It's finally here: Spring Break! Yippee. The kids were so wound up today that I was looking forward to a break from some of them. Several of them have developed a bad case of spring fever/puberty angst and their mouthiness and disrespect are really ticking me off.
Nevertheless, we're apart for a week and when we return all shall be right within our worlds once again. Or so I hope.
Big news: the new undergarments have arrived and they fit. Huzzah! It's hard for short but large women to purchase panties when everyone seems to make them differently even when they are all supposed to be the same size. I know, I know... Really? We're talking about panties? I suppose I am, so I apologize for that.
On to other things like the fact that BJM stopped by this afternoon to put together another bookshelf for me. That is the beginning of "Clean Your Crap Up Week. This is the week where we are shredding the extraneous papers, recycling the magazines, throwing out the old, dusting off that which remains, and doing some crafting in there also. I am actually looking forward to having a nice, organized apartment again.
I'll be making a trip out to see my mom tomorrow and we'll be doing the church and dinner thing. No plans for Sunday but cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. Off to the neuro on Monday and to Tysabri on Tuesday. Monday afternoon I am visiting my upline from Stampin' Up! and then Tuesday night is Team Time so I need to get some cards ready for that. Thursday is card making time with friends as we play with the Big Shot embosser and cutting system. I also plan to try and get an eye doctor visit in there, if at all possible.
There's still plenty of time for cleaning and organizing though. It's a new season and it's time for a literal and figurative breath of fresh air.
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Friday, April 15, 2011
Monday, May 24, 2010
May memories...
Once again I've been gone for no other reason than I have been feeling great and living my life with nary a thought of my MS. I know some of you deal with terrible symptoms on a regular basis but I have to tell you that I have been lucky for a while now.
What's happened in May?
1.) Well, we completed the 3 mile MS Walk. Team Weeble rocked the course and rocked the fundraising too. Woohoo.
I was tired when we finished the walk because we actually walked a smidge more than we needed to and because it was a humid day. It was great though and if I could lose more weight for next year's walk I might find the whole thing even easier. I am hoping to be one of the top teams and one of the top individual fundraisers for our area walk.
2.) I hosted a successful Tastefully Simple party at my home, a little apartment that was bursting at the seams with people, good food I actually made, and three different alcoholic drink buckets. I baked and made dips and everyone survived the food tasting!
It was a crazy, stressful, and fun experience all at the same time. Everyone who came laughed a lot and bought a lot, so I earned some nice free products along with one giant deal thanks to BJM who booked a "book party" for the fall.
3.) We made it through state testing and I am looking at a four-day work week, then a four-day weekend, followed by a three-day week next week because of Tysabri and Memorial Day.
4.) I found a new cleaning person and she is fabulous! I would recommend her to anyone. She is efficient, neat, and of course, clean! She loves to clean which is a sickness I will never have but I will be glad to use her talents.
5.) My sister made a surprise trip home from Afghanistan and I spent parts of two days with her. That was a sweet gift for my family.
6.) I have only 21 days of school left until summer vacation. Wowzers!
I hope that if you're still one of those blog readers that actually do check on me now and then, that this post finds you in good health and not in too much heat. :)
What's happened in May?
1.) Well, we completed the 3 mile MS Walk. Team Weeble rocked the course and rocked the fundraising too. Woohoo.
I was tired when we finished the walk because we actually walked a smidge more than we needed to and because it was a humid day. It was great though and if I could lose more weight for next year's walk I might find the whole thing even easier. I am hoping to be one of the top teams and one of the top individual fundraisers for our area walk.
2.) I hosted a successful Tastefully Simple party at my home, a little apartment that was bursting at the seams with people, good food I actually made, and three different alcoholic drink buckets. I baked and made dips and everyone survived the food tasting!
It was a crazy, stressful, and fun experience all at the same time. Everyone who came laughed a lot and bought a lot, so I earned some nice free products along with one giant deal thanks to BJM who booked a "book party" for the fall.
3.) We made it through state testing and I am looking at a four-day work week, then a four-day weekend, followed by a three-day week next week because of Tysabri and Memorial Day.
4.) I found a new cleaning person and she is fabulous! I would recommend her to anyone. She is efficient, neat, and of course, clean! She loves to clean which is a sickness I will never have but I will be glad to use her talents.
5.) My sister made a surprise trip home from Afghanistan and I spent parts of two days with her. That was a sweet gift for my family.
