2010 list recap, 2011 To Do!

So here is my “2010 to do list”. I was proud of myself for making a list, and actually attempting to keep up with it. I didn’t achieve everything on the list, and being that there are only 3 days left in this year, I don’t believe I will finish this list. Being that I didn’t finish this list, I will roll over many of the items on this list to my 2011 list for this coming year. I am not too worried about completing everything on the list, but I will try really hard to. I am just grateful for everything this year has brought. Thank you 2010! I’m sad to see you go.

2010 List, and explanations of all that was completed.

• Go whale watching
• Hike half dome
• This is one thing that has been on my list for a couple of years now, and yet every year I fail to get there. I will do it! I promised myself I will.

• Run a 5k
• This one goes hand in hand with the previous one. This one was inspired by my wonderful friends.
• Buy/Receive a guitar
• Best Valentines day present ever.
• Learn to “Thinking about you” by Radiohead on guitar.
• Develop Crafty Corazon Etsy store
• Still working on this one, I have tons of things to list on the store, but haven’t gotten around to this. This might be completed the first month of the year, or so I hope
• Blog more creatively
• I am going to honk my own horn and say that I was able to complete this one, especially since I actually blogged in 2010.
• Develop as an educator
• I have to keep this one on here, but I think that 2010 was a great year in which I did develop as an educator.
• Learn sign language
• This one is a little complicated. I was able to sign up for a class, and loved it, but was unable to finish the class. I did learn some sign language, but not as much as I would have hoped for.
• Travel to Mexico, visit family 
• Nope, so sad ☹
• Finally get my tattoo
• This one came so ridiculously close to being achieved, but for one reason or another, mainly financial reasons it just did not happen.
• Plant a vegetable garden
• Yup! And it was amazing and wonderfully yummy.

2011 List…ta da!

• Go whale watching
• Hike half dome
• Run a 5K
• Learn to “Thinking about you” by Radiohead on guitar.
• Develop Crafty Corazon Etsy store
• Finish learning sign-language
• Develop as an educator. Receive further training.
• Visit NY, DC, Baltimore ☺
• Organize school things
• Get my Tattoo
• Finish decorating projects at home

Lets see how many I can accomplish this year. As we go along I might have to add more to this little list.

Have a wonderful year!!!

-Pita

Ready, Set, Go....

Here we go again. I am finally coming out of hiding, for the time being. I am now ready to jump right into my little craft world as well as the blog world.

In the know…

I am now happily working at a Montessori Charter School. I am now a K/1 teacher with an amazing class. I am happy to have my job, and I am thankful every day. Right now I am currently on winter break and I have some down time. I have been thinking about my blog every day, or so it seemed. I am hopefully going back to crafting as well as bloging more often, yet not as often as when I was unemployed.

Here is a little sumtin sumtin from my craft world.

These are little Christmas gifts that I made for my sister-in-law’s little puppy.

This is a little finger puppet I made for our nieces and nephews.

And this is an Ipod touch case I made for one of my little nieces.

So far my little break has been good. We go back to Northern Cali on Wednesday, and I go back to school "unofficially" on Thursday. School doesn't start until the 10th but I have to go back to catch up on some work.

So thats my little catch up shpeel. Hope to see you soon.

-Pita

Out of Order

Sorry my friends. Life has caused me to put this thing on hold for the time being.  I will return, soon I hope.  For now everything is on pause. 

Gracias.

-Pita

What its come to

I returned from my mini vacation from Yosemite in a very unmotivated state of mind. You would think that because I went to such a beautiful place I would love to create beautiful things, or at least write about them, but for some reason or another I cant get the mojo going.

One thing that can be contributing to this hesitant state of mind could be my constant, I really mean incessant, job hunting. If I am not on-line looking for work, I am thinking of finding a job, talking about finding a job, and just plane being consumed by this endless hunt for employment. I recently (not so recent, December) graduated from my CSUS credential program. I secretly have always wanted to be a teacher, but those dreams were shelved for a quick second. In college my aspirations were to become a Lawyer, challenging the system and its corruption and all that jazz. After working at a law firm and in different areas of law I decided that the legal system can suck it. Law was just not for me, that isn’t to say that don’t love to discuss law, or that I wouldn’t return to the legal field, its just that I would not peruse my law degree. My career aspirations have always been fueled by my want/need to contribute to my community, mi Raza. After deciding that a Legal degree was not for me I went back to my first love, Teaching. I have been relentless in my pursuit of my own classroom and job at a school, but unfortunately our education system has been knocked out by the one-two punch of the effed-up economy. I have come to the realization that more than likely this coming school year I will not be employed in the education field, other than as a substitute. My job hunt has now been expanded to grasp all fields where I can qualify to apply; mainly legal, admin and clerical. I have had some leads, and fortunately my friends have been really supportive and have given me heads up on some possibilities. I am really excited about one possible employment opportunity, but I will only share this once it evolves and becomes a Yes/No thing.

Going back to my blogging. Recently I decided to write something about me, daily. What was I thinking where I decided to do this? Sleep deprived maybe? Well technically since this is my blog I already to write about “me” therefore this idea is completely redundant. Today after a long day of “trying to fix my moms flat tire after the tow truck picked it up” game I came up with another gimmick idea. I decided that I would create a new category for my writing. Some of my favorite blog crushes do it. Ten things Tuesday!!! That’s what I came up with. Every Tuesday I will write 10 random things about me, my life, my creations, life in general. What do you think???
I know its not Tuesday, but being that the day of the week does start with T I will make an exception and write 10 things Thursday tonight.
See you then.

Love
Pita

So Im back!

Its been an amazing week and weekend. My hubby and I celebrated our one year anniversary as a married couple. I was tempted to post one of those “on this day I married my best friend” blog, but decided that just wasn’t me. I did how ever update my status on facebook to read “a year ago today I married the love of my life”, which is completely true. Its amazing to look back on this year and see how our relationship changed. I didn’t believe when people told us that “things would change” once we were married. My hubby and I lived together for 3 or 4 years before we were married and we have been dating for 9 years, so I thought, “what could change?” Our relationship changed, somehow it grew deeper and our love intensified. I am grateful for having such and amazing man in my life.
We also celebrated our amazing and beautiful friends and family that traveled all the way to Mexico to celebrate our wedding with us. It’s amazing how many beautiful people there are in life. I truly feel blessed.
So I guess I killed two birds with one stone. I just let you know one thing about me, but I do owe 4 more random things about me, and I also let you all know why I had left.
Enjoy and I will come back later on tonight, or so I hope, and post more craft pictures or maybe even a DIY tutorial.

-Pita