Life in a Nutshell

So..............................Yes, I realize it has been a while since my last post................but I have reasons for that.

Reason #1: My life is controlled by school.
Reason #2: My life is owned by school.
Reason #3: My life is dominated by school.
Reason #4: My life is utterly wrapped around my school life.
Reason #5: The tiny bit of time left over after school is reserved for my husband and family/friend interactions.

So now you ask; well if your life is so completely surrounded by school stuff - how did you you find time to write this blog?

You see, Brian needed to put in some overtime at work this weekend to get caught up on the never ending list of new projects to draw...I really didn't feel like sitting at home alone - so I came with him. My original plan was to work on school stuff the whole time to get ahead for this week...but when we got down here i realized my flash drive is safely stored in my drawer at school.  Figures.  I did the small tasks of what I could do from memory and then I have some glorified, amazing, no thinking involved FREE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I was shocked too. 

Any normal person would think that its a great oppertunity to just relax, sleep or do absolutely nothing....I never said I was normal did I?? I spent a lovely four hours on pinterest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I have not been on there since school started  up (have I mentioned that school rules my life?) and I have missed the crafty inspiring website!!!!!!!!!!!! So if you get on pinterest today and your homepage is dominated by my pins, i will not appologize.  It made me happy. :)

As I wait for Brian to finish doing his drafty thingy (aka moving between 5000 screens on his computer in warp speed that would be hell for an epileptic) I will fill you all in on what we have been up to lately.....

If you keep up on my blog (and I don't blame you if you don't....its mainly a journal for me anyways)...you know that our basement is finished!!!!!!!!!!! We love it.  We have had friends over to enjoy it and I couldn't be happier.  We still have small things we need to do for the house...but we seem to be amazing at avoiding them!  I think we had our fill for a while and now enjoy being complete bums on the weekend.

We have tried to go to the OGHS football games...but we have utterly failed.  We have only made it to one so far this year.  (pathetic right??)  I blame Brian; he gets off work too late to make it on time and they are always packed so there is not point in going if you aren't super de duper early.  But this past friday we even drove all the way to harrisonville to watch the game - got there - realized i washed/ruined my get in for free pass because i teach these crazy kiddos and then we had no cash.  The closest ATM was clear across town...and by the time we would have gotten back - we would have been at half time already.  So we drove home empty handed. A bit ridiculous if you ask me.

We also have spent our time taking the dogs to the dog park at super late hours in the evening when it is really dark out....but the problem is that you can't see them run off!!! So we attached lights to their collars - so now we walk the track and watch the lights bound up and down all over the place as the puppies freak out.  Its quite entertaining - they look like freaky fireflies :)

Hmmmmm.....the rest of my life.....SCHOOL.

This year has been going well so far.  My freshmen are all backwards (they like notes and don't respond very enthusiastically to activities) but they are all kids and I wouldn't teach unless I truely did love going to work every day - even when they drive me to my wits end. :)

Well.....I think that's about it.....until next time.