Happy Tuesday

Well I knew I forgot something about the race. Any of you that watched the race will know what I'm talking about and if you don't follow the races--you might not find this so funny. Carl was in 2nd place toward the end of the race and he came out of no where to go around Jimmie on the last lap--but he ran into the soft barrier wall trying a slingshot move that he knows from "in his words--from video games" thinking it would make him go faster and get the win. But what it did in real life was slow him down and Jimmie was able to take the win. I was so mad at him for trying this video game move. So maybe this weekend he will do good and win the race or at least get back in first place on the Chase. Go CARL.
Kayla and I go to Weight Watchers tonight. I doubt if I was good for this week.

Weekend Update

Not much to report for Saturday. I slept in and then we watched the Nationwide race. Wasn't real happy about the outcome of that race. Then Sunday morning Kayla and I met my dad and brother at the cemetary to take flowers for my mom's grave. Sunday would have been her 75th birthday. We got her a very pretty spray. It's a heart shape grapevine wreath with shades of purple flowers all over it along with two purple butterflies. We all liked it. We cleaned up around her grave and talked about things we remember about her and especially about the day she died.
Then Kayla and I went home to watch the NASCAR Sprint Cup Race. I watched about half of it and then had to go to Nacogdoches to buy dog food. Kayla called me quite frequently to give me updates on the race. Needless to say we weren't happy with Carl's 2nd place win. We were hoping that he could hold on to first. There is always next week. Go CARL!!! He's only 10 points behind Jimmie in the Chase.
Nothing else spectacular happened over the weekend. And this morning I got up to come back to a week of school. Same ole same ole.

WOW !!!! TGIF

Wow, I've made it through a week of school after being out for a week and a half. I am so tired today--I plan to sleep in tomorrow. I told Kayla on the way to school that I was going to sleep late tomorrow--she said that she was too. I told her that I would get her up early enough to watch the race. I looked online and it doesn't start until around 2:00. Today at school hasn't been too bad.
A lot of us are not eating school food today or even food we brought from home. Some people from the school are having a Bar-B-Que benefit for Kyle Moore (the reason I'm subbing so much) and the school is letting them deliver plates to the school for anyone that wanted to buy one. Kids included. I knew they couldn't stop adults from ordering a plate but I thought it was nice that they decided to let the kids get them too.
I don't know if I posted this already but here goes. Progress reports went out this week and we only mail them home if students have an 80 or below. Well Kayla didn't get ANY mailed home. But from what she told me - she's straight A's again.
Maybe I will have more to report later.

Bus Wreck

Well I said if something happened I would post an update--well it did. Kayla and I were on the way home and just as we crossed into the county at the river bridge--there sat one of our school buses in from of the elementary principal's house and a black pick-up was right behind it, sitting out in the road. The pick-up had run into the rear of the bus. There were already people there so Kayla and I went on--but as we were getting close to Doug's cousin's house, Kayla and I were wondering if Brittany's children were on the bus. We decided that we would stop and tell Brittany about the wreck. Well as we are approaching her house--there she is walking back from the mailbox. We pull over and asked her if her kids were at home--she said no--they're on the bus. So we tell her about the wreck and she asked me if I could drive her down there. I take her down there so we can pick her kids up. We knew it would be a while before the kids could get home because the highway patrol hadn't even turned up yet.
When Brittany got back in the suburban, she said the man said his brakes had locked up and that's why he hit the bus. NO way!!! Skid marks will prove otherwise. He was driving way to fast and besides he could have seen the bus stopped, letting kids off while he was still on the river bridge and should have slowed way down before getting close to the bus.

Hump Day update

Well it's Wednesday once again. I'm sitting at my desk with a few minutes to spare. I've done a lot of filing today and have more to do. I received a phone call today and I might be getting a full time job or at least a long term job. I just have to wait a little while to see what materializes. So I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I sure would love to have the job that might come available to me.
Went to Weight Watchers last night and had gained a pound. Not bad--I fully expected to see like almost a 5 pound weight gain. I've got to get busy and do some walking or bike riding.
Not much else to talk about.

Weight Watcher Day

Yep, it's Tuesday and Kayla and I will be going to Weight Watchers tonight. I don't think I lost any weight but I don't feel like I gained either. Or if I did gain--it won't be much. Still working at the school and right now I'm waiting to mail out Progress Reports. Kayla got two reports yesterday and they were both A's. She gets extra credit for bringing them back signed, so I made sure she had them this morning. Several of the high school kids are going to wish they got extra credit for bringing things back signed. I don't know how they are going to make it through the first six weeks.
Not much else is happening in my life. My dad left this morning for South Carolina. Don't know what he's doing there but it's something. Will post more later.

Back at School

Well we started back to school today and it felt good to be back. But it's been busy today. I'm trying to get Progress Reports ready to mail out. We are only a week late on them and that will only give the kids less than two weeks to bring their grades up. I have quite a few to mail out.
Kayla has already been on the computer trying to see what the Atlantic is doing and there appears to be another tropical depression trying to do something. Let's hope it doesn't come here. Kayla said it will probably be a bad one and will probably come to Texas because it's supposed to be named Kyle. And she's thinking of Bad Boy, Kyle Busch of NASCAR. Speaking of the Brat, Kyle--it was nice to see that he's had trouble in both of the Sprint Chase races. I just wasn't happy to see Greg win both races. But at least Carl is still in First place. If Bob wouldn't have made that mistake and had Carl just take two tires instead of four--Carl might have won the race. But at least he gave them a run for their money. It was neat to see 3 Roush drivers in positions 1,2,and 3.
Not much else to report right now. If something else comes up--I will drop back in.

