Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

I’m tired.  No, beyond tired, exhausted.  Guess that’s what happens when the dogs wake DH up at 5am, then he discovers poop in the hallway, which results in him getting Mark up to 5:03am to clean up the poop,….with the rug cleaner.  Do you know how much noise a rug cleaner makes?  Allot.   So I got up, had some decaf—caf coffee sends my BP through the roof so I avoid it—and started grading papers.   I’m teaching an online class this year which consumes a bit of my time but I thoroughly am enjoying it.

Five hours later I finally finish and switch over to painting trimwork.  Geez, we have lots of trimwork in the kitchen, family room and foyer.  This is the second day I’ve worked on painting all of it and by 5pm I still had more trimwork to paint.  At least the family room is finished now.  I had to stop cause my shoulders are so sore.  Man, I hate getting older and having all these aches and pains.  Tomorrow, after the boys inline speed skating practice (it starts at 8am so there’s NO sleeping late on that day), I’ll try to knock out the rest of the trimwork painting. 

Mark’s speed skates are due to arrive on Wednesday.  Finally.  We ordered them back in July when we were at Nationals and he got to try them on.  Unfortunately they only had one pair and Michael took that one so Mark’s were backordered.  No problem, I thought, he can wait a few weeks.  Yea.  Right.  If I had known then what I know now we would have gone with a different company.  The boots finally made it through customs this last week, and then the company shipped them GROUND to us.  What were they thinking?   Oh, yea, how to make a customer really unhappy is what they were thinking.  Me, If I were the salesman on this one I would have shipped next-day-air from California.  No, they chose to ship UPS Ground.  UGH!!!  But stuff like this, writing emails, making phone calls, thinking about how Mark is feeling about all this really tires me out too.  Stress, can’t stand it.  But the boots are coming and Mark will have a couple practices to get used to them before his first race.