Projects

It is hard for me to realize that in 2 weeks...TWO WEEKS my son will be getting married.
I have to tailor his suit pants yet...alter Bethany's dress...perhaps alter mine.

I was not really thrilled with the dress I got so I found another one to order.  I am waiting for its arrival.  It will be here by next Wednesday.  I also ordered a different pair of shoes.  By the time I get the second dress and second pair of shoes I will know which one gets kept and which one gets returned.  Cutting it close but that is the way everything has been going.

I had to do a lot of work to straighten out the mess created by changing home owner's insurance.  But, it is taken care of now.  Took 2 weeks but it is done.

I FINALLY got the document I need from the mortgage company to prove to the IRS that I don't owe them anymore money.  It is my fault in the first place because the one I had when I filed is missing.  I don't know how or where it went because I keep everything together in folders but this time this ONE document was missing from the folder.  It took me 3 weeks, 4 emails and 4 calls to get the thing.  I was kinda irked by the 3rd phone call but I was a controlled pleasant.

I drove 169 miles and almost 3 hours Monday night to the convention center for the beginning of school meetings.  Tuesday late afternoon I left and drove 169 miles and almost 3 hours back home because back in March I had bought tickets for a Goo Goo Dolls/Collective Soul/Tribe Society concert that Bethany wanted to go to with me.  In June the powers that be announced that we would have our school meetings at the beginning of August instead of the end...and the concert date was in the middle of it.  Oh well.

So, after the concert, I drove home with Bethany (it was a 15 minute drive), was in bed at 12:30 a.m, got up at 4:30, got ready and drove almost 3 hours back to the convention ctr for another day of meetings that turned out to be a lot of thumb twiddling.  After 7 hours of that, I drove almost 3 hours back home.  Yay.  And then I had to listen to Troy yap on the phone for about 40 minutes.  I kept trying to get off the phone and he kept saying, "Wait!" and he would talk some more.  Finally I heard Bethany come home from work and I told him, "your daughter's home from work.  I'll let you talk to her."  and there was the hand off.

He told me he was going to call the next night to 'discuss' when he would be here for the wedding, etc.  I did not know why because he could more easily send me a text or email.  BUT he never called.  I know what day he is planning on showing up...that's all I need to know.

Thursday was the real work day...the real first day of work.  I ended up working an hour longer than I should have.  Not a good start.

Friday...today...it was a 2 hour long cyber meeting and by the time we were done, it was as clear as mud.  There are two different groups of kids that we are split up to deal with.  She was trying to address everyone at once.

Here is what I do know...by the end of the day, I found out which copy of which email to send out to the students and their learning coaches...so I did.  I have my notes on each student ready...all tucked away in the pages of my One Note digital notebook.  Come Monday there will be a lot of phone calls, discussion, training the parents and students.  Lonnie and I get to 'babysit' the students that ended the school year badly but have returned. We have to make sure they all (and their parents) get started off on the right foot and know how to not get tossed out.  The State is ripping charter schools apart and we are ruling with an iron fist.

Tomorrow morning is supposed to be fairly cooler for a while so I AM going to finish the paver patio so I can be done with it.  The patio will be done, the firepit set, Then I don't have to keep looking at an unfinished project.

My kitchen is not finished.  It needs new cupboard pulls and the baseboards I have to finish repainting.

The main bathroom still needs the new timer switch wired in.  Then that is done.

The livingroom needs one more coat of paint on one of the walls.  The baseboards need repainted.   The window treatments need hung.  Pictures on the walls.

Then those projects are COMPLETE.

When fall gets cooler I have gutters to paint.  I just MIGHT use the paint sprayer.  It is a lot of work but it needs to be done.

I will be starting classes after the wedding.  I would love to veg but that is not going to happen.  I have to prepare myself for a better paying teaching job after Bethany is out of college and ready to move somewhere else.  I will sell the house and move closer to family and friends.  And I should be able to pick up an Intervention Specialist job somewhere around there.  It will be difficult to move with 3 dogs.

I will cross the bridges when I get to them.  I will figure it out when I have to.