Well another step in the right direction
02/14/2006 03:25 a.m.
Today we finally filed for the marriage license.

What a fiasco.. not the courthouse but the morons I work with! Friday I had told the secretary that if my fiance called today I would have to leave to meet him at the courthouse but I would be back shortly.

Today, I told her again, as well as the AP in the front office that if he called I would have to leave because this was his last day in town during the week until who knows when.

So, this afternoon I was in the library testing a student, and my cell phone beeps with a text message. He needs me to be at the court house (years ago when I married the first time we didn't both have to be there at the same time). I messaged him to call the school and tell them (to cover my butt)... they told him they didn't know where I was but they would take a message.

The look I gave a certain someone when I went to the office and signed out and she said (Oh, Mark called...) tyvm for nothing.

Needless to say, I got there (my AP was apologizing as I left about the message not getting to me right away, I love her so much she's great! She's the one that took the pic I have posted right now).

And as I type this, my hunny is on his way to DFW. Hopefully, after this weekend he'll be done with his portion of this job and can come home for a while.



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Great News!
01/17/2006 02:17 p.m.
Yesterday I had a follow-up visit with my Dr. A month ago I was put on anti-depressant to help with PMS issues.

I've also been taking nutritional supplements, and changed my eating habits (I've only had 4 sodas in a month, and they don't even taste good anymore, yesterday I had one only because there wasn't any lemonade at Subway!) I've also quit eating processed/hard cheeses (cheddar, swiss, american, etc.). I still eat cream cheese (light), sour cream, skim milk and yogurt. I may add in feta cheese for my salads or blue cheese, the more raw/unprocessed cheeses, for added protein and a little variety/flavor.

When I was weighed yesterday, I had lost 8 lbs from my last visit! I was so happy, and still am.

My Dr. and I had a good talk. It is so wonderfully refreshing to have a physician that will listen and talk to you. I wish I had started going to her years ago! She remarked on the changes she could see in my face/skin, eyes, etc. I told her about the nutritional supplements again, and that I had also taken Reiki since our last visit. She asked if I practiced it with my son (my oldest has BPD) and I told her some, but mostly I used it with massage. Then she asked me whether I did medical massage, etc. So we talked a bit. Her husband (a physician as wel) is turning 60 and suffers fibromyalgia and headaches. She would like to give him a weekly massage at home for two months for his birthday.

I told her if I couldn't do it, I would find someone who could. They have a different cultural background than I, and in their practice she see's almost exclusively female patients, while her husband see's mostly the male patients. I am going to get back with her this week, and ask her if she feels her husband would be more comfortable with a male... NOT because I don't want the business and ultimately the referrals that could result from it, but as he hasn't had much massage previously, I want him to be completely comfortable. I know a wonderful male therapist with the same cultural background, who also does wonderful energy/Reiki work. He's worked on me before, so I feel confident in his ability.

This is so completely Awesome! Well off to work, y'all wish me luck and keep me in your thoughts and praerys with my new job responsibilities!




I am currently Excited

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Fighting the temptation
01/13/2006 02:32 a.m.
to become totally discouraged and disgusted.

I've joined a weight loss group at work. I really want to drop 20 lbs before my wedding (2 months). I've been doing really good, even before I joined the group, with my eating. Even over the holidays!

I cut out sodas and cheese in December 17! I've had 3 soda's since then! People who know me, know how amazing this is, because I was a DP fiend.

Cheese has lost it's appeal to me as well.

I've been eating much healthier, better portions, but not counting calories. I hate the regime of counting calories, measuring foods, etc. I have never been successful at such things.

We weighed in at work on Monday. This afternoon I couldn't take it any more, so I snuck into the nurses office while she was out and checked my weight. I've only lost 1 lb! I've been drinking water until I am gagging on it... I've not touched the cafeteria food, or the snack machine... I havne't had fast food in almost a week! Not going to the fast food places isn't a burden because I like them so much, but because as busy as I am preparing meals at home and packing my lunch and eating breakfast at home is a major hassle... especially when I'm fighting the boys to get up in the morning and trying to get myself dressed too. Things would be much easier if it were just me in the am, but... I do miss that I don't get that break from the responsibility of parenting during vacations any more.

