the mondays

today was kind of rough (like above sand paper, under alligator skin).
i had this conference called, "capturing kids hearts," (can you hear the theme music?) and i had to leave to go to randy's funeral (my first cousin wendy's husband who was awesome and a police man and killled in a car accident). so it sucks that i teared up when i asked to leave, but then the conference lady was like, "well we may as well just reschedule you for december if you miss today." and i was like, "so what about the 3 days worth of sub plans i left and the fact that i have a sub," and she was like, "well you see it's like algebra. it builds on each other . . ." to which i scowled even though i didn't mean to. so anyway, it sucked and i was upset about the funeral which turned out to be beautiful but difficult (because they have 2 little babies). the police gave us a 20 man motorcycle escort, a chopper flew by at the graveside and there were mounted police. for real though randy was awesome. anyway, not to be neg but i get frustrated with adult school bureaucracy and stuff. i mean seriously. in other news, i found my winter hat:

can't you just feel the excitement, kids!
and also, i still own this painting and get to look at it daily: