Becs Babble

The ramblings of a teacher to her friends and family.

Friday, June 16, 2006

Bloody Nose Blues

I am writing this with one hand because the other is in trying to hold my face together. I have the bloody nose blues, so to go with it I must tell you a little story.

***PARENTAL WARNING**** If you have a weak stomach, this blog may not be right for you.

Once upon a time there was a little girl names Janelle who NEVER NEVER EVER got bloody noses. It just never happened to her. She watched her sister deal with them and her friends deal with them, but lucky little Janelle never had that problem the whole time she was growing up. Literally not one day of the bloody nose blues from age 1 to 20.

One day on her way home from a college class, she felt something strange happen and next thing she knew, blood was falling all over her pink shirt. Her first bloody nose, it was a nasty thing , so much that Janelle had to pull over because she couldn't drive poor Lucy (the nasty Saturn). It was not a pleasant experience, especially when it was repeated several times over the next few weeks.

Then Janelle thought the bloody nose blues went away for a time, because it suddenly stopped happening. 9 months later though, the bloody nose blues were back and poor Janelle was miserable. You see Janelle doesn't just get the bloody nose blues lightly, she gets the nastiest form of it out there. Sometimes she thinks she loses a pint of blood everytime and goes through 1/2 a box of Kleenex.

As Janelle started the drive to Saginaw for work, the bloody nose blues favorite place to get at her was on M-13. They would go in spurts - happening daily or every other day for a few weeks and then going dormant for 6-9 months before reappearing again.

Then one day, they seemed to stop and a year went by, so Janelle started to feel like the bloody nose blues might have found someone else to bother. Lesson to Janelle - don't count your chickens before they've hatched.

Today the bloody nose blues returned in fine form, after a good years absence, and hopefully didn't stain my carpet. So I have several weeks worth of bloody noses to look forward to now. I just hope they stop before Jewels wedding cause it would look silly to have a bridesmaid holding her nose done the aisle!

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

I am FREE.....Well sort of

Yes, I know it has been a LONGGGG time since I was on my blog. It's not because I have given up blogging. No my life has just been jumping from activity to activity lately. It's called THE LIFE OF A TEACHER DURING THE LAST WEEKS OF SCHOOL. Retirement parties, testing, report cards, my masters class, gone almost every weekend. My crazy life! But today I can sing my happy song because this year is OVER!!! 4th year of teaching done and even though they were my best class ever, I wasn't sorry to see them go. I am FREE!

Well as I said...sort of.

You see I am a glutton for punishment.

So I am teaching summer school.

So I am actually free Thursday and Friday and then back at work as of Monday.

Crazy, I know. But the money would be helpful right now and what can I say, I miss kids already. (not really just yet, but I will soon).

So, my blogging may still be a little slow for awhile but I haven't gone away and I will be back so practice patience and I'll be around!


...oh and for those of you that haven't heard (which I think is none of you) I was called back for next year and I am teaching 2nd grade at Arthur Eddy Acadmey! (GREAT SCHOOL!!!)