Anyway, I digress. I was pretty bummed that there was only a 1 lb difference! So tonight, my youngest son and I took a dining gift card I received for Christmas and went to The Olive Garden. I wasn't terrible, but...I shouldn't have done it either... consoling myself with food.

I had two servings of salad. I ate two breadsticks, and only half of my entree; Mediterranean Shrimp Scampi, with whole wheat linguine. Oh and for dessert, an Andes mint (the other 3 are still in my purse).

I'll take the rest of the entree for lunch tomorrow, along with 6 oz of yogurt and some fruit for snacks.

I did go by a pedometer that measures steps/distance/calories burned and some 3 lb hand weights.

Guess I better get my butt into a calorie burning mode to make up for the extra carbs and calories today.

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The Sneak!
12/22/2005 09:10 p.m.
Last night I went to bed to watch the end of one of my favorite programs and then the news.

I had called my fiance, he told me he'd had to go trade out work trucks, again. I told him to call be back when he got back to the hotel. That was just before 9 pm.

I fell asleep before the news came on. All that energy yesterday, I konked right out... I woke up about 10:15. I trie dto call my fiance, but he didn't answer his cell phone.

around 11 my phone rings, half-asleep I answer and it's my fiance. I can tell from the background noise that he's still in a truck. I asked him where he was... he told me two turns and he'd be home!

He was sent home to work about 1 1/2 hours south of here today and tomorrow. Then he'll be working in town next week, because he'll have his kids.

I have to say this new company he's working for really is SO much better than the last one.. there isn't much comparison. They treat him so much better, they're considerate, they pay better... ok so he doesn't have an assigned company truck yet, they're working on it. They're also working on getting him a laptop so he can do his reports, etc. So great.

He got up and left for work before 7am... me being a bit lazy and still fuzzy from yesterday, I slept in until almost 10. Just before 11 I was starting the water for my shower, and just when I'm about to shuck my pj's guess who's standing in the bathroom door, looking like the cat that at the canary... hehehe... it's so nice to have him back home... well ok, he won't be home tonight, but he's only about an hour away.
I am currently Happy

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Just Stuff
12/22/2005 02:49 a.m.
A lot happened today, and I'm still processing all the energy, etc. so this will probably go here, then there, and wander in a wild circle a bit.

Today I had the most wonderful opportunity to take Reiki. Today, on Winter Solstice... I didn't get to stay for the fire ceremony this evening, but my energy is still there.

When we were practicing our energy work, the entire time I felt/heard the energy telling me that I needed to work with one particular person. One whom felt uncomfortable using energy in front of others, who was unsure of herself, who in her words had "ego" issues"... who had also experienced a lot of difficulties in the past few years (I don't know all of these, but could sense some).

I worked on her first, most of the session it was just myself, her and our master/teacher, although people came in and out at times.

Throughout the whole day I had been "buzzing" with energy...When it was time for me to work with my partner, suddenly I was lost... the sensations I experience usually when dealing with energy weren't there... I refocused and eventually adjusted to the new sensations...

Long story short, it worked out... It always does, right?

The master/teacher is also an interfaith minister... I may have found the person to perform my wedding ceremony.... I had said previously that I didn't want a woman to perform my marriage... but, the woman that was suggested was a minister in a church... my upbringing and belief system is that a man is to be the shepherd and leader of a church. This woman does not lead a congregation... I don't know, somehow it's different in my mind/belief system.

And finally an observation... I really enjoyed having my "fake" nails for the past month... well most of the time... it hurt like nobody's business when the darn things got bent backwards are something... but after more than a month, as they were beginning to lift anyway, I finally had to get them off... I chewed, and split, and peeled, and finally I got all the darn things off...it wasn't a very pleasant experience either... why do we women do these things to ourselves?

