Well hey there, Monday!

This is what one of my sweet students, Fred, said this morning when he looked at the calendar. He told me that saying hey to Mondays makes it easier to get through them. He told me he says, "Well hey there, Monday!" in his head every week, but let it slip out loud today. Alrighty then. I love that kid and really hope he's planning to forgo sixth grade to stay with me next year.

You know what? Monday wasn't so bad once I properly greeted it. Try it next week; it may just change your attitude about Mondays.

*I finished The Project yesterday. I've been working on it since Novemeber, but there's been much procrastination since then. I'm fixin' to bust a gut to post pictures, but I want Kira to be surprised when she sees it. So, here are a few teasers...

{Please be kind and overlook the blurriness. It's a Monday and my hands refused to stay still.}

*Counting tomorrow, there are eight schooldays left before summer break. My fourth year of teaching is nearly in the history books. Time. Flies.

*This time next week, I'll be watching the premiere of "The Bachelorette". I'm way, way, ridiculously excited. I shouldn't like that dumb ol' show, but I do.

*I have large plans for the summer, and they largely consist of doing nothing and whatever I want to, all rolled into one. I think those are the best kinds of plans.

*Today was an unseasonably cool, dark cloud kinda day. I'm loving this cool weather and cloudy days make me happy. Is that weird? Maybe I should live in England. I visited there once and kinda fell in love...I'll look into this.

*I bought some watermelon at Publix yesterday, and I've nearly finished all of it. I won't mention how much I've consumed because, well, you'd likely be appalled and never come back here again and that would be a travesty. I could eat watermelon three times a day every day and never get sick of it.

*I learned what pentultimate means today. I'd heard it before but never knew what it meant. I heard it while watching the shuttle launch pre-game before the schoolbabies arrived this morning and looked it up. I love learning new words. It's my goal to use it in conversation at least eleven times this week...I'll report back.

*I watched the shuttle launch pre-game on the news this morning with the grandest of plans to let the students watch the pentultimate (one tally mark on my list, please) space flight. Then, I completely forgot about it. I didn't realize it until about 6:00 this evening. "A" for effort, though, right??

*Did I mention there are eight more days left in school?

Happy week, yall!