Whatnot

The other night before I went to bed, I was worrying a thought in my head. I decided to designate it journal fodder, so that I could put it aside, and fall asleep. Of course now, I have no clue what it was.

As to life in general, it's been busy. I started work last week, and I like it. I haven't found my pacing yet, so with about 15 elementary school children and 1 middle school child to juggle with the assistance of a teen-aged black belt, I'm exhausted when I get home. Good thing I only work Tuesdays and Thursdays.

I've started working out regularly again, and am finally ready to face the way I've been eating and go back to changing it.

The kids are all back in school, and are finding their rhythm. Jenny was placed in accelerated math, so like Lili, she'll probably be doing pre-Algebra next year (Lili was one of two kids who weren't in accelerated math but still managed to be placed in pre-Al...the other one dropped to a different math class after a semester. I's got smart math-minded kids. They get it from their father, not me!).

Lili just started volleyball again, and she got placed on with her best friend, a buddy from the neighborhood, and a girl from her team last year. That's good...Lili's the sort that needs continuity, so the familiarity means the team will be a good psychological fit. She doesn't have the same coach, but she said that this coach is good. I watched the last fifteen minutes of practice, and while he isn't Coach Donovan, he uses many of the same positive techniques.

Jack is still Jack. He is grounded for three days, since I found more than a week's worth of laundry stuffed under his bed and into the cubby of his bed. And he wonders why his room stinks.

The only thing I've had to remove from Rusty's mouth lately is Jack's lamby blanket. But don't tell anyone that Jack still has a lamby blanket. He doesn't want anyone to know. As such, the bin with his stuffed animals is labeled "collection".

I've forgotten what my husband looks like. He leaves for work at six in the morning, and some times doesn't get home until midnight. He also has been working weekends. While the extra money in the paycheck is nice, I really do like to see my husband a bit more.

title courtesy of http://www.writersbbs.com/members/mr_white/randomtitle.html
In fact, from now on, all of my titles will come from there, because I hate thinking of titles. And no, I didn't use a generator to come with the title of my nanowrimo project. And thinking of nanowrimo...

nanowrimo
Gulp. So far zilch on the words. I had bills to pay, groceries to buy, a church-thingy to go to, homework to supervise, and so on so forth. How the hell do families do this stuff when both parents work??? I'm in awe of mother's who work outside of the home. I bow before you all. I'm going to bring the laptop upstairs sans network card and get something written tonight.

school reports suck
Jenny's writing a school report which needs to be in the shape of house with windows and doors that open. The way I figure it, the only way to do it without it looking like crap or doing something that takes lots of extra artsy-craftsy steps, is to use an exacto knife. Which Jenny isn't allowed to use. So I'll be putting the finishing touches on her report for her tonight (it's due tomorrow). She's had the text ready for a while, I just wish she spent more time explaining the physical construction of the project, so that we could have been artsy-craftsy over the long weekend, instead of me taking my life into my own hands with an exacto-knife (I had a nasty experience with one a while back that involved splortly bleeding and DH threatening to take me to the ER. I hate the ER, so I'll be ubercareful.

words (and prefixes) I over use
uber, actually, nutjob

selyndria's challenge
Push ups: 10 military, 10 modified
Crunch/tilts: 50
Cardio: 20 minutes

note to self:
Remember to preview entries before posting.

Tomorrow is the kids' first day back at school -- this summer *flew*.

Lili will need to get up earlier than the other two, because she has the honor of being a saftey patrol member this year. She'll be working with her friend Meagan with the crossing guard. She's very excited about the job.

Jack and Lili are both apprehensive about their teachers. Lili claims that Ms. B "is the meanest fifth grade teacher - - everybody says so!", but I suspect that things aren't that dire. When I mention to other parents that Lili says she has the "mean" teacher, they ask if she has Ms. J. I think she'll be fine.

Jack simply doesn't know his teacher. I gave her the heads up that he's a bit of a clown. She smiled a knowing smile, and I think that things will be fine on that count, as well.

Jenny got the teacher she wanted. Here's hoping that Ms. L. is everything Jenny's expecting! (Jenny has been known to have high expectations *g*)

Hi ho hi ho, it's off to school we go...