Overflowing

More than one thing in my life is overflowing at the moment. No this isn't a touching, abstract post. Things are actually overflowing. 

1. Laundry

A never ending story in my apartment. Four full laundry bins, and I am waiting as long as possible to do them. Reason: Paying for laundry kills me and I am busy, tired, and frankly too lazy to wash them if I still have clean stuff to wear.

2. Closet

It takes a huge amount of strength to slide the clothes on the rod to put more in my closet. Reason: I love clothes and have a problem throwing things away, because I just might wear it someday. I promise myself I will get rid of some clothes before the move because I think it would be ridiculous to move clothes I have not worn and probably never will. Other closets in my house are just as full and for the same reason. I will make the same promise for them.

3. Camera

I would accompany this post with pictures of the overflowing parts of my life, but my camera has not been uploaded since before Christmas. Reason: I took tons of pictures of my parents house at Christmas to be organized into folders by room to assist in decorating next year. (Once they are loaded, I will post some and explain). I planned to upload them and organize while we drove to Tulsa after Christmas, but I forgot my camera cord. So I continued to take pictures on our trip, New Years and some other random stuff and never had time to upload them. A few weeks ago, I decided to sit down and at least upload so I could use my camera for other stuff and realized I lost the cord. Searched everywhere, called my parents to see if it was at their house, and stressed for a good number of days before ordering one from Ebay. It just came in the other day. I haven't had the time, energy, or patience to even think about it.

So maybe not that many things are overflowing, but to me, it's frustrating! Ahh...life.

Free for all...well not all!

This semester, one of my classes had an assignment to find and receive free materials for the classroom. I never knew what kind of really cool, free materials were available for classroom teachers! I was really excited about receiving teaching kits, posters, videos and more for my classroom. One problem...

I don't actually have a physical classroom...yet! If for some reason a company out there read this and thought we might be committing some type of fraud, I will have a classroom within the next year. In the mean time, these "freebies", and other school maerials, have taken over my house.

A few weeks ago I purchased an 18 gallon Rubbermaid container to store some books my mom had bought for my future classroom, and I thought "Ooh! I can put my freebies in this container too!" Ever the optimist!

After the Social Studies conference, the mass amounts of books my mom purchases(love her and books!), and the freebies, the container was overflowing in my living room. Tonight, I travled to the WalMart and purchased another 18 gallon container to spread out the books and materials from this semester! This is probably my 5th for just school materials! One of the 5 is bigger than 18 gallons! I know! But it's for a good cause!

So in case you didn't already think I am extremely nerdy for forming such a large collection of stuff for a classroom I am yet to have, I want to inform you, I am nowhere near done collecting books and more! My mom and I have this theory...When I finally get a classroom, we know we will have to purchase some things, okay, a lot of things, to set it up. But!!! We are starting to collect things you can never go wrong with so we won't have to spend as much at one time! And really how many teachers can say they started teaching their first year with a large selection of books for the classroom library, containers to organize materials, and really cool free stuff for kids to use and look at?

Well me!