Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 10:17 AM
I don't know how many other people reading this may be from New Jersey. but we have been inundated with rain for what feels like forever now. I think the weather reporter said we had 4 dry days this month! My poor mother planned my little sister's high school graduation party for yesterday, originally thinking she would BBQ. When she saw the weather report, she decided to cook inside instead. Low and behold, the weather held up beautifully yesterday and everyone ate outside! Yay! I don't want to get my hopes up too high, but the weather is holding up pretty well again today... dare I think that maybe I could spend some time outside?
Posted Sunday, June 14, 2009 4:30 PM
So just when everything was calming, there has to be something new. Every weekend there is something new with this relative! My husband had many friends that had losses in their families this week, and all of the arrangements fell in the same 24 hours. This has been a really long weekend because of it. The relative that was causing a commotion just in general and then with my friend last week, now is causing drama with my husband's friends. This relative, like I said before, is a busy body and is everywhere apparently! She has no connection with one of the people who we had to see this weekend, but instead of just going paying her respects and leaving, she had to stir up a commotion! Now, one of my husband's friends is mad at him and has not returned any of his phone calls! He's really upset because we could not make it to the wake, but there was a limit to how many we could go to!
I told him to call the friend and take him out to lunch or for some drinks so that they could talk. I feel horrible about not making it there, but how depressing was our weekend, this is all we did, make rounds to MANY wakes! I am unsure what to do now. I can't believe she had to get involved in this too! SHe kept calling my husband while he was at work yesterday afternoon and asking him why he wasn't there, she was! I could kick her in the face for what she's putting him through this month, but we have to deal with her. He won't let the connection go!
Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:35 PM
A relative and I have had issues for years now, I vent about them all of the time. She has a wonderful life, but is still a very jealous person. She has created large scale problems for me in almost every venue of my life at sometime or another. I know the reality of our situation, but I still for some reason am surprised every time something happens. I don;t know how to move past this.
A close friend of mine has recently began rekindling her friendship with this person. They were friends when they were younger and had a huge falling out that lasted until recently. This girl is very sweet but has no backbone. She makes statements about everything, but would never in a million years repeat them to that person's face. When they were at odds, she would rant on about her for hours and hours. SInce I have had so many problems withe her, we would talk for hours. It was always nice to have someone that wasn't family but knew her well.
Now that the two of them are speaking again, my friend has been avoiding me. It's almost like she doesn't want me to know that they are friends again. We have found out through our mutual friends how friendly they have become. They are always together now. To add to this, my relative is acting strange towards me now. I don't care that they are friendly, that's non of my business. I care that she feels she has to hide it from me. I also fear that she may betray my trust in her hiding. I have no idea what to do.
Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:08 AM
My family has been very involved in the educational issue in my town since I was very young. When I was in grammar school, my father was appointed to the BOE and served as president for 9 years. He used his knowledge as an educator to help bring my town's schools into the new times and make education count for the children. A few years later he passed and my mother stood in his place, but this time holding the position of Vice President. She also was backed with her educational foundation as a former teacher and fought to lead our schools back into the forefront.
Over the past few years, things have once again gotten ugly in town politics. This is the reason my father did not run for another term. My mother is a fighter and said that she needed to stay on the board so that someone was watching out for the children. In the months to follow upon her getting her new paperwork in for the next election, reports came out from the state. It began linking the same people my mother said were not in it for the children to a trail of donations from school venues and dirty paperwork. The election was the longest one of our lives, full of mailers accusing my mother of everything under the sun.
Last night, the town spoke. They happily released her duties. I am torn on this. I know the dedication she showed to her position, which is not even paid. I am happy she will not be wasting her time speaking to deaf ears, and sitting on committees and wasting her time fighting for the children, when all they wanted was to get their names in the spotlight. I'm tired of her fighting with people that have been funded by all of the new contracts that have been brought in on bids. On the same not, I am enraged with my neighbors for picking low IQ and politics over class and dedication to the schools. I know my mother will move onto bigger and better things now. She deserves to. I cannot believe that things unfolded this way though. She had the endorsement of every paper, home and school and what not. She is fine with this decision, thank God! I am stuck in the middle though. I guess this is normal, but I do not have anyone around me going through these emotions with me. My family is so happy to have her back. My husband keeps saying she is too smart and good to be working with these people. And here I am, somewhere in the middle. Is this a normal reaction?
Posted Sunday, April 12, 2009 1:45 PM
I am sadly ending my wonderful week off from schools and would just like to wish everyone out there a happy holiday!
I have to remember this happy fuzzy feeling when my alarm goes off at 5am tomorrow morning for the first time in a few days!
Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:50 PM
If anyone live in the NYC area I would recommend they go to the Guggenheim Museum. I took my high school art classes there today, they loved it! The show is really great!
The great day had a less pleasant ending though. Our supervisor thought he was doing a cool thing for us and had a representative from Sax Arts come out and show us new products we could use in our classrooms. The material was great, all crayola though. Crayola is great but when you show a high schooler a crayola brand product they assume you have low standards for them. Or at least mine do! I was excited about the products and new papers, but the lady that presented it was really brazen. She just thought she knew it all about art. She kept taking credit for things she brought that were obviously not her own work... they said other people's names on it!
So now I am sitting between my homework and the samples we received from the crazy lady. I know I should start the homework, but I really want to play with the samples instead!
Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:20 PM
I went into this observation in a panic. I had an entire technological break down. My thumb drive with all of my lesson plan has erased itself, so I typed a new lesson plan at home. My printer broke, so I had to email my lesson plan to myself at work, but the server at work was not working that morning... so I hand wrote my lesson plan in 10 minutes! I was in a total panic! I had my post observation conference today.... it went awesome! I am recommended for tenure! Yay me!!!
Posted Sunday, March 01, 2009 11:15 AM
We spent all weekend in Hackensack for the regional wrestling tournament, my BIL was in them. He did fantastic, he placed second in the region. His loss was to this kid who was amazing and had beaten him a few times before in this season. BIL was angry he lost, but I have never seen such sore losers as his parents. Mike ran off the mat and my husband ran to follow him to help calm him down and remind him that he did such a wonderful job. My IL's stormed out. I looked up after I finished adjusting the video camera and found that I was alone! What babies!
Now I am sitting on the coach in a quiet house with nothing to do for the first time this weekend. Damn it feels good! Everything with the tournament was so scheduled, we were leaving at 9am and returning at 10pm only to go to bed and restart in the morning. I think I will paint something today!