Fall Semester 2009 - 17 hours
Papers written: 14
Pages written: 133
Avg. pages per paper: 9.5
Books read: 29
Pages read: 7797
Avg. pages per book: 269
Avg. papers written per week (14 papers vs. 14 class weeks): 1
Avg. pages written per week (133 pgs. vs. 14 class weeks): 9.5
Avg. books read per week: 2.1
Avg. pages read per week: 557
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Houses, Dress Up, and Runnning as Fast as You Can
The Anderson Christmas Party
The Gingerbread Man cooked in the oven...
but don't worry... he didn't escape!
Santa, Tannenbaum, and a Christmas gift came caroling!
I'm glad we can still celebrate Christmas together.
We also made Gingerbread houses. Below is the Anderson residence.
(Please note Eric's bear bungee jumping off the roof!)
(Please note Eric's bear bungee jumping off the roof!)
Christmastime is Here!
Our house now looks like Christmas! We decorated our tree, listened to Christmas music, and tried to stay warm! This week the weather was brrrrrrrrr! I stayed below 0 degrees most of the week.
Lighting the tree
The stockings were hung by the bar with care...
Ta da!
Merry Christmas!
Parade Pictures
The first Saturday in December Eric and I joined our friends for the Downtown Denver Christmas Parade! It was a cold and fun time!
Monday, November 30, 2009
This One's for You, Sus
10 Honest Things About Me
also titled, More Than You'll Ever Need to Know
1. I make a lot of "never" statements that usually end up coming true. For example...
"I'll never date Eric." "I'm never getting Facebook or a blog." "I'm never going back to school." or case in point... "I'll never write lists about myself." As I usually eat my words, I am working on changing my statements to... "I don't plan on having kids for X years" "I don't think I want to live in suburbia..." etc.
Okay, one down.
2. I am much better at planning to workout than actually doing so. Perhaps, my intrinsic motivation for working out is not what it should be. This is somewhat embarrassing as I have played sports since a young child and even ran competitively in high school. I do much better working out with a buddy or hopefully with joining a gym, which Eric and I did yesterday.
3. I love hosting parties! When I was a young child I would make elaborate decorations for birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day... you name it. I would also plan carnivals in my backyard for the neighborhood friends. This has not waned with age, and owning a house has made partying a priority. We've had a Mexican Birthday Party, PJ party, game party, and we have an exciting Christmas party and January's a Boring Month party on the horizon.
4. I frequently make up ridiculous songs to common tunes. This is useful in the teaching profession and when I was memorizing vocabulary words in sixth grade, but I must honestly admit that I pretty much make them up all the time. I really can't share any with you because a) it's embarrassing and b) they are very spur of the moment and I don't normally remember them.
I have, however, never done karaoke.
5. I can be long-winded. See above numbers. I can talk for hours about things I am passionate about including poverty, politics, education, Sierra Leone, education.... But in honor of this "revelation" I'll stop here.
Lucky you.
6. Speaking of education (mwa haha), I knew I wanted to be a teacher at the ripe ol' age of 5. I marched home from kindergarten, bribed my 3 year old brother, and played school. I especially loved grading the papers. Twenty years later, after a brief middle school stint where I was going to be a psychologist b/c school is so uncool at that age, I am teaching my fifth class how to read. And I still love it all... except grading papers.
7. I love to bake and cook. This is a skill I've been acquiring post getting married. With my mother-in-law the world's sweetest Martha Stewart, I guess I figured I needed to make some good faith efforts in the kitchen. And I discovered, I like to cook fun and fancier things. But what I enjoy most is when Eric and I cook together. Shrimp stuffed tomato anyone?
You know you're skimming.
8. Speaking of Eric... I love him a lot. He is good for me- a good leader, a good husband, a good friend. He is my gauge and filter for when number 5 kicks in. He has a gift for communicating and putting others at ease. He's going to be a blessing to a lot of people in his ministry. He gives the best anniversary gifts ever. He's made me a liberal and ever so slightly a nerd. And we've almost been married for 4 years, if you round up by half a year. He will probably think this post is ridiculous.
9. I love language. I'm way into Scrabble; I've taken up crosswords; I started a bookclub; I get great pleasure out of editing papers; I get an even greater pleasure out of explaining the grammar rules behind my editing marks; I love commas (except in this sentence); it was a beautiful day when I discovered diagramming in sixth grade; and I secretly enjoyed writing literary analysis papers in high school as well as my course in Advanced English Grammar in college.
Lest you think to highly of me, I also greatly enjoyed the Twilight series.
10. I love being 25, and I love living in Denver.
Enough said.
Oh and... I'm supposed to nominate other people to write these honest things. So I nominate...
