Crunch Time

There. Got that other post off my chest. I made that one completely private, since I really don’t need anyone to know about any of that stuff. Sorry guys. Just needed to vent.

Today was a happy day. Most of it, anyway. I gave myself 10 extra minutes of sleep in the morning since they were having Breakfast of Champions, which is when a group of teachers bring breakfast. I picked up an iced coffee from McDonald’s and headed to work.

I got there 6 minutes early, which just NEVER happens. Shocking!

I had 2 tamales, a huge strawberry, some grapes and strawberry/orange juice. After that, the day became pretty hectic. The kids were especially working hard to meet the criteria for the field trip today since it was the last day to qualify. I had our 8th grade helper and a 7th grade bad-kid-turned-a-b-honor-roll-student reading and testing all day. And their teachers actually gave them permission and passes to be there most of the day. I’m going to feel horrible if my boss doesn’t let them go for not reaching every last percent they need. They’ve worked so hard. Granted, their teachers should have been encouraging them since the beginning, not having them rush at the last minute. Some of them even had them cheating, but you didn’t hear that from me.

I went to lunch pretty late because I was running back and forth helping all the kids. Then I had to set up some equipment for another meeting in the cafeteria and chatted with Mrs. R. for a little bit. I didn’t get to do much at all today because of all the testing and monitoring going on, so I’m going to have TONS of work to do on Monday. I don’t think my boss was too happy about me leaving 20 minutes earlier too, which I absolutely had to do since I went over 20 minutes on Wednesday. It was worth it though, watching the kids get excited about reading and trying their hardest.

I got home and just chilled out. Then I started balancing the checkbook and figuring bills out. We received our tax refund today, but it’s totally spent already. We’re paying off bills. I paid off Furniture Row today, so our olive-green sofas are officially ours! Now I just gotta pay off the Volkswagon Visa, part of Home Depot and we’re only going to get to pay a pinch of Target. I figured though, that if I don’t use it anymore and pay $124 a month for the next, eh, 2 years, we’d have it paid off. Yep. That’s a lot of money. We’re actually missing about $400 of the refund since Mary accidentally forgot something. She’s going to fix it and send an amended one and hopefully we’ll get it back. It would sure help.

We celebrated Sammy’s birthday; yummy lasagna and salad. I love when the family gets together.

Wow, I’m dosing off. I should have taken advantage much earlier–around an hour and 45 minutes ago–and fallen asleep with Aly.