Jeez, I am tired of junk mail, spam, whatever, and now the comments on this are some kind of junk stuff, too! (Except for yours, Tina!) I can make all this money, etc. Yeah, sure!
I'm just pissed off tonight! I have firewall, virus protector, spyware scans, all that stuff and they still can find me. I guess it is just one of those things you have to put up with when you use a free service like this.
Had a meeting all day about vocabulary teaching. Well, it just seems I've been doing it wrong all these years. Oh well, I can be flexible and try new ideas. I think that some of the things we are focusing on will really help the students do better on tests. Maybe they will start to take things more seriously about the testing. I sure hope they do, since that is what "they" (politicians) judge us on, but we can't MAKE the kids take it the way we want them to. We can't make them do anything. They have to want to do it. We are finding students to be lazy and they don't want to THINK. It is frustrating as hell!
Well, I guess I should stop since I am in a bitchy mood. I am just tired!
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Is it good to be crazy???
I haven't updated since Sept. 6. Today is Sept. 27, so that is three weeks later. I have not had the time to do this. When I clean my house, I change the decorations around. I have snowmen for January, hearts and angels for February, etc. If you came to my house today you would see Fourth of July things... which tells you how long it has been since I cleaned... OK, I have picked up a bit, but there is probably enough dust to write in at the moment. Could be fun!
I am teaching an overload this year (6 classes). I am also the new social studies department head. And I am doing the special class with the archaeology stuff. So I am going CRAZY!!! But... I am feeling good, and I am happy. Stressed, yes, but also happy! =-) I have some great classes this year. The students actually are GOOD!!!!!!! There are some who don't do their homework, but that is every year. Many are in special ed, so I will get some support from their resource room. It is hard to get everything done during the day. I take work home, which I knew I would have to do. It is keeping me from doing what I want to do for fun, though. I was going to do postcards, but I just couldn't get at them. I DID do the Halloween swap, with three sets of six and one of each for me, but it was only because the swap mom was sp patient and let me send them late. Now I am waiting to see what I get back for myself. And I still have to finish one of my own that I messed up and have to cut out a piece again.
Tomorrow I have a meeting downtown to be trained for more staff development for literacy developing lessons. Then I will be doing staff development classes at my school. I work with my best school buddy and we only have to do two classes so it isn't too bad. What was hard was planning for the sub for tomorrow. I have two classes doing testing, three that will be going over questions they had to answer, and one doing a lesson for archaeology. Hopefully I left enough notes so that the sub won't freak out! I'd hate to do that to her because she's a good sub and I don't want to scare her away!
My DS#1 will be here for supper with my DGD in a little while. It is always fun to see her. She'll walk in and say, "Come on, Nana, let's go see what Mama Monkey and the kids are up to." And we'll play with the stuffed animals. I always do Mama Monkey. She is a driver who speeds all of the time and takes sharp corners and stuff. Nothing autobiographical or anything! haha The kids always are driving her nuts, too, because there are so many of them. But we have fun. We'll also have to go grocery shopping tonight and DGD likes to come along and go to the play area. When she turns 8 she can't do that any more. Now she goes and plays with littler kids and reads to them, etc. If she comes into the store with us instead, then she wants to buy 10 things every 10 feet. LOL They are just getting here now.
DS#2 will be here this Saturday from Florida. He's coming up to go to his 10th high school class reunion, but we get him for the day. I am looking forward to seeing him! It's been too long. WAY too long! We are thinking we might go visit him in Florida this Christmas. As long as we are back in time to have DGD over for New Year's Eve. She is already talking about it.
We have been spending our last weekends at the trailer. We'll go close on Sunday. In some ways I am glad because then we will stay home and I can do things at home. Last weekend we had some rain, but it was still a good weekend. The weekend before I had some kind of "bug" and spent the weekend either sleeping or running to the bathroom. UGH! That's what happens when you have all of those kiddies breathing on you, and coughing on you, and hacking things up around you... A lot of the students have been out with the same thing.
I made a list of what I want to do at home. I ought to be able to finish it by 2026 or so... LOL Really, if I have a list I tend to get things done. That's me, the list maker. Hey, it WORKS! I need to finish all the baby quilts and then do some of my bigger ones. I NEED to finish some things!
I'd better get going before Mama Monkey takes off without me. I love riding with her when she drives. Lots of excitement! Like I don't have enough of that in my life already.
