Long day today!

Oh my! I am tired! In fact I came home from work, and took a 2 hour nap! Felt good though! I'll be headed back to bed in about an hour too.

The kids were very testy today. They didn't listen, and were very whiny! I have 18 kids and 12 of them are boys that just want to talk, talk, talk or whine, whine, whine. And they all get upset when they don't get their way. Now I usually have a few like that every year, but this year, there are twice the amount. I just can't take it. And of course when they do something wrong, they never did it is what they tell their parents. So I have parents that deny the fact that their child is a little Pain in the A##. Frustrating! My mom never denied my behavior and the teacher was always right. I have this one kid who was crawling around under the table and I said to him, get out from under there, you don't do that at home do you? The little SH** said yes I do. So I say you even do that at a resturaunt? His response-Yes. UGH!!!!!!!! But on the flip side, my twins-yes I have a set of identical twins in my class- brought me a flower and some cookies and a brownie. They are the light of my day as are a few of the other girls. This is going to be a long year!

But hey, it's almost Friday! So I only have one more day left this week and I'll be napping a lot this weekend as I think this illness is really taking it out of me. I don't think I have ever felt this bad.

Robin and I are going on another Hilltop cruise (scrapbooking group) in May. This year we are headed to Bahamas. We went to Mexico in April and it was a blast. That was my first cruise and now I think I'm hooked. I may not do much (or any) scrapbooking on this cruise though-it's too much fun on the ship! SHHH! Don't tell Linda! Most of the gang that is going will have suites, but Robin and I figure, not much time will be spent in the room, pretty much just sleeping and changing and that worked for us last time, so we are going to have an inside room that has 2 beds and no view. Need to go tell Linda now and send our deposits. Anyone else want to go???? You don't have to be a scrapbooker! Think about it!

Have a good night!

My couches

Here are some pictures of my couches. As you can see Peanut has made herself at home on the arm rest with a view out the door.








Here's a picture of her today as we were both bums on the couch.
That's her favorite spot. She is such a good dog!
These past few days of being sick, when I was lying in bed or on the couch, she was too. She slept right along with me. During the few times that I would get up, I made sure I took her out to get some exercise and played with her until my energy was used up, then back to the couch.


So today, I worked a little more on the album I am making for my mom. I may do a little more tonight too. I need to get it done as it has been in the works for about a year now. My new goal is Christmas. It was nice to have the time to scrap today! I should get sick more often-NO WAY! This stinks! I felt lousy! Back to work tomorrow for me-but hey, it's Thursday, so only 2 days that I have to work this week. Ok-back to the couch!

Photos!

Here they are! The photos of all the goodies I got on Saturday on the bus trip! These are the things that we got from Whims and the Tampa store. I'll tell you what some of them are: coolie from Whims,
Heidi Swapp album, HS chipboard letters, HS chipboard circles, gluestick, a few idea booklets, a cute nametag, 2 cute clear stamps, some 3d stickers, and a few more little things.
Below are the things I won in for the door prize... EK success stuff...2 wallet albums, ready made album, set of 2 frame cards, accordian album tin, 2 fabric tab ABC stickers, 2 fabric tab stickers, and 4 debossed stickers-one is the alphabet...Wowza!

Here's Robin waiting in line...it was really long and she was the 2nd to last one in line, so she got a prize for waiting so long! She won a cute pinkish album, perfect since she was looking for an album to make for Olivia's birthday.


When we got back on the bus, we had a goodie bag sitting on our seats filled with more stuff. Forgot to mention that when we got off the bus to shop, they handed us a paper holder for us to keep and use while we shop to hold our papers in...you'll see it in the pic under the paper...most of this stuff I may not use, as it's not really my type, but still, goodness.
Now for my purchases: some paper to work on a card holder for a gift-one for each month, a few dog papers, chipboard, cropadile(the Lakeland store gave us a 30% off discount on it, plus 10% off on all our purchases), some rub ons, and some stickers for the chipboard...some of this was purchased at the store in Melbourne so this is all that I bought-Great self control huh!


So there you go! It was a fun, fun time! Now if I could just get into the mood to scrapbook, maybe a little later today, since I'm feeling a little better.

Home Sick

Ugh!! I hate being sick! I woke up Sunday around 3:00 with my throat killing me and fever, body aches and pains. So I spent the day yesterday laying in bed. I decided to call the Dr. yesterday-I pay enough money-so they can help me on the weekends, right?! Anyway, the Dr on call told me that he would prescribe me the Zpack but didn't want me to start it until I've had this 24 hours, in case it is just a virus and not a bacterial infection. So this morning I started it. I think I have tonsilitis as they are huge and gross. I can barely eat-even soft foods. I really want some Kraft Maccaroni and Cheese and some creamed spinach from Boston Market, but I don't know if I can swallow those yet, so giving myself a little more time. I took today off from work and tomorrow too. I may even take Wednesday off too. I just want to be done with this!

On Saturday, Robin and I hopped on the bus that Whims rented and went to other scrapbooking stores. There were about 25 from Whims and then we picked up another 25 from a store in Tampa. We got an awesome goodie bag that was probably worth the price of the trip. The door prizes began and yours truly won the first one. Again probably worth more than what I paid so well worth it! Then we headed to a store in Lakeland and shopped there. Of course we picked up some things-but I only spent $25. Back on the bus as they served us lunch which was included in the price of the trip and then on our way to Melbourne to another shop. Of course, bought some stuff-only spent $30 and then we waited and waited and waited. We were supposed to only be there for 2 hours, but they had to manually enter in any sale items and I think we all found things on sale. We were at that store for 4 hours. I told a friend of mine from college that we were going to be there-Laene, and she stopped by and said hello. So back on the bus and finally on our way home. More door prizes-25 I think and one big prize. The shop in Lakeland also gave away a huge basket of goodies too. Robin won a door prize too so we both scored! We also did a make and take on our way to Melbourne. Then on the way home, we played Bingo. It was a lot of fun! So at least I got to do something fun this weekend and wasn't sick for that! I'll try to post some pictures of the goodie bag stuff and my door prize items. What the heck, I'll show you some things I got too. Hope you all are feeling well and had a good day!

Slacker!

That's me! I have been crazy busy getting back into the groove of teaching...
So here's what I've been up to:

You all know my furniture arrived and I love it!
Next I turned 31...had a good time...
Then school started the next day...don't worry-I partied that weekend of my birthday, not the night before school started.
Then I had to say goodbye to my little brother...he's 18 and left for college the day after my birthday. It was a very sad day. School started and then he left that night.
He's going to the University of North Florida and is on the soccer team. I just sent his first care package, full of goodies! Well, then got word from my mom that the coach had to make some cuts. 10 cuts to be exact. Well he's still on the team, and now the coach has to make 2 more cuts. He is really nervous but said he has been practicing really hard and has been the only one scoring goals during practice...so keep you fingers crossed that he gets to stay on the team.
So that brings us to today. I put my clothes in the car to go to the gym after work...Did I go? No-had to go to the Post office to mail his package and now I'm going to go work on Open House stuff for tomorrow. So that's been my life. Boring.

Still Loving my couch!