Another Long Sunday

It seems that ever since I moved to NC, Sundays have become the longest days. It used to be a day when I would go over to my parents' home and we would sit on the porch and enjoy the day just talking. Sometimes I even let them talk me into watching Gunsmoke with them. The actual series Gunsmoke was on when I was too young to really remember them and I suppose some find them lame and I guess at first I did too but now each episode reminds me of those special times I spent with my parents. Isn't it funny the things that we make memories from. I confess that I am so lonely here. My weekends just drag. I don't remember ever before preferring work over the weekends until I moved here.

Ugh, it seems every time I write here anymore I am whining. I hate whiners. On to something else.

Yesterday I went to a choir "retreat" at church. It is the day they begin practicing for the Christmas program and new people may join. I love to sing so I went to join, a friend had told me that they needed sopranos. Th e music for the program is beautiful, I really enjoyed singing as part of the choir. The church I went to in Indiana did not have a choir they had a praise team. I love the worship music of a praise team but I also love the harmony of the choir. Here we are lucky enough to have enough men for a good solid tenor and bass section. I normally go to the 8:30 service when they have praise music and now I will stay through Sunday School and sing with the choir at 11:00 then go home.

I seem to have caught a bit of a cold, I woke up in the middle of the night quite chilled, couldn't seem to get warm despite two rather heavy blankets. Today Im stuffed up one moment and running for tissues the next. Every change of season seems to bring on the sniffles.

Today I rented a movie from PPV. Miss Potter, the story of Beatrix Potter. It was a good little movie starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. Not something I would probably watch again but I dont regret renting it as I occasionally do some movies.

A week in the life

It was a good first week of school. I have 23 students this year in comparison to 16 last year, so that was one thing to adjust too, our schedules changed 5 times in 5 days so that caused some chaos but overall it was good. I have some really sweet students.

Friday night I actually had a date and as is par with my life it was a disaster. He was two hours late and had some lame excuse about losing my number so he couldnt call. He stayed about an hour and was ready to leave and I was ready for him to go so...so much for that. I hate being my age and being back in the dating game. When you are a young girl you think that you are going to meet Mr. Right and live happily ever after. What you dont know is that some Mr. Rights are just Mr. Right Now and they have a Miss Part time on the side. *sigh*

Saturday I worked a bit on my school website, need to finish it up this weekend. For the most part I was just lazy. But I guess we all need a day like that on occasion. So now Im off to do some more web work and scheduling for the week ahead.

Ranting and Raving

I am so sick of people. Actually, not all people but the liars and the pretenders...know what? I dont need or want them in my life anymore. Im talking about the people who will tell you anything to get you to see things their way or to keep you in their life. But you know who I think the worst is...the ones that you think are your friends. So hear me now...I DONT care...go screw yourself and leave me out of it. I have a friend who laments over people who dont hold up their end of the bargain, leaving someone hanging in the wind but then this "friend" does the exact same thing to me. Guess they dont know the golden rule. Im through.

One down

Week one is gone already. This week was just teachers, with lots of meetings and classroom prep time. It is nice to have some paid days to do that. In Indiana we had one paid workday at the beginning of school and one at the end the rest was donated time. Here we still have to donate a lot of time but at least we do get some compensation for it. Thursday we had parent orientation so I got to meet some of the parents and students. It seems like a good group. This year I am starting out with 22 students in my home room and my second reading class has 24 in it, that should keep me busy. My classroom is pretty well ready but I havent made one single plan yet, so guess what Im doing this weekend...lesson plans. First week shouldnt be too bad, I have several back to school activities that I can use. Geez can anyone say ramble? Im definitely just rambling.

My mom called earlier. She wanted to know if I was ok because she hadnt heard from me in "months" My mother was stretching it a bit, it had been a couple of weeks but not months. I told her I had had a rough couple of weeks and felt depressed, I never call home when I feel like that because Id probably end up packing my bags and going home.

Well I had better go try to get some planning done tonight. Ill let you know how the first student week goes.

Here we go

I went to my classroom today, the cleaning crew left it in a mess...it's a clean mess but a mess none the less. I had to move my own file cabinets...very heavy. Now I have about 30 student desks to move into place...that is on the agenda for tomorrow. Hopefully Ill be able to drag my butt out of bed earlier and get r done. Of course it is already 1 am and I am still up...this is not good, I am not sleeping and its starting to wear me down. I dont know...sigh.

I have so much running through my mind right now. Sometimes Im afraid Im having some kind of breakdown. I really need to work on attitude I think. Definitely spending more time in my Bible study because that is where the answers are.

Well there is this week's update. Pray for me if you are praying person.

Under the Weather

My little cold seems to be getting worse. When my niece was here and was sick she wanted to sleep all the time, it seems to be affecting me just the opposite. Last night I went to bed but didn't fall asleep until 5 am. Woke up around 10 and just lounged in bed for awhile. Now here it is 12:30am and Im still up again. This is not a good habit to be getting into with just a week and a half left til school starts. I really need to go to the store tomorrow so Im going to make myself get up and going. Hopefully Ill be able to sleep tonight.

So basically this is short because my life is boring...lol...but sometimes boring is good and right now I'm just going to enjoy being bored.

Update on my neice

My niece is still trying to get over her pneumonia. First they put her on the z-pak and a cough medicine and she broke out in a rash. Took her off both of them and put her on a mega dose of amoxicillin and another strong antibiotic. She does fine on the amoxicillin but the other one makes her sick every time she takes it. She is having a really rough time of it.

What's going on in my life? Not much. Last Wednesday I went out with 4 of my fellow fourth grade teachers. We had a nice time catching up on everything. I am getting excited about the upcoming school year. This year I am team teaching with one of the other teachers and will be teaching Language arts and social studies. She is going to teach math and science. Im so glad. We go back on the 20th and the students come back on the 27th. We have a retirement dinner this Friday for our principal. I am going to miss her, really enjoyed working with her.

I seem to have a bit of a cold, must be the left overs of the girls' being sick when they were here. I guess I should have disinfected the house after they left but didnt really think about it.

Well thats about all that is going on in my exciting life. Hopefully will start being a little more faithful about updates. This is me signing off.

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Alone again

On Thursday I took the girls to Raleigh to the Museum of Natural science and the museum of history. Then on Friday my youngest sister and I took them to the ocean on Friday. We didnt stay long because the youngest niece wasnt feeling well.

My sister and brother in law arrived Saturday evening. The girls sure would glad to see them. We all went out to eat at one of the Mexican restaurants here in town and then went to Baskin Robbins for dessert. The youngest niece still wasnt feeling well. We visited after dinner then went to bed about 11. They were up and gone by 9 on Sunday morning, sure feels lonely. I was with them in IN for about 4 weeks then they were down here for almost two so Im all on my own again.

My sister called me this morning and said she had taken Shay to the doctor. They gave her some heavy duty antibiotics and took xrays. They suspect she may have pneumonia, if you are reading this and you are a praying person please keep her in your prayers.

Now that things are quiet here I am going to start getting things ready for the new school year. Only 21 days until the teachers go back so I want to get ready. That is all for now. More later.