Share your weekend report

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Share your weekend report
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Mon, 04-07-2008 - 9:24am

Whatcha do for the weekend? Clean the house? Hang out with your SO? Play with the kids? Go out? Share the story!! It is always fun to hear what everyone does on their weekend.

As for me - we completed the science fair project that is due today. Cleaned the whole house - including closets and drawers. Ran with the dogs, rode my bike, answered emails from match. Got caught up at work and taxes done. Phew!

I leave on Wednesday for the big race next weekend. Can't believe it is here!! WOOHOO!

Am writing to 4 guys - one is away but should be back when I am back from my trip. One is sort of close and just wrote from match, one was writing and calling but has flaked out a second time and a fourth one just wrote through EH.

On an aside, I did get some professional modeling shots - am going to use them online and for some 40+ woman modeling jobs that are here - like the fit soccer mom kind of thing. Figured it can help pay for the pix and is fun to get me out of the house and doing something different. Plus the makeup artist taught me a lot about how to do my makeup very simply and lightly but very effectively. And she gave me helpful tips on my hair.

I learned just to use shadows - not any colors - and to use more of a bronze color that brings out my blue eyes. And the way she did the shadow for my eyes and eyelashes are like wow! Plus we used a very neutral lip gloss. No pinky stuff.

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Mon, 04-07-2008 - 9:42am

Cleaning the whole house, including closets and drawers.... I don't think we could do that HERE in just one weekend's time!!!!!!! I need to do that too- but it will take more time than that!


The only cleaning I got this weekend was the bathroom floors/rugs and one other load of laundry.


Saturday the kids went to my Dad's house so I could go on a date with Hiker. We went to eat and then to an arena football game. We have a minor-league arena team here and we'd never seen any of the games, so thought we'd give it a try! It was fun and interesting- but I think I will always be an NFL girl (Hiker will be an NFL guy, too) because that field just looked TOO tiny! It was odd! But still- it was fun to watch. Especially the crashes that send the players flipping over the outer walls. LOL


But it was a super fun time, just being with Hiker for the evening! It doesn't matter what we do or where we go. :-)


Sunday the kids went BACK to my Dad's again... so I could do a study session for the nursing students for my work. They have their 3rd exam this morning! So that went well... and then the kids and I went to dinner with Dad for Sunday evening.


Not a huge weekend, but a nice one with a variety of things going on.


Good luck with your race, Judy!


~shrimpy

"A man who wants something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse." ~Stephen Dolley Jr.

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Mon, 04-07-2008 - 10:21am

Shrimpy,

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Mon, 04-07-2008 - 11:00am

I'm not actually teaching, as in FACULTY... so I couldn't tell you if I like teaching nursing school. But I do enjoy doing the study sessions (they're more like mini-lectures without having to deal with the research and grading process of the instructors- lol) and helping the students with getting those light-bulbs to come on.


People have asked me if I'd want to get my masters and become an instructor, but I'm not sure if that's something I'd want to do. I kinda like the hands-on aspect of nursing more... although I am enjoying my job right now, too. It just fits well with the kids' school schedules- which is why I am latching on to this right now! (I'm off all summer when the kids are off, too)


~shrimpy, who is a lazy-@ss here, compared to the fitness buffs of West and isys!!!!! (running that much is NOT in my book!! lol)

~shrimpy

"A man who wants something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse." ~Stephen Dolley Jr.

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Mon, 04-07-2008 - 11:47am

This weekend was super busy for me and on Friday (half day for my son' school) at lunch my son announced that he wanted to stay with us this weekend and not go to his Dad's house because he "wanted a weekend without stress" SYB left the table to give me some room to investigate what that meant but we got nowhere and I think he still might come up with something but I just called his Dad left a message with the quote on it and said I would either keep him and honor his request or back my X up on wanting his visitation - his choice. Of course he opted to just let me have him and I explained to my son that even though that was what he said he wanted, this weekend was full of teaching rehearsals and concerts and that he would need to happily tag along. So he did exactly that and he had a great time. For me it is always a bit more exhausting to have him during final rehearsal and concerts because some of my attention is split in half then even though he is nine - I am always aware of him and trying to make sure he is gettign what he needs. But the rehearsals and concert went well and I managed to get in 12 hours of teaching between Friday and Sunday around the events. For family fun we managed to get a new hamster cage and supplies and build a really cool hamster habitat for the hamster SYB's sister LEFT ON THE PORCH. DS was only too happy to re adopt Baxter but still, what a weirdo to leave a poor animal on a porch stoop. Anyhow, we have done a kind of hamster extreme makeover and we had fun - now there is the rehabilitating to do since he is a biter and hasnt been handled enough but the good news is that he allowed me to hold him for a minute yesterday and when I rubbed his little head, he purred!!:)
SYB had improv acting classes this weekend so he was super happy and we BOTH got to do performing this weekend!

Still dealing with ridiculous politics with the Suzuki people who are excluding my youngest prodigy students ON PURPOSE for next week's festival. I am currently trying to research the law to see if they can even do some of what they are doing. They are defensive of course and utterly annoying. I have several catty messages now from the coordinator and I am sure my name is mud to them and I am also sure I dont care. They are so anti Suzuki it makes me want to throw up. I might write a separate post about this.

Politics abound in other areas too. Issues with area youth conductors holding reseating auditions with my students without notice. It has been nervewracking because I try and advocate for my students or their parents in email to these officials and then when they respond they are clearly CC ing everybody in creation about it so my name is all around! I am very careful what I write and I dont regret any of it currently but it just makes me nervous to see where it ends up getting to after the fact, you know?

Also, the bandoneon soloist ( yes, the bandoneon soloist) who performed with me and the symphony on Sat was being a divo and made iour work environment hell and intimated he thought the conductor and I musthave something going on since I was soloing with them so much. He and his wife were so warm and kind to me last year when we first met but I guess it is clear for the moment that the conductor favors me in the amount of solos I have and now he wont even look me in the eye. Working in rehearsal and performance right next to him was grueling and I would rather not do it again even though the concert was a huge success. I hate stupid stuff like that in the work environment. After all , I was only playing what I was told to play - no need to be rude to me about it!!

So that was my weekend. I hope this week is less stressful. We shall see!! No concerts this next weekend. Just rehearsals and regular teaching and practicing so already it seems it will be better.
West has reminded me that I need to finish DS's science project with him - DROOL VS BACTERIA. Yuck:) Monty has a key role in the project as you might guess!!

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Mon, 04-07-2008 - 12:57pm

I'm the same as you Shrimpy.

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Mon, 04-07-2008 - 2:17pm

I don't have a lot of time so this'll be quick!

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Mon, 04-07-2008 - 2:25pm

Friday night I took DD15 and her BFF to see/hear Taylor Swift and Rascal Flatts.

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Mon, 04-07-2008 - 2:31pm
I sucked up about 32 gallons of water out of my utility room on Saturday ( hooray for shop/vacs!) and did laundry Sunday. In between these two chores, I ended up being a total book wh**e this weekend and read "Lisey's Story" by Stephen King. It was a great read.
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Mon, 04-07-2008 - 3:09pm

I had a nice, quiet weekend.


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Mon, 04-07-2008 - 3:28pm

Well - I don't work on Friday's so I did a few errand's (had the oil changed in my car, a quick doctor's appt etc.), did

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