OK, so Day Four is OVER.  I swear, it’s like every day that goes by on this, I thank God that I’ve had the strength to get through it.  It is SO hard not to eat.  Today was a rough day for me in some ways, but a great day in others.  I got to work today and after I did morning checkout I had a LOT to do, so I got to work.  Ryan and I had to go fill out a Fixed Asset Disposal Form for the things that people just randomly put on the stage.  So we did that.  Then I had to go get the principal to sign off on it, so I went ahead and took her a piece of paper with some things I needed her to know: first of all, I needed her to decide on whether or not we were going to order the additional dictionaries that we needed for 3rd grade.  After some indecisiveness, she finally agreed. Then I had to tell her about the keyboards that we still needed, so she told me that the secretary had to order those so that we’d get our discount, so I had to print that page out and give it to the secretary.  I had to find out the price of the dictionaries with shipping because we have to send in a check for payment.  Then I reminded her about the science workbooks that she has yet to give me a yes/no on to order.  She decided that she did not want to order them, even though she had initially told me yes and I’d told the teachers that they were getting them.   Well she decided it was too expensive, so she wants me to buy one per grade level so that they can make copies out of it, even though all of their copy numbers are about to run out.  LOL.  So anyway after I talked to her I had to come and add the science workbooks to the order we had already typed up for some other workbooks.  So then it was time for me to go to reading block, so I went and that went by quickly.  I helped a student who had been acting up a LOT the past week, but I have been helping him a lot when I go to her room, and I feel like he looks up to me now.  He’s a good kid, I think he really needs his medication though, because days that he doesn’t have it he can just NOT focus.  So after Reading block I had to go make phone calls about Blackboard, since some of our employees were having login problems, so I got them in BB.  I went back in the room and it was time for my 1st graders.  They were such a great group today.  The finished watching their nonfiction story about Humphrey, then I asked them some questions about the video.  In perspective, you should know that they were able to answer the questions and they saw the first half of the video WEEKS ago and still knew the answers, and the group I had yesterday watched it all YESTERDAY and couldn’t even answer ONE simple question about it.  I don’t know what their deal was.  Anyway, I continued reinforcing the nonfiction by reading them a book about whales.  I was SO impressed with this one little girl.  Last year she was a real problem for me, but this year she’s AWESOME.  We were talking about the two types of whales, toothed and baleen, and I asked if anyone knew what baleen was, and she remembered that it was the stuff in their mouth! I was SO impressed.  So anyway, I read some more of the book about whales and dolphins, and then it was time for them to go to lunch.  It makes me feel good when they don’t want to leave the library because they are enjoying what we’re doing in there.  They wanted to stay and keep listening to the book.  So then it was time for lunch, and again I continued working through lunch so that it’d be easier on the diet…then I realized I hadn’t even EATEN.  Whoops! So I drank my first shake of the day and took my vitamin.  Then I had 2nd grade.  They were pretty good but very noisy.  I find that this particular class is always a bit noisy, I had to write in two behavior books.  I haven’t had to do that all week.  (Well actually I did, but that was different).  Then 4th grade came in.  I got to do the OPAC lesson with them, and they really absorbed it well.  I had one student who came in with a rotten attitude, but he even got involved with the lesson and did a great job by the end of class.  Then 3rd grade came in and my day went south.  I had come up with a plan to pick two people to do checkout so that I could read aloud to them while they were doing their activity.  That did NOT work well.  With 3rd grade, the girls were great, but they were noisy, and with kids asking Ryan for help, it was just too noisy and it was hard for students to focus on what the heck I was reading.  Plus, they get too excited about getting to check out books.  So that was a BAD idea.  It was even WORSE for 5th grade.  First off, I had the worst 5th grade class that there is.  I honestly think this is the worst group period.  Well they were literally like wild people in there.  The two that I chose to do checkout did a good job but they were so so noisy!  They have such loud speaking voices that I could hear them across the library.  There were other students that were so noisy finding their books, I don’t know it was just chaos.  I kept thinking that if my boss walked in she’d have a friggin heart attach.  So they got out of there and it was such a relief.  I decided that I was going to once again change the policy.  I decided that I was going to give them work to do while they sit at their desks.  I think I’m also going to go back to ME doing checkout instead of the kids.  If they still talk while I’m doing checkout, then I’ll go back to trying the kids checking out while they do work at their desks and I walk around and monitor students.  But I don’t know, we’ll see how it works tomorrow with them doing work at their desks and me doing checkout.  That should work.  I’m also going to turn on the timer and be VERY strict about how long they get to get out there and check out books.  That should help with the chaos too.  So that was my day at work.  Then I realized I had one shake all day long.  So I came on home, and got a shake first thing.  Ryan and I decided on the way home that we may be thinking about moving to the apartment upstairs.  It just got new tile everywhere except the bedrooms.  It’s also getting new cabinets and countertops in the kitchen, and it’s probably going to be repainted.  Not to mention we’d have a porch and an upstairs area where we could put one of our fold out couches.  I called the landlord and she said she was going to charge $75-$100 more than we pay in rent, which is NOT bad. We can’t afford to move into a house right now, and probably won’t be able to for quite a while after we get married, we are paying off some pre-marital debt that we accumulated.  She told me that she’d call me back in the next couple of days because she had someone who was pretty interested in it, and she’d tell me if they were moving in.  If not, we’re going to go up there and look at it and make our decision.  I think that if it’s as nice as we think it is we’ll probably move.  But for some reason I feel nervous because I don’t want to make the wrong decision.  But I think I’m just in a weird mood because well, I’ve had a rough day.  I am going to keep thinking on it and make my decision.  I know that my family would think we shouldn’t move because we need to save for a house, but we do NOT want to live here in this apartment for two more years.  There are things about the upstairs unit that we were looking for in a house, so it might be more up our alley.

Anyway, that’s about all I know for now.  Just wanted to write and fill in on the somewhat stressful day that I’d had, and hoping that it gets better.  I do go to my meeting tomorrow night and get to weigh in.  Hope I did well my first week!!!