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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Tag, I am it.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

TAG! I'm It!
Chris tagged me :D
THE FIVE TAG
5 years ago I1. was frantically getting ready for my wedding(5 years ago on Saturday 10-4)
2. Lived in my townhouse 3. Still had my Daddy to talk to on a daily basis 4. Had only fur babies and no Joshua 5. weighed more than i do today :D
5 things on today's "to do" list 1. Pick up Crop 4 Hope donations 2. take my shot 3. Laundry 4. do this tag 5. call some parents of students
5 snacks I enjoy1. ice cream 2. more ice cream 3. peanut butter and apples 4. ice cream 5. Chex mis
5 things I would do if I were a millionaire 1. Keep the fact that I was a millionaire a secret2. travel 3. retire4. Help others5. build a huge scrap room
5 places I have lived1. River Vale, NJ , 2. Fort Lee New Jersey, 3. Tampa, 4 Miami 5. Winston Salem North Carolina for about six weeks, I HATED it.
5 jobs I have had 1. Worked at Carvel before/during/after college2. I worked at Target for one day 3. Teaching elementary school 4. Waitress at assorted Pizza Places in Tampa 5.mommy!
I am tagging: 1)Amanda, 2- Miami Dawn, 3-Stacey, 4-Anyone else who hasn't done it yet.
(if not link their blogs are linked on the left)Each player answers the question themselves. At the end of the post the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blog and leaves them a comment letting them know that they've been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person that tagged you know when you've answered the questions on your blog.

Monday, September 29, 2008

LONG Monday

It is always hard to get back into the routine on a Monday esp. after being away. I am happy to report that I survived school today. We actually had a really good day and I accomplished alot more than I usually do on a Monday.

It was hazy and overcast at dismissal which was just fine for me and car rider duty. Not being blazing and sunny was sure helpful. Hoping it remains that way for the rest of the week.......fingers crossed(one can wish right?)

I still need to get to the store but lil man was NOT in any mood to do that, so I will wait for dh to get home and then run out. I am on laundy load number 3 and making good progress.

All in all, a GOOD Monday.

I survived the weekend

In Daytona Beach........it was actually MUCH better than I had anticipated it would be. Our hotel was nice, right on the beach. We spent a whole lotta time out there as the weather was beautiful.

I will tell you that I KNEW that I enjoyed the Gulf beaches but after a weekend on the Atlantic side, I am more than certain that I enjoy the GULF beaches a whole lot better. It was a nice change, but even after three days there, I could NOT get the whole stop and look for cars/trucks crossing the beach. WEIRD.

The class of people who hang out there were NOT impressive. Of course, strip clubs on every corner and tatoo shops should have been a big clue. I can now say that we have been to and stayed at Daytona Beach, but give me Sanibel anytime.......seriously.

Joshy was absolutely perfect, didn't talk to him or argue with him once which is a refreshing change. he had a blast hanging out with Nanny and Pop Pop.

I had the chance to check out the lss in Daytona and really enjoyed a Page in Time and the owner, Mary Ann. I luv finding stores with unique items to the area and I got a bunch of Daytona scrappy stuff to use with the pics that I took.

The highlight for me was going to the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse yesterday. It was awesome. John and Joshy climbed up the 203 steps to the top(the rest of us opted out of that climb), but we all enjoyed a fabulous lunch afterwards at a cute little beachy rest. We also enjoyed the company of the squirrels that would take food right out of our hands. Fun.

Now with our water issue solved, I have MORE than the usual laundry to do as there is some that wasn't done before we left, not to mention EVERY single ick towel used to mop of water more times than I care to count.
So, unpacking, laundry and more laundry on my agenda before going to school today. Then of course, I MUST get to the grocery store at some point.

I also have car rider duty this week-UGH, but at least it is a tad bit cooler than it has been.

Happy Monday to all.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Good morning

I hadn't realized that it had been so many days since I posted. I was very happy to see last week end. After locking my keys in the car Friday morning, I was DONE. LOL.

