Heartbreak City

I'm doing this job share thing this year (you've probably heard or read about it, I'll work part time - every morning). So, I turned in my lap top from the district as each teaching UNIT gets a laptop, not each teacher, and Jacqui's is newer, so, well, I'm no dummy, let's keep hers. I very (thought so, anyway) carefully copied my 3 years worth of files to my flash drive and took the computer in. They reimage them which means they wipe them clean and start over. I KNEW that I should slap that flash drive in the home computer and copy my files to make sure, but I do this all the time, so no worries. I waited until today, 30 minutes before heading to meet with my AP teachers to plan. When I clicked on the folder, it took me to My Documents. I copied the SHORTCUT NOT THE FILES. I almost threw up. Literally. After I gagged (sorry Ashley), I remembered, files sync to the server. Of course the 30 pages of notes from June's AP Summer Institute that included how we would use things, and my notes of ideas for the year weren't synced nor were the first six weeks of plans that I made last month. "Perhaps they haven't reimaged the computer..." Then the return email, "So sorry, Misti, that computer was reimaged yesterday." N O O O O O O O O But, I did get the last 3 years worth of files back. My husband's a funny man, so when I again remembered that my brother & sister-in-law would like a copy of their wedding ceremony (the written part), I asked if he had saved it or if he just had a hard copy, his reply was, "Yep, I know how to save things." Since I was over the nausea of the situation, I mooned him. No, not really, but I thought about it really hard, and if the kids hadn't been in the same room, I would have. He knew what I was thinking, too, because he said, "Not in front of the kids." How do we do that? I've never actually mooned him, just threatened.

The good news is, after meeting with Jacqui and Diane, I find myself excited about the year! I'm looking forward to getting back. Of course, it could be because I saw several of my friends up there as we all lament coming back but really find ourselves happy and excited, yeah, that probably helped, too. What a praise! I really didn't think I had it in me! And, the kids played nicely for 3 hours while we worked!

Then, we went to a wedding rehearsal, and as luck would have it, the photographer was sick. Again, my darling husband interjects, "Misti will do it tonight." HELLO - have we not had conversations about volunteering information (see June when he told others of me wanting to be their friend - I'm still not over it)? So, I took pictures of the rehearsal. While I was shooting, I noticed Jer staring straight at the camera. He knows not to do this, he's trained. So, I told him - "What are you doing? You know better?" (it was just he and Nicole talking, so reprimanding him was totally okay in this situation) "Do you realize you're wearing a skirt?" Okay, so the best angle meant squatting...in a skirt. I wish I had kept the picture because it was total shock on his face, like, "what is she thinking? is that? I can't believe..." (I did have on undies, and he couldn't tell what color, so it wasn't TOO bad). But, the pictures was out of focus. Too funny. It was a great experience since it covered ever changing light (sun, sunset, dark). Fortunately/unfortunately, she asked me to possibly help tomorrow as her photog possibly needs a second shooter (and if she's not well, well, see me shaking). I'm not there, yet. And, it's totally up to the photog. I will wear something other than a skirt & not flip flops. Lots of stairs & flip flops = many close calls. It's exciting & scary. Here are two pictures. Yes, I see the fern - now, after the fact.