Sweet Sweet Saturday

Yesterday was the last day of school for students. MAN were they ever wound, I thought 1:30 would never get there. Five minutes before dismissal they called for the students in the mobile units to come into the building then there was the 10 second countdown. Can't tell you much after that as I went deaf from all the whooping and hollering, the kids were making noise too. Finally, we got them all off to their respective modes of transportation home and then we had a meeting. The meeting was rather sad for all of us, our principal announced that she is retiring a year early due to health reasons. She had hoped to make it one more year until the school splits but as she said yesterday that was her will not God's, He has other plans for her and I hope that she can the much needed rest she needs and is able to enjoy her retirement.

Ok, flashback to the rest of the week, it was an exhausting week. I didn't get to bed until around midnight most nights. Finally, THursday it all caught up with me and I was in bed at 8:00, it was still light outside but I went right to sleep and slept all night. I slept good last night too, the stress of the year is finally over, Ill probably sleep well until August now. Of course, I do have this one last week of work to get thru first but it will mostly be me, on my own, in the classroom.

Speaking of Thursday, my assistant and I were talking about spiders at work. Anyone who knows me knows I'm terrified of spiders. Anyway, when I got home Thursday evening my dress for my sister's wedding had arrived and I was really excited about trying it on. As I went into the hall way on the way to the bedroom this thing leaped off the wall at me, of course, I screamed. It was one of those camel cricket things - they look like they are half cricket/ half spider *SHUDDER* I kept trying to kill it, it kept jumping around but I finally got it. Then, after trying on the dress, I went to load the dishwasher and there was a spider in the sink. He got washed down the drain with lots and lots of very hot water. I have to tell Connie, my assistant, that we can never again speak of spiders.

Plans for the weekend - as usual I have none other than going to church on Sunday. The weekends are so long for me. Most people don't complain about that but most people have lives...got to get me one. Hoping it won't be quite as hot but you know when you wake up and it's already in the 70s it is going to be a scorcher. We are under moderate drought conditions here, they have banned watering lawns, washing cars and anything else that uses extra water. Can't really tell that it has hurt the lawns much. One thing that struck me right away when I moved down here was how poor the lawns look. Up North we have these lush green lawns and down here they try but most of them look bad.

I'm heading to IN the week after next. Going to be there for about 3 weeks helping with last minute details for my sister's wedding. She is getting married on July 7th. They are having an outside wedding. Hope we don't all melt. At least she was wise enough to make it a morning wedding. I hear that 07-07-07 is the most popular wedding date for this year. The little town I come from has about 200 people in it and there are 3 weddings there that day so I guess there must be some validity to that.

Ok I feel like Im just rambling so I'm going to get off here now. Later gators.