So last night was the fall festival at school. I was never told anything about it really (as far as me having to help out or do something). So, yesterday I asked Mrs. Sugg (while I was in her office trying to un-confuse here about some student assessment data), I asked her if I needed to do anything. She said I could help out with anyone I’m friends with or just help out with various teachers. Then she said if she had thought to tell me, I could have set up a booth for the computer lab. She didn’t think about it because classified staff aren’t even required to be there. Sooo…..I had already been thinking about what I would do if I could do a booth. So, at 3:00 yesterday afternoon I officially decided to set up a bracelet making booth.

After school was out, I went to Wal-Mart and bought all kinds of beads and elastic. I came home and got Colin. Then we went to the bus garage to pick up Katee. Theeeen, we got some food from Wendy’s and headed over to the school.

The fall festival was from 5:00 - 8:00. We opened our booth later than 5 (I don’t remember when exactly). There were some times we got really buys. We had kids all around our table making bracelts. We made (or the kids made) 85 bracelets in all (and only about 4 or 5 kids spilled their beads). I will get 50 cents per ticket to use to buy stuff for the computer lab. ^____^ Yes, it’s nowhere near the 492 tickets the blue pod (5th graders) made with their haunted house, but still; I think I did pretty good for it being so last minute. And yes, I had to buy all of the beads and stuff but I still made a profit.

Colin and Katee were a big help. ^___^ Well….Katee went off and played a lot of games, but she did get me a fish. ^_____^ That’s right! A new member to the family- a little tiny fish named Dashy. He lives by himself so Chunk won’t eat him. ^__^;;

Yesterday it was pouring down rain. As we were leaving the fall festival, I ran through a big puddle of water and got my feet totally soaked. Hopefully it won’t rain so much today. Tonight is the fall festival at my mom’s school. We’ll probably pop in for awhile. I think we might go get Degrassi Season 4 from Evansville sometime in the next little while. ^___^ Whoo-hooo!

OH! And I almost forgot. I got a laptop yesterday! ^_______^ Just wait until you see it. I’ll post a picture soon. It’s awesome. ^___^

Pouncy is adorable by the way. <3

So, I’m sick and tired of PLATO testing. You know, I don’t even know what the heck PLATO stands for. Maybe it doesn’t stand for anything. Well, it does stand for annoying, time-consuming, and redundancy.

So, for those of you who aren’t priveleged enough to know, PLATO is an assessment 3-5 graders take three times a year. And guess who is the lucky ducky that gets to administer this lovely piece of testing glory- the ‘puter lady. It was fine in the beginning, but now it’s getting down to the wire. The testing window is being closed on Tuesday (the window’s been extended twice now I think), and I am trying to get the kids all caught up. Absences, field trips, assemblies, etc. are not very good when it’s during testing. There have been so many problems during the testing- server problems mostly. I think theyre going to set it up so that next time every school in Hopkins County won’t be taking the test at the same time. But…. they can’t assign each school a certain day (which is the rumor). I cant have 180 (approx.) kids complete all 4 (or 2 in third graders case) complete their tests in one day. Oh well.

So people are still pleased with me. I’m getting praise from teachers, students….the principal O_____O

Oh, a funny story- the school does a Secret Santa thing, and I drew a name the other day to see who I get to play Secret Santa to. Out of everyone I got, I drew this lady who is a special ed. teacher. I don’t know her, like at all really, but the thing is…… since day one she has reminded me of someone. She kind of scares me because of this. Know who? Yes; she reminds me soooo much of..Mrs. Williams. *barfs*

It’s fall. Colorful leaves are falling. Temperatures are cool, wet, frosty. Elections are coming. The school fall festival is tomorrow. Days ae shorter. Darkness comes sooner. Pretty soon it will be snowing. (I hope! ^____^) Snow days!! Oooh! We didn’t get those in Lexington.
In other news, today was pajama day at school. I wore my Cheshire Cat PJ’s. ^___^