(P.S. I am seriously in love with this jacket. As in, I can't get enough of it, want to wear it every single day kind of love. I know that black typically isn't the go to color for spring but when you've got a hot motorcycle jacket this sexy, how can you not wear it every day?!? Choies has got terrific selection and reasonable prices. It might just be my best clothing selection of the year. OF THE YEAR!)
Also. Please ignore how awkward I look in fashion pictures. It's about all I can do to figure out how to dress myself.
Moving onward.
Don't you just love May?!? You know... like wake up every day with a light heart and a spring in your step and a desire to change the whole world kind of love? You see, to a school teacher like myself, May is the Friday of the school year. Nothing can go wrong on a Friday, right? Even if you bomb a test or your boss rides you too hard or you get in fight with your husband, HECK! It's Friday! So imagine a whole month of Fridays... that is my May. Our school year has reached its figurative Friday and let me tell you what, those hoodlum rugrats and I are stoked!
Disclaimer: I'm trying my best to not be sad. Having a job I love is a blessing. Leaving that job for new adventure is another blessing, not a sorrow. I couldn't help it though, today, when I looked at my third period class full of seniors- trying so desperately to understand the complex grammar. I felt a wave of sadness. Of missing. Of pre-nostalgia. (Don't know what that is? Read up!) It's hard to know that someday these faces that I see every other day for 90 minutes will not be a part of my life. Some of these tikes I've had for three straight years, and boy, it is hard to let them go.
But that's not what this post is supposed to be about! It's not a cry baby post! It's a happy post! Happy because it's Figurative Friday and because we LOVE us some Figurative Fridays!
School feels so much more lighthearted in May. Today I was teaching the kids the difference between lay and lie and what do you know? I taught it all wrong! And then we all laughed and I said, "Guys! I taught you guys the opposite way! I've lost all my credibility! Now you're never going to listen to a dang thing I say!" and we laughed some more and learned the right way. There was no panic or stress or feeling of discomfort because we like each other and it's May and we all don't much mind trying to figure out some weird grammar concept even if the teacher screws it up.
(Extra credit: Do any of you know the difference between lie and lay? How about laid and lain? NO CHEATING!)
And then after school I thought about taking papers home to grade, but I thought, "No! It's Figurative Friday! No more papers home!" and I walked out of the building right at 3:00 and drove home feeling care free and came home to a clean home and a kissy Greg and in one hour we will go on a date to Cafe Rio and a play and aren't figurative Fridays the best?!?
Yep. I do believe I'm in love May.
(And I do believe this book is rubbing off of me.)
this outfit is fabulous. and your hair!!!!! oooooooobbbbbbsessed. you make me not want to grow mine out again. love it!
ReplyDeleteYou made this jacket so right for spring with the bright colored skirt and strappy shoes! Loving the hair :) Your "lay/lie" commentary made me laugh :)
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I am in loooove with this outfit!!! You look amazing! And way skinny! Have a fabulous day :)
ReplyDeleteI love the haircut more than anything!
ReplyDeleteI love May too!
ReplyDeleteOkay, you got me missing school today! Those days in May really are such a wonderful fun time. I used to let my design classes go outside for projects or book work because it was just too beautiful to keep them in doors! And we always have the Bingham car show and Skills testing. . . oh man, for the first time since I quit I'm really feeling it today.
ReplyDeleteI love May! There's always so much going on and the weather is perfect. Love your outfit!
ReplyDeleteYou nailed it! As an 8th grade Language Arts teacher, I feel the same way about May. Our state testing is over, and the atmosphere is much more laid back.
ReplyDeleteYour hair looks fabulous! Great cut and color!
I wish I could pull off that hair!
ReplyDeleteGrammar and I are best friends, but the ONE thing I never get right is lie/lay. Ironically, it's my dad's only grammatical pet peeve. I wish he had passed it on to me!
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should do fashion posts, you look comfortable enough and that jacket is amazing.
ReplyDeleteI am now just a tinge missing high school, but only because i do remember those times and end of year and how everything just seemed to be okay and the teachers well much more relaxed and ready themselves for summer.
spring has always been an awakening time for me and i have always loved it. the warm sun, the light breeze, the birds, flowers, and everything coming back to life. I hope you have the best Friday Ever!
You look gorgeous! Love it!
ReplyDeletexo, Jessica
Adorable outfit!
ReplyDeleteGiving lie/lay a shot...
Lay - "Please lay the paper on the table."
Lie - "I'm going to lie by the pool."
Lay involves an object (ie the paper), where lie does not involve an object.
...I think. :)
DANG GIRL. You look AWESOME!
ReplyDeleteYou are freaking adorable! You're making me want to chop my hair back into an A-line! Rock it lady.
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I am obsessed with that jacket too!! & your fashion poses are fabulous!!
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Animate objects lie, inanimate lay, I think? I haven't a clue about lay and lain!
ReplyDeleteThat jacket is fabulous, no wonder you love it so much! :)
ReplyDeleteMiddle pic is awesome!! Love the jacket!
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Work situation. Lift it up if you can please. :-)
Oh yes, I have completely stopped staying late to grade papers. Friday indeed! You look GORGEOUS in those pictures!
ReplyDeleteI love your hair and the jacket is cute. May does seem to be a more easy going month, which is a good thing.
ReplyDeleteBonnie, you look amazing! I love, love, love your hair!
ReplyDeleteYour hair is so cute! I love the jacket too! :)
ReplyDeleteummm...can I just say...you hair looks freakin' amazing???
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Suzanne
I'll jump on the hair train (wait...that sounds weird ha ha). Your hair is super cute and perfect for summer!
ReplyDeleteThis is how I remember the difference: People can tell lies, so they lie down. Things can't tell lies, so you must lay them on the table.
ReplyDeleteThen people lay down or have lain down, but things are always laid. (No clever way of remembering those though...at least, not yet. :)