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I'm so excited!
12/20/2005 10:37 p.m.
I get to take Reiki tomorrow!!!!

I've been wanting to do this for a while, but it's always been a matter of finding a class in my area, at a reasonable cost, when I could take it.

Tomorrow there will be a class at the holistic healing practice that my father and some other's run. I don't have to worry about a babysitter either... so awesome because I can't find one most of the time, let alone on short notice.

They'll have a native american ceremony afterwards, but I won't be able to stay for that.. I have other appointments in the evening.

This is so fantastically awesome! Reiki I and II in one day!
I am currently Excited

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Where to park....
12/16/2005 06:48 p.m.
a '98 Saturn with front end damage? Well I almost showed someone where to park it today!

I had an accident last Saturday. I called my fiance, who called a friend of his who owns a tow truck... long story short, his friend couldn't do it and recommended another "friend" of his.

This was the beginning of the rip off. I saw the tow slip the night I was towed, it was $150 for the first tow, and another $150 to transfer it to the body shop this guy recommended... "If they know it's not an insurance claim they can work with you to bring it down." So, he towed it stored it over the weekend, moved it to their shop on Monday.

I called Monday morning, they had my car, but they hadn't looked at it yet. I called back Monday evening, they needed to put it up on the rack and look at the suspension.

I called Tuesday, he was just getting ready to look at it, but from the visual inspection (before looking at the suspension, etc.) he said it would be a minimum of $1200. I told him I needed to know what it would cost because if it were over $1500, I would have the car towed off and strip the transmission to repair another same year Saturn my dad has.

It wasn't until yesterday that I finally got the guy to give me a figure... after I called him again.... $2051 miniumum to $3100! I told him I would settle the tow fee and have the car picked up today.

When I got there, the $300 tow fee is now $385, plus $15 per day for 5 days for storage... even though it was their own damn fault that the car sat there because they didn't get the estimate done in a timely manner! THEN they wouldn't accept a check because it was storage fees. I only had $400 cash on me... My blood pressure is rising just thinking about it now! The owner agreed to the $400.... damn good thing she did, I was so tempted to tell her she could shove my car up her ass, sideways! Maybe I should have, because a rebuilt transmission can't cost too much more than $400! Then she'd still have the problem of disposing of the car!

May her tits reach her toes and her ass drag the floor in 2006! But then with what she's charging people, she'd just have plastic surgery to tuck it all back into place!
I am currently Pissed Off

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Violation of IDEA
12/16/2005 06:37 p.m.
Last week (12/6) I requested that my sons teachers update me on his grades by Friday (I didn't specify, but thought it was implied that I meant Friday of THAT week).

on 12/7, I emailed the 504 coordinator/principal on his campus to have him removed from afterschool detention for homework completion. This had been suggested at his 504 meeting as a method of getting my son to complete his homework. At the time, his teachers pretty much said my son didn't need tutorials, and they weren't appropriate for him, because he is capable and understands the curriculm.

I heard from one of my son's teacher's on Monday. She apologized, saying she had been out sick last week, but that my son was passing her class as of Monday.

Today I received an email from his reading teacher, telling me that my son hadn't turned in a major novel project, and that without that grade he would probably fail reading (again!). I didn't even KNOW about this project before today! To say I'm peeved is an understatement!

Then I received an email from the 504 coordinator, about how she thought I had understood that my son wouldn't receive assistance on homework in D-Hall, and they didn't have adequate staff to have a study hall/homework assistance before or after school.... yada, yada.

Now, today was NOT the day for me to get these emails. I found out today that my teaching assignment is changing, not next school year as I had thought, but when I come back in January. Instead of doing CM (basically a tutorial classroom where students are sent for extra help, reading assistance, etc.) I'll be doing Math and Language Arts Inclusion, where I go into classes where our neediest students are, and give support in that classroom (although for oral testing during finals, major exams, etc. I can still have a separate room that week).

