The Aftermath Day 3

Chelsea's Classroom After Day 3 Of Work


Look at our best work bulletin board

Word Wall Bulletin Board

Calendar and Helper Chart

Oh, this is the outside hallway chart

Now everyone knows who the teacher is!

Look at that clean(?) closet


Star of The Week Bulletin Board - only non fabric still original paper and border

Pocket Chart assignments and hall passes

Double U or Horseshoe design for the desks

Another Angle

Still More


Oh I totally forget a picture of the cool black rug...
If you turn the panorama to where you see the American flag, you can kind of see it

PANORAMA

The Aftermath - Day 2

Day 2 Was Busy


First of all we took down all the bulletin boards, except 1 and put fabric up and replaced the borders.

I think it looks much better, don't you?

Oh and I put together all kinds of furniture. Garment rack? No, silly this is a pocket chart holder or something like that.

Storage - can't have too much of that

Nice yellow fabric with a blue trim.

Removed the border hot glued to the board, still dirty, unfortunately.

The other board is a checkered blue and white fabric with yellow trim. That is where the calendar will go.

Snap together storage cubes - what a pain

A table top chalk board, this will come in handy.

Oh what's that a whiteboard on the other side, wow!!

A stacked cart - that will hold a lot of stuff

Storage bins, those look familiar, hey my clothes were in there this morning...

Cubbyholes clean!!

Why is there a door in our room? Hey that cart looks neat.

2 Wooden bookshelves - so many nails

The library center will make good use of these.

More snap together cubes in the closet holding everything.

PANORMA - WOW!!

The Aftermath - Day 1

These are pictures of Chelsea's classroom at the end of day 1. I forgot to take before pictures, but let's just agree that it looks nicer than it did.


At this point we didn't really have all the layout decided

We mostly threw out old stuff, cleaned and organized.

Lots of things needed moving and fixing

At this point we are pleased, but know more work will come

This closet was gross and now its kind of better

Time to go, look at those neat desks

Look at all that stuff to unpack and sort

We decided that we really needed to use this umbrella

The one nice thing about this room, clean new carpet

The whiteboard is SO dirty, very difficult to clean

Those cubbyholes were full of stuff and the top was piled with things

We got the teacher desk set up, one thing off the list.

Day 1 was definitely difficult, we could not do a lot with the furniture until the late afternoon, because there was a large case of stuffed birds in the room, gross, but we eventually got it all done - or at least all we could do that day.

Happy 1 Month

It has now been 1 month since I got married to the most wonderful, beautiful, amazing girl in the world. I love her. I really do. I am getting a little sad writing this as I won't get to spend much of any time with her today. She'll be in class all morning and I'll be in class all afternoon and evening. I love you, Chelsea. You mean so much to me. We've only been married 1 month, but already we've been through so much. The rest of our lives, can you only imagine, how wonderful it will be? I love you.

=Ben=

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Now playing: Queen - Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)
via FoxyTunes

Summer is great

You know, this summer has been a good one. This is my first real summer not wasted. I mean I am 21 years old, almost 22 and I have not really had 1 productive summer in these past 20 years except for this one. I am busy working, getting ready for the wedding and school and a new place to live. I really love it. I just can't wait. I mean I really feel alive you know. Like I have something worthwhile to do. Not that I don't like to relax, but really I enjoy working too!!

=B=

School is closer than you think

Only about 1 month and classes start again.

Oh and fellow UT Tyler folks remember that we need to pay 1 week before classes or we get dropped!!

I'll be taking 18 Hours this semester!!
On top of work!!
Living in a new apartment!!
With my soon to be wife!!

I can't wait!! I am so excited!!

Going out is fun

I just have to say that going out with your significant other is a lot of fun.

Whether you go to the most expensive restaurant in town or the favorite chinese food place you always have fun, or at least I do.

The the time to go out and enjoy life with loved ones.

Wedding Day Comes Closer

It is now July 24 this means that the wedding is almost here.

