Type in "[your name] needs" in the Google search.
Michelle needs 2 pee
*More than you could possibly imagine. In the mornings it is ridiculous how much I have to pee, and then through out the day like every 20 minutes... The joys of pregnancy!!!!

Type in "[your name] looks like" in Google search.
Michelle looks like a MOM
*I had to use this one!!! I hope I do!!!

Type in "[your name] says" in Google search.
How long until Michelle says something stupid?
*probably won't take very long!!!!

Type in "[your name] wants" in Google search.
Michelle wants to earn money to buy a teeshirt.
*Sure, it's one reason why I do earn money!!!

Type in "[your name] does" in Google search.
Michelle does the Daily Show
*That would be fun! I like that show, even though I am not much into politics!!!

Type in "[your name] hates" in Google search.
Michelle hates contacts
*I have stopped wearing my contacts. They are for a special night out or occasion. They are just a hassle, much easier to put my glasses on and be done with it!!

Type in "[your name] asks" in Google search.
Michelle asks for stimulation ...
*Enough said ;)

Type in "[your name] likes " in Google search
michelle likes to dance
*It's true, I do!!

Type in "[your name] eats " in Google search.
Michelle eats mozarella sticks the lazy way
*I love mozarella sticks.. But I don't eat them the lazy way(how ever that is), I will often peel all the breading off the sticks and just eat the cheese which is a lot of work!

Type in "[your name] wears " in Google search.
Michelle Wears Isabel Toledo!
*This is actually one about Michelle Obama, they all were, Don't think i will ever be able to afford what she is wearing!!

Type in "[your name] was arrested for" in Google Search.
Michelle... Arrested For Clowning Around As A Cow?
*Interesting, that's all I can say, I may have to go and read the whole story on this!!

Type in "[your name] goes" in Google search.
Michelle Goes Insane Lipsyncing Street Fight by Hedley
*Haha

Snow, lots of ice, then more snow...

So I feel like I have not posted FOREVER, even though it's only been a couple of days. On Monday night it was expected to snow throughout the night leaving several inches of snow. Having had a bad headache, I went to bed at 9:00 Monday night, so I woke up at like 3am, wide awake. Knowing it was supposed to snow, I looked outside, and there was a bit of a covering, but when I turned on the tv, our county was still open for Tuesday. Being wide awake, I watched tv for about an hour, and then forced myself to go back to bed as I would have to be at work the next morning. I did fall back to sleep until about 5:30, and our schools had been cancelled, so no work for me!!! Josh still had to go to work, so he took the Jeep because there was no way I was going out in that stuff. Here are some pictures of Tuesday:

Tuesday morning when we woke up

Later in the afternoon

Zander playing in the snow later on in the afternoon. It was funny to watch because it had been icing and sleeting during the day, so the snow was hard on top. Zander would take a few steps and then sink down into the snow!!!

Sometime late evening, early night, the ice storm began, and by 7:30 school was cancelled again for Wednesday, again no work for me!! Total number of snow days this school year so far: 7! Compared to 1 in my 4 previous years of teaching!!! The first five "snow days" were not really snow days, but "wind days" from the wind storm we experienced back in September which was remnants of Hurricane Ike. Josh got some awesome pictures of the ice: This is what I did most of the day Tuesday on my day off: It's pretty cute but I really wish I would have saved it for later this week, because we lost cable sometime Tuesday evening. I finished my picture(It's paint by number, I'm so not that talented when it comes to art!!!) around 2 in the morning. As I laid down in my bed, there was a horrible noise. It honestly sounded as if all of the ice on our roof had fallen off into the backyard. I got up to check it out, and didn't see anything out of the ordinary in the backyard, but as I was checking it out, I again heard the noise, this time coming from out front. I went out front and the noises began, and it seemed it did not stop. Limbs and trees behind the houses across the street from us were crackling and breaking off like crazy. Not only that but it looked as though we were having a lightning storm with so many power lines going down, with the occasional very loud boom from transformers blowing up. It was amazing to me. I was just standing on my porch wondering how neighbors were able to sleep through this. I tried to get Josh up, but all he did was tell me he could hear from the bedroom and turned over and began snoring once again!!! I have this video I want to share. I've tried several times to get this to load but it will not. So when I figure out how to load it I will!

