The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Songbird76]

That does sounds like a lot of drama. We all are assigned a duty, like lunchroom, bus, morning hallway supervision, it is just the way it is. We are a small rural district so it is always all hands on deck. I like going on field trips with the kids, I don't balk at that at all. I do get annoyed that one colleague never goes on trips though. I wouldn't want to go on overnight trips as I don't like sharing rooms with people I'm not close to. And I don't feel comfortable sharing a room with kids.

Some people have told me to plan a Disney science field trip. No thanks! Disney is my escape from work!

When I was teaching, we rotated duties. Sometimes you'd have lunchroom duty, sometimes playground, sometimes bus duty. And teachers took their own kids on field trips. I subbed for a class once before I actually started my own position and there was a field trip to the planetarium that day, so I had to take the kids on the field trip. But I agree with you on overnights...no thank you!! But, our district had a policy that teachers could not share rooms with students. Our speech coach always had her own room. She pennied and taped us in our rooms. (you can stick a penny in the door crack that falls if the door is opened...you can't put it in from the inside and it's hard to get out without opening the door. So she could tell if we had been out of the room. She also put a piece of tape across the door and frame so when the door opened, the tape would be broken or it would peel off on one side, and you couldn't replace it from the inside. There was only one time that a couple of girls broke the rule because some boys from another school took the penny out of the door. The girls figured they could just get them to put the penny back in and the coach would never know...but she memorized how she put the penny in...which way it faced, etc. So she could still tell. If you HAVE to do overnights, I guess there are ways to ensure the kids behave. Those girls got kicked off the speech team.)

 

[Songbird76]

That's a lot of hours, doing various transportation. I hope your trip is everything you want it to be.

So far so good! I'm having a great time laughing at all the things I've forgotten about the US. We rented a car, and we were all worried about how the luggage would fit. Going to the airport in Amsterdam we had to enlist my brother-in-law and my parents-in-law to take us to the airport and both cars were stuffed with luggage...they each held one suitcase, one carry-on, and one laptop bag and a small backpack. So the car rental guy is trying to sell us on a bigger car...more power, more space, bla bla. Hubby says he wants to see if the luggage will fit first...if not, we'd be back in 10 minutes. We not only got BOTH suitcases AND both carryons AND both laptops AND both backpacks in the trunk, but we had enough room left over for the stuff we bought at target! (shampoo, soap, shaving stuff, etc) You could practically fit our whole car in the trunk of this rental!

 

[Songbird76]

Nephew is in a cast. Thankfully, it was a clean break, so they didn't have to set it or anything. They're hoping that he'll be in there until August and then be out.

As for my grandma, I'm not sure how she's doing. I know for myself, I thought I was good. After all, he was 99, he had not been doing great for about a year now, he was active physically until about age 97, mentally until the end, and he gave my grandma 25 happy years. I thought I was doing okay. Then I got to work yesterday and just wanted to cry all day, and nothing to do with work. So I wasn't doing as well as I thought. I'm wondering if the same is going on with her, that as long as she's busy, she's okay, but at some point, it will hit her hard. I've been texting her every day, though. I was going to call her today on my way home from work, but thanks to my phone (whole 'nother story; the microphone that the speakerphone uses is not working), I'll have to call her tomorrow.

I think it's harder AFTER the funeral. Leading up to it, you're busy, you have company, you can share stories with others who knew him....then after the funeral, everyone goes home, there's nothing more to do, and now you have to get used to that void and you actually have time to think about the loss without dealing with practicalities of funeral planning and such. It's bound to hit hard. But it's good that you talk to her every day...you can help each other get through the hard days. Thinking of you.

 

[Songbird76]

I posted this exact same thing to my Facebook, so apologies for the duplicate to those of you who are my Facebook friends (and to the others of you who aren't - why aren't you??)

So, in the impossible things happen every day department, before my health insurance ran out at ICM, I went and had every imaginable test done - blood, ekg, echo-cardiogram (if that's how you spell it) , the dreaded prostate, and several others. Today were my results. I was 100% certain that I was going to go in there and be told I had 17 kinds of cancer, polio, coronary artery disease, a heart that could collapse at any moment, a liver that they were unable to locate, and acne.

Imagine my total shock to find out that I am basically in perfect health. I was like, "errrrrrr......what?! Even the liver?" The doctor laughed and said there were no issues. Apparently he doesn't know about all my trips to wine country.

Anyway, it's all good news, so I guess it's time for a drink, or a drink around the world, like last year.

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Congratulations on the clean bill of health!!! What are you going to do now? (You're going to Disneyland!)

I sent you a facebook request, but feel free to ignore it if you want to. No pressure.

