Catching Up

I tried to post from home the other day -- I know, I haven't done that in ages! -- and I got one sentence done and then got sidetracked. I tried from school yesterday, but again, got called away. So. Now.

It's Friday, June 11, 2010, the last full day of school for the year, or in my case, for my life. Next week we're having finals, so all of those are half days for the kids, after which we get an hour for lunch and then come back for an hour, but it's nothing like a regular day. Next Friday and the following Monday are half days, but every period meets, just shorter, and then the hour lunch, etc., but on Monday 6/21 we don't come back in the afternoon because we have to come back at night for graduation. The last last day of all is 6/22, a day for teachers to make sure grades are in and their rooms are clean for the summer, but for me, especially this year, it'll be a big day of nothing, just saying goodbye to people.

Oy.

In shower news, I realized yesterday that the invitations have to go out next week and guess what? We don't got no invitations! Oops! So I looked online and I may get some printed, which will save time. Get this, K thinks that anything computer-printed will look tacky, so instead, we should go to a Hallmark store and get fill-in-the-blank invitations and do that. For one, I am not writing those; my hands protest after writing out a hall pass. And those, I think, are way tacky in this day and age and I don't even know if we'll find anything like that. If we get the graphic my niece's husband is working on, which will be the theme of the shower, maybe K will agree to use that. Either way, I think some decision needs to be made TOMORROW.

We have actual social events to attend this weekend. Tomorrow, a former colleague of the Hubs is getting married, church ceremony at noon, cocktails at four. Needless to say, we're skipping the church. And Sunday afternoon, one of the other retirees, who is 77 years old and had to be talked into retiring, is having a party at her house, which is in my neighborhood, so that should be nice. As for the wedding, I can only hope that we're out of there by seven.

Next week is a very busy week in terms of social gatherings. A long lunch period every day usually means we go out, or else I go home. On Friday of next week, R and K have told me that they are taking me out -- now that's new -- and will include the Other Chai and the Colleague, since they too are retiring or have retired this year, and the girls have known them all their lives. The end of the year school dinner is Wednesday, and my monthly retirees dinner is Thursday, and I guess I'm no longer really an honorary attendee at that one, eh? So, lots of that going on.

In family health news, the Hubs' dearest uncle, the best man at our wedding, is nearing the end of his fight, we hear; everything is starting to shut down. If I were someone who prayed, I would pray for his end to be easy and pain-free, and that he will meet St. Peter at the gates and flash his smile and St. Peter will let him right in, because he deserves that. Another of the Hubs' uncles, we just heard, is in the early stages of liver failure, so also, not so good. But he and both of his sons are doctors, and I'm sure they'll come up with some kind of treatment plan that will make it as easy as possible for him. These would be the first losses for the Hubs (and his parents) in that generation of his family, and I don't expect things to go well. (Not that they should go well, I just think they're all clueless.) As for me, I lost the last of that generation in my family last year, the last two aunts dying within a week of each other. All of my aunts and uncles are gone, and even one of my cousins. Now I sound macabre.

So I'll change the subject. Today was my last fire drill EVAH and you know what? I didn't go out! Hee hee hee. Finally, after all those years as a student and then as a teacher, I am a bad girl, just this once! I hid out in the library and ate an apple. Hee.

I promise that I will keep writing even when I'm home for real, for full time. I just need some new structure, that's all.