ITS ALL OVER!!!!!!!!!!!

Summer!

Oh yeah, can you feel it??!!??

I am already starting to plan my days away, and then in late August, I wonder where the free time went. 

This year I am photographing my summer vacation.  (Which I usually do), but this time with a difference.  Usually I take photos of exceptional things (WDW, birthdays etc).  This year I am keeping a photolog of even the normal things.  If today’s plan is being lazy on the couch, then I will take a photo of it, just to have a record.

Now, I will not be photographing every moment (or each trip top the bathroom), but each visit with someone, or choice to see a movie, go to an event or just relax will be documented.  I have tried keeping a diary before–didn’t last two days.  But I’m thinking this might give a great record and I will remember a lot of little “gems” that happened this summer.  It will be fun to look back through the photos and have at least one photo from each day.  There will be photos of my garden, Phillip, Jeremy, baseball games, around the house, taking nan to the hospital, staying over at mom and dad’s, seeing friends, going to restaurants and shops.  It will be great!!!

Woo hoo, summer time!!!!

For a final week, it’s going to be busy!!!

I was hoping for a quiet end to the school year.  No such luck.  Starting in a few hours, I go really hard until Mon. June 29th.  This was an initial date, but now I’m thinking to July 4th, until I really have NO plans. Perhaps writing it all out will help me to remember it all.  (This is not unlike my use of shopping lists–Whenever I write a grocery list, it never makes it into the store, but remains on the kitchen table or in the car.  But, the act of writing it out helps me to centre and focus.  I find I don’t NEED the list, because I wrote it)

So, Saturday: Grocery shop, house clean, get dressed up, Jeremy’s formal piano recital, drop J off at Brad’s house, go to staff party

Sunday: GARDENING–we have 6 bags of mulch waiting for the rose garden to get weeded.  And the magic fairies let me down again.  SO we will have to do it.

Monday:  School mass, no one has talked about it (because there is so much going on at school), and despite the fact that choir is finished for this year, we still get to sing.  Hmmmm  I think “Its a small world” is an appropriate Processional song. hee hee  (I won’t do that–I’ll pick nice songs).  Monday evening is Grade 8 Graduation.  Woooo  (Said with just as much enthusiasm and energy as you’d expect) woooooo blaah

Tuesday: Outdoor play day for all the primary students.  I am watching stations 5 and6 (what ever that means) but its always a fun day.  Tuesday night is Jeremy Jujitsu in Bowmanville. 

Wednesday: my class has been invitied to SK graduation, because they are our reading buddies.  So we will have to find a time to make them cards or something.  But we are going morning and afternoon.

Thursday: clean out the classroom, send everything home, hand out report cards.  I like this day.

Friday: Pioneer Play Day with the Gr threes, we do bobbing for apples, sack races and three legged races, egg and spoon race. Its like the church picnic in “Anne of Green Gables” only with out the singing or the ice cream. Students (finally) go home.   Friday night–Ju jitsu in Bowmanville

Saturday: Clean up because Jeremy is having a birthday party.  (Poor summer baby, never has people over, only get to go to WDW on his birthday and see Mickey Mouse–poor Jeremy).  Teenagers, food, drinks, movies, guitar hero, yikes.  Jeremy’s driving school

Sunday:  TEAM W is coming over!!!!!  Woo hooo ( or we are going there, not sure on the plans, but its us and them!!!!!!)  Jeremy’s driving school—******See I have just found a slight glitch in my busy week–Must confirm times of driving class and confer with Violaine– no prob, just needs to be checked!!

Monday:  STAFF MEETING 9AM, how horrible.   Plus side–Neil says its only and hour, Minus– a lot of our staff will not be joining us, Plus- I get to see the new staff that I’m looking   forward to having with us.  Plus or minus (not sure yet)  Get to meet the REST of the new staff.  Jeremy’s driving school Monday night, hoping to go to the Blue Jays game (we are not bad luck–this time they wont lose when we go)

Tuesday: Jeremy’s Driving school

Wednesday July 1: Canada Day.  Track (undecided yet), BBQ at mom and dad’s (yes a go)

Thursday:  Taking Nan to the hospital

Friday July 3rd; Jeremy going bye bye for 2 weeks–need to get him packed and organized.

