Sunday, August 3, 2008

Jeremy takes the wheel for a moment

I just wanted the opportunity to express a few thoughts. Recently Tina and I were able to get away for a few days without the kids for a little vacation. It was great. We stayed in a nice hotel in Irving and wined and dined ourselves for 3 nights. We saw 4 movies and ate some good food. We were able to see the best movie of the year so far in my opinion which is "The Dark Night". This was a sweet movie. Christian Bale is great. Michael Cain is greatness. Aaron Eckert is always good. But the movie was really stolen by Heath Ledger's performance. He was truly masterful in this movie. He was brilliant. The movie was fantastic. I think the direction and mood they have established in the first two Batman movies is intriguing, interesting, fascinating and brilliant. I am more cynical these days and don't just stamp my approval on every entertaining movie. But this was truly great. We also saw the new Hulk movie. This is an underrated movie as well. It cant be at exciting as Batman because of the general story line but it was a good show.

As Tina blogged previously, I have been hired to work for Princeton ISD in the Junior High. This district was in my top 5 to work for because I have done some volunteer work with them in the past and I am familiar with the administration. We feel very blessed to have this opportunity. Those of you who have known me for some time, know I have pondered on what my occupation should be for over 10 years. I have put the matter to prayer dozens and dozens of times. After I got laid off from EDS back in 2001 I prayed about what I should do. My answer was to go to school, get my degree and be a teacher/coach. Well with the signing of my contract last week the entire effort was culminated. I am excited to begin. I have to give a shout out to Tina. She is a wonderful woman. Not many woman could have put up with me over the past 5 years. When it comes to jobs and college majors I can be very frustrating. I have constantly switched jobs over the years. Sometimes I have just quit jobs because I could no longer stand them, with no fall back in place. I have changed college majors over the past 5 years probably 15 times (this is not an embellishment). I have been admitted to graduate programs in the following fields: Criminal Justice, Criminology, Speech Language Pathology, Kinesiology, MBA and Accounting to name a few. It has been a source of embarrassment to me that I couldn't find anything I truly liked. She has stuck with me, without complaint, over the past 5 years when I was delivering pizzas, working for grocery stores, etc... Tina is not a material girl, which is one of the things that makes her great. She is happy with what she has. That is the way she was raised. Her parents did a great job. Anyway, I will turn the keys to the blog back over to Tina. Peace out.

5 comments:

Scott Blog said...

Thank you for the sweet things you said babe! I was just doing what any wife should do...support her husband. Even though it was a little hard for me not to have stability sometimes, I would rather you be happy. I'm so grateful for your teaching job. Now I don't have to worry about you in that area! I'm proud of you and I love you!
I also thought the Batman movie was great! For all the women wondering if they should go see it with their husbands, I'm glad I did!

Amy said...

Jeremy - I think you're the coolest brother in law ever! Sometimes at first I felt intimidated by you and the way you are a take no crap from anyone attitude! But I am happy that you're in the family and that you make Tina happy! Congrats on the job once again and I hope you do well in your win loss record! :-P

Anonymous said...

That's awesome that you guys were able to get some time away to celebrate. Congrats to Jeremy on his job! I have to say kudos to you, too, Tina... not many women I know would have been willing to let their husband find himself like you did.

cavamil a.k.a. Amy

Mindy said...

Congrats Jeremy! I don't know Tina, but she sounds like a gem to me! And congrats to Asher getting baptized. What a fun step for our kids.

LittleMountains said...

Congratulations! That's great news. You should have a lot of fun coaching. Would have always loved to have been a swim coach for a school. CK