Day 109

Day 109: Real Time
Day 5: 21 Day Complaint Free Journey


Yesterday started for me before it had any right to be moving around. In fact, I was the only one moving at all. My back yard crew of birds and squirrels wasn’t up yet, and the sun still hadn’t begun to even think about peeking over my fence.

Sometime during the night I woke up and realized I didn’t know where my flash drive was. (Of course, we needn’t talk about why I was thinking about that in the middle of the night. If you’re over 50, I don’t need to say any more, do I? If you’re not, someday you’ll remember I said this.) The drive had my presentation on it for the teachers I was working with, and suddenly it was gone. In the middle of the night. When I should have been resting to prepare for a four hour session that I was doing…. alone.

But, there it was. The worry about an errant piece of equipment. Needless to say, I was up and out of my house while the birds were still snuggled up together in their nests dreaming of the yummy nut and raisin seed I buy them and the squirrels were dreaming important rodent dreams.

And I never did find that flash drive. Which meant I had to download the presentation onto another drive I keep in my desk drawer, the precious one that has family pictures on it. Then get my coffee (priorities, priorities) and off I went, still driving in the morning darkness to arrive in time to be set up and ready for the teachers at 8 AM.

Did you guess yet? We learned and laughed together, as anyone in education has to do in order to stay sane, and made lots of new friends to call on when we’re dejected and worn out. It was a great day.

And they loved the pictures!

Day 5