It's Friiiiidaaaaayyy!

Weekends--blessed weekends--are treasures!  By Thursday evenings, I'm pooped.  By Fridays, I'm exhausted!  Most of the time, the grandchildren go to Muncie to be with their father.  (Meg drove them up tonight.)  As much as I love those little skunks, the peace and solitude around here after they depart is priceless.

I tried to do some housework tonight.  Really, I did...but...(there's always a "but" isn't there?)...I didn't have the energy that God gave a sloth.  I did fill a garbage bag with junk from the computer room/radio shack.  More to dig out!

I like my last period class at school.  It is my smallest class, and they respond well to me, so I feel like I can mess around with them.  (It doesn't always work, btw.)  In any case, we were all feeling goofy today.  For those that didn't have their memory selection memorized, I told them to write on their paper, "I am a failure as a human being because I didn't memorize the poem, EVEN THOUGH I had a month to do it, so I am now 20 points down in my grade."  Some did!  I hope I don't get into trouble for that, but the truth hurts.  Heh heh.

Meg was sick for two days this week and didn't go in to work on Wednesday and Thursday.  She slept on the couch Wednesday night.  When I got up in the morning, she told me she had heard a crash outside sometime in the wee hours of the morning, but was afraid to see what it was.  I opened the front door and immediately saw that our mailbox post was smashed, broken off at the base, with the boxes (the neighbor's and mine) destroyed.  I figured the smashee was drunk.  The bad part is that the mailboxes had been smashed last July.  Neighbor Fred fixed it all up for us both.  This time, however, I was surprised to learn that the person who hit the post turned it in to her insurance, and the replacement was to be paid for.  The lady came to our door yesterday to apologize.  It seems that a truck turned the corner widely, and she had to hit the post or him.  Guess it did over $2,000 damage to her vehicle.  Anyway, Neighbor Fred got the boxes replaced and up today...and submitted the bill to her insurance.  And I didn't have to do a thing!

We are breaking temp records in Indiana this week.  SATERN is preparing to help with the Coats for Kids event, but the temperatures have been so warm, I'm not sure how many needy folk will show up.  In other years, it has been cold and rainy on the distribution day, and the coats were most welcome.  This year?  We'll see!

Way late for bed.  Meg has crashed.  My turn!