7 August 2007, Tuesday

Yippy! Today is 70807!

8 August 2007, Wednesday

I go back to work next week. What happened to my summer? It seems like it went by far too fast. What have I been doing? Well, I finished all the course work for my Masters degree. I exercised on a pretty regular basis. I saw the new Harry Potter movie and read the last book in the series. I made some quilts and entered them and some photos in the county fair where I did quite well. I went to the Giles Family Reunion and had a great time. And I went to Tucson, Arizona and again had a good time.

The exercise thing has been great. It started as a challenge between a friend and I to see which of us could exercise more regularly, exercise being 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise, and regular being five days a week. I think I'm a bit addicted now though. While I was out of town last weekend I didn't get any exercise in, and my body responded by getting tense. Getting out again last night felt amazing. Those natural highs are great. I've decided to make myself accountable to everyone, and not just that friend, for how regular I exercise. So I've added a chart on the side of this page.

So I guess I did do a lot. But that doesn't mean I'm ready to go back to work.

9 August 2007, Thursday

Happy Birthday Mimi!

And there goes another day of my summer. The emails from work are starting to get more and more frequent. There'd probably be even more if the anti-spam system wasn't working in overdrive right now, requiring me to confirm that I am an actual person before I can send an email to another teacher within the district. You'd think the system would recognize that I'm using my district email. But it's being extra sensative right now. Maybe it just needs some chocolate. At any rate, it's getting harder to deny that summer is almost over. I'll probably head in to work and start getting my classroom going again real soon.

11 August 2007, Saturday

Thirty years ago today my parents were married. I love my parents. And I'm so glad that they love each other.

15 August 2007, Wednesday

Happy Birthday Tanya! I hope you have a great birthday. You deserve it. As well as a wonderful year to come. In the words of one of my close friends - eat lots of frosting.

In other news...

And with that, I'm back at work. And true to tradition, I completely crashed on the couch when I got home this evening. Here we go again.

17 August 2007, Friday

I work with real good people. I'm constantly amazed that I lucked out so much to get a job at the school I'm at.

21 August 2007, Tuesday

And now for something completely unrelated to my brother's birthday.

The kids came back to school today. I dreamed last night that I was being sent off to war. I only had one change of clothes and it was packed in my Hershey duffle bag. I was writing letters to my family while I was on a bunk bed in a room with a bunch of other bunk beds waiting for the plane that would take us away. I'm pretty sure that dream had something to do with going into a nerve wracking situation (even though this is the sixth time I've done the exact same thing) and feeling like I haven't been given the equipment I need to do the job. Made me laugh that my subconscious would do that.

28 August 2007, Tuesday