Bad Weather Days

I just love to get that phone call telling me no school. The only problem is that after the call I can't go back to sleep. Our district has this calling system that sends out mass callings to everyone. I got this call an hour before I got the call from the person ahead of me on the paper calling tree. So, I'm thinking this calling tree thing isn't as effective as the district's mass calling. So having said that...Dara and I get a day off. Even though there is sleet all over the ground...the temperature is supposed to reach the 40's by noon. So that's even way cooler than being off...getting the day off with the temperature rising to a decent temp.

I'm doing nothing but watch movies, laundry, sweep, straighten the house, and watch movies.

Need another vacation

I know I just had 2 weeks off, but I need another 2 weeks. I taught in Ft. Worth for about 5 years before Dara was born. While I was there one of the schools I taught at was on a year round calendar. I didn't like it when we first started the year round thing. I only had 5 weeks off in the summer, but I got to have 3 weeks off 9 weeks later. So every 9 weeks...I had 3 weeks off. I guess if I didn't work at all, I'd be bored to some extent. I could be a stay at home mom at a drop of a hat, or a retired mom. I still need to reach that magic number of 80 before I can retire, or so the state says I do in order to get 80% of the retirement I paid into the Teacher Retirement System. That'll be about 6 years from now, but with Dara going to college it'll be another 40 before I get to retire.

So basically, I need another week or two off. And what does this have to do with the price of rice in China...NOTHING!!! Just another rambling post about wanting more time off.

In-laws

No I'm not talking about the parent in-laws...I'm talking about the sisters-in-law. We just got an email from Don's youngest sister informing us that she got married yesterday. That's not the bad part...she didn't tell her own mother and father about until the day of. My mother and father-in-law came to the metroplex to visit us and Don's brother and his wife for the weekend. They were at Jason's house and got a call from this daughter telling Mom, Dad, and brother about getting married.

I don't care one way or another about it...it just bothers me that this is par for the course for the two sisters. Both of Don's sisters live in Bandera, and pretty much exclude their mom and dad, and two brothers out of their lives. The eldest sister, acts like her shit doesn't stink, and that her and her family is so much better than everyone else.

Well, this so called snob sister has three daughters...two of which dropped out of college (both had full ride scholarships), moved in with boyfriends, one gets married and the other is still living with boyfriend, the youngest is graduating from high school this spring...she has to have everything her way, or she'll throw a fit and wind up getting it anyway (can you say spoiled).

The other sister is also one who thinks her shit doesn't stink either. She disapproved of Dara having a my space page, and told her about it. This sister also had a baby without being married, and had to test four guys before she found out who the daddy was...became engaged to an alcoholic who had emotional problems and who eventually shot himself in the head...told her parents who were sharing the rent with her that they could not walk through her living area to go to their cars, but to walk all the way around the house to get to their car in all kinds of weather (not mention that they are in their 70's)...met another guy and got pregnant AGAIN, the first kid is a total hellian, kicks, screams, throws herself down and throws fits etc., and pretty much expects everyone do everything her way.

Don's brother and his wife, and mother and father are the only ones that we get along with. Jason's wife was one of the sisters until she had her wedding shower...she got to see how it feels to be an outsider in the family, because they treated her like they have always treated me all these years. Up until her shower, she was one of the girls, but not now.

So not all in-laws are the parents, it is in this case the female siblings.