Alive and Kicking

I love my blog…but I have done a horrible job of keeping it updated as of late.  (  It’s not for lack of material to write about—my mind is FULL of things I want to say.  And that’s the problem—too much to say, to the point that I feel overwhelmed, so I end up saying, “F*** it!”

I didn’t share on blog land my wonderful news about my students’ writing scores.  For those of you who keep up with me, you know my kids took the state writing test back at the beginning of February.  I was so nervous (because as most of you know, my school is a “SINI” school—”school in need of intervention”—because we haven’t improved our school grade…so boosting our writing scores was a must!), though a tiny little part of me felt very confident that my kids did a great job.  They are intelligent (though not always overly-motivated) and were well prepared.  Well, our scores came in a few weeks ago—we kicked a$$.  I’ll spare you the boring numbers, but suffice it to say, we rocked it!  So that was great news.  This week we’re having a “pie in the face” assembly.  Our high-scoring students get to throw a pie in the face of a faculty/staff member (volunteers, of course).  I’m so nervous about this—the assembly, that is.  I want it to go off without a hitch <fingers crossed>. It was my idea, and I’m pretty much putting the whole thing together myself.  A liiitttle nervous, I am.  /

We have like 12.5 school days left ’til summer.  I am ready for the year to be over.  Summer has a lot of interesting things in store!  That’s all I’m sayin’ right now.

Jordan is great.  Doing exceedingly well in school; he makes me so proud.  He’s going to learn how to golf this summer (thanks Jon—and Sean!).  I am excited for him.  He’ll have his own starter set of clubs (again, thanks Jon and Sean)…I will definitely post pictures.

I still have house guests.  They’re moving out at the end of July.  It’ll be nice to FINALLY have my space back.  I am tired of having no peace and quiet…I am such a loner; on the weekends I could go the whole day without speaking a word and be totally fine.  I could go a whole day without HEARING people talk, as well (minus Jordan of course).  I hate listening to inane chatter about things I could care less about…which makes me sound like a bitch, but I’m not.  I just enjoy “quiet” and hate small talk—or talking just to talk.  But there’s a light at the end of the tunnel…July 31st!!  Just in time to turn 40 and have a mini-meltdown in the privacy of my own home with no one around.  )

So that’s just a tiny portion of what’s been going on.  I promise to do better keeping up with you, bloggy blog.