2 down 178 days to go

So this was not the time for my doctor to decide to take me off all medication (allergies, bp, over the counter) to see if that was why I was not sleeping. But when your doctor gives you the choice of that or the hospital for exhaustion. You choice no meds. We went back for in service on Monday. I had four hours sleep. NOT GOOD.....To be honest I was so tired I just plain put one foot in front of the other. But some highlights of what is going to be a long year.

Our union advises via the NEA, no student or Parent friends on facebook,
(I don't students already, even the students who are family friends) the Parents, well there is fine
line in a small school district, they cross the line of friends who happen to be parents too. Don't know how that will work out. But we shall see.

Our district is in very very bad shape financially. Some cost cutting measures were implemented.
Each employee was given x amount of copies for the year. When you are out, you are out. We were also given a $ amount of $60 for the year for printing. (1 cent for the bw copier, 25 cent for color printer) Should I state that this started August 1st without my knowledge. So anything I printed for my coworkers library or classroom has now given me a balance of $24. Yep, I talked to the boss. He is going to see if he can make an exception. OY......I need your input....if you print your TPT items outside the district do you a) print at a store (kinko's, office depot, staples if so at what price) b) at home on your printers, deals on ink????


So I have been helping coworkers, and that has sapped any and all energy for me. I called the doctor Monday and said 6 days of no meds, and my brain is fried. Can I go back on them.....yes, but this is not over. OY......My room is not done. But I will do it....

Before I go I wanted to share an idea I got from Jena at

When I got those markers the lady at walmart made me show my id to prove that I wasn't buying them to sniff (huff) Really ...:)

Not a whole lot, but some cutsey things for them

For the 3 men at work!

Thanks Jena for the tags and the idea:)

I have stated in the past, that I try to get something for my coworkers. Beginning, Christmas and end of year. Somebody said you get along with all 25 of them(told you I have a small district Prek-3) NOPE, and again they would say the same thing. But I was raised to appreciate EVERYBODY. This is going to be a LONG year, 2 administrator's last year. New evaluations start next year with new admins...Common core, will we have a school next year at all....So for a moment I want to say thanks and be positive as I don't know what the future holds personally or professionally. There you have it. Kids come back tomorrow until 11:10, and 7:20 comes early. So good night and hope to be back soon.

Courage

Source

I am writing this on my phone, as I sit in the ER with my 63 year old mother for the 2nd time in a week, she is being admitted again.  Our Dr. has been out of state for 3 weeks, and he knew when I called him at home on a Sunday, it was not good. I will be checking back in but in case I don't get right back ...you know I am not ignoring you. Prayers would appreciated!



Don't forget my linky party/giveaway Here

Studies on Full Moons

and how they make elementary students go nuts...Have they been done....Here was my facebook status tonight after work....

"As if I couldn't tell there was a full moon coming (a dead raccoon in a jar last week almost did me in) my most mild mannered children were nuts....I again urge you to call your local State, Federal and International representatives and urge them to vote yes to hazard pay for school employees around full moons......"

Yes you did read that right, first time in 10 years in the business, and I have never had a child bring a DEAD baby raccoon in a jar....I was very brave (dead animals give weamie jeemies) in the umpteenth day of dense fog, in my very brave voice "put that in your book bag and don't let me see out of it all day" I gleefully then stalked waited for her classroom teacher and or superintendent. Soon as their soles hit the front door I so  let them take care of it(of course after repeating several times to them as they both thought they heard me wrong)....BLECH.....

