Busy As a Beeee

So I've been busy. No, but I mean really really busy. If you were some character off the street seeing into my life last week (let's just pretend, because otherwise that would be really sketchy), here are some things you would see. After you saw these things, you would say to yourself, "whoa, that girl is really busy." Mm hm. That's what I thought.

*Work. I know, everyone does it. Stop complaining.

*Outside tutoring. Just 2 hours per week, but add the travel time and that's another 2 hours. So, as a hooded-sweatshirt wearing toe-toucher by night and a math teacher by day, I will do the math for you. Two plus two equals four. Four hours.

*Class on Wednesday. A friend lovingly calls it "hippie class" and I will lovingly borrow the term. This professor is someone, as another friend has mentioned before about someone else, who I could see going to Target with. She's really nice, really fun, has a pimped-out Jeep that fine I'm a little jealous of. She teaches classroom management. Wait, no, I mean she has us teach each other about the homework assignment we completed the week before. So far, class has pretty much consisted of 2+ hours of sitting and listening to everyone in class stand up and share their assignment. The first time we did that there were tears and cute thoughts. That was the day when she stood up afterward, remarked, "I'm in a happy place and I don't want to leave it" and followed that up by ripping up our agenda and sending us home. Don't get me wrong, I really really liked that because I enjoy time (gasp!) to myself. But I'd be livid if I had to pay for this course. That's an easy $2,000 right there, spent on listening to people talk about their pets and their deepest thoughts. Save it for a blog, right? Right. So this week, since that's what I'm talking about specifically, was sharing 5 important teaching characteristics we had come up with after speaking with another teacher. Lame. So lame that I didn't 100% understand it nor did I do it right. You're beloved slacker, right here:) Oh and PS, I'm not the only one who feels this way. In fact, another girl in the class sent out a Facebook invite to "Post group therapy class group therapy", to grab a drink afterward. Her message read, "Because our Management class is enough to drive anyone to drinking....." If I was a drinker and didn't have training to complete, I'd be there with bells on. BUT, this is a blog about being busy and alas, I'm too busy to take part in post-group therapy. I must do it through physical activity.

*But we'll get to that soon. Since we're still kind of on the subject of classes, let's move on to my next class of this past week (5-9 Friday night, 8:30-4:30 Saturday). Something about Phonetics, and the roots of the English language, blah blah blah. I take the blah blah blah back, I totally made it seem like I don't appreciate the English language. I mean, where would we be without it? We wouldn't be able to call people mature and tell people we loved them and blog and make people laugh. And this class IS really insightful to why, specifically, my kids make the spelling mistakes that they do. But OOH, this class put the "busy" in "busy bee" for me this week. The reading that this lady has us do is a little bit repulsive. Okay fine if I had managed my time a little better it would have gone smoother, but whatevs. It's ironic to me that both classes mentioned happen in the same building and I'm obviously taking them at the same time, and they are TOTALLY on the opposite side of the spectrum. One class is spent sharing and caring, the other class is spent racking your brain for the phonetic sign for the /a/ sound, taking about 766 quizzes per class, and using words like "fricative" and "alveolar". Ew.

*Okay, the biggest reason that suddenly my week was and oh wait the next at least 4 upcoming months are just going to consistently be crazy for me, triathlon training. I love it. I love it. I love it. I have a goal, I have a coach, I have an able body, and God's strength. Oh and I'm a morning person, which helps immensely with things like 5:30am hour-long bike rides in my living room before a full day of work and tutoring and class. And ironically, Coachy gave me an "easy" week this past week. The week I call "The Busy Week That Kicked My Butt Mercilessly". Awesome. This upcoming week is supposed to be the first of 3 hard strength weeks. BUT! I have no fricative class and next next week is Feb Vaca. So please, this week is gonna be like BUTTAH.

*Not really. But a little bit? No. Not really. Oh and also I was just put on a "dream team" for teaching Sunday school. It's a 4-week rotation and I've never done it before. But I'm part of a dream team so that in and of itself is enough for me to sprint to the sign-up sheet. Dream Team? Why wouldn't I take part? No but seriously, I'm excited because I'm sure the kids I teach are going to teach me more than I teach them. And I'm psyched to be used by God, for God.

Oh and I was so busy so that at the end of the week:

--My sink was filled to the brim with dishes.

--I ate out about 26 times.

--There was a paper clip in the middle of my walkway that I passed 93 times but didn't have enough time to pick it up.

--I haven't watched ANY of my weekly shows....Bachelor, Office, Modern Family, Parenthood, Glee...HULU MARATHON! When? Crap I don't know...there's no time!

--Never went to the grocery store to spend my weekly $75 when buying out the produce section.

--Didn't take out trash, recycling.

--There are to-do's absolutely positively LITTERING my kitchen table.

One of the best things about this week? When I read Psalm 62 and 63 one morning and God was like, "Yo! I got yo back!" (because He's ghetto, I suppose?)

Psalm 62: 1,2: "My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken."

Psalm 63: 3-5: "Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you."

:)