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and then there were 215

I managed to weed through my photos and uploaded 215 photos from Thailand. They simply don’t do the trip justice but this will have to do for now. My brother and dad took a grip more and some of them can be viewed on my brother’s site: www.chimmytime.com.
I also think I’m over the jetlag. I actually got over it very quickly. I suppose going to work right away wasn’t a terrible idea. It forced me to sleep normal hours and prevented the 8-hour daytime naps. However, I am very happy that today is Friday already. I need a weekend badly.

pulled in all directions

Grrr…work is so crazy right now. Being the only occupational therapist on staff at my preschool, I manage about 80 kids. It’s a saga of reports, goals, treatments, meetings, consults, more meetings, and more reports….it just doesn’t stop. To make matters worse, I have an upcoming trip to Florida lurking around the corner and I’m trying to get things done before I leave. In fact, I will have to get off the plane on Tuesday morning and get my ass to a 1:45 meeting next week. I hope my flight is on time.
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Another funny thing about being the only one of my kind is that I somehow appear to be the super therapist who has an abundance of time on my hands to take care of every need that comes along. This is one of the reasons why I don’t eat lunch in the teacher’s lounge. I’ve come to realize that each time I pass a teacher or administrator on my way to somewhere on campus, I get bombarded with questions such as “did you get the email I sent about so-and-so?” or “have you gotten a chance to observe so-and-so?” or “will you be able to attend a last minute parent meeting and come with a progress report in 5 minutes?” What ever happened to, “how are you?” and “how was your weekend?” Let me growl a little more for a second…grrrr…ok. That’s when I feel very fortunate to have a portable on the other side of the school to myself where I can blast my music, eat my oatmeal, and write my reports in peace. I may like this “new” job but I certainly do miss PTN sometimes.

Non-Turkey Day

Jes and I met up with Bang and Vyl at the Williams-Sonoma on Friday to use Vyl’s awesome 40% discount to buy some real wine glasses. Later that night, the four of us tried out a bunch of wines that we’ve been saving for while. By the end of the night, we finished off 4 bottles of wine and lots of cheese and ended up with a very drunk, stinky Bang.
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Today is Thanksgiving and we had the parents over for a non-turkey dinner. Johnny came over early and beat us at poker while Jes made standing rib roast. What a feast…we had a nice juicy prime rib with sweet potato, corn, and au jus. Jes even made some bread pudding that almost beat the stuff that Lawry’s serves. Mmmm… Happy Thanksgiving!

finally…a 4-day weekend

I’ve been waiting for this weekend to arrive all month. November is usually a busy month for me because of the number of parent conferences I have to attend. Well, it’s almost over and I can finally enjoy a nice 4-day weekend. I finished at about 1:00 today and looking forward to some yummy food and hanging out with family and friends. On the agenda so far are the following:
1) Wine Tasting with the Miss Chans
2) Thanksgiving Dinner with the parents at our house
3) Possible Black Friday shopping
4) Another Thanksgiving Dinner with extended family in Buena Park
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Unfortunately, I’m swamped with 4 reports to write by next week…maybe I’ll get some work done over the weekend too…*sigh* it just never ends.

Show and Tell

To make therapy fun for my kids, I try to keep our projects within the theme of the season or holiday while working on their coloring and cutting skills. Well, they have been working pretty hard on some projects so I thought I’d put it together on the wall for everyone to see. Here’s what they made these past weeks.
Here’s a turkey that my friend Matthew made. Notice how it’s a 3-D turkey with a springy neck. I think it looks pretty comical.
Here are some pretty leaves that my other friends colored and decorated with glitter. Some of them are advanced enough to cut them out and some I had to do it for them.

Here is what the wall looks like. It’s still a work-in-progress since some of the kids haven’t made theirs yet but you get the point. The kids really like to see their work on the wall. They always come in and try to find their own turkeys and leaves. This is one of those times that I think my job is cool.

trick or treat

I finally carved my pumpkin last night. We made the basic triangle eyes and nose and two buck teeth. Only difference was that Jes used his dremel for some of it…that was not pretty. Mary also came over last night to hang out with us. We had a small 9-lb turkey that’s been defrosting the fridge all week so Jes roasted it up and made all the fixins. I even made some homemade cranberry sauce…mmm…cranberry sauce. I can’t wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas. They have to be my two most favorite holidays. This was just a preview of more things to come!
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Today at school, the kids had a big Halloween carnival with games and prizes. They all dressed up and had a little parade on the blacktop. If I didn’t work with kids I think I’d almost forget it was Halloween. We bought some candy at Target yesterday just in case some kids came by…uh, we got one. Where are all the kids?! We certainly have a few living on our street but I guess they’ve gone elsewhere. My cousin was in Cerritos tonight and said that not many kids came by her house either. Hm… Oh well…they really missed out on the Batman Pez dispensers and Skittles that we have here! I suppose Jes will just have to stuff his face with chocolate and sugar this coming week. I don’t think it’ll be too difficult.