For those who don’t know, we are now the proud owners of an adorable kitten named Max. Although he’s 1/8th the size of Scarlet, he can hold his own with her.
One year to the day, I married an awesome man and life has been for the better ever since. Love you babe!
It’s the end of the 3rd 9-weeks for many of my school-age kids that I work with at the clinic so that means…report cards! Now I haven’t been out of school for long (graduated from high school in 2001; I was in college until August 2007) but apparently school systems these days are bucking the old fashioned ABC etc. grading system that I grew up with. Case in point - I was walking one of my kiddos out to the waiting room (let’s call him Johnny) where his mom was sitting. I struck a small conversation when with her when the subject of report cards came up. Proudly she announced that “Johnny” has received U’s in all of his classes.
U’s????
What the heck is a U and since when was it a part of the grading system? I honestly did not know if that was truly good or bad. Judging by the smile on Johnny’s mom’s face and the excited tone in her voice, she was very pleased so I just rolled with it and pretended to be just as excited. Honestly, I still don’t know what a U is. Or a P. Or an X. Or whatever random letters our fine government institutions want to now use. All I know is that it reminds me of an episode of Arrested Development when Maeby goes to this hippie high school where instead of letter grades, they get hearts, moons, and other random pictures.
*Sigh* Maybe I am getting old. 
I was sitting scrubbing toliets and rocking out to Jack’s Mannequin. As I cleaned, I thought about all the things I would love accomplish sometime in the near future. I read somewhere that if you write goals down, you’re more likely to accomplish them. Using that as an excuse to avoid house work, I sat down to my computer (and new blog ) and wrote down what I would like to accomplish in the next year. And this is what I came up with:
Home
- Paint & finish bathroom
- Make curtains for dining room
- Finish furnishing the dining room
- Furnish the front patio and balcony
- Start flower garden
- Begin furnishing bedroom across from ours
Personal
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Learn to sew/quilt
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Finally finish my Phi Mu cross stitch project (it’s been like 3 years in the making)
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Make a pizza completely from scratch
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Be more organized, procrastinate less (hehehe)
Career
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Obtain my CCC’s
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Complete a Level 1 TEACCH course
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Continue developing my skills with a emphasis in pediatric swallowing and developmental delays
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Develop a caseload of pediatric swallowing patients
Here I am sitting at work while outside, it is 25 degrees and snowing. Pretty much every school in TN & VA is closed with the exception Bristol, VA city schools (if they close, we close…which they didn’t - Thanks a lot Bristol, VA!). Even though we will still be open for business, I probably will not see the first patient today. I could take this opportunity to catch up on paper work and plan next week’s sessions. Instead, I create a blog aptly named “Another Form of Procrastination”. It’s going to be a good day…
