Friday: this and that

'Twas a pretty normal Friday.

I defeated an underwater boss with the help of Puppy the Mouse.
I worked on a Lego set.
I did some errands.
I did the laundry.  (Surprisingly, I did all the laundry.  I even got most of it folded.  It was a bit sad though, because my banister was only laundry free for about 14 hours.  I even took a picture of it it was so nice.)

I went to the library.  Joshua built a place for Haroldina.

I attacked the boys.  I was attacked by the boys.  Boys were thrown on the bed, told to stay there, but didn't.

I got frustrated over things that I shouldn't have been frustrated over.

I took a nap.

I played Dominion with some friends.

 

Thursday: demographics

Usually my classes are around 2/3 male, 1/3 female.  It (obviously) varies a little bit, but that's about the norm.

My classes this semester are much different.  In my first class there are 3 females and 22 males.  In my second class the females outnumber the males by just a bit.  My second class is also much chattier...it hasn't been too much of a problem, but I do feel like I'm talking over people more often.  It isn't always the females talking, but I've wondered if the increase is due to having so many.


Joshua's school snack was a snowman.  They were starting it just as I picked him up, so he made it at home.

Isaac and I had sparring tonight at karate and he looked great.  And old.  And handsome.

Wednesday: it was supposed to be relaxing?

Wednesday is the day I don't have kids and I don't have to work.  I'll admit, I wasn't really expecting a relaxing day per se.  Nor was my day...anti-relaxing.  But at the end of it (er, at the boys' bedtime) I was done and a bit surprised about it.

Let's see.  I did get several things crossed off my to-do list today.  Ten, to be exact.  Several of them were short, and several were put on about an hour before I did them.  But they were on the list and I crossed them off!

Ben wasn't feeling great so I brought the boys to church dinner on my own.  It started out ok.  We talked about things the boys would like to do over the summer.  (I'm starting to get into vacation and activity planning mode.)  That lasted most of the meal and was interesting.  Then.  Then!  Then they started singing the ABCs.  Then they sang the ABCs wrong.  Then they sang it wrong a different way.  Then they sang it correctly on accident.  So they had to sing it wrong again.  Enough!  But for some reason putting a stop to it didn't work as well as normal.  (I'll admit, trying to stop someone from saying letters is pretty funny as you suddenly can't say "I see a bee."  But even that didn't stop.)

For some reason that somewhat snapped the rest of the night for me.  I made it.  Ben put the boys to bed, which I was thankful for.  I was done, even though most of the day was good. 

Tuesday: spaces

A student from a few semesters ago stopped by my office today.  She was having trouble doing something in excel...the person before her had it working, but had since then graduated.

I took a look at the previous person's equation and the new equation she wrote: they looked the same.  I tried out a similar equation, but different, and came up with the same wrong results.  Well, hmm.  Before getting to much farther into it, I checked for spaces.  ...those spaces at the end of words in an Excel cell that you can't see but that make all your formulas wrong?  There they were.  Remove the invisible spaces and ta-da!  It worked!  Fixed in under 10 minutes.

I apparently saved her from having to work from 2am to 5am coming up here in a few days.  Now, she spent two hours trying to trouble shoot the problem so I'm not sure I was a huge net help, but it would have been boring work and she appreciated it a ton.

I've noticed the invisible spaces tripping people up a lot more lately.  They've always been on my radar, but I check for them a lot faster these days. 

Monday: kids

Joshua's been building some rather creative Lego creations lately.  They've certainly taken a turn from the 'let's put a lot of tiles on a board.'  Below is his lookout tower.

Isaac brought back his New Year's Wish paper from school.  I guess exponents are in our future again.  (We did them a few months back, but I guess he wants more.)

Sunday: the storm

The storm went pretty much as predicted.  By the time I went to bed things were calming down.  We did have lots of icicles though!

The boys briefly played outside today.  Isaac collected all the icicles and was eating them throughout the day.  Joshua tried out his new snowball maker and was so excited when it made a perfect snowball!

Saturday: normal day

It was a rather normal day today.  We could say that we didn't go anywhere because of the ice storm that hit this afternoon, but really we rarely go anywhere on Saturdays.

Legos were done.  Things were cleaned.  Screen time was had.  Grey Bear and Pokeball had some sort of competition and I heard Joshua say, "Pokeball is getting toasted!"  The expression doesn't quite transform like that, but it's still cute.  Isaac and I played a few games.  Joshua and I played a game...he won after I had a great lead but the dice hated me.  (I needed to get a red on 1 of 6 dice.  The red is on one side of each die.  I rolled four times without getting a red.  (The internet tells me there is a 1.2% chance of this happening.  Low, but not as low as I thought.))