Back on Track

Wow, it's been a whole week already and we're to another weekend! It seems like the week just started. Monday was my last day at FH elementary and now I've moved on to... things. Not sure about bigger, not sure about better, but I've been pretty excited about life.

I took Tuesday off to get over my FH experience and get used to the idea of being a sub for the rest of the year (which I am very much looking forward to!). Wednesday, only one job turned up, after the hubs left for class and it was snatched up by someone else before I could do anything about it. Oh well, I survived, and as I've been asked for my information at every school I've subbed at so far, I know I will be keeping pretty busy as the school year goes on. Since they have my information, they can just call me directly instead of using the automated system to request a sub, and that way I don't have to deal with finding a job using the automated system. I look forward to getting to know the schools in the Roseville district better! Everyone is so friendly and encouraging so far. It's wonderful. Yesterday was my first day subbing at the high school (oooooh boy... that's all I have to say about that one), and today I was at another elementary school, which was a fabulous experience and got me in the giddy mood!

There's another reason for my giddyness, though. Mr. Wonderful and I used my day off on Tuesday to go to Ikea and we purchased new chairs that match our table so well! They are also smaller than our old ones and opened up a lot of space in the apartment, allowing us to move just about everything and make our place more spacious and comfortable. It's soooooo nice.

 Assembled by Mr. Wonderful. So cute and old country!

After shopping for chairs, we spent still more money for some needed repairs on my violin. I now have brand spankin' new pegs, and they look so much nicer than the old ones! My old pegs were really worn and in desperate need of replacement as I couldn't play for more than ten minutes without them slipping out of tune. Very frustrating. So, I'm very excited about that as well.

Also, I have become a little gardener! No, I don't have a garden, but I do have a plant box! And five cute little pots filled with herbs that I use pretty regularly.

I have the seed packets next to them until I can get paint to decorate and mark the pots

Thanks to Doc, we have heirloom seeds, so hopefully we are successful in helping them grow and we'll have some pretty nice spices to fill up the spice rack with! I know today I have been overburdening you with exclamation marks and I will not apologize, I'm in a pretty good mood. Indeed.

Tomorrow I am looking forward to going to the Foshay Tower for a fancy, free breakfast with my Mr. Wonderful, whose father gave us Groupons he had purchased awhile ago. We just haven't made it yet, but tomorrow we are finally going out for our free breakfast of $35 value. 

Blog #17, done! Tell me something good about your life right now, in the comments below =)