Wednesday, January 30, 2008

It never fails...

For the past six years that I have been teaching, we have always had some crazy weather during Catholic Schools Week. Today was no exception. Yesterday it was near 50 degrees and raining and then when I woke up this morning it was 1! Yes 1 degree with a wind chill around 25 below (and I wonder why I have a sore throat and a nagging cough). So needless to say we started on a two-hour delay at 5:30 this morning and by 8:00 school was cancelled. So I have spent my time cleaning the house, taking hubby to a doctor appt., and then working out. I still need to go to the post office and then off to get my 6 month cleaning at the dentist today at 5:30. What a fun filled day for me!

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Hey look...

I was on the South Bend Tribune site tonight and hey it is my cousin Frank standing with Bishop John D'Arcy while they are blessing the new beautiful addition at Holy Cross.

Monday, January 28, 2008

Heat please!

Jay and I came home from dinner with my parents last night around 8:00 and then I went downstairs to clean litter boxes while I was down there the furnace was running and running and running. I watched the ignitors light and then go out in a matter of seconds and then it would try to light again after a couple of minutes and do the same thing. Gee I thought to myself, there is no way in heck that it is going to warm up upstairs. So I proceeded to call my father and he told me that the switchy thingy is going out and to call my furnance people because they are on call 24/7. So I called them and they proceeded to give my information to a tech who then called me at 8:30 and told me he could come out on Sunday night or wait until Monday. Gee Jay and I weren't going to freeze all night, so we told him to come on over. Well within 20 minutes he was at our door. Needless to say he fixed our heat along with another part that he said was on death row all within 30 minutes. Then I mention that my dad told me to call him because he was joking around that his bedtime was 9, then I mentioned my dad's name because my dad knows the guy (I just have a different last name so no one recognizes me, which could be a good thing!). He then said that he would send the invoice to my dad because he got him out of his house. Hey I will go along with that! I just really don't want to see the bill, but we really did need heat here in good ol' South Bend in the middle of January going into February! Oh well, heat is good no matter what the cost!

Saturday, January 26, 2008

A touch of spring

I just had to share a pic with you because it is so nice just to have a touch of spring in my house. It makes me joyful because I know this is what is going to be around the corner here in a couple of months!

Friday, January 25, 2008

Happy 100th!

Happy 100th day of school. Yup we have now been in school for 100 days and that only means that we have 80 left to go for this year. I still have so much to accomplish during these 80 days that we have left!