SURPRISE

We're at my parents' to surprise my mom for her birthday!

Wake Up Call

Nate and I were awoken this morning at 7:10 AM to knocking on our bedroom door (the one that leads to the deck). It seems our Little Neighbor (LN) was very excited about seeing his new bike. We will be having a talk about appropriate and inappropriate times to visit very soon.

Bike!

I sent an email out to the teachers I work with and within a few minutes, I had 5 offers for bikes for my little neighbor. We got one today and although I was initially concerned about it's condition (namely that the brakes weren't working) with a little TLC from Chuck, it's now functioning and ready to make a little boy's day!

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Today is my Mommy's birthday! I love her so much!

PR

I'm on the PR committee which had a 2 hour lunch meeting. Good thing I love this school. It was actually a very good meeting, even though it did steal my afternoon.

Cataloging

I cataloged 5 books just now.  I decided see if I catalog 2 a day how long it will take me to finish my stack.  I should be able to finish my mid October.  Maybe I should do a few more today.  Blah.  I don't like cataloging.

Disappointment

The internet is working.  Guess I will be too.

To Go or Not To Go

There's no point in going to work if the internet is still down. Too bad I have to get ready and go just to find out.

3rd Place

We got 3rd place at trivia again tonight!

Tattoo Update

So I went back to the place where I got my tattoo and he said I have some scar tissue, but that if I give it another 3 or 4 weeks, it should be healed. Here's hoping!

If You Feed Them, They Will Come

My little visitor from Monday morning came again today around lunch with his cousin- soaking wet because they walked here in the rain. They wanted to play with the cats and eat cereal.

Rough Morning

These are the things that suck:

• no internet at school, so I can't get my work done
• class rosters rearranged, so I have to redo half my work from Friday
• principal vetoes what I decided to for AR, but insists that I figure out how to change it on my own
• got a 43% on a big class assignment that didn't have a rubric, so I didn't know it was not what he wanted
• due to above grade, I got my first B in grad school
  

Morning Rain

I like it when it's raining in the morning.

Movie I Want To See

I want to see this movie. Who will go with me?

Weekly Walk

What a nice walk (followed by a long conversation sitting on the floor in the hallway) Noelle, Megs, and I just had!

Shopping with Noelle

Noelle and I went shopping at several thrift shops today. We're looking for a bike for an 8 year old boy in the neighborhood. While we didn't find one, we did find dinosaur sheets, cute skirts, and some fabric for Noelle's classroom. Anyone know where we can find an inexpensive children's bike?

Furloughed

Even though they promised it wouldn't happen, Troup County teachers have been furloughed 3 days this year. I'm not very upset though, because DFCS workers have been furloughed 1 day month for a year and their job is as important as teachers! I just wish they didn't pick one of our preplanning days to tell us we can't work. There's too much to get done!

Miscommunication

The trip to Decatur was successful with the exception of a miscommunication between Nate and me that resulted in going 3 stations too far. We had a great time with Andrew and Kara and we even discovered that Marta has a bus that could take Nate the mile from the station to the school. All in all, a great trip.

Marta

Nate and I are about to drive up to the nearest Marta station and ride Marta to Decatur to time Nate's commute for the fall, then we're having dinner with Andrew and Kara!

Breakfast Visitor

At about 8:05 one of the neighborhood kids arrived at our house 55 minutes early for camp. I guess he was excited about going swimming! We had breakfast together and played with the cats until a more reasonable hour. We had 8 kids come to the pool and everyone had a great time.

Swimming

Today is the last day of our neighborhood camp so we're taking the kids swimming at the college pool!

Nothing to Say

I just wanted to make sure you know that the reason I'm not posting today is because I have nothing to say. Yep, I just wasted your time.

Dinner and Dessert

Nate made these amazing balsamic honey pork chops for dinner and then we rode down town to the new ice cream shop for dessert. Yum!

Random

As if my blog posts aren't random enough, here's a random list of things I did today:

• bought a loaf of bread, jar of salsa, and 2 cucumbers at the farmer's market
  
• finished shampooing the carpet
• 2 loads of laundry
• worried that my tattoo STILL isn't healed
• cut out the pieces for the dress I'm making
• yelled at the cats for rolling on my clean carpet
• read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  

Farmer's Market

Nate and I are about to bike down to the farmer's market!