Over lunch I was talking with the consultant that is helping the district implement this, as well as one of the area Sp. Ed. Program Supervisors, and we talked about how although my son could be qualified Sp. Ed. because of his Disorder/diagnosis, there isn't really a purpose, because he is entitled to the same type of accomodations through IDEA and 504. The consultant is also one of only about 6 certified 504 Hearing Arbitrators in this state!

So, in my reply to my son's principal/coordinator. I stated that it seems that my son is failing because of an organizational issue... which is related to his diagnoses (ADD/BPDw/Depression), an that if his accomodations are being followed and he is continuing to fail (this is the second 6 weeks) then his accomodations need to be reassesed and either changed or added to.

So... do you think Santa Clause is gonna be nice to me this year, cuz I don't think I'm winning any bonus points in my school district!

If I could afford it, I'm so tempted to sue the district! Of course I might not be able to find work as a teacher afterwards, but what is going on is SO WRONG!

I am currently Angry

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Cue Buck Owens and Roy Rogers
12/15/2005 04:07 a.m.
"If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all...."

Saturday evening I wrecked my car... I hit a concrete filled steel pole in a parking lot. It was in my blind spot as I made the double turn to enter the parking lot.

If I'd just hit it with my front bumper, I'd have bounced right off... I have a Saturn, it's virtual "Rubbermaid". My son has beat on it with a baseball bat and there was no damage.

Unfortuneately, I didn't hit the bumper, I hit the front driver's side tire... and have damaged the suspension.

I haven't gotten a quote yet, but I've been told that it will be a minimum of $1200. Yeah, right.... my car is paid for, it happened on private property, no other vehicle was involved, and of course the steel pole doesn't even have a scratch, so.. 1) I only have liability, it won't pay on this, and I'm not about to report it (Duh!) 2) My father has the same year model Saturn, only the luxury model (leather seats, electric locks/windows and a sun roof) but it needs a new transmission... so... I'll have my transmission put on his car, and scrap mine.

But first I have to pay the $300 tow fee ($150 to pick it up and take it to a storage lot over night, $150 to transfer it from the storage lot to the body shop that is giving the estimate!) I won't use that tow company again!


So my fiance is letting me use his truck. It has some bumps and scraps, and the driver's side door doesn't have a door handle on the inside, but I've solved that problem.

I accidentally locked the keys in the truck... in the ignition. Of course, my fiance is 4 hours away, working out of town.

He can't get hold of his dad to bring a spare key.

My friend's husband who is a wrecker driver, and who popped the locks on my car for me last week, can't help me because we had heavy rain today, which led to idiot driver's causing multiple accidents, and he had a line of cars to pick up.

I called the police department of my school district, but they don't have "lock out kits". Mark called some friends of his that own an auto and diesel shop. They came out, and after two of them tried for over an hour, they couldn't get the doors open. So they resorted to breaking a window. But the flashlight they had wouldn't shatter the wing window. The tire iron did... it also shattered the full-size door window.

So now there is glass on the inside of the truck, I have a shower curtain covering the window because it's still raining, and it's supposed to be cold for this area tomorrow. Oh yippee, driving to work in near freezing temps without driver's side windows.

Good News... my fiance isn't pissed at me... and his friend told me to bring the truck by the shop tomorrow and they'll replace the windows... it'll only cost about $25.

Roger (my fiance's friend) told me not to ever lock the truck again! haha..

Yep, the last 5 days have pretty well inhaled.

I am currently Dismayed
I am listening to the evening news

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Too Cold for me!
12/08/2005 08:15 p.m.
I just thank GOD I don't live up North, or in Amarillo!

I accidentally left my classroom keys in my car this morning. After I got off of morning duty (Standing outside in the courtyard for 30 minutes) I went back to my car to get my keys. The moisture that was in my car from the drive to school had already frozen, on the INSIDE of my car!

Is that crazy or what?! And the temperature has been steadily dropping today. At least we are getting a peek of sunshine here and there.... I hope I don't have to sit in my car for 30 minutes warming it up to defog the windows after school.



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