Jetstar Not Working
I have been trying for the past couple of days to book a flight for Tom home from Hamilton Island with Jetstar. After shopping around the websites for the best match (direct, $$$, times), I found their flights to be a perfect fit. I just can’t get past the passenger details page. It’s very annoying. I’ve even sent a customer service email… still not working.
The astrologers are mentioning an impending Mercury retrograde and recommending computer backups and so forth. Perhaps this is the first sign for me.
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Blocked Drains
I’ve had plumbing problems in this house for a while now. I’ve been putting it off because I thought it was due to a big tree in my neighbours back yard. I really like the tree. I would have hated it if they pulled it down. I didn’t really want to get into any kind of neighbour dispute either. Too close!
Anyway, after having the drains unblocked at Christmas and then having to have them done again this week, I realised I really had to attend to the cause because it was obviously getting worse.
Well it’s not the tree. It’s an old thing associated with the original dwelling that has to be ripped up. Massive bill – damn it! When I thought about making home improvements I wanted it to be something I could see. Grrr
There is a 5% chance apparently that the local water board will take responsibility…I can only hope:-)
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Dick Smith + I-Tunes = Not Happy
Darin and I spend a bit on music. He bought a $50 itunes card today from our local Dick Smith Electronics store to complete a few albums we have downloaded from itunes. He got it home, scratched the back and the number was indecipherable. Annoying!
He returned to the store and they told him he would need to contact itunes. He (naturally) asked to speak to ’someone’ who said that itunes had collected all the faulty ones last week. Well obviously they missed one! Dick Smith wouldn’t give him a refund even though it was clear and obvious the card was faulty. He has emailed itunes and received an automated email to say they’ll get back to him within 24 hours. Really I think it sucks.
From now on, we’ll be buying our itunes vouchers from places that have it printed on receipts.
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Pause
I wish I could press pause on the holidays. I want the time to last longer. There is so much I am just beginning to get into after unwinding, celebrating, tripping off to Sydney and now the holidays have shrivelled up and there’s only a week left. How did that happen?
I am listening to an audio book each morning by Caroline Myss, called ‘The Language of Archetypes’. She speaks with authority and I am enjoying it a lot. She also injects humour into her conversation. I appreciate that. I have also started reading ‘Blink’ by Malcolm Gladwell. I picked it up in a second hand book shop in Sydney. It’s facinating. I hate to admit this but I had over 900 saved blog posts in my feed. I’ve been steadily reducing that number each day.
Last year we had lots of after school meetings and I believe it seriously inhibited my learning. My routine was to come home from school and pursue things of interest online and generally stay in touch with the wider world. By the time I got home from work I’d had enough of the wider world and just wanted to do home and family things.
I’ve also started exercising again. It always feels so good but when I am tired I just don’t make the time. I intend to be firmer with myself about that and perhaps get up earlier in the mornings to get it done.
Tom will be home on Friday. This time he’s staying for a week! I’m excited to see him, but I don’t want to wish any day of this lovely unstructured time away.
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Last Teaching Day at Junior Campus
The year 9s finished today and it went well enough. I start tomorrow working with the admin team at the new campus so I won’t be farewelling the rest of the school. It happened so quickly in the end. As it usually does in a big rush where only the important and urgent things got done. I am so tired at the moment and a bit sooky as well.
I feel like I’ve barely seen Darin this week and I miss him. It’s my daughter’s birthday tomorrow. She will be 21. I can’t believe I’ve had 21 years with her. Her party isn’t for another 10 days, so it’s great I will be finished school and get a chance to do the things I want to do to celebrate her on that night. I wish I could see her tomorrow, but we are both working and she is hours away and we can’t even get each other on the phone right now! I haven’t seen my parents since my birthday and that was brief and my dad was out! I am missing my loved ones.
