Earth Day
Every day is Earth Day so seeing how I'm not at work at this moment and dog tired from teaching 1500+ kids about the environment on my own dime for the State of Indiana I relaxed for once.
I never got milage, gas etc...nor did I ask for it...and I would stay at friends' houses to save the State on hotel and extend my range. I would get the difficult to fill assignments when Chad was in charge of Enviro Ed at work. He said he knew I could handle it. This meant the schools that had the huge classes and wanted 4 different lectures/activities and wanted more than the maximum number of talks (more than one teacher might send in a request). I sometimes would stay overnight and go to the school the next day to reach as many kids as possible. This was all free for the schools.
I loved doing this. It was what I felt best doing. I built a rapport with kids and teachers. They learned from me. I knew this from the thank you cards they sent with pictures of things they had learned. I still have every one; treasured keepsakes for me. Worth far more than the award certificates from work for being such a good employee. The employee that they have treated so badly in the end.
It's what I'm supposed to be doing.
But today I decided to chill a bit. I did run the vac a bit. I had coffee next door at the Steer In. Made fun of Weida and threatend to hang up a photo of him actually doing work. He's a cop and I got a picture of him leaning against his bike at the Race yesterday. I also talked to Johnny and the guys about the IRL race.
I'm liking IRL more as I watch it. My gal, Danica is doing okay. And the rest of her team, AGR is doing wonderful now that they took the flag yesterday in Japan. I have even more buy in knowing that a friend works for them and it's always great to see a friend succeed. If some of this crap karma I have is to balance karma for a friend, hey, I'm game. Marco wrecked so maybe I'll have a little better luck. :-)
Sorry, Dan. Couldn't resist. Hope the hangover wasn't too bad this morning...er afternoon...when did you sober up?
Went on a long walk in open toed shoes so I could look at my cute toes in their new polish. Mistake. I got a bit of a blister on both feet. Grrr.
Stopped by Priscilla & JP's but they were in LEbanon. Sigh.
Walked by Sheli and Urko's on the way home. Hung out til late. Had dinner with them and the kids. Watched two bright kids get on every last nerve of their parents and remarked to Sheli that maybe it's not so bad that I never had kids. Really, they're great kids...just too smart for their own good and too young to remember there are consequences.
I started doing woodburning the other day. And of course I had to start out with a really complex pattern. I'm doing a tissue box with a floral motif.
Contemplated getting a pet stroller for my cat. I am chronic.
Nail polish is chipped off of my nails already. That was $35 well spent. Sheesh. Totally don't get the point of manicures.
I never got milage, gas etc...nor did I ask for it...and I would stay at friends' houses to save the State on hotel and extend my range. I would get the difficult to fill assignments when Chad was in charge of Enviro Ed at work. He said he knew I could handle it. This meant the schools that had the huge classes and wanted 4 different lectures/activities and wanted more than the maximum number of talks (more than one teacher might send in a request). I sometimes would stay overnight and go to the school the next day to reach as many kids as possible. This was all free for the schools.
I loved doing this. It was what I felt best doing. I built a rapport with kids and teachers. They learned from me. I knew this from the thank you cards they sent with pictures of things they had learned. I still have every one; treasured keepsakes for me. Worth far more than the award certificates from work for being such a good employee. The employee that they have treated so badly in the end.
It's what I'm supposed to be doing.
But today I decided to chill a bit. I did run the vac a bit. I had coffee next door at the Steer In. Made fun of Weida and threatend to hang up a photo of him actually doing work. He's a cop and I got a picture of him leaning against his bike at the Race yesterday. I also talked to Johnny and the guys about the IRL race.
I'm liking IRL more as I watch it. My gal, Danica is doing okay. And the rest of her team, AGR is doing wonderful now that they took the flag yesterday in Japan. I have even more buy in knowing that a friend works for them and it's always great to see a friend succeed. If some of this crap karma I have is to balance karma for a friend, hey, I'm game. Marco wrecked so maybe I'll have a little better luck. :-)
Sorry, Dan. Couldn't resist. Hope the hangover wasn't too bad this morning...er afternoon...when did you sober up?
Went on a long walk in open toed shoes so I could look at my cute toes in their new polish. Mistake. I got a bit of a blister on both feet. Grrr.
Stopped by Priscilla & JP's but they were in LEbanon. Sigh.
Walked by Sheli and Urko's on the way home. Hung out til late. Had dinner with them and the kids. Watched two bright kids get on every last nerve of their parents and remarked to Sheli that maybe it's not so bad that I never had kids. Really, they're great kids...just too smart for their own good and too young to remember there are consequences.
I started doing woodburning the other day. And of course I had to start out with a really complex pattern. I'm doing a tissue box with a floral motif.
Contemplated getting a pet stroller for my cat. I am chronic.
Nail polish is chipped off of my nails already. That was $35 well spent. Sheesh. Totally don't get the point of manicures.