One Of These Days.

One of these days I hope to catch up on my marking. And maybe have some semblance of a life on top of school?

At the very least, I hope to catch up enough on Doctor Who to watch the 50th anniversary special I got my parents to pvr for me. 

Until then, this little guy is going to watch me do my marking.

"Educate! Evaluate!"

Adulthood.

Being an adult is weird.

It sneaks up on you, and pounces when you least expect it.

I have been feeling like an adult a lot lately... buying a condo didn't do it. Paying taxes doesn't do it.

My weird brushes with adulthood correspond to doing things I never saw myself doing when I was younger... like cleaning the humidifier... replacing the batteries in the smoke detector... troubleshooting the short in my Christmas lights... removing hard water deposits from the sink...

Weird.

Celebration.

Today we are having a party to celebrate my mom's 60th birthday! The actual day isn't until December, but it's hard to do birthday  things when Christmas festivities loom over the whole month.

Put up Christmas lights in my classroom yesterday. Took down Christmas lights on my patio (need to buy new ones that work... grumble grumble...). The huge dump of snow I shoveled off the porch is making me feel festive!

Winter.

Lovely weather we've been having lately. This is Monday's view as I left school.

Happy to be back from the break, but it makes it so hard to get into a routine! Not much time between now and Christmas break to get everything done that needs to be done! Urk. 

Volleyball.

Good end to a week off. More visits with friends, house cleaning, making cupcakes for my favorite little man's 4th birthday party, and working volleyball finals. Would have been better if my boys had won... Ah well. They played like champs, and get to go to provincials anyways, but a banner would have been awesome for them.  

I have a house guest coming to stay next weekend, since my mom is going to be celebrating a big birthday, so I actually put a decent weight comforter on my spare bed (since it got cold this week). The only extra quilt I have is this Snow White one from when I was little. 

I have to conclude this break in the pattern was intentional...

Dresses.

Wedding dress shopping for Dom today was a total success! We went to Novelle, which is a boutique some of my other friends had recommended, and had a fabulous experience. Much better than our last experience. Plus, Dom is gonna look like a superstar!!! Such a pretty dress. We also got our bridesmaid dresses all sorted out, which made for a long, but awesome, bridal party shopping trip.

Today marks the end of my self-imposed challenge to blog every day for a month. Didn't always get it done (curse things like weddings getting in the way), but overall I enjoyed it. I forced myself to look at what I did everyday, and even though I couldn't always blog about it, it got me thinking more about how I spend my time. And was a much more easy way of journaling than I used to do. 

I think for the next month I will try to keep to a Tuesday/Thursday/Sunday schedule, or something similar. 

Wings.

Easy day today. Ran some errands. Did some (read: not enough) marking. Watched some volleyball. Went out for wings.

Saw this pretty, pre-rain sunrise.

Tomorrow is the last day of my self imposed challenge to blog every day for a month. I have to say I don't think I've done too badly. Clearly, some days in my life are more interesting than others. 

And just in case you didn't know... Hallmark has you covered. 

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Lights.

Having time off is great. I have gotten so much done over the past few days. Since the weather was so lovely, I put my Christmas lights up on my deck!

Done a bunch of cooking, cleaning, shopping (birthdays and Christmas coming up!) and visiting over the past few days. 

Bought a math teacher friend some magnetic poetry as a Christmas gift... Found this typo excellently placed inside... Algorhythm? Really?

Heroes.

Lunenberg, NS.

The Highway of Heroes is a piece of Highway 401 in Ontario that stretches from CFB Trenton to Toronto. It is the final route taken by fallen servicemen and women.

Never, never forget. 

Cabot Trail, NS.

Book Page Flowers.

(This post was supposed to go up earlier, but I didn't take the pictures off my camera until late, as I had to deal with a gross humidifier incident... ahhhhh. Homeownership.)

Spent yesterday at the most adorable wedding ever. K & R had a nice little ceremony at the Petroleum Club, and a great reception at a cute little brewery downtown. I love when a wedding just fits the couple so well. This wedding was full of geeky touches and decor that just worked so well. My favorite was the abundance of book page flowers made out of comic books! So adorable.

I have made book page flowers before, but never this many. And I love the colors you get!

Since its the start of my week off, and kinda snowy and cold, I did a bit of winter decorating today. Not Christmas decorations, mind, just winter. Snowmen and things like that. And since my front door is a piece of art in and of itself... where else can I stick my snowmen?

Works for me. 

Dive.

Went out last night to a music show of some former students who are in a Lumineers style band. Bit of a dive bar, but they were excited to get out of coffee shops and play in a bar. Poor acoustics in the room, but they were champs.

Towards the end of their set, Jacob Hoggard and the band Hedley came in for a drink, which excited all their friends. Pretty cool for the boys to have a big time act buy them a shot after their first bar show!

Remembrance Day ceremony today- I was proud I didn't need to beat my students to get them to behave... They can be a rowdy bunch but deep down they had the maturity not to complain while standing out in the snow for half an hour to honor the even greater sacrifices of others. 

And yes. I am aware that I spelt "Remembrance" wrong.

Today was also the last day before our Fall Break- goodness knows the kids need it just as much as I do. They've been chomping at the bit all week. Driving me bonkers. That sort of thing. I'm looking forward to relaxing on my break... Starting with a wedding tomorrow. 

Meetings.

No post yesterday. It was early dismissal, so we had a staff meeting, then we had a department meeting, and after that I decided to stick around to watch our senior boys volleyball team play in the quarterfinals. Unfortunately there was also a union meeting at our school, and, since I was watching volleyball with two of my AP's, I ended up going to the union meeting as well.

Long story short... Didn't get home until about 7. Tired. And then helped the brother with some math. Nothing like texting logarithm problems. 

One more day until Fall Break! And K&R's wedding this weekend. 

Gassing Up.

The thing I like the least about cold weather is playing the "what's the forecast/how long can I wait to fill the gas tank" game. I hate filling up my car in the winter.

Had a MUN meeting today. Which meant I could make cupcakes because I had people to feed them to. Used up some Halloween monster themed sprinkles.

Gift.

Long day at school. Really long.

But Michelle made me dinner and this gift  for the baby came in the mail, so it kinda balances out the day.

Weekend.

Weekends are strange. Either I am SUPER busy or doing basically nothing. This weekend featured both in turn. Two parties last night (hence no post. Sorry) visiting two week old Nora today, catching up with friends, and grocery shopping after last weeks looooong week of eating out.

Also... Snow!

PD.

Professional development and staff social today. Nice way to end the longest week ever.

Part of PD consisted of learning some archery from our teacher coaches. I took a picture of me almost hitting the pop can, because I was pretty sure it was the best shot I was going to make all day. Until I knocked the apple off a mannequin's head. Yea!