Chilly!

Brrr...it's chilly! I was laying in bed with my face poking out of the covers so I could breath thinking that it was awful cold out there. So when I finally got up and looked at the thermastat...Brandon had set it on like 62 degrees! No wonder I was freezing! When I looked out the window it was frosty outside. Fall is definately here and it is clear winter is on the way.

Well, we just finished the first nine weeks at school. I was really concerned because I only had 7 A's before I put in their research papers. I'll have fewer after that, that's for sure. I have about the same number of F's and it is very clear that several students will be repeating my class next year because they have averages in the 20s. I was really disappointed in those students. None of them are stupid, they're just lazy. It made me wonder when expectations were like in middle school and when asked it seemed like if you came to school, you passed. That is so irritating! It does not prepare them for high school where you actually have to do the work to pass and if you don't you take it again. If I was principal, I think that middle school passing culture would have to go.

Colby's hair after a drive with the window down.

Being silly at mommy's birthday party!

My happy family!

Christmas in October.

Isn't Colby's outfit so fashionable!!


Today I worked the three little pigs concession stand at the game. The game was a bit lop-sided as we beat the crap out of Duke, but it was fun...sort of. I haven't really been into the last few games for some reason. I mean I love Tech and Tech football, but it's hard to get interested in games where we blow the other team out of the water.

Currently I am typing on a keyboard with two loose keys. The 'F' key and the 'T' key were yanked out by a certain two year old by the name of Colby. I did find out that you can order new keys online $5 a key. That can get expensive after a while!

Homecoming!

I opened the back of the car and was like "Hmm...a case of toilet paper. What...don't we already have a case of toilet paper in the bathroom? Is Brandon saving TP in case of the apocolypse?" When I called he said no he wasn't stockpiling TP for the apocolypse, yet, he just forgot he'd already bought some and bought some more.

This week was homecoming week. As the sophomore class sponsor I had to meet with my officers, come up with ideas for decorating, buy the supplies and stay after school to supervise and do a little helping. Our theme was cartoons from the 90s and our assigned cartoon was Spongebob Squarepants. It was really a piece of cake. On our wall we created the houses of the different characters connected by a road and the cartoon logo, on the locker ends we painted the characters, over the lockers we hung jellyfish and bubbles and on the banner we had two of the characters playing football amid a sea of bubbles. Usually it's difficult for anyone to beat the seniors, but we beat everyone! Yay sophomores! Though, Ironically enough they misspelled sophomores by spelling it sophmores. In the end we added an apostrophe so it was soph'mores. It was funny.

Bark Collars and Homecoming

So as mentioned before, Hershey has a small barking problem. Well, I guess the proper description would be an ANNOYING barking problem. So, one of the teachers at school let me borrow her bark collars. We tried the citronella spray one first. The smell is supposed to deter the dog from barking. So it would spray, he would see the spray and try to attack and there would be more barking until it quickly would run out of spray. It was funny, but I really just wanted a fix for the barking, not comic releif.

In other news I'm gearing up for Homecoming week. Last years homecoming was dismal. The kids in the tenth grade class sucked it up big time. This year my tenth graders are fantastic! Official decorating doesn't have to happen until next week, but they're already working on it this week! And I hardly have to do anything! It's great!! We'll see if it continues, but I'm crossing my fingers that it will!

C for Car, D for Dog

On Saturday I went out to Lowes and Walmart and came home. While out I bought four cinderblocks to block off the hole between the house and the fence that Brandy and Niki previously got out and Hershey soon discovered. While outside with Colby I decided to move the car and get the cinderblocks out, but when I turned the key...nothing...no click...no nothing. I sort of panicked. Brandon was at work, I was supposed to be in the nursery at church today, and everyone in Brandon's whole family was busy. Well I called around and eventually the lady in charge of the nursery said she'd cover for me. Brandon's parents came by this afternoon and helped me get a new battery so thankfully we're good to go.

Hershey has barked so much that he's hoarse now. He's behaving better with Colby, though he still thinks he should be an indoor dog. I ordered him a crate so that maybe he can start sleeping indoors and maybe he'll be a less barky dog. I was going to buy a crate at petsmart the other day, but they were way too expensive, so I ordered one from walmart online, but we'll have to wait until it gets here to find out if that will work. While at petsmart I checked prices on obedience classes - $109 for an 8 week class. Not so bad I suppose if he learns some manners.