I’ve got the 2 Day Conference tomorrow, and I’d rather have dental work! I can’t tell you how much I do NOT want to go. The rest of the assistants that don’t have to go, are off work at 2:30, and we are in this course until 4:30! Then it’s our Christmas dinner 30 minutes away, which starts at 4:30. ACCCK! What a pain in my ASS!

Gawd but I hate getting woken up by the phone ringing at some ungodly hour!!! Saturday morning it was Sarah’s work calling to see if she could work a double shift. They called at 7:00 am. This morning, at 5:45 am, Hubby’s work called with something or another that couldn’t wait for another HOUR until he got in to work. Grrr

From there, the day got worse. Nick was a royal PITA for the first couple hours of the day. He eventually settled in and was better for the rest of the day. He seemed like he was coming down with something.

I’m also having trouble with my knee and back this morning from all my painting this weekend. So do I come home and take it easy? Noooooo…. I get supper cooking, and then I go do some MORE PAINTING. Now I’m in bed watching CSI: Miami, with a heating pad alternating from my geriatric knee to my geriatric back!

Again I’ve been painting! Only about 5 hours today. Hmmmph! I finished the cupboards and trim work in the laundry room, the trim in the stairwell, so that’s all finished, and now I’m still working on the basement doors, and a coffee table I’m redoing, as well as a shelf with a drawer that Ben made me at school. I’ve been doing laundry while I’ve been painting, as rumor has it we have to wear clean clothes to work tomorrow. Hubby brought a few groceries home with him from work, so I didn’t have to go out to do that.

I’m surfing around for a while, and then I’m either going to have a snooze or go finish the second coats on the doors, etc. I have a long week at work this week, as I have to spend 2 full days, Wednesday and Thursday at a Non-Abusive Restraint Training Session. This course is seriously the most stupid, useless waste of time there is. I’ve taken it before, but the Queen signed all 3 of us up. Whoever designed this course has quite apparently never worked with a Behaviour Disordered child, or they wouldn’t possibly think these techniques would EVER work!! It’s also our staff Christmas party on Wednesday night, so it’s going to be a long week!

No……I’m not talking about boobs or teeth.

At work the other day, we were discussing whether we had real Christmas trees, or artificial ones. One of the teachers who always has a real tree, and was marvelling at the smell and uniqueness of each tree they chose each year, and didn’t I miss that!? Well, actually……NO! And I’ll tell you why, as I know you’re just DYING to know!

About 10 years ago, we had a real tree all proudly sitting in our family room. It was like the “perfect” tree!!! It was all full, and perfectly shaped. A tree I’m sure Martha would have approved of! I loved it! It smelled (and looked) amazing! The complete vision of Christmasness!!

About 3 days after the tree was decorated, hubby and I were out for the annual district Christmas dinner with his boss. Ben was home with a sitter. We were just getting served the appetizers, when hubby’s cell phone rings, and it’s Ben. “The Christmas tree tipped over!!!” Hubby tells them just to tip it back up and do the best they can….. not much we can do from there! After about 15 minutes, we call Ben to see if they managed, and they said they had it all under control. “Whew!” Well we “whewed” to soon, as 10 minutes later, Ben called again, saying it had fallen down yet again. Hubby again advised him just to do what they could.

We got home that night to find our tree of lovely, strategically leaning against the corner. Several of the kids’ “keepsake” ornaments smashed, a big pool of yucky, tree water on the carpet, and needles everywhere!

First, hubby secured the tree by bolting the son of a bitch to the wall, and I began the long clean up process. Sopping up the water, picking up the glass, and attempting to put the ornaments back in place. My beautiful tree of lovely had gone from Martha, to Charlie Brown in 30 seconds. Hmmmph! Then I had the lovely task of vacuuming all the needles and tinsel and Christmas shit off the rugs! (Now keep in mind, this is at midnight on a work night.) The damn Hoover plugged up on me!!! 20 minutes later I was back in action. I was finally in bed by 1:00 am vowing that this was the last fucking REAL tree that would ever darken my doorstep again!!!!

And it was.

I spent 7 hours painting today. I did the whole stairwell. I also started painting the doors down there, and the cupboards in my main floor laundry room. It looks so nice and clean and fresh! Those walls in the stairwell were so beat up from hauling Ben’s hockey equipment up and down among other things (and Ben hasn’t played hockey for 3 years!). I painted the whole stairwell, baseboards, doors, and ceiling Sugar Cane. Tomorrow I will paint the second coat on the doors, door jams, and cupboards. I also plan to prime and paint the coffee table. In spite of all these things, I still need to do laundry etc.

I’m beat, so I’mgoing to settle in watching a movie now.

what decade does your personality live in?

quiz brought to you by lady interference, ltd

Appetizer
How much money do you plan to spend this upcoming holiday season?
I’m estimating around $1000 when all is said and done

Soup
What was the last television show you watched, and was it good?
Dr. Phil…. not one of his better shows.

Salad
If you had to paint the walls of your living room tomorrow, what color would you choose?
Likely some shade of green (sage) to go with the rest of the house, and my existing furniture.

Main Course
Name something clever or practical you have thought of that should be invented, but hasn’t yet.
If I had thought of something Practical or clever, I wouldn’t be torturing myself with my current job!!! I’d have patented my invention and be counting my sheckles instead of working for a living thank you very much!

Dessert
List 3 things you would like to receive as gifts this holiday season.
1. I want a new purse.
2. Scarf and mitts to go with my new coat.
3. Shark steam cleaner!

The week leading up to a full moon, Nick sux the life right out of me! I was so glad to see the little ass end of that child walking away from me, that I would have done the happy dance if I could more than painfully limp with my gimpy knee!!

Today I was working with Nick on some Reading, before we went swimming. He was so ambitious (NOT!) that I felt like I was pushing wet string up a steep hill! He was getting fed up with me trying to get him to work (the NERVE!) when all of a sudden he shouts, “UNBELIEVABLE!!! That’s it, I’m counting, 1…..2…..3!!!!”

Sheesh……sometimes the animals just take right over the zoo!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends! I’ll be thinking of you eating turkey and pumpkin pie (my favorite …hint hint) while I’m eating my gross old bag lunch in 30 minutes or less! Hmmmmph!

I was helping one of the little grade 2 boys with a Spelling lesson, and he just wasn’t getting it. There were three numbers. 2, 4, 6 The sentence was Two is ________ four. He had list words to choose from but of course he is ignoring that fact, and says “in front”. I said, “Well that’s close, but let’s try it this way….. Two is be_______ four!” He proudly shouts, be front!!!

Was it him, or was it me???