Saturday and Sunday–NO PLANS!!!!

Boy I’m glad school is fininshed!!!  My job really gets in the way of my life sometimes!!!

Random things that I like to do…

Y’know how you have comfort foods, or comfortable jeans.  I have some routines, books, movies that are like that too.  There are some things, that no matter what else, will always make me happy.  Plus in these hard economic times, its nice to have free or almost free things that will always put a smile on your face

• Going to Ikea– I love Ikea, I play house in their little model homes.  Everything about Ikea is fun.  The meatballs are yummy, and the Lingenberry Juice–yum.  I walk around saying the “Swedish” name for everything “TORK”  “ECTOR”  “MALM”  gotta love that MALM.  And no matter how much I say I’m not buying anything, somehow a basket, kitchen gadget or pillow always comes home with me.   (Note: I don’t  go to the Leslie St Ikea anymore– the parking garage scares me.  Seriously-have you been up on top of that thing? Its all slanty and almost going to collapse, and to be under it —yikes.  Now I will go to the Jane and the 407)   But a fun date is a trip to Ikea, its just hard to convince the peeps at home to take me.  (Hey Megan, wanna go to Ikea???)  Oh–personal message : when they have midnight madness at Ikea, and you think “How many people will really be at Ikea at 11:30 at night—THE ANSWER IS LOTS!!!!  Avoid this at all costs.  No cute stacking baskets are worth that madness.
• The carwash.  This has already been mentioned, but Its worth repeating.  I love going to the carwash.  I don’t like washing the car with a hose and bucket-yuck, but the soft cloth car wash.  Ohhhh spend the extra money and get the TRI COLOURED foam soap.  Woo hooo I love it.  (But if I owned a carwash I would buy little LED lights and rig them up so they looked like gremlin eyes.  Imagine that–soapy windows, you can’t really see, but you catch sight of little glowing eyes–Spooky).  For our anniversary one year, Phillip and I went to the carwash and then Ikea, it was a great day!!!
• I LOVE Harry Potter– I read the Harry Potter books continuously.  Really I mean CONSTANTLY.  Before bed every night, I read about a page or two.  I can’t read new books during the school year–I’m just too tired.  That’s why I read 3 or4 new books over Christmas Break or March Break, and even more during the summer.— But now its Harry Potter.  When I finish book 3, I read book 4 etc…. and when I am finished the entire canon, then I start again.  Since I started reading all seven in order, I have probably gone over the entire set 5 times by now.  I just can’t stop!!!
• I also love the Harry Potter movies.  (Don’t get me wrong–books are better than movies, and if you want to have a discussion about books vs movies I have some strong feelings.  But the movies are visually wonderful! The first one, wow!  How did they know what the Hogwarts Express looked like in my mind).  If I am working on something else and need some noise in the background, a Harry Potter movie is always a good choice.
• Other movies that I watch obsessively are Ocean’s 11, Clueless, Notting Hill, Twister, The Rock, Con Air, Armageddon, American President, Legally Blonde, and Outbreak (or in its alternate title MONKEYPOX)— It doesn’t matter how often I have seen these movies, I will always watch them again and again.  (What does this say about me???  I’m not sure)
• When I am at the grocery store, I always have to check the cakes and pick the birthday cake that I want.  It is probably not my birthday, but I always look. Hmmmmm Blue’s Clues or Spiderman…….. sometimes its a tough choice.  Princesses usually win.  Also purple flowers or balloons in icing.  (at least I don’t slap the roasts–anyone who would do that is really weird)
• I love to buy nailpolish.  I don’t wear a lot of nail polish, but I own a lot!!!  Nothing can pick up a grumpy mood like a $3 bottle of fun!!!