... exhausted... ****edited****

 Here's today in point form... and my goals for tomorrow... I may expand later...

I have expanded - the bold is an explanation of all the happenings!!

Today

• old lady in English - drives me batty. - Said lady is in her 50's or 60's kudos to her on going back to college. I guess it couldn't have been an easy decision and stuff... but she is 'slow' and makes some comments that are waaaay out there. I mean I guess I shouldn't rag - she participates in class more than me, but sometimes her opinons should be kept to herself. I am sure Sam, likes being referred to as 'that girl' every day. And I know I certianly didn't appreciate her calling me and the rest of my generation ZOMBIES because we were raised differently than her... but I chuckled at it anyway. She adds some zest to the class, but can be annoying - but can't we all?!
• rude remark in Math (requires me to draw a triple venn diagram)

So the question was what does the shaded area represent??

To which the male student answered - "One at a time or all three"  To which the male instructor said "YES! RIGHT! Just like with girls right?!" to which the classroom had a wide variety of reactions, some laughed, some looked appauled, some didn't seem to care. I thought it was rather awkward for a teacher in his 60's to make a comment like that.. but that's just me...
• missed Olympic Torch relay - I had been looking forward to seeing the Torch Relay for weeks, but got called into work because one of the girls was sick. There's no way I was turning down a shift... had I said no, I would have been shuffled to the bottom of the relief list the next time they did callouts! I had a good shift. I had the opportunity to bond with some of the youth. The one boy (even if he was creepy) that I had manged to bond with before had been discharged. We had a boatload of paperwork to do, but it went by quickly. I love the job, I love working with the youth, we have some pretty exceptional ones right now. But they have managed to get themselves into trouble yet again. Thankfully I wasn't working the shift where 911 was called. I would have freaked. It's sad sometimes, the things these kids have witnessed, participated in and experienced in their short lives...
• bonding
• paperwork
• work
• crayon story - The other day my mom had Austin (7-year-old nephew) after school and overnight. She realized after he was in bed that his snowpants and his winter jacket were SOAKED (from the melting snow outside!)... so she decided to throw his CUTE camo jacket and pants into the dryer.... only to find the next morning that they now appeared to look like my innocent nephew had gone on a paintballing rampage... I guess that's what happens when a little kid leaves a package of crayons in their jacket and poor old grandma puts them it in the dryer... I got a good laugh out of it... but laughed even harder when mom told me that her dryer was coated in wax crayons. My sister in law was kind enough to clean the dryer out for mom, removed all the wax... and Austin was adament he did not steal the crayons, that they were from BP's... mom the whole time reassured the little gaffer that she didn't doubt him, but that she wished he would have put them with his school supplies.
• me boys - I went home Thursday to do some car insurance stuff, cooked dinner for mom and visited a bit. She isn't doing so hot. But I didn't make many comments, I try not to let on that I know as much as I know. She didn't leave her chair the whole three or four hours I was there. I wonder how often she does leave it when noone is around. It makes me worry. A LOT. After that I made a quick visit to my brother and sister in law's. And had a spectacular visit with my boys!! I can't believe how much they are growing! I love going to their house because before I even drive in the drive way,  Austin is usually waiting outside for me and then Slade comes a cruising when I walk through the door! I got lots of cuddle time in. I love playing with the boys, and visiting with them... it is my mission to make one of Slade's next words out of his mouth be AUNTIE! He has three teeth and is sooo close to walking... I got him to take five steps on his own!! Before long he will be terrorizing the house!! And Austin is growing and still my little nerd!

Tomorrow

• use up all the bananas in baking - I only used three... but maybe soon I will do some more baking.
• make lasagna - I succeeded in this! It tastes amazing!!!
• write my educ paper - Not such a success... maybe tomorrow...
• study math, educ, edpy, spanish - Tomorrow....
• go for a walk - Tomorrow...
• blog - success!