Oh Gracious

So here I am back at school..Posting when I should be studying..What else is new? So I ended up missing a full 7 days of work and 4 days of school and I am SOOOOO behind!! It's insane. The only good thing is that in my clin 1 teacher has also been sick and so we can turn our work in late w/out it being counted down. The bad thing is I haven't been working on ANY of my papers for Comm 101 and Im behind like 8 things. Now granted they aren't hard, I just don't want to do them. So Im gonna talk to the teacher tomorrow and ask if I can have everything turned in by next Tuesday ( I would say Thursday but thats Thanksgiving=no class). Hopefully he says yes cause if not Im screwed!! YAY!! So we'll see how that goes.

On the preschool front. Things are going okay. The new director is having a little trouble being a self-starter as in sometimes she doesn't pull her weight, but my mom is talking to her about that so hopefully that changes. Im still not 100% on her. She's nice, but I don't feel like she has the shoulders to take on all the craziness that is the preschool. She seems kind of, I don't know. I can't really put my finger on it. One day things seem really great & another day things really suck. Last weekend my mom & I got into it as I was leaving for work and I basically had a meltdown at work because she confronted me there. I confronted her right back. Hollering ensued. But we worked things out at least for now. We have decided to close on Friday because of the Thanksgiving holiday. Now let me point out a few things that bother me here. We had 3 families sign up to be at PS on Friday. Last Friday one of them opted out saying they wouldn't need us after all. The other two families were ADAMANT that we HAD to be open because they would have NO WHERE else to put their children if they weren't there. Okay, fine. I asked for that day off before I got sick so I volunteered to come in that day to make up hours. Now theoretically, we go down the totem pole of people that have to be there on holidays. It should've been the 2 newest people and we know who they are. Well those 2 people had already "announced" that they would NOT be bringing their child that day nor would they be working it. NICE. So it was my mom & I working the holiday (what else is new?) So then, last Friday evening, one of the students on the list is being picked up and his mom says "Well if my boys are the only ones on the list, we have some place to put them." WHAT!??!? If you have some place to put them, why did you put them on the damn list in the first place? What kind of sense does that make? Then the other student on the list told me the same thing. Well sorry folks, don't change your mind, we are CLOSED Friday. Just dumb. I got to leave at 9AM today because we only had 19 kids & 6 staff members and so I came to school and studied. I've gotten some stuff done, but I still need to write those damn papers. Ugh. Oh well only 3 days of work & school this week.

Wedding wise: We visited the florist on Tuesday and picked the flowers which now I want to completely change, of course. We chose to go w/all roses and now I think I want to add mango & yellow cala lillies to the mix. Here are the original choices, my favorite are the hocus pocus http://www.equiflor.com/flower_catalog.aspx (scroll down to about the middle of the page, then we chose Leonidas (scroll down to almost teh end of the page), and Orange Circus which they dont have a picture of but are a dark/bright orange color. All are VERY gorgeous but the more I thought about it the more I dont think the Hocus Pocus will work because of the red. I think we will stick w/the Leonidas, change HP to Tressor or Gold Strike, & keep the Circus. I think the cala lillies will really add something to the roses. All of the bouquets/corsages/bouteniors will also have fall leaves incorporated. We decided that the girls will carry a 24 stem bouquet and I will carry a 36 stem bouquet while Gabby will carry a 6 stem bouquet and the flower girls will have decorated baskets w/the leaves in them. We are having a memorial candle w/bouquet made for the organ (to honor grandparents that had passed) and a unity candle bouquet that will be made out of silk flowers but will match the real ones (that way we can keep it & have it as a centpiece somewhere in our house). We still haven't gotten the bridesmaids together, I was hoping to do that on December 1st, but I haven't gotten out the emails and I don't know if it is now too short of a notice. I will have to get on that ASAP. We are going to a tasting at JB's on 01-09-08 to choose our menu & our cake! Im excited! There is also a bridal show on 01-05 to 01-06 downtown, but we can't go on 01-05 because that is Becca & Jeremy's Wedding!! YAY!! Hopefully we can go on the 6th, if not, there is another one in February. I didn't realize how much more there is to do. Such as, tuxes, bridesmaids, flowergirls, readings, music, dj, more music, rehearsal dinner, shoes, honeymoon, places for out of town guests to stay, etc. Goodness

Everything else seems to be going well. The weather has FINALLY turned chilly and it feels like winter, although I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving. Oh yeah, and I can't believe I turned 25 yesterday!!! It was really good birthday. On Friday the teachers surprised me w/a beautiful cake & then yesterday Evan came to church and the kids sang up front and then Mrs. Brenda pulled me up and made everyone sing to me. I was SO embarrassed. My parents were in Tennesee for my birthday (they left Wednesday afternoon) and they sent beautiful pink roses for the front of the church. They are also getting me a pair of boots & a drum roll please DIGITAL CAMERA!!! I am so freaking excited!! Evan also did very well in the presents department, he is getting me a froggy ULTRASCOPE and he got me Shrek 3!! It was a great birthday!!

Okay thats all for now..Love Love Love

No time..

I was gonna write a big long update, but I waited and now I have to go to class in 20 minutes..Maybe I can get a little bit in.

1. As you may have noticed by the ticker we have changed the wedding date back to the original 10-04-08. Because...Evan failed the IMPD exam...He missed the run by 35 seconds..So he doesn't start the academy anytime soon. Im still proud of him because I never could have done all that physical stuff, but if he doesn't get accepted by the state police (he takes the written exam on 12-07) then the physical for the next round of IMPD is 09-28-08 the day after our wedding and we figured that would be too exhausting and there was really no way he could do very well. So we are back to 10-04-08 which of course make me really happy!
2. The Colts (esp. Adam Vinatieri) suck! They lost last week to the Patriots (expected) and last night AGAIN to the Chargers (unexpected, at least by me). I have not been a Vinatieri fan since he missed a field goal in the Super Bowl. So I wasn't surprised when he missed THREE last night (including what would have been the game winner). But all in all, the Colts have not played like a Super Bowl team for the last 2 weeks and deserved to loose..

Okay, I'll add more to this later cause I must go to class and some nosey person is reading over my shoulder..

Out of bed for a moment

Flu, bronchitis, a sinus infection=very little blogging, no work or school til at least Friday (I've been off since LAST Friday)
Colts Loose to the Patriots
Ballard wins the mayoral race
IMPD will return to control under the mayor
Evan got his letter and has the IMPD physical exam this Friday

Excitement, but sickness prevails.

More on these and other stories when I am back on my feet.

Back to bed I go.