This and that at the end of the week....

1. I did answer my own "what's worse?" this week. Having your alarm clock wake you deep in the middle of a sweet dream, only to realize that it's not really a sweet dream but you have spent the whole night nigthmaring (too bad that's not a real English word like "murgot" in Latvian) about the lesson you have planned for the next day.

2. People who care too much about their own nails should not give manicures to others. I guess as one of my improvements of myself before I'm not 29.5 anymore, I started getting bi-weekly manicures this year, in an effort to break an approximately 23 year old habit of picking at my nails. This week I was so irritated with the manicurist who had her own artificial nails over an inch long, trying to desperately not to ruin her own manicure in an effort of completing mine. I really spent the whole hour thinking, "would you like me to do that myself, because I could do it a whole lot faster?!"

3. My second graders still rock the world. :)

4. I still work too much. As we were still at school at 6pm on a Friday night, another teacher and I pondered why we are always there so late and how do other teachers actually get prepared without working late. We decided that we are either "very committed or need to be committed....."

5. I like my bed warmer. And I've finally discovered a good solution, as my bed warmer has a much later bed time than I do (being that I am a teaching, I am pooped at night and I wake up at 5:30 am). 6 nights out of 7 I fall asleep on the couch. At such an embarrassingly early hour I can't even post it here. KB used to wake me a few hours later and send me off to bed, as he felt sorry for me sleeping on the couch, but would only join me even later. The couch was so warm and the bed was so cold! So now, the new routine is that I happily sleep on the couch until KB is ready to go to bed. I get up and brush my teeth and wash my face, while he lays on my side of the bed warming it up. Then he gets on his own crisp side of the bed (which he prefers - what????) and we both happily drift into sleepland - me in my warmth, him in his cool. It is a great and wonderful deal.

6. The leaves are nearing their brightest, most colorful peak, and a nice weekend is forecasted ahead. We're hoping for a great adventure somewhere outside tomorrow. Hooray for the weekend! :)