Busy Busy

I can feel the chill of fall in the air and i’m not liking it. I hate fall because winter is coming. I’m not wowed anymore about the change of color in the leaves because it means that soon they will look like dead sticks. There is so much going on but I guess having no down time is who I am. Someone asked me a couple of days ago if I ever thought I had adult ADD, I don’t think so, just think I have a lot of drive and determination. Plus keeping busy has been a livelihood for me. Trust me I have moments, days where I do just retreat to the bedroom to take a nap or just to veg out. Its rare but it happens.

School has been so busy, frustrating too. A lot of middle man stuff with me and the administration. I hope that all ends soon because its starting to get annoying. The teaching side of things( when I actually get to be in the classroom) has been great, lately though I have been pulled out for all kinds of reasons and my kids have had to have substitutes.

Max has been having a hard time adjusting to first grade and we are trying to get his behavior under control. We already met with the teacher who I think now knows how to handle him. It has been worrisome because we want him to succeed and if we have to just accept what he can do. Hopefully it gets better. The bugger has been trying to outsmart us and last night he’s up a point. He’s been staying up all night and we haven’t noticed. This has been an ongoing roadrunner wylie coyote moment….and I thought we had it solved. Now I’m looking into a motion sensor for his room.

I had to come home yesterday in the middle of the day to arrange some things for Max in school that somehow could only be done in a very narrow time frame. I was running around on a time crunch and realized I was locked out of the house. James instructed me how to break in ( which I’m not sure is all that comforting) and I did only to practically do a front flip onto the couch. It was a very seinfield moment. I picked Max up at school yesterday and he had a great day. In my mind I already knew how to reward this. Six flags was open last night according to my coupon book for season passholders only.

So we didn’t tell him and headed out for the 45 minute drive. We get there and the woman at the parking booth looks at us really weird and then hands us a flyer that says ” Come out and Play” flier. It had the intitals LGBT ( which I now realize that it stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual). I am trying to read the flier and I’m starting to make the connection when I suddenly see all these people in the parking lot that do not look straight. They switched the dates and if we were Lesbian, Gay , Bisexual, or Transexual we had to pay and couldn’t use our season pass. To be honest thankfully max didn’t question because I would have liked to try and explain that one, we just told him it was a private event and we weren’t allowed in. Geesh of all nights to go.. and it could happen only to us.

Sometimes I think heterosexual people should have a night.  I guess I just wish that who you are as a person isn’t defined by your race, nationality, gender, religion , or sexual orientation. Its weird that people cannot discriminate against you in an employer setting for any of those reasons,but people discriminate themselves for those reasons.  What I am saying is that people will automatically cling to their race or sexual orientation.  I really just care about the person and not any of those things and anyone drawing attention to themselves for one of those reasons makes me question their motives.

This weekend we are off to Kempton for an energy festival. Looks to have a lot of interesting lectures and classes so I think it should be fun, and I am glad to be away from the farm for a week.