Housework is something you do that nobody notices until you don't do it. ~Author Unknown

It is Wednesday afternoon, which means there are 2...count them...2 days left of summer school! YESSSSSSSS! I swear, I am worse than the kids!

My conference was awesome and I had so much fun! I took away a lot of great ideas and insight for next year.

My wrist is currently feeling better, which is a great thing. I can type with no pain. YAY!

Right before I left for my conference we ripped up the carpet in the living room and then Mr. S. ripped it up off the stairs and finished the switchout of the outlets and switchplates - silver in the kitchen and white in the living room. This is currently what the floor of my stairs, living room (plus Truman), and my hallway look like...

Awesome, right? So we are living on wood/cement floors for the next couple of weeks until Mr. S. is on vacation. I am also painting the yellow walls because honestly, I don't like them. At all. They have been like that for a year and I can't stand them. I thought I might "adjust". Guess what? I didn't!

Alright, I'm sure I have something I need to be doing so I am going to go and do that...good day!

Summer has set in with its usual severity. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I am heading off to a conference for a couple of days. Ah, the joys of being a teacher. I am pretty psyched because it is with 3 other teachers that are an absolute blast! On the bright side, I am missing 2 days of summer school...and we are in the last week. Yep. So when I get back I work for 3 days and I am DONE!

Yesterday we ripped up the carpet in our house...so we have cement floors right now, which is fine with me. This coming weekend we are tearing out the tile... by "we" I mean Mr. S. I will be painting all of our baseboards white. Fun fun! We are just that much closer to being done with our living room transformation!

It is so hot here...it is 5:30am and the temperature on the news says it is 79 degrees with a heat index of 85. At 5:30am. How miserable, right? If I don't come back to my blog, it's because I melted...send help. Haha....

Have a lovely couple of days!

"If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?" Stephen Wright

Friday...oh, the sweet sound of Friday. I have been waiting for it all week. Trust me, I have.

This week has been a busy one. I had my MRI where they confirmed tendonitis. I got a corisone shot in my wrist and I am waiting for the pain of it to stop so that I can see if things are better. I am hoping they are because the dr. said that if the tendon pain has not stopped in 2-3 weeks, that I will need to come back in and discuss other options. "Other options" is a term for "surgery". Yeah, not gonna happen. Bleh.

One more week of summer school to survive! Awesome thing about this is that I am gone Monday and Tuesday to a conference!!! YAY! It's amazing...so I am only there for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of our last week. Super fantastic!

I am exhausted...the heat has been killer. Take that back, the HUMIDITY has been killer. Holy cow! We took our students swimming to an indoor facility for their field trip today (always good in case it rains) and I thought that I was going to sweat to death or suffocate. Either way, no good. Just sayin'.

I am ready for the weekend and then an awesome conference with three teachers I love to hang out with! What a good time!

"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success." David Feherty

So I did my video Wednesday night for Body Jam. Bad. I maybe had a small meltdown during the salsa block and thought I was done forever. Seriously. It was ridiculous.

Then I went back in this morning with a clear head. I made it happen and it was such a fun class! Sure, there are some mess-ups here and there. How is there not going to be in a 55 minute class that is completely memorized by the instructor?! And I am nervous to be recording?! Yes, it is done. And due tomorrow, I might add. So I am sending it in a day late (overnight, too). I am just glad to be done so I can move on with everything.

My father-in-law stayed this weekend. Since I was so involved with Body Jam, I feel like I wasn't the best daughter-in-law this weekend, but it was fun. I hope that he enjoyed being here. He did fix the electrical mess that my husband had downstairs. My hall light works now! Woo!

2 weeks of summer school left! Then house projects...I can't wait!

"There is no defeat except for those who give up." Joseph B. Wirthlin

Body Jam taping last night...*grumbly face* Yeah, it didn't go well enough I could send it in. So now here I am, due date is Monday, and I have only a few days to get it done. We'll see what I can pull out of the air...

Summer school is almost done...tomorrow will be the halfway point. That means it is all downhill from there. WOO! And we are going fishing for our field trip tomorrow. To say that I am excited, might not be the right word. Haha....maybe more like not excited. Yep, that'd be the right word.

Today is wrist doctor today. *sigh* Can't wait to see if they find something to take care of this thing.

It rained a lot last night. I would love, love, love to work in my yard this weekend and finally get it done. Hopefully the rain will chill out so that I can get out there and get stuff done. I would love to remove the rest of the rocks and get my flowers planted so I can enjoy them for awhile this summer. Any ideas on gorgeous flowers that would stay blooming in full sunshine for awhile? Let me know!

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Is it my real summer break yet? The one where I don't have to get up at 5am and get ready for work...or otherwise known as getting up and falling asleep on the couch for about 45 more minutes while the dog eats, THEN rush and get ready for work. Haha...

I have never been so antsy to be done with summer school. I think it has to do with wanting to get some stuff done around the house. I have a lot I want to do, but I can't do it when I'm not here. It'd be nice if I could though!

I am doing my Body Jam taping tomorrow night. I have to get it done by the 15th (yes, of this month) so that I can get it sent it. I have to send it to their office and they get to judge me, then tell me if I pass so that I can finally become an instructor. I have honestly had about 3 months to get this done in. I am not usually this horrible about procrastinating, but here I am. I know that the reason I didn't do it from March on to May is because with the end of the school year, it was CRAZY! I could have gotten it done in the week and a half that I was off though, but did I? Nope. Grrrr...I can't wait to be done with all the formalities.

Relay for Life walk is this weekend. This will be my first one and then I have another next week. Should be fun!

Going to the doctor so they can check on my painful wrist this week. I am so glad to go and see an orthopedic dr. I hope they can make the pain stop. It sucks.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Thursday. Thank goodness. One week of summer school down (almost) and 3 more to go. Every Friday is a field trip, so this makes life a little easier on me! Woo!

Spur of the moment dinner with my girlfriends tonight means that I am super excited! I can't wait to go to Olive Garden. Mmmmm!

Truman digging even further into his hole in the backyard means I was ANGRY this morning. I swear that dog is going to live on a farm soon. Grrr. Mr. S. has the job of taking him to the dog park tonight to wear him out. Seriously, before I ship him off. (I secretly love the dog, but he drives me nuts. Shhhh.)

I bought a new purse and wallet. Life is good again. I can now fit my sunglasses in my purse and my wallet is no longer crumbling to bits. Whew.

*yawn* I could use a nap.

"A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken." James Dent

Summer school has officially begun. Ugh. Yes, we started yesterday. There are now 19 days left of summer school (no, I am not counting the weekends). Then minus 4 days for Friday field trips because those are pretty easy...that is 15. Then I am gone 2 days for a conference...down to 13. Okay, not too bad. Goodness. I have a pretty good group though.

It has been a long week and it is only Tuesday. My dog is being a world class pain in the butt. He doesn't understand "shut up and go back to sleep". Most dogs probably don't, but at 3:00am I would *like* for him to!

My mom has been having some serious problems with her arthritis. She said she woke up the other morning hardly able to walk and write. She has it in her feet, neck, hands...and now in her lower back and knees. They are running some tests to rule out another type of disease so I should know more about that later. Just keep her in your prayers please. Thanks a lot in advance.

Alright, I need to get ready for the day. Have a wonderful Tuesday!