It is what it is

Home from an amazing weekend in Kalamazoo's WMU homecoming.  Broncos trounced  Miami of Ohio.  Friday night our best friend of 43  Tom Englert, retired CEO of Discount was honored as a Distinguished Alumni.  What an amazing night! So proud!  Saturday, we toured restored Heritage Hall on East Campus (formerly East Hall built in 1903, WMU's first building.  Tailgated, watched a victory in the President's Box (saw Michigan weather fully, sun, clouds, storm, downpour, back to sun!)  Had great digs at Kalamazoo's downtown Radisson, drove around our old stomping grounds, caught up with Tom & Cindy, reminisced with Rick Hyde and just celebrated and re-lived the last 43 years as best friends. Two wonderful weekends in a row.   Back to reality, full moon, school tomorrow and a Blue Apron waiting to be cooked.  It is what it is!

Woke up yesterday to a sore throat.  Plodded thru the day!  Finally caught up on papers, grades, bill paying, shopping and cleaning.   Spent today doing errands.  Andrew is home for a wedding this weekend and working from home and going to the Detroit office this week for his job.  Amanda is flying home with her dress and Delta was so kind to hang it (no idea where...on the wing?)  Andrew is sick, I am sick but we rock on.  Washed my ride, posted grades for progress reports (really 5 weeks already), floors are done, house is cleaned, shopping is mostly done and wedding is on its' way!  It is what it is whether we are ready or not. It will be a wild ride and I pray we will all be well, everyone flies in safely and I can keep track of it all and work two more days.

After teaching 7 classes today (our staff is down by 4 right now and we can't get subs, so we are all teaching on our prep time),  and we are all staying extra time to do the work we usually do on our preps.  Xeroxing, lesson planning, checking papers, grades, etc.  I bring this all home anyway and spend 1-2 hours every night working after working a full day.  That is after a piano lesson, making a dessert for tomorrow night's dinner party, cooking tonight's Blue Apron dinner and working through the lesson for my 4 math classes tomorrow as we have new books this year.  I am happy to report that the layer of dust is being removed one room at a time.   Poor Lucy has not had a walk in weeks, the pool is freezing cold and the wedding is in two weeks.  I have not had the time to look at a newspaper in over a week.  It is what it is and we are Back To School.