Best. Day. Ever.

I figure that since it is the best day ever, it should deserve its own blog post.

The “Best Day Ever” does not come around too often. And, when it does, it usually starts off not-so-best-day-ever.

After waiting with bated breath on the possibility of school being cancelled last night (I seriously ‘refreshed’ the WCCO News page every minute), I woke up to learn that virtually every school state-wide had been cancelled except for the Greenway-Grand Rapids area. Gross. This was followed by the realization that it was “Winter Fun Day” at Van Dyke Elementary School, and I was tasked with one-on-one shadowing of a student when it came time for him to participate in tubing down the snowy hill by the school. This was given further clarification that I was to follow him EVERY SINGLE TIME HE WENT DOWN AND UP THE HILL. Shoot. Me. Did I mention I didn’t bring gloves or boots?

However, the day turned around! While on my unfortunate and unpaid thirty minute break, it was announced that the school would have early release due to the weather at 12:30PM. That, my friends, in itself, is a FANTASTIC day. No teaching and no “Winter Fun Day”. Pretty fetch, right Gretch?

I decided to check my email before leaving school for the day and stumbled upon two VERY important emails (of which I will now tell you about).

#1. Voyageurs Lutheran Ministry – My home away from home…place of my childhood memories turned college-years-employer had sent me message via Program Director offering the position of Community Director at Camp Vermilion.
Now, you may be wondering: why, pray tell, is this awesome news? It so happens that earlier in November of 2011 I had a wonderful conversation with a fantastic person about my desire to work back at camp. I postulated hypothetically, that in the event that I didn’t have a summer job, I would love to go back and work at camp provided that I  (A.) be the Community Director and (B.) it would be at Vermilion. Well, this fantastic person planted a seed and…
FLASH FORWARD to Leap Day 2012. Ba-bam! Job offer.

Not all Housewives are Created Equal

NEW SEASON, NEW FRIENDS!

It’s finally here. After months of waiting with bated breath, my guilty pleasure show is back:

The Real Housewives of Orange County.

Classy, classy girls

I know, I know…You are probably thinking, “Really, Luke?! Gross…” I get ya, but step off. This show is MINE. And, no one can take it away from me. I don’t care if it is ridiculous, BravoTV is my guilty pleasure network and I am not apologizing for it.

The OC girls couldn’t come at a better time, because BravoTV was not my friend during these past few months. The Atlanta women were INSUFFERABLE. Down to their accents and names, my hand reached for the remote every time I saw their faces on the tv. I don’t know what it is about them, but I can’t stand them. Bravo did have some redemption, however. The Beverly Hills gals are definitely not my OC gals, but they got me through. :)

When the commercials started to drop in January for RHOC (Oh, yes, I used the acronym), I just about peed my pants with excitement.

I mean, are you serious?! How can you NOT watch this stuff. So much drama…it’s delicious.

I think the reason why I love the OC Housewives so much is that I can’t find ONE gal that I don’t like. They are all cray-cray to the extreme. It is just ridiculous, I can’t even handle it. I am really looking forward to the newest addition to the family: Mrs. Heather Dubrow:

I mean, you can’t make this crap up. It is just reality tv gold.

Today was the day that the first episode aired of Season 7. It did not disappoint. Don’t be surprised if you hear me start to talk about the show as it progresses…and, don’t be surprised if I talk like I know these women personally. It’s just all a part of the experience. Live with it.

Let’s Get Physical Physical

I got the AWESOME call to substitute for gym the other day. The whole day, I couldn’t stop humming Olivia Newton John’s hit song “Physical”.

Work it.

Above, you can see me subbing in my first gym class…Err, um, well, it didn’t really go like this. Actually, gym class is NOTHING like this picture at all (or the music video for that matter).

In any case, I gotta say: “Gym” is the BEST sub gig that you can get.

Why?