I go running in the morning. Even in the evening when I go running, the sunsets are amazing...but the sunrise...oh wow it's beautiful. I do run with my iPod, but unfortunately it doesn't have a camera.

Another thing that I want to say is I had forgotten how wonderfully nice the people are here! Every since I started running, the people that go running have remembered me and they give me encouragement. There is not a single day that has passed that someone, if not several of them, have encouraged me one way or another. We don't ignore each other when we run...they look me in the eye and greet me and give some encouraging words. I love the Aloha spirit here.

After I run, I like having my daily smoothie and pot of tea. Today, I was able to have some nectarine in my smoothie! I LOVE nectarines! They are soo expensive here, but it is so worth it. White nectarines are my favorite though.

So today, I used two yellow nectarines, two apple bananas, one acai packet, a scoop of Matcha Ginger powder, a handful of granola, a dribble of honey and, of course, my favorite coconut water.

I wasn't able to fit everything in the first go, so I filled it as much as I could, an then I blended it and then added the last nectarine.

Today, I chose my Peach Ginger tea with honey. One of the top 5 favorite flavors of tea!

As you can see, I couldn't wait until going downstairs to start on my yummy, yummy smoothie. :) But now that I am down stairs I need to start getting ready for my day. But here's to a wonderful, beautiful, Sabbath day.

"Let prayer be your first response, not your last resort."-Joyce Meyers

To the sea.

It has been way too long since I have been able to do my nails. I was talking to my friend who has done her nails twice already since I've have time to do my nails the last time...she is a good friend of mine and we try to find and make new designs for our nails. This time I've been feeling like escaping...to the sea.

For the past couple of weeks, things have been been crazy, and the sea has been my calm, relaxing place. So what better then to once again paint my nails in a way that when I  can't get to the beach, I can just look down and have a moment of relaxation when chaos is all around me.

The colors I have chosen were obviously the colors of the sea...different blues (two with glitter and shimmer of course!)...and then I wanted to put starfishes on my nails as my design so I decided to use orange and white. And of course, I like using quick drying top coats and oils.

This is my left hand. I like how it came out. I think, though, next time instead of making the dots white, I would use a lighter orange so that it's not very bright, the dots, that is.

Here is my right hand. It's always harder to get my right hand done...but it's not as hard as when I started to to do my nails all the way back in Jr. High. It's a little bit sloppy around edges...but I like it.

So, "to the sea" I go whenever I can't get there, I just need to look down and see my nails. And then I smile. 

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you can not do."-anonymous

Classroom Changes.

These past few weeks have been extremely tough. Nothing that I can't get through...but still tough and pretty stressful. I guess it's good that I have made it a conscious effort to exercise every day; to run as much as I can. And it does help a lot. I have only been running for three days, and I honestly thought that it would take longer for me to get in the hang of running again, but I'm glad that it hasn't. I am so blessed to live here in Hawai'i and that makes running a lot easier because it's such a beautiful place to run...the view is soooo amazing.

My classroom is getting there. I keep forgetting to take pictures of the changes that I've done with it. I think that it's going to be good. The theme that I am going for is bugs. At first I was going to do caterpillars and butterflies...but then while I was making the huge caterpillar for my wall decoration, my lil keikis were telling me that they also wanted ladybugs, bees, and ants...oh and I can't forget the flowers for the bees. *laughs* So I have decided to just make a bunch a insects and ginormous flowers for my decorations. And it's going....slowly, but surely.

As for the layout of my room, I'm more happier with it. I was pretty upset when I had to switch rooms with out any notice...and I wasn't able to plan out how I wanted my room to be, but since then I have rearranged a few times and how it is now, I think I am now satisfied with it. My kids seem to like it as well...and I am loving all the new things that I am getting in my room. I just now need to transfer all my teacher stuff from my teacher cabinet to my room. Right now, JessiLynn and I have an understanding that we will just walk into each other's room and get what we need. We both have been frustrated with how things panned out...but then she's an amazing person and we both got this.

I just can't wait until we get our infant and toddler program up and running. It's been a hard thing to do, especially since I didn't know that it was going to fall a lot on me. I didn't ask for it, but then at least I know how to start one up now. It's a slow process...but it's getting there.

Well, I need to go to sleep, I feel myself dragging right now, but I just wanted to say...yay! I've been keeping my goal and running everyday! Hopefully I can keep it up! :)

http://www.lovethispic.com/image/30066/dont-quit

Day One: Running.

I just got out of the shower...and I thought that I was going to take a nap, but actually, I feel good. I haven't run in such a long time. Well, I take that back, I have run...but not proper run. I woke up at 6:00AM to get ready to run. I made sure the charge my nano iPod, because I find it hard to exercise without music. Well, actually, I have a hard time getting through my day without music...but I hate running and music is a good distraction.

See, just looking at the fun socks that I bought yesterday makes me happy. Yes, it's the little things that make me smile. :)

So, here I am ready to go. I decided to just run the Lanikai Loop, which is just two miles long and shouldn't take too long for me to run. It was as lot harder than I thought to go back into running...but I have decided to do it...and so I will. I have confident that I can...and I did. I thought that I was going to stop...but then the different things that was going through my mind were things like:

--Just. One. More. Step.

--You're not tired! Your body is...but not your mind.

--You've ran 8 miles straight before...you can do just 2!

--Hurry! You have things to do!

--The end is just around the corner.

--Just keep going.

--Your feet do NOT hurt.

...and things like that. Part of me was laughing at myself, and another part of me was trying to block out everything. And most definitely, the music helped a lot.

Before I start to do my school related things that I need to get done, I made myself some yummies to consume. I made a smoothie made out of acai, strawberries, bananas, a handful of granola, honey, and Matcha powder. And it was yummy as anything! And then my pot of Irish Breakfast with honey. It was a good start of a day. And now to get my day rolling...

"She who leaves a trail of glitter is never forgotten."-anonymous