September 21, 2009

1. It feels like we have been back in school for about 6 months, but Back to school night is just tomorrow.  I’m really wiped out tired, but I am having fun teaching.  Sociology is still a sticking point, but Ancient Civ and Geography are great, well, Geography is great, AC, pretty good – fun to teach but needs lots of prep to keep it lively.
2. Somehow next weekend I have ended up saturday on altar guild crew, then painting the food pantry, on Sunday,  layreader at the 7:30, , doing the Tanzania presentation at 10:15, vestry greeter after the 11:15.  Holy Moly!  It’s a good thing I love Jesus.
3. Made some inroads on decluttering the upstairs room, my parlor, I think I shall call it.  Finished my bulletin board.  Took me a while to figure out how to hang it, but I bought a stud finder. (Insert joke here.)
4. I’ve been lax on photographing the garden.  It is a weird surreal place now, with sunflowers that are heavy and bent, squash with a dusty blight and tomato plants that are extending their reach out of the box and everywhere!  Tonight I made a tomato mozzarella salad(I do have a picture of that) with tomatoes, basil, oregano, and parsley that I picked from the garden as I left school today.  Very, very delicious.
5. Big exciting news!  Elder Bro and family will be stationed here as of December.  The last time he and I lived in the same town we were in high school!

September 16, 2009

1. I’ve often lamented my clutter and it is even harder to bear when things are busy, because more and more just gets put aside to be dealt with later, and later is so very far away.  I wrote this down this morning at work.  “I want my house to be a place I want to come home to, not another job to do.”  It’s not a sanctuary if there are always major projects to do.  I know the fly lady has the answer, small routines that gradually whittle it all down, I am just, as always, seeking some discipline to do it.
2. School is off to a rocky start.  I feel cluttered and disorganzied there too, and my schedule is not what I would like, so I am just a big pile of bitch.  The students are fine though, and I deliver on most lessons.  Just like at home, I’d like to get out of the whole and be able to enjoy things.
3. I still love my new car.  It makes me happy.  I’ve kept it very clean.  It’s the least cluttered place in my life.
4. The TV is on the fritz, and I need to take it in for some work I think.  I catch up on shows I want to see, like GLEE, online.  I wish I knew what the problem was.
5. Schoolwise I was on the roof on Monday, really not wanting to teach a particular subject, but my friends talked me down.  We have a little support group – WiNC.  “Why I am Not Crappy.”  
6. PS I woke up today and Paul had left me a little collage painting he had made of the Washington Monument.  It was a lovely beginning to the day.

September 7, 2009

1. School starts tomorrow and I am not at all excited, just resigned, which is a little sad, and I hope that feeling is just a slump not a permanent one.
2. I am trying to be a team player and get involved with things outside my room, but I also am looking forward to things starting and being able to withdraw into my room.
3. All in all I feel quite strange.
4. Very nice trip with my pals to MD yesterday on the candy tour.  Chronicled here.
5. I made cake pops for the seniors.  Wish I had taken a picture of them.  They looked cute.  They were supposed to have little smiley faces, but the pen didn’t work right.  Probably for the best.  Had they been in the back seat as I was driving them to their doom that would have creeped me out.

August 7, 2009

1. I feel dreadfully boring.
2. I am not fashionable, this is true.  My Tanzania “look” however.  Is painful.  Long skirt, t-shirt or flowy blouse.  Lets top that with my gardening hat, and bottom it with my “corrective shoes” because my achillies is kicking up.  Ouch.  I go to Tanzania, and suddenly I am amish.
3. Trying to cleanup around the house and I keep stalling out in the upstairs sitting room. Perhaps tomorrow I try again.
4. Anybody in seattle want to adopt the cat I named?  Check it.
5. Still boring.

