Saturday, March 21, 2009

A Week From Hell


Well, it has been one horrible week and I am glad it is over. We had 20 lay offs. I was worried it was me for a while but then discovered I was safe.
It is difficult to be so happy you are not losing your job but know that some very valuable people are.
Then there are the people that you wonder why they were still around anyway.
A lot of different emotions to deal with.

I also took my first midterm in a lot of years. I love being back in school. I love the smell of schools. But I was so stressed out over this test that makes up only 10% of my grade. I even figured out if I totally flunked it I would still have a B in the class.
Well, after postponing the test for a few days I finally went in to take it and of course it was not as bad as I thought.

Met with friends at the bar tonight. It is always nice to relax with people you care about. I just wish my husband would get home. I am tired of him working out of state but know with the economy this may last for a while.

Miss you honey!

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Bridesmaids

Well, First of all, don't know what happened but after figuring out how to embed a video in my blog it put my profile info and such on the bottom of the page. I'll try to fix that later.

My neice is getting married. This is very exciting for us all since we are an unusually close family.
She has asked both my daughters to stand up in her wedding which when they received a very cute card asking them they both broke down in tears which caused my husband to even tear up.
Been looking at wedding ideas online(hate to think how crazy I will be involved when my own daughters get married) and ran across this cute video I had to share.

Thank you my favorite neice for letting us share this special time with you!

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Friday, March 6, 2009

Music

Wow do I miss singing. Today at work, quiet office of about 70 people, cubes, etc. myself and two coworkers were talking about the tv show E.R. This conversation made me think of my favorite song played at the end of the "Dr. Green dying of cancer episode".


I googled the song title, LOVE GOOGLE!, and played the song for my coworkers. Couldn't play it loud because we work in an office. This made one of the women weepy so I told her I have a song to chear her up.

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Well, this got the "Oooh, turn that off before we get in trouble." response.
How sad. I miss music in the workplace. Some of you know I was an elementary school teacher for 15 years. We sang every day. Everyone should sing every day! The sillier the song the better.

Every five years we get together for a Family Reunion with our relatives from Germany. One of the crazy traditions started was "Pass the Dime". How this came about I do not know, but what happens is a dime is given to a person and they have to sing a song in front of everyone. For some reason we stand on a chair.
A lot of times it is a children's song they recall from many years ago. Who doesn't love singing a children's song? I, and most of my family, are horrible singers. But nobody can mess up a children's song. And the feeling you get from singing can't be replaced by many things. Especially singing along with so many other voices.
I thinkI am going to pop in one of my old CDs from my teaching days and dream of being in a better place.