No Rest for the Weary

I have Spring Fever something fierce. Getting motivated to grade a bunch of 3rd grade reading worksheets is daunting and I'm just not interested. The kids are beginning to be more interested in sleeping in class than anything else. Frankly I don't blame them either. They still have the Math TAKS to take in a couple of weeks so everyone on the 3rd grade team is holding math tutorials for an hour in the middle of the day. At the same time there are several Reading remediation classes taking place to help the 9 little kids that did not pass the Reading TAKS. They will have two days of tests back to back. Poor guys.

Last night my loving husband invited me along to Minute Maid Park to watch the Astros Opening Day Game with the Marlins. It was a good game and the Astros won, but I was so tired from being at school all day. I was worried about going out instead of staying home to grade papers. But I decided the papers would be there when I got around to them and a night out with my husband was really what I needed. However, I was longing for a morning to sleep in today, but wouldn't you know I pulled morning duty this week. I have to be on duty in the gym by 7:20 a.m. Not too early for some people, but I would much rather wake up slowly sipping my coffee and lounging around in my houserobe until 1:00.

I am getting to have a weekend with the girls though. I'm looking forward to taking off this Friday to attend the Woman's Conference in Houston on Friday and Saturday. Some of my friends are even coming back here to spend the night with me like we are young girls again. Should be fun. That's only the beginning of the weekend.

Saturday night the cast of "Sordid Lives" the play at our community theater, will have their party here at my house after the show. Its a late night party, but I look forward to that too because those theater people are just plain fun. Especially since half of them are related to me.

Sunday we are going on a picnic with our church group after morning services. Then Kim will have to go to the theater for the matinee. My grades are due for the term on Monday morning so the rest of Sunday will be spent preparing them to be downloaded. By the time Monday night rolls around, I'm going to crash.

I should be used to this job and the way the end of the year starts moving as fast as a ball rolling down a mountain. My students and I still have a field trip to the Houston Planetarium and Butterfly Exhibit coming up right after those TAKS tests are over. I can't let up my momentum yet even though I wish I could.

Just 35 days until our Summer break. The countdown begins. Oh and just in case any of you 12 month working types are getting ready to tell me I'm lucky to get the summer off...believe me, I've put in the summer hours after my workday has officially ended. I'm just as much a 12 month worker as anyone. I just have to stay late and work almost every night to make it up. Trust me, it's time for the break to get here.

All teachers are ready to rest and relax on the beaches, lakes and in condos. Its time to stay up late watching old movies and sleeping in the next morning. My days of teaching are numbered and I won't be sad to see this year end. So turn up the CD player so I can listen to the music of lazy days. I'm ready.

A Desperate Fix

Today as I was reading my son's comment to my last blog, my eyes grew wide and my heart raced at the revelation of what I learned. He told me that I could order episodes of the Second Season of "Desperate Housewives" from iTunes. Oh wow! I never thought of that. I can catch up on the Second Season and find out all those DH secrets that I've missed.
As soon as I got home from work, I clicked the link that he had conveniently embedded in his comment. Then... lo and behold...there it was. It was as if a choir of angels had begun to sing and I looked upon the words. For a mere $1.99 an episode I can watch my new "Friends". Also, if I want to, for $34.99, I can download all of the second season DH episodes PLUS be in the queue for future episodes not yet aired. Yes! This internet is a good thing. Thank you Jason. Thank you internet. Thank you iTunes. I bow before your greatness. Let the second season of "...Housewives" begin.

Desperate Me

Just when I have been saying that there was absolutely nothing on TV to watch since "Friends" quit filming, I was introduced to "Desperate Housewives". Now I had originally thought that DH was just another "reality" show. I was not into watching smart-mouthed female judges, or shows where a snooty English nanny comes into a home to save the mom from her own kids and I certainly wasn't going to watch a bunch of whiney housewives. Nope, that is not what I like to see. I'm not about reality of that sort. I couldn't have been more wrong about DH. It is just the right mix of Hollywood reality and comic relief.

I don't know who I should blame my addiction to this show on. Kim, because he ordered the first disc of the first season from Netfliks and I had to watch it in its entirety...all in one Saturday, or my girlfriend because when she learned that I liked it so much loaned me her set of "Desperate Housewives" whole first season DVDs. It has taken me only one week to watch the whole first season plus extras. Hey, I'm behind by a whole season, I had some catching up to do. But now that the first season DVDs are finished, I had a dilemma...do I wait for season reruns to continue the sequence or do I just jump into the regular shows on TV now?

Well it was Sunday night and I realized that DH was on TV. But since I have never watched it on regular TV I didn't even know what channel it came on. However, I still wasn't sure if I wanted to jump forward in the DH timeline. So as I scrolled through the TV menu, I found it. There it was on ABC, Channel 13 at 8:00 p.m., "Desperate Housewives". It wasn't 8:00 yet and so I just set a reminder. As I watched "My Best Friend's Wedding" for the umteenth time, the reminder popped up. Do I or don't I? Oh, what the heck! I was desperate for new episodes of my now favorite TV series.

So, now I'm hooked. There is no going back. "Desperate Housewives" is going to be with me for as long as the ABC network will carry it. What can I say? I'm in love. :-0