The weather has finally broken and in the last 3 days, I’ve worn sweaters.  Twice!  Ahhh, autumn is here.  Finally.

Rob has been crazy busy working, drumming up new clients, harrassing old ones.  I’ve stopped pushing myself so hard to get GATE stuff done by the end of the month.  I told the D.O. it just wasn’t going to happen with everything I’ve had to do to clean up things from years past.  And with 216 GEPs to do alone, I deserve a bit of a break by not spending every single prep period running around to get paperwork signed.  I do have to teach and use the bathroom every now and again.   Leaving my classroom to yanno, prep for the next day is usually a good sign that I’m on top of things and today, I left my room to make copies!  I updated my gradebook and posted grades!  I cleaned out everything in the car that’s been back there since I stocked up at Target before school started!  Go me!

I’ve been cross-stitching like a mad woman lately.  I don’t know if it’s the cooler weather or my desire to be distracted when coming home but I’ve completed 2 projects in the last week and returned to my white whale tonight.  It feels good to get back into it, to challenge myself with new stitches and techniques.  And the fact that I’m sewing it in silk means the sooner I get it done, the sooner we have this gorgeous tapestry for the wall in the living room.

My dad went in on Thursday for an angiogram and Praise God! Nothing was wrong with him!  He’d mentioned to the doctor that he had tightness in his chest on occasion when hiking around or fishing.  A treadmill showed a possible problem so the cardiologist said time to inject some dye.  But the angio showed nothing wrong, no blockage, no thinning arteries, no problem spots.  I took the day off to sit at the hospital with my mom because I was not going to let her sit there alone.  Rob was there too, as was Grandma.  It’s days like that that I remember why I came home to Modesto, why we continue to stay here for now.  At some point, we’ll move but for right this moment, this is where we need to be.