Darn kids!

It's been awhile since I've been able to swim my laps. I'm a snob and will only swim laps when the pool is empty. I don't want to have kids swimming into me, or swim into something else if there's a couple in there. Lord knows we don't want any "Little Kristys" running rampant out there in the world. I woke up this morning (thanks for not calling at 4 am Adam!), and decided to get right into my suit. As soon as I had gathered my stuff for the pool, and was ready to sunscreen up, I looked out to find a little kid with his mom. What the h?! I would've gone down to the pool, but this is the same kid who had befriended Amanda Wednesday night, and then took our dive sticks. He saw us bring the sticks with us to the deep end where Amanda was going to play with them, and I was just going to balance on my funnoodle. We're a couple of big kids. He took one look at our dive sticks, and said, "I'm good at finding those." I ignored him, and I think Amanda did too. His parents were sitting in the hot tub, or were laying in the evening sun at the side of the pool. Then a few minutes later, he's over at our sticks, picking them up and seeing how many we have. At that point I told him he could use a couple of them. We have 9, but I didn't want the kid to take all of them. So, he starts throwing them in, and nearly hits me TWICE with MY OWN DIVE STICKS. And, needless to say, he didn't listen, and threw all of the sticks in the pool. His mom's just laying on a chair with her back to him, and his dad is more worried about talking to his wife. If my kid were in a pool with 2 grown people in there, I'd sure be watching him. I wouldn't want him bothering the adults. I guess that's just me. This kid then asked who could open their eyes underwater. I ignored, and just kept on swimming. Amanda, not so much. She told him he could. Then he wanted her to play with him. She kept telling him that she couldn't because she needed special glasses to see, and that she could barely see him at the side of the pool. He couldn't believe it. He kept asking her about it, and finally grabbed his mom's goggles for Amanda to use. At this point she told him that she still couldn't see with those, and to give them back to his mom...who was oblivious as to why he wanted to take her goggles, until he threw them back to her and scratched them. Good lord people, watch your damn kids! We finally went to the "hot tub" (not so much hot, as it was 10 degrees warmer than the pool) to wait til the kid left. That was after his dad joined in on the dive sticks. Nice. Maybe it's just me, but I would've asked where he had gotten the sticks if it were my kid.

This weekend was good. Friday night I think Amanda and I just sat around watching TV. I had made a "Kristy-tini", and she was drinking her drink. Saturday we got up early for teacher stuff. Office Depot was having a breakfast for teachers, and giving us extra