neighbors

Today was our Annual Homeowner's Association meeting. It went a lot better than last year's meeting (READ: significantly less yelling). There was one guy who had an outburst about the location of some trees that were planted by the Board of Directors in the middle of a field in the common area. He was really, really pissed because his kids used to play soccer and football in that field and now they can't because there are 8 saplings running right down the middle of it. I totally agree with the guy, but didn't like the way he came out with his feelings. It was really aggressive & not appropriate for a neighborhood meeting. To be fair, no one asked us how we felt about the trees going in, so I'm sure no one asked this guy either, but still...

Robert may volunteer to be an officer next year. He's waiting for the term of one guy (who no one likes) to expire. This annoying guys' term will be up next year, and in will go Robert's name. I'm glad he's thinking of running. I think he's got some cool ideas - neighborhood yard sale, monthly neighborhood picnics, newsletter that go out more than once a year, some sort of welcoming committee for new residents.

While at the meeting, we sat with our across the driveway neighbors, Nicole & Shea. We were chatting & found out that not only is the chick's name Nicole, but she's also a teacher & she's approx. 1 year younger than me. I stopped before I found out she was my clone. Things was getting a little too coincidental...a little too similar. I like being an individual. They're really nice people, they have adorable kitties (Zeke likes to play on our back deck) and a precious new black lab puppy, who Addison adores, named Maggie, so if nothing else the HOA meeting tonight helped us get better acquainted with our neighbors.

Happy Birthday Evelyn!

Today is Evelyn's birthday! Happy Birthday Evelyn! Hope it's a great day!

I got my new USAA Debit Card today. Sadly, it's not the checking account that I use, but I guess it's better than having no debit cards for another day. Hopefully the CCBG one will come in soon. I really want to get a credit card that has some kind of cash back option on it. In retrospect I guess I should've asked about that last week when I called USAA to tell them my wallet was stolen. Oh well.

Robert & I stupidly stayed up and watched the entire Oscars telecast last night. I did pretty well today considering I only slept for about 6 hours, but I really hit a wall around 1pm. Unfortunately, that's during my most attention-intensive class, so I was completely wiped out by the end of the day. Then I had two meetings: 1) about the $12 million dollars in cuts Leon County Schools has to make for next year and 2) about the field trip my team is taking on Thursday to Romano's Macaroni Grill. Both of those were exhausting to sit through. Notes on the meetings: Hopefully I will still have a job next year. I'm still an annual contract teacher since I took off half a year after Addison was born. It is entirely possible that I will be on the chopping block with all the other annual contract teachers at my school. Wish me luck. In happier news, we had 9 kids out of 18 make the field trip criteria. 50% is pretty good for my babies, so I am thrilled! I get to stay behind at school with the kids who didn't earn the trip - YEAH! (yes, that is sarcastic) - and do work. Wish me luck on that, too.

Addison just set her cup down on our end table & she was thoughtful enough to use a coaster. She actually moved the coaster to the place where she wanted to put her cup. She's the bestest daughter ever. Probably even more awesome than I was...