Ribbit

Sounding a lot like a frog these days.  I have a bad head cold that I initially thought was some sort of allergies but isn't.  Ugh.  Finally at the stage where I'm starting to feel a little better but I'm hoarse as heck.  It's a good thing I'm feeling better at least since we are galloping headlong into travel soccer tryout season, starting next week!  Thing One is definitely staying put where he is.  Petunia is the big wild card: she's most likely either moving up a year or out to another club, tryouts will dictate which.  Thing Two will stay put if his team stays together at his current club, otherwise he will move to one of the two other clubs at which Petunia is trying out.  If those two both move, they will have to move together for the sake of my sanity; two clubs is bad enough, can't even imagine trying to juggle three. Plus HS soccer in the fall, should Thing One manage to make the JV team.

Anyhoo.  Had some stressful stuff going on here lately.  Terrible weather, plus a really ugly situation with the school board.  Specifically, with the ongoing teacher contract negotiations.  Not sure they are negotiating in good faith, actually pretty sure they aren't.  I've hit the point where I can't wait to get my kids the hell out of this school, which is a real shame since this is the 10th straight year I've had a kid there and I have three more yet to go.  I've already decided that this will be my last term on the Board of Education.  Petunia will be halfway through eighth grade by the time I would run for reelection (it's a K-8 school) and I will have served close to ten years by then.  Enough is enough.  I'm *really* fricking tired of being the bad guy because we observe the rules and the teacher's union representatives don't.

In other news, a dear friend more than likely has cancer, and may have something else going on as well.  He's having terrible fevers, which may or may not be related to the mass they just found in his lung.  I am absolutely beside myself about that right now, and it really gives me perspective on the ticky-tack shit the union is pulling.  I don't have the energy to deal with them right now.

Sorry this is such a downer post.  Not feeling the whole unicorns and rainbows thing right now.  On the bright side, I've recently taken up knitting (on one of those circular loom things, not knitting needles) and am about 3/4 done with a scarf, which actually looks half decent.  Proud of myself for that.  My guy friends are giving me grief about it, but no matter what stereotype anyone comes up with, pretty sure I won't fit it!  That's something at least.