I noticed I am up to 8 followers and I am so pleased. I'm still pretty amused that people read this.
It has been another busy week. It seems like I'm constantly saying, "After _____________, it'll slow down." After Halloween, After Thanksgiving, After Christmas...but it never really does. This past week was chock full of fun Halloween art projects and crafts that I had so much fun doing with my students. I even took pictures. and am going to attempt to post them, along with pictures from No Guts, No Glowy Pumpkin Carving party 2K10. It seems like last week just flew by and I can't believe next week begins November. Countdown to Thanksgiving commence!
So, on October 1st I had this great, marvelous, stunning idea that my coworkers and I dress up as jungle animals to go along with our jungle classroom theme. I had very lofty notions of dressing up as a tiger or something equally as easy, but finding an orange outfit, especially pants, proved to be very difficult. Soon I found myself on Thursday night before our Halloween party at school with no costume, nor any costume idea. I began hurriedly texting my friends for instant help. I texted my cousin, whose first response was, "mini kangaroo." Two problems; kangaroos don't live in the jungle, nor am I any version of 'mini.' Finally, I was able to get ahold of my dear friend Kathleen who is by far the most creative person I have ever met. She instantly has an idea of a parrot, and about a million other ideas, as well. She convinces me that the parrot idea will be super easy and I'm looking at the clock ticking away, feeling how tired I am at just 6 pm, and being very skeptical. However, she was able to walk me through a trip to Michael's and I got all that I needed to conjure up a parrot costume. I got everything home, laid it out on the table, and just about started crying...WHAT AM I DOING!? It hit me. I had no clue where to begin or what to do. I quickly tried to shove these ideas to the deepest recesses of my mind and said to myself, just jump in and start doing it, it will all work out. I did just that. I cut to wings, fixed up the elastic bands and cut a tail piece out of some material called foamcore. Then, I plugged in the glue gun and begin preparations for gluing the feathers. The glue gun was a disaster. My hand was hurting so bad from squeezing the little trigger (which Kathleen did warn me about) and I'm pretty sure that there wasn't even any glue coming out. I could not figure out the problem but I knew this whole process was taking way too long. I looked at the clock and it was 9:20. At this point, I'm freaking out because 1. I'm missing Grey's Anatomy and 2. I'm so tired I can barely keep my little peepers open. Luckily, I got the support I needed from my dear friend, Erin, who told me, just go to bed now, get up early and try again. I knew this is what I should do. I'm so useless when I'm in that tired-all-I-can-think-about-is-sleep phase. I got to bed around 10 and my alarm sounded at a ridiculously early 5:15. I knew I had to get up because I had to make a stop at Wal-Mart for some spray adhesive. I was done with that crazy glue gun. I got up, got ready, and was heading into Wally World by 6:15, everything was right on schedule. I went straight from the store to my school and figured I would just finish my costume up there. I got into my classroom (which was scary because everything was pitch black...creepy!) and got everything ready to put together when I opened the lid of the spray adhesive and there was no nozel. Are you kidding me? Again, on the verge of tears, I had no idea what I was going to do. I sat in disbelief for a moment trying to gather my wits, then decided to check the production room. This is a school for crying out loud, they must have spray glue somewhere. Well, I never found any spray glue but I did find some sort of spray adhesive that I decided to try. I mean, how worse could it get? Luckily, it worked like a dream, except that the adhesive was getting all over my hands and feathers were sticking everywhere and it wouldn't wash off. Great. Finally, by the time I looked at the clock I saw that it was already 7:30 and I hadn't even started the tail yet. I needed to hustle. I had almost two wings done and had to go for the tail. I still had to get the chairs down and candy out on the desks. I was chomping at the bit for the rest of our staff to get there because if there was ever a time I needed help, it was now. They started showing up around 8 and miraculously everything got finished before the kids started to arrive. It was a close call. We got everything done just in the nick of time and I only snapped once, after that, it was a really fun day. We had a birthday celebration, did some Scaroling (Halloween caroling), watched a movie, practiced some Minute to Win It activities, and joined a mainstream class for some activities. The day was gone in a flash and I was so tired by the end of the day I came home and promptly took a 3 hour nap.
Tonight, I am gearing up for the last Halloween party of the season. After tonight, I will be able to rest and relax all day Sunday. I'm very much looking forward to that! I'm looking forward to tonight, too. It's always a good time. I think it'll be fun to be around some people...I haven't hung out with this group in quite awhile, so it should be a good time. Also, my duckie's are gearing up to play and the World Series is on, as we speak. Actually a pretty great day, save for my awful trip to WinCo. I hate that place. I literally watched a woman ram into someone else's cart. She said, "Oh no, unattended cart!" And, then she rammed into it with her cart! Seriously!? Unbelievable.
Today's list: Things I look forward to tomorrow:
1. Going to church
2. Napping
3. Reading
4. Watching tv/catching up on shows from last week
5. Basking in candlelight
6. Going on a walk (please no rain)
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