A Canadian in America...

"My Birthday Weekend"

Well, you all know how my birthday started. Sort of. I woke up, and Eric made my birthday bear (a present from Jill and Ryan last birthday) sing and dance for me for awhile, which was rather amusing, if I do say so myself. Then, I made and ate French toast, which was alright except for the fact that our frying pan sucks and it kind of stuck to the pan. But anyway, I then went to get the rental car that Eric and I need for the week. Unfortunately, the only time I could go was 9:00, which meant that I was in and out of there and got to work 45 minutes early. I decided to walk around the area, stopped and got a chai tea latte, and walked around some more. When it was time to go to work I got there before everybody, and proeeded to turn on all the computers. None of them were working properly. This was a problem. I was by myself because it seemed that everyone else was late! Eric phoned me and was all like, "Hey, we need to re-boot our computer system", and I was all like, SH#T!!! I had no idea how to do this, so I had Eric phone me on my cell phone and walk me through it. Seriously, like I've been telling everybody else, it was like he was speaking freakin' Japanese....but anyhow, eventually I did it, not very calmly, and vowed never to work on my birthday again. Really. I remember two years ago on my birthday I had the poopiest day ever. Same again on Saturday. Never work on birthdays. It sucks.

So, anyhow, I worked for six hours, never got lunch due to the fact that it was way too busy and by the time i could have gotten lunch there was only an hour left in the shift anyway. So after work I drove home, waited for Eric to get home, and then we went to go and pick up the rental car, since I had to leave it there. Then we went over to our friends' house for a BBQ, and that was about it. Yummy food!!!!
Sunday, I had to assist Eric in taking his car to the shop (which is why we need the rental), we went grocery shopping and I organized and cleaned our apartment like a madwoman.

Oh yeah, and Eric's parents got me the awesomest stuffed cat for my birthday. It's a Russ cat with the most unimpressed pissed-off expression on his face. I need to take a picture of him and post it. He's awesome! I haven't picked a name yet.....

Today work was icky again. My kids are bad still, even though last week was pretty good. I think the problem is that on Monday, all the bad ones are there, but I'm the only teacher. On the rest of the days, the same kids are still there with some other kids, and there's TWO teachers. That makes life somewhat easier, I suppose.

So that's my story. I think I should go and play some Nintendo DS. Sweet.

posted by Jo @ Monday, September 25, 2006