Walking, Talking Science Experiment

Before school this morning (while I waited for my car to un-freeze)...

Turning maroon, purple, yellow, and even green in some areas!

Starting to feel like a walking, talking science experiment...

The kids keep asking me if I got into a fight. I tell them that I saved an old lady.

Then, being the lover of truth that I am,

we laugh and I explain that my eye wasn't the result of anything cool -

just that I collided with my dog in the middle of the night.

(I still -secretly- hope they think it's cool that I have a "shiner!")

It does definitely feel like a bruise, all the way down to my eye-socket bone. I'm sure it looks worse than it is, really!

Flagstaff, my hometown, got over 5' of snow in January. The rooves (roofs?) of my favorite bookstore and the ice-skating rink collapsed underneath the weight of snow & rain.

I have probably 100+ pictures of those events - record-breaking in Flag news.

Yet I find time to post about my shiner..... and not real-life events. :)

School is good.

Figuring out the "weak" links of our SpEd Dept. chain,

and trying to create a plan of action to help them be stronger/competent.

Kids are doing great - they work hard.

Roaring through paperwork & meetings like it's no-one's business.

Coming up with as many stories about my eye as I can....... then not telling them. :)

The rest of this week (taking Thursday off) shall be spent with a dear friend visiting from Alabama! She's moving to Germany in April.

She and I did a lot of growing up together, and it's been about 4 years since I last saw her.

I'm really, really excited!
Maybe I'll post about that............ eventually. Ha!