Day by Day

In three weeks, I will be teaching a course for University of St. Joseph's.  It runs for four hours one night a week, for seven weeks.  It is a graduate course for teachers.  The topic is special education, including social-emotional learning.  As I began reading the chapters of the two textbooks, I found myself learning things about the brain that I either didn't remember or never learned.  I was scared at first-four hours and I haven't really taught in awhile (I have-adults-but I never give myself the credit I deserve).  It is all starting to come to me though...creativity is one of my strengths and I just have to get it rolling again.  There is so much to do in life, how do we pick and choose?  I just want to do everything!

Here it is...I have been waiting.  When we first moved in and Bob was laid off, he ended up painting a few rooms.  One of the reason I loved this house was because we did not have to do a lot with it decorating-wise.  The previous owner was rich and it shows.  However, there are a few rooms that are starting to get to me...I may have to learn how to put in kitchen cabinets and retile bathrooms, but for now....it is just the front entry room.  It has a drop ceiling that desperately needs to be replaced.  It needs a good painting also. So, off I went to Lowe's figuring I would just pick out a paint for the walls, but that led me to looking at the drop ceiling tile aisle..which led me to teh sales person for help in looking at tiles..which he then led me to the total clearance ceiling tiles that normally cost 10 x's what they did, each.  Of course I am about 10 tiles short, but we are going to do a pattern of cheap, expensive, cheap, expensive.  I am...