I got nothin left...

This is the first time I have sat down to breathe in the last 24 hours. I have been working nonstop on report cards and grading. To get a jumpstart, I stayed up late last night with the intention of finishing them all so that Friday could be a catchup day. Oh how naive I can be. It took me 3 hours just to to complete 1st grade! Finally gave up and went to sleep at about 1:30am, only to get up and go back to work and drop the kids off at school (that was a treat as they ususally have to take the bus).

Today at work (no kids to teach) I spent the whole time whittling my pile down one grade level at at time. 2nd grade took about 2 hours, while 3rd grade took just over 3 hours. By the time I got to 4th grade, I was finally moving along faster, but was very tired. I was running on very little sleep. Then I realized that I hadn't finished correcting their papers, so I had no writing grades to give yet. I got as much done as I could and figured I would have to give up part of my weekend to finish (they are due by Monday). Guess they assume we have no life and don't mind giving up our spare time. Though I just when I began to feel sorry for the insane number of reports I had to complete, I thought of the other specialists who have to grade every kid in the school from PreK-5th grade. I have my four classes, but not as bad as they have it. Just before 5 o'clock, I decided to call it day. I packed up all my stuff (gradebook and all) and headed out. I was so sleepy that I almost nodded off twice while driving home.

Hubby decided he'd been stuck at home for the last couple of days (that's another blog) and needed to come up for air (too much World of Warcraft). He wanted to take the family out for a nice dinner, so we went to a local Mexican restaurant that we love and dined on chips 'n salsa. I was so zapped that I could've fallen asleep right there on the table. All of the conversation just seemed to whirl around me. I felt like the egg in that commercial...

This is your brain. This is our brain on grades. Any questions?

Anyway, it'd been a loooooooong time since we've been out like this, so it felt like we'd returned to some semblance of our life before the recent financial changes of fortune. The kids really enjoyed their meal and couldn't get enough. I swear our daughter has hollow legs as she never seems to be completely full. We finished up and made a quick pitstop at the grocery store to get some ingredients for a pumpkin pie. I am hoping to practice making my first pumpkin pie so that maybe I'll be able to make an edible one for the holidays. That is, if I recover from this massive fatigue I'm still feeling. The Diet Coke I drank at dinner perked me up for a little while, but I think the effects are beginning to wear off. Not sure what's wrong, but my head feels very droopy and my pillow is calling my name. I got nothing left for ya in this blog, so it's bedtime . dSweet dreams to you all. Please lord let me dream of the Land of Dairy Queen and not report cards.