Surviving the Swine Flu!

Well, it's been an interesting weekend. For any that have been living in a cave, then let it be known that there's a Swine Flu epidemic starting up...! The only 2 confirmed cases (as of this morning) in Texas were in a neighboring school district to the one I work in (when I say neighboring, I really mean overlapping/intertwined). There are about 15 more cases in the area that are being looked at and tested for Swine Flu. The Schertz-Cibolo-Univ. City school district initially only planned to shut down their high school for the week, but came back on Sunday and said they were shutting down schools/facilities district wide for the week so that buses, and campuses, can be cleaned thoroughly.

Now all those schools have a week of standardized TAKs testing to make up... but apparently TEA has dismissed them from making up the week of missed school. So, our question in my school district is why is our district not taking the same precautions? Kind of crazy... especially since we found out today that the HEB down the road has been closed for the week due to Swine Flu.... now I'm not a genius in the realm of medical issues... but I'm pretty sure shutting down an entire business due to a flu epidemic is a red flag that shouldn't be ignored! Not to mention, we had a whole BUNCH of kiddos absent today because their families aren't comfortable sending them to school right now... I wonder how many testing kiddos will be out... it'll be difficult to get them to come take the test, and that counts against us... seems like it would've been easier to avoid that problem (since so much emphasis is placed on this TAKs test) by rescheduling testing, and having students stay home this week. Ah well... I wonder if we'll all be alerted to stay home this week eventually... I think it's just a matter of time.

YAY! It's my Friday!!!

Since tomorrow is the Battle of Flowers celebration for Fiesta... and we have the day off... TODAY IS MY FRIDAY!!! It should be a very easy, low-key day... all we're doing is going on a field trip to the planetarium! After I'm done, I entirely plan on coming home and just grabbing a few things, and then heading to the D3's... I haven't seen them in FOR-EV-ER!!! and I miss them! They're leaving early Sunday morn for a week long cruise... so I have to see them now before they go... :)

Everyone have a good day!

BLAH!

Today feels like Monday, too... :( I can't stop sneezing, I feel real cruddy... and I will be VERY upset with my student if he decides to hit someone because they're beating him at checkers again today landing him in ISS for 1/2 a day...! THIS ISN'T THE WEEK TO MESS WITH ME! I will TOTALLY make him stay behind from his field trip Thursday to do work all day long!

ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

'Where in the world' is Kels...?

I've just been plain busy. And I've been tired. When you put these two things together, you get someone who comes home, eats a snack, does some "activity" like yoga, etc., and then takes a nap until dinner. This leaves little time to shoot the breeze on a blog. Until the weekend, of course.

I'm just feeling drained... physically more than emotionally. Although, after Easter day with my family, I felt REALLY emotionally drained. Every single family member there asked if I had a teaching contract for next year yet. My answer: no. "Well, when will you get one?!?" My answer: I don't know. I had to start trying to be inventive in how I answered no, and I don't know. It's like each of them didn't understand the language I was speaking. It's still a bit early... and honestly I may not hear something until June or July. That's the scary part. I whole-heartedly hope that I hear something by the end of this school year, but I just don't know for sure. Just like I'm really hoping to get a position at my campus, but I don't know. I work really hard, I try really hard to give 150% all the time... and a lot of the time I think I'm doing so much stuff that isn't seen... that it's not even realized that I'm the one doing it. At the same time, I'm not going to make a big deal about pointing out all that I do because then it looks like I'm fishing... and I'm not. I just like keeping busy, and I like helping out the people I work with as much as I can.

I'm just hoping and praying that this year will finally be the year I get a position! Please, Dear Lord... hear what I'm asking for. Now I entirely plan on going to bed soon because I'm tired. It was a long week, and the next couple won't be any treat, either! Although, at least we have Friday off next week for Battle of Flowers day. But the day before is a field trip to the Planetarium... I'm just hoping my kid doesn't freak out about anything and run off!!! :( I don't think his mom will be joining us this time.

Today was a pretty good day...

It was April Fool's Day... not too many pranks happened on campus (thank goodness) and today was my co-worker/friend Stephanie's birthday... her 30th! I made her a cake... I was tempted to use the rest of the black icing from Dustin's checkered flag cupcakes, but I didn't! lol

Here's a couple pictures:

This is a shot of the top of the cake. I used 2 shades of blue (her fav color) and some purple to make it more girly and less like a baby boy's cake! lol

I also used polka dots for a pattern. There were all over the top, and then all around the sides of the cake. If you look carefully, you'll notice on top of the daisy borders there are small polka dots in the centers of the "flowers." (you can see it better in the top photo)