I'm dedicated to my job, but not like this!

Teacher sleeps in classroom during storm

OGDEN, Utah - Intimidated by snowy, slippery roads, a teacher cracked open a can of chili and slept in her classroom. Emma Clisante had a sleeping bag, pillow, toothbrush and fresh clothes Tuesday night at Ogden Preparatory Academy.

"I'm from the Dominican Republic, and when I see snow on the roads, it scares me to death," Clisante said.

She read, surfed the Internet and caught up on other tasks. She turned off the lights when custodians left at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.

"Every hour, I would wake up," Clisante said. "I locked the door from the inside and tried to hide myself under my desk."

Principal Kathy Thornburg was impressed.

"It warms my heart and shows the quality of educators we have at the school," Thornburg said.

Is it January?

So much for the 14 inches of snow we had last week, it all melted with the 64 degree weather we had today. On top of the spring like weather, I was coming out of the exercise club tonight I had to run through puddles of water. Yes puddles because it is thundering and lighnting at the moment. My feet and shoes are soaked. We are also under a tornado watch until about 2 A.M. Last I checked it was January, am I correct?

House Project

For the past two weeks I have been painting at my sister's house. This is a house that we have gutted the kitchen and the bathroom and painting every room in the house. This is the reason why I have 7 kitties living in my house right now because her 3 kitties are guests until we finish this house. I am including some pictures of the kitchen of some before and not quite finished pics. At the moment we are installing cabinets (well my parents are while Rosie and I finish painting, although I am determined to learn) and the green paint around the windows will be replaced with antique white once the windows get replaced. Go us!

I'm feeling accomplished!

So the majority of yesterday was spent to working on school stuff. I didn't realize that I had that much to grade and five hours later and no where close to being finished I think I worked my students to no brain function activity. Poor third graders! I believe that they went brain dead by Wednesday of that final week of school because their spelling tests were horrible and the handwriting stunk. But I am proud to say that I made a major dent in the pile of work that I brought home by 8 o'clock last night considering I started at 11 o'clock. I entered all of my grades into the computer and now I just have to upload when I get to school on Monday for our teacher work day. The only things I have left to do is read and grade a bunch of writing assignments and then enter my lessons into the computer, something I haven't done since August. Gee that is going to be loads of fun! However the plan is to get all of this completed that way I only have to do lesson plans for next week, arrange the room, and get a sub for a half day on Wednesday. Gee I go back to school for one day and then the students get to have a sub! They are going to love that!

Jay has to get a CT scan done on Wednesday and I thought it best that he not go by himself. He has been having stomach problems for the past three or four months. He has nausea everyday and he is hardly eating because it makes him sicker. Plus I can hear his stomach making noises from across the room. I just tell him he is pregnant, he doesn't like that explanation. So Wednesday morning off to the CT scanner to see inside him. Lucky us!

So now off to tackle that pile of writing papers, but maybe first I will go to the gym to work off the lovely holidays!

The end may be in sight...

oh wait the news just said it could be ending before midnight and sunny but chilly tomorrow. Hey I will take the sun!