Super Bowl and Low-Carb are not Compatible

As I was cooking my low-carb meal I had the thought "If people saw this they would judge me so harshly."  That's because my "low-carb meal" was, in fact, bacon-wrapped, cheese-stuffed jalapenos.  Guys, I don't even care.  It's what I'm eating and it's gorgeous.

ALSO.  Judgers.  If you still eat at a certain burger-based fast food restaurant, there is no reason I should be hearing anything from your face.

If you're wondering, there's an egg cooked into that bell pepper.  Well.  Sort of.  There were some failures involved with this meal.

On to my favorite topic of the moment- Travel.  I've started reading a LOT of travel blogs.  It's probably becoming an issue in some aspect of my life, although I am definitely too obsessed with reading travel blogs to notice.  There is a method here, though.  Though I love my friends, my plans with them tend to fall through.  This being the case, I am trying to prepare for many situations I may get mysef into.  I'm not really extremely excited about the idea of a solo backpacking trip, but if it needs to happen, it will.  The good thing about planning a trip to a foreign country three years ahead of time is the planning.  I'm a planner.  I'll allow for some freedom in my plans, but I want a basic outline of where I'm going and how much it costs.

Guess what.

Travel Bloggers have been there and legitmiately done that.  I'm taking some advice.  If I do have to go by myself, what are the safest ways to backpack or places to backpack?  Where should I absolutely go?  What are the behind-the-scenes places that no one knows about?  What to pack?  How to budget?  I've learned so much in less than a week.  I will periodically be posting pictures of these places.  This will be done partially to guilt trip someone into going and partially to help myself remember where I want to go .

And let's go ahead and add to the list that I want to go to Iceland.  Real bad.  I just need to see the world, dig?

In order to see the world, I'm having to brush up on some languages.  I'm pushing myself to remember Spanish and learn more, and I also am starting one hundred percent from the beginning on German.  It's gotten pretty funny.  Because mom still understands German from her time living there, she knows when I'm wrong most of the time.  The phrases I struggle with are phrases I already know in Spanish, though.  When I come to a phrase I CANNOT remember in German, I end up getting frustrated and yealling a combination of German and Spanish, i.e. "Ich soy una Frau!!!" German- I Spanish- Am Spanish- A German- Woman.  Perfect, I think.  Diversity.

Teaching is teaching.  It happens.  I wake up, go to school, come home, and repeat.  I try to fix problems I see in the system, but that only works if people within the system are open to admitting that how we've done things in the past might be wrong, myself included.

My students are reading some modern Young Adult novels right now, and I can really see some of them begin to interact with and love their books, which is definitely the best and most accomplished I've felt in my job all year.

To add to the good feels- it's a snow day!  Now if only I could get my internet to cooperate with me while I try to watch television all day...

P.S.
Honors Student- "I honestly thought this story was about a man."
Me- "The title is... 'The Captivity and Restoration of MRS. MARY Rowlandson'...?"