Spring Break is almost over. Booooooo. What did I do for my Spring Break? Work. As usual.
No, really. I work almost... all. the. time. Why, you ask? Because I have to pay the bills is the main answer. Plus, it also keeps me out of trouble. When I don't work, I tend to go out and spend more; whereas when I work, I don't have time to go out and about. Do I ever get tired of working all of the time? Yes. In fact, I'm seriously contemplating quitting one of my long-time jobs.
It's not that I don't love working there, because I really do. It's just that it's got to be costing them more to keep me on as a part-timer than it is for me to leave. After all, I only work about 30 days a year, but they let me have 6 season passes, 12 free day tickets, and a 30% discount. In any case, it's something I'm still thinking about and will be trying to decide before summer hits.
I did get a little bit of a break though. My friend R and I went to the Renaissance Festival to check out their Wine and Chocolate festival. By the time we got there though, the wine and chocolate was no longer free. However, we did have a lot of fun. R had never been to the festival before so I was really excited to see her reaction to everything. I'm sure she went home and told her husband about all of the craziness that happened around us.
First we tried meade--R thinks it's too sweet. I thought it was okay.
Then we watched part of a wooing contest. One of our students played a part so watched a little bit until they started looking for "volunteers."
As we walked around I actually ran into some of my family members.
Then we tried on headbands.
And watched a jousting competition.
Finally, I had my picture taken with Sir Cutie Pie aka "80's Rock Hair God."
What else did I do? I did manage to catch up on the rest of Dexter, Pan-Am, and spent time with Maddie. Tomorrow I will catch up with a few more friends and celebrate Maddie's birthday. WooHoo!
Whew! What a crazy couple of weeks I feel like I've been run over by a truck. (Not that I really know what that feels like, but I'm pretty sure it's how I'm feeling right now.) I'm so glad we have tomorrow off because I think I'm going to use the day to sleep. I've been burning the candle at both ends and it has finally caught up with me. (Isn't it May already?)
To catch you up on my life, my birthday was fabulous! Between my family and friends, we celebrated for quite some time. My aunt and I went to a wonderful Indian restaurant called Cilantro. The girls and I had been there before and they have the best food! (There's also a waiter there that is nice looking too!) We decided that this restaurant is a "keeper" so we'll definitely be back. :)
My parents, niece, sister, and her fiance went out to Carrabba's after church the Sunday before and had a great meal. I ordered my new favorite dish--Chicken Bryan. I love the lemon taste and of course the goat cheese. I usually get the garlic mashed potatoes because I love garlic too. (Maybe that's why I'm not married--too much garlic.)
The girls actually got away with throwing me a surprise party at work. My birthday was the day before school started, so the rules are a bit more lax with leaving campus for lunch and errands, etc. R approached me and asked if I would go with her to Joann's to pick up lettering for her white-board. S asked me what I was doing for lunch and I told her that I was running "across the street" with R to get letters, so S asked if I would pick up some paper for her to create her mini-posters for her classroom.
When we returned, S and C had decorated the back office of the library in a Disney Princess theme, completed with pink streamers, etc. They had even ordered a cake with chocolate ganache in it and a princess on the top. What's even better is that it hadn't even dawned on me they would do this because we were supposed to get together at my house after school started to continue our movie marathon session and we were going to celebrate then. It was definitely a great surprise! :) (Of course there are no pictures because I'm usually the one with the camera. Sorry.)
The main debate that day was which princess am I? I have always associated myself with Sleeping Beauty (Aurora) because that's my niece's middle name, but I'd never really thought about which one I resemble.
The girls had a theory and I can completely see how they would come up with Belle as my princess. I love most things French. I take care of family matters, and I LOVE to read. Plus I have brown hair and I deal with beasts (teenagers) all the time. :)
When the girls and I finally got together this past Thursday for our movie marathon, R and S had bought me a gift. It was an Oscar the Grouch t-shirt!! They've said that I've been grouchy lately and that my facial expressions have resembled his, so it was a good fit. Now, before you think "that's mean" or something similar, you really have to know the whole story. You see, I instigated the whole thing. I said I wanted an Oscar the Grouch shirt when we were discussing my mood one day. We decided that we were going to build a trash-can on the outside of my office wall so that when I lifted my head It would look like Oscar lifting his head out of his trashcan. (Yes, we have a weird sense of humor.) That's when I mentioned that I wanted a t-shirt. Viola! The girls delivered once again.
I'm sure this is a copyright violation because it's someone's design, but it's my picture, so there you have it.
Well, it's definitely after my bedtime, so I guess I'd better start my beauty sleep because Tuesday morning will come awfully early. :(
Alas, I am another year older and supposedly wiser. If only I could remember what it is I'm supposed to know. :) Oh well--go out and eat lots of cake in honor of me today! It's calorie-free, I promise! My favorite type of cake is marble cake--unless you count the chocolate chip cookie cake my dad sent me at work one year. (That one was pretty good too!) No matter what type of cake you have, enjoy it!
On a less than sunny note: Tomorrow the students invade and another school year officially starts. I'm hoping that I have at least a few things ready for when they arrive in the morning. Since my classroom (the library) is used by everyone, I haven't had two minutes to myself to even figure out what I need to get finished. Then, we of course, have meetings non-stop, so there's little to no time left to work in our rooms. AAACCCKKKK! I feel like Bill the Cat. Please pray that everyone has a great 1st day!
