time to bring friday fragments back!

- i am literally staring at the clock wondering how many seconds are left in this school day




- it is so bad i asked another teacher to call the school, pretend they are my mom and check me out (what students do when they have to leave early- be checked out that is)


- i am going to a tie dye party after school/all night - i think i will have to take a nap before the festivities


- i suffered depression for a LONG time (still do i guess) but i started taking an anti-depressant and since then what used to be a ridiculously early bedtime has turned into i don't want to go to bed and by friday i am exhausted-time!


- i love teaching shakespeare


- i love when my excitement for shakespeare rubs off on my students! (just some...most just call me weird)


-i bought a realy cute skirt yesterday yayaya!


- i have two giveaways going next week, they start on Sunday! yummy scones and a cute necklace


- also i have my own reader gift giveaway! you can enter until May 20 to win something handmade by me! click here


- i could really eat some more of those starboard pretzels! if you would also like to click here and enter my giveaway! it ends tomorrow!


- would it be bad form if i fell asleep while my class was reading act 2 of julius caesar?

secret mystery giveaway! oooooo

i reached one hundred posts and one hundred followers in one week!
And yeah I know it is not what I am concerned with, but it is still exciting!
And in honor I am going to do my own mystery giveaway!
Any one of you 100 readers can win a mystery gift from me!
Exciting huh!
Do you want a hint?
Well, there is a picture of it on my blog.
Need another one.
Okay, I made it all on my own!
okay no more hints!
So here is the deal-i-o:
leave me a comment about why you come back to my blog as often as you do!
And if you want an extra entry go check out an entry of mine that you have NEVER read and let me know!

Okay you have two weeks, so enter away!!
P.S. I'll warn you before it is over!

two things

first of all...if i go out to eat and order chicken strips i NEVER expect grilled chicken strips!
EVER!
do you? i mean unless i ask for the healthy grilled version, when i go out i want the fried delicious kind i can't make at home...
very disappointed by the chicken strips at dinner if you didn't notice...

on a happier note

i found this on a blonde who walks into a blog post...check her out!

i have probably said seventy hundred times that i am so nervous about my "romantic" future because i haven't had a date in seven years and wouldn't know how the heck to go about meeting someone...

and there the answer has been the whole time...

on a starbucks cup

maybe the world isn't as complicated as i thought it was...

hello, world,

hello

pour your heart out

It’s Tuesday and I am writing my pour your heart already.

I am at work at my desk.
I am doing everything I can distract to distract myself from that upcoming day which is scaring the crap out of me.

I feel like I might need to do a little catch-up for some of my new followers.

At 19 I had my daughter with a man I would go on to marry. I married him on a beautiful spring day, a day that was so beautiful I couldn’t begin to describe it. I cried that day the most beautiful tears I have cried, aside from the first time I saw my daughter.

That day I felt fabulous in a way that is hard to replace. It wasn’t a dream wedding, in fact a lot of things went wrong. But Sean was there, and Aubrey. And the people who really mattered to me.

I won’t pretend that the six years prior had been perfect. We certainly had our ups and down. But what teenage parents don’t. Esp. ones that are working through college and working. But we made it work and we had a relationship that was based upon what I believed to be a solid love and friendship.

Eight months after that wonderful day my husband decided he was leaving. It does not matter the reasons or how he did it or any of those other things. He left and on Saturday it would be our one year wedding anniversary… I don’t know what to do.

I thought about the liberating feeling of burning old cards, or pictures, or the massive amount of napkins left over from the wedding that I planned on using for an anniversary party. And I def. planned on copious amounts of ML…

But I am not even sure how much that would even help. I am still going to wake up that morning thinking about how that day meant squat in the end.

That feeling of total connectedness that washed over me. Gone. Doesn’t matter.

And I hate it.

And it isn’t my husband I miss or am really that upset about at this point. I am mourning for our marriage instead, and maybe even the future we had spent the last six and a half years dreaming of together.

I hate that this grief has consumed my life. I hate that the anger flares up more than it ever has in me. I hate this control it has. And I hate that for who knows how long May 8th will always be a day that I dread because it wasn’t what I thought it was. And how, how could I have fooled myself.

I can’t stand that this has turned into a poor Tessica pity party, and I apologize.
I don’t have any answers and that is hard for me. And it is even harder to accept that there is probably no other answer than time, good friends, and very cold beer!

And hugs from my beautiful, amazing daughter (who btw lost ANOTHER tooth)!! No bottom front teeth! hehe

time for PINT...sorry for the slight downer!