Now only 11 DAYS!!!!!


All right. Wish us luck!!

C'est La Vie

So, life is good. I say that because in 1 month, 1 week, 1 day I am getting married to my love. I am feeling great and can not wait for the big day. Now grant you it isn't going to be the biggest and most spectacular wedding of the season, but we don't it to be. We just want to have fun, enjoy ourselves and be happy.

Her Majesty

Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl,
but she doesn't have a lot to say
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
but she changes from day to day

I want to tell her that I love her a lot
But I gotta get a bellyful of wine
Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl
Someday I'm going to make her mine, oh yeh,
someday I'm going to make her mine.

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You know when I hear this song it makes me think of one person, my love. I think in some way I find her to be my queen. Now I don't know if she knows this, but it is true. I love her a lot.

=B=

The best people in the world

The best people in the world are those that help you, even when they don't need to and you didn't want them to, but they still do.

They could be sleeping or watching TV, but instead they help you study for a quiz in Chemistry.

You are too cool.

=B=

Updates

Well so a few things have happened:

1) Maybe got a job!! Well technically I do, but we'll see how it works out.

2) School starts on Tuesday, and only 3 semesters (including this one) left!!

3) I love Chelsea...SO MUCH!!

4) Going to save money - need vehicle, used, cheap, fuel effecient. Is that too much to ask for??

5) Life is good.

Happy (Belated) Birthday Chelsea

Hey Everybody

So a few things to talk about.

One, M$ released IE7 as a "fully working" browser just yesterday. You can download it if you have XP SP2, x64 or the Windows Server 2003 line.

Two, the fall semester is more or less half over. YAY!! Now time to really start working.

Three, I gave Chelsea her birthday present early. I couldn't help it. I got her this really nice easel. For those of you who, for some reason don't know, an easel is a wooden frame on legs for holding an artist’s work in progress, as taken from the Compact Oxford English Dictionary.

She in turn gave me my birthday present. I receieved a cool Relic wrist watch. Something I have wanted for a while now. We both needed gifts. I am happy and feel better. I hope it lasts.

Fourth, There will be another Whitson Log update soon, but due to complaints, apparently, I will only be directly linking to my page to view them, so you don't have to wait for the blog to load.

Thanks and have a good day. I need to get ready for my 8 AM class.

=B=

I Love My Chelsea

I love her so. She is so great. I enjoy spending as much time with her as possible.

It's hard to say in any exact words how much I love her, but it certainly is to a great extent. She is the most wonderful thing in my world. I could not and will not imagine my world without her.

She is the most wonderful girl in the world. She is amazing.

I love her so.

=B=

Jefferson's, Girlfriend and Poopin

This weekend was great.

For One: Jefferson's on TV Land Marathon. It is so cool. I have to say I enjoy randomly watching the Jefferson any time during the day. It is a good show.

Two: Mexican food. I have had so much food this weekend, a good deal of it being of a hispanic or mexican persuasion. Good stuff. I really really enjoyed it. Except that it made me sick. I pooped a good deal, a lot. Oh and the gas is BAD!! I mean just ask Russell or Chelsea they had to experience my gas first hand.

Three: My girlfriend, she's the best. I've been spending a lot of time with her. I love spending time with her. I love her. We went out and spent so much time together. It was great. Russell, however was very disgusted because we were "mashing faces" at the apartment. I of course like kissing Chelsea.

-Ben-

Also on personal note: God, if you read blogs, please let Chelsea's evil grandmother die quickly and maybe painfully. Of course, Satan, I know you're all over the web, if you're reading this we'll take your work too. We just HATE that evil bitch. We want her dead. Now look, this may seem harsh, but if you've ever met this horrible women you'd want her dead too, or maybe brain dead. So in conclusion, burn the bitch. Also Chelsea if this is too much tell me and I'll edit it.

Ben is a total fox

Just thought you should know!

Post 300

This is the 300th Post to this crappy blog.

