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No "M" for the next four days!

March 24th, 2005 at 02:24 am

This evening I got a call from "M"s mom. She was asking me if M would be missing too much work if she took off with him for a long weekend. Hee!! I told her not to worry about it, that he wouldn't be missing much, and that I'm really pretty lenient(sp?) on kids that miss a few days. Ha! To have two full school days without him, I'd be willing to stand on my head and whistle the Macarena! I do love the kid, AND he is getting better, but .. .. , he is still a full-time thumbs on kid. So . . . I'm having dreams of a nice, relatively easy two days of school - then only 40 more days to go. Woo hoo!!!

School today went fairly well. M gave me a bit of attitude, but after a bit of a talkin'to, he shaped up. At staff meeting one of our teachers who pretty much heads up all the althletic's stuff, was begging for one of us to be the track and field sponsor. Um. NO. Sorry. I am almost done with teaching. I am trying to distance myself as much as possible. Spend as little as possible. So, am I going to all of a sudden give up two of my evenings a week? NO!

I thought I was supposed to take Monkey to the vet for a recheck today. But I got a voicemail reminding me of his appointment for TOMORROW! Ooops! So instead, I went to the library to return some books. I also picked up some books that had come in. One of them was the John Grisham book that I thought I was going to have to wait forever for. Yay!

Yikes! The gas station by my house was up to $2.04 today. Up until Monday they were still $1.90 which I thought was pretty bad, but now, OUCH! I wish I could spend $100 a month at Kroger's to get their $.10 a gallon off deal, but since I do some of my shopping at Kroger's and some at Albertson's, etc, and don't usually do much more than $100 per month total - well, it would be stupid to spend money to "save" money. It's a good thing for me that I usually only go through maybe a tank and a half each month (sometimes less).

Ok, I want to get back to CSI now. Yes, I admit it, I am a TVAHOLIC. Smile

Keeping It Frugal in Texas,
Laura

2 Responses to “No "M" for the next four days!”

  1. Anonymous Says:
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    I need to vent, and thought you would be a good person to do it to! (Lucky you!). My daughter's in Kindergarten and has a first-year teacher who is great! And our school board is not renewing her contract, despite the fact that all 19 parents in the class signed a letter of support, and most of us, as well as about 15 of her colleagues, showed up at the school board meeting tonight. And how much difference is that going to make? None! Now I've always known I could never be a teacher, because I don't always have the patience for my 2 kids, much less 20 that I'm not related to! But how do you put up with the politics of it all? It's killing us...

  2. Anonymous Says:
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    I'm sorry to hear that about your child's teacher. I don't know if your child's in PS or not, but the politics can be brutal in both private school and in public school. I've had the wonderful experience of both places. Politics in a private "Christian" school are harder to deal with (for me at least) because you would think that, well, the people would be, Christians!

    I would have had my contract renewed if I would have said I wanted to return. I chose not to return. I love my kids dearly (and honestly they're the main reason I've stayed through the end of this year) but dealing with certain parents over the years and dealing with all the politics (not just personally, but family and friends having been put through the wringer) I've had enough.

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