It's Just Another Day....

Yesterday during our faculty meeting, I finished correcting all my papers. I didn't have time to get them put into the computer because DeAnn had called and asked me to pick up Chinese food on my way home. I also stopped at Walmart where I bought what I THOUGHT was hair dye. It turned out to be a hair LIGHTENER. Sigh.

Now I have to go through the hassle of returning that damn stuff.

I also picked up an electric pencil sharpener for my classroom. I KNOW that Laurie has my old one because there was a pencil broken off in mine, and hers has one in the exact same spot. Heh heh.

I don't really mind--but I hate dull pencils. So, for $12, I got another one. I also picked up a packet of pencils to put into my kids' little Halloween treat bags I have. When it is closer to Halloween, I'll buy some candy. If I buy it now, I will eat it, so best to leave it till the last minute.

The book man has left a box of books and stuff with Susan, and we were looking through it this morning. There is a very cute pink scrapbooky book with a pink camera for $11. That would be a perfect thing for Sadie Lou for Christmas. Maybe I'll get one for Autumn too--now that she has a little daughter, she might enjoy that.

For the older boys, there is a giant calculator--as big as a notebook, almost, and only $9. It actually works, too. So I think they would get a kick out of that.

And it would be grand to have my christmas shopping done.

Christmas has become basically a pain in the ass. MONEY.....MONEY MONEY MONEY. It's all about money.

Money that I don't have.

Money that would be better spent paying bills or buying barbie shit for myself!! I love the kids, fiercely--but they each have ten times the stuff that all five of us had for our entire childhoods PUT TOGETHER.

And, they don't respect their possessions--they trash them for fun. That IS their idea of fun.

Sigh.

Ah, well, I am trapped in the materialist swirl of the American culture.

Okay--enough of that.

Like I said, I got all my correcting done yesterday. This morning I put all the scores into my computer grading program. Now, each class is getting the slip of paper with their missing work on it. (A bunch of kids are at the mall of america today for a perk day. So I'm giving the ones that are remaining a work day.)

This means that I will have a huge basketful of late work by the end of the day.

Sigh.

And I'll be behind in my correcting again.

Susan told me she might have to drive herself tomorrow, which is fine with me--because then I can stay late on Friday and do my work--then maybe I won't have to come in on Saturday, wasting the gas.

Maybe for a reward, I will go to TRU and see if those 5 packs are in after school on Friday. (I can't afford to buy them, but I really want to SEE them!)

Gah.

My entire desk area is a devastation. During my prep today (next hour), I am going to work on getting that correcting done. Then, I am going to start picking up this god-awful mess! I have files to transfer to the big file cabinets, and I have a lot of sorting to do. :(

I should come in here on Saturday just to get all of this shit done. BUT, I don't want to. I want to clean my house this weekend and get caught up on my laundry again. I'm almost out of underwear again.

AND I would really, really like to do some sewing!!

Well, back to work with me!

BLEAH.