The B#@*! Pissed Me Off

It has rained continuously for 48 hours....enough already. Woke up to sunshine today, although a bit nippy. Who cares....give me light!
My traditional St. Patty's Day outing was another success. Celebrated the wearing of the green, listened to some bagpipers, drank a few beers (ok, a lot of beers) and pissed off my brother! See, he has this girlfriend who drives me crazy. Toward the end of the night I hear her in conversation with my sister talking about how psycho my brother's ex-wife is. The ex-wife who happens to be my friend. So I felt obliged to straighten out some information for her. Of course that entailed throwing out some facts that maybe she didn't want to hear...but damn, she pushed my buttons! Next thing I know the girl is in tears and my brother is pissed....although, if you knew the boy you would know he brought most of it on himself...well, all of it really! Such an end to what had been a glorious day. So I felt kind of bad for making her cry (even though she started it). I sent her an email to apologize for getting involved in the conversation and saying things I shouldn't have...and that after 100 beers it wasn't the time and place. WELL, girlfriend got an attitude with me and wants to try and put me in my place. NOW I wish I would have told her more! It's a damn soap opera! It does add a bit of excitement to my otherwise ordinary life, I might add. I told her that accepting apologies is a major social skill she needs to work on. I'm sure that didn't help at all. Oh well.........
Can't wait till next year's festivities. Somehow I don't think girlfriend will be joining us.
Peace out.....

Tid Bits...

1.Winter storm headed our way tonight and into tomorrow...Great! Mostly icy rains and snow showers with little accumulation. If we can't have one good snowfall before spring, then just forget it!

2.I'm directing the school play, "Beauty and the Beast". Imagine directing 27 kids who have behavior issues. What the hell was I thinking? Our "beast" quit because he can't find it in him to tell Beauty that he loves her. He "don't use words like that". Shit. My "beauty" can't make it to rehearsal for the next 5 days because she got suspended from the bus. I told her, "Beauties don't get suspended from the bus!!"
Shit, shit. And now, the only bit of talent I have to work with is being transferred to another school. SHit, shit, shit!

3. Started our second round of Biggest Loser at work. I had gained back a few since our first round, but am back down another 10.

4. Only 45 days till St. Patricks Day!!!

Pictures of the kiddies modeling some of their new gear!
Christmas was wonderful! Had our traditional Open House....which didn't close down till 5am!! I'm tired.
Hope everyone had an awesome Christmas!

The Pain Is Over and I Met Some New Friends

After two weeks of pain from that damn tooth extraction I was finally able to get back to the land of the living. What a horrible experience that was! So now I have another dental situation arising. I have an impacted wisdom tooth that has a cyst developing on it. Nice! It needs to be attended to or there is a possibility that it could erupt and cause my jaw to fracture. Double Nice!
What a bunch of crap!
So last weekend I went with 3 friends to Brown County, Indiana. Had a blast! We left early Sat. morning and checked into our hotel by 10ish. Brown County is a quaint little town that hosts tons of shops and art galleries. So we started out on a beautiful fall day and worked our way through the shops. Long about 3pm, I believe it was my friend Donna, said "I'm ready for a beer". Well, there's not really too much to be offered in that area. But I did remember a place Gary and I had stopped in several years before. We found that same place....The Speakeasy. We stopped in for 1 and walked out at 8:30! Whew! Fun, fun, fun. We met the greatest group of people. We met 3 couples who were there when we arrived. They were our first encounter and we immediately hit it off! Then 2 more couples came in. They had purchased a replica of the leg lamp from "A Christmas Story"....remember that? They ended up plugging it in right there. They joined in on our fun! There was no juke box....so we just sang! And believe me, we sang to anyone walking in and everyone walking out! It was definitely one of those "you had to be there" moments. We all left that night with exchanged email addresses...as soon as my friends get their pictures to me I will be posting them! We did nothing but laugh the whole time...I felt like I knew my new friends forever. Such a big world it is, but so small in so many ways!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.....enoy yourselves wherever you may be!
S.

Under Pressure

I went to the dreaded Dentist a few weeks back and he told me I needed a root canal. Ok. So I call my insurance company to see what the cost will be. To save this damn tooth would cost me $900. After much consideration, I responded to the dentist with a quick "pull the damn thing!". I gave him my reasons and he agreed to extract tooth number 19. Shortly after the appointment was made, the nurse called to explain..."Dr. C. just wanted me to tell you that although you will be numb there will be quite a bit of pressure." No problem, I'm down with that. SO...I go to my appointment on Monday, sit in the ever so intimidating dentist chair and get my shots of novocaine. Prepared for the extraction, the good doctor begins the procedure. I HAVE NEVER FELT SO MUCH PRESSURE IN MY HEAD!! I felt like the right side of my head was going to burst open and spew my brain out! It was awful. I was holding my head and thinking,"FORGET IT, STOP, GIVE ME THE F'N ROOT CANAL, I'LL PAY $9000!" Damn! It finally was over, he packed my mouth with gauze and sent me on my merry way. Things were good till Monday night when the novocaine wore off. The pain kicked in and I started on my ibuprofen. I had Vicadin for back up...which I used last night....then woke up this morning light headed and sweaty and in more pain. Son of a ....! So it ends up I now have an infection and have started on penicillan. This has been a nightmare....AND I BETTER WAKE UP SOON!!!
Not that all of this is any excuse for my absence....I've just been lazy. I have been checking in on everyone, though. And it sounds like you all are doing well. Hopefully soon I will be able to say the same thing about myself!

Get Over It

My professional response to a whiny 10 yr. old who was throwing a fit because somebody got in front of him in line:

"BUILD YOURSELF A BRIDGE AND GET OVER IT!"


Only 150 days till summer break!

Things That Make You Go Boo!

The Halloween Campout proved to be another year of great fun. I didn't go as well with my eating as I had planned (remember, I intend to be "the biggest loser") but it wasn't too disastrous. I stepped on the scale this morning fully prepared to have seen the same numbers, but it was actually down 2 lbs! This group picture is of a few of us on our trip to the restroom at 3am!(yes, those are wigs) It's pretty sad when we have to take the Boones Farm with us! The 2 girls are my great nieces. Little "J" dressed up as Dora the Explorer. Notice that big "J" wasn't as thrilled with her costume.

I'd also like to put a shout out to my buddy Luke! I work with "Lukey" and although he's not a blogger he'll occasionally check out mine. He asked today why I never blog about him so I told him I was going to throw his name out there just so he can see it in print. "Mr. Wuke", as one student calls him, is a good dude and makes me laugh everyday. Here's to ya, Luke....

Off to the gym now, people....I ain't playin' around!
S.