The end is near.

Day 1 of my last week of vacation was spent at school, naturally! The morning consisted of labeling, stamping, stuffing and licking(vommmmmm) envelopes. I feel as though we are a highly advanced society and yet we still have to lick peppermint flavored strips; putting ourselves in harms way of getting a paper cut on our tongues that leads to roach eggs finding a home in our mouths. (I couldn't even make this up, it happened to a lady, somewhere, in some year. Google it) 

 The rest of the day was spent fighting with Word because it insists on doing things they way it likes it. Excuse me computer program, I am a human, respect my wishes! I also cleaned up my classroom a little more. I seem to make a new mess each time I go back in there. I might want to stay away from now until school actually starts! 

 The real fun happened when I played with my, now favorite thing, laminator! I justified this purchase by saying "it's on sale and you'll get a lot of use out of it with all the school stuff you have" but in reality I saw it and thought "oh my God, you need to laminate your Beyonce ticket, get it now"! And so, today is the day that I fell in love with an inanimate object! This little beauty is so fun! I'm actually trying to find new things to pass through its magical jaws! I can wait to just laminate pictures of myself to hand out to people! 

Say what?

 Summer is almost over, it's true! One more week is all that I have left. I don't think I can accurately describe the loss I feel. Oh sweet Summer passed so quickly. 

 And I don't know about my other teacher friends, but my "vacation" was more of a "preparation". Now I will admit that I let myself have June. I didn't even think about school, let alone do any actual work. But July has been nothing but lamination, rearranging, cleaning, purchasing, and worrying about the new school year. My to do list is lengthy and the amount I have scratched off isn't at all! 

 My classroom looks extremely different now though. I'm like the new setup so far and I hope it works in my favor! I've been researching classroom management in an effort to not be a five year old's doormat again. 

 I'm ready to take kindergarten by the crayons! Wow, what a stupid phrase. Please forgive me, I haven't had to be witty in two months. My brain is slowly coming out of sleep mode! 

 Although I still have a lot to do before my new batch of nuggets arrive, I plan on making the most out of this last week. I worked hard for this summer, it won't be wasted! 

I leave you with my fortune from last week!