This week is finally over. For some reason, this has been one of the longest weeks in a long time and I'm really not sure why, though it might have to do with a lot of "wait to wait" stuff at work and being busy nearly every single night this week (all but Monday evening) until after 9:30pm. That makes for a pretty long day! Going nonstop from 7 or 7:30am until 9-9:30pm tends to be a looooonnnnnnnnnnggggg day! :)

The trees are budding out and soon it will be green and leafy around here! The loons have been back for a while and every night around 9am and around midnight they freak out about something or another, but it's really nice. I would really miss that sound if I left!! Or if I went deaf, I suppose. Haha.

I've been hibernating or stressed or something and have been gaining weight lately. Time to get some r&r. And e&e -exercise and eating right.

A random joke for you today! It made me laugh outloud for an entire day when I heard it:

I urgently needed a few days off work, but, I knew the Boss would not allow me to take leave.

I thought that maybe if I acted 'Crazy' then he would tell me to take a few days off.

So I hung upside-down on the ceiling and made funny noises.

My co-worker (who's blonde) asked me what I was doing.

I told her that I was pretending to be a light bulb so that the Boss might think I was 'Crazy' and give me a few days off.

A few minutes later the Boss came into the office and asked, 'What in the name of good GOD are you doing?'

I told him I was a light bulb.

He said, 'You are clearly stressed out. Go home and recuperate for a couple of days.'

I jumped down and walked out of the office...

When my co-worker (the blonde) followed me, the Boss asked her, '..And where do you think you're going?!'

She said, 'I'm going home, too. I can't work in the dark.'

The Ides of April

Aloha peoples! I just realized that it is April! AND April is half over!!! Geez- where oh where did the month go? :) I love the month of April but it's sliding by very quickly! Things have been busy at work -today I did CPI training all day long. I love training people in that. I had a great group today that held great conversations. I absolutely love it when I do CPI training and I have a group that talks a lot about situations with students. This time I had a group that was very willing to examine their own reactions in conflict situations. I love that the best because us adults can affect conflict and crisis situations much more than we realize and then we don't HAVE to physically restrain kids. I find that this area especially has a HEAVY culture of restraint. It's foreign to me because I come from a position of de-escalation and managing the environment more so than actually putting my hands on kids to restrict their movement.

Anyway, I have some jokes for you! Of course it's graphic humor, here is your hit of humor for the day, with your pirate joke included!!

A Little Of This, A Little Of That

Enjoy the photos of the day! And of course, I could not resist some social commentary as well. :)







ANDDDDDDDD....................... a pirate joke for you:

So this pirate walks into a bar and sits next to a drunken wench.

The wench looks him over and says, "Nice pirate outfit. Where'd you get your earrings?"

The pirate says, "Arr, I bought one from the dollar store on the other side of town and I got the other from the dollar store across the street."

So the wench exclaims, "Wow! Not bad for a buck-an-ear!"