I finally went to bed, but have no idea what time it was as I was just in awe and amazed at what I was seeing and hearing. Wednesday morning, as Josh got up to get ready for work, I was in between sleep and awake, when I heard the crackling sound, as I layed there, I thought, that sounds really, really close. As I realized the noise was very close, and that a branch was getting ready to fall on the roof right over me, I jumped out of bed, and have never moved so quickly in my life!! Josh was just laughing as I ran into the hallway, at how fast I was moving!!! Luckily the limb of the tree in our next door neighbors yard did not hit our house, it didn't even really come that close to the house, even though it sounded as it was!!! So we were lucky as many in our city and state and states surrounding us are without power including my parents and Jen, my sister. We only lost our cable. And we have no damage to the house or cars, unlike some of our neighbors: Check out this power line or cable line, not sure which one it is... Look how low to the ground it was. Apparently their are power lines down like this all over the place, making it very dangerous to even be out of the house at all After the ice subsided Wednesday morning, the snow began once again. I didn't get any pictures of the snow coming down, as I fell asleep on the couch after Josh left for work and didn't wake up until noon. I opened the front door to find this: A comparison from Tuesday to Wednesday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Some other pretty cool pictures I got yesterday: The ice on every thing is amazing!! Our bushes in front of the house did not fare to well, but one was dead already and the other dieing, so we were already replacing them anyway Compare this picture on Wednesday to the picture above from Tuesday and compare how much the ice made the trees bend over!!! So that's how this week has been to me. The cable came back on this afternoon around 4! I haven't done much at all except sleep!!! I'm getting spoiled with the mid-day naps, Don't know how I will do on Monday when it's back to work and no option to take a nap!!! So we are off until Monday. Too many schools in the county are without electricity. Plus with all the downed and low power lines it would be to dangerous to have kids waiting at bus stops. So that is a total of 9 days off this year. We will have to make 7 of those up as the we have made 2 of the days up already. We will be in school at the beginning of June! While it's nice to have the time off now; when June hits I will be wishing that we were at home on vacation! It's stayed in the mid to upper 20's here since the storm. Expecting light snow tomorrow but the weather men are saying nothing that should accumlate. It's supposed to get up to the low to mid-40's by Sunday so that will begin the thawing out process. Sorry this post is so lengthy!! I hopeyou enjoy some of the pictures that I shared with you!!!

Here is my baby at 10 weeks!!! It's starting to look more human with the little fingers and toes, and no more tail!!! I have to say that I guess I've been pretty lucky as I keep reading that the morning sickness should be lessening at this point in the pregnancy and I still have yet to experience any!!! But I want to take this quote from the website pregnancy.com, because it is so true:

Your Pregnancy: Week 10
"The roller coaster of nausea may almost be over, but the roller coaster of emotions (happy, sad, crying, mad; and that's all in the last 30 seconds) is just revving up. No one will understand why Friends reruns are making you cry, so don't bother trying to explain it."

I have to put that on here because it happened tonight. I should be extremely ecstatic right now. I finally got my new car, which I will post a picture of later! But as we left Josh's parents tonight from showing off the car, I was really hungry. We decided to go to Steak-n-Shake, but the place was packed, so then we were going to go to O'Charley's.. Packed as well. We decided to go to Mr. Gatti's/Gatti Land because it's a buffet and it would be quick, but as we pulled into the parking lot, it too was packed. So we decided just to pick something up. Josh said he was just going to White Castle. Instead of saying that I didn't want that I just cried. He was like what is wrong with you? All I could do was say just go to White Castle if that's what you want, It will be fine. I was kind of mad at him for saying he was going there. And the fact that I ALWAYS have to make the decision. Any other time I would have been like no, I'm not feeling like White Castle, but the problem was, nothing sounded that great to me, and I was just so hungry. Anyway, Josh ended up just coming home and we ordered a pizza, which was good enough for me!



And another reason I posted the quote was because for the past week or two I have really been missing the show Friends. This is my favorite show EVER. I mean, like really wishing it was still on and like there is an empty part of my life because it doesn't come on anymore. I have even been staying up to watch it at night from 11:30-12:30 when FOX plays two episodes each night. I haven't had any tears from watching it yet, but just a deep yearning for the show to return with new episodes.I mean there's just not a show on tv like it anymore. Sure I have my shows and How I Met Your Mother is very funny and I enjoy it a lot but it's no Friends.

