Yesterday was a Professional Development Day at school. Our principal said we could have the day to use any way that would help our day-to-day teaching. We could come to school and catch up with work, we could read educational journals, or we could even rest. I was glad they acknowledged that this year’s workload is bigger. And I decided to stay home. I got housework done! In the end, living in a cleaner house will make me a more productive teacher because I won’t be going home to a pigsty every night. (Yes, that’s how you spell pigsty. I looked it up.)
The big job was dismantling my aquarium. It took forever! If I were just going to take it to the dump, it wouldn’t take that long, but cleaning it was a big chore, especially the gravel.
GOING…
GOING…
GONE!
I also did several small clean-up jobs along the way… a little ADD cleaning. But I do want to record when I stuffed the skylight vents. My skylights are reproductions of the original. For some reason, they have un-closeable vents in the middle of them. I would have thought even Edwardians could have figured out that during winter all the heat in the house would shoot out like a volcano. I don’t know what they did back then, but I stuffed them full of plastic bags. I had to buy one of those pinchy reachy things to do it. It’s awesome! I like pinching Max with it.
[“Somebody call the SPCA – animal abuse!” You like pinching Max with this claw-like thing?! The very idea…]
Our attic fan doesn’t close right either, so the attic doesn’t act as the temp buffer it ought to, but at least we have the attic air between us and the outdoors…and, I suspect, this winter is gonna be a good’n that way, so no real complaints.
Wasn’t yesterday amazing?! I got so much done: laundry that’s been overflowing a hamper or two…hair cut…feet attended to…paper grading…lunch with the boys (hubby and his mentor)…gas in car…tire pressure checked (light on dash had gone on the day before)…TV shows watched that had been recorded…overall rest. So, today, it’s back to reality (read “school to work for 6-8 hours”), I guess.
“The party’s o-ver!” Sigh
LOVE the claw and your resourcefulness! Is it hard to not do things with the claw? Have you tried eating with it? It would be fun to collect your driver-thru food with it.
Kudos to your school for giving you time to just reset your buttons! I think you might deserve two of those days for being there before the crack of dawn everyday.
You call it driver-thru? I call it drive-thru… interesting…
No, it’s drive-thru. I have uncontrollable typo syndrome. Give money to UTS, peiple, it’s the lest you can do.
HA! Again, you make me smile. Seems I am also a member of this association…ask Brad about “doe snot” some time…
I got one of those things after Arron had his back surgery so he could pick stuff up off the floor. Once he was all better, I used it to pick up Anna’s toys from the floor – it was sooo much easier than always bending over or crawling around on the floor. 🙂 And yes, we would pinch Anna with it. It’s great.
🙂
Your productive day will so inspire me! Or not.
1. Are you swinging Max around with the ‘claw’ in that 1s picture? Is that his leg we see up in the air?
2. What did you do with the fish tank?
3. You should totally take Lauren’s advise & use the claw in a drive-thru! HA!
You’re RIGHT, Peggy! [I thought it was a naked frog leg on that stool step, but it now seems to be Max’s right foreleg/arm/appendage thingy. Good eyes!!]
Who “won” all the aquarium stuff? Anybody we know??
Hey – why did you keep a Dust Buster under your tank? Would you use it to vacuum up the algae? I didn’t think those things could handle water.