It's the Final Countdown - Da da da daaaah...da da dat dat daaaaah.....

Yes...the countdown has begun...34 days until the wedding. Feeling a bit rushed, and things at home are getting tense, but I'm still super excited. Nick and I are in Dublin this weekend for my wedding shower...which was yesterday :). I had a great time with all the family and the gifts were really what I needed. I've got another wedding shower next weekend at our church - that will be fun, too :).

School is almost over as well...9 more days until freeeeeedoooooom!! Well, we're trying to have a mini-choral concert on Tuesday with an awards assembly. I have mixed emotions about that because the concert had to be moved so many times. The musical for the school went really well too :). I'm hoping we might have recruited some in the audience so we can do musicals with larger casts.

My throat is still sore from all the sinus drainage and along with that, my ear still aches. It's freezing here in Dublin, and the two dogs...yes, I said two, are in the back of the car because of controversy. I won't bring it up...but we have two dogs now - Link the puggle and a mutt that looks like a Jack Russell Terrier and Doberman mix :/ - she was starving and pawing at the church door and we took her home. You'd think we would learn after the flea infested cat...this dog whines like nobody's business. I don't even know if it's separation anxiety anymore...she just whines!

I'm taking a break from assembling the wedding invitations. Those have to get done tomorrow and out - it's getting too late to send them!! I finished the thank you cards with mom tonight...now we just have to get all that stuff back to an apartment that is halfway packed, halfway disaster area and down to the new house in Chattanooga. Thanks to Toy and Phil, we have a place rent free that we get to fix up. They're wonderful people and I am super excited about living in that house...I just dread the drive to work. About an hour is what will end up happening :( ... but you can't pass up free rent, you know?

Well, I guess I should get back to work. I want to sleep, but I need to get just a bit more done before I do...until next time!

On the Eve of ... Insanity?

Holy cow, has it really been that long since I last posted?! Wow time flies...

I am all about summer. I'm completely ready to end this school year and start fresh with more organization and better planning. The year has gone well so far I supposed, but there are so many things that have happened this year that I simply never want to have happen again. And that's what is great about teaching. You get the opportunity to start all over again the next year and improve. If only I can stay in one place long enough to get some years under my belt enough to get a good routine down.

And, we are exactly one week away from opening night with the musical, and I might literally lose my mind...

Oh, but I had one of those "pre-summer" moments coming home from MCHS tonight. It was fairly warm, I had the window down, and I was blaring the Beatles. And for that brief moment on the 45 minute drive home from work, everything felt right in the world. For one brief moment, every wad of cash I dole out for the show and every moment that I'm working myself into the ground to see the kids come together with an amazing show made all the madness worth it...for one brief moment, I actually LIKED the chaos.

I'm not sure what I was thinking, but the moment has passed. I'm exhausted but wired at the same time and can't exactly sleep (the whining puppy in the background with separation anxiety isn't helping either...). Tomorrow is prom, and most of my students will be leaving around 11:30 am. I'm going to be making final preparations so that Monday can go smoothly without a hitch. We didn't finish the show tonight, but we were fixing some final blocking and Angela and I were having a hard time going through some of the songs *ack*. It will be last minute but it will happen.

I've got mixed emotions tonight...and as I read certain things and think back over the past, I realize I am still harboring bitterness in my heart...at who? I'm not sure...God? Maybe...people who I feel never noticed me or my full potential? Maybe...then I have to face the embarrassing possibility that maybe...juuuust maybe I'm not as good as I think I am. Maybe I'm simply mediocre.

And the wedding *blink* *blink* - so much to do...it's approaching at a pscycho speed, and before you know it, I'm going to be hitched. But that's another conversation for another post...I'm suddenly feeling a bit tired. Could it be I can finally get to sleep??

Let's see, shall we? :D