Eat Worms

I'm having an eat worms kind of day.  You know the nobody loves me everybody hates me, I'm just gonna eat worms kinda day (If you don't know this song then you were deprived).  Well, really it's not that everyone hates me or nobody loves me.  It just started to get bad at work.  I just found out that I will be traveling more next year than this year which is nearly impossible because I already travel an hour 2 hours each day back and forth to work.  On top of that, my millage will be reduced due to technicalities.  Then it all went down hill from there.  On top of it all, I started my diet today because my jeans are to tight so I can't drown my sorrows in chocolate.  My mom can't stand that and she keeps trying to cheer me up by pointing out the bright side of everything.  It's not helping though because I right now I just want to pout and feel sorry for myself, and win the bad day award.  I know things are not that bad when I think about what other people have to go through.  Tonight I will wallow; tomorrow I'll have a little perspective.

Addicted

They say that the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.  Well, I've come to realize that I have 2 very serious addictions.  First, I'm seriously addicted to Law and Order.  I realized that I had a problem when every afternoon at work this week I thought, "I can't wait to go home and watch Law and Order."  The problem is that it plays ALL THE TIME!  I think that just enables my problem.  It plays at 5, 6, and 7 every week night, and once I start watching an episode I have to keep watching until the end.  It's such a time sucker.  I think I should be outside the weather is beautiful, but then I think no I have to find out who killed that person.  My old roommate April got me hooked.  I had never even heard of Law and Order until her.  Therefore, I'm just going to blame her for my problem (It's easier than taking responsibility myself).  I wonder if there is some kind of rehab for this addiction????  My second addiction-CAFFEINE!!!  I'm caught in a vicious cycle.  I drink too much caffeine, then I can't sleep, the next day I'm even more tired, so I drink even more caffeine. Oh well, maybe one day I'll break these habits.

Christmas Break

Wow it seems like everyone has been posting lately.  Although, I've off of work I haven't spent much time on the web.  The best part about working in the school sysem is HOLIDAYS! Don't let anyone tell you its the rewards of impacting young live (hehe- just joking um kinda). Well, I've had two weeks off now and I've done a whole lot of nothing.  Seriously, I don't think I accomplished a thing other eating too much and catching up on every movie out. (Note of caution- Do not rent Little Miss Sunshine- there is no sunshine in it just a whole lot of cursing) My holidays were pretty uneventful except that I caught the horrible stomache virus going around.  I never want to throw up again. 

Side note- I just found out that I will be going backing in Europe this summer! Whewhoo!  I would greatly apreciate any tips!!!!!!!!!!

All in a Days Work

Working in the school system can be interesting.  Things are always changing.  Here are just a few highlights from the past week.

Wednesday- Found a huge cockroach in the game box sitting on my lap, very professionally threw the box and screamed like a baby, students laughed.

Thursday- Found out that speech therapist will now be responsible for the standardized reading tests in our parish, got put on a team to travel across the parish to test reading 3 times a year

Friday- A student I was testing who had lice and whose parents sent her to school anyway peed all over herself in my room. One teacher gave up her socks and another gave her child's extra clothes because the parents wouldn't come to bring new clothes.

Friday was sad. This second grade child lives in a house with no electricity.  The school found she had lice on Thursday and called home, but no one came to pick her up. She was sent back to school on Friday without treatment. Her stepmom recently moved out with 9 of her siblings. She wet herself on Friday and again yesterday.  Today I was doing a part of my speech evaluation where I ask the child to tell me what she would ask for if she had 3 wishes. Her response- For my mom to move back in with me, for my brother not to be so mean, for my little brothers and sisters to move back.  The school called social services yesterday but often times they are slow to do anything. To anyone who reads this- Please pray for this child and that I can somehow make a difference in her life.

Out of Balance- Vegetable Soup and Courtyards.

Things always sound so much easier before you start.

Vegetable Soup                                                                                     So I was going to do this vegetable soup diet 7 days.   You eat this soup two meals a day and get fruits and vegetables for snacks.  I know not very balanced, but I wasn't going for any kind of "life style change" like people claim when they are on a diet.  I was just trying to do a crash diet to loose a few pounds.  I thought for sure I could do anything for 7 days.  My mom and April were going to do it with me.  My mom made a big pot of soup and bought lots of vegetables.  So after church today, we started the diet.  While we were sitting around the table enjoying our first big bowl of chunky soup, we started to have our first doubts about this plan.  By supper time I was so hungry and the thought of another bowl of soup was not making me happy (I had enough trouble choking down the first bowl at lunch).  Well, my mom and April decided to give up on the diet.  April started talking about Subway, so I decided to give up too. Oh Well, I guess I'll just have to do the healthy eating and exercise lifestyle change.

Courtyard                                                                                                               I also decided that I want a little courtyard made of brick pavers in my yard.  My aunt said that she knew how to make one and that she would help me.  I thought, we can do this ourselves, who needs a man. After pricing out bricks all over, I finally broke down and bought some at Lowes.   We loaded up my cousins truck.  Well, today I realized that all of my supplies could not sit in the back of my cousins truck for 2 weeks until I have time to do my project.  So once again I set out on a task that is too big.   As I started slowly carrying out each one of my 25 bags of sand which weighed 50 pounds a piece, I realized I couldn't do this alone.  I called my mom and dad to come help and asked my neighbor if  he had a wheel barrow that I could borrow.  He didn't, but he offered to help instead.  Aren't neighbors great!  In about 30 minutes we got all 25 bags of sand and all 55 huge stones out of the back of the truck.

I thinks what I learned from this weekend is that I need some balance.  It's good to eat healthy, but 7 days of vegetable soup isn't the answer.  It's good to want to do a project around my house myself, but I need to realize that I can't do it all by myself and ask for help.