Our weekend was not overly exciting, in fact we didnt' do a whole of anything, but sometimes that is better. I tried to rest some as I have been fighting this cold for a week or so now. I don't feel sick, but I am a bit stuffy and coughing every now and again.

Sunday we went to St. Pete and spent some time with Nanny and Pop Pop (Aunt Pat too) and went to the hands on children's museum. Joshy always has fun there. We stopped by Laura's and Joshy got to play for about ten minutes with his friend Alex. They have known each other since they were only a couple of months old. Sooo cute to watch them grow up together.

Yesterday was a good day at school and so far this week is off to a good start. Enjoy your Tuesday. I am hoping to.

Friday, September 19, 2008

doing the happy FRIDAY dance

oh what a week it has been and i am every so thankful that it is OVER. yikes.
between the fall on mon(still bruised and sore), the dr. referral nonsense, my fil moving permanently to FL,aunt sue having to spend the day with uncle bill at the ER(side note, he is MUCH better), one little blonde kid who seems to have a severe case of selective listening and the cherry on top of the ice cream sundae was locking my keys in the car at the pediatrician's office today............. I AM SOOOOOOOOOO ready for this week to be over. I MEAN it.

do you know that I am 41 years old and today was the first time that I have ever locked my keys in the car? What a pain. The pop-a-lock guy tells me that these new cars lock themselves all the time and he is right. If I use the remote to unlock and don't open the door fast enough it does re-lock itself. Joshy has been known to lock me out or be a stinker when I try to get him out of his car seat, but today it was 100% MY FAULT. no one else to blame.
I am pretty consistant with my car keys go immediately into my right pocket, but for some reason, they got laid on the back seat when i got him out today and there they were when we left the drs. office. oh well. hyundai has roadside assistance and the guy was there in 15 minutes, car opened in less than 30 and I wasn't late for school. Best part was little man sat patiently and waited and thanked the guy VERY much. LOL.

One of my former teaching buddies picked Bay Crest out of the county pool today and after being gone for 5 years or so is now back and in my building. So glad she is "home". My former teaching assistant came by for a visit this afternoon which was a NICE surprise. She was a fabulous aide in my PEP class with me for years and she has since retired. What a team we were.

Okay, I am off to try to relax. I NEED it. Have a fantastic weekend. I wish I were going to crop somewhere but I wouldn't even be able to find my pictures this room is SUCH a disaster.

Have a FANTASTIC Friday.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Happy Hump Day

So Tuesday was a MUCH better day than Monday and other than some fighting with my doctor's offices for the correct referral it was a pretty peaceful day. I even got to go to the grocery store, so it was productive.......

This morning went well at my neuro's office. She changed one of my meds and I am hopeful that it will lengthen my fuse which has been entirely too short of late.
The crop is coming along and donations arriving daily. It is fun to go thru all of the packages and see all of the goodies.

A shout out to my good friend MIAMI DAWN and best wishes for a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Jax

Monday, September 15, 2008

Monday UGH

I know it is a full moon and maybe that would account for some of it, but NOT a good day in the neighborhood for me :(

I guess I should be happy that I didn't break anything, but oh boy........

Started with an eyebrow waxing incident(will NOT go into detail on that one), a FALL in my classroom(in front of 21 students) OUCH, not sure if my pride or my bruises hurt more at this point, my name being paged over the intercom THREE times at school today(yea, I am the naught one today-NOT) and did I mention that my back hurts now too? But, i am not going to the walk in clinic for workers comp.

So, i am going to crawl into a hot tub and soak and hope and pray that tommorow is a MUCH better day.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Fun Saturday

I was woken up at the crack of dawn this morning-ugh. Some days I would give my right eyeball to sleep passed 7am-seriously.

