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Long Day!
How soon can I go to bed?
I got up at 4:15, did my Ultra Leg DVD. Got ready for work, made lunches, rode my bike to work, met my new class, did all the first day stuff from 8:30 - 2:45, talked to parents afterschool who are fretting about their kid being in a combo, prepared classroom for tomorrow, rode my bike home, created a bunch of different forms to go in reading journals, made a poster of the behavior "promise" kids made up today...
I'm exhausted!
V.
Veronica - I'm impressed that you not only rode to and from school on the first day, but you also got up at 4:15 to do an exercise video... Go get some sleep! I spent all night tossing and turning as I do before the first day of school every year. Why is it I can sleep for 63 nights in a row and then stay awake half the night for no good reason? How was your class? This is my first year without a split so I was loving having only one grade!
Lise - that picture of you is amazing, and even more so when I saw the "before" pic. You must feel SO good about yourself!
I saw a lady biking around 4:15am on my way home, and I *so* wish I could've told her "I'm so proud of you! You're kicking a$$!" ...but that'd be weird, so I just gave her lots of room and was on my way to get home/to bed.
Lise, you look fantastic. Such payoff for all your hard work- I'm glad biking has worked for you so well. :D
My commute is nothing... 4 miles round trip. :D But I know I probably won't ride after work this week - too hot and too much to do. So videos it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by kelownagirl
Class seems nice. Academically all but one are proficient in math. Lang. Arts has some gaps.
I slept well last night - kind of surprising.
V.
TD is sacred. It must not be moved! It started because I posted about walking in a tri, and Nanci replied, and then drift occurrred, and Nanci started Thread Drift. It IS tri related, and the tri-ers don't have to step over it, because we are in it!
Lise, you are so hot! The before pic isn't bad, but the now pic, WOW!
I have about that far to go too. 4 km down hill there and 4 km uphill home. I would ride to school but then I have to go drive back down and pick up my son. He can do the ride to school, but he has a tough time riding home. Gotta get him a bike with more than 5 gears next summer...
Back to school, higglety-pig! I, too, am amazed that you got up early to do a leg workout before riding to work, V. A better woman than I. Teachers hold a place of very high esteem in my family. Both grandmothers, and both of my parents were teachers. Now my mom is a (soon to be retired) children's librarian. What grades do you teach? And you, kelowna?
Thanks, guys, for the compliments on the picture. It feels so good to be where I am today. I remember when Ted, my 7 year old nephew was about 3, I would sing "Hit the Road, Jack" to crack him up. I was at my sister's, dancing and singing that song for Ted. At some crucial point in the song, I jumped up and spun in a circle in the air. My sister just stared at me and said, "Whoa! That biking is really paying off for you!" :D My family watched me be miserable for years. I'm glad they get to enjoy me, happy and healthy now.
I'm a very jealous snap tonight. Green with envy I tell you. My sis-in-law and brother have bought a 100+ year old farm house on twelve acres in North Branch, NJ. She sent pictures - I love it! It needs tons of work, but this is the kind of project they love to do. Dammit! It has a brook on the property!!!!
Down green-eyed monster! Down I say!
Huh, tough one. A brook, you say? I foresee much East Coast Visiting for Snapdragen! :D
And! It's at the end of an extremely low traffic road! Have bike will travel? :rolleyes:
Think of all the snow they'll have to shovel in a few months.
eh, worth a shot
Hey V - good job on the whole back to school transition. I don't know that we've transitioned so well. We're down 1 retainer. :mad: That's a year's allowance.....
Snap - that farm house sounds amazing!!
Okay - to bed soon... I swear!
Sigh.
Oooh, I'd LOVE to have property with a Brook... Sigh indeed... At least you can visit!
Lise - I teach Grade 3 this year. Love that age....
barb
Edited to add: I have 5 kids from my grade 2's last year and the class gave me a $250 GC at the LBS on the last day of school in June. I told them I was going to buy some real biking shoes and a jersey with the money. First thing they asked me today was if I bought them. I have to bring them for show and tell tomorrow... :)
Great house. I can understand the envy.