I am teaching an overload this year (6 classes). I am also the new social studies department head. And I am doing the special class with the archaeology stuff. So I am going CRAZY!!! But... I am feeling good, and I am happy. Stressed, yes, but also happy! =-) I have some great classes this year. The students actually are GOOD!!!!!!! There are some who don't do their homework, but that is every year. Many are in special ed, so I will get some support from their resource room. It is hard to get everything done during the day. I take work home, which I knew I would have to do. It is keeping me from doing what I want to do for fun, though. I was going to do postcards, but I just couldn't get at them. I DID do the Halloween swap, with three sets of six and one of each for me, but it was only because the swap mom was sp patient and let me send them late. Now I am waiting to see what I get back for myself. And I still have to finish one of my own that I messed up and have to cut out a piece again.
Tomorrow I have a meeting downtown to be trained for more staff development for literacy developing lessons. Then I will be doing staff development classes at my school. I work with my best school buddy and we only have to do two classes so it isn't too bad. What was hard was planning for the sub for tomorrow. I have two classes doing testing, three that will be going over questions they had to answer, and one doing a lesson for archaeology. Hopefully I left enough notes so that the sub won't freak out! I'd hate to do that to her because she's a good sub and I don't want to scare her away!
My DS#1 will be here for supper with my DGD in a little while. It is always fun to see her. She'll walk in and say, "Come on, Nana, let's go see what Mama Monkey and the kids are up to." And we'll play with the stuffed animals. I always do Mama Monkey. She is a driver who speeds all of the time and takes sharp corners and stuff. Nothing autobiographical or anything! haha The kids always are driving her nuts, too, because there are so many of them. But we have fun. We'll also have to go grocery shopping tonight and DGD likes to come along and go to the play area. When she turns 8 she can't do that any more. Now she goes and plays with littler kids and reads to them, etc. If she comes into the store with us instead, then she wants to buy 10 things every 10 feet. LOL They are just getting here now.
DS#2 will be here this Saturday from Florida. He's coming up to go to his 10th high school class reunion, but we get him for the day. I am looking forward to seeing him! It's been too long. WAY too long! We are thinking we might go visit him in Florida this Christmas. As long as we are back in time to have DGD over for New Year's Eve. She is already talking about it.
We have been spending our last weekends at the trailer. We'll go close on Sunday. In some ways I am glad because then we will stay home and I can do things at home. Last weekend we had some rain, but it was still a good weekend. The weekend before I had some kind of "bug" and spent the weekend either sleeping or running to the bathroom. UGH! That's what happens when you have all of those kiddies breathing on you, and coughing on you, and hacking things up around you... A lot of the students have been out with the same thing.
I made a list of what I want to do at home. I ought to be able to finish it by 2026 or so... LOL Really, if I have a list I tend to get things done. That's me, the list maker. Hey, it WORKS! I need to finish all the baby quilts and then do some of my bigger ones. I NEED to finish some things!
I'd better get going before Mama Monkey takes off without me. I love riding with her when she drives. Lots of excitement! Like I don't have enough of that in my life already.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's Off To Work I Go
Some good news! My Dad went home from the hospital on Sunday, although he had a rough first day at home because of a plastic IV needle bending and ripping his arm open enough to have him bleeding like a stuck pig (he won't like that analogy...)! Hopefully things are going better. He is doing really well, actually. My DS was to be coming home from the hospital today, so that means she has made a lot of progress, too, although she will be in pain for awhile yet.
And I am back at work. I have an overload this year so I have 6 classes. It is really hard to fit everything in with that one less planning time. Of course, today was the first day that we actually had an entire day that was normal, without shortened schedules due to homeroom things, and also picture taking during all of my classes. I think I will be doing a lot of working lunches this year! Also taking more home. Well, I knew that when I accepted the overload, but never having done it before gets you into things without realizing the extent of it. I'll live, but I sure am tired! And that is even without the Dept. Head stuff! Most of the students seem really nice. Only a couple of boys I will have to watch (I know who to separate now!)
I did go to the Dr. last week. Most of my problem was "an acute flare-up of TMJ." I am on anti-inflamatory for a month to take care of that. He also said I probably had a bit of sinusitis, so I am also on antibiotics. He told me it wasn't "catchy" BTW.