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Struggle
I’ve been sick for a couple of days. Friday night I had a heavy chest and it had degenerated until Sunday night I was out of breath. It’s been hot and I love the warm weather. I have not been impressed with being sick at all. I went back to work today. It was busy. I know it’s just going to get busier. I am determined to get well. I want to finish the year well.
I got a bit more organised today. I talked to my classes about the absences. I have been on camp, my year 9 classes have all been on camp this term, we’ve had long weekends, excursions, I’ve been sick and there are lots of interuptions coming up with the end of the year looming. I booked all the rooms, laptops and equipment I need until the end of the year. I wrote all the dates in my diary that I had hanging out in my inbox. I recalled that I once kept my inbox clear and set an intention to clear it again and handle things quicker. I got plenty done, but was pretty exhausted by the time I got home.
Darin cooked a great dinner. I feel better that I got a bit organised today. There are only two days of the week to go. I have relaxed and I’m about to slip into bed.
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What a Day!
Today seemed to be quite a challenging one for most I have spoken to. One of my friends even went so far as to ask me why I didn’t warn her about how hard it was going to be. She was certain there must have been some astrological influence. I had no idea!
Even the chiropractor had a big day. She was running late and very apologetic, but she’d had a really hard day with lots of sad things happening. I could tell when I saw her that she was carrying an emotional burden. She told me I have been sitting around too much. She is right. I have been.
I was late to work and severely didn’t want to be there today, but another part of me knew the distraction of work would be the best thing for me. It was too. Once I got into solving a few problems that didn’t belong to me, I felt better.
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Last Quarter
The thing about the 4th term is that it goes fast. Then I have my second lot of 6 week vacation to look forward to. I don’t want to wish my life away, but this year each term has felt like a marathon. I have to keep telling myself it won’t be so bad once I get there. I know seeing my friends I work with and the students who I go to work for, is always fun and rewarding, but there seems like a lot of other stuff going on that is even crazier than all the happenings in my personal life. Maybe when great and exciting things happen for you, they are paired with insanities that have you pulling your hair out. Perhaps it is just that kind of year.
These holidays have been good. I’ve enjoyed lots of wandering around the Victorian countryside with Darin, eating great food both at home and out, films, reading, sleeping as long as I want and a couple of games of golf. Daylight saving will hopefully allow some of those things to continue if I can keep enough energy after work to play.
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Friday at Last
I’ve been back at work for three weeks and already I’m celebrating Friday. This week has been hectic and intense for me. It’s been windy, stormy and so very busy. I injured myself on Wednesday night. I turned the light off in the kitchen and on my way to bed walked into the door frame. My eyebrow has a split in it and I am developing a shiner. Yesterday I rushed off to school late only to realise when I got there that I couldn’t teach, I had a bad headache. Darin sent me flowers to brighten my day and when I phoned him to say I was at home, he had to redirect them. They are beautiful.
Today I feel a lot better, but there is still a slight headache and a bit of vagueness. I was fine to go to school. The thing about injuries on your face is that you have to explain them. I think I described what happened over 20 times today. I would go into a class and individual students would ask, what did you do, so I would announce it to the whole class to save time.
We’ve started the Media topic in Year 9 English this week which is one of my favourites. I’ve been reading heaps this week about the rising influence of social networking. Watch this youtube clip I found on Karl Fisch’s great site:
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Can’t Sleep
A nasty combination of corrections and report writing, coupled with private life angst has me restless and sleepless. Most teachers know these kinds of nights. The mountain of correction piled high, the report deadline looming and the days so long you know you need to rest. I lie in bed knowing the best thing to do is to sleep, yet that’s the thing I can’t manage.
Things keep popping into my head. Bad news today about the health of someone close…. not fair….Did I remember to pay that bill? I haven’t called my parents for too long…. I was a bit cranky today with that class…. I hope that student will be ok…. I must follow up that incident before it becomes irrelevant… reports… I wonder how Tom will do his washing….corrections… assess those 10 students who have been away with the flu when we did the task….. stop, sleep…
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