[+] More prep time (just the extra 15 minutes every morning was much appreciated)
[+] I got a lot of scoring done. I think I will be going into this weekend with NOTHING to score!
[+] A different week (just the fact that it was different is a positive for me)
[+] Makes me even more excited for the three day weekend.
[-] All the meetings with parents was exhausting.
[-] I was asked to translate multiple times. A couple times this meant I couldn’t attend conferences for students that were struggling in my classes. The district should be hiring a translator and it drives me crazy when they just assume I’ll be available to translate last minute.
[-] I ended up staying on campus 30-60 minutes later most days this week, because they scheduled conferences until 3:30pm.
Sick
[-] I am sick AGAIN
[-] My sinuses are a mess and my ears are stuffy
[-] I have a dry cough that I can tell will be lingering for a while
[+] This cold is WAY less intense than the last one
[+] I felt it coming on early Monday and took lots of Umcka and Airborne before it really hit
[+] My throat has not been sore at all (I felt like I had strep last time)
No longer Prime
[+] I don’t want to support Amazon and not having Prime will help me do that.
[+] I can easily hit $35 to get free shipping when there is something on the site that I can’t find elsewhere.
[+] My Prime Membership expired late on 10/6, so I got to buy a few things during the sale (mostly for my classroom – bulk headphones and such).
[+] I can always pay for a month of Prime if I need stuff for school and there is a big sale.
[+] I didn’t use the fast shipping that much (it always seemed so unnecessary), so waiting longer won’t really be an issue.
[-] I’ve been a Prime member basically my entire adult life and it feels weird not to be anymore (is it weird that it feels weird?!) I was getting it for free through my parents until last year – I thought they forgot about me honestly, I thought I fell through the cracks or something because I’d been getting it through them for well over a decade! And when they finally told me I couldn’t be in their “household” anymore, they gave me a year for $15 so I took it. And now that year is up and I’m out.
[-] They are harassing me at every turn to join again. Navigating the app is even more of a nightmare now (this is probably actually good, because I don’t want to give them my business).
[-] I’m embarrassed to write about this at all, but it’s been living rent free in my head for a couple days now and I need to get it out.
12yo’s upcoming birthday
[+] We got the almost 13yo his new phone (which he knows nothing about), and a case, so we can give it to him early (while the husband is still in town to set it up and trouble shoot with him).
[+] Now that the almost 13yo will have a phone (and not an Apple Watch with cell service), we can finally dump Veri.zon, which we give crazy amounts of money to for abysmal cell service
[+] The husband set us up on a new, cheaper, cell service provider and already moved me, the 16yo and himself over with no issues.
[+] The five kids the 12yo invited to his birthday can come next Friday
[+] We’re celebrating with his friends a week early, so the husband will be in town to help me with the party (last year I did it alone and it was HORRIBLE).
[+] My friend is letting us borrow her car the night of the party, so we don’t have to take two cars
[-] We’re taking the kids to a go-kart spot where the party package is prohibitively expensive, so we have to just go and hope we can get them all in for two races when we get there (I hate this plan, but I hate spending $800 on six kids go-karting even more).
[-] The husband is out of town on the 12yo’s actual birthday.
[-] The husband is in town for only one evening the two weeks during and after the 12yo’s birthday, so we have to spend that evening doing his family birthday with the grandparents.
[-] I will have to get the house ready for said family birthday with the grandparents alone, after a week of solo parenting.
Go Valks!
[+] The Valkyries won the first two games of their semifinal series against the Aces this past week.
[-] They didn’t win either game by much and the next game is in Las Vegas.
[+] I got Pumas (on sale for $50!) that are a perfect shade of Valkyries purple. I love them so much!
[-] After watching the first two games at home, we’ll be missing game three because of a dinner with my parents. I hope I can keep myself from checking the score on my phone…
My new shoes match my muscle tank PERFECTLY! It’s crazy how perfect the shade of purple is for basically all my Valkyries gear (which is a lot!)
You should never be asked to miss seeing the parents of your students to do translator work for something else. The school should honor their and your commitment to your students as being first priority! That is terrible.
