How was today 9/15

The good the bad and the ugly

• Have to greet the kids in the rain - not hard enough for an umbrella, just enough to be annoying
• Get to class - F's back pack is in the middle of the floor - he is gone and so is teacher - see him walking down the hall with the principal - turns out they get a spanish speaking aid to translate and rip him a new one
• ESL aid brings us a girl we are trading for two that don't speak so much english - doesn't take ours, but drops hers off.
• Play ground after lunch - I have help today - F gets in trouble for throwing rocks - DUDE!! You just spent an hour with the principal, what are you thinking?
• See the little spanish girls who left our class - they smile and wave - the cutest little girls, but they really need ESL
• E gets lost someplace between the back door and the class - Nice job Mrs V you suck
• Get home Michael tells me I won the football pool at JT's - cool
• Wasn't going to take a shower but DG tells me that my pits "Stink really bad and you need to wash them really good"
• Dh asks what to do with the pot of spaghetti - stick it up your ass, or maybe drain it and feed the kids jerky boy!!
• Open house - 3 of the problem kids show up (2 with siblings who also seem to have issues - what were their parents thinking)but not F - BIG sigh of relief - still had more kids than any class
• Again see one of the girls that got transferred - she is all smiles and waving - it bites that she couldn't stay with us!!!
• The mom who is an actress shows up - looking like a regular mom - not trailed by people - except someone to watch her daughter who is special needs - but walks in and is mingeling with the rest of us regular people - Dylynn has talked to her before when we were in the Italian pork store and she was so sweet to her.

So, on to tomorrow - what is in store for then????????????????????????

What could I have been thinking???

So, off to work this morning -

• 25 kindergartners - fun, fun, fun.
• One has burns and has to go home
• - one has meltdowns if she can't be first at EVERYTHING -
• only 8 give me lunch money -
• 10 order lunch and ...
• 13 get on line and get lunch!!! WTF!!!
• Will they ever get a blasted clue
• - does this get any smoother - where does the well oiled machine come from that I walked in on half way through the year.
• Going to the playground - "What do we do when we hear the whistle?" 25 say go to Mrs. V - how come only 16 or so actually do it????
• I made 3 trips back and forth to the nurse before 10:15 another two later in the day
• I am not even going to mention the trip to the buses
• Over to brownies - can someone please tell me what "Keep your socks on Heather" means - or maybe you can tell Heather because she wasn't getting it.
• Please tell me how much more can I take????

Some Random thoughts from the past few days

• Do everyone's kids move in slow motion when you tell them to hurry?
• Does the little old man need to jump in front of me - like I don't know he is next in line - or he could be a nice person and let the lady going to work go since he is sitting on his ass in the waiting room anyway - Thanks Jack!!
• Couldn't the freaking gas light on the loaner come on before I passed the last gas station
• If a 5 year old can't take their pants off or pull them up when they come out of the bathroom - are they really ready for Kindergarten
• Did it tick mommy off when daddy bought me a bear claw for my birthday and then gave it to me a week early?
• If they rotate your tires, shouldn't they check the pressure so that at 4 am the check tire light isn't coming on in the car?
• WTF am I doing going to the gym at 4 am??
• Can dh ever pick one channel to watch
• Do I really have to send a letter to the credit card company and explain why I need to cancel my vacation - two words skippy DISASTER AREA
• Am I really too hard on Dylynn - she says so
• What kind of fun can tomorrow bring with 25 - 5 year olds and then on to 14 7 year olds for brownies - I am so lucky sometimes!!!

Mike's Lime Flavor Rock!!

Especially when paired with vicoden!! Some how - I don't really think this is humanly possible, but I did it - I was getting a manicure and did something to my shoulder that hurt so bad I was seeing stars and ready to hit everyone. Could it have something to do with three monsters running around the beauty parlor like demons - Maybe. It hurt to drive, I couldn't try my glasses on when I went to the Eye Doctor to get them, and I couldn't lift the pot for spaghetti - when it was empty - Poor me - dh says lets do take out - OK, you talked me into it. Ask the Honey - do you think that vicoden (you got three years ago) from your knee surgery is OK? (note to self - it is) He says it may not be as potent, but it may help. Grab a Mikes - don't know what I was thinking, but am happy I was thinking it because now not only don't I feel the pain - I don't feel most of my body. Maybe it was the 2nd Mikes - either way - it's working for me. Mikes + old pain killers = happy mommy!! Good to know

