a fun and refreshing (or maybe exhausting) weekend.

I have been ordered to blog, so if you have any complaints you can file them at: Brenna's Happy Blog.

I would have blogged sooner but I have been waiting on pictures from last weekend to describe my cooking experiences and my new cultural experience: shuffleboard (which I am amazing at, I have to admit). Unfortunately, I don't have those yet, so you'll just have to do without.

This week has been great, I finally wrote a paper that really should have been written more than six months ago and I had the best week of volleyball class in the world. I love it! The first day we all went over to the rec center and took roll, heard about the basic requirements and then left. And then on Wednesday, I got an email telling me that the instructor's kids were sick so he had to stay home and take care of them = no class! Sometimes I wonder for a moment why I'm not majoring in teaching PE... but only for a very short moment.

I also spent a few hours with some eighth graders this week. We've been reading the same books and so I met with them and discussed the themes and plot and so forth. Although it was pretty fun (and I got to skip a science class) its pretty scary to think that in just a couple of years I'm going to have a whole class just like that as my responsibility. (good thing Brenna will already be in high school...whew!)

And tomorrow? I'm going shopping! As in get up at the break of dawn (at least 8) and go all day until my legs and feet hurt from walking, my arms hurt from carrying so many bags and I can collapse in the car amidst empty burger king sacks, receipts, full bags, a lighter purse, and boxes of cute heels. So glad I'm ahead of my homework!