Wow...I've lasted this long and I still get an occasional reader.

Of course, that isn't really what this post is about at all.

I guess mainly what I want to say is that I am in love with the most beautiful, funny, charming, witty, charismatic, cheerful, pleasant, lovely, wonderful, attractive, amazing, fantastic girl in all the world. And if you disagree with me, tough because it is true.

I would do anything for her and I love her more than one can properly write in words. She is the one thing that gives my life meaning. She is the one person that makes me truly happy.

However, at the same time I am making her miserable, I know this, even though she may not come right out and say it, but it is true. I am so far away from her right now and it kills me, I want to be there every night and make sure she is able to fall asleep and I want to be there every day to make sure she is protected from whatever danger she may come into contact with, but I can't. I feel as though I am betraying her in a way, and that is the last thing I want to do. Of course, I don't know if she thinks that, I doubt it, but I could be wrong.

I find myself almost at tears writing this, because I feel like a lousy boyfriend and even lousier friend. Just leaving and pretending that is okay. I am torn.

I want to do something to make up for what I have done, but at the same time, I don't know what I could do to make up for putting someone through pain grief and turmoil. I feel so bad about myself. I just I don't know what to do.

I have a hard time visualizing things so I can't really imagine what it is exactly she is going through even though we talk all the time on the phone. Send text messages and emails. IM each other like crazy. Of course it still doesn't make up for the fact that we are so far apart. So I just can't imagine what it is she is really going through. I mean even if she tells me, I still can't imagine, because I just can't visualize it. I seem to be incapable of visualizing pain, or feelings of discomfort if you will. I think empathy is the term, I lack the ability to feel what others are feeling and when I do, it is still somehow wrong.

I just wish that I had never left to begin with. Sure my family is great, but can love compare to family. And sure you can say that there is some sort of love associated with family or some crap like that, but I just lost my train of that. What I am trying to say is I'd much rather be with her, right now.

I love you Chelsea.

Just another Wednesday!!

Middle of the week. Bored. Nothing to do. Don't have a job yet. Hopefully that will change.
If it doesn't well God this will be a more boring summer, during the day at least.
During the night, when I am talking to Chelsea, then things are great.

I have been spending the day catching up on TV.
Some stuff has been good some other stuff not so much.
I really liked Greys Anatomy. The West Wing, that was great.
What else did I see? Oh yeah Alias was good. So was the Simpsons and Family Guy.
American Dad was also good. I'll be watching Boston Legal later.

Anyway, enough about my boring day.
Hope everyone is enjoying their summer.
Good Times!!

I Love This Girl

Chelsea is the best. I don't know what I did to deserve her, but I am so glad to be with her. I will be away from her this summer, though only for 9 weeks, but the thought is killing me. I hope she really knows how I feel, and how much I am going to miss her, because I love her so much. She means the world to me. I don't want to go, but well I am going, and I wish it didn't have to be that way. I will feel an empty spot, when she is no longer there, but it will be okay because she still loves me and I still love her.

Of course what I really want to know is how this girl puts up with me. I mean my friends and aquaintances know, I am just well, so damn annoying. Of course I am also just a bastard sometimes. I do things and say things you just shouldn't say. Of course, I think most guys do that.

She is just so great. I think about her all the time. I am there to comfort her when she feels sad and I am there to make her laugh when she needs some laughter. I am there to listen to her when she needs to talk. I just enjoy spending time with her. I love being with her. A moment with her is so wonderful. Time does, in fact, fly when I am around her.Even when she is dramatic I love her. Her drama is something wonderful and amazing. Chelsea wouldn't be Chelsea if she didn't have all of her little things that make her who she is. I like everything about her, even the things she doesn't like. Of course, there isn't really anything about her you can't like. She has the most infectious smile. The most gorgeous eyes. The lovliest hair, and it smells good too. And her voice, is soft and sweet and makes you swoon when you hear it. I think she is just the most amazing and wonderful girl.

Chelsea, I love you.