We drove over to St. Pete and we dropped John off at his mom's house so he could help her take some paneling off her bedroom walls....this is NOT an easy task, but it seems they accomplished it all. Then Joshy and I headed over for a playdate with Alex and Laura. Laura and I met online when we were both newly pregnant and although we do NOT gtg as often as we should, it is always nice to catch up. The boys have been "friends" since they were only weeks old and now at almost 4, it is so cute to see them interacting together and really playing together. We had great fun although we didn't get to stay long enough.

I dropped Joshy off at Nanny's to help daddy and I headed over to the lss for a super cute class. Stacey is an amazing teacher and very patient, knowing that I can only handle one set of measurements at a time-lol. I completed my entire friends 7 gypsies album minus a few embellies and it is adorable.
the best part was getting to spend time with my scrappy friend Jan-who looks AMAZING after surgery in case any of you were wondering.

Her ds, James, came by to see his mama and he is adorable.........
It was really a lovely afternoon. I walked outta the lss without buying one single thing........and let me tell you, IT WAS PAINFUL, but I showed amazing restraint as I am still playing catch up from the summer.

Had a quick dinner with the St. pete family and we headed back over the bridge. DS is snapping and dh is piddling in the garage.......he is going fishing in the am.

Other than that a really nice day here in Tpa town. Hope to hit the beach tomorrow, maybe.
Have a great Saturday eve-
TTFN

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

GOod Morning

I had a hard time getting out of bed this morning-still VERY tired from a long, but fantastic weekend down in Bonita Springs.

I left school early at xactly 2:30 and arrived at 5pm, which means that I made pretty good time down there as it was over 160 miles. Although my good friend, Miami Dawn was "supposed" to meet me there at approx. the same time, I had checked into the hotel and gotten gas in my car before she had even left Miami. As many of you know, Miami Dawn is NOT known for being punctual and although her kitty was not in need of being extricated this trip, it seems that her laptop needed a MAJOR tune up.........turns out the connection speed at the hotel kept her from using it nearly as much as in Sebring, but she had to have work done on it. So, she didn't arrive til 8pm, but made a grand entrance anyway.

The crop was Hoe Down themed and let me tell you, those girls down in the Ft. Myers/Bonita area KNOW how to put on a crop. The classes were jam packed with product and techniques-sooo far outta my box, but wayyyyyyy cool. I got to re-connect with ole friends, Ginni and Dee and long story short, we got to see the hottie fire dept. from Bonita Springs at 1 am. (Engine 22:)

I had such a great weekend and hated to depart at 4pm, but I knew that my boys were waiting for me. Joshy had the sniffles before I left and although I had spoken to him over the weekend, the Mommy guilt of sick kiddo was starting to kick in. So, I hit the highway, but not before a quick stop at the QVC outlet and you will NOT believe the bargain I walked outta there with. OMG.

I made it home by 7pm, which included the hour stop at the outlet and it was nice to be home and share my weekend with dh and dinner with them both.

Although I slept better in Bonita than I do at home, I was beat and glad to be back in my own bed-actually with my own pillow. I need to start taking my pillow when I travel, but the bed at the hotel was VERY comfy.

School yesterday went quickly although I wasn't feeling as prepared as I usually feel. This new reading series is throwing a kink in the planning as it is alllll soooo new and there is soooooo much to digest with it.

Moe our ext. lady arrived to finish our spraying of the yard and house. Took the poor woman THREE treatments to get it all done and we haven't seen an ant in a few weeks now. Lemme tell you, our ants were taking over our lives. She says it has been a BAD year. I AGREE.

Off to after hours with ds last night.......I KNEW that was coming as he just could NOT seem to shake this cold with over the counter meds. I really like the dr. we saw and we left with a prescription for antibiotics and samples of cough meds(before it gets croopy). I did make him go get us cough stuff with NO antihistamine in it cause my kid is "one of the 15% who react ". Oy NO ANTIHISTAMINE for my child EVER.............he will literally scale the walls.

