Livin' the Dream in Lima

Long time, no posting... sorry about that! Life has gotten a bit crazy here in the Bean Town. Some big news! I got a teaching job for the 2010/2011 school year! I am teaching Geometry and Algebra 2 at a high school that is only about 3 miles from our apartment. I'm very excited, and also very thankful for being given an opportunity so close to home. My Business Man is excited as well. So the past week or two has been spent scurrying around, trying to get all the paperwork complete, attending a staff retreat, and frantically trying to pull together lessons for the first couple weeks of the year. As the school year progresses, I hope to do a few posts on my experiences of my 1st year teaching, and the school I'm teaching in. It's a little different than a traditional high school. :-) I am also helping out with cross country at my new school, and have gone to practice the past two days. The team is on the small side, but the girls (who I will mostly be working w...

To Michigan, that is. One of my good friends from college lives in Michigan about 130 miles from the Bean Town in Ohio. I've always wanted to tour her stomping grounds, and went up last Friday night! There's a 5km race that she's raved about for several years, and that happened to be on Saturday, so double bonus! See a friend and run a race, in the same weekend! When I arrived, we did a practice run-through of the race course. The race is called Run Clark Lake, and it goes along the coast of Clark Lake. (If you couldn't gather that from the name of the race... :-P) The lake... don't you want to live here? After that, we chilled at her bf's house. (He lives just about a 1/2-mile from the picture above.) We ordered lunch from the Beach Bar. Which had the   best  tomato soup ever. Why were we eating tomato soup in the middle of hot, sweaty August? Because it was that good . Later that night, we decided to pull out our GC traditions and make spaghetti. ...

As you can see, I got a new blog lay-out! I absolutely love it. I'm carrying over my wedding colors into the blog. :-) It's from Simply Yours Designs . The creator (Hil) has a ton of super-cute pre-made layouts that you can purchase for a pretty reasonable price. Go check it out if you think your blog needs to be spruced up a bit. In other funny news, I made chocolate chip banana bread today. And made a complete mess. Looks like I need a bigger loaf pan... I guess I will get to figure out how the oven self-cleaning cycle works! Question:  What types of  mishaps have you encountered in the kitchen? Do share!

Not too much has been going on in the Bean Town lately... it's been so stinkin' hot and humid that doing anything outside is completely out of the question. It doesn't help that I choose to go running everyday around 11am or so. It's just so hard to roll out of bed and run first thing! Live with Regis & Kelly and the Today Show always suck me in, and before I know it I've had 2 cups of coffee and my breakfast. Gotta wait around a bit to let that digest. Then I think, "I should go for a run right now. Even though is scorchingly sunny and a real feel temp of 95*F."  Smart. Real smart . Oh well, I haven't suffered death from heat exhaustion yet. And soon we will have cooler temps so I won't have to worry about it.  Today I bring you a recipe for Tex-Mex Tortilla Pie. Since I've trapped myself inside to avoid the heat, I have spent some time browsing through many of my cookbooks. Especially my beloved ones that I just brought back from...