Monthly Archives: April 2009

On Beauty

On Beauty

Operation Get A House is coming along quite smoothly. Operation Finish The School Year is not quite as smooth, but still progressing- the past two days were state mandated testing, which was just misery for me and the other teachers because we just had to sit and STARE at the students all day. We couldn’t read, couldn’t work on lesson plans- just monitored the students. Even when they were done at 12:00, I still spent the next 2 1/2 hours trying to keep them semi-quietly entertained without killing each other (and mine was one of the “slow” groups!). Ugh. It was horrible.

Anyways, enough complaining. I had a point I wanted to make. I recently came across this really sad and disturbing video on Youtube: Dove Video.

Anyways, it just reminded me of how distorted our view of beauty has become. No wonder so many people are ill with anorexia, depression, bulimia. No wonder that using cosmetics and plastic surgery are rising! We are being presented with something that isn’t even real. Whoever these people are who are creating these ads; they are manipulating us into thinking that this look is natural, when clearly it takes lots of professionals, makeup, and photoshopping to get there. And here I was thinking she looked great without the photoshop part…

The thing that I find the saddest of all, is when that was all over, I caught myself thinking, “I wish I could sign up for that sort of treatment!” But really, she was cute when she came in. I’m okay looking the way I am. But society has trained me to think that I want to have the same end result as she had!

Well done, Dove.  Great ad to make us think!

House Hunt- UPDATE!

House Hunt- UPDATE!

So….currently…. We have a contract! As long as nobody pulls out (*knock on wood*) we have gotten the contract for the house we want! I am so excited. Great price, good house size, seems well taken care of, and great yard! It’s in a really nice, beautiful neighborhood. It’s been quiet every time we’ve driven by on our own, at different times of the day… and there’s no homeowner association fees. 🙂

Pictures will be coming shortly!

I am so excited…. I was doing a happy dance in front of some of my coworkers today! They probably thought I was crazy…crazier than they already thought I was. 🙂

The House Hunt!

The House Hunt!

Well, I know I go on spurts of writing and then not writing for a long time, but I’ve been actually really busy– if that’s a good excuse or not…

Anyways- the past weekend or two Jared and I have been meeting with a realtor and house hunting (Jared and I have been looking a lot on our own-more like “window shopping” so we knew what area we wanted and for what prices, etc). This weekend we spent hours actually looking inside houses and doing the walkthrougs and we found two we really liked, and one of those for a really good price….

After dinner, we went back this evening and did another thorough walkthrough with our wonderful and helpful agent, who has definitely been GREAT to work with. Shortly after that, we decided to put in an offer and see where this goes. We’ve been pre-approved and things are looking good on that end, but now we are playing the waiting game.

Keep you updated!