Caught a long wind.

Today was one of the those days that was a bit of an emotional roller-coaster. I don't know what was up, but little annoyances that I could usually brush off really got to me. However, the bright side of a roller-coaster day is that there are ups to go along with the downs. And some of today's ups were definitely out of a sitcom.

This morning I saw two student council kids in the staff room and their faces were beet red and contorted into expressions of pure pain.

"What's going on? Did you injure yourselves?" I asked, because they looked like something really bad happened.

"Miss, oh ewwwwww, this fish STINKS!!!" was the reply.

We had helped organize a charity fundraiser for a local homeless shelter where kids donated loose change to have their favourite, or more realistically most unfavourite, teacher kiss a dead bottom-eating fish. Today was the kissing ceremony, and the boys were getting the thawing fish out of the fridge.

I was one of the teachers who had a jar, but not too much spare change when to charity on my account. I guess I'm just not mean enough. I pretended to be relieved when I heard the result today, even though I had known before that I wasn't going to have to pucker up.

At the end of the day, I was leaving work and got a nice thank you card in my mailbox from my friend for whom we'd organized the baby shower. I dunno, it was a well-written card and brought tears to my eyes. (Oh, btw, I totally schooled her in the swaddling competition!)

To make things worse, my work spouse also got a card, and read hers to me which made me more emotional. Both of us were crying and laughing at ourselves at the same time.

Anyway, I guess I'm feeling better remembering the fun parts of the day, apart from the incidents that truly annoyed me. Oh, and as always, it's adults who are the cause of my problems, never the kids. If I just stayed in my classroom and hid out from grown-ups, I think my blood pressure would be so much lower some days.

So yah, one more day and it's the weekend! This weekend promises to be fun. I have a much-needed massage booked tomorrow evening. Well, hopefully, because oddly enough they didn't call me with a confirmation, so hopefully it didn't get messed up.

Then, I have visitors coming for the weekend. Vern and Teresa (Go9) are staying with me, and we're going to have lots of fun. In addition, my friend Wendy is gonna drop by tomorrow night too! I was going to cook dinner for them, but that was before I remember my massage booking, and now I've decided that cooking would most likely kill my massage buzz, so we're ordering in instead. Yay!

Hope you all have fun weekends too.