Just Another Day

Tomorrow is the first day of school.

Tomorrow is also my birthday.

Happy birthday to me.

Actually, it doesn't really matter to me. It's just another day, right?

Well, not really. Because it's the FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!

I keep bouncing back and forth between being really kind of excited and being a little nervous. I should really be more nervous, I think. It will probably kick in tonight when I'm going to bed, and I'll be super nervous. But, I think I just have a super good feeling about this year because it's not my first year anymore! I actually have a bit of a clue of what I'm doing. It's still going to be a lot of hard work, but I think I'll be better at managing my time and I do already have a lot of lessons from last year I can reuse.

I even already have a great adventure story that I can tell my kids. I went dumpster diving in the school dumpster. This past week, the sixth grade team had just been chucking anything we didn't want out into the hallway and we were going to decide what to do with it later. Well, during our lunch break one day, the custodian decided to just help us out and he cleared it all out to the dumpster. Which was totally fine and we were really grateful...until we realized that a pile of science poster activities we had just bought from the district media center had been in the hallway and were now gone. Whoops. Our bad. Thankfully the dumpster wasn't very full and it was all just boxes and posters. No smelly lunchroom trash. But as I'm sure you can figure out, I was the hero and saved the day by fishing our moon and solar system posters out of the dumpster. Yet another reason why working custodial for two and half years paid off later in life. No reservations whatsoever about just jumping in a dumpster. Now I should apply that principle to other aspects of my life. No fear, I'm just gonna jump right in! Ha...we'll see.