Me & Arnie, like twins!

Is this supposed to get easier?

Because it isn't getting any easier.

I'm not trying to be negative.  In fact, I'm trying to be as positive as sanely possible. 

But this is exhausting, exhausting and draining on so many levels. 

I'm invested up to the roots of my hair, invested and dedicated and drowning in it. 

I'm taxed emotionally, I'm tapped intellectually, I'm stretched-thin creatively, and physically?  Forget it.

In the immortal words of former president Bush:  "It's hard work!"

I realize I'm not running a country, I'm not performing open heart surgery, I'm not reinventing the wheel or curing cancer.  I realize that this is a small little battle in the scope of things.  But jeez.  I'm so completely consumed with becoming a teacher that I don't know which end is up anymore.





A very special thanks to the ones who love me through it all; who keep trying to get together despite the litany of 'sorry, but I cants...' that I keep giving them.  Really, really and trully, Its not you, its me. For serious.


And a very very extra special thanks to my amazing god-like husband for the earth-shattering he gives me on a regular basis.  For the transcendence, the bliss, the ticket to paradise he delivers with panache and aplomb on the regular.

I am a lucky, lucky, lucky young woman.

Oh, and thanks to him for all the emotional support and continued patience and enduring understanding.  That's nice too. lol.

Meanwhiles, this is me:
  YUP