I enjoy Thanksgiving. I do. The only problem with it is that I eat Thanksgiving dinner three different times in less than a one week span. While an annual consumption of large quantities of turkey, stuffing, veggies, and DESSERT is okay, thrice is getting a bit excessive. My bathroom scale says so.
But really, if you have to complain, having too much food has to be the best problem ever. I’m very blessed.
Erin and I were supposed to have coffee over the weekend, but our schedules didn’t work. This makes me sad. I’m hoping the longer break at Christmas affords more opportunities.
The hubby and I are looking at a house. I don’t want to say too much or get too excited because of all the things that could go wrong, but I will say that it’s a big fixer-upper in a great location, and I’m praying that everything works in our favor. Kind of like the Titans game tonight – came back from a 21 point deficit to win the sucker. Hell yeah.
I post so seldom now. Shame on me.
Let me just say for the record that this has been a crap semester. My students are generally blah (I know, I know, “Bad teacher!”). I mean, they just don’t care. Everything else I can deal with, but apathy has me at my wits’ end. At this point I’m just trying to make it to Christmas, and then I’ll get a fresh batch. I have some new ideas, so it should be fun to implement those. I also know I have a couple of really good kids to look forward to, so yay.
I’m advancing in my quest to cook. Slowly, but surely. One day I’ll have it down pat. I will!
Thanksgiving is coming up, and that mostly means three days off of work. I plan on getting caught up with my grades and finishing off these grad classes. I need to look into taking the GRE, too.
I like pens.
The hubby and I are making huge strides in saving up our down payment. We plan to buy in the late spring / early summer, and it looks like we might be close to 20% down. Sweet. No PMI. Maybe. We’ve behaved well so far. Free rent/utilities/everything helps. My 30+K goes a long way then.
We have tickets to go see Cats in January! You have no idea how excited I am. 6th row in the tier at TPAC, dead center. Jellicle cats comes out tonight…
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We saw Trans-Siberian Orchestra at the GEC last night. Can I say…
FREAKING AWESOME
Really. It was rockin.’ Need some good, not-so-traditional-yet-kinda-is-in-a-way Christmas music? Then try TSO. The “story” (since they are narrative orchestral rock) that they played for the show was from the album Christmas Eve and Other Stories, but I am still partial to the first CD of theirs that I bought, which is not really Christmas-y at all, Beethoven’s Last Night.
You might have heard their version of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” on the radio around Christmas time. Lots of guitars, bells tolling, instrumental? Yeah, that’s it.
We were there until after midnight because the entire band came out and signed people’s stuff. I bought a CD that now has about 12 signatures on it. Fantastico.
In unrelated news, my sister is getting married in a week. That is crazy to me. What is crazier is that they are moving to Long Island the day after Christmas. They’ll be there for three years (Marine Corps). I’m not good at keeping in contact with my family anyway, but I’m going to miss her.
I made dinner tonight. Chicken, mashed potatoes, and green beans. Yum. And I just took an apple pie out of the oven.
Could I be any more domesticated???
The hubby and I just spent three hours at Wal-Mart. Three! The sad part is that the time was split between two different ones. I was on a quest for cat ears, but I came up short. I did, however, manage to obtain some Herbal Essences hairspray, two deodorants (I’m in a trial phase), a WOW cd and a NOW cd, undereye circle solution, a cupholder for my beautiful Saturn, and a king size Reese’s. The hubby bought a car magazine. He is much simpler than I.
Drink Starbucks’s Pumpkin Spice Latte. Mmmm.
We have Click and Conan’s 10 year anniversary special from NetFlix. I really like the video store coming to me. Mostly because I am ridiculously lazy.
We’re going to see this evangelical strength team called Delta Force at my high school tomorrow. They gave the kids a preview during school today, and it was neat. Breaking Lousiville Sluggers – cool. Tearing phone books in half – cool. Jesus – cool. How can you go wrong?
The hubby came up with the idea of synchronizing our quiet times so that we can have discussions about them. It sounds like a great plan to me. Not only does it give us accountability, but it also opens the door for spiritual and intellectual stimulation. Spending time in the word is good and meaningful, but sharing it with someone adds a whole other dimension.
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Today we had parent-teacher conferences, and I made the mistake of wearing boots that were not designed for 12 hour wear. Ouch. I am going to take a shower to remedy that. You might think a bath would make more sense, but I like to sit down in the shower and feel the hot water running down on me. Bath water gets cold too quickly. Showers are much more relaxing (although bubble baths, especially community ones with my husband, are always nice).
Can someone tell me why the parents that show up to PTCs are the ones who have kids making A’s? It’s nice to meet them, but I don’t really have that much to say. I have this one parent who came this year and last, and he does nothing but gripe about my principal while he’s in there. I like my boss, so it’s very awkward.
I ache.
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You know – the one that was stealing my mail? Yeah. Totally in jail now. She’s not there for swiping my package, but that is irrelevant to me. She had it coming.
I’m going to watch The Jacket now.
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I can’t remember what I was going to say. Something about the hubby. He bought me a new headlight. He gave me a card today (with the fluffiest cat EVER on the front). Um. Crap.
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but I think my neighbor is stealing my mail. Or, more specifically, I think she stole a package of mine. I have lots of details and evidence, and I feel about 90% certain that she took my box (and the 10% left over is just me faking humility). I saw the mailman deliever it to her, but when your neighbor receives something, you assume it belongs to them, RIGHT? And if it didn’t, they would give it to you as soon as they figured that out, RIGHT? The package was trackable, and it was delivered at the same time she received her package. It was a book, and the box was about that size (well, bigger, but you know how amazon is). This was three days ago. Grr.
I am trying not to be angry. The hubby said he would fix it, but our neighbor is CRAZY. That’s another story entirely, though.
I just want my freaking box. And maybe some jailtime for crazy neighbor lady. I filed a complaint with the USPS already. I hate feeling nasty. Rather, I hate that I enjoy it so much.
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I am in the midst of a battle between my Board and BCBS. Apparently someone misfiled some paperwork, thus causing my claim to be denied. I’m doing some housekeeping in regard to my credit report, and there are some things I just don’t want to pay out of principle. Like charges that I was insured for.
It’s good to see that I don’t really have that much bad debt. I have some because I’m an idiot, but not much. It will be a lot less when this crap gets straightened out. I only have $50 that I legitimately owe, and that’s not a problem. I also have $15,000 in students loans, but they’re all current. One of them died today because I sent Citi over $1000 to make it go away. It feels good to be rid of that loan.
The hubby and I are going to an art show downtown tonight at the Icehouse Cafe. I anticipate good times, because I like art, and I like downtown. If it weren’t such a gloomy day, we’d probably walk. Alas.
More progress with the apartment. I see a clean and organized living space any day now.
