No January blues here :-)

It's been such a randomly nice week -- here are some of the high points:

* Hanging border, surfing the Web, and laughing my butt off with Susie last Friday night --> that's also when my blog was created.

* Going back on Saturday to hang the rest of the border with Susie, her husband Chris, and Hubby Bill. Eight hands on deck and the stuff finally stuck! :-)

* Sneaking into the Bald Eagle high school basketball game with my mom and Hubby Bill to surprise my grandparents. Pap didn't know it, but he was being honored at half-time with a replica of the baseball letter he should have received 70 years ago as a high school senior -- the 3 of us are not CIA-qualified, but boy was it fun!

* Feeding my students pickled cactus as part of our unit on Mexico...they ate it, and LOVED it! Best $1.86 I've ever spent on school thus far, and yet another reason why I adore teaching 7th grade -- they will eat anything.

* Making a screen from a white Wal-Mart queen-size bed sheet tacked to my classroom wall. With Bill's borrowed speakers and Temporary Override Permission to access YouTube at school, I'm ready to show the actual grainy footage of Dr. King's 1963 "I Have A Dream" speech to my students on Monday. That's making it as real as I can, teaching where I am!

* Signing the papers again to close on our new-to-us home. Cross your fingers for us on the 22nd!

* Friday..."jeans and sneaker day" AND pay day! Once again, I love my job.

* Sleeping in today with Hubby Bill. The week that he's on the evening shift is our Post-It week: I'm zonked out long before he gets home at midnight, he's sound asleep when I get up at 5:45am, and the only way we communicate is through kitchen counter notes. This morning was nice just to reconnect in real-time. :-)

More as it happens. Susie's promised to teach me how to put up photos, which might cut down on the typing (if a picture paints a thousand words, a good photo should crop off at least 300!).