Back to work

So, I am back to working at the school. They called and told me I would be an inclusion aide between June E and Katie P. Go for the meeting on Tuesday and someone else is there saying she is the inclusion aide for them - well, they didn't call and say don't come, so I have a job somewhere right?!?!!? Mary Beth Motz comes over and tells me I am with her - she is a doll - so I will have playground duty with the little Angels, but that is OK. The super indendant feels the urge to ramble on about shit that has nothing to do with anything - blah blah blah - on to the class to get ready for the kids to come in Wednesday - Looking at the list of kids in the school with issues - there are 6 in our class alone - Oh, this is going to be a great year. What has happend from then on. We have two girls who are selective Mute - and two who aren't classified that will not speak to us? P - The cutest little boy you have ever seen - P I T A - can't seem to sit in his seat - also has MAJOR food allergies - can't touch wheat, eggs, milk, soy, nuts, dairy and just about anything else - I have to get training to administer an Epi Pen - oh good, C - three years of special ed pre school - but she says she never had a teacher - She hates school because we won't let her play or eat (we only had 2 hour days for the first three days) - throws herself on the ground as we are walking from the playground back to the school (we took a quick trip to show them the equipment) - Meanwhile on the playground F decides to take off - when you try to round him up to bring him back he starts yelling don't touch me - finally the teacher has to pick him up and carry him to the school while he is biting and kicking - where she promptly drops him at the counselors office - mind you today he grabs my arms and puts them around him and tells me he loves me?? Umm - where is the seed of Chucky who was here yesterday?? A little boy who came in with his mom on tuesday and was a horror show, turns out to be the sweetest thing you have ever seen - 3 little spanish girls OMG they are the most adorable little girls - only problem is - they don't speak english - S1 & S2 - Not related - look so much alike that we get them confused - and neither of them speak AT ALL!!! S1 also has severe reactions to bug bites. R has SEVERE allergies to bee stings - throat closes up within 10 seconds - again - epi pen training - what's worse - he isn't a little boy - I can't even phsycally carry him if I have to. What exactly does one do with 25 kids on the playground when you have to watch 2 that may take off, 1 that has issues with bug bites, one that has food allergies, one that has bee sting allergies and 20 that just don't listen?? Monday starts full days and playground after lunch - God give me strength!! Then today I go to get my paycheck - we don't have one for you, you aren't board approved yet - WTF - I am still here - what the hell is that supposed to mean? I can put up with this crap for 3 days, but I have to wait until they decide to pay me. EXCUSE ME!!!! Have you people seen what I have been dealing with? Don't pay me, but make sure you give me an ID so everyone knows who I am when I beat the life out of these little turds.
OK, lets have a positive attitude - they were all just a little nervous these past couple of days - they don't know that they are supposed to listen to the teachers or sit in a chair at some point in the morning. OK, Monday will be better right ? - Right!

Labor Day

Tomorrow is what we call "Tumbleweed Tuesday" Probably one of the best days in the Hamptons - at least for us locals!! The day after labor day when we get our town back. (Back when people actually stayed away for the winters) Today is the last day for the Citiots to be hogging our streets, our stores and our restaurants. Don't get me wrong, it is nice that they bring all their money here and spend it, but also the prices seem to go up for the summer. It used to be that meant things like

• No more hiding in the house Friday to Monday - you can't go a block with out getting pissed off my some jerk in a Mercedes (no offense to anyone who has one and can actually drive like a human - but most out here can't)
• No more going out to breakfast and have a bunch of 20 something hung over college students smelling like beer and acting like jerks in front of your kids
• No more saying a casual goodmorning to someone you pass on the way out of the gym (cause that is what we do in polite society - just ask the southerners) and getting growled at in return.
• No more watching the drunks stumble to and from Boardy Barn on Sundays (Well except for next Sunday when they are having a fund raiser for the school and it will be all locals - we will wait to get home before we puke - not do it on the side of the road or in the parking lot)
• No more going into a restaurant and having a bunch of snobs talk to one of the best waitresses like they are a piece of shit - Like she brings you what you ordered and you changed your mind, now you yell at her - HEY Jackass - I heard you ask her for that - shut the F%^& up and drink it!!

Of course not all the people who come out here are bad, I was engaged to and dated a weekender for many years,but the ones that are make it really hard to tolerate the rest of then.

Alas, it gets better after tomorrow, and the only people that come out on a regular basis are the ones who own homes here and love the town like the locals. Now to wonder what I can bitch about next week - Oh yeah, back to school and back to work. OK then!!!