Winter Time

I don't know why anyone likes the winter. It's cold, rainy, wet, your face freezes, everyone is sick and miserable . . . I just don't get it. I miss the summer already! Floating in the pool, wearing shorts, days when sunglasses are necessary with an outfit - oh how I miss it!

Today I had a student who was reading a part in a play. He had to stop every line to sniffle, wipe his nose with his sleeve, cough or sneeze. It was making me crazy! I made the kid next to him move and hand sanitize, I was afraid for his health! I am also afraid for the student who sat in that same seat the next hour . . . and used that same book to read from!

I hate flu season, it makes me crazy. I get so paranoid that I'm getting sick, I always think my throat hurts or my nose is runny. Eb has a cold but is fighting it with Cold Ease and now my throat hurts. The window where I lay on the couch is a single paned old window, it's real drafty and makes me cold even under a blanket with 4 dogs laying on me! Ugh.

These winter days make me want to stay home and cuddle under my electric blanket and lay with Eb and the dogs on the big ottoman. I hate that I have to wake up and get dressed and fight the cold to get to work. Work! Who needs it!

The countdown to winter break is on, then it will be lazy days for 2 weeks. I can't wait! I swear teachers wait for breaks more than students do, it's our time to unwind, reflect and recoup. I love coming back in January and missing the kids (not until I see them, of course) and hearing about what they've been doing. It is a good feeling, a new year. A fresh start.

Let's just hope I don't get sick . . .

The Long Wait

So, at the advice of a friend I have decided to start a wedding blog. I thought it might be cool to chronicle the events leading up to our big day, so that we have something for later that documents our journey. It has been a long road getting to here, and I'm sure that over the next couple of months it will seem like a long road getting to the actual event.

I am feeling anxious and ready to get married. I have felt married to Eb for a long time and now that it is actually in the works, I am totally ready. Part of me wishes we weren't waiting so long, but then the part of me that leaves laundry on the couch for a week without folding it knows why we are waiting so long.

I am at a stand-still and it is driving me nuts! I want to start planning, but it is too far away to do anything. Plus, where does the time go? Is it already Christmas? December came out of no where! Is it true that the older you get, the faster time flies? A year seems like forever when you talk about it but last summer seemed like only a couple of weeks ago. What happened? Am I really going to be 30 in 2008?

481 one days. People tell me that they will fly by, but it seems like they are crawling instead. When summer comes I will be planning and organizing and then heading to Italy, and then it will seem like no time at all. But, on rainy days like today, it feels like summer will never get here and that our wedding is a world away . . .