It’s Friday.  Apparently, it’s going to be ‘one of those days’
because this morning, I made Eric’s coffee without coffee
grounds.  Yep…just ran water through an empty filter.  I
guess that’s one amusing way to start the day!

I’m glad it’s Friday, but I’m not sure what the weekend is going to
look like.  I was hoping to get together with the fam (I haven’t
seen my neices in over a month!), but I don’t think that’s going to
happen after all.  Eric got invited to a housewarming party for a
coworker, but we probably won’t go to that…we did go to her last
get-together.  It was a very odd mix of people!  So maybe
we’ll go on a date tonight or something.  And I should do laundry
on Saturday.  And of course the Super Bowl on Sunday (and church!).

Classes today won’t be too exciting.  Both Comp classes are doing
presentations, so I don’t have to “teach” (I just pray they don’t do a
horrible job!).  Basic English is about the 4 types of sentences
today, and that’s a pretty easy one to cover.  So it shouldn’t be
too bad.  Of course, I have a rather large (and growing) stack of
papers to grade…still haven’t gotten that done!

It’s Thursday…oh, and it’s garbage day.  I’ll be right back. *long pause*  Okay, the garbage is out now.  I can continue.  (Look…I’m just like Kim now!).

So this morning, I have exercised, eaten breakfast, read all my email and responded and painted my nails.  Unfortunately, I did that before I took the garbage out, so now I’m going to have to re-do them.  Of course some of them are still really nice, but others are all chipped and dinged.  This is a problem because the nail polish remover needed to fix the damaged ones then gets on the good nails so they all need to be redone.  It’s a good thing my husband couldn’t care less about nail polish!

I have lots of other things to do today.  It’s now February and the budget is reset, so I will now permit myself to get some groceries.  And thankfully, I had enough milk to get me through breakfast this morning!  I also intend to clean my bedroom today, and I should grade (are you noticing that my to-do list this week is really just the same things over and over that I’m not actually getting to?).  Anyway, I think I want to go to Kroger and to Sam’s Club.  I really like just wandering around Sam’s.  It’s so fun to see what sorts of odd things they have and try to figure out exactly who would need such large packages of some of those products!   Of course, I don’t think most of their stuff is really a deal, but you can actually get good stuff at good prices (especially meat) if you are paying attention. 

One last thing…sent to me by my husband this morning.  Enjoy!

A couple goes on vacation to a fishing resort in northern Minnesota. The husband likes to fish at the crack of dawn. The wife likes to read. One morning the husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap. Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors, and continues to read her book.
 
Along comes a game warden in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says, “Good morning Ma’am.  What are you doing?” Reading a book,” she replies, (thinking, “Isn’t that obvious?”) 
 
 “You’re in a restricted fishing area,” he informs her. “I’m sorry officer, but I’m not fishing, I’m reading.”  “Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I’ll have to take you in and write you up.”


“If you do that, I’ll have to charge you with sexual assault,” says the woman. “But I haven’t even touched you,” says the game warden. “That’s true, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment.”


“Have a nice day ma’am”, and he left.


MORAL: Never argue with a woman who reads. It’s likely she can also think.

I felt like I worked all day and didn’t get anything much done.  I
kept working on a project only to find out later that I wasn’t going to
need it.  But because I spent the time on it, I didn’t get done
any of the other projects I had in mind to do.  And I had a
meeting with a lady from church that I left somewhat discouraged. 
However, I did go to Karen’s play last night and that’s always good for
a laugh.  In fact, my dad and I both thought that one girl flipped
some of the other actors off (she didn’t really, but the hand gesture
was a bit to reminiscent of it!).

I finally got my tax statement from CU.  Nothing like waiting
until exactly the last day of January to put it in my campus mailbox
(didn’t even mail it to my house, thank you very much) and since I
don’t come to campus on most Tuesdays or Thursdays, I didn’t get it
until today.  Oh well…at least now Eric can start crunching the
numbers…it’s a fun little adventure for him.

Now I’m in my office doing some last minute prep for my noon
class.  It won’t take long, but I do have other grading that I
could do.  We’ll see how ambitious I feel!