Sunday:

It was a pretty normal day today.  

Joshua took Horizon outside today and took his job as handler very seriously.  Horizon always runs out the back doors, but usually stays pretty close.  It is mostly just annoying.

Oddly enough, Tornado is more likely to bolt out the front door, but if a back door is open for a while (as I try to corral Horizon back in) he might go out.  Neither cat goes out the garage door because we honk at them and scare them.

Friday/Saturday: keeping it real

 As normal for exam week, I'm behind on house chores.  I'm currently over halfway through grading the final exam...so things are moving forward.  Slowly, but surely.  I finally got around to running the dishwasher (twice!) and was able to sort the laundry and put away the last the groceries.

In an order to keep it real, here's what the kitchen looked like for most of the week:

Thursday: exams given

All my exams have been given.  All the non-finals have been graded.  I just have the final exams to finish grading and I'll be done with the semester.  

I have one student who insists on using the LOOKUP function.  I didn't teach it in class because it's old and doesn't work as well as newer lookup functions.  Now, I (usually) encourage students if they want to use alternate functions - I learn about a lot this way.  However, I just really don't understand why this student won't update to XLOOKUP, which is significantly better.  Oh well.  They received some points for things that LOOKUP can do and didn't receive points when it was used improperly.

Wednesday: life

I did the minimum number of 'required' chores today and then graded.  Things are on track.

I went to karate tonight because there's no class tomorrow.  It was a super small class but that made it rather enjoyable.

Tuesday: grading

Today I graded.  I graded a lot and didn't get as far as I was hoping, but it could have been worse.  I took a short break to transport kids and start a final exam for a few students.  I was a bit disorganized, but got everything set within a reasonable amount of time.  Then more grading.  Then a break to transport kids and go rock climbing.  The kids are really good teachers, but the gym was really busy today and that is a bit intimidating.  There was one route I wanted to try again but didn't because of the people there.  I think it'll be up for a bit though, so I should have another chance at it.  Then home for dinner, more grading, and computer games.  

It wasn't an exciting day, but not too bad all things considering.

Monday: drums and Giraffe

 I was at Isaac's school early to pick him up after band.  (The errand I needed to do went quickly.)  It was nice; I got to see them practice outside.  I thought they were doing pretty well for a middle school band!  The drums were especially good, although I could be biased.

For Giraffe's birthday we had taco salad (because Giraffe likes leaves), pineapple, and lemon bars (because Giraffe is yellow).

Sunday: Grandma and Giraffe

We went to visit Grandma today.  Last time Ben brought Uno, so we played several games of that again.  Then, since the weather was nice we took a short walk outside.

Tomorrow is Giraffe's Birthday, so we had half the party tonight.  It involved a lot of balloon games and making Lego trees.  Ben won the tree challenge.

(Back left: Ben.  Front left: Amanda.  Back right: Isaac.  Front middle: Giraffe.  Front left: Joshua)