Back to school

And thus ended my summer-long ability to giggle at the chumps who went off to work every Monday morning whilst I lounged about until noon, playing xbox until an obscene hour of the night. It's back to school for me tomorrow. I've been hard at work this past week at teacher training, meetings, luncheons, etc, and finally go tmy room ready. I convinced my wonderfully handsome, tall and strong boyfriend to come to school with me Saturday morning and hang pictures for me. I hadn't hung up the pics from the last three years so I figured it was about time to do it. I love that he can reach stuff that I still can't reach when I'm on a step stool. Plus, he measured everything with a tape measure, levelled the frames, etc, so everything is hanging perfectly straight, even and justified left to right. I love it! My desk is clean (and that'll be the last time it looks that way until June 3, 2012), papers are copied, gradebooks are set up, and I'm all ready to go. I LOVE the first couple days of school! It's exciting to me, and feels good to just get started again. I'm not *quite* ready to go back, but I suppose I'll just have to get over it.

I've been loving the Alice game- finished it and went back for the other side quests and things. It's a great game, even for the second or third time through. Next challenge is to play through it on Nightmare difficulty. I finished From Dust, and enjoyed it, but once I get all the achievements I won't feel bad about deleting it.  I don't need to play that one twice. I finished the Bastion, and am partway through the next round of it- things are harder but you get to keep what you earned. It reminded me of when you beat Super Mario Bros for the first time, and then when you pressed start to begin a new game it started you with the beetle guys and the levels had a red tinge to them, and everything was harder and faster (tee hee).

My student orchestra that meets on Sundays just resumed and we had a moderately successful first rehearsal. My group got absolutely raided for kids who were ready for the next level up. I am short 5 that I fully expected to have, but c'est la vie. Time to put those recruitment techniques into practice.

The tattoos are healing nicely, but I didn't account for one major factor: the solar plexus one is not healing as fast because it's in a high traffic area. I wouldn't have thought so, but the bra rubs it when I'm wearing it, and unless I'm lying flat, without the bra it's still not fully uncovered. That one has been temperamental. The f-holes on my neck look great! That took longer than I expected but it is really sharp looking and if I'm wearing the right shirt, my hair and shirt together manage to cover it so I don't show it at school. Also in the right shirt I can show it off nicely. :)

I made a gorgeous stuffed chicken for dinner (Matt helped quite a lot actualy- we're cooking together more often now), and for the first time ever, I made homemade donuts from scratch, even the fillings and glazes. They were SO GOOD! They're heavy enough that I wouldnt' want them frequently, but once a year would be fine. I'm impressed with them.

Now I better be off to bed; can't start school yawning! To everyone who has kids back to school tomorrow, good luck and don't believe them when the kids say they didn't learn anything and they didn't have any papers for you to sign.