"My Oh My"

To use a phrase I heard over and over when I lived in Seattle "My Oh My".

I can hear him say it in my head.....Dave Niehaus giving us the play by play of a Seattle Mariners baseball game.

That is the title of this blog post of random thoughts, and in no particular order.

A cute student came in with a note in an envelope with a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup taped on the front and my name on it. Inside was a thank you card with the nicest message to me saying thanks for making copies and being nice and it was signed a teacher...I have no idea who sent it but it made my day.

I do accept bribes. After an exhausting day I came in the next day expecting to be more caught up, but no it was crazy busy and a student brought me a full size Mars bar and said can you do these copies for my teacher now?

I have worked so many hours this past week.....long, long days. The day before school started I worked from 7 to 9:30. The weather has hot it's hottest this week with temps right at 100. When I get in the car after work I press my back against the hot seat and it feels so good. I brought out my foot bath and I have used it 2 nights in a row.

Me and the copier service tech have become fast friends. He says in 3 weeks I will not see him and I will miss him. (HA)!  I have seen him everyday except today. One day the lunchroom brought out extra chocolate cake and I cut him the biggest piece to show my thanks. He says the problem is that the machines sit all summer and dry out and the parts develop a ridge and then we make them work so hard. I'll say just Wednesday alone with 2 copiers running I made 9,000 copies on just white copy paper. Not to mention blue, green, goldenrod, buff, yellow or pink. Card stock or any other color not in the drawers in the machines also were made.

On a particular stressful time when both machines were acting up and I was continually unjamming one and then the other I referred to them as my twins. Baby A and Baby B and someone always needed my help. Just like a set of fussy babies someone always needed me.  It helped get through a hard time. 

Our class sizes are huge.  We have added 600 new students during the registration time.  The French teacher teaches one day at our school and one day at Lehi.  I really like her.  She said some good advice one day as we were visiting.  She said I try not to make the students feel bad that the classes are large.  It's not their fault.  Then that very same day I had a teacher in there asking for more copies added to some I had already made and she said they just keep adding kids to my classes and I said let's try not to make the kids feel like it's their fault.  It helped.

Small victory....I asked for and got a big cutter that is on order right now. One that can cut more than 10 papers at once. YEA!

Monday as the requests were stacking up and I was falling farther and farther behind and I was thinking about the first day of school and if the teachers would say well I would have had this handout for you but the copy lady could not get it done, a cute teacher was in there making letters and she said "You know if you are at a restaurant and you are not getting good service and you start getting annoyed and then the server comes and says the rolls are in the oven and because you know what is happening you can relax and it is ok. You should email the school and say that you are far behind but you are doing your best." That was good advice. I sent out an email just stating that I was behind and asked for their patience. The responses I got back were so nice. It helped.

And on a final note:
Logan was in his Spanish class today. Some kids left and came back. They went to get their homework copied. When they came back in the room they said, "The new copy lady is nice." He said he just sat there, did not say anything but he smiled.
I smiled too.

Logan's first football game as a 9th grader

Logan and I have a running joke. One of my favorite hobbies is to watch my kids play sports. I can remember when both Colby and Jake played football in 9th grade and how fast the times goes and all of a sudden they were playing their last game as seniors.
I think that Logan is the cutest and maybe because he is my baby but I just want to watch him play every minute. He plays defense and I have never had a kid play that. My other boys were receivers. I think Logan knew what he was doing when he tried out for his position. He is good at it and played alot of the game.

Before the game started.  Logan is number 45.

Mom,. here is a good one of him.

The game was against Springville.  It rained complete with thunder and lightening before the game started.  This brought the temperature down about 10 degrees which was good.  It was 95 down to 83.

My sister, Faith and her husband, Kyle came and watched with us.  She is such a delight to me.

My friend that I have known since Jr High and who lives in Springville came also.  We visited through half time and the third quarter. What a dear she is.  She also works at a high school and she has been pulling some long days herself.

Where I work

My desk area and copy machine A by me.  Copy machine B is under blue bulletin board.

