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.