55 Stressful Things.

I do not have time to blog, but I must blog because so much has happened.  And if I don’t keep up with this blog, then I have a hard time getting back into it.

Because.  Where do you start, Man?

Alright.

Switching to online teaching has been quite the ordeal.  I try to remain positive, but I did have a 10 min flip out session with David this morning over coffee at 4:45am.

It may have even been twenty minutes.

Things are hairy at school.  It is too complicated to even blog about.  So let us discuss other stressful things, shall we?

Disclaimer:  This post might be all over the place.  Your understanding is appreciated.

1.  We are about to close on the sale of the rental.  This is good, but it is always stressful to make sure everything is as it should be.  You know?
2. We switched the boys to private school.  And that means we are hemorrhaging money.
3. My car needed new tires.  I had to go to a tire shop after school and sit there.  WHILE BEING STRESSED about school and then they found something wrong with the brakes and since we were going out of town soon, we should fix them and so that was more money and more time.
4. We had to do a last minute repair on the rental.  And that cost us many dollars.
5. We have this steer.  He is kind of a killjoy.  Because he won’t stay put.  And he enjoys breaking fences.
6. Did I tell you we were going out of town this weekend?  David’s brother, Alex, is getting married.  It is about a six hour drive from our home.  David is the best man.  The girls are mad that they are not flower girls.  At 17 and 16 years old.
7. I go live with online teaching on Monday.  Did I tell you things are hairy at school?
8. Because David is the best man, he must be at the rehearsal.  Because I am going live with teaching on Monday and things are hairy, I booked a flight to join them after they drove to the wedding so I could work.
9. I decided to lovingly write a post card to all 29 of my new students.  I needed to stop by the post office to mail them after work yesterday.
10. Towards the end of the day, I got a call from the secretary of the boys’ new school.  And at first I was like, “What the what?  Did LD ALREADY get in trouble?”  And she was like, “Oh, we think your son broke his nose in P.E.” And is it bad that I preferred that option to a behavior call?
11. Luckily, my mother had gotten off early that day and was able to swing by and grab him and we met up at the doctor’s office.
12. And as I was sitting in the doctor’s office, I was in an absolute panic.  Because it was Thursday at about 4pm.  And I was getting on a plane the next afternoon and was TOTALLY not ready to go live on Monday.
13. I feel it is important for the teacher to be ready for students.  But that is just me.
14. And the doctor was like, “Oh, his nose is broken and he needs to see an ENT within 24 hours and he should not travel and he might have a concussion.”
15. And is it bad that I was relieved?  Because teaching.
16. And so, I cancelled my flight and booked an appointment with the ENT for this morning.  After clearing it with my principal.  Of course.  And LD and I announced that, sadly, we would miss the wedding.
17. And the post cards did not get mailed yesterday afternoon.
18. And I got home, and David was like, Oh, I need your help sorting cows!  And I was like, Super, but I need to create a video for my new students.  And I helped him sort the cows and that ridiculous steer broke a fence.  Again. And then I made the video and was exhausted and went to bed and completely forgot that I had promised to give him a haircut that night.  Because he is the best man in a wedding.
19. Oh.  I made the girls show me their wedding outfits so I could be sure they were appropriate and they wanted to kill me dead over it.  It made my feelings sad.
20. So this morning, I woke up.  I drank some coffee and then had to rant to David about all the goings-on at school.  And then I remembered the haircut.
21. David got a haircut at 5:15am this morning.
22. And then David and Hadley and HD left for the wedding.  At 6am.  And first they dropped off Hadley’s car at the tire shop because she needed new tires.
23. Let us be glad that she is paying for her own tires.  Because life is costly these days.
24. Kate was going to hitch a ride with my parents to the wedding after her morning classes.  LD and I were dealing with his broken nose.
25. So, Hadley and David/HD met up at the tire shop and all got into my car to drive to the wedding.
26. And then they hit a deer.
27. No one was hurt, but the car was very hurt. And so they drove back to the tire shop and switched cars and got in Hadley’s car and drove to the wedding.
28. LD and I had to take David’s ginormica truck to town.
29. And I remembered the post cards.  And LD googled for me and the post office in town did not open until 8:30.  But the post office in our rural town opened at 7:30.  So we arrived at 7:20 and sat there.  And I was stressed.  Because I was not ready to go live on Monday and my son might need surgery for his broken nose.
30. And so we waited and the post office opened, and oh, darn, so sorry, but they are all out of stamps.
31. What post office is out of stamps?
32. The rural one is.
33. I could not go to the location that opened at the 8:30 time because I was supposed to be at work by 8 and I had to star in a video at 9.
34. I called my mom and told her my woes and bamboozled her into going to the post office for me on her way to the wedding.  She did.  She is nice.
35. I dropped LD off at mother’s house so he could sit there and wait for his appointment.
36. I went to work.  I stressed.  I was late. I starred in a video.
37. And then I had to call the insurance about my wrecked car.  And that was taking forever and I was on hold and all my teacher gal pals were making darling online classrooms and I was totally confused.  I literally handed my computer to my teacher pal, Kristin, and said, “Help me, I am dumb.”  She stared at my face while I was on the phone about my broken car and created a Bitmoji for me and a fun Bitmoji classroom theme page for me.
38. No.  I do not understand Bitmjoji.  Do you?
39. And then I had to leave to go pick up LD again and drive him to his ENT appointment.
40. He is going to be A-OK.
41. I went through Wendy’s and bought him lunch and my team lunch.  Because I was being a totally bad teammate on the Friday before we go live.
42. We have an awesome team and we cranked it out.  We stayed until about 4:15 and we are ready to go live on Monday.
43. We are not, I repeat, we are not ready for Tuesday.
44. I picked up LD and we were about to head home.  But I remembered David had asked me to print something out for him.  We don’t have a printer at home.  We also don’t have a printer at school, because our school is THAT new.
45. So, I had to go to the library.  But my library card was on my key chain.  So I asked David to send me a picture of my library card.
46. And then he was like, I don’t have your keys.  And I was like, can you go find them?  And he was like, I don’t have your car anymore, remember?
47. And then he texted me his library card number.
48. I got to the library at 4:41.  They closed at 5.  Plenty of time.
49. Except they automatically shut the computer down at 4:45.  So nothing got printed.
50. LD and I were feeling sad to miss out on the wedding.  I definitely did not want to drive my husband’s ginormous truck all the way to the wedding.  So I conned my father into letting me use his truck.
51. LD and I are leaving at six am to make it to the wedding.
52. I think I am ready for Monday.
53. I am not ready for Tuesday.
54. Our rental house closes on Monday.

And I have nothing more to say.

Farewell.