Long Time

I haven't posted in AGES! Sorry 'bout that~ School finally started with students on the 17th of October. I spent the three week delay mostly doing "Vice Principal" stuff! The hospital had a BIG inspection to get re-licensed, and of COURSE, our school had to be included. This meant TONS of paperwork, clean up, etc. etc. etc. On top of all that, I had my OWN "new" classroom (I moved to a room across the hall to get internet reception!) to prepare! It was a mess! They took everything from my old room and just basically dumped it all in the middle of the new one! Rebecca, who used to work here, was up for a weekend and helped me get the room in some semblance of order! So, finally school was up and running (as was I, constantly it seems!) and I got my class of only 16 students! Nice! Turned out at the end of the first week I discovered that three of them should be in 2nd grade because of their ages! So they got moved. I now have 13 students, and am expecting another sometime in January, from the States! I am now on Hajj break until the 16th of December. Yes, we will be in school working the week before Christmas. :( But the GOOD news is that Christmas Eve is Thursday, and Christmas Friday, which just HAPPENS to be MY WEEKEND! :D so I will at least be OFF on Christmas this year! I am crocheting away, trying to get ready for the coming little one! Rachel and Chris' computer got majorly messed up. They may not be able to fix it. SO, I haven't been able to video skype and "see" the big belly bump lately. I hope they get a computer soon! Rachel has had a bit of trouble the past few weeks with her heart racing. She had an ekg, blood work, etc. done, and all came back normal. She also saw a cardiologist who had her wear a monitor for 24 hours. She has not found out the results of that yet. I just pray it is nothing serious and that Rachel will have a normal delivery! Gee, just realized that starting tomorrow, I can say my grandbaby is due NEXT MONTH! Wow!! Of course, when the baby is born you can be SURE that I WILL be posting on here! :D Biggest news is that I am TRYING to get enrolled in Marygrove College in Michigan to get a Master's degree online. I am going for the one that focuses on K-5 math. I enjoy teaching math at this level, so I think this will be a fun major for me. Unfortunately, I tried to apply online yesterday and ran into all kinds of trouble! Kept getting error messages! THEN, I went to apply at FAFSA, and it said that the deadlines have passed! So, I don't know HOW I can get financial aid! I wrote to the counselor yesterday when all this happened, but with it being Sunday, and after Thanksgiving, I don't imagine she will see it until today. And with the time difference, I hope to hear from her within the next couple of hours. So, a lot going on, but now I'm on break, and not going anywhere, just home and relaxation, I should be able to start posting more. I am thinking of starting a classroom blog where my parents can go to see information on our class. I know a web page would probably be better, but I don't know how to go about getting one. I am pretty sure I would have no trouble designing it, just how to get started. If anyone has any ideas on this, please post! That is, IF anyone is still reading this thing!

End of Summer?!

Well, the day has finally arrived. My LAST day of summer. Well, summer VACATION! We teachers go back to school tomorrow. We have a glitch in our system, however! The KING has decreed that students will not go back to school until October 10th for grades 6 and up, and October 17th for K-5!! SO, that means I will be working at school for THREE weeks SANS kids! I will gleefully be taking advantage of this to come up with super quality lesson plans (I HOPE!) and to get my room in top notch working order! Don't know how or IF we will make up these lost days! If they will not be made up, then I will have to go through the books and find out what I can consolidate! It will be good to get back into a routine of getting up at a certain time each day, even if that time IS 6 am! (I may cheat every other day when I don't have to wash my hair and make it 6:30 :D) One last day of freedom! I plan to enjoy it! Sorry US colleagues.

