It is what it is

First full 5 day week since before Christmas between snow//ice days and math days.   LONG week. Washed windows outside in the back today.  My hands nearly froze but first time since November.   Went to my favorite market for vegetables and cheese after school....Westborn.  BEST market!    Two sets of math tests to correct tonight, taking all the St. Patrick's stuff down, time to do Easter decorations.....9 days until Spring Break..(school days)....it is what it is

Yes, I am a wee bit Irish or Scottish, not sure....McCurdy.   Busy day in math, came home to cook a full Irish corned beef, cabbage, red potato, carrot dinner.  All the extras.  Am ecstatic..... personal day that was taken from me that should have been a bereavement day was restored through a grievance.  Pays to read the contract.   Still have work to do...always....is there any "free time"?    It it what it is and it was a good good day!!!         If You're Lucky enough to be Irish....you're lucky enough!  

I walked in the door like I do every day saying "Lucy I'm Home".  As I rounded the corner loaded to the chin with books, bag, purse, coat, lunchbox etc. only to find the door to her crate in the family room wide open and no Lucy.  I nearly dropped everything in a panic.  Suddenly I heard a familiar "clink-clink" of her tags, only to turn around and see her at the gate to the dining room.  Lucy had been on the loose in the whole house since 8AM!  Someone, (NOT ME) had left her crate door open. She had been all over upstairs (I could see imprints in the beds and a wastebasket (thank goodness I empty them all on Sunday for garbage collection day on Mondays) overturned with stuff shredded in my bathroom.  No further damage (one time the cleaning people let her out and she ruined a couple sets of blinds) thank goodness.    No "mishaps" on anything I have found yet.  She probably enjoyed her day of freedom!!! It is What it is and it should not happ...

Only Thelma and Louise could have had a better adventure today than Rhonda and me. We only wanted to go to Mexican Village for dinner between school and conferences. I-75 was backed up so we wanted a different route so we would not be late. Well.........an hour later, we saw more of Detroit than I have seen living here for 30 years. So lost listening to "she who shall not be named" directions. I bet my principal can't wait until I retire. Rhonda and I laughed so hard re-calling our mis-adventure. How did you get downtown???? We don't know!!!!! Woodward is torn up for the "mass transit" so Siri is useless. We nearly took the bridge to Canada....I don't know who I want to call less...my boss or my husband. "I am lost......but at least I was not in Canadian jail.  It is what it is.   Recounting this we laughed so hard, we cried.   I needed that! Like  ·   ·  Share

Amanda was asked on Valentine's day. i flew in for my winter break on Monday (was suppose to be Sunday but my flight from DTW to Chicago was late so I would have missed my connection to LA. Last flight home so, Otto picked me up and I flew out on Monday. They met me at LAX. I totally missed "the ring". Turns out Bryce asked her on the beach at Santa Babara. Her ring is made up of a center stone Bryce chose and side stones from my mother's ring and my grandmother's ring!!! On Tuesday we went to "look" at dresses as no date was set but they wanted October this or next year. She found a dress with the 3rd one she tried on. She then picked her colors (fall) of green and brown and picked the perfect complementary dress in green,they decided on October 17, I called the church and the hall and booked both from California. We both flew to Chicago for the weekend for Hannah's Christening and she surprised the rest of her fa...

I don't know whether to think we were lucky or blessed.  After a random guy told us on the highway (as usual, LA traffic was stop and go),  we had no tail lights, we drove to a Ford dealership.  The check-in person said it was 100.00 to look at it, but the electrician was leaving.  We looked pathetic so he said he would check.  Turns out, it was a switch, they had the part and an hour later (and another 150.00) we were on our way.  Missed our afternoon plans but he said they almost never have parts in stock and 5 minutes later the electrician would have left for the day.  We didn't get a ticket, no one rear-ended the car and I think we had guardian angels today on this first day of Lent.  It is what it is!!!  

Only three short days to enjoy the sand, sun, and surf and this morning we don't have any of these!  It is rather hazy and in the 60's but will warm to 70 later today. What an ordeal to get here.  After sitting at the airport for 2 hours on Sunday, I learned my flight to Chicago would be so late I would miss the connection to LA and it was the last one of the night going out through American connections.  After a few well chosen words of anger, they offered to put me on a plane to Charlotte, NC in the morning and then to LA by about 4:30.  (Turns out there was a major weather issue along the east coast yesterday!)  Being the calm person I am I said "you can do better than that".  They sent me to the ticket counter where the agent did.  She got me a seat thru Dallas and I was in LA by 1:30 Monday afternoon.  What a pain to have to return home (close but still) and unpack for the night.  Anyway, just a couple snags here and there put me in LA ...