So it's been a while..

Yeah, well. I'm all aflutter with the beginning of a new school year, buried in meetings and paperwork and trying to figure out how to put too many desks in a too-small room (with not enough air conditioning).

So for your amusement while you wait for me to come up with an ACTUAL blog post, here's a meme. Stolen from Kris, who got it from someone else, who probably got it from someone else, and so on, and so on. (How old am I, that I reference that shampoo commercial? Geez)

8 Things I...

am looking forward to

• cooler weather
• my kids coming home from grandma's house
• a paycheck after a summer without one
• the cookout with my side of the family this weekend
  
• meeting the kids in my class
  
• the JDRF walk (October 31, Tempe Town Lake)
• having my room completely ready for the first day of school
  
• putting my head on my pillow tonight

did yesterday

• laundry
• Facebook
• back to school staff meeting
• started rearranging my messy classroom
• fixed a broken bookshelf
• talked to my kids on the phone
  
• watched a weird movie with my hubby
• zonked out early

wish I could do

• talk to my mother
• find a cure for diabetes
• lose weight easily
• speak another language fluently
• get people to understand why public school is important and quit to blaming teachers for all the ills of the system
• go on a nice vacation with my family
• keep my house spotlessly clean
  
• get everything done in a day that I mean to get done in a day

shows I watch (thank goodness for DVDs and DVRs)

• Grey's Anatomy
• Army Wives
• TrueBlood
• Nurse Jackie
• The Secret Life of the American Teenager
• Iron Chef America
• Law & Order (any of them)
• CSI (any of them)

favorite foods

• grandma's homemade noodles w/roast beef (which I haven't had in 20+ years)
• chips and salsa
• most any kind of pasta
• eegee's
  
• fresh berries of any kind
• a well-grilled steak and baked potato
• the chicken/pine nut/tomato/gorgonzola salad at Sauce
• the spinach artichoke dip at Houston's

places I'd like to visit/travel

• New York
• Australia
• Ireland
• Hawaii
• San Francisco
• Seattle
• Chicago/greater Chicagoland (to see family)
• San Diego

people I'm tagging

• Nah, do it if you like. No pressure. :)