Well, it doesn't feel like Friday

More rain and cold. I was thinking that I might rather have snow and just cold than this crappy, wet, miserable stuff we have been getting.

Friday has rushed upon me quickly this week. I think it has been because it has been such a busy week. Yesterday was a day full of meetings and office work. Nancy had to go with her mom to the hospital yesterday for some testing.

I have zero plans this weekend but the kids have plans. Drew is going to the movies tonight and then the school play tomorrow night. Jess is going to the school play tonight and she has a basketball scrimmage/round robing tournament in Des Moines tomorrow. Saturday night she is going out with friends.

I contacted the University of Nebraska to get information from them on the track program. They seemed very interested in Jess and are sending her a packet and want me to send a video. She received a big packet from K-State this week and has been getting a bunch of emails from the head coach at the University of Northern Iowa.

The economy is going to hit the district pretty hard next year. The state has notified the districts that this year we are safe from additional cuts but next year we will be hit hard. We are looking at possible staff cuts. There is the potential to have a $300,000 deficit or more heading into the next fiscal year.

It is getting to the end of my teaching for the term. I have 3 Tuesday classes left and 4 Monday classes left. It will be good to get them done. I look forward to teaching again next term but I really need to re-organize prior to the sessions starting up.

Ok, off to start the day and push to the weekend.

Without peanut butter and jelly I would die

Still cold and rainy but still now snow.

Class went pretty well last night. I didn't get out of there until about 9:30 so it was a little later than usual. I gave a test at the end of class and it took some of them an hour to complete.

I am hoping it doesn't get slick on the roads tonight. We are supposed to get rain most of the day and the temp is just hovering around freezing. Last night I checked the temp at 8:30 pm and it was 33. The high for the day was 34.

Jess had a hard basketball practice last night. I think it went until 6:30. I haven't talked to her yet but Drew said she was complaining about her legs being like rubber.

Drew is having a little trouble with spelling words. He is just not intuitive when it comes to that. I told him to bring his words home so we can work on them at night. They test every Friday. He said I should remind him to bring them home. My response to that was to explain to him that in a few months he will have a learners permit to drive a car. If he can't handle the simple task of remembering to bring his spelling words home, I am not sure how comfortable I am letting him get behind the wheel. I am pretty sure the spelling list will be here tomorrow. lol

Gas was as low as 1.70 here but it shot up to $1.89 overnight.

Oh! Jess was selected First team All-Conference for volleyball. They had the awards ceremony last night and the coach announced it. It is a big honor because we have one of the toughest if not the toughest conferences in the state for volleyball. For her to make 1st team when our team wasn't that competitive is a very good thing for her.

I also forgot to mention that she got tested for her vertical jump the other day and she has a 25 inch vertical. She can jump up and touch 9 feet 8 inches. The best in the school for girls.

I have no idea what is on my agenda today. I haven't checked it and really don't want to know.

Off to start.

Life just doesn't slow down

The weather is very cold and it seems like it going to be like this for awhile. At least we aren't getting any snow.

Jess had her volleyball tryouts yesterday. She was going to try-out for two or three teams. She wanted to play with the same girls she played with last year so they weren't sure if they would all make the same team so it was a wait and see thing.

They all tried out for the same team that they played on last year which has new coaches and management, so that it where the concern came in. They all made the team so she didn't even try-out anywhere else. I took her out to eat instead. We will sign the contract this week and take it back next weekend. A couple of the other girls also tried out for another team but they all want to play for Sports University again. I guess we will see how it turns out.

I was glad she made the Sports University team again. We have all the gear so it saves money.

The other good news is we will be in Omaha again for the tournament so tell Jenny and Angie.

Drew went to the Drake football game this weekend. The school took the entire middle school football team. The tickets were free. It was cold with flurries so even though they had fun, it was a cold mother.

Since we had volleyball tryouts Sunday, I reserved the high school gym for practice. There were three girls that were going to come but it was open to anyone trying out for teams Sunday. We go to get setup and the high school basketball coach was in there getting setup for a middle school practice. Jess was freaked out a bit. Not only did I have to kick him out of the gym but had to tell him it was for a volleyball warm-up for girls trying out for club volleyball.

Basketball practice starts today. We will see if he is grouchy with Jess. What are the odds. 9:00 am on a Saturday morning.

Not much going on with me. Just teaching and working.

Off to start the routine.