Fall 2010

So it's been a while...  Here's the Reader's Digest update:

We moved ... a whopping 5 miles!  New apartment, a little quieter, and we love it.

I'm teaching 3rd grade at a school 2.5 miles from our home :)  I love my school and my class.  It has been a great transition.  I'm in the midst of report cards right now.  This is new, I feel like I've put in 12 hours and have finished one.  Here's to hoping the rest move a little quicker. 

This week is fall break!  WHOO-HOO!  While I technically have the week off, I'll be spending the first part of the week doing school-related tasks.  In better news, the hair apt is scheduled for tomorrow, so that should start my week out great.  It should end on an even better note as Eric and I will be spending the weekend in Asheville, NC next weekend. 

In health-related news (which I'm sure you're dying to hear), I stopped drinking coffee when school began.  My main motivation was that I don't have a break in my day until 11:45 (school starts at 7:45) and I couldn't drink coffee and make it 4 hours with no restroom break.  So in the place of coffee I found it quite fitting to add Diet Dr. Pepper to my afternoon routine.  School ends at 3:00, popcorn enters microwave at 3:15 and Diet Dr. Pepper promptly follows.  I find this "one-a-day" to work well.  To my dismay, I recently read on facebook (the source of all true information) that one carbonated beverage a day increases your likelihood of developing Type II diabetes by 83%.   Ugh.  What will I drink now?  Water... all day? 
*If anyone out there has research to support this statistic, I would love to read it.

Our home is an utter disaster.  While I've never experienced such a cluttered mess, Eric says he's proud of me for leaving it this way.  I think it's his attempt to steer clear of cleaning duties!  Teaching has been overwhelming which has forced me to let our home fall through the cracks.  This week should at least move our status to "controlled chaos," and if I'm lucky to "tidy." 

On that note, I should get back to report cards, so I can finish by Wednesday and still have half-a-day to clean before we leave for Asheville!