Out of My Mind

We splurged and bought an early Christmas present.  The Broadway touring company of The Lion King is coming to The Detroit Opera House and we bought tickets for Saturday matinee, the weekend before Christmas.  Although the hubby is excited about going, he said he almost threw up because it cost us just under $300.  Not that he didn’t want to go or anything, but I guess he just has a hard time letting go of large amounts of money in a single purchase.  He was the same way when we booked our last trip to Disney.  I can’t wait, though.  I understand the show is just fabulous.  So very exciting!!!

We got some unexpected money today, so I took myself out to lunch.  Let’s just say it wasn’t exactly lo-cal.  I went to Red Lobster and it was really yummy.  I thought I would feel weird going out to eat all by myself, but it was actually kind of nice.  I didn’t have to worry about a picky eater throwing a fit because there isn’t anything on the menu that he wants to eat.  Or the hubby getting all crazy because said picky eat is upset.  I brought a book, ate way too much food (and even had quite a bit to take home with me for another meal!) and just enjoyed a quiet meal by myself.  In fact, I enjoyed it so much,I think I’m going to start doing this more often.  Maybe I’ll even get brave and take in a movie all by my lonesome as well.  I’d be able to see all those movies that the hubby has no interest in seeing. 

That’s what my new job feels like.  On Friday, I had my first student injury.  That was fun.  She ended up being fine, but it was a huge ordeal.  On Monday, I had two students from the E/I classroom show up that weren’t even registered with the program this year.  Again, much fun while we got that all straightened out.  And yesterday, I had my first missing student.  She was new to the program, so nobody knew her.  We had to call her teacher, stop the busses, the whole nine yards.  Turns out she had been signed out earlier in the day.  It’s just one thing after another.

And I am just pooped.  Getting up early every morning is just so hard.  I know I sound so whiney because I only work 5 or so hours a day and it’s not like I’m doing hard, physical labor.  But mentally, I’m just whipped.  If you only knew how many times I had to go back and retype words  in this post because I can’t seem to get my brain to connect to my fingertips.  I’m thinking I’ll be lucky if I make it a month working both jobs because I really am going to need some days where I can just stay home and veg all day.

Could it actually be…silence?!?!!?  Yes, yes it is.  Blessed, glorious, calming silence.

Sebastian went back to school today.  My big guy started the second grade.  I hope he is doing well.  I’m a tad worried after meeting his teacher.  She’s been teaching for 34 years and seems pretty strict.  And we all know just how well Seb did with a strict, structured classroom last year.  I just kept stressing to him that he’s going to have to have awesome self-control this year.  And he knows that I work in his school now, so his teacher can come down and talk to me if there is a problem.  Maybe that will help keep him from a repeat performance of last year, complete with notes home, calls from the teacher and principal and loss of television for months at a time.  I sincerely hope so.

The hubby started his new job yesterday.  It almost seems to good to be true.  Awesome pay and benefits, he gets a company car and he only has to pay 20% of the gas, a laptop, money towards our cell phone bill and eleven paid holidays a year.  I was joking around with him last night, and kept referring to him as my husband, the business man.  He was embarrased, but I think he liked it, too.

I started my new job today with the latchkey program.  It was…interesting.  Especially since I was pretty much going in blind.  My boss was supposed to meet me at the building yesterday so that I could see where everything is and to show me how things are done.  She got swamped and wasn’t able to get over there, so Sebastian and I took a quick trip over and had one of the secretaries open my office/storage closet so that I could at least see that.  I met all my staff this morning and just kind of stood back and watched how they did things.  This morning was pretty quiet, only 18 students showed up.  I’m a little worried about this afternoon, since I’m sure there will be more.  I have to go through a bunch of the paperwork this afternoon.  I’ll give it a few weeks then see where I want to make some changes.  I need to get in there and do inventory so that I know what I have and what I’m going to need once I get my credit card.  There’s just a lot of crap to do and I hate that I was kind of thrown in at the last minute.

So, lots of changes around here.  Let’s just hope everything goes smoothly.  I’ve been so stressed the last few months, my hair is falling out even more than usual.  I’m surprised that I don’t have big bald splotches on my head.  Wouldn’t that be pretty.