We have the next four days off of school! As one of the teachers put it - one perk of working at a Catholic school. 
Today I participated in a Passover Seder meal with the mid-school students. It was really nicely done, and the kids did a pretty good job behavior wise. I was telling AL (our IT person) about how the 3 mid-school teachers washed the feet (1 foot really) of 3 mid-schoolers -- and that in my church we have a foot washing service every 13 weeks where all the women wash each other's feet, and all the men wash each other's feet, and then follow that with a communion service. She'd never heard of the practice of foot-washing. (She's not Catholic, but a fairly traditional Apache.)
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So tomorrow myself and several teachers are headed into ABQ to go to the Sch Book Warehouse and spend some money. 
I *should* have $175 to spend there, but since we didn't get our final book fair check in yet, I only have $91. 
I hope that the remainder of the dollars can be set to NOT expire before I have another chance to get down there. (All the dollars are bonus dollars for doing different things during and before the book fair.) Otherwise I'll lose half of them in shipping and handling.
Because of our trip coming up tomorrow (and that I'm taking my car) I took my car to the local auto shop to get the oil changed and a general checkup. The oil + balance/rotation was $49. Unfortunately the mechanic found that 3 of my tires have one or more bulges and need to replaced soon. They are all pretty old, so I'm not shocked at the prognosis.
I'll be having all 4 replaced on Monday for about $269 (the 4th one is okay, but is fairly old too - and I decided that it would be better to have all 4 tires the same age/make, etc.) These will hopefully be the last tires I personally put on this car (only reason I'd be putting on another tire would be if one got an un-fixable hole.)
When I got home today I also cleaned out my car -- well... at least the inside of it. The trunk still is about half-full ... but I at least have room for passengers now.
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A few days ago I signed up for Hulu Plus. What I think I'll probably do is do HP 1 month and then Netflix one month - just go back and forth. Part of what made me do this is that I really wanted to watch The Pretender again and only HP had that. Of course the first couple episodes of S1 aren't working right now (on my computer at least) so instead I started watching the program "Awake." Interesting (2 eps in.)
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I checked my BOFA account yesterday, and saw that they'd taken out a monthly fee again! So I contacted the online CS person. They reversed the fee, and assured me it wouldn't reoccur. If it does, I will be closing that account faster than Superman can fly around the world.
4-Day Weekend! Car$$
April 5th, 2012 at 11:41 pm
April 6th, 2012 at 12:03 am 1333670623
We have five days off, today is Maundy Thursday where I live (I suppose it is Holy Thursday in other places). We celebrate it as the day that Jesus washed the feet of the Apostles and celebrated the Last Supper. Good Friday is the only day in the Liturgical Calendar where we can't celebrate Mass, though there are the Stations of the Cross in all churches. I liked hearing about how your school celebrated.
April 6th, 2012 at 12:13 am 1333671234
Happy Easter!
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