6.) I have only 21 days of school left until summer vacation. Wowzers!
I hope that if you're still one of those blog readers that actually do check on me now and then, that this post finds you in good health and not in too much heat. :)
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
It's my Monday
Thanks to the extreme generosity of King Ferdinand and that sweet talking Queen Isabella, I had yesterday off. No students today but it's a professional development day, which means that all the things we really need to do won't get done today. Instead someone else has come up with topics for us to learn more about that sound great but aren't always actually practical.
I am showered and all doped up: Xanaxed, Ritalined, Abilified, and Lexaproed! (Look, I made verbs out of nouns; I am so clever!)
I am ready to go to work in my shorts (it will be almost 80 today which sucks for me because my body hates the heat) and do my Quiet Weeble Sunshine routine. I will answer your questions at work. I will say that it sucks that the weekend is over. I will say, "Yes, it went too fast." I'll do all those things that are expected of me. I always do.
I did a 2 mile walking DVD in my apartment yesterday and then went in to mass cleaning and throwing crap out mode. I jammed six more garbage bags and a few smaller bags filled with new and/or other good stuff that I don't want or need and made several trips up the stairs and out to the dumpster. Too bad you didn't know where I live as there are some Halloweeny things packed in there. Dumpster diver man will be salivating at the very sight of all those see-through bags neatly stacked up for him!
There are more things that were sorted that need to go in the actual trash dumpster as trash but that may have to wait. Tomorrow is real deal school and I must prepare myself with plans and papers and such.
In other good news, my neurologist did call me back yesterday and we talked about the depression. He's satisfied that I have two other people working on that part of me. Also, the blood vessels on my face are no longer blotchy and angry red so my skin looks much nicer. My new hair color and the fact that I washed it today means progress on the hairdo front. I am on new medicines that will work, will work, will work, must work. I paid some bills last evening so they can go in the mail today. And, I shaved my legs a few days ago for my visit to the gynecologist today.
Breathe in, out, repeat. Thank goodness we do that automatically.
**Thanks again for all the positive comments from those of you who post them here or email me. I do appreciate it even though I sound like an evil witch most of the time. I am working towards making my life tolerable and less punishing. Your words of encouragement always help.
(And especially for BJM, hang in there girl. I'm hoping we won't be MS sisters but hey, I know how to hook up those IVs like a pro. Horrible joke there, feel free to cause me bodily harm when we see each other next.)
I am showered and all doped up: Xanaxed, Ritalined, Abilified, and Lexaproed! (Look, I made verbs out of nouns; I am so clever!)
I am ready to go to work in my shorts (it will be almost 80 today which sucks for me because my body hates the heat) and do my Quiet Weeble Sunshine routine. I will answer your questions at work. I will say that it sucks that the weekend is over. I will say, "Yes, it went too fast." I'll do all those things that are expected of me. I always do.
I did a 2 mile walking DVD in my apartment yesterday and then went in to mass cleaning and throwing crap out mode. I jammed six more garbage bags and a few smaller bags filled with new and/or other good stuff that I don't want or need and made several trips up the stairs and out to the dumpster. Too bad you didn't know where I live as there are some Halloweeny things packed in there. Dumpster diver man will be salivating at the very sight of all those see-through bags neatly stacked up for him!
There are more things that were sorted that need to go in the actual trash dumpster as trash but that may have to wait. Tomorrow is real deal school and I must prepare myself with plans and papers and such.
In other good news, my neurologist did call me back yesterday and we talked about the depression. He's satisfied that I have two other people working on that part of me. Also, the blood vessels on my face are no longer blotchy and angry red so my skin looks much nicer. My new hair color and the fact that I washed it today means progress on the hairdo front. I am on new medicines that will work, will work, will work, must work. I paid some bills last evening so they can go in the mail today. And, I shaved my legs a few days ago for my visit to the gynecologist today.
Breathe in, out, repeat. Thank goodness we do that automatically.
**Thanks again for all the positive comments from those of you who post them here or email me. I do appreciate it even though I sound like an evil witch most of the time. I am working towards making my life tolerable and less punishing. Your words of encouragement always help.
(And especially for BJM, hang in there girl. I'm hoping we won't be MS sisters but hey, I know how to hook up those IVs like a pro. Horrible joke there, feel free to cause me bodily harm when we see each other next.)
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