Challenge Day 6: Bullet Point Your Entire Day

Ohhh yeah! Finally something I am good at doing - creating lists! I think I constantly have a list going somewhere. To do lists, check lists, shopping lists, wish lists, movies I need to see lists lol lots.

Anyway, uh hem, here goes:

• 6:00 am: My alarm goes off
• 6:05 am: First time snooze goes off
• 6:25 am: Yes, I have hit snooze this many times
• 6:30 am: Get up and have breakfast
• 6:45 am: Finally start getting ready, look in my closet hoping that today a miracle has happened and I can actually wear jeans
• 6:50 am: Realize that that dream isn't coming true and I'd better just suck it up and wear SOMETHING (preferably warm since it's getting cold and the school is always cold too)
• 6:52 am: Do a happy dance that I get to wear the same TWO shoes for the first time in 3 weeks!
• 6:55 am: Finish hair, makeup, brush teeth
• 7:10 am: Leave house to take mom to work (we may need a third car here soon)
• 7:15 am: Need my morning caffeine fix (ie: McDonald's $1 drinks, Diet Coke is my weakness)
• 7:35 am: Pull into school
• 7:50 am: Morning meeting
• 8:10 am: Students start arriving, make jokes about our fact of the day: The fattest man weighed 1,400 pounds. That's almost a TON!
• 8:30 am: Morning prayer
• 8:50 am: Try starting religion, decide that it's going to be a Monday.
• 9:00 am: Actually start religion
• 9:30 am: Try to start math, but as the big kids are still in class have to wait. Twiddle thumbs and the like.
• 9:35 am: Big kids finally show up
• 9:40 am: Finally start math - division with decimals if anybody was wondering. You would think it was the end of the world - not because of the decimals but because of the division. This is the hardest subject for me to not want to scream "WHY DON'T YOU JUST GET IT? THE ANSWER IS SOOO EASY!" but that's because I'm a math nerd secretly and just totally get it.
• 10:15 am: Snack break! Except I don't ever actually remember to pack a snack, and there's only so many times you can really enjoy a Rice Krispie treat before you're like yeah, no that's not cutting it.
• 10:30 am: French - which really means a nice 45 min break for me :) except that since I am out tomorrow I am really just sub-planning - yes all 45 mins of that break!
• 11:15 am: Science...*chirp chirp* let me preface this with I really do LOVE science, but I really do SUCK at coming up with really fun ideas and experiments. Hopefully when we get to solar systems!
• 11:50 am: Since we will need slightly more time for social studies, I start 10 minutes early. We're doing a review of Ancient Egypt for our test tomorrow. This has been the most fun unit I've been able to teach! The kids really love it and swear we need to raise money to get to whatever British museum has the Rosetta Stone (at least I think it's in England?). Anyone wanna donate to the Ms. Kofford's 6th Grade Class Field Trip to England Fund (there's only 8 of us!)?
• 12:50 pm: Lunch time. That's all.
• 1:35 pm: Literacy. Again another subject that I'm like, really Grammar? This is sooo simple, possessive pronouns, possessive adjectives? Puh-lease! Except that that's sooo not what you tell 11-13 year olds. They get discouraged that way. They get even more discouraged when they find out we're not reading "The Giver" today because we just don't have the time.
• 3:20 pm: Have to start the timer for the time that they owe me due to behavior. 4 minutes to be exact. Heads down, no talking or the time starts over. Do you realize how long 4 MINUTES is when you really just want to let them go?
• 3:29 pm: They finally leave my room and by the way, I may need to rethink and make them pick up 10 things from now on out. My room is a mess, and it's the first day of parent teacher conferences - Thanks Reina for getting in there quickly! :)
• 4:30 pm: Shut everything down, lock everything up, go to head out the door and realize that I totally forgot to send home our party notes for Wednesdays party - and since I won't be there tomorrow I need to do it NOW. fml
• 5:30 pm: Finally finish getting everything ready and leave
• 5:45 pm: Stop by Misty's to drop off pictures, get to hold Baby Emma! :)
• 6:30 pm: Leave Misty's for home
• 6:35 pm: Start to starve. Decide that maybe potato chips sound good.
• 6:45 pm: Yeah potato chips are sooo what I want!
• 7:00 pm: Ok, actually potato chips are soo not what I wanted. Now what?
• 7:15 pm: Start this blog post
• 7:50 pm: Finally finish blog post (at least before my OCD kicks in and I have to edit a lot of it)

I know that this is very detailed but it'll help those of you stalkers out there who really care to know every detail of my wonderful (slightly pitiful) life! I know you're out there lol