holy smokes!: December 2006 Archives

it's amazing how you get ready to go on vacation.  to be done with work and to finish up and be ready for a two week break that involves christmas, cancun and new year's.  and yet, our bodies decide to give out.

both t and i are fighting off colds or monkey sponge flu.  fyi, monkey sponge flu comes from improperly cooked chicken.  i have this snarfle in my throat and snot.  and thomas snortles and chortles and feels bad.  all of this means that he will be fully recovered by tomorrow and i will go down faster than a crooked boxer.

thomas getting sick is a bad thing.  me getting sick is worse because it upsets the tides of the universe and makes us all miserable.  although, spending days in bed never strikes me as a bad thing.  but my mom will lecture me on not taking vitamins, thomas will tell me i am a horrible patient, i won't be able to see friends, you my readers will somehow get a computer virus since we all know that once someone contracts monkey sponge flu, then it travels faster through the internet.

sneezy and wheezy live here.

do you know what you should be proud of?  well.  i'll tell you.  buying gifts well in advance.  we did that this year for one birthday and christmas.  we got a friend his birthday gift in august.  and it is an awesome gift for him.  i even showed it to his wife to get her approval. 

we got my mom a gift, some nice yard art, and we got my dad a lovely golfing shirt.  months, and i mean months in advance of christmas.

do you know what you should be ashamed of?  well.  i'll tell you that too.  you should be ashamed of losing those gifts somehow while moving into the new house.  we have absolutely no idea where they are.  i have searched every closet, every nook, every cranny, every inch of this house.  i have looked in every unpacked box three times over.  no gift.  and his birthday is tomorrow.  this sucks.

*wtf said backwards makes just as much sense, and is actually funny.  ftw!

it amazes me how at some point during the semester, i get to the point where i am done.  just plain done.  finished.  caput.

i reached that moment yesterday.  now.  i still have lots of work to do.  grading, tests to write, tests to grade, prep work for next semester, meetings, greetings and such.  but my mind ended yesterday.  i can think no more.

this is not bad considering i only have one day left of teaching, but what interests me is that i held off for so long.   i actually managed to finish the content of all of my courses, not break down and cry and still realize my students were amazing this semester.

but i am through.  my mind can do it no more.  i need a vacation.  i need to relax.  i need to do things at my pace and have lots of coffee in between.  through.