I’m not exactly blue, but today has been kind-of a “meh” day. I think I have an end-of-daylight-savings hangover. That extra hour of sleep on Sunday morning has me feeling rather sluggish and unenergetic.
I washed my car yesterday. So today, naturally, it rained. But I also have one new windshield wiper, so at least I could see very, very clearly on one side. Why just one? Don’t ask me. PG was in charge of that. Ask him.
At work, one of the volunteer things I do with the kids is organize and train our morning PA announcers and our MCs for our assemblies. Two new PA announcers started today, one of whom has come to see me about five times in the past week. She was so excited and bubbly and full of questions. She didn’t show up this morning. So much for enthusiasm.
Also on the subject of those announcers, another girl whom I have scheduled in and who is due to have her turn in December came to talk to me this morning. She has now decided that she doesn’t want to be a PA announcer after all, but if I really need her, she’ll still take her turn. Good of her. I told her we’d talk closer to December. I think I’ll still make her do it. I’m just that mean.
I had to change my own classroom clock back to standard time. I didn’t even notice that the time hadn’t been changed till almost noon. Ohhh … that’s why I was hungry! And I also didn’t go get the stepladder to do the climbing. I hopped on a chair. They don’t like that around here. We’re supposed to be all about safety. I was all about speed right then.
Am I the only person in the entire school who bothers to make coffee??? Well, yes. Yes, I am. Asked and answered.
Our school computers have been completely out of commission since last Wednesday, because all the schools in my district are going on this new centralized system. I have no idea why. I thought our old system worked just fine. We were given some training after school this afternoon on how to use the new system. The training lasted an hour. I figured it out in under five minutes – and I am most emphatically NOT a computer expert. And teachers are just the worst group of people to try to teach! We don’t listen, we continually make random comments just to hear ourselves talk, we don’t even look at the speaker – and after an hour of instruction, at least half of us are still wandering around saying, “I don’t get it. What was that first step again?”
And once again, when I finally got home, the recycling guy had thrown my emptied recycling box right in the middle of my driveway. I had to open the garage door, stop, get out, pick up the box and place it in its spot in the garage, get back in the car, drive into the garage, close the garage door. I must have wasted at least two extra minutes doing all that!
But the rain had stopped by then. And there was leftover Halloween chocolate to snack on. I’m feeling better now.
I know lots of other people have posted about this before, so I’m not being terribly original here, but I find it quite fascinating to check out the search engine terms that somehow lead to my illustrious blog. Sometimes they make perfect sense, sometimes it’s very much a “WTF?!” moment.
I’ve had a lovely past five days or so. Everything just seems to have gone really smoothly in my life – or maybe it’s just that I’m focusing on the positives for some reason. Not that I’m a negative person or anything, but I’ve just noticed a lot of good things around me lately.
When I got home, DD was starving, and naturally, it hadn’t occurred to her to make dinner or anything. She suggested that we go out for sushi. My response? “You paying?” Hers: “Sure!” More win!
And today it’s sunny and warm and the tulips I bought to decorate the table yesterday are opening up beautifully. (Of course they’re pink!) I’ve been playing on the Intarnets and it occurred to me that now that the regular hockey season is done, I should check the statistics in my hockey pool. To my great surprise, I have won heaps of money! Not sure exactly how much yet, but it looks like I have tied for second place overall, which should net me 75$ or so. Then, the player I picked 9th has the most points of all the players picked 9th, so I win more money. the player I picked 4th is tied with someone else’s 4th round player for the most points, so we’ll share the money available there, as well. That should net me another 30$ or 40$, I think. Of course, the bragging rights are the real plus here, because I have never won so much, despite being in this pool for over ten years. Definitely worth the initial 50$ to join. 
I’ve been on Spring Break all week. It has rained pretty much all week. Is there a correlation perhaps?
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