Not much news

I just noticed that today marks Blogger's eighth birthday. What? Who's had a blog for eight years? I'd like to meet that person.

Well, I have one more day to get some work done and then it's ready or not, here they come. I keep reminding myself that I couldn't possibly be less prepared than I was my first year of teaching, but it always seems like there is more stuff to do than time to do it in when it comes to teaching. My student load is pretty light this first semester and I have almost all juniors and seniors (literally one freshman and about 5 sophomores) so I think that will be really fun, since I'm used to teaching mostly the younger ones.

This week I've written 2 weeks worth of lesson plans for each of my classes (three preps), because if I plan too far ahead I'll inevitably get off track or forget to factor in an assembly or a day off or something. I've totally redone my classroom. It looks so cute now. I am in the process of working through some competencies to write a mini-grant to buy lots of brand new camera equipment, which the journalism department is in dire need of. I bought a nice leather chair at Office Depot today for my desk, which I never got around to doing the last two years of teaching, but it will be totally worth it. I've gone to lots of meetings and written lots of emails.

Also this week Chad has been working his tail off at the house. He's been doing all those little things that I guess people neglect when they know they are selling their house, or they just don't care about to begin with. Yesterday he taped the front living area so we could paint it, and it was ready to go by the time I got home. We completed the paint job last night, and the walls are now a deep midnight blue that matches a really pretty area rug that I got from mom last weekend. It looks really pretty and is a good contrast from the khaki on all the other walls in the kitchen and living area. We actually did it right this time and got the small cans of paint to check the color on the wall first. We went through two samples before we got to the color we finally settled on. Next up: stripping the wallpaper in the big bathroom and painting it the same blue color.

I guess that's about it for now. Not much interesting stuff. We are looking forward to having our first houseguests next weekend...Barbara and Chad's grandma are coming to visit for a couple of days.