July 9, 2009

1. Sometimes I feel really dumb.  Like tonight at camera class.  I took it to learn how to use my fancy digital camera.  Well, it is not very easy to remember what is happening with all the different buttons and settings.  I knew how to use a meter with a 35mm camera, but I cannot figure it out with this one.  Me feel dumb.
2. Went to see Star Trek today.  GREAT!  Loved it. Wished it would have lasted longer, or that a sequel had begun immediately following.
3. My friend Jeff is sick and in the hospital, and that is upsetting.
4. I want to tell Captain AssKick that I want to change to someone who can train me in the morning, but I can’t (and by can’t I mean I cannot seem to make myself do it.)  I mean it makes perfect sense.  1 ish clearly isn’t great for him and I don’t love it all that much and 5 which seems better for him, I really don’t want.  I guess I am conflicted because a) I am a wuss, and b) I don’t really have a commitment at that time.  I feel like no one has listened to me when I said I wanted to work out early, or maybe I should have said “Morning” instead of early.  Anyway, it’s not like it is killing me, but it is bugging me.
5. Trip to the DMV tomorrow. Car business.  Maybe a nap (after, not there.)

June 28, 2009

1. bored
2. overcaffinated
3. bad combo
4. do not understand the nature of love
5. would like slice of cake.  do not have any.

April 27, 2009

1. Must continue to think about risk.  Why am I so easily distracted?  How can you find anything new if you are buried in the pile of the everyday?
2. Play practices are fun, hectic.  More time than I have available I think.
3. Testing looms at school.  Paralyzed by what to choose to teach in the short time remaining.
4. Paul and I have a little unspoken contest of who will turn on the AC first.  Pretty warm out today, and he didn’t break.  Impressive.  I am wavering.  It gets warmer upstairs, so I am at a disadvantage.
5. We went to see a play last night, See what I wanna See at signature.  Weird, but entertaining overall and very enjoyable to be out and seeing something new and different. Other activities this weeked were the annual PreDerby party with AB.  She has a very good hat, and hoped to win the contest, but another woman was clearly motivated and had a sidekick who was also well hatted and they were combining tickets.  AB took her second place finish well, mostly since we spotted a presumtuous latecomer in a yellow hat, and we since felt her attempt to rise to power was not acceptable, and formulated some strategies (body tackles) should they be needed.  Yes, Yellow hats loss was win enough.

April 21, 2009

1. I’ve been working on, or putting off working on the Altar Guild Schedule for about a week.
2. I hope to finish in about an hour.
3. It’s 12:15am.
4. I hate the Altar Guild Schedule.
5. and….scene.

March 28, 2009

1. I had a wonderful time on the trip.  It was warm, and there was plenty to see and do, as well as situation with our villa (it was complicated to go out at night) that meant I could go to bed early and get a good nights sleep (except for the dog fights and crowing roosters, but overall, good sleep)
2. I am suffering terrific post vacation let down today, as I have returned to a cold and rainy Arlington.
3. I am also always hoping to recieve some sort of major epiphany on trips away, or upon my return, but as I was taking out the trash this morning as I always do Saturday morning, I felt very much the same as ever, which made me blue.
4. So I am taking yet one more day, wherein I sit in my comfy chair, with two cats napping on top of me, and am watching the  remaining episodes of Battlestar Gallactica.
5. This is helping, I think.  As is seeing things like this.

March 10, 2009

1. All my friendsare blogging late, I shall join them, though I NEED to be in bed!
2. My dear English teacher friend has been dealing with big family issues lately, and has been in and out of school.  The kids adore her, and are always in her room. (Not mine, because I am not as warm and more prone to look busy until they go away)  But, knowing how much she adds, and how I would like to be a kinder gentler person, I deliberately was outgoing and warm in the halls, and tried to hang around making small talk to fill the gap.
3. My personality is split in several pieces:  The person I was, the person I want to be, the person I have become.  I like the last the least.  She seems controlling, too quick to act, and a trifle lazy.  I want to be like a human real simple magazine.  Well ordered lists and clean colors.  Chairs in the sun and lemonade. Warmth. Love.  Affection.
4. Geography class is getting better and better.  Ancient Civ is limping along.  Sociology is still breaking the big wind.
5. Vestry tonight.  Ate too much cake.  Delicious.  Here is a little question, and I am not saying I know the answer, but when people say God will provide, how come that never seems to include the money that is already in the bank?  I mean, what if he already DID provide, but I locked it into a long term CD?