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Cleaning, Sorting, Throwing, and Packing Day 2

May 25th, 2005 at 05:14 am

What a long, tiring, frustrating day, though with a good end. Smile

I mailed out a bunch of Ebay packages this morning. One person won 11 auctions, but hasn't paid me yet, so I put all their stuff in one box and had it weighed. Then emailed them two different shipping options. Still haven't heard back from them yet

When I cleaned out my big storage cabinet, I managed to give 90% of it to Tammy and Nada. They both were pretty surprised by how much teacher resource books I had. But I think the thing they liked the most were the big books. I have two more brand new big books here at home that I'm going to bring for them tomorrow. I put all of the books I was giving
Vicki into the two storage containers she'd bought, plus two more file crates that I had. I think at first Tammy felt a little put out because I had told her she could have first pick - but I'd been telling her and telling her for awhile, and felt like I needed to get the books moved out -so when Vicki said she'd take whatever I was gving away - I gave it to her! I did keep out about 40 or 50 early reader books for her little boy Nicholas - she wants to teach him how to read this summer.

Dad called to come meet him almost as Tammy and Nada were finished going through all my books, so I told them to please just turn the lights out when they were done. Then when I got home, dad and I got most of the clothes out of my closet and loaded them into his Jimmy, as well as all the pictures/artwork I'd taken down last night, and some kitchen stuff. Then we went to Kroger's and got some more boxes. Then we got sandwiches from our favorite sandwich place - Schlotsky's. Smile

After he moved out the freezer so I could get under my stairwell, he left to take the load to our new place, and to get to an appointment. Then I went back to the school and started working on the inventory. I had to pretty much do a new inventory for the 2nd grade, because the previous one didn't have any of the the teacher editions or textbooks listed. Then I did the first grade one, went pretty fast since I'd done it the past two years. I then tried to burn both of them onto the correct CD's but apparantally, since we've gone on a network, we can't burn CD's anymore. Would've been nice if they would have told us this before I wasted 30 minutes getting frustrated trying to burn a CD!

After printing out the inventories, I started on the book orders. The union had put the textbook list on a CD Rom. Nice idea, in that it saves paper, but it also is quite frustrating. I liked being able to highlight the books I needed to order so I could be sure I was writing the correct order #'s, and I liked being able to read the #'s easily, -- I also liked being able to read the *entire* textbook list! I'd gotten through about 80% of my order, when the CD (Adobe Acrobat) decided that there were too many errors or something, and shut down on me! I retried about four times, and it kept producing the same result! So, I decided to just write down the names of the books I needed, the quantity, but not the price or ISBN #, and call it a job. I also did call Vicki (since at this point I was the only one there at the school). She never called me back.

Next, I moved on to report cards and filling out the blue book. That went fairly smoothly, thankfully. But then I moved on to the cumulative folders. As soon as I sat down to start them, I realized that I had forgotten to ask Bambi for the cum cards and the blue reading cards for the new students and first graders! I looked for them, but they are most likely in the locked file cabinet. So, I decided that I would just write the same info on index cards and put it in their folders. Things going smoothly. THEN I realize that I am *completely* *missing* TWO student's folders!! I make up two new folders for them, and put what I can in them. But, for one student I have absolutely NO information - not a birthdate, not parent's names, phone numbers, etc.! So, at this point I call Vicki again, only this time on her home number. She basically tells me that I'll have to come back in tomorrow when Bambi is there to see if we can find those two folders. ARGHHH!!! I wanted to be done TODAY!

So, I'm frustrated, and tired, and SO ready to get out of there. But, the room still needs to be dusted and I needed to get my stuff that I was keeping put together. While I was cleaning, my mom calls me. After talking for a few minutes she tells me that I sound crabby. Well, maybe that's because I AM feeling crabby! We'd been emailing each other back and forth during the day trying to figure out a good time for dad to pick up the dolly cart and microwave. For some reason she feels its necessary for her to be present when he comes get the stuff. Annoying. Frustrating. So glad when this is all over!

She's coming tomorrow to help me get started on packing, which is very sweet of her. With her help, maybe I'll actually be able to get this all done in two days. I just hope we don't drive each other crazy tomorrow.

Ok, now to the good part. After I got home I wrote Scott an email telling him that I hope he had done well on his presentation, and that I'd had a LONG day. Well, after 9 (free minutes) he called me and we talked for over an hour. Just as we were about to hang up, I asked him if he'd found anyone to work his hours for him or not. He had!! That means that sometime in the next two days, I need to get a pedicure/manicure (tomorrow it'd be only $25 for both together) and a haircut (hair needs a trim *badly*). It also means that my curiosity will be finally satisfied. Smile

Spending Log:
Post Office: can't remember right now - think it was ~$21 - 8 packages
CVS: paid with gift card - junk food, 24 pk bottled water for moving day -- ~$8

Keeping It Frugal in Texas,
Laura

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