He fell asleep in the car before I got him out of the parking lot of the drs office and seems in good spirits today-yeah.

I feel better after having called to complain about the arrogance and disrespectful way that we were spoken to at the Hamtpon Inn by the Manager after our gas"situation-NOT leak" and M. Dawn had already called in with her side of it. I told the girl who I spoke with that the manager clearly needed a refresher course in hospitality, but the gas story will be journaled in my pages I assure you.

Okay, off to go and get ready for school. i could use another cup of coffee too. Have a great Tuesday and HUGE thanx to Janet, Gerri-anne, Barb and everyone who made the crop so much fun.

Friday, September 5, 2008

peace and quiet

that is what I had in my house yesterday after school and it is truly an unusual sound. Aunt Sue had taken joshy with her to Kissimmee to visit her friend and he had a delightful day at Downtown Disney, and behaved fabulously.

DH went to St. Pete on his way home from work in Sarasota and I had about two hours of total silence. AHHHHHHH.
It was very rare and an enjoyable peaceful time.
Amanda stopped by after she worked a few hours at Pottery Barn and we chatted and caught up for a bit. It has been toooooooo long since we just hung out. I got papers graded, scrap stuff packed(okay, so I emptied one bag and threw stuff into another but that is packing right?) regardless, I have scrappy stuff in my car, not sure what it is exactly, but I WILL make do and accomplish at least my Bo Bunny Travel album and perhaps some pre-made vacation pages or something...........I will let ya know.

Now as most of you would know, I am so NOT a hoe down country kinda girl-not that there is anything wrong with being one but there is not a pair of cowboy boots in my closet(nor gingham anything that Amanda could find despite her best efforts) and you will NEVER see these thighs in a pair of Daisy Dukes, so Amanda became frantic to find me something to wear that was appropriate. It was kinda funny. I promised to take pics for her of everyone decked out in their hoe down attire this weekend.

So, I am as good as ready minus the toiletry bag to use this morning and a few hours that I will spend at school. I will boot scoot outta there as close to 2:30 as I possibly can and head south. I am excited to see everyone and just to get away.

I am not taking the puter, but I am sure there will be a few there, MD could not survive w/o her live feed of Big Brother.......so I will check in when I can.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

thursday already

how the heck did it get to be thursday already? omg. this week is flying by.
tuesday felt like monday all day and i had to double check to make sure it was really tues and was shot night. lol. don't like to be messed with like that but i was glad to have mon. off.

we went to beef's on tuesday to celebrate the triplets birthday. it was fun and joshy had a great time playing with his Jenn. soooooo cute. i don't think he has a clue that jenn is only 5 years older than he is. lol.

last night was a MARATHON walk ms meeting. LOTS of new people interested in serving on the committee. my wheels are spinning from all of the great ideas, but they will have to take a back seat for a bit while I work on the Crop stuff first.

I leave tomorrow for the crop in Bonita and although I am xcited, I am completely unprepared. I have done nothing to pack clothing, and lets not even talk about my scrap bags still being packed from last month's fried green tomatoes crop. lol. I will grab a bag and some tools and do nothing more than likely, but I do NOT care. It will be a nice group and a nice getaway.

Off to go and get a much needed haircut this morning, then school, then finish laundry, then pack and hopefully head out straight from school tom. at 2:45-ish. Wish I could just take the day off and head down early, but I feel too guilty doing that. Maybe I will see if Charlotte wants to switch morning and afternoon. Regardless, I will be there,.........bout dinner time.

Have a fantastic and productive Thursday,
Jax

Monday, September 1, 2008

relaxing

so far it has been a very nice and relaxing weekend. i have enjoyed doing very little and just hanging out at home.
i did tackle super wal mart yesterday and a STACK and a half of papers to be graded today, but not much of anything else and sometimes that is just necessary.

hope that everyone else has had a nice, relaxing weekend. i am going to attempt to be creative and do something crafty.........fingers are crossed.