So I fell on my way into work today. I am now in an air cast and on crutches. This is not fun and I hope that I feel better tomorrow.
What I have learned today:
It is silly to take home so much work that you have to drop your work off at a closer door. This would be the steps that I fell on.
I have no coordination and the crutches are hard... I have fallen with them twice.
The ability to get from one place to the other with no help and two legs is way under rated.
Going to the bathroom with one bad leg sucks.....
I am so right handed and right footed it is scary... note to self, try to use my left side of my body more..
My left knee is scraped up just like when I was a kid and fell off my bike.
My family is the best. Jeff left work to take me to the dr. Robyn helped with my bathroom issues and asked her sorority to say prayers for me. Allison and Brody called and my mom let me know that I will be okay soon. You are all the best. Dad, I know how hard it is now to let people try to help you.
I get to go back to work tomorrow and it will be interesting as to how this will go... A rolly chair and I will be good. I missed my class today and I will not be wearing heeled shoes for a while.... Flats rock.
Jeff and I
Twenty-Eight Years
Monday, January 31, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Everyday is so daily
I know what you are thinking, this lady writes about the strangest things. Must be my brain. I am home today after my cute little kiddos gave me the gift that keeps on giving. The stomach bug.
After sleeping all day, I am finally upright and feeling better, just do not mention food.
Anyhow, on to the blog.
As a first grade teacher, I seem to forget how everyday is so daily. We do the calendar, we count to 100 we talk about the first word of a sentence starts with a capital.etc. Everyday. And yet, some still do not process this. As I beat my head against the wall, it comes to me that, it has taken me 46 years to feel comfortable with writing and I still make mistakes in grammar so what am I so frustrated about. These kiddos go home to no food, water or heat and I am upset cause they can't write a sentence correctly. Relax...
Being home today, I looked at the buckets of laundry that are still awaiting my attention, the floor that needs to be vacuumed and the dishes in the sink, on a daily basis all is not complete, it is a work in progress. So I am going to view my class as the next great master piece, but the unfinished kind...... A work in progress
After sleeping all day, I am finally upright and feeling better, just do not mention food.
Anyhow, on to the blog.
As a first grade teacher, I seem to forget how everyday is so daily. We do the calendar, we count to 100 we talk about the first word of a sentence starts with a capital.etc. Everyday. And yet, some still do not process this. As I beat my head against the wall, it comes to me that, it has taken me 46 years to feel comfortable with writing and I still make mistakes in grammar so what am I so frustrated about. These kiddos go home to no food, water or heat and I am upset cause they can't write a sentence correctly. Relax...
Being home today, I looked at the buckets of laundry that are still awaiting my attention, the floor that needs to be vacuumed and the dishes in the sink, on a daily basis all is not complete, it is a work in progress. So I am going to view my class as the next great master piece, but the unfinished kind...... A work in progress
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Our World
When I was a child I remember riding my bike to the local circle K and it was not just down the street. I remember going around the neighborhood trick or treating and knocking on doors of people that I did not know. I remember selling girl scout cookies to the neighbors. I remember knowing my neighbors.
Our World has changed and not for the better.
Yesterday dozens of people were injured or killed because they were at the grocery store in AZ and listening to a congresswoman who was supposed to be listening to them. I am sick. This is a crazy world.
I teach children that go home to houses with no heat, no water, no lights, and crack and other drugs on the tables. I teach children that know where to go to get beer, and lord knows what else, but can't make me a list of restaurants, cause they never eat out.
I teach kids that know who lives in the projects and who needs to go to get locked up and where to go to get money to get people out of jail. I do not even know that.
Poverty is here in our country. Poverty is breeding these awful situations. We are not holding people accountable for their lives.
Let's not give the homeless guy with a great voice the celebrity time. Let us see that he has not been the best of people and make him work for the money. There are some ten of his offspring that are owed some child support. Or should I say the women in his life have taken care of his children.'
Let's make our world one we are proud of. I am always reminded of the story in the bible of the fish. If you give a man the fish he will eat for a day. If your teach him to fish he will eat for a lifetime.
Let's Teach..........
Peace
Our World has changed and not for the better.
Yesterday dozens of people were injured or killed because they were at the grocery store in AZ and listening to a congresswoman who was supposed to be listening to them. I am sick. This is a crazy world.
I teach children that go home to houses with no heat, no water, no lights, and crack and other drugs on the tables. I teach children that know where to go to get beer, and lord knows what else, but can't make me a list of restaurants, cause they never eat out.
I teach kids that know who lives in the projects and who needs to go to get locked up and where to go to get money to get people out of jail. I do not even know that.
Poverty is here in our country. Poverty is breeding these awful situations. We are not holding people accountable for their lives.
Let's not give the homeless guy with a great voice the celebrity time. Let us see that he has not been the best of people and make him work for the money. There are some ten of his offspring that are owed some child support. Or should I say the women in his life have taken care of his children.'
Let's make our world one we are proud of. I am always reminded of the story in the bible of the fish. If you give a man the fish he will eat for a day. If your teach him to fish he will eat for a lifetime.
Let's Teach..........
Peace
Sunday, January 2, 2011
New Year New Me Yeah, right
So I started my new year with a brisk walk this morning with my dog. We came home from Christmas and the dog seems to have gained a few pounds. I have too but that is not the issue. She is noticably heavier and so I decided that we should explore our new neighborhood. Our walk down the 11th hole behind our house gave me some new insight: there is a sand trap on the left side just down from the house next door. No wonder all the people that tee off try to come to the right and land in my backyard. Oh, found 2 golf balls on the way to the garage from the backyard.
So feeling refreshed "it was chilly". I decided to tackle the on line lesson plans. This is at about 9am. At about 2pm I finally had everything done to a level of competency that I could submit. This is only due to the fact that Jeff came in and helped me like 40 times. His comment was I should take a windows class. My comment was, I spent 4 hours the other day writing all these plans down and not once did I get frustrated with my pencil....... Now I have to retype them all again and it has taken 4 hour to figure out how to put Monday in vertically on the page.
I want to be a new me, I want to move to the computer age, I want to be a size 2 but I really do not think that any of this will happen.
Perspective: I like doing my work on paper with a pencil and that is that.
I will have to save what we did today so I can copy it for the next 19 weeks.
Perspective: The walk was good. I will continue this and hope to see a reduction in my size and mocha's.
Not a size 2 but a healthier body and one that fits into all the current clothes in my closet.
Off to work tomorrow. Love to all
So feeling refreshed "it was chilly". I decided to tackle the on line lesson plans. This is at about 9am. At about 2pm I finally had everything done to a level of competency that I could submit. This is only due to the fact that Jeff came in and helped me like 40 times. His comment was I should take a windows class. My comment was, I spent 4 hours the other day writing all these plans down and not once did I get frustrated with my pencil....... Now I have to retype them all again and it has taken 4 hour to figure out how to put Monday in vertically on the page.
I want to be a new me, I want to move to the computer age, I want to be a size 2 but I really do not think that any of this will happen.
Perspective: I like doing my work on paper with a pencil and that is that.
I will have to save what we did today so I can copy it for the next 19 weeks.
Perspective: The walk was good. I will continue this and hope to see a reduction in my size and mocha's.
Not a size 2 but a healthier body and one that fits into all the current clothes in my closet.
Off to work tomorrow. Love to all
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