Since Then

A lot has happened since my last post. I've been away and posting has been more difficult. Also, getting sick didn't help, and my new school computer (Dell PC) that I've been using to post from caught a bad virus and is still down.

The cold that I picked up a couple of weeks ago left me without a voice for a few days, and that was pretty tough.

The following Saturday, I worked in my parents' grocery store and afterward went to Chuck-E-Cheese's with two of my nieces.

Last Monday, I felt well in time to go on a Junior Beta Club field trip to the Opryland Hotel for the annual Junior Beta Club convention. This year marked the 75th year of the Junior Beta Club, and I was happy to tag along again this year with some of my teacher friends. My official title was "chaperon".

3 of the 4 teachers that went on the trip
4 of the 50 students that went on the trip

There are all sorts of things inside of this hotel - including restaurants. This is the 2nd year that we teachers ate at the Irish Pub that features live Irish music. It's so great! the food and the music.

Tuesday night, I got back from Nashville and left Wednesday morning for Mississippi.

I had a wonderful time with Kara this Thanksgiving, and I was able to stay from Wednesday through Sunday. I got home last night around 11pm and was back at work this morning.

Saturday night, Kara and I went out to the movies and watched Bolt. Neither of us had heard of Bolt and didn't know much of anything about it, but we loved it! It was such a fun movie.

Afterward, we ate at a Japanese restaurant, used chopsticks, and dropped a lot of food with our chopsticks - we had a good time.

In about 15 minutes, the middle school basketball games will start, and I'm planning on watching the girls' and boys' junior varsity - maybe a little bit of the girls varsity - and going over to the high school to watch the high school junior varsity game (some of my students from last year will be playing).