Blog Assignment 1

About Me
      My name is Constance Michaele Dixon and I am 22 years old. I was born in Huntsville, Al, and lived there until I was two years of age. When I was two years old my family moved to Mobile, Al. I recently got married on October 15, 2011 to my best friend. We have 4 four-legged children that we love very much. We have a Pitt Bull named Darby, a Boston Terrier named Tiki, and two Pugs Toofless and Gracie. My husband and I also recently discovered that I am excpecting and that my due date is September 8. Family is very important to me and I cherish mine even though we have our faults. I am attending USA for a major in Special Education / Secondary. My mom and grandmother were both Special Education teachers and I knew that teaching was what I wanted to do even when I was little. It was confirmed about a year and a half ago when I met a very special boy at my work and he taught me so much about my self and about those with special needs.
      I am currently working at West Mobile Baptist Child Development Center. I teach K2D which is the older K2 group. We are a Christian facility and we use a cirriculum program called ABEKA. I love the kids that I am able to work with even if I have a bad day when they hug me as I am leaving and say, "I love you Mrs. Constance", it is all worth it. When it comes to hobbies I enjoy taking my dogs to the park to run around. I also love to go horse back riding I have a 10 year old Quarter horse, gelding. When I have time I love to curl up with a good book. My favorite thing to do out of everything else is to bake with my husband; well it is more like I bake and he licks the bowl.

Randy Pausch and Time Management
       I actually enjoy watching Randy Pausch's lectures. I was introduced to him about six months ago by my husband. My husband actually asked me to watch the one called "Achieving Your Childhood Dream". It was very insightful and made us really think about our relationship with one another and what we wanted out of life. Now the, "Time Management ", video is very true and I like the saying that Randy Pausch used about doing your worst task first he said, "If you have to eat a frog don't spend a lot of time looking at it and if you have to eat three frogs don't start with the small one". I think that Randy Pausch is inspirational and that he has a lot of wisdom. I recommend his videos to my friends all the time to watch.The video that we were assigned to watch was actually just a clip from the full video,I have included the link for the full version of Time Management. I also included the link for the other video that I was speaking of earlier; Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, in case anyone was interested. For those that might not know anything on Randy Pausch at the time of the, "Achieving Your Childhood Dream", lecture he actually had 10 tumors in his liver. He also passed away in July 2008 from pancreatic cancer.