Being stood up yet again...

Ha! Hold on - I have chocolate on my fingers *lick* *wipe* ok much better. So I was stood up tonight, I was going out after church (thought I would make that effort) and when I got there no one was there! except for BEEJ of course, who always makes me laugh - thanks dude - but he was with another group. When I got out to my car I called my ABF leader and he was like "yeah, we went to chilis instead." Just goes to show that I shouldnt even try. But the experience was good because, like I said, I saw Beej, and since I can never actually be serious around him (he's a riot) I will just be serious here, since he SAYS he actually reads all this. But anyway, it just served as a reminder of how faithful God has been and how much of a blessing BJ has been to me. When I moved here he was one of the first people I noticed (shane too) and I could tell right off that he had a great sense of humor. Being a total dork myself, and totally new to the area, it was and is good to see some people with crazy humor like myself. Kind of like comfort food, thouh Ive never really had comfort food, just comfort people. So BJ, if you are reading this - thanks for making my "transition" here a good one, I really do appreciate it.

Ok new stuff. Grades are due on Thursday, so I should be grading papers, but I did some yesterday and now I think I am going to go finish my poncho. The problem with grades being due, is that my kids are totally sucking it up - they are doing poorly on everything! I have a lot of atheletes that are not going to be happy, and I dont really have anything I can do to magically raise their grade this week, because that would just be way too much work right now. I guess they are just going to have to deal with the consequences of their stupidness. I will be spending this week getting everything caught up, and getting ready for my trip. We leave on Sat so I really have to get ready!

My trip - Im really excited, but nervous too. I want to have a good time with my mom but already she is getting on my nerves with all the questions. Its like I feel like she is telling me what to do, even though I know she isnt. Does that make sense? Oh well, I just need to suck it up and quit being so sensitive. I still need to make some calls this week, last checks on reservations and such. Please pray that we catch out flight back home. We are flying in to JFK at 2:55 and we have to go through customs, transfer to Newark (approx 90 min transfer) and be on our flight home by 6:55. I know that is 4 hours, but customs might prove a problem, so if everyone prays, we should be ok.

My brother is coming down to get the car on Friday. He is also going to be doing some stuff to try out or apply for the Dallas PD. I dont want to get my hopes up, like they might actually mover here, but I really do hope he is able to find some sort of stable job. It would lesson his stress and help his family so much. It stinks that we wont be here though, but Catey is thinking of bringing the kids down for Spring Break, end of the month. That would be cool.

Well, Im gonna go and watch the Secret Window (borrowed it from one of my students and I need to bring it back tomorrow). Later!