In honor of surviving the first week of yearbook class...

A little fun from YearbookYourself.com.

Now, it's time to go back, officially

School's officially back in session tomorrow. I can already tell you that I won't be able to sleep tonight.

I'm starting my sixth year teaching, third at BV, and the butterflies will be fluttering like mad tonight and tomorrow morning. I feel like I've gotten a lot accomplished on these last few work days, so hopefully the butterflies can calm down a bit.

Most of the day Friday I worked in my room, filing and organizing and sending out items to be copied. Then, I took Friday night and Saturday completely off from school concerns.

Adam and I got to celebrate (?) the Death of Summer by spending Friday night at the Doubletree, along with dinner at the Bristol. We won gift certificates for those two things in a charity auction last year. Dinner was so good, and then we did a little shopping at Town Center Plaza before heading back to the hotel. Our room was on the 18th floor, so we had a great view of all the construction on the 435-69 freeway interchange...

Mitzi and I spent a little time in the pool yesterday afternoon. We got a little sunning in before the clouds rolled in and the rain started. I'm pretty sure I played a little Bejeweled yesterday, as well.

I did go to school today for about four hours. I've gotten my head wrapped around the next few days. Even though I don't like to do that on the weekends, I feel like it's going to make my life easier during school. We'll see if that holds true or not.

Next on tap: I'm going to watch an episode of Ruby, then head out for a run this afternoon. I haven't RUN in a long time. I've been doing lots of TV workouts with Jillian Michaels (the super duper hard core trainer from Biggest Loser) and walking a lot. Usually I shoot for 60 minutes of exercise time each day. I'm not sure why I've lost my running mojo. Hopefully it will return soon. Maybe the heat? Maybe I was bored with it? I don't know.

Does anyone have any new fun workouts they're doing that I should try? And don't say Pilates, because I can already tell you, I will not be doing that any time soon.

Digging out from the junk

It's time to go back to school. Unofficially, at least, for now.

The first day back for teachers is actually a week from today, but I went back for a few hours on Monday, and then for a long day yesterday. I don't mind that I'm there having to do work, but I do mind that there's no air conditioning in my room!

Yuck.

I'm really trying to work on getting rid of stuff I don't use, and organize the paperwork I do have. I got a few new filing cabinets right when school got out, so I have more space for filing stuff, which has helped immensely. (Wow - aren't you excited, I'm finally blogging and I'm talking about filing paperwork! WOO HOO!)

I worked there by myself for a few hours, and then the yearbook editors came in to work on some of their stuff, and then the newspaper staff came in to work on the first day issue. It was nice to have the energy back in the room, and it gets me ready to start the year. We stayed until about 7 last night, since a lot of the kids are working during the day and then coming to school.

So, I think I'll putz around here for a while today, then go to school this afternoon. I'll try to get more excitement for you, blogosphere...