Better

Things seems to be stabilizing a little bit. The past few days, Firefox has been opening multiple windows! One or two of which have the WOT warning about dangerous website! Yikes! SO, tonight I remembered a program I USED to use consistently. Don't know WHY I stopped. Anyway, it's called Ad Aware. There is a free version and a paid version. I USED to have the paid one, but tonight I just went on and installed the free one. When I ran it, it came up with TWENTY-THREE threats! Yikes again! So, I removed them, and lo and behold, when I re-opened Firefox, NO WOT warning or multiple pages, AND my blog seems to be well again! I even got my new MEEZ on twice! Have to delete one. :D All the blogs I am following seem to be current too! I like the new MEEZ. Although our school looks NOTHING like this one, at least it looks like a school, and that's where I will be headed two weeks from today! The new principal should be on her way here from the airport as I write this. Between one thing and another with my wrist, I STILL haven't gotten up to the school to work on my classroom! I am determined to do so tomorrow, though. I have a feeling that these last two weeks are going to be spent "pre-working" with this new principal. I just hope I have SOME leisure time left! Actually, I am pretty much ready to go back to work. This has been an extremely long break, which is going to make it harder to get back into the swing of things, but I think I am going to enjoy having a set schedule to my days again. It's amazing how easy it is for me to WASTE time! I think of all the crochet projects I intended to get done this summer! Of course, having wrist surgery right after school ended AND still having problems with it today, has not allowed me to do as much crocheting as I would like. I DID however, make an apple keychain, coaster, and mug cozy for the new principal, along with some other stuff as a welcome gift. I am making four more sets of everything for the new teachers who should arrive in the next two weeks (hopefully BEFORE school starts!). I am on the third coaster now. They don't take too long to make. The keychains are really cute AND very easy and fast as well. I got a great cozy pattern from sukigirl on Ravelry. She makes it easy in her directions to modify for your own mug size. I will try and get pics up of these items in the next couple of days.

More problems

Ooookay. Today, most of my page layout is NOT coming up! I went to layouts to find that my camel picture suddenly has some error on it to do with a WEB picture! Which it is NOT! It is a picture that I took myself and is on my computer. SO. I uploaded it AGAIN, and now it's back. However my MEEZ has now disappeared as well as my World Clocks. NOTHING happens when I click edit on those two things. This is indeed getting to be more frustrating than it is worth! I don't even know if anyone HAS commented on anything because it will NOT show! Has Google completely lost it? Has Firefox? I am getting sick of Firefox BLOCKING everything whenever I try to go to a page! I keep getting the block even when trying to sign in to Yahoo or Twitter or Gmail or ANYTHING normal! WHAT is up with that stupid thing! I am going to see if there is some way to go back to the old firefox. As for the blog....well, I may have to quit "blogsville".

Internet Problems

I am getting VERY frustrated with Firefox and GOOGLE! Firefox keeps popping up with blockers on web pages or links, even though I have checked my settings and NOTHING in there is checked that could be causing this! Also I keep getting some kind of Security Access Denied thing! When I reload, the page comes up. WHAT IS GOING ON WITH FIREFOX!!!????? I am about ready to chuck it! IE is worse, so what's left? I tried Google Chrome, but with the problems I am having with Google lately, I am very reluctant to give THEM a try! NONE of my blogs that I follow will update on this page!! Even with reloading and reloading, posts that took place over a week ago are STILL coming up as recent as 2 HOURS ago! Grrrr. I don't even know if this POST will show up! Twitter. Another Google program! JUNK! 90% of the time after writing something and clicking update, it just spins around and around and does NOTHING!! I left it spinning for 20 minutes, went back, and it was STILL spinning! So, Firefox has joined the ranks of Microsoft and Internet Explorer for BAD service. (NONE, really. Google the same. NO SUPPORT! All they have are these stupid Forums that are NO HELP AT ALL! Am I the only one having all of these problems? I would maybe blame it on my ISP here in Saudi, but these problems started BEFORE I left the States, so I know that is not it. IF this stupid blog will show comments, PLEASE let me know if you are having similar problems and if you've found any solutions! You can email me at my aol address (don't trust my gmail right now!) SgtJana@aol.com Thanks, all!