Mi Vida Ocupada

Feast your eyes on my pretties….soon to be in my mailbox and then on my toes :)

I had several additional colors in my cart but since the deal was Buy 3, Get 3 Free, I put several of them back.

I feel fully justified spending $30 on brand-name nail polish, especially considering I do my own pedicures every two weeks.  Ang has hyped this stuff up for years and once she posted on Facebook about the B3G3F, I couldn’t resist.  This will be my first time trying any Zoya polish, I have high expectations.  I will let ya’ll know what I think ;)

Please forgive my absence the past few weeks.  I had a lovely birthday on Feb 11 followed by a wonderful Valentine’s day (which I hope to still blog about!) and then things rapidly started to go downhill.

• Things have been crazy and overwhelming at work.  On top of my teaching duties, I have hours and hours worth of administration duties to attend to during the month of February and no extra time to do it.  Everything has been on a very short time-frame.
• Crazy times at work WHILE teaching four back-to-back classes of Kindergarten.  Ooof dah
• I woke up barfing my brains out in the middle of the night one night (Feb 16) and had to miss two days of work at a very critical time.  To top it off, the lesson plans I spent an hour preparing at 5am did  not get attached to the e-mail I sent my secretary so my Guest Teacher had no idea what to do.  My boss was super pissed.  Not good
• Menstruation and cramps from hell.  No need to elaborate but it really sucked in more ways than one
• The worst of all of this is that my dear Noemy’s mother passed away last Saturday.  She was only 60 years old which is just too young.  She had been in ICU for three weeks at that point but had started to look like she was going to make a recovery.  We still aren’t sure what happened, it may have been another heart attack but everyone was completely devastated by her death, no one more so than Noemy.  Her mom meant the world to her and vice versa and they were very, very close.  Noemy was the most faithful during her mom’s time of need…. she only left her at the hospital to come home and sleep.  By “home” I mean at my next door neighbor’s house, Darrell and Denise (since Noemy lives at Fort Irwin in California).  I was giving her rides to the hospital every day and have spent time with her every day for the past month.
• Noemy’s husband and her 3 boys came out to MN on Monday and will be here through this Saturday. Her mom’s wake was last Thursday night and the funeral was on Friday (yes, I had to take another day off). Both were very sad but special in their own way and I am so glad that we have been there for our dear friend.

So that is what I have been going through the past few weeks but the worst of it is now over and brighter days are ahead!

Its been way too long since I posted by the bullets.  Lets see what happens today, shall we?!

• The stomach flu is going around my school.  I wasn’t feeling good all morning yesterday and by lunch time, I was tossing my cookies into the garbage.  Went home shortly after and spent the rest of the afternoon on my sofa and felt better within a few hours.  Not sure if I had the flu or if something else is going on??!!
• Noemy is still in town.  She had a very tough time in the 10 days she has been here… her mom is still very sick in the ICU, her dad was also admitted to the hospital all of last weekend for chest pains.  To top it all off, one of her cousins died last week (her mom’s nephew) so she had to attend the funeral while here.  This family has suffered so much.
• Tomorrow is my birthday and let me tell you, 35 sounds WAY older than it feels!!! No big plans but will likely have dinner out with my guy
• Tomorrow is also the District Spelling Bee, so I will be there cheering on my two students.  It takes place at Como Park Zoo so I will probably spend some time at the zoo by myself afterward.
• My school collected over $1600 for Pennies for Patients.  These kids are very poor yet still incredibly generous!!!
• I am currently reading the book, Loving Frank.  It is about the long-time affair of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney
• I had much more to blog about and now all previous thoughts have left me.  I hate it when that happens!!