Work Week 2 over ...

So ... still surviving being a worker and still being positive about the job ...

Loving the 'work' ... not finding the kids such a mission ... actually the only 'negative' part is the 'adults' (a.k.a teachers) .... especially those that think they are talking to 7 year olds all the time !!! Takes a bit of getting used to .. working with others again ... considering I have been 'self employed' for the past 10 years, also takes a lot of 'patience' having to 'follow instructions' from those who you can tell 'don't have a cooking clue' PMSL ... (that bottle of S.Y.M pills are being emptied fast LOL)

BUT one of the nicest aspects of the job is not knowing what the hell is going to be thrown at you from day to day .... not thrown in the literal sense ... every day is different ...and it never stops ... some days you don't even get the chance to get the office door open before a pile of work gets shoved in your hands ... TIME MANAGEMENT and FORWARD PLANNING .... what are those ... they don't exist ... well not in our school !!!

Slowly sorting out our 'home' lives too ... starting to get into a routine now ...meal times are still a bit later than I would like them to be .... but that's also cos of SON-shines hectic training schedule ... he does rugby training 3 nights a week ... 5-6pm ... so he finishes school at 2.45pm ... we're home by 3.15ish ... homework for about 2 hours !!!! (hello Gr9) finishing just in time to change and back out for practise ... for me it's home and cooking after 6pm (grrr) although mum is helping on SOME nights .... her excuse being she don't know how to cook the meals we 'want' ... (she's a stew cook ... her words not mine) we eat, dogs fed, kitchen cleaned and then I collapse comatose in front of the telly for about an hour, in bed by 9.30pm (well I'm up weekdays by 5.30am) .... incredibly exciting life eh???

TG at the moment weekends are slow ... this am SON-shine tells me weekends are boring ... I'm making the most of them cos as from end of Feb right thru to end July I just know they too will be packed full of busy-ness.

Booked my next workshop day for the ladies .... Saturday 25th February ... going to be making a mini book, a 12x12 scrapbook page or 4-6x6 pages and an off the page project ... the chipboard clipboard we made in the classes UK side ... finally found the XL chipboard tags ... so I have to start working on my samples for that .... do you think I can find any of my samples from previous workshops .... NO !!!.... wish I could find my chalk inks too .... have EVERYBODY begging .... no DEMANDING that I find those next !!!! Well now I only have weekends in which to go 'hunting' in the garage ....

My THURSDAY ladies also want to book a class with me too ... and Adele is going to take some stock to them for me .... bless the old biddies .... they still working hard on the last lot of techniques I taught them ...

K & I went to the optician this week ... no he doesn't need glasses which he is thrilled about ... he's had a bad eye for the last 2 months (on and off) and then during the holidays he was telling me that his vision was a bit blurred in that eye .... figured maybe it was time to see a specialist ... well it's nothing serious ... he's just got a bit of a 'rare' infection in the upper eye lash follicles .... the Doc did give me the technical name but hey if you can't spell it you can't use it LOL ... me well that's a different story ... now I need glasses for reading too ... not just for long sightedness now but also a bit of short sightedness too .... oh well the joys of getting old :-)

And finally the weather has been playing nicely this week too ... been warm & sunny all week .... not toooooo hot ... temps averaging around 27-30'c ... with a bit of rain in the evening to cool everything down ... I LOVE this time of the year :-)