My feet hurt!

I am tired of wearing nice shoes to work. I am used to wearing tennis shoes everyday but now that we have to dress up to teach health I have to wear nice shoes too. My feet are not happy with me right now. Next week I get to go back to tennis shoes :)!!

There is a lot going on right now. Too much to write about. I will get back into a rhythm of blogging again soon.

I am still here

It has been a while since I've blogged, I know. I have been a wee bit busy. Today was a pretty good day though, busy, but not too stressful. I seem to always have a "to-do" list that is about 20 items long. Maybe things will slow down in October. I haven't had any time to do stuff I want to do really. I want to sew but by the time I get home I don't feel like it. I am going to have to schedule it in I guess. I have a lot to do before the holiday house! I have a few bags cut out but I need more. Then I need to sew them all.

Well, I am pooped so I am going to bed.

About to drown

You know that expression "Keeping your head above water?" Well, I know now better than ever what that means. I suddenly hate my job. Every time I think I have things together and things are going smoothly someone throws in another tub of water. I am in survival mode. I feel like teaching my students is something that happens in the midst of my job. I thought that was my job...to teach. Instead I am busy doing a million other things. Then they throw a huge curve ball without any thought of how it would affect me and gave one of my 8th grade classes to another teacher and gave em a new 7th grade class. Which means I no longer just teach one grade. I have 2 preps now. Granted, I am used to having 3 but that was before I had the position of Department Chair. I feel like I am delegating everything I possibly can. I thought all was better today and then I got an e-mail from both my principal and assistant principal about a parent complaint. Not on me but another teacher. They said if I need them to intervene they will. I want to show I can take the responsibility to approach one of my department with issues but this teacher is new to the school but NOT new to teaching. He is the veteran teacher of the department. I really don't want to bring it up to him but I don't want to dump it on the administration because it is my job first and then theirs if he doesn't respond.
I am so burnt out at the end of my day I don't even want to think. I just want to turn my brain off and sleep. I don't want to do laundry, eat, sew, anything.
Is it June yet?

And now to add to my misery... I was so excited to get to take a banjo class that I could afford. I went to register and they have canceled the class. That was going to my personal thing to get away. UUUGGHHHH!

Here we go again!

Monday is quickly approaching. Hopefully it won't be as crazy as last week. I do actually have to start teaching this week though.

Today I went with my good friend Shayna to the Slovic Festival. The food there was amazing! A Catholic church in the area does it every year. I realized we weren't in "Church of Christ Land" anymore when I found that you could buy beer at this festival :) I told Shayna I go to the wrong church! (Of course I was just kidding mom.) We took our food inside and I realized Bingo is king (as you can see in the picture of Shayna and Carl. Unfortunately I couldn't get the disco ball that was also hanging in the room.) I got hit on by a man that could have been my grandfather....he was trying really hard too. Not sure if that was better than not getting hit on at all. When we went back outside there was a Polka band and people were dancing. I am going to put it on my calendar for next year....so Shayna, you know what that means since I won't go without you.


Well, football season is here. Not sure what happened to my Auburn Tigers this weekend. On a good note, I am tied for first place in my College pick'em and 2nd in Pro Pick'em with a few games to go. (I was the only one that picked Tennessee to win today!) Currently I am beating my match up in fantasy football but there are still games to go and it is close. Vince needs to step it up a little and start giving me more points!

Nuff Said...