As I said I have been fighting the crud all weekend! I blame the non stop fog, that has 2 cycles lately either dense heavy duty fog or the every lovely dense freezing fog.....both of which on top of  the week leading up to a  full moon start the school days out so lovely! I have accomplished nothing at night as I am even more exhausted than normal! So when I get back feeling better I will have a normal enriching blog post ....(Not that you did not laugh at my raccoon story) Add to all this our district is facing MASSIVE budget cuts, and there is no real easy answer except that the State of IL is royally *&^% schools....esp the small rural ones! It is a little bit tense around the water cooler, sides have been drawn .....All I want to do is help kids learn to read and use a computer while having fun doing it! I will be back soon :)

MIA

That would be me, and to be honest until I get back in the swing of things, I will be for awhile. I had grand plans of having my room ready and sharing. But if you have a person who is the go to person for technology and computers, that would be me. When we left in May, our building's Kindergarten teacher was on maternity leave. So I had 3 times to schedule with her. This year we are doing RTI in the afternoon, we will be working with 2nd  graders, so we tacked the 1/2 hour Title time at the end of RTI, so we have a full hour. That being said it took an hour out of my lab schedule. This year I will be eating lunch at 10:50, recess duty 1st rotation (instead of middle) a Noon lab, and I could go on....Since I had to add my Kindergarten times to the master schedule I get the "joy" of doing all the corrections etc. Then add in our tech dept is new this year, and he walked in to a mess, so I am just behind in both aspects of my job. I am taking it one day at a time, if I don't get it done at work, some of it I will work on at home, but I am trying to not go in for the "decorating" Which I start new schedule tomorrow(kids came Friday until 11 for a PBIS kickoff tomorrow full day) and 6 am comes quick...Will be back soon! Please tell me someone else in blog land is behind too!

Seriously

Technology is my friend

Technology is my friend


Technology is my friend

I have been looking forward to the Christmas in July sales at TPT, I made my wish list of items..So this morning when the insomnia was in full force, I started shopping. The site kept glitching so at 4 am, I went to bed. My shopping cart was there when I got back up ...so I continued to shop the sales....The site kept glitching ....then it asked me to login again (I have it on remember me) that should have been my first clue....
 

Being the power online shopper I figure, I will login and out again...nada....I have emailed but .....I should have written things down, I have no way of remembering what all I had in the cart, as some of them I moved from my wishlist to cart, others I found new stores from the sales page......OY...this is my sign to go back to bed.......I have little notebooks I made my coworkers that say websites to remember, I just never to remember to keep mine by my laptop....where is that superglue....

Grrrr....seriously????

I made it through last year's technology nightmare at work...ok fine last few years...I can survive this correct? I mentioned my personal laptop got water dripped on it....Well the keyboard is shot...So I ordered a new one...(keyboard not laptop) This laptop is my right arm, I use it all the time. When it was in my possession for one day....my dog knocked an entire can of pop on it...took it all apart ..it was fine..literally 3 drops of water and the keyboard bites the dust. I am lucky in that (remind me of this often) I have my work laptop at home ..If you noticed tonight I have posted several posts. I can't post on my own blog comments or any blogs for that matter! I have done all the fixes that I can find. So bear with me, I am using my Add this blogger button to post....I usually like to combine posts but I can't...I should get my new keyboard this week....But my work one leaves ALOT to be desired after having my personal one set up my way....I will be repeating this over and over...Technology is my friend ....LOL ....Talk to you soon ;)

Hadar...like these labels??? I have posted the following as my status on facebook several times "Is there a limit to how many times a day you can say seriously and grrrrrr to people or is it like the old weight watchers you can bank them for days like this ?" 

Linky Party Giveaway Winners!

Sorry this took so long...But the best laid plans of Mice and Men.....Just as I was beginning the draw...I knocked a little bit of my water on my laptop...no Biggie...ummm when I hit backspace I get=== instead..lovely...will fix that later....Now just because the winners have been drawn ....still go and check out the 69 new blogs listed and follow....
Without further Ado(click on pictures to see bigger)

Sunny Days

Heather hope these work out in your new classroom!

Tiffani hope you will enjoy these :)

Mary hope these will work in your adventures !

I found her blog at random, but hope her class learns lots with these:)

The whole purpose of this was to introduce some new bloggers, so I put in the numbers 1-69 for the new bloggers......

Now I find that my enter key is doing \'s off to figure this darn oop's out.....winner's contact me @ luvzenkm2 at gmail dot com.  I will respond(Or send one) in the morning or later if I solve my computer issues :) Thanks to all who entered...go check out all the new blogs :)