ready for the slowdown

at the behest of my mother, i am blogging again! i don't know why, maybe the busy-ness of this week, or maybe my somewhat recent introspective state of mind, but for whatever reason i haven't felt like broadcasting... or i guess it could be that a lot of my other fellow bloggers haven't been doing much posting of their own, and i'm feeling shafted in the reading realm - who knows!

let's see...

on the work front, i have now been given the title i have been trying to avoid all year - graduation project coordinator. somehow, the woman whose job it was to organize this convinced our headmaster to give it to someone else... and that someone was me. greeeeeat. so now i'm the english 4 teacher, the yearbook advisor, the "cross-eyed" club faculty advisor, and the graduation project coordinator. perhaps this is why i'm exhausted all the time. what this will really mean for me, i'm not sure yet as we've never done the graduation project, but who knows what it'll mean for my future at ewa.

on the home front, chloe is growing like a weed, and we're really enjoying hanging out with all the dogs in our gigantic yard. we're having trouble getting the lawn mowed though, so the grass is getting really, really high again. the interior our home isn't done yet (and i'm sure won't be for a while), but we did get some new paint for the living room so it won't look purple anymore, and for the exterior, we bought some azaleas and gardenias to plant around the front and side of the porch. maybe by christmas we'll be ready to have a housewarming party or something :-/ can you tell i'm getting sick of the place not being done?

other than that, the only really exciting things were food-related. i had a craving for daylight donuts (my preference over krispy kreme), and we drove all the way to cary for them... just to find out that unless you go EARLY, they have absolutely nothing left. major bummer. later though, we tried to make up for it by going to humble pie - which was awesome. we started eating outside on the patio, but the deluge from the hurricaine had us all running inside (even though we were under a covering), carrying our plates, silverware, and wine glasses to avoid being drenched. dinner was awesome nonetheless, and andrew and i enjoyed hanging out together.

that's about it. suffice it to say, i'm ready for life to slow down a little.