Here’s to a new month, and a new season

This post barely makes any sense, but there are some photos if you keep reading. You’ve been warned.

It’s officially October. I like October. I like Halloween, I love Day of the Dead (which is actually November 2nd, but which we study for much of this month). I like celebrating my son (his birthday is the 22nd). I like when the weather gets cool, and the heat waves finally stop making surprise appearances. I like fall, and I like knowing the holiday season is fast approaching.

I have already pulled out my Halloween leggings and we put up our Halloween gel clings. I’ll be getting the other decorations out this week.

So I’m trying to be excited for October, but right now I feel really beaten down.

I did laundry all weekend. At least it felt like I did. I combed my daughter’s hair out again today. I honestly don’t know how to look for lice or nits – I’m the worst when it comes to identifying what is a bug and what is dandruff or something else. So I have no idea how my daughter’s head looks. But I’ve used the Kapow! treatment twice and combed it out twice and put coconut oil on it in between, so I’m feeling pretty confident that it’s a lot better than it was on Thursday. I think I’ll take her to one of those combing places next weekend, or later this week, to see what they say. Or ask my friend’s mother-in-law to comb her out. She is really good at it, and doesn’t mind doing it for others.

I think I managed to avoid getting them myself. I’ve had a few people check for me, but I haven’t combed my hair out, or asked anyone else to do it for me. Maybe I’ll do that this week as well. Except this week is going to be really busy,

This week is Conferences at my school. I HATE conferences. There is never enough time and the students’ you need to meet with the most never show and it’s an exhausting week all around. We see all our classes for just 35 minutes every day, then we have a short 30 minute lunch before we start conferencing for two or more hours. By the end of the day I’m just wrecked.

Our admin really dropped the ball this year too, and we didn’t start planning for conferences until basically last week, which means we aren’t at all prepared. We started a week later this year and I swear NO ONE is taking that into account with planning. It’s driving me nuts. This year has felt so rushed and chaotic. I’m over it and we’re only six weeks into the school year.

But at least this week zero period starts at 8am instead of 7:45am. I will ABSOLUTELY take those extra 15 minutes and put them to good use.

Saturday we stayed home and got shit done, but Sunday we went to the Presidio for the first Sunday of the month event at the new Tunnels Top park. It was a beautiful day and the views were stunning. The kids had a great time, and I was grateful to get out of the house, because if I’d stayed there all day I would have just kept doing laundry. Last Sunday I did chores all day and was in a foul mood by the end of it. I’m glad we made it out of the house this Sunday.

My daughter and I were actually in this same area last weekend, but the bridge was totally covered in fog. You couldn’t see it at all. So it was nice to have such a beautiful view this weekend.

On the way home last weekend I got this shot of the city, which is my new favorite. San Francisco can drive me crazy, but she really is a pretty city.

It’s almost 11pm and I’m still finishing up a presentation for tomorrow. If I have what I need ready from last year, I can keep my head above water, but when I need to create new materials and resources, everything goes off the rails. My Spanish 1A class is pretty much set for the year, but there is a lot I have to make for my Spanish 1B class, and it hasn’t been easy to find the time to do it.

Next weekend is a three day weekend. I’m just counting the days until that Monday off. Maybe then I can catch up a little. Maybe.