I actually got to go home today right after school.

Well. Sort of.

I left school on time and took off to a gift shop that I needed to go to so I could get some candles to give as gifts. I just love this store. It is a kind of gift barn and it has all sorts of seasonal doo-dads and other dust catchers that I have no need for.

But would kill to have.

I actually managed to get out of there without buying anything for myself. That never happens. I can always find something that I really want. Of course I could find things I wanted today, I just managed to talk myself out of them for a change.

I can wait until after Christmas.

Then I came home and actually had a real dinner here. I think that might be the first time I’ve eaten at home in two weeks. I’ve been using "meal replacement" services. I just heard that term the other day, it’s a 90’s way of saying takeout.

Then I tried to do some organizing of gifts and wrapping, but I started to feel overwhelmed.

So I played Snood instead. For hours.

I have been totally non-productive lately. I’m just too tired to do anything that really needs to get done.

One thing I haven’t done yet this year is take a ride and look at the Christmas lights. I love to see the houses all decorated and lit up.

The one thing I have been noticing lately is how ugly the decorations are when it’s daylight. They are quite hideous.

My favorite house seems to be playing "add a decoration". Well it’s not exactly my favorite, it’s the one I find the most amusing. I drive by it every morning, and they have a huge tree in the front yard that currently has a windsock for the 4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and now Christmas. They seem to be trying to get a few other Christmas decorations squeezed in there as well.

I just keep wondering why they decided to leave all these other holidays up. It’s amusing, but puzzling as well. Afterall everyone wants to have their house look festive if they are taking the time to put up all the decorations, so I would think that they’d take down all the old holiday stuff.

But perhaps that’s my rather square thinking.

I again had an "out straight" kind of day at work. I spent a lot of time testing one little boy who I get a big charge out of. He’s one of my reading puppies and I do like him. He didn’t do as well as I’d hoped he would, but he was fun to work with.

Tomorrow I am facing a bad day. I have a meeting before school that will probably be fine, but the late afternoon meeting has the potential to blow up before my very eyes. My life could be made quite miserable by this one.

These parents are very unhappy with the teacher who has been complaining about having the four special ed kids in her room (with the full time aide as support), and who looked at the speech therapist the other day and said "Oh you’re here to pick up the dumb ones."

Swell. The parents have every right to complain.

I’m dreading this meeting. It has my stomach twisted up in knots. I know I can’t control other people, but it’s really hard to watch a teacher who is being so negative all the time.

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