Yummy Starboard Bakery Pretzel Giveaway

drum roll please!!!!! First Kiss Design Headband Winner!

  and there is a winner for an adorable headband from First Kiss Designs!

drum roll please...

tap tap tappity tap

 

 So congrats to:

icitea said...

Ooo, cute giveaway. The Satin bow headband - kimono style pattern- I think I'm in love! too cute <3 le.paradis.found at gmail . com   I will be sending out an email shortly and if the winner does not respond in the next 48 hours a new winner shall be drawn! Congrats icitea!

accomplishing things and please excuse the construction mess

i have always been a list person

always.

they motivate me. 

and not just in that i like to cross things off

but when i see them i can plan and organize my plan of attack.

life is less intimidating

make sense?

well that idea is what is behind my 26 before 26 list

what's that? look up

no not at your ceiling

at the pages under my header

click on it

wait don't click on it

right click and open in a new tab

otherwise you have to then get yourself back over here somehow (i act as though this is a difficult thing)

anyways have you checked out my list now?

of those things i really want to do before i turn 26

yes i realize that for the most part they are trivial and important only to myself, but because so many are trivial and just for myself i have put them off and off and off

but like i said when i have a list i organize, plan, and send in the cavalry!

so anyways you probably also saw my new addition to the page

an email form in which you may provide me information about your own online lists (like mine) and i will share them with my other readers on my same page!

i don't know about your but i love reading other peoples list just as much as my own!

they tend to inspire me and remind me of how many amazing things there are to accomplish in this big beautiful world!

okay so, go send me your list

no list, well write one silly

and then send me your info!

oh and p.s. i realize my blog design has been a mess

i promise it is at the top of my list to fix this week...seriously.true.freaking.story

so sorry for the construction 

via 

but it will be fixed! especially if he decides to stop by! mmmmm

happy sunday!

if you give tessica nacho cheese she will probably ask for a pretzel

I have always been a snacky person, I generally prefer to snack all day, and then you don’t get that pants-too-tight feeling. Know what I mean? I have also always leaned more towards salty snacks: chips, cracker, popcorn, dips (hello my obsession with buffalo chicken dip), etc. Pretzels would not be an exception to that list, I enjoy them soft or hard. Big or little. Doughy or breadlike. Salty or not. I like them with cheese, mustard, or any variety of dips that are on the market. When it comes to a soft pretzel though, there is nothing like a good nacho cheese to go with it! And that is what helped me enjoy the already DELICIOUS pretzels made by Starboard Cove Baking Co.

Starboard Baking is a self described “little family on the southern coast of maine. baking with love. gardening with care. parenting with wonder.”

They describe their products with obvious pride: “at starboard cove baking co., we strive to bring you the best, freshest bread you can find. the art of baking is a wonderful one, one that we are dedicated to honoring.
we use eggs from our own flock of free range chickens and compost all of our scraps and bits. we make a concerted effort to use organic and local products whenever possible.”

Johnny, Hannah, and Frankie of Starboard Baking make amazing products and I was so happy to be allowed to review them for all of you! I received the pretzels very quickly after getting in contact, so they are obviously an organization that is quick and efficient! They included also some super yummy granola! I ate it as a snack and with milk one morning as breakfast! But it was the pretzels that were the star!!

And you all know how much of a sucker for packaging that I am! And when these cuties arrived packaged in the adorable wax (maybe it was parchment paper) paper and bakers twine my heart did a little flip flop! And I fell in love with bakers twine (which before I had ignored for who knows why).

Packaging aside, these pretzels were also delicious! So much so that I didn’t even take a picture whilst eating! Seriously, I was concentrating on the yum of those things!

Here is a pic though from their etsy shop:

seriously can you just see the yum and how I managed to forget to take a picture. via

Okay, so if you are salivating like me (just remembering these things I am) it is your lucky day! The Starboard Baking Co. would like to offer one of my lucky readers a chance to try their pretzels out!

This giveaway will run from Sunday, May 2 to Saturday, May 8 at midnight. Winners will be emailed and announced Monday, May 10th. To enter this giveaway you should:

1.visit Starboard’s Etsy (Starboard Cove Baking Co.) store and tell me in a comment what you would buy if you could buy anything

And you may for extra entries-

2. write a blog about the giveaway AND link up to my blog and your store (three entries/ leave link to blog post in each comment)


3. purchase something at the Etsy store (five entries)


Please leave a separate comment for each entry! (such as: I follow your blog or I love xyz in Starboard’s shop) Also, make sure to leave your email address in one of your comments or have your email address visible in your profile.