I’m trying very hard to eat my breakfast, type this, and babysit a rambunctious puppy before I go to school today. I’m not ready for school…mentally. Physically, I can do today. And then I’ll think about the next day. And the next day. Which makes it hard when your boss wants a lesson plan for some Thursday and he probably wants it earlier than the morning of. Or the night before. Which is where I’m at right now. I have stuff planned out in order, but no clue how long most of it will take, so who the fuck knows what I’ll be teaching on the day he wants to observe. I mean, I’ll know on the day. I hate not being planned better, but it’s physically impossible right now to get there. Again. For the fourth year in a row. So completely done, y’all. PRO! I finished grading things, so I have a few days of leeway before I have to get back on that. I really wanted to be fully planned out for the next three weeks, but it didn’t happen. I have a rough plan for two of them…some decisions need to be made, and otherwise, I just need to let it play out to get the timing right. Absolutely no help on that from anywhere. Sigh.
Moving on. So I finished tracing the quilt on Friday night…
It’s been really fast compared to the last one. Then Saturday night, I cut all the pieces out.
Luckily Annie slept through all that, although she did just about knock an entire box over when she woke up to Simba’s barking.
Yeah. All of them. It was about 4 1/2 hours. Delightful. Last night, I sorted them all…
It took a whopping 18 minutes. So funny. The last one was over 2 hours. I do love a big complicated quilt, but sometimes this is a relief, to do a smaller, less complicated one.
Then I started trying to clean up the studio, putting fabric away so I can start ironing to fabric tonight. I’m not done cleaning, but I’m not cooking tonight and I have no grading (just planning) to do, so hopefully I can spend a little more time in here tonight and actually start ironing to fabric. We’ll see.
Friday was also our Thanksgiving dinner, with my family…just the parents and the Man. The kids are still in the UK…actually, I think the girlchild is back now.
Mom is not fazed by dogs…even very in-your-face dogs.
She’s ripping borders off a quilt duvet she made so she can turn it into a king-sized duvet instead of a queen. Pain in the ass…
Dad also had a dog…
They were very patient with my turkey issues…it turned out fine, but took an hour longer than I had planned. As usual.
Kept it pretty simple. Yes, the dressing turned out great. Second time.
Small group. Lots of cooking and cleanup, but nice to see them otherwise.
This is a first…Nova and Simba on the bed together.
It didn’t last long. It’s like the bed is neutral territory and anyone (but Annie) can be up there together. Weird.
Also weird that we still have caterpillars on milkweed that is still blooming.
We’ll see if any of it survives to next year.
OK. Three weeks of school until the next break. That’s 15 days. Fifteen days with 1 assembly, 1 observation, 1 literacy meeting, possibly 4 sex ed curriculum meetings, 3 staff meetings, 1 union/principal meeting, at least 3 parent-teacher meetings, at least 4 labs, and who knows what else that I just don’t know about yet. I think I can do that. Maybe. Also a quilt to finish, hopefully sooner rather than later. We’ll see how that goes.
Kathy Nida 