Wow it's been a LONG week

Well, there we thought the aftermath of Hurricane Ike was over but it wasn't to be. We lost electricity AGAIN!!! A tree had fallen on an electrical line and it finally pulled the line all the way to the ground and shorted out the electricity. So we lost our electricity for almost two days. We were able to get the FEMA meals, water, and ice that was being handed out. This made Kayla very happy. The meals aren't too bad. The ones we got from town had three meals in a box. You got cereal and box milk for breakfast, a can entree (Dinty Moore Beef Stew and etc) or something like canned chicken salad etc., crackers, and the same for supper. They also had small can of Pringle chips, a cereal bar, a small package of sunflower seeds, 3 small containers of peaches, a small container of pudding and a bag of cookies. Then the meals we got from the church were the military MRE's, which is just one meal per bag. I believe Kayla got a chicken breast, Doug got chili and I got beef stew. But I'm going to trade my beef stew for one of my mother-in-law's chicken fajitas. But I like the cherry/blueberry cobbler that came in mine so I'm not going to give the whole bag to her to swap out. LOL She ended up getting two cases of MRE's because they are still without electricity. And our shop is still without electricity so it makes it hard for Doug to get much work done.
One neat thing about our place after the storm--We sold our old trailer a good while back (like before the storm) but the people weren't able to get it moved until after the storm. Well it left Wednesday and when they moved it out--it left a lot of the old insulation on the ground along with a lot of wood and junk. It actually looks like maybe a tornado came through and totally destroyed our home. If it wasn't for our new manufactured home just sitting off to the side of it. I told Kayla it would be funny if FEMA came by and thought that had happened. I hope to get a picture and get it posted.

Hurricane Ike is almost here

Well it looks like within 12 hours Ike will be hitting the Gulf Coast of Texas. It's supposed to hit Galveston/Houston and then turn north and head toward us here in East Texas. The wind is starting to pick up here. I have things I think we will need. We have already had a fatality accident in our town on the evacuation route. Just now on the news it's saying the eye is contracting and the pressure will start to drop and Ike could go to a 3 instead of a 2. So you all please remember us in the path of this LARGE hurricane. That is another thing they are talking about is how big he is.

Hurricane Ike

Hurricane Ike is breathing down our neck. And our wonderful school has yet to decide what we will be doing as far as early dismissal or missing tomorrow goes. They have been in a meeting since this a.m. and we still don't know anything. I was told that we would know something after the noon hour. Well that could be any time or a long time from now.
I really hope that we are out. Several of the other districts have already either let their students out or are planning on not having school tomorrow. A teacher from Lufkin has called me and told me that the traffic is already bumper to bumper.

Wow it's Monday

And I had a full Sunday of NASCAR racing. Carl didn't do so good in the Sprint race but he won the Nationwide. Go Carl. I'm back at school today and it's the same old same old.

Weekend Update

Well I haven't posted since Wednesday but so much has been taking place. With work and all I have trouble posting. LOL But Thursday was a big day for us. We got home from school and went to talk with the dogs. All but one dog came to see us. We called and called for Bristol and couldn't find her. Now the dogs are in a fenced in backyard so she couldn't have ran away. Finally she comes out from under a trailer we have that they sleep under, but she went right back and she would growl at the other dogs when they came back there. So I had Kayla keep all the dogs around her away from the trailer and I investigated under the trailer and found a little female puppy. Bristol had given birth to one puppy and we didn't know she was pregnant. So we have moved her to a pen of her own with her little puppy.
And the bad news was the races on Friday and Saturday night were postponed until Sunday because of tropical storm Hannah. So at least today Kayla and I get to watch races all day. I know that Carl will be tired at the end of the day.
Kyle had brain surgery on Friday and I haven't heard any updates on him. Hopefully tomorrow I will know something and be able to post.
And we are watching another hurricane. Ike looks like he could make it to the Texas coast sometime next week. At first they thought he might go to the Florida but now it looks like it could be Texas. So we are glued to the Weather Channel once again. But I guess that's okay because after Gustav went through--we are down to only about half the channels on our sattelite tv because it knocked out our other channels. And the repair people can't come until the 17th of September.

Humpday Update

Well it's a boring Wednesday. Nothing new to report. Kayla and I went to Weight Watchers last night and we both lost weight. Nothing big but it was a weight loss no matter what. I'm working again today and everything is going smooth at school. Just a boring life so I guess that's it for my midweek post.

Post Hurricane Gustav

Well we didn't get hit by the hurricane. We are having quite a bit of rain today and the worst of the rain is supposed to hit us this afternoon. Kayla was quite upset because a lot of the local schools were closing due to the hurricane but we didn't. I'm glad that we didn't because if I don't work--I don't get paid. But we are still watching the weather channel quite faithfully due to there still being tropical activity in the Atlantic. Hannah shouldn't bother us because it looks like she is going to the east coast , but Ike and the K storm we don't know what they are going to do. We are just now in the active time period of the hurricane season. By the looks of the news channels, New Orleans faired really well during the storm. There was no breach of the levees.
Not much to report right now because I'm at school trying to get some work done. If anything happens I will drop by for a visit and update.