The Week in Review

To save people the hassle of having to go back and read all of my complainy posts from this week, I thought it would be considerate of me to consolidate them into one big "Week in Review." Now, I know it's only Thursday, and there are still two days left to this calendar week. But I think (hope) it can only get better from here.

The least bad day of the week was Monday- up at 4:30AM to be at school and help unload the American Red Cross truck for our Blood Drive. S-L-O-W day for blood harvesting, our goal was 98 pints and we only logged 80. Better than nothing, but a little disappointing.

The worst day of the week was Tuesday. I was at school until nearly 10PM for the Mr. Cougar contest. See previous post for a better understanding of why this was the worst day of the week. Got home at 10:30PM to a letter from the VT Dept of Taxes stating that I will not be able to renew my educator license in June b/c I am not in "good standing" with my taxes. WHAT?!? Sheer exhaustion is the only reason why I was actually able to sleep that night.

Wednesday-Learned the VT Dept. of Taxes believes that I did not file taxes for 2002 or 2005. Took Elijah for a haircut after school and then to Moe's for dinner. Got home, Ed found our 2005 taxes, I could not find my 2002 taxes (a divorce, 2 houses and 7 years ago). Spent much of the evening trying to get things straightened out on the telephone.

Thursday- hooray! The tax snafu is all taken care of- both returns found by Tax Dept. under husband-at-the-time's social security number. Of course, no warmth or apology from telephone tax lady, but whatever. Whew. In other good news, I learned my Teaching IPDP/Portfolio finally passed. The bad part? We were only home for about 30 minutes tonight to set Elijah up with the babysitter before turning around to head back out to Parent Conferences. The whole night (3 hours long) I only saw 7 parents. That felt like such a waste of time.
Then....The babysitter called me at school, she was at our house throwing up, could we come right home? We packed up immediately (approx. 15 minutes before the formal end of the Conference night) and rushed home. By that point, her mom had arrived at our house and the sitter looked terrible. Poor girl. She headed home with her mom, but not before stopping to throw up in our ditch.

The house reeks of bleach and Lysol, and I am p-r-a-y-i-n-g that Elijah does not get sick.

Possibly the best part of the whole week so far? I got some of those free St. Jude return address labels in the mail!