 

[MouseDreaming]

Time for me to flip over the Ham. Cooking early here. We appear to have an evil storm heading this way. Same one that forced an Emergency landing of an airplane from Chicago to Austin just a bit ago. Joy Joy

I was waiting all day to get clobbered. Never happened. Just some light rain. How did you do?

 

[Songbird76]

Yes, the pain does eventually go away (or, at least mine did). It's been over 25 years now, so I don't remember how long it took, but, it was long enough to remember that it was annoying for a little while, at least...!
On a positive "note" (you'll see what I did there ), I haven't ever felt any pain since in those two fingers after not playing the guitar for a while, and losing my calluses, then starting to play again...!!!

It does seem to be getting a bit better. I'm putting lotion on it a lot because the skin is really dry around where the scab was, and the stretching was making it itch and sting. We're getting there.

 

[MouseDreaming]

Losing someone close to you is a little bit like an earthquake; there's always the aftershocks, and you don't know when they'll appear. I recall years ago when I lost my mother, and I was bummed out for a while, but moved on--for the most part. One day, I was in the kitchen section of a department store, and saw some wooden spoons for sale. Nearly "lost it" right in the middle of the store and left. (You see, my mother always used wooden spoons to stir pudding in the pan, on the stove.) It's those little deja vu moments that sometimes pop up out of nowhere, but at least they occur less as time moves on. My sympathies to you.

I lost my mom 8 yrs ago, and it still hits me very unexpectedly, sometimes.

 

[Songbird76]

Believe it or not everything fits inside the car. Going down at least

I'm going to have to mail some stuff home. We went clothes shopping yesterday, so I think I'm going to mail home some of the clothes I brought along, and my dad got us some towels, so I'll mail those home, and maybe a few books. My librarian friend is going to get me into the library tomorrow because I'm missing the booksale by a few weeks, so I get to go tomorrow to buy books. I'll try to remember to have someone take a picture. I can't wait!!

 

[Songbird76]

Reminds me of my 9th grade science teacher. He always drummed into our heads: "The more you know, the more you know you don't know."

Yes, I've also heard the definition of an "expert" is "A person who learns more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing".

 

[Figgy1]

I tried to convince hubby we needed some of those, but he doesn't agree. I don't know where to get them anyway.

Walmart

 

[Songbird76]

Not sure what happened in the night, but I went to bed with DH by my side and woke up with him gone and my son lying crosswise over the bed using my hip as a pillow. Guess it's a good thing it's a king size bed or I'd have probably ended up on the floor. BUT, ds is usually an early riser...like...6 am, and he JUST woke up and it's 5 minutes to 9!!

 

[Songbird76]

Walmart

I should have known. We've only been there twice every day since we got here! The kids are in awe of Walmart.

 

[Figgy1]

I'm going to have to mail some stuff home. We went clothes shopping yesterday, so I think I'm going to mail home some of the clothes I brought along, and my dad got us some towels, so I'll mail those home, and maybe a few books. My librarian friend is going to get me into the library tomorrow because I'm missing the booksale by a few weeks, so I get to go tomorrow to buy books. I'll try to remember to have someone take a picture. I can't wait!!

I'm a bit upset about missing one of the book sales around here, but I'm not complaining I'll be in Florida!

 

[Figgy1]

Not sure what happened in the night, but I went to bed with DH by my side and woke up with him gone and my son lying crosswise over the bed using my hip as a pillow. Guess it's a good thing it's a king size bed or I'd have probably ended up on the floor. BUT, ds is usually an early riser...like...6 am, and he JUST woke up and it's 5 minutes to 9!!

How are you adjusting to the time difference?

 

[MOXOMUMD]

24 days until Friendship Day.

 

[Songbird76]

I'm a bit upset about missing one of the book sales around here, but I'm not complaining I'll be in Florida!

Well, we don't have them in the Netherlands, so it's nice to have connections here. It's a really small town, so everyone knows everyone and they are willing to help. Last time I came away with 62 books. I won't be able to do that this time, but I have several I want to look for.

 

[Songbird76]

How are you adjusting to the time difference?

It's not to bad coming this way. It's a lot worse going back. It usually only takes a couple of days to get into the swing of things coming this way, but it takes a couple of weeks going back. We're good for now, thanks!

 

[Figgy1]

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24 days until Friendship Day.

I want them!

 

[Figgy1]

It's not to bad coming this way. It's a lot worse going back. It usually only takes a couple of days to get into the swing of things coming this way, but it takes a couple of weeks going back. We're good for now, thanks!

Good luck with the change going to Disney. You may want to try and get up and go to sleep a bit early a few days before heading east.

 

[betty rose]

This thread is way more interesting than News & Rumors, or any of the other threads. People sure do like to take themselves seriously lol.

Welcome to our little world.