Sistah Pat

That’s what they said but my thermometer is showing 6 degrees out there.  But:  Why quibble?  It’s too cold.  Period.  Tomorrow, however, it’s supposed to get up to 54 degrees.  

I put in a long day yesterday and then couldn’t find DGS when I was ready to leave at almost 5:00.  He was visiting with one of his favorite teachers.  As a result of combing the building and finally having to make an announcement to get him up to the library, I walked off and left my laptop sitting on a desk in the library.  I’d had everything ready to walk out the door but got distracted with looking for him and forgot it.  Hope it’s still there when I get to work this morning.

I didn’t eat too much yesterday.  Yogurt for breakfast but I didn’t get a chance for lunch.  DH picked up some fried chicken at Kroger and I had a chicken breast and some green beans for dinner.  Not exactly healthy but at least there weren’t too many calories involved for the day.  Sometimes I don’t understand where the day goes.  I get up and get ready, rush to work, and then get caught up in a thousand little tasks that are so consuming, I can’t even find time to go to the bathroom, much less, eat lunch.  At the end of the day, I realize I’ve put in ten hours and I’ve done a kazillion little things but don’t really have much to show for it.  Someone will grab me the minute I walk in the building because their computer won’t connect to the internet, then I run to my room and make some copies for my students or get their lesson ready and I’m consumed with them.  While I’m teaching, I’ll have a dozen people email me needing one thing or another and I’ll finish with my kids and then tackle all the other tasks.  Hopefully, I can find a few minutes to grade some papers or call a couple parents, and then I pull together some lessons or find websites and resources for teachers.  School ends and I’m still looking at another hour or two when I’m fixing printers or setting up laptops or attending meetings.  At the end of the day, I have to wonder if I really did anything.  So much of my job is troubleshooting and putting out fires.  And it never ends.  A few times, I’ve tried to keep a log of everything I do in a day and it’s actually pretty impressive but it’s usually a swarm of little things each of which, on it’s own, doesn’t seem like much.  At any rate, I’m going to try to find time for lunch today amongst the madness.

DS had to work a long day yesterday, too, so we had to pick up Jake and Scout after school and bring them over to the house.  DIL was supposed to get off work at 6:00 but she’s still not ready to face me so she didn’t come and pick them up.  They were here, demanding attention (as all little ones do) until 10:30 when DS picked them up.  

Time to get off here and hit the shower.