I'm a klutz

I fell again at school today.

My job today was to work outside watching the kids and then come in when classes were being let out to help get them dressed to go outside.

I came inside to help the first graders get dressed to go out for recess. One little boy came up and asked me to tie his boots and pull the leg of his snow pants over his boots, but to do that requires me getting down on the floor. Not an easy task when your dressed in full winter gear. I got him all set and sent him out the door and tried to get myself up. I was in kind of a squatting position and I couldn't get myself to stand back up completely; so I was trying to reach for the wall for some support. That's when my feet slipped out sideways and I did the splits and fell backwards all at the same time. I'm sure it was something to see.

I could feel a slight pain in my... well lets just say if you've ever had sciatic pain..., yeah that spot. I laid on the floor for a few seconds to make sure everything was were it should be. And heard the first graders say, "The noon lady is laying on the floor." lol No offers of help, no one asking if I was ok, they were just kind of staring and wondering what I was doing on the floor.

I got myself up, and limped through the rest of recess. I'm still a little sore, but I'm sure I'll be ok. I'm such a klutz.

I'm not Mrs. H******* according to him

At the beginning of the school year I was assigned to be in Jepup Man's class whenever we had indoor recess. He thinks it's pretty cool that Mom is his recess lady.

Anyway today, some of the kids were trying to get my attention to get me to help them with something. They were across the room saying "Mrs. H*******, Mrs H*******!" To which Jepup Man said, "Her name is Brenda! Not Mrs. H*******." At least he didn't say my name was Mom.

It's damn cold outside

We've had temps like this all week and it's only suppose to get up to -6 today. The joys of living in Minnesota. It's times like this that I wish I was in Florida.

Wild goose chase

Yesterday I was inside helping the 1st & 2nd graders get ready for recess when this little girl came to me and said she couldn't find her other boot. The one she had was still stuck inside the leg of her snow pants, so I figured it had to be around somewhere. We walked down to lost & found and dug through there, no boot. We went back and checked all her classmate's lockers, still no boot. We checked the various boxes in the hall where lonely mittens are collected before being taken to lost and found, still no boot. We went into her classroom to see if maybe her boot was in there. Her teacher said she's (the little girl) has been looking for that boot for a long time now. That got me to wondering if she even had it when she came to school in the morning, so I asked her. She said "No, I lost it at home before Christmas."

Why couldn't she tell me that before I searched the whole school? Or maybe it's my fault for not asking.

This was me the last week

Just when you think you're done...

I'm working on a promotional dvd for Hubby's company. Shooting, editing and creating the finished dvd is a hobby of mine. I guess you can say I'm a bit of an A/V geek.

I've been working on this dvd for awhile and thought I was finally done. I burned him a copy and we both watched it on the tv to make sure everything was ok. He said it was good and then took it over to his mom's to show her and that's where they discovered a mistake. Nothing huge, something that could be fixed in a matter of minutes. So I went to fix it and that's when my editor program did a digtal hiccup and I lost all my video. I had to go back and re-render the slideshow in another program, then put it into my video editor so I could put the subtitles and voice over in and re-render the whole thing together. What would've been a 5 minute fix, turned into another hour of work. Don't you just love technology?