watching UFC....

I'm sitting over at Ty's house right now, watching the UFC live on Spike. Jesse had be bring the laptop because he was afraid I'd be bored over here. I'm glad he did because these fights have all been mad boring so far.

Ty has a really cute miniature collie named Reese and I love her. We are playing with a squeaky toy squirrel right now.

Today I've been bored and lazy. I just couldn't seem to get motivated to do anything. I was supposed to go hang out with Cassie, but I called her last night and she never called me back. She finally did call around 12:30 today.... perhaps we'll get together next weekend.

Tomorrow Jesse and I aren't going to Maranatha. Instead we're going to some church in Teays Valley. Some chick Jesse went to school with..her husband is preaching and he and Ty want to go for some reason. I'm not so sure. But... we'll see.

I'm ticked that I'm going to be missing Pastor Wright preach on "Thou shall not commit adultery" in his 10 commandments series. Oh well. I think I'm doing ok on that subject. hahaha.

me, big mouth? who knew?!

So... yesterday I went to work at school as usual. However I had to go to work at Cracker Barrel too. From 5 to 8 I was scheduled on Wednesday night.

I was busy chatting with a girl named Andrea that I haven't seen in probably over a year...and there was this new chick. I'd never seen her before. While we were talking in the vestibule, the new chick answers a to-go phone order. A couple seconds later, the girl turns around and says, "I can't hear!" Its always loud in there....so, I quieted down a bit and continued talking to Andrea. New chick turns around again, and says, this time with a bit more rage, "I can't hear! I'm trying to take a to-go order!" So Andrea and I walked away, but kept talking. Then, the new chick yells at all of us once again, "I said, I can't hear!"

So, I looked at her and she didn't even have her finger pressed on her other ear to help her hear the person on the phone better! So I said, "Put your finger in your ear!"

A few minutes later, she gets off the phone and starts yelling at everyone. She says something like, "I was just trying to take a to-go order and it was so loud in here that I couldn't hear at all and SOMEONE told me to stick my finger in my ear! blah blah blah"

By then I was ticked, "Whats up with this girl," I thought to myself. I spoke up, "I was the one that said it. If you have a problem with that stop yelling at everyone and you can take it up with me!" I could feel her tension building up and I could tell that she wanted to hit me. Secretly, I was kinda wishing that she would hit me. I may be little...but this is one chick that I wasn't afraid of. She looked like a strong wind might blow her over....kinda like your average Eastern Kentucky Methhead. I didn't see any open sores, but I did overhear her talking about her "bearded dragon." creepy.

Today was a good day at school. I got lots of hugs. :) I feel like I'm doing better with discipline and its making me a happier person and probably a better teacher, too.

Tonight I made enchiladas and black bean dip and Jesse couldn't be happier! It was really good. I think I could eat that dinner every night.

Tomorrow is friday and I couldn't be happier about that!

I <3 my Job

I'm at school right now.  My students are taking a test today.  I hope they do well on it!!

 

I'm still at my long-term sub job thankfully!  I'm loving it now more than ever.  I found out the other day that I will be here at least until March.  Everyone seems to think that I'll be here till May. 

 

The last snow day that we had I got a phone call at home from Mrs. Nutter.  She's the secretary here.  She said she talked to the people in the payroll dept. at the board office and they said that I should be receiving long-term pay and should have been receiving it all along!!   I read up about long-term subs in the Putnam Co. policy manual (which I should have done a long time ago!!)  and it basically says that principals have the right to put a sub of their choice in for an absence when the absence is supposed to be 90 days or less as long as they attempt to get someone certified in the area first.  Well the absence I was put in for was only supposed to be for a couple of months....and they attempted to call about 70 people before they got me.  I just got SUPER lucky!... I mean, BLESSED!  Thank you Jesus!!

 

I didn't think the pay rate was that different for day to day versus long-term subs...but I thought wrong!  Its 50 dollars a day different!  Plus I get holiday pay and I get paid for other days when day-to-day subs don't work!!   Like yesterday was presidents day, but teachers had to work for training, faculty senate and for a parent-teacher conference.  A day-to-day sub doesn't get to work on those days...but me, I worked all day yesterday in my classroom...with no students!...and still got paid for it!! Yippee!!!

 

Jesse and I spent a lot of time together this weekend.  On Friday night we bought Subway subs and watched Nights in Rodanthe which we got in the mail from Netflix.  The book was about 400X better than that movie.  I think it was too hard to get the whole book into a 90 minute movie.  Anyway...on Saturday Jesse and I watched another movie...I worked out and went to Wal-Mart.  Then on Saturday evening we went to the Barboursville Mall.... I bought 2 sweaters, 2 t-shirts, and a pair of dress pants. Jesse got a new lavender dress shirt and tie.  I guess he let me buy all that because of my raise! hehehe...

 

 

 

crazy week

This has been a crazy week.  I'll try to just give you the highlights.

 

Tuesday morning I was bending down to give Jesse a hug and a kiss goodbye.  (He was still in asleep in the bed, like always) and I bent down as he lifted his head up....smashing my lips into my teeth.   Luckily it didn't swell up too much, but it still made me feel like Angelina Jolie.  It hurt for the whole day, but was much better the next morning.  

 

On Tuesday night Jesse and I met with Cassie at Panera in Barboursville.  Jesse had offered to do her taxes so we brought the laptop and camped out there by the fireplace.  I had never been to Panera before.  I got the Pick 2 combo thingie and I got French Onion soup and the Orchard Harvest Salad. The salad was so good!   It has cherry balsamic vinigrette dressing, dried cherries, pears, walnuts, and gorganzola cheese.  I can't wait to eat it again.. or maybe try their fuji apple salad.  The soup wasn't that good. I wish I would have tried the black bean soup or the chicken tortilla soup.

 

Cassie and I had planned on getting together earlier in the afternoon and working out and running outside either at Ritter or at Barboursville Park.  However it was raining after school so we decided to take a rain delay.  We might get together next saturday.

 

Wednesday night Jesse went to a wrestling meet with Ty at Huntington High School.  They said on the news we were going to have a terrible wind storm.  I don't know if I've ever seen or heard wind like that before!!  It was ripping around the side of our apartment building!  I thought my whole building was coming down.  The power went out around 6 and didn't come back on until almost 5 am this morning.  I was basically left sitting in the dark all alone all evening!  :(   Luckily my laptop was charged up and ready to go...so I still got a workout in.   I took about a 2 hour bath and then went to Jesse's brothers house to blow dry my hair.  They only live about a half mile away but THEY had power!!  I woke up this morning at 4:45 with all the lights in the house on and the TV on downstairs.