Exhausted!

So, you may have noticed I haven't posted since my first speech meet this season. That is because the combination of speech and my insane teaching schedule this semester has me running around constantly, coming home exhausted, and wanting nothing but to go to bed. To give you an idea of the typical day: Get up around 6am, leave the house around 7am, head to Willow Creek, teach one section of 7th grade English, one section of 6th grade communications, and another section of 7th grade English. Throw my lunch in the microwave/put my sandwich together, hit the bathroom, each lunch in the car and get to John Marshall around 11:10. Teach one section of Reading for College, take an hour for prep (really, I check my email, make copies for the following day, look to see if I have at least the next 3 days planned out), co-teach ESOL at 1:35 at Kellogg Middle School. Then I need to be back at John Marshall by 3:15 for speech practices until 5:30. Then I either work out or run errands, get home about 7:30, TRY to do some laundry/dishes/anything possible to make our home look less like a tornado went through, eat around 8:30/9:00, get lunch and stuff ready for the next day, and FINALLY go to bed around 11pm. Saturdays I have speech from around 6 am to 5 pm. The whole thing is really starting to take a tole on my sanity, my mood...I guess overall just ME. And the thing that really seems to be getting to me is the fact that my birthday is next week, and I don't even feel like I have time to HAVE a birthday. Normally, birthdays are a really big deal to me, but this year it looks like I won't have much time to celebrate. Maybe I should have a post-speech season birthday party. I could celebrate me getting another year older and getting my evening and weekend life back. Don't get me wrong, I do really enjoy being a speech coach. I just don't know how smart it was to take it on with my crazy teaching schedule and lack of planning time for that. I CANNOT wait for this school year to be over. Hopefully I find something a little easier for next year (don't know how it could get harder....).

I really don't know how Pat puts up with it or me. I'm thankful he does though :)

Okay, I'm done..........for now..........

Speech....

So, most of you who know me know my special connection to the Speech Team. As a member of the speech team, I gained confidence, poise, and an appreciation like no other. I also met some really amazing people who I can still call my close friends, and husband =) It's a bit of a drug or cult; once you are involved it is hard to let it go. I'm currently coaching for the John Marshall speech team for the second time. This past Saturday was our first meet, and it left me wondering one thing:

Why was it so easy to get up at 5 in the morning in high school to compete, but it was amazingly harder than hell to get my ass out of bed to judge? Am I getting older? Or do I just treasure sleep more...

Either way, I'm pretty sure it is all worthwhile.