Anyway, enough of my rambling on about that, onto something else!!!
Like I mentioned before I got my new car!!!! Here it is:

Isn't she beautiful??? After almost three months without a car, I have one now, and it is officially ours!!! Josh went back to the bank with all the paperwork signed this morning and so I am now allowing myself to be excited and enjoy it! So I have to give a big thanks to my DADDY for helping us out with this! If it weren't for him we wouldn't have been able to do it. It's a 2007 Jeep Commander, Steel Metallic Blue is the color. It's so big, I was nervous to drive it when he picked me up from work last night. I didn't test drive it, because it was a bit icy in places when we went to do so. But it was awesome, I don't even realize how big it really is. We bought it from Carmax. They were really great to work with, and I would have to recommend to everyone looking for a car if there's one around you, check them out!!

We went to T.G.I.Friday's to celebrate with a good dinner last night. I have to say if you go anytime soon try the Chicken Parmesan Sliders. They were delicious!

I guess I will quit my ramblings for tonight. Tomorrow is a day of cleaning if I can bring myself to do it. Laundry has gotten piled up as well as the dishes. Then just doing my lesson plans for the week. The next 9 weeks are going to be long!!! No break what so ever, just 9 5-day weeks in a row. This time of year there aren't many breaks, but we usually get a couple of days in February without the students for conferences and a professional development day, but due to the wind storm that hit Louisville in the fall, they have decided to make those make-up days. It doesn't sound pleasing right now, but I guess when we actually get out before June I will be thankful!!!

Have a great Sunday!!!

25 Random Things About Me

I was given this through facebook but thought it would be fun to post on here as well.

Rules: Once you've read this, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you.


1. I had/have a heartshaped birthmark on my cheek when I was little, at times, while very faint, you can still see it.

2. When I was little I used to think how cool it would be to marry someone with a last name that started with M, so my initials were MNM and now they really are!!!

3. I love musicals, so much that I wish our world was a huge musical... I wish we could just burst out in song and dance at any minute of the day!!

4. I love peanut butter on sandwiches, candy, pies, by itself, but HATE peanut butter cookies

5. I am absolutely obsessed with way too many reality tv shows

6. It is a goal of mine to be on the reality show Amazing Race

7. I will be about 23 days to late of my goal to have a baby before my 30th birthday, if my due date holds

8. When I start reading a book chances are I will finish that book within a days time

9. I played Field Hockey in college for two years

10. My senior year of high school, I was chosen to recieve a Sportsmanship Award out of all Catholic High School senior athletes

11. My best subject in high school was Math: averages of 100% or better in 3 out of the 4 years (algebra II, geometry and math analysis)

12. I took 3 years of French in high school and 3 semesters of Spanish in college, and can't speak a lick of either language now

13. When we were younger, my siblings, a friend and me used to make movies, and we still have them on tape. Everything from murder mysteries to split personalities!

14. I've only had three jobs in my life: Long John Silvers cashier, Skyline Chili waitress/manager and Special Ed. teacher

15. My dream vacation is to visit Greece

16. My favorite music is Oldies

17. I was called Chelle (Shelley) for the first 5 years of my life

18. I don't ever remember a time when I didn't want to be a teacher. (This is Christy's, but as it is true for me I am keeping it as well!!)

19. I have only been to two true concerts in my life (Aerosmith and Britney Spears)

20. I am the only girl of my generation on my dads side that has not married someone with a name of an uncle or my dad with only two left to be married

21. I love Tom Petty

22. My favorite book of all times is The Outsiders

23. I have broken my right arm three times

24. I pulled the ligaments and tendons in my knee when I was a senior in high school... doing the Tootsie Roll!!!

25. I hardly ever cook at my house. When we do prepare meals, Josh does the majority of the cooking

I can't remember

This is a picture of my hubby and me on our honeymoon in June last year. I am really wishing I was there right now!!!

O.k, so my plan for this post was to put up the illustration of my baby at 9 weeks, only I for some reason can not figure out how to do it. I was able to do it last week at 8 weeks. But I have tried for the past 2 nights to get the html code and can not and have no recollection of how I did it a week ago. So if anyone can help me out, please do. I really do feel stupid!!!!

