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.
Keeping It Frugal in Texas,
Laura
No "M" for the next four days!
March 24th, 2005 at 02:24 am
March 24th, 2005 at 03:45 am 1111635901
March 25th, 2005 at 02:33 am 1111717991
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.