Ugh!

I have been teaching for 11 years now. I have made it through whooping cough, walking pneumonia, the flu, chicken pox, lice, full moons, you name it and never got sick..... Until today.....

I took off my cardigan and heard a colleague say "Um, I think you have ring worm on your arm."

"WHAT"

"The back of your arm, it looks like ring worm"

"Ring worm, how do you get ring worm?" I have never had it before so I had no idea what it looks like or how to treat it. Oh yeah, its massively contagious so I now have the areas bandaged. I already found what looks like the start of another ring by my wrist.

I currently look like I am a triage patient. And, do you know how hard it is to tape gauze to the back of your arm. I'm having the hubby fix it when he gets home.

By the way, do you know what the pharmacist gave me to treat it?

Jock itch cream. Yep, jock itch cream.

At least I got a good laugh!

Hi Ho, Hi Ho its back to work I go....

I am so dreading tomorrow.  Getting up 2 hours earlier than my body has gotten used to.   Driving to work in the  biting cold.  Dealing with the aftermath of Christmas and the crankiness of the students who aren't ready to be back yet either.  Hope they spent their time off wisely.  Maybe some of them finished their Titanic projects or studied for the end of term assessments.  I highly doubt it, but we can always hope.

Random Thoughts on a cold, cold day

As I sit here at the counter typing away and enjoying a steaming hot cup of Chai I look outside to see...

This.  It is cold today and I am so thankful that I am not at work.  I am especially thankful I don't have outside duty in this 2 degree weather.
I am on winter break for the next two weeks.  I really hope the weather warms up because I don't want to be cranky and stuck in the house.

Yesterday we had my side of the families Christmas dinner.  If Grandma would have made it just 6 1/2 more months we would have celebrated on her 100th birthday.  I don't know about you, but that just seems like a bit too long to go on.  If you knew her she would have agreed 25 years ago it was too long.  She was a pretty cool lady.

I did make some hand crafted Christmas gifts for my folks this year.  Dad got an awesome Knit beer.  Mom got a jade and pearl necklace and a prototype frog I made for a friend.  (I'll tell you who, but after Christmas).  Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo of the necklace for my anal retentive ways.  I like to have photos in case I go for a recreation at some point.

I am recently addicted to our new wii.  Love me some bowling and oddly boxing!  I will master that uppercut one of these days.  Come on it's only been a week since we got it.  I am excited because Santa is bringing me a wii Fit for Christmas.  Being a yogi, I want to see how long it takes me to unlock all those poses.....  Oh and he also got me the new Shaun White snowboarding game.  Awesome!

Last random thought of the day.  My 4th grade teacher left a lasting impression on me.  In the last paragraph I accidentally misspelled 'BECAUSE'.  My finger slipped.  When I was in 4th grade I could not for the life of me spell that word.  So, what did my teacher make me do?????  Recite it every day at the start of the day CORRECTLY for 3 weeks.... IN FRONT OF THE CLASS.  To this day, I cannot spell it without saying the letters in my head.  Sorry, just a random thought.  It is weird what sticks with you.