I had a big fight with my niece. She called my dad's room when I was there and asked for sn update on her mother. While I was talking to her I mentioned that I was going to go to the Dr. the next day and she flipped and told me I had to wear a mask if I went into her mother's (my sister's) room. I thought that, OK, I'll ask the nurse about it and that if they thought I needed to do that, I would. But then she started badgering me to "promise" her I would wear a mask. I told her that I would never do anything to hurt my sister, and not to worry about it. At one time she even had the gall to say, "Do you understand how much stress my family is going through right now?" (I wasn't aware that (1) I wasn't part of the family, and (2) I was under as much as she was, and she doesn't really know what real stress is!) Well, she kept it up so finally I said, "YES!!! I PROMISE!!! NOW ARE YOU HAPPY?" A few minutes later another sister went down to see DS and a nurse ran up and asked her if she was me. He then told her that the niece had called (immediately after I hung up from talking to her, apparently) to tell them I was not allowed to go in her mother's room without a mask. See, she didn't get it. The problem wasn't wearing the mask, the trouble was her condescending attitude toward me, insisting I "promise" like a child, and also the fact that she doesn't trust me. I am still pissed off about it. It really upset my mother and dad, too. I left to go home right after, without visiting DS, and I haven't been back since. I call about dad about every other day, and have called DS once. I just don't know what sparks will fly when I see my niece again. If I call her a self centered, controlling bitch do you think she will get my drift?
We took our DGD to camp with us this weekend, and had a really nice time with her. Our DS came up on Sunday and stayed overnight, and Labor Day with us, too. We were at a big Labor Day party across the way from our trailer on Sunday. Everyone in our "loop" was there. Fun! Then the next day, those of us who know them well, because we live right there and do lots together, were invited for an "eat the leftovers" meal. It was good then, too! We have such a nice group of friends there. We are lucky to have wound up where we did in the park, with so many nice people around us. I can hardly wait for the weekend again!
And I am back at work. I have an overload this year so I have 6 classes. It is really hard to fit everything in with that one less planning time. Of course, today was the first day that we actually had an entire day that was normal, without shortened schedules due to homeroom things, and also picture taking during all of my classes. I think I will be doing a lot of working lunches this year! Also taking more home. Well, I knew that when I accepted the overload, but never having done it before gets you into things without realizing the extent of it. I'll live, but I sure am tired! And that is even without the Dept. Head stuff! Most of the students seem really nice. Only a couple of boys I will have to watch (I know who to separate now!)
I did go to the Dr. last week. Most of my problem was "an acute flare-up of TMJ." I am on anti-inflamatory for a month to take care of that. He also said I probably had a bit of sinusitis, so I am also on antibiotics. He told me it wasn't "catchy" BTW.
I had a big fight with my niece. She called my dad's room when I was there and asked for sn update on her mother. While I was talking to her I mentioned that I was going to go to the Dr. the next day and she flipped and told me I had to wear a mask if I went into her mother's (my sister's) room. I thought that, OK, I'll ask the nurse about it and that if they thought I needed to do that, I would. But then she started badgering me to "promise" her I would wear a mask. I told her that I would never do anything to hurt my sister, and not to worry about it. At one time she even had the gall to say, "Do you understand how much stress my family is going through right now?" (I wasn't aware that (1) I wasn't part of the family, and (2) I was under as much as she was, and she doesn't really know what real stress is!) Well, she kept it up so finally I said, "YES!!! I PROMISE!!! NOW ARE YOU HAPPY?" A few minutes later another sister went down to see DS and a nurse ran up and asked her if she was me. He then told her that the niece had called (immediately after I hung up from talking to her, apparently) to tell them I was not allowed to go in her mother's room without a mask. See, she didn't get it. The problem wasn't wearing the mask, the trouble was her condescending attitude toward me, insisting I "promise" like a child, and also the fact that she doesn't trust me. I am still pissed off about it. It really upset my mother and dad, too. I left to go home right after, without visiting DS, and I haven't been back since. I call about dad about every other day, and have called DS once. I just don't know what sparks will fly when I see my niece again. If I call her a self centered, controlling bitch do you think she will get my drift?
We took our DGD to camp with us this weekend, and had a really nice time with her. Our DS came up on Sunday and stayed overnight, and Labor Day with us, too. We were at a big Labor Day party across the way from our trailer on Sunday. Everyone in our "loop" was there. Fun! Then the next day, those of us who know them well, because we live right there and do lots together, were invited for an "eat the leftovers" meal. It was good then, too! We have such a nice group of friends there. We are lucky to have wound up where we did in the park, with so many nice people around us. I can hardly wait for the weekend again!
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