The top 10 things that have been keeping me from blogging:
1. The end of daylight savings time. I don't quite know what my problem is here. I enjoy sleeping in an hour, but it is so hard for me to stay awake much past 9:00 p.m. And getting dark at 5:30? No me gusta. I just feel out of sorts about the whole thing.
2. My children. If they're not whining for Halloween candy, arguing with each other, fighting over the TV, or fussing about doing homework, they are busy making mess after mess...thus bringing me to number 3.
3. Messes. I get home, clean up the family room, do a quick sweep of jammies that are still on the floor, throw a load of laundry in the washer, clean up the kitchen from last night's meal...and then begin making dinner. Rinse and repeat.
4. Teaching. Le sigh. The teacher across the hall is over there singing kumbaya while I am sweating in an inferno of a classroom with my 30+ students, intercepting love notes from my 6th graders, yelling at one of my classes to "please close their mouths" all the while thinking, "SHUT the hell up!"
5. Grading papers. The idea of teaching science to 90+ students sounded great at the time...but after getting 90 3-page lab papers turned in on the same day? The prospect of grading them is daunting, to say the least.
6. My TV shows...Amazing Race, The Next Iron Chef, Top Chef: Las Vegas, Dancing with the Stars. I am committed to watching these shows, but I have to admit...I am not in love with any of the dancers on this season's DWTS. Well, except Maks...but that goes without saying.
The stars, though? Not really feeling them. I like Kelly...but am fairly certain Mya will win. Is anyone still reading?
7. Packing lunches. On most days, my kids eat their school/daycare lunch. It's a good, hot meal for cheap. And it requires absolutely no work on my part. The only downside? Every once in awhile, there is a meal that my kids won't eat. And really...for some of these meals...I dare you to find any kid who would eat it. For example...tomorrow's lunch? Beef stew. Oh, but wait. It gets better. The sides? Raw carrots and celery. And their choice of slaw or beets. Riiiiight. Nothing says delicious to a kid like stew and beets.
8. Reading. This isn't a bad thing, I realize. But the books just keep calling my name away from the computer. Here are a few of my recent favorites.
9. Cooking dinner. Is anyone else in a food-idea funk? I feel like I am in a rut...making the same foods all the time. And the huge stack of unopened cookbooks isn't helping either.
10. FarmTown. I would go into more detail, but I have pineapples and blueberries to harvest.
14 comments:
Oh, I feel ya! Kids fighting, cleaning the house, cooking dinner, UGH!!! It never ends.
Well, when you come up for a breath, we enjoy catching up! :)
Really? My kids love beet. Sike!
So, I'm guessing it would not be good if you really did say "shut the hell up!"?
Darn...cause I'm not a teacher or anything but that is how I get through the day Man!
yup~hate daylight saving time
yup~don't pack lunches
Yup~under my profile on facebook (iswear to heaven this is the truth) it says
I WILL NOT HAVE A FARM.
I have seen what it does to people. That is some scary stuff!
Daylight savings is screwing me up too! I am yawning like crazy and it is only 8pm!!
1. Maybe you'll adjust. Only a few more months until it's over.
2. Mine too.
3. My house too.
4. Sorry. At least you can smile knowing my class is officially terrified of you! And telling them to shut it happens. Hopefully without the hell part. Tami learned at ICT behavior training that I was grounded from that we should state things in what we NEED them to be doing...I need you to sit down. I need you to work on your paper. I need you to SHUT THE HELL UP. I'm sure that will work wonders for all of those lovely 6th graders. Watching you 3 with these classes makes me more comfy in 4th than I'd ever imagined!
5. Can you stagger the assignments?
6. DWTS doesn't do much for me. I do love Top Chef and Amazing Race and my Thursday shows, and a show on Bravo called Tabitha Takes Over or something like that, where a bitchy European goes into hair salons and shows how gross they are and how incompetent the stylists are, makes it over, and fixes it all. Like Kitchen Nightmares for hair. Fun fun!
7. Lunchables.
8. I want Oxygen, if it was good and yours.
9. Crock pot.
10. I quit. Cold turkey. Be strong! :)
I'm going to totally agree with every thing you said about DWTS...housecleaning...sucks, kids aren't in any after school stuff now, so, that means more time to get on each others nerves...as well as mine...
Ugh, it's 7:46 and I could go to sleep now...ugh
for some reason I have really been struggling with daylight savings this year, i can't seem to adjust for some reason. =(
Daylight savings time, hate it. Dark when hubby gets home, no outside play time.
Farm town? just go outside and do something, really aren't you on a farm? lol
I hear you on being busy. Life has been good but there's always that mess to clean up or that homework to organize or that meal to prepare. I've been reading more too -- you've inspired me to write about that. Thanks! :)
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I think you should have a new lab in which you explore what happens when putting a match to a stack of lab papers! :) Just popping in to say hi and see how you're doing. Sounds like we have a lot in common!
1. It's not so much my problem but my daughter's. She gets up so darn early now! She didn't get the sleeping-in memo when the time changed...
3. I wish I were the only one around here who cared.
5. There were many a time when I felt like just chucking them in the trash (and if it was a minor thing to grade, I think I'm guilty of doing it from time to time...)
6. No joke! I have no more room on my TV itinerary for anything else!
8. Must catch up on this!
I do NOT like this time change. I'm exhausted all of the time, ready to crawl into bed when I get home in the evening because it's dark!
whew!! you are one busy woman! :-)
i really enjoy reading your blog!
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