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I went to bed quite early last night as I had blood tests this morning and it never fails....when I have blood tests, there are all sorts of things I am not supposed to eat, and I am not supposed to eat past 7 pm. Of course, those are exactly the nights I crave buttered popcorn and ice cream and greasy fried food and candy....sigh
The only way to combat the urges is to go to bed and go to sleep.
I slept in till about 7 am, then I got dressed and went to the clinic where they sucked out some blood.
The nurse who always does it is so good at it that I barely feel the needle sliding into my arm. I compliment her every time. That makes her like me and do her best to always avoid hurting me. :)
I went to Daniels afterwards and had bacon, eggs, and rye toast which was quite tasty.
I made it to school before our Assessment Committee started their presentation on how to use the NWEA web site and our kids' test scores to improve our instruction and help the kids perform better on the tests.
The NWEA has a lot of information available, and it is a little overwhelming to me. I am philosophically opposed to all these tests as I feel that they do NOT present a true picture of what the kids are learning nor what they understand. And in the case of MY kids--these guys have been "left behind" long ago. Most of them didn't even show up at school and if they did, they wrecked havoc. Here, they come and they TRY. They are not going to be brought up to where they are supposed to be overnight just because some political dickweed says they should be. And horsewhipping every teacher publically ain't gonna help either.
Anyhow--pet peeve of mine.
On the good side of things, I didn't expect my new salary to be present on this check, but it was. It's looking like I am making about $150 or so more per check than last year. Whoot. That will help.
I'm going to keep applying the extra cash to the credit card debt until it is gone. Once my debt is gone, I will have so much extra money to do with as I please!! I can go to Detroit without a problem every four or five months if I want--and I can go to North Carolina and visit my friend Frank and his family at least once a year! Maybe I can even fly out to San Diego and get into some serious fun/trouble with Little G and K. :D
Speaking of money--Gas was $3.50/gallon when I went to school this morning. On the way home tonight, I noticed it is now $3.69. nineteen cents IN ONE DAY? WTF???????
There is no excuse for this crap.
Anyhow, I finally picked up the two prescriptions that have been sitting at the drug store for a week. And I put my check in the bank. Tomorrow I HAVE to sit down and pay bills. I'll do that while I am doing laundry, I guess. And I have to do a little tidying up downstairs. Since Frank left and school started, I've been letting stuff pile up again--and I have three or four boxes of stuff I want to try to sell on EBAY that I hauled downstairs. I need to take pictures and try to figure it all out. I doubt I have much of value, but even if I could make $50 on all of it, that's $50 to put towards being debt free.
It was sultry and gray this afternoon. The air feels oppressive, like it would really like to cut loose and deluge us with a massive thunderstorm. That would be okay with me.
I'm pretty tired tonight. I'd like to work on my Mix-N-Match swap, but I am just pooped out. Don't feel like doing anything except sleeping. So maybe I should just sleep and wake up early tomorrow morning and hit the ground running.
I want to work on "Frank's Bedroom" this weekend too. He kept calling it "my bedroom," and that made me smile. So, from now on, it is likely to be "Frank's Bedroom" to me too. It would be fun to make it a more "masculine" room....at least change it so the walls are not a pale raspberry color. LOL.
Goodness knows I have a lot of cowboy type paraphenalia...perhaps he'd enjoy having a room done up for a little buckeroo. LOL. I will have to ask him.
Not much else is new with me.
I guess I will try to take a nap and see if I wake up with any ambition.
The only way to combat the urges is to go to bed and go to sleep.
I slept in till about 7 am, then I got dressed and went to the clinic where they sucked out some blood.
The nurse who always does it is so good at it that I barely feel the needle sliding into my arm. I compliment her every time. That makes her like me and do her best to always avoid hurting me. :)
I went to Daniels afterwards and had bacon, eggs, and rye toast which was quite tasty.
I made it to school before our Assessment Committee started their presentation on how to use the NWEA web site and our kids' test scores to improve our instruction and help the kids perform better on the tests.
The NWEA has a lot of information available, and it is a little overwhelming to me. I am philosophically opposed to all these tests as I feel that they do NOT present a true picture of what the kids are learning nor what they understand. And in the case of MY kids--these guys have been "left behind" long ago. Most of them didn't even show up at school and if they did, they wrecked havoc. Here, they come and they TRY. They are not going to be brought up to where they are supposed to be overnight just because some political dickweed says they should be. And horsewhipping every teacher publically ain't gonna help either.
Anyhow--pet peeve of mine.
On the good side of things, I didn't expect my new salary to be present on this check, but it was. It's looking like I am making about $150 or so more per check than last year. Whoot. That will help.
I'm going to keep applying the extra cash to the credit card debt until it is gone. Once my debt is gone, I will have so much extra money to do with as I please!! I can go to Detroit without a problem every four or five months if I want--and I can go to North Carolina and visit my friend Frank and his family at least once a year! Maybe I can even fly out to San Diego and get into some serious fun/trouble with Little G and K. :D
Speaking of money--Gas was $3.50/gallon when I went to school this morning. On the way home tonight, I noticed it is now $3.69. nineteen cents IN ONE DAY? WTF???????
There is no excuse for this crap.
Anyhow, I finally picked up the two prescriptions that have been sitting at the drug store for a week. And I put my check in the bank. Tomorrow I HAVE to sit down and pay bills. I'll do that while I am doing laundry, I guess. And I have to do a little tidying up downstairs. Since Frank left and school started, I've been letting stuff pile up again--and I have three or four boxes of stuff I want to try to sell on EBAY that I hauled downstairs. I need to take pictures and try to figure it all out. I doubt I have much of value, but even if I could make $50 on all of it, that's $50 to put towards being debt free.
It was sultry and gray this afternoon. The air feels oppressive, like it would really like to cut loose and deluge us with a massive thunderstorm. That would be okay with me.
I'm pretty tired tonight. I'd like to work on my Mix-N-Match swap, but I am just pooped out. Don't feel like doing anything except sleeping. So maybe I should just sleep and wake up early tomorrow morning and hit the ground running.
I want to work on "Frank's Bedroom" this weekend too. He kept calling it "my bedroom," and that made me smile. So, from now on, it is likely to be "Frank's Bedroom" to me too. It would be fun to make it a more "masculine" room....at least change it so the walls are not a pale raspberry color. LOL.
Goodness knows I have a lot of cowboy type paraphenalia...perhaps he'd enjoy having a room done up for a little buckeroo. LOL. I will have to ask him.
Not much else is new with me.
I guess I will try to take a nap and see if I wake up with any ambition.
