what a week!

And its only JUST midway through!! what the?!

i know, right

Blehhh, it feels like ive done a years worth of days since the weekend. ALOT of stuff has gone down and i dont imagine it stops here....

First up. Two members of staff have been fired (or asked to leave) this week. Its come as a big shock and quite a discomfort to the rest of the teachers and staff at school. Theres definitely alot of shakeups going on and the management team are really running the place like a business... there doesnt seem to be ANY care of support for the people who work there. It sucks. But hey, id already decided i was gonna hand in my notice and head off at the end of the year, so i guess its just confirmed to me that i AM doing the right thing by leaving. Altho i will miss the kids and my fellow teachers, they have been good to me and i have had a great time working there.

BOOO, i sound like im already going!! i still have a term and a half left - so like what, 5months?! its aaaages away :p But i have to give a terms notice, so i will be thinking of writing up my letter of resignation in the next few weeks, ready to hand in at the end of this term. EEK!!! (its exciting tho, finally... the world is my oyster! ahhaaaaah)

i got the whole wide world in my hands 

:-)

Secondly, there has been loads of stuff happening, like junior curriculum week - where they have various workshops and events throughout the week. Today and tomo are the "ART" days, so they have this group in doing some big project on animals or some shizz. I went over and helped out today cos i would normally have quite a few junior lessons, and ohmyGOD i have never seen such over-use of PVA glue... they freaking love that stuff. i mean seriously, i might aswell have been chucked in a bath and rubbed it all over me, cos im STILL finding bits of it peeling off me. in my hair, on my clothes...

official weirdest place i found it: on my knee. 

but i was wearing THICK TIGHTS for gods sake!!! how on earth did it get through those badboys?!?!

Anyways, its been fun and technically i only had to teach one proper lesson in the seniors.... id say thats a RESULT :-) oh yeaaaah.

the mumatron came home late lastnight. Apparently my sis had a good birthday... Not that id know, having recieved NO reply from my text or acknowledgement that she had got my card (altho mum told me it had arrived). absolutely NADA.

well i guess i dont need to feel bad anymore, eh?

It does still bum me out abit tho. i mean its not so hard to just say, "oh, thanks for the card - it arrived today"... now is it?! MEH, i no longer care! cos the day is gone and the next event is....

VALENTINES DAY!!

Not that i have much cause to celebrate it as there is no boy in sight! haha :p

BUT....

So me and the wifey (my roomie) are gonna do a romantic dinner for each other to mark the occasion instead!!! We're thinking make some yummy food and veg out on the sofa (with the pooch - of course!) and watch madmen on dvd, which im super-excited for cos ive never seen it! Lets face it, thats a pretty damn perfect night in! Cos if i cant have the luxury of a hot date (ryan gosling, if you're free tomo night just say the word... im there!) Then theres nobody id rather spend it with that my fast become bestie and my little grublin doggy :-)

yes you can be my valentine ryan. 

DAMN you fine

Haha, i dont care. Its glad i can finally have a girly friend to live with, im finally getting what this whole sharing a place with your mates is all about! It rocks!! Not to forget the mumster tho. She rocks too, but she is back in london tomo and is as busy as always. and THIS time she's leaving us with the dog... Ooooh the responsibility!!!! haha. (well, it kinda is - cos we will both be at work thurs and fri) but ROLL on the weekend, cos then half term starts on friday. yaaaaay! we're planning a night out on the town to celebrate... might even pop into this gig of a guy-i-used-to-know-who-i-bumped-into-at-the-gallery-when-i-took-the-year-9s-on-the-art-trip. He works there now, so we had a catch up and he said he has a gig on this friday. Sooooo, might be worth a listen! he's more into folk-music (he's a proper long-haired hippy!) which im totally down with... but i wont lie, im much more of an indie-rock girl at heart :p

Anyways, thats a summary of where i am and where im a headed for the next few days. PHEW, its gonna be a whirlwind!!! Ive told myself that this half-term i need to really focus on slowing down the over-activity thing. i know that im doing too much again... i need to STOP walking to work and back, i need to STOP stretching (altho i have managed to cut back to 3x per week instead of everyday!) and just start realising that IT ISNT NECESSARY TO EXERCISE!!! sure its good for you, when your a healthy weight.... but it wont damage my body to stop. it will do me good... i wont suddenly morph into a balloon or get flabby or whatever silly fear i predict will happen if i slow the heck down. I will grow into my shape again. i will get back what i lost..... ME

Plus, I wanna start doing FUN things with my energy, like messing about being silly and having a laugh... which im always too tired or weak to do. Thats a far more productive and useful way of expending energy! rather than waste it pounding the streets in some kindof warped "self-punishment". Cos thats exactly what it is... a waste! i need to use that energy for repairing my broken body not expel it like its a dirty thing that needs to be gotten rid of as soon as i can. SO:

target SET.

now i must AIM to ACHIEVE...

:-)