Everything is going well here. On Sunday I was feeling a cold coming on, but got through the day fine. Monday I woke up, and did not feel good at all. I literally slept all day long. I would get up for an hour, then sleep for two, pretty much all day long. Tuesday I woke up and felt so much better. So I am very thankful that we had Monday off, it gave me a chance to relax and rest, which is apparently what was needed.

This week has had its ups and downs. Still working on getting my car. Wednesday Josh and my dad got to the bank only to find out there had been a mix up and we were not able to get the check until Thursday. Thursday, check in our hand, Josh gets a call from the dealership saying that there had been a recall and that they would have it back by Today and we could pick it up in the evening. Of course when Josh called this evening, they still didn't have it back... They will definitely have it for us tomorrow. I will believe it when I am driving off of the car lot keys in ignition and no salesmen in the car with me. It's so aggravating, I just want a car, you know?

Tuesday was a great day. We were allowed to watch the inauguration throughout the day at work. My students were really interested and involved in it. They kept asking questions about where they were and who people were. It was really fun. We had a little coloring activity book of Obama and his life history. They really really enjoyed that as well, so it was an awesome day, as it should have been. I hope 20 years down the road they will be telling kids where they were on that wonderful day in our country's history. I know I will be able to!!!!

The rest of the week though, man I don't know if my patience is growing thinner or if I'm just aggravated more easily. Because I am about to lose it at work. A couple of my students seem to have rallied together and said let's make her day miserable. It's alright though, I've got back up with my next door neighbor, and I've written a couple of referrals. Then my coworker, every time she talks I just want to tell her to shut up. It's like everything that comes out of her mouth is just nonsense. Hopefully this will go away, because if it doesn't I don't know how I'm going to make it the rest of the year.

Well that's really all that's going on around here. UofL was ranked #12 in the ESPN poll and #9 in the AP poll, so I was extremely happy and surprised by the results!!! Plus they won again last night by 19 against Rutgers, so that is always great news!!!

If I ever figure out how to post my picture of the 9 week baby, I will do so!!! Have a great FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cards and Steelers are on a Roll!!!

I hope this post turns out. There are a lot of pictures and all of them are coming out in codes, so hopefully I move the right ones where they are supposed to be!!!



Well... My weekend... FABULOUS!!!! First of all Saturday night as I've mentioned a time or two, the #20 UofL Cardinals beat #1 Pittsburgh!!!! I had to watch the game by myself because Josh had to work late. Another stressful game. But they did it. They played their hearts out and won 69-63. No rankings out yet, as that was the first thing I checked this morning!!! I am saying UofL will now be ranked about
15th, even though they should be a little higher, I'm keeping my hopes low so I don't get disappointed. I wish I would have taken some pictures, but it never crossed my game while the game was on, you'll see in a moment what I mean. I'm very proud and excited for the Cards!!! Next game is against Rutgers on Wednesday!!!

Sunday was a full day. We went all around looking at cars, but you wouldn't believe how many are closed on Sunday, even when the website says they are open!!! Anyway we ended up at Carmax and found a 2007 Jeep Commander right at our price. Keep your fingers crossed that we get it. We have to figure out how Josh and Dad are going to get to the bank at the same time to sign for the check and Carmax won't hold the car for us. So it's just a lot of hopes that it still is there when we do find the chance!! It's an awesome car. It's bigger than I was looking at before, but the deal on it we can't beat!!!!

Then when we got home and prepared for the Steelers game. Well I did anyway...



When I finally woke him up with about 10 minutes till the game, we took some photos...



This would be a really good picture if my eyes were open, something about the flash of my camera, all of the pictures of me have my eyes closed.
Then our true Steeler pride coming out...



My favorite player, Hines Ward, making the most awesome catch of the game



Sadly, he hurt his knee on the play, tried to come back in a couple plays later, stayed in for one or two plays and then didn't return.


The first touchdown of the game, before the score was 6-0, then Holmes ran it in to make it 13-0


13-7 was the halftime score!!!! It was a good half, but a whole other half to make it through.

As the second half started, Zander even got interested


The second half started and we kind of chilled, it was too close to be excited, more like stressful was the word. We coudn't seem to do anything with the ball, but continued to stop the Ravens as well. At one point the Steelers made a field goal, and then the Ravens scored a touchdown. So the score was 16-14 Steelers.

