February 25, 2013

• Spring Break Plans Set in Stone

  Lucas will hang out with Mike & Birdie (AKA Groom & Room) while we are gone...and get a shampoo & trim before we pick him back up. I have an appt. to get my hair cut before we leave.  Flights book to Sacramento, staying with Paul the first few days, then he'll drive us down to Los Angeles where we'll all hang out for another few days.  Then Dennis & I fly home out of LAX.  It turns out that even checking 2 bags coming and going, it is cheaper to fly American Airlines than Southwest.  It's also cheaper to fly out of St. Louis than Springfield, even counting the cost of parking.  This being our 2nd trip to Los Angeles, I was a lot smarter when I booked our hotel. I made sure the price included parking and breakfast. All plane and hotel reservations have been made.  My credit card looks anemic after that workout.

  It was a busy day at work. 84 students darkened my doorway.  Quite a few genuinely sick students--both fevers and vomiting.  Not necessarily together.  After work I picked up a few groceries to make it thru the next couple of days.  It was sleeting before I got home. We'd just finished eating when Dennis got the call to report to work for "winter weather duty".  I suspect he'll start spreading chemicals to keep the roads from freezing.  There is sleet with some snow mixed in still falling.  Right now we are in the 2-4" of snow accumulation "band" of the storm.  Up around Columbia (90 miles north) it is a foot or more.  It's 34 so far, but supposed to drop below freezing during the night. Did I mention it is also very windy?  I guess this is payback for all those winter storms that went to the north or south of us in December & January.

  This is health & safety week at RMS.  Tomorrow I'm supposed to do a little 25 minute presentation about the heart and exercise. Some anatomy of the heart and how it pumps the blood.  Then how to check your pulse.  Students will count their pulse sitting at their desks.  Then we'll  march in place for a minute & recheck their pulse to see how much it increased.  Finally encouragement for students to keep moving and exercise, followed by questions.  Oh, boy. 

   

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