I am quitting being a prime member too, just a few more days and I checked in to ensure I would not be billed. Got an Amazon message telling me the account had been accessed (ok I did that) and then another telling me a PASSKEY had been set up! I did NOT do that!! That scared me. It took 20 minutes to find a way to reach a person at Amazon who finally was able to say a PASSKEY HAD NOT BEEN SET UP and who then asked me why I was upset that I was sent a message by Amazon that it had been set up and there was NO REMOVE BUTTON available. I had to explain senior scamming frauds, fraudulent use and the ensuing liability, and just how high my blood pressure had gotten as I endeavored to find out why I had gotten such a message, and that it was NOT AN OK ‘GLITCH IN THEIR SOFTWARE’ but serious problem.
SO, joining you in giving up Amazon prime for some of the same reasons and will do without. Definitely not worth the blood presssure fears or $ cost, unlike Mr. B I am NOT a billionaire and the fee is not minor to my life.
Absolutely hoping the 12 to 13 year old change party exceeds their dreams, you are doing a grand event party. Congratulations on this milestone.
HATE that you are sick yet again! Hope you heal soon.
Enjoyed your format to this post.
AND AGAIN, LOVE THE SHOES AND Valks.
Thank you for posting!!!!!!
So I hope you’re enjoying your three-day weekend and that the cold is better!
We still have Prime but I’m thinking we should cancel it. Yes, it’s not hard to get free shipping anyway, it’s just not as fast. But there really aren’t a lot of thing we need OVERNIGHT. We also haven’t been ordering as much on Amazon, but of course we still do order from them. It’s just too easy/convenient/cheap to cut them off completely. Sigh.
Good luck with the birthday party! I wouldn’t want to spend $800 on the party package either.
I absolutely love those shoes!
I’m late here this time around, so hopefully by now you’re feeling better.
I’m mind blown by the translating thing with your school. That’s terrible that they rely on you and that it messes up your conferences. Seems unprofessional.
Good luck with the birthday party and the prepping for the family gathering. Bummer that your husband will be out of town for his actual bday. I’m relieved on your behalf that the phone is bought and set up in advance. I struggle with tech issues, and setting up a phone is at the top of that list.
I LOVE THOSE SHOES 🙂 the color is sooo pretty!
Agree on pretty shoes!
You should never be asked to miss seeing the parents of your students to do translator work for something else. The school should honor their and your commitment to your students as being first priority! That is terrible.
I am quitting being a prime member too, just a few more days and I checked in to ensure I would not be billed. Got an Amazon message telling me the account had been accessed (ok I did that) and then another telling me a PASSKEY had been set up! I did NOT do that!! That scared me. It took 20 minutes to find a way to reach a person at Amazon who finally was able to say a PASSKEY HAD NOT BEEN SET UP and who then asked me why I was upset that I was sent a message by Amazon that it had been set up and there was NO REMOVE BUTTON available. I had to explain senior scamming frauds, fraudulent use and the ensuing liability, and just how high my blood pressure had gotten as I endeavored to find out why I had gotten such a message, and that it was NOT AN OK ‘GLITCH IN THEIR SOFTWARE’ but serious problem.
SO, joining you in giving up Amazon prime for some of the same reasons and will do without. Definitely not worth the blood presssure fears or $ cost, unlike Mr. B I am NOT a billionaire and the fee is not minor to my life.
Absolutely hoping the 12 to 13 year old change party exceeds their dreams, you are doing a grand event party. Congratulations on this milestone.
HATE that you are sick yet again! Hope you heal soon.
Enjoyed your format to this post.
AND AGAIN, LOVE THE SHOES AND Valks.
Thank you for posting!!!!!!
So I hope you’re enjoying your three-day weekend and that the cold is better!
We still have Prime but I’m thinking we should cancel it. Yes, it’s not hard to get free shipping anyway, it’s just not as fast. But there really aren’t a lot of thing we need OVERNIGHT. We also haven’t been ordering as much on Amazon, but of course we still do order from them. It’s just too easy/convenient/cheap to cut them off completely. Sigh.
Good luck with the birthday party! I wouldn’t want to spend $800 on the party package either.
I absolutely love those shoes!
I’m late here this time around, so hopefully by now you’re feeling better.
I’m mind blown by the translating thing with your school. That’s terrible that they rely on you and that it messes up your conferences. Seems unprofessional.
Good luck with the birthday party and the prepping for the family gathering. Bummer that your husband will be out of town for his actual bday. I’m relieved on your behalf that the phone is bought and set up in advance. I struggle with tech issues, and setting up a phone is at the top of that list.