Happy New Year...

This post is mainly to wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year. I hope that the year brings good tidings to you all.

On a more somber note, rest in peace President Ford. He was a good man and although he was not elected to be Vice President or President, he did both jobs with grace and dignity. My thoughts and prayers are with his wife and family. I have been watching the events throughout the day on MSNBC and Fox News. I know, I could have been doing more on a Saturday but when it comes to politics I tend to pay attention...well most of the time that is.

On a more happy note, I have a Chanukah gift from my parents! They had no idea what to get me because I could not think of anything for them to get me. So they just didn't get me anything for Chanukah...until today that is. They bought me a new pair of shoes. I actually did need a pair since the shoes I normally wear are for some odd reason (I've had them for about 3 months) falling apart. Well the left one is anyway. So yeah...we went to the mall today and went into Journey's (my brother's idea) and my dad bought me a pair of Doc Martin's. Nice shoes. And they last forever. I still have a pair from when I was in 7th grade! I'm serious!

I also gave myself a little (late) Chanukah gift: a haircut, LOL. See my profile picture to see what it looks like. Hope you like it! :-)

Oh and my brother gave me quite the gift: a camera. It's used, he got it last year but since he no longer uses it (he's got a much better one now for taking professional pictures and whatnot) he gave it to me. There's only one problem: he didn't bring the software you need to install on your computer! He said that he got rid of it since he didn't need to use it on his computer. Well GRRR to him for that! And the manual he gave me is in Spanish! Yeesh. Well luckily I found what I needed on eBay and purchased it. It'll hopefully arrive within the next couple of weeks. So I forgive my brother for being a doofus. After all, it's nearly the new year and we all have clean slates. :-)

All right since this is getting long (and probably boring), I would just like to wish you once more a happy, healthy New Year. Stay safe!

-Lisa

Flu Season

I am probably not the only one who hates flu season...heck everyone I know hates it. But when you are the one to actually get the flu, it really stinks.

I was feeling fine at 10:00 PM on Tuesday night. Then at around 10:45, I started to have horrible back pain which was then accompained by general aches and pains. I decided to get off the computer and lay down when my stomach started to hurt...and I don't mean a typical stomach ache, if you know what I mean. To make a long story short, at around 11:15 my stomach turned on me...literally. So every hour that night, for the next 5 hours, I was up running to the bathroom. Ick.

I called work at around 6:15 AM and told my boss that there was no way that I was going to be able to make it. She was not at all sympathetic...instead she sounded like she didn't believe me. Ugh. She makes me really angry sometimes. My mom said she would come over and 'nurse' me back to health (she is after all, a nurse). Well before she came I decided that since I was feeling a little better that I could at least get out of bed and get dressed...bad idea. Let's just say that right when I did, I was in the bathroom again.

So I called work again and told them that I would not be in today (Thursday) either. Well Audrey (my boss) did not sound too pleased with this. I think that if she could, she'd fire me. But she'd be short on teachers if she did that. One of my co-teachers had gone home after only an hour yestderay with the same bug!

I found out that about 4 kids in my class were out with some version of the flu.

Okay I'm done grossing you out now. ;-)

Stay warm and stay healthy!

-Lisa