Veronica and everyone else who teaches, my hats' off to you (or helmet?).
I have terrible sleep habits. Sleep hygiene if you will. Anyone else do this or some variation of it?
I fall asleep in front of the TV constantly. Been doing that since I was a kid, to the point I'm pretty much conditioned to be out whenever I'm in a semi comfortable position with a TV on. It usually doesn't matter how interesting what's on is, the nods come. So I don't literally watch a lot of TV :) Problem is sometimes I wake up and don't go right to bed, so then I'm awake sometimes for several hours. Unfortunately the time I need to get up doesn't get any later. Tomorrow is my l-o-n-g day at school. Start at 9 am and end at 9:30 pm.
Oh yes, there will be a starbucks stop on the commute in.
Snap I just noticed your handle. I don't always see everything around this board, so I'm relatively rarely in "the know". Just curious....
Snap - nice house! The property sounds great. Daffodils and all! Jo's right - in the middle of winter, you'll be happier here in SF than you would be clearing that driveway!
V - exercising at 4am? You're determined, that's for sure!
Beta - yicky schedule you have there. Good luck!
I do something close... I get home at midnight-30 most nights, but 4:30am Monday and Tuesday... I *try* to be in bed within a half hour of getting home. Then I wake up when DGF gets up (1-2 hours later) and follow her around as she gets ready for work, make coffee, etc (when I'm lucid enough) then more unconsciousness until 10 or 11, at which point I 'call it good', get up and shuffle around the house until 4 or 5 before going to work again... I need to learn how to sleep through the sun coming up. I will, of course... just in time for winter or the advent of my new job, where I'll need to get up *before* sunrise. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by betagirl
Nanci? Where are you? Hope all is well..Come back to TD..I miss your threads on Dillbird & Maisey.
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Guilt.
This morning just before 1 a.m. I drempt I was hearing a lot of screaming. Then I heard the woman in the apartment above me talking, and it woke me up.
Went out to the livingroom, there was a woman somewhere behind the building screaming and people walking back there trying to find her and someone talking to her. I couldn't see much of what was going on. The police arrived right away. My next-door neighbors, Jesse and Sam's dogs were out barking at the police, so I realized the woman was just outside their apt. I figured Jesse and Sam were helping her along with 3 or 4 other folks from the building.
I never went outside, because I didn't know what was going on, or if it was dangerous, and I didn't want to leave SKnot sleeping alone in an empty (dangerous?) apartment with something scarey outside.
Things went on, and eventually as the police and ambulance and woman were leaving I pieced together that the woman screaming WAS Jesse! Because Sam had shot himself in the head. I have a soft spot in my heart for Jesse and feel awful that I never went out to help. That I was too chicken and too worried about SKnot to even open my door.
Guilt.
OMG Knot - how terrible! I don't know that I would have opened the door, either. Really, what could you have done? Shot in the head - I am assuming he is dead? How very sad.
Knotted -
I'm so sorry you went through this - I know it doesn't help but you have no reason to feel guilty - the police were there - an ambulance was there - what more could be done? Your first obligation (in my opinion) is to your child - you did what any responsible parent should do. Don't beat yourself up about this.
Oh wow knot, that's horrible. Don't feel guilty, you did what any mom would do, thought of your child's safety.
Do you mean Amici Veloci my A$$? It's the official AV greeting! :D And in reply expect to be flipped the bird. All in good fun.:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by betagirl
OMG Knotted! That's awful! You did the right thing by staying with SKnot.
Oh, Knotted. What a tragic situation. You made the best decision with the information you had, and you kept your son safe. There will be time later to comfort your neighbor.
Knotted you have 3 obligations in life b4 all others
1. Stay alive - like every other creature this is our basic imperative
2. Don't endanger yourself (especially voluntarily) for anyone or anything other than SmallKnot
3. Look after SmallKnot till he is BigEnoughKnot
All the rest is untenable biologically
(altho' it may be admirable, heroic,resourceful,etc)
You did the Right Thing.
Craze, I'm here. Just too filled with ennui to drift much.
Knot- geez! I understand how you feel, but good instincts to protect the kid above all.
Snap- what a beautiful home. I'm envious, too. I would _love_ any kind of water on my property. I lived on a lake once- and there was a beaver dam that I could walk across through this swamp to a secret woods with all kinds of trails. It was so nice.
Pet news: Maizey is holed up to shed again. So she was going blue last weekend and hiding, and didn't even get an opportunity to not eat. I was worried about her, so I touched her while she was in her hollow log, and she just put her head by my fingers and licked me, but didn't come out. I made a new, larger "moist hide" for her in case she wants it, (plastic container, upside down, with lid on, with snake-sized door, with damp moss inside to help her shed) and put plastic wrap over her cover to keep humidity in till she sheds.
We went out to dinner with friends last night. Husband said he'd bought too many new babies at the reptile show, and offered us a baby California King, white with black markings, very "bitey," rattles his tail, rears up like a cobra...(He should work out of that, though with handling.) I haven't decided for sure, but am leaning toward taking him. They say he's eating all right.
I rode 35 miles Saturday, club ride, 75 miles Sunday, with two friends, one who does brevets with me, the other from my group, her longest ride ever. During the ride we had to cross a (dry) river with a bridge removed for construction. Then 35 miles for the club picnic Monday, during which I got stung in the head by a wasp who flew in through one of my vents. It felt like someone was taking a saw back and forth across my scalp for pretty much the rest of the day. I took Benedryl and iced it.
Nanci, how often does she shed?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
Nanci - I've got some ennui, too. That little king snake sounds pretty. You couldn't keep 2 snakes in the same enclosure could you? Our gecko has a similar shedding spot as you describe. The PP is very good about keeping it damp. She's a cute little gecko, but I don't think I'll be able to get over how creepy that fat tail looks.
Maizey sheds about every two months.
I couldn't keep the snakes together, because they have a huge size difference. Also, from different coasts. Also, Kingsnakes eat other snakes. Usually snakes are kept separately unless you're trying to breed.
my son has a Bianchi Pista and he loves it.Quote:
Originally Posted by betagirl
It seems to be simple to work on too (he changed the gear or something)
knot i agree with everyone here. Stay inside. kid first, your health first.
how awful to hear about your neighbor though.
Well, at least my electricity bill is $30 lower this month...
http://www.vmsherp.com/ImagePages/Past/CalSnow1.htm
I'm imagining the new baby to look something like this. I hope!
oh my god, Knot...
I agree with everyone, you and yours first, but now that it's over... maybe you can lend Jesse consolation and comfort? It might help with the guilt issues. God knows, everyone has that sense of "I should have... I could have..." but one has to have realistic expectations.
take good care.
Hi, Nanci, good to see you around again. Keep us posted about the new baby! How big is s/he now?
KN, so sorry to hear about your neighbor. Of course you did the right thing by staying with SK, but that doesn't ease the grief. Wishing Jesse (and you) strength to get through these days.
One more 12 hour shift, and then I'm on vacation!
Nanci - kingsnakes usually are fantastic pets. My experience is with eastern kingsnakes. They are very docile. California kings are a bit more aggressive, but should calm down with handling (like you said). Pretty - for sure!
The snakes are causing quite a stir around here right now. The first of the season gophersnake hatchlings are toodling across the roads and paths and, unfortunately, a toodle isn't fast enough; many will not be toodling again. I rode over one on Sunday but that amazing ribcage took the hit with no apparent damage. I stopped and went back. Another cyclist stopped when he saw me and moved the snake off the trail. It behaved very normally so I hope it was alright. Unfortunately, the other cyclist announced that we needed to be very careful because "young rattlers look just like gophersnakes" so I wonder if he would have killed it if I hadn't come back. I explained that I had had many a gophersnake as a pet and could tell the difference. Though that didn't mean I wasn't about to keep my hands clear -- they will still bite. The guy grabbed at the snake with his bare hands when I was going to merely gently encourage it along with the end of my pump.
That's funny you mention Gopher Snakes- on my Desert Tortoise list people are (jokingly, I think) wishing for Gopher Snakes to control the gopher populations in their yards who are eating all the Desert Tortoises' super-special grass/flower plantings...