Ah, the joys of spending the day in my jammies!
It's 1:33pm. I am in my pjs.
Now, granted, I should be cleaning my room -- it looks like something exploded in there -- but as it is, at present, a gigantic mess, I'm going to skip that.
Didn't sub today so I decided to label recorded tv tapes. (I don't know if anybody else does that, but at our house, we generally will record what we'd like to watch tv-wise and then watch it on the weekend to cut down on commericals and such. It's kind of lame but, at the same time, allows for more sleeping and talking and reading and general non-tv watching stuff.)
Anyway, so, woo - apparently, I've been lax in catching up on tv. Meh. Not a big deal.
Been going to the gym. Did skip out one day to see 300 with my folks (good, but not quite as good as I had hoped it would be... animated blood, leather underpants, and abs of steel... check, check, check :P ) but have gone all week aside from that. I keep thinking to myself 27 repetitions equals a habit and 3 times skipping something breaks that habit. I read that somewhere ages ago -- no idea if it's really true or not, but my brain has decided to agree to it so I definitely want to keep that in mind. And again, I'm going to say it, going with my pals - we don't usually end up lined up together on the machines and we often don't arrive at the same time - is the best decision in regard to my health that I've made ever. I've not been more consistent with going than I am going with these two friends. Yay.
Also, I feel pretty good. Not so pessimistic about the future of love for me. Not that there are prospects, or anything like that, but the cherry tree is in bloom, Spring has started, and I feel hope. Maybe the potential for getting a job and having my own classroom? Maybe the possiblity of good things in the future.
My neice turned 4 too - Hailey Bailey, who is not my biological neice, but you know... she hung out with me when she was feeling shy and dragged me to the sandbox to dig a hole for her. During the shyness bit, she was sitting in my lap, talking to me, and her cousin came through the door. She told me her cousin's name and that, "she cries a lot," and then a few minutes later confessed, "Sometimes I'm bad and I hit her and she cries."
Silly girl. Of course, I did give the, "maybe you should tickle her so she laughs or tell her a joke instead of hitting her so she won't cry," thing, but it was pretty funny to hear that confession. She also got shy and a little upset when we all sang to her, but aside from that, she seemed to have a great time.
Had two days with middle schoolers. First day resulted in the middle schoolers writing me a series of apology letters the second day. Sadly, they should have gone to the student teacher, really, but they were all right. The one young lady who needed to apologize the most, essentially fudged it -- she drew a picture and her written portion was, pretty much, entirely composed of denial about her behavior -- but that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.
As for my other day subbing this week, I, again, had kids think I wouldn't notice they were missing. Now, in general, high school students function a bit better behaviorally than middle schoolers but, as they're teenagers, they do tend to make silly/irrational decisions sometimes. LIke thinking that, after you've spent the time to sign the attendence sheet - which I passed to you and watched as it went around the room - that I wouldn't notice you'd left and that you graced us with your presence 5 minutes before the bell riings.
So... doing good. Feeling pretty good. Hopefully that will stick and there will be more mountain than valley for now.
Now, granted, I should be cleaning my room -- it looks like something exploded in there -- but as it is, at present, a gigantic mess, I'm going to skip that.
Didn't sub today so I decided to label recorded tv tapes. (I don't know if anybody else does that, but at our house, we generally will record what we'd like to watch tv-wise and then watch it on the weekend to cut down on commericals and such. It's kind of lame but, at the same time, allows for more sleeping and talking and reading and general non-tv watching stuff.)
Anyway, so, woo - apparently, I've been lax in catching up on tv. Meh. Not a big deal.
Been going to the gym. Did skip out one day to see 300 with my folks (good, but not quite as good as I had hoped it would be... animated blood, leather underpants, and abs of steel... check, check, check :P ) but have gone all week aside from that. I keep thinking to myself 27 repetitions equals a habit and 3 times skipping something breaks that habit. I read that somewhere ages ago -- no idea if it's really true or not, but my brain has decided to agree to it so I definitely want to keep that in mind. And again, I'm going to say it, going with my pals - we don't usually end up lined up together on the machines and we often don't arrive at the same time - is the best decision in regard to my health that I've made ever. I've not been more consistent with going than I am going with these two friends. Yay.
Also, I feel pretty good. Not so pessimistic about the future of love for me. Not that there are prospects, or anything like that, but the cherry tree is in bloom, Spring has started, and I feel hope. Maybe the potential for getting a job and having my own classroom? Maybe the possiblity of good things in the future.
My neice turned 4 too - Hailey Bailey, who is not my biological neice, but you know... she hung out with me when she was feeling shy and dragged me to the sandbox to dig a hole for her. During the shyness bit, she was sitting in my lap, talking to me, and her cousin came through the door. She told me her cousin's name and that, "she cries a lot," and then a few minutes later confessed, "Sometimes I'm bad and I hit her and she cries."
Silly girl. Of course, I did give the, "maybe you should tickle her so she laughs or tell her a joke instead of hitting her so she won't cry," thing, but it was pretty funny to hear that confession. She also got shy and a little upset when we all sang to her, but aside from that, she seemed to have a great time.
Had two days with middle schoolers. First day resulted in the middle schoolers writing me a series of apology letters the second day. Sadly, they should have gone to the student teacher, really, but they were all right. The one young lady who needed to apologize the most, essentially fudged it -- she drew a picture and her written portion was, pretty much, entirely composed of denial about her behavior -- but that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.
As for my other day subbing this week, I, again, had kids think I wouldn't notice they were missing. Now, in general, high school students function a bit better behaviorally than middle schoolers but, as they're teenagers, they do tend to make silly/irrational decisions sometimes. LIke thinking that, after you've spent the time to sign the attendence sheet - which I passed to you and watched as it went around the room - that I wouldn't notice you'd left and that you graced us with your presence 5 minutes before the bell riings.
So... doing good. Feeling pretty good. Hopefully that will stick and there will be more mountain than valley for now.