Big counter to work on and the end is full of poster board.

All the teachers mailboxes.

These are all the planners I counted out for the first day of school---A1 classes.  All the way to the door.

Isn't this the most beautiful teachers lounge.

Logan practices out here in the morning.  The field is full of football players.  And look at those mountains, I will be able to watch the seasons change.

When I was asked if I like my new job I answered with a smile and a big yes!  After the past few days I feel a little weary.  Both Thursday and Friday I worked 12 hours and Saturday I worked 5 hours and Kim, sweet Kim came with me and also worked 5 hours.  I still like the job and I knew it would be busy.......I have to remind myself I worked a ton of hours at Saratoga Shores at the start of the new school year, entering new students and requesting and mailing student records. 

Wednesday August August 17, 2011

Jake moved today into his new place to live for the school year.

This is his place, here on the end.

I wanted to show his shoe boxes stacked to the ceiling.  He has a nice closet space, his own room and only shares a bathroom with one other guy.

If you look to the right it's Jake's room and the one behind him is for Marcus, a roommate from Washington.

The bathroom situation is great.  Sink and mirror outside of shower area.

These shoes have been here since we moved into this house 4 years ago.  Jake always kept them by the door and shot baskets about 3 times a night in them. When I would say everyone put your shoes away it never meant these shoes. They make me a little sad.

Yesterday Logan watched the sun come up at his morning football practice and then watched the sun go down at his second practice.  It's double days and then we had a parent meeting.  Long day.

He plays his first game Saturday in Springville at 7.  (Janine will you come and see me?)

He loves it!

First Week in Review

I worked from 7 to 2 this past week.  My normal hours are 7 to 3:30 so I was glad to break myself into it slower.
I awake and arise at 5:15.  It felt early and I wonder how it will feel in the dead of winter.  At least the sun is coming up now to another beautiful blue sky day in the 90's.!!!!
Logan has football practice at 6 so I take him there if it is our day to drive.  (Carpool with the neighbors)
Here is how the first week went....I found it funny.

Monday I came home and took a nap and a half hour walk at night.
Tuesday I came home and rested and a half hour walk at night.
Wednesday I came home and mopped the floor, mowed and edged the lawn and ran 30 min outside at night.
Thursday I came home weeded and ran outside at night.
Friday I came home and we went to Provo to see where Jake is moving to in 2 weeks.  On the way home we were heading to Costco in American Fork on State St and as we rounded the corner Kim's car stopped so we coasted into Del Taco.  Tunex came and towed it to their shop and it is the fuel pump.  We are so glad it did not chose to die on the 1-15.  (Road construction, no shoulder, hot day and Tunex was not just around the corner.)

I have moved my stuff in to my desk area at work and I have done some copies and checked in some freight.  I feel it is just starting to get busy.  I made a ton of copies for the preschool and childhood education teacher.  It was so fun.  She sent them to me in an email with exact directions.  14 sets of copies with anywhere from 30 to 80 copies of each.  Two sided and stapled, the machine can do it all if you tell it the right way.  I did make one mistake it was 15 pages and I forgot to push two sided.  When her whole order was done I got an empty paper box and put one stack in and then divided it with a white card stock sheet of paper and then another stack of copies.  I loved how it turned out.

Jake's place is so nice that he is moving to.  He has found a 5 bedroom triplex, brick and covered parking with a yard.  He and 4 other track athletes are rooming together.  He and his friend Marcus who came from Wa  each have a room upstairs and share a bathroom in the hall.  A boy names Josh has the master bedroom with it's own bathroom.  The washing machine and dryer is up there too. 
On the main level is 2 living rooms and 2 dining rooms and a kitchen and a 1/2 bath.  The fridge is small for 5 boys so we may get him a mini fridge.
In the basement  is another living area and 2 more bedrooms and a bathroom.  The boy who was there when we went was named Mark and he came from St. George and he has his bedroom down there.  He was the nicest to meet.
We met the landlord and he was the cutest old man.  He has re carpeted and painted and the place was oh so clean.