It’s been interesting trying to own my own domain. I know next to nothing about owning a site but here I am trying to figure it out. I still can’t find a layout I can stick to (which is odd when I’ve had the same LJ layout forever and a day and no desire to change it!) and I’m still struggling to figure out how plug-ins work for WordPress when I’m so used to having everything handed to me when it comes to LJ. For example, I like on LJ that if people comment, I can respond back to them individually and they get an email (if they have that enabled) if I reply back to them. Today I explored the world of the @reply plugin and trying to install a reply link…only to discover that I still can’t have my response show up underneath an individual’s comment but rather I still have my responses to comments clumped together and that if I want to have it as I want it, I could switch to a different commenting system. I’m not sure how I feel about that! I guess this is part of growing up and discovering what it’s like to own a blog on my own domain.

Speaking of growing up…

So today at work, during my math rotation, I had my students write in their journal. Why they do this during math is beyond my comprehension when I have a spelling/writing/reading rotation with my students but this is the mastermind of the teacher I work with to have them do this during math so who am I to argue – besides it’s only for another week but that’s a different story all together. Anywho, so I assigned them today to write 5 sentences (despite my students being in 4th/5th grade, they are also LD so writing 5 sentences can be a big deal for them) answering the question: if they could travel anywhere in the world, where would they go and what would they do? One of my student’s answers: Las Vegas…so he can see hot girls in bikinis (said with a wink wink nudge nudge!)! He apparently has been watching too much the movie: The Hangover!

His comment led me to think about my own childhood and mine (or my friends as far as I know) was anything like that. I mean I had my crushes – at 10 years old, I had just started 5th grade at a new school and was trying to figure how to make new friends. I had no clothes style whatsoever and I had not met my best friend, the straightening iron! While I could watch what I want for the most part (I used to watch Melrose Place, Party of Five and 90210 with my mom!); my mom was also strict in her own way (I could not watch The Simpsons or Married with Children…go figure!). I can honestly say I never had a boyfriend in elementary school nor was I that sad that I never did beyond having my crushes on guys (or well one guy). I also never had celebrity crushes until late in middle school – ahhh Nick Lachey, JC Chasez and Joshua Jackson <3

I wonder though how my life would have been different though if I were 10 years old now in 2010 rather than being 10 in 1995? I wonder how much does technology play a role? At 10, I was excited to play Oregon Trail at school! When I needed to look something up, I used Encarta! I wonder though if I had grown up now with access to the Internet and being able to find pictures whenever I wanted of hot guys or be much more knowledgeable about sex, would I have this same outlook like this student and be boy crazy? When I think back to being 10, I felt like I was 10…being 10 though in 2010, do these children really actually get to be 10 rather than acting older than they are?