I, too, officially have tomorrow off; however, district thespian festival is in less than 2 weeks. The one act cast is having rehearsal from 8:30-12:30 tomorrow. I'm hoping they come in ready to work. They aren't going to like 'evil director' but it is something I must do.

When they finish I'll spend a couple hours in my classroom doing grades and other paperwork. Grades are due by 3pm on Tuesday and Tuesday is the start of the new semester.

Tomorrow I must also venture into one of the local dollar stores and get some of the last costume crafts and misc. needed for competition. I could have done it today; however, I just didn't feel like leaving the house.

I'm watching Persuasion which I DVRed last week. The two things I'm taking away from it:

1) People in regency England are very clumsy.

2) Bath sucks.

Hah! Still my favorite Austen though.

This will be the first MLK day I"ve had off in my entire career. I'm very excited.

I went to both the crepe place AND the doughnut place! Spent too much money, entirely, but had a yummy egg-serrano ham-and-gruyere crepe, latte, and then a doughnut. And OJ.

Sorry, Dana. But I am wearing my "zombies are the new black" t-shirt! So, kinda dead already.

Yummy, meara. Sounds great!

hey 'Suela, we missed you yesterday! It would have been fun to have you. and it was nice T and DH stayed away from uke and guitar talk and we stuck with wine . ( talking and tasting).

For those of you that don't know - there is a winery in San francisco - in the city proper

My blog entry:

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and the link to Crushpad: [link]

I am kind of watching the football game -- it's my father's side of the family against my mother's!

I had possibly the most effective trip to the Container Store ever. I think the stuff I got was perfect, and I resisted everything else! Of course, I haven't put any of it to use yet....

I went to the office this morning. We've been organizing and cleaning out the garage since then. I also work all day tomorrow. Despite all this, I am in a very cheerful mood.

I have tomorrow off. However, DH is still down in Oklahoma, and his flight doesn't get in till 5:00 PM tomorrow.

t vent Yesterday was great. Today has been so stressful and frazzling so far that I just called DH and told him that if he ever intended on dying or divorcing me, he had to wait until after AB's 18th birthday, because I am not cut out to be a single parent.

I thought taking AB to church would be a nice break for both of us--she'd get to play and do crafts in children's church with other kids; I'd get some face time in with other grown-ups. NSM. Getting her dressed and out the door turned into a battle royal, because I'd had her watching Noggin while I was showering and getting ready, and they'd announced that another episode of Go Diego Go was about to start, so she pitched a fit when I turned off the TV. Because of the fit-pitching we were late, and I missed the first two songs, which were naturally the ones I liked best. Needless to say I didn't get to talk to any of my friends, what with the being late, and I ended up sitting in the balcony with people I don't know. Oh, and I disagreed with the sermon. It was a fairly esoteric disagreement, not my church being suddenly taken over by the Religious Right or anything. It was the kind of thing where if it had been a discussion rather than a lecture, I would've said, "OK, I see where you're coming from, but what about this?" and we could've had a great conversation. As it was, it just kind of built on my existing annoyed and frazzled state and I spent the entire time thinking grumpy and discontented thoughts.

Next time DH is away for a weekend, I'm not even going to bother with church. This is twice in a row where I've went hoping for a break and come home more stressed than I started.

AB is supposed to be taking a nap now, and it was a battle getting her calmed and into her room. She's not asleep--I can hear her talking to herself and squirming around--but she's staying in there for at least a hour to save my sanity.

t /vent

Susan, I really don't know how single parents manage. I am sunk when I try it alone.

I am apparently very far from dead. I not only work tomorrow but I'm at work now and was at work yesterday too. This weekend concept is foreign to me.

ND is me.

rough day, Susan. Make tomorrow as easy as possible.

I am another one with tomorrow off. But i don't work Mondays, anyway. So not sure if I should join the zombies or what.

Weather report from the East bay: earlier it was fake rain. Too much water for fog, but not really rain. Now it is going between dark and sunny , and the wind is whipping around. I think I need hot chocolate