Okay, so “Best Week Ever” might have been a little ambitious. I did get a new house and a new job, but on a scale of stress, both rate at about a 9.5. This was a crazy week.
We moved into our house on Tuesday. My family and Chad’s family helped us move in. Then everybody started taking the house apart. The house we purchased is a “fixer-upper.” Chad and I love to complete projects like this. But we might have been a little more scheduled than the “demo everything” attitude our families had. There were three rooms with wallpaper, two rooms with laminated faux wood floors, one room with carpet, and two rooms with vinyl floor. By the time we went to bed we had all bare walls, plywood floors, and a truck load or two of trash. While I have been doing other things since Tuesday, Chad has moved the laundry room and the plumbing for it, completely gutted our master bath, and scraped all the cottage cheese off the ceilings. So, we are living in the two upstairs bedrooms and having a great time.
Tomorrow, we get to go to the home improvement store and spend thousands of dollars. I am very excited to get my new flooring, lighting, and tile, but what I really like is that we have an excuse to go buy cool new POWER TOOLS! I wonder if orbital sanders come in pink, what do you think? Before you answer that, you should know that I have a pink drill and other pink tolls already. I may like to build things, but that doesn’t make me any less girl.
I started my new job on Wednesday. I am going to teach second grade starting tomorrow. I had three days last week to set up my classroom, but the teacher who occupied it previously decided not to move out until 2:00 pm on FRIDAY. Also, I got my list of students at 3:10 on FRIDAY and my schedule for lunch and other things at 3:40 on FRIDAY. You may be wondering what I did for those three other days, well, let me tell you: I have two really great bulletin boards in my classroom! So luckily there is a church that meets in our school on Sundays and I was able to go and finish getting my classroom ready. Now it is 8:30 the night before I start teaching and I think I can do it. Yea!!!
Okay, that’s the latest. Thanks for all the calls, sorry that I haven’t been so good at returning them. Maybe by Wednesday or so we will have some free time. Until then…
Wow…Jeffiner! You’ve been so busy! But…it sounds like this house is right up your alley…and that things are going to go beautifully for you.
I understand why you haven’t called…and I will holla atcha later!
Take care,
Candice
awesome. i bet your new place is going to rock.
cool! I’ll have to come visit you when we are visiting family in Augusta. Good to have you back home!!
Wow, you guys have really been busy! The power tools come in set colors, maybe you could paint your own. We are back in town after being in Tennessee for 2 1/2 weeks. ec
jenni, i miss being in psyc. class with you and kelly…remember that?
how is teaching…im getting my masters in ELM EDU at UNCC right now…i think will find a 5th grade class but good luck with those second graders!