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A Nice Weekend

Thursday we had an early release day for students and then they were off on Friday. Unfortunately for the teachers it meant a day and a half of boring training.

Friday night my sister and brother in law came up, it was nice to see them, I had seen my sister once since they got married but hadnt seen him. Saturday we went out for Mexican, I always love that. Then Saturday night I actually cooked...my skills are a little rusty but it was a decent meal. They left at 7 this morning. The only part I didnt enjoy was the fact that my brother in law wanted to watch football 24/7. We made him let us watch a movie Saturday night and we were kind, we didnt make it a chick flick. She said he is like that at home so she just goes in the other room. If she wants to watch TV they have two. I just have one so we watched a lot of football.

Im not feeling the greatest today, woke up with a sore throat, not sure what is up with that. Hopefully will be better tomorrow before I need my loud teacher voice...lol. That is my catch up for the week.

Role Play

Haven't written about the role play world lately. I've mostly been playing with my characters that live in the elven world. One of my first characters, Keera, married an elven man and the rp revolves around them and their children. We figured up the other night that Keera and Solostaran had been together for about six years now. I really appreciate my rp partner, he has stuck by me and my characters through thick and thin.

Not only do we play Keera and Solo together but we have about 7 other rp "couples" that we pull out depending on the rp. Ive done storylines that I would have never thought of but because he is so creative we just have fun with it. We just recently started a modern day rp that has been great and I am just amazed he comes up with this stuff off the top of his head. The modern day rp is kind of a murder/mystery type of story. We have three others that regularly rp with us and we are all in on this new story line. It's a nice change.

He has also introduced me to World of Warcraft. The jury is still out on that one, not sure if I like it or not but Im giving it the old american try. We try to mix it up, play on WoW one day and IRC on the next. Gives me a chance to think about the whole WoW thing.

The funny thing about rp is that so many of the times you become good friends with the typist of the characters that you play with, that is how it is with Sol's character and I. We became friends and now I call him my rock because he is dependable and there when I need him. Not just a friend but one of my closest friends. I hope he knows how much I count on him being there.

Haven't been playing Clariandra lately since my rp partner has been out of commission for a while but looks like Ill be pulling her out and blowing off the dust in a bit. She and Keera are probably my favorite characters ever. Lady Susan will always hold a special place in my heart but I was such a newbie when I created her, she was rather bland. I still pull her out on occasion but for the most part she is resting.

That's the update on my world of role play. Now Im off to the world of reality. An all meeting day today...Yay! *dripping sarcasm on that word*

Ciao

Thunderstorms and Tornadoes

We have been in a severe drought for a couple of months now and actually gone into extreme drought status, I don't know the difference, all I know is it has been hot and dry. We had 78 days of temps over 90 and 14 of them were in September. Im not used to that, usually by mid September, back in Indiana, we are starting to feel some fall weather. But I digress, surprise surprise.

It rained yesterday, thank you God. But it didn't just come a nice gentle rain, it came with a fury. The rain was just starting at the end of the school day, by the time I got home it was torrential and windy and cold. Im not complaining at all, I was tempted to go out and dance in it but was afraid the neighbors might call the men in the white coats to take me in for treatment. Not that I couldn't use it but I prefer to stay home. About 6:00 it was DARK, almost as dark as night and the warnings started coming on. I was talking to some friends online and listening to the weather at the same time, trying to stay calm. One of our schools was near a tornado touchdown, not sure if the school was actually damaged but then they came on and said rotation had been seen in the sky above my school. That is only 6 miles away and west of me. So since storms normally move east I was a little tense. I lit some candles in case the power went out and prayed. I never lost power and by 9:30 the warnings had expired and there was only thunder, lightening and rain. They said this morning that we got 1 - 3 inches of rain, a good start on relieving the drought but still need a lot more. I just hope it doesnt all come in the form of bad storms.

I am so thankful for the power of prayer. God has just answered my prayers over and over in my life. He doesn't always answer them the way I want him to but in the long run I always see that He knows best.

Was glad to hear that the owner of Ye Olde Duck and Run made it through his ordeal and hope to hear that all is fine with him.

Today is the annual festival in my hometown. Im sorry I dont get to be there but I know that my family are all enjoying it. I remember as a little girl that we could never sleep the night before. My aunts, uncles and cousins would all come down for the festival and we would run around town until we were exhausted. Our parents would give us some money and we would buy all kinds of "treasures" aka junk. As I got into my teen age years the "treasures" were the cute boys we could see and discreetly follow all day. It's really funny how those things seem so important when you are young.

My housework calls, have a blessed day!

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.