Seventy! Woo!

70 miles!

Count Your Blessings Tuesday

It has been a while!  I need to remind myself today what I am grateful for... sometimes you need to list it to know!

Today I am grateful for:

• health.  I just had T and C sick recently and I'm glad to have them back in good health. 
• creativity in planning.  I've been planning some pretty fun lessons.  I just wish my students weren't "too cool" to get excited. 
• actually learning something new in grad class last night.
• my snuggle bug of a kid.  He's like Jekyll and Hyde lately throwing epic tantrums but then he'll offset that with major snuggles.  
• In-laws that come to the rescue at the last minute. 
• a trip to Florida coming soon!

Family Drama on Facebook

Seriously... is this a new thing? Lately there have been highly personal topics posted for the world to see.  WHY?:

• My sister posted on my brother's wall that he shouldn't be spending money on going to the aquarium.  (I believe he may have asked her for money prior to this).  He then deleted her comment and de-friended them.  My sister proceeded to post a status directed at my brother.  Uh, hello.... he blocked you, can't see it!
• C's Aunt posted on my wall that when C and I first got married she didn't think it was going to last.  Uh, thanks?  Just today she posted on C's cousin's wall this whole long thing ranting about her in-laws (the cousin's grandparents) and how she's never going to talk to them again.  People, this is PUBLIC SPACE!
• My brother messaged me saying "Hey!  What would you say if I killed myself today?"... he sent that message while I was away. I  came back to find that and him offline.  What the hell?  I called my mom because I don't have a way to reach him and it worried me.  My mom said that was in poor taste and to ignore it.  

Have you seen stuff like this?  Is it just my fam?  

Anniversary Plans

March 25th will mark 5 years that C and I have been married.  When we got married we decided we would really celebrate 5, 10, 15, etc.  Well, what do I want to do to celebrate our five years?  I want to paint our shutters, door and weather proof our deck.  I know, romantic, right?  The in-laws are taking the beast so it would be the perfect time to work together and get our house looking nice.  I would rather spend money on paint than on an outing for ourselves.  Plus, five years is the "wood" anniversary... shutters and decks are wood! We will go out to a nice dinner after all our hard work but that's it.  When did I become so practical?

This is the color we'll be painting the shutters and door-- cranapple!

Three Cheers

My to-do list, ATTACKED!:  

• finish grading stuff
• post grades in two places and turn them in by Tues (did it MONDAY! TAKE THAT!)
• go to class Mon (finished lab before class ended again)
• do grad work assignment due Wed (yeah... I'll get that done tomorrow)
• work on prof. dev. presentation (at least I know what I'm doing)
• work out  (I've been a beast at this...doing full body workout for 20 min then following it up with a mile or two on the treadmill.  Woo)
• plan for classes (got an awesome web scavenger hunt planned!)
• cook up some meals (something's got to give...but the week is not over!  I do have some meals planned!)
• donate stuff (will prob. do it this weekend-- stuff is in the car though!)