Big Weekend ahead

This is a huge weekend in my town for school kids/parents. It's TEAM Wrestling finals. If/When we win, we will have taken home the title of STATE TEAM CHAMPS FOUR YEARS IN A ROW!! Football is still king but wrestling is holding its own in our town! PROUD! Also, Middle school Science Olympiad teams will be on the road for an overnighter tournament. My son is included in this group!! GO GEEKY TIGERS! Also, our Competitve Cheer team has made it to Regionals! Our bowlers have a big tourney this weekend too! And it is the start of Basketball districts. So to say I'm a little excited to sport some ORANGE and BLACK is an understatement! It's no secret that I am a HUGE SUPPORTER of our school system/students. Tiger Pride runs deep! We have a saying here: Once a Tiger, Always a Tiger. I truly believe it. I don't know how it happens or why but it gets in your blood and stays. I can't imagine my boys ever attending any other district. We are not perfect here but we do the best we can with what we have. Attitude is where it's at! GO TIGERS!!

Playing hooky

I'm going to skip out on a Parent Group meeting tonight to attend another schools fundraiser event. I feel very guilty about doing it but I really want to do this event. So I'm going to do something out of the ordinary and do something for MYSELF for once. I talked to the other officers and they know where I stand on a couple things we are going to vote on tonight and the rest will just have to be what it is. The world will continue to rotate and I will keep breathing. But at the same time it just feels wrong.

Things have been weird for me lately. I personally am fine but friends around me are havig tough times. More than one of them too. So I struggle with what to say or do for them. I guess the best I can do is let them know I am here for them and secretly be thankful it's not me for once. I'm sure having said that, it will come back to haunt me. I'll be ready just in case! LOL

This weekend is super busy. We have an overnight trip for Science Olympiad for my oldest. Then the following weekend I will be in Detroit for wrestling (individuals) state finals. I was asked by one of local papers to cover it. So I get to use my pass and get on the floor! I'll be right back at home with many of the boys that I know from football season. Should be interesting. I'm not as nut-so over wrestling as I am football but I do enjoy it. It helps knowing a lot of the boys personally too.

Wish me luck tonight at the auction/raffle! I hope I win something or find a good bargin! Either way, I'm looking forward to time with adults not children or teens!

I'm Busy!

After the week I just had, I've come to realise that I am also very BUSY! It seems like every TINY little project I pick up becomes something massive. Now I have to ask, does it become massive on it's own or do I make it massive? I'm known for going above and beyond in most everything I do. So do I do it to myself to live up to the expectations that I put on myself or does it just simple happen? LOL

I'm totally speaking very light heartedly about this matter but I believe on some level it really does mean something. Last year was our first year with PopOGrams at our middle school for a small valentine's day fundraiser. We sold just over a 100 cans. This year we are at 208. So I can't help but laugh about it. Is it because I decided this year to do more flavors and new labels? Or did I just advertise better? Or what?! Another example: At our Daddy Daughter Dance, I take the pics for our group for free and a local print shop sells us them at cost. We in turn sell a package for $10. Last year we sold 45-ish packages and this year we sold 75ish....see....what used to be a small project has magnified. WHY?! Again, I ask light heartedly but I still have to wonder.

I've got the answer. Wanna hear it? It's cause I'm that cool and they know it! PEACE OUT! LOL hahahahahahahaha

I'm Boring

I have come to realize I have an extremely BORING LIFE. This is a recap of my weekend.

Friday night, sat home and counted box tops. Labled the baggies, charted the classroom progress, and pitched the unsual stuff that people THINK are box tops apparently. I do not need old candy wrappers, thanks though!

Saturday, sat in the bleachers watching wrestling, BY MYSELF. I needed some alone time so it was a good thing. Sometimes I get tired of trying to carry on small talk with people who really don't know me. There I said it. Then I came home and sat for about 3 hours curling ribbons for the Middle School Pop-O-grams. To date, I have curled 162 sets of ribbons. Yes, I know I could ask for help and people have offered to help, but let's face it. I don't have time figure out what works best in their schedule and mine so it's just a whole lot easier to do it myself on my own time when I have the time.

Sunday, finished up the lables for the pop-o-grams and worked on finishing touches for Mother-Son dance and Dr. Seuss Box Top party. While watching the superbowl, that is. I'm very good at multi-tasking. I also cleaned out my van, took the monthly baby pictures of Baby Abby, cleaned up dog poop in the yard (well, fine, watched Josh clean up dog poop). The weather was amazing yesterday! I'm ready for spring.

I feel like I really want to take a break. But here's the kicker...I have vacation days to use at work but alas, I can not find a sub to work for me while I take off, so...I have to WORK.
And that leads me to my last gripe...I seriously HATE when people take advantage of me. HATE IT. Just because you know I will do it, you think its ok to do things without asking me that affect my life. WRONG...it's not ok. It's rude and disrespectful. Just ask! You have to know darn well I will more than likely move around my schedule because I always do but dang it....do NOT ASSUME. whew...that feels good to get that off my chest.