Josh was becoming more and more aggravated and restless. Ravens had the ball, we had to stop them.

Josh's favorite player is Troy Polamalu, he is a safety on defense


I told Josh I felt a Polamalu interception coming soon, and here is what happened:


Not only did he intercept but he ran it in for the touchdown!!!!

Here is what followed inside my house:


and then Josh saying giving me props for calling it...


So it is settled, Pittsburgh Steelers against the Arizona Cardinals in the Superbowl in two weeks, February 1st!


I kept telling people how funny it was that on Saturday night during the basketball game I was pulling for Pittsburgh to lose, but on Sunday I would be pulling for Pittsburgh to win. Something even more ironic that my dad pointed out last night:
On Saturday I was rooting for the Cardinals to beat Pittsburgh... In two weeks I will be rooting for Pittsburgh to beat the Cardinals. Funny, isn't it???

Anyway like I said it was a wonderful weekend, things are good. At some time during the game, there was noise outside so Josh opened the door to see what it was and this is what was there:


And this morning at 8:30:


Pretty isn't it? I don't think anymore is expected, but at least we can say we had a day of snow this winter!
Hope I didn't bore you all with my breakdown of the game!!! Have a great day!!

A little of this and little of that

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This is my baby as of earlier this week.

So far everything is going really well:

No morning sickness yet (knocking on wood)

No strange food cravings. People keep telling me how funny it's going to be when I start actually getting cravings because I am so picky and don't eat a lot of variety of things. I use no condiments (hate ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise) They just do not look appetizing to me. And I enjoy my food plain so why should I add something that I just don't think would taste good. About the only thing I add to food is salt and hot sauce or crushed peppers. And like I said I don't eat a lot of variety of stuff. I could live off of Turkey sandwiches, pizza, spaghetti, and Mexican food. I wouldn't need anything else. So when the day comes that I crave a bacon cheeseburger with pickles, it will be very interesting. I wonder if I will crave things like that since I am so picky, I guess I will find out soon enough.

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Things that I am experiencing:

Headaches: I've always suffered from headaches, and Excedrin migraine will do the trick in minutes for me, but now I am not able to take them. Not only do they contain aspirin but are also loaded with caffeine. So far the Tylenol has worked well enough to get me through the day. On Wednesday I had a horrible headache from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed. I got through the day at work, but as soon as I came home I went to bed for about an hour or so. When I woke up it seemed to be better, but that lasted for about 30 minutes, so I went back to bed, and on Thursday I was fine. If anyone has any suggestions about anything else that will help with the headaches I would love to hear them!!!

Exhaustion: On Tuesday, whether it was the headache or not, I felt like I could have fallen asleep at my desk at work by 12 noon. I was so tired. It felt like I had slept for a total of an hour the night before. Then again on Friday I was just tired all day long. When I got home at 5:30, Josh asked what I wanted for dinner, and I said sleep. So I went to take a short nap at 6 and slept until 8!!! I got up still feeling very tired, but ate dinner and watched Friday Night Lights. Then I went back to bed at 10:30 and didn't wake up at all until 9 this morning. I vaguely remember Josh telling me bye this morning when he left for work. I was talking to my dad this morning and he said good for you.. That's what you are supposed to do!

That's really it so far. Nothing too bad.

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It's a long weekend, so that excites me very much! Should be a good one. I'm going to clean a little bit today, mainly just laundry and dishes and picking up junk around the house. Then UofL plays #1 Pittsburgh tonight so that will be a good one. Then tomorrow Josh is off work. He just has to go in to open the store and then we are going to go have lunch at Skyline Chili where a great friend works. Then we are going to go car shopping once again. I hope it goes well, I really, really need a car of my own. Then Pittsburgh Steelers play Baltimore for their shot at the superbowl!! And like I said no school Monday so it will be a day of relaxation!!!

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I hope everyone has a great weekend!! And if by chance I don't post again before then, really take time to enjoy Tuesday's inauguration. It's a great day for our Country!! We are going to watch the swearing in at school, and all week lessons are based on the history being made!! I am truly happy and excited where the United States is headed and believe that everyone should be proud of what we have done and how far we have come!!! I see good things ahead in the future!