Since I find myself using Facebook more and more for the little updates about my life, and Google Reader for the sharing of wacky links, my LJ has been pretty quiet. Oh ell ( Read more... )

I go back to work on Monday. I have a couple weeks of pre-planning and new teacher orientation to do before school starts on Aug. 13th. I'm viewing my third year of teaching with an odd mix of excitement and dread. Excitement, because I truly do love my job and I like everyone I've talked to at my new school very much. Dread, because my last ( Read more... )

So as I've said, I've been following FlyLady this summer to help get my house back in shape. It has a tendancy to descend into the tenth level of hell around Spring Break. Anyways, one of the things FlyLady does is send you a daily "mission", a quick, fifteen minute chore you perform at her command. They are usually things like "Dust the top of ( Read more... )