Update from Madison (My Day)

Hey :) Just felt like giving you all an update on life here in Madison.

It's been a good week so far. Mark and I finally hooked up the new PlayStation I got him for his birthday this year. We have been sending our evenings playing Soul Calibur 4. It's such a great game we we are almost tighed in our wins. I have 17 wins and he has 16 wins. It's nice to be good at a video game:) And I'm excited to get a few more games, also to watch a blue ray movie (the PlayStation plays blue ray disks)

Most days are good. I wake up and do some homework for my class (it's kinda hard) and listen to NPR. I play on my computer and then off to work. Work is OK. It's a little stressful at the after school care program. Some days are good and then some days the kids just go nuts and have a very hard time listening. Ack! It sucks to go to work and get walked all over. Some times I have to remind myself that I can always go out and get another job where people actually respect me and listen to me and I don't have to fight for it. ah, that would be nice :) But, my favorite part of the day is still the evening when Mark and I can be home and relax. We enjoy making dinner together and chatting. Sometimes we will go to a lecture or an event on camps or hang out with a friend or two. But other then that evenings are slow and it's my fav part of the day.

I have been fighting a constant cold that wont go away. I am totally going to get the flu shot this year! I just know I will get it from the kids at the preschool or the elementary school. I'm taking lots of vitamin C, D-3, B complex and such. My therapist recommended I take 5-HTP to boost my serotonin (which makes you happy :) and boosts your immune system), but I'm kinda freaked out to take it because it has been taken off the market a few times for making people very ill. Anyways, I know I should it just kinda scares me.

Mark and I still haven't finished our first puzzle. The last little bit is really hard, its all black pieces so it's challenging to see where they connect. But we will finish it soon and start our new one, which has a very northwestie motif.

To keep with the topic of hobbies, I just started reading a good book called Marley and Me. It's about a family who gets a spunky yellow lab puppy and their life together. I think Hollywood has made the book into a movie and it's coming out in the winter. It has Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston. I'm not too far along in the book yet, but I like it so far and it's just nice to read something that doesn't make me think about my life or all the crap going on in the world.

Tomorrow I have a weekly planning meeting where I meet with my two co-teachers and we plan the next two weeks after school curricula for our room. I enjoy the meetings, its always nice to have some adult time away from the kids. We can talk regularly and relax. Also, we are going to be working on the Halloween curricula and that will be super fun :) I have some great ideas about cool projects we can do.

Ok peeps, I'm off to bed, it's 12:38 here is Madison. I need to be better at going to bed early:) Thanks for all the great recipes! Keep sending them to me and I will post them! I'm also gonna post more of my own in the next few weeks :)

Love,

Sarah