1. My Grandma (GM, I'm talking to you!) I know you won't write a blog, but this is my secret reminder of what I do want someday :)
2. Carissa You have exciting things happening- write about them :)
3. Amy I'm sure you'd love this exercise.
4. Julie I think you'd actually enjoy it.
5. Mary Maybe you could do a photography one.
also titled, More Than You'll Ever Need to Know
1. I make a lot of "never" statements that usually end up coming true. For example...
"I'll never date Eric." "I'm never getting Facebook or a blog." "I'm never going back to school." or case in point... "I'll never write lists about myself." As I usually eat my words, I am working on changing my statements to... "I don't plan on having kids for X years" "I don't think I want to live in suburbia..." etc.
Okay, one down.
2. I am much better at planning to workout than actually doing so. Perhaps, my intrinsic motivation for working out is not what it should be. This is somewhat embarrassing as I have played sports since a young child and even ran competitively in high school. I do much better working out with a buddy or hopefully with joining a gym, which Eric and I did yesterday.
3. I love hosting parties! When I was a young child I would make elaborate decorations for birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day... you name it. I would also plan carnivals in my backyard for the neighborhood friends. This has not waned with age, and owning a house has made partying a priority. We've had a Mexican Birthday Party, PJ party, game party, and we have an exciting Christmas party and January's a Boring Month party on the horizon.
4. I frequently make up ridiculous songs to common tunes. This is useful in the teaching profession and when I was memorizing vocabulary words in sixth grade, but I must honestly admit that I pretty much make them up all the time. I really can't share any with you because a) it's embarrassing and b) they are very spur of the moment and I don't normally remember them.
I have, however, never done karaoke.
5. I can be long-winded. See above numbers. I can talk for hours about things I am passionate about including poverty, politics, education, Sierra Leone, education.... But in honor of this "revelation" I'll stop here.
Lucky you.
6. Speaking of education (mwa haha), I knew I wanted to be a teacher at the ripe ol' age of 5. I marched home from kindergarten, bribed my 3 year old brother, and played school. I especially loved grading the papers. Twenty years later, after a brief middle school stint where I was going to be a psychologist b/c school is so uncool at that age, I am teaching my fifth class how to read. And I still love it all... except grading papers.
7. I love to bake and cook. This is a skill I've been acquiring post getting married. With my mother-in-law the world's sweetest Martha Stewart, I guess I figured I needed to make some good faith efforts in the kitchen. And I discovered, I like to cook fun and fancier things. But what I enjoy most is when Eric and I cook together. Shrimp stuffed tomato anyone?
You know you're skimming.
8. Speaking of Eric... I love him a lot. He is good for me- a good leader, a good husband, a good friend. He is my gauge and filter for when number 5 kicks in. He has a gift for communicating and putting others at ease. He's going to be a blessing to a lot of people in his ministry. He gives the best anniversary gifts ever. He's made me a liberal and ever so slightly a nerd. And we've almost been married for 4 years, if you round up by half a year. He will probably think this post is ridiculous.
9. I love language. I'm way into Scrabble; I've taken up crosswords; I started a bookclub; I get great pleasure out of editing papers; I get an even greater pleasure out of explaining the grammar rules behind my editing marks; I love commas (except in this sentence); it was a beautiful day when I discovered diagramming in sixth grade; and I secretly enjoyed writing literary analysis papers in high school as well as my course in Advanced English Grammar in college.
Lest you think to highly of me, I also greatly enjoyed the Twilight series.
10. I love being 25, and I love living in Denver.
Enough said.
Oh and... I'm supposed to nominate other people to write these honest things. So I nominate...
1. My Grandma (GM, I'm talking to you!) I know you won't write a blog, but this is my secret reminder of what I do want someday :)
2. Carissa You have exciting things happening- write about them :)
3. Amy I'm sure you'd love this exercise.
4. Julie I think you'd actually enjoy it.
5. Mary Maybe you could do a photography one.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Over the Mountains and Down I-40...
This year all the Andersons traveled to Sedona for Thanksgiving! My grandparents graciously hosted and Eric's parents, brother, and 3 sisters all graciously traveled. It was a lot of fun! We did some good hiking and sight-seeing and game playing. (By some kind of miracle, I won Settlers.) Oh, and we ate yummy food too! I wish I had more pictures to post, but I am waiting on them from family members who were better at taking pictures! Having good family together for the holiday reminded me of how thankful I am for all of them!Scenic views
Eric's mom, Laura, and my hardcore Grandpa
Alyssa being glamorous...
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Cowboys and Settlers
Though we didn't really dress up, we still had a lot of fun! While passing out candy to ages 1 to like 40???, we had friends over for an October 31 game night. First Eli settled it in Settlers with a close win, and then we went on to play the best game ever: BANG! I was the sheriff for the first time ever, and I am sad to report that my deputies did not do their job, nor I mine, and the west has yet to be won! However, it was awesome fun. Even all my skeptical friends agreed. If you want to play Settlers with us sometime, please do! But if you want to play BANG you need to become friends with Eli and Naomi first :)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
