Stupid things I've done this week

I do stupid things every week but this week probably takes the cake. I’ve been a little stressed this week because of exams coming next week, trying to get all my students’ workbook pages corrected, parents sending me tons of messages because they’re worried about how their kid will do on exams, and the pressure of making a decision about next year. I’m not really sure that my “stupid moments” have to do with stress or not, but for now I’m going to blame them on that.

1. I spent 2 days thinking my toilet was broken because I saw a loose metal piece down in the bottom of it only to find out from our landlord/coworker that it was a metal flashlight that Luna (our cat) must have dropped into it. (still have no idea where the flashlight came from)

2. I lost a set of quizzes and spent the good part of an afternoon looking for them at the school, came up and looked all over my house and even asked other teachers to look for them only to find out that I had already handed them back to the kids just that morning. Talk about short term memory loss.

3. After having a nightmare about having a nasty confrontation with a parent I woke up at 5:50 this morning and realized that I had either forgot to set my alarm last night or had slept right through it. I skipped the shower, got dressed, packed up my books and was out the door in 15 minutes and made it to devotional on time. Thankfully I had the first period off today so I snuck back to my house and grabbed breakfast and made a lunch after devotional. There are definitely some perks to living about 30 feet from the school.

4. I was all prepared for my 2^nd phonics lesson today and headed down to room 3B only to find my whole class was missing. I stood there pondering it for a while then walked back to the staff room to check my schedule and found my 5A class waiting for me for English class. I wasn’t super prepared but was able to pull of the lesson without too much of a problem.

5. On Wednesday morning I had just taken a shower and was in the kitchen waiting for my oatmeal to cook. My hair was very wet from my shower, and like I do every morning I bent over shook my head/hair to help my hair dry faster. I found out this is a bad idea to do when you haven't eaten anything because when I stood up again I got super dizzy. Thankfully I didn't completely pass out, but I fell backwards and crashed into the oven and one of our kitchen chairs resulting in several scrapes and a bruise on my arm. :( Leslie didn't hear all the commotion because she was blow drying her hair, but I had to explain my little embarrassing moment to her later when she asked about the scrapes all over my arm.

I still have another day to the week, so it’s very possible I’ll have one or more stupid things to add to the list after tomorrow but I’m hoping for a low key, relaxing Friday. J