Spring Breakin'

Lack of chitter-chatter indicates life has been a tad more than hectic of late. Teaching, coaching, and two evening Master's classes. 'Nuff said!

Got back home from San Antonio (track meet) last night around 12 ... er ... 1:30am (time change), showered, and went straight to bed. Woke up and had breakfast with the fam at Aunt Kay's. It was delightful.

The rest of the day has been shopping, laundry, and tidying up around the house. (Things that I truly enjoy and have missed the time to do properly.)

Still working on transferring all of my music from various technologies into my new laptop/iPod. When you have over 3,000 songs in your collection, the process takes a whole lot of time! Not to mention playlists ... oh, playlists!

I plan to spend the rest of the week organizing, catching up, getting ahead, relaxing, running, breaking into p90x (am I insane?!), reading, cooking, and movie-ing. Perhaps a few happy hours somewhere in there, too.

Every Word on Kindle! How could I forget? I plan to log a few hours getting my fix with that as well. Seriously ... talk about some wordy crack for the ol' noggin! Can't put it down.

What else? Too much?

I'll leave it there. A week of no stressing over cut backs, lay offs, lesson plans, copies, research, evening classes, literature reviews, teenagers, alarms, and track workouts. Bring it!

2011

Happy New Year!

I think I'll leave it to Mr. Duritz to express exactly how I feel, as he tends to do so well.

"It's been a long December, and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last."

Here's to 2011!

Deck the Halls!

I'm very much feeling the cheese of the Christmas Spirit today. Shopping for others is TOO MUCH FUN!! :)

(It's also quite nice to have a J-O-B to allow me to buy what I really want to buy.)

By the way ... The Glee Christmas Album is a fantastic listen for the holiday.

Or, you know, it could be just be all the glitter I've sniffed over the last few hours while wrapping presents ...

Tuuuuuuuuuurkey!

THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!! (Almost.)

I'm so excited, I could squeal. Today is all about tidying the house ... THEN ... I'm going to TRY to finish my Christmas shopping. I know! Before December even begins. It's so awesome, I don't even know what to do with myself. :)

I have a truly blessed existence.

Can't help it.

I don't care what anyone says, Taylor Swift's new CD is pretty darn good!

Splat!

One of my students stole my wallet out of my purse today. I'm very disheartened and ... sick ... about it. I advocate like hell for them, I do everything in my power to help them out, I spend almost all of my "free" time trying to plan and prepare and figure out ways to assist them in passing and doing better, then one (or more) does this.

It's not about the money, or the information, or the debit/credit cards, or the pictures ... it's about so little care or respect that they don't even blink.

It had to have happened during one of the passing periods when I stand outside my classroom door because that is the only time I am not in the room monitoring. It also had to be one of my own students who I teach every day because my purse was very well hidden ... which means they had to have been paying attention for a while.

I'm absolutely sick about this, and have no idea how I am going to walk into my classroom and look all of them in the face tomorrow morning. Gross.

And the tree loved a boy.