Saturday, January 3, 2009

TWO days to go...

See? This is what happens when you fritter away too much time on the computer. You stumble across ridiculous things like a picture of a cat dressed up like Darth Vader. Seeing that ticked-off looking feline told me that I'd better make the most of these last 2 days of vacation.

Where did it go? The ever-vanishing minutes are the only thing that makes me long for my previous school district. In LA we got 3 weeks for vacation. It was pretty nice. But there are so many other advantages to my current district compared to the corrupt mess that is LA Unified, I guess I can make the sacrifice.

Speaking of LA Unified, yesterday I hosted another group of friends at my house for lunch. This time it was 3 teachers and my mom from my first school. Despite 2 spills at the beginning that had me gritting my teeth, the rest of the afternoon went well. And I finally said goodbye to the pretty Christmas dishes until next year.

So now I have to decide how to spend these LAST 2 DAYS...I find myself saying those words slowly and ominously....I have to make today last, because tomorrow is essentially ruined with the thought that I have to go back the next day. That means going to sleep at a reasonable hour, making sure I have stuff for my lunches for the week, picking out what I'm going to wear...ugh! The only good thing is that the kids are usually well-behaved upon returning to school. They've gotten the wigglies out of their system and most of them will say how boring vacation was and have a new-found respect for the school day's order and constant activities.

I hope I'm not being overly optimistic!

OK, 9am. I better get out of pajamas and start using this day well. I'll wait til later to put a Star Wars costume on my cat...

2 comments:

Flops said...

What Kristie? You don't eat that 'nutritious and delicious' food they serve at the school cafeteria for lunch? My kids loved watching you sing karaoke, so did I!

Kristie said...

Ugh...the cafeteria food is nasty! So is this Felipe, or Sally Slook in disguise??? I'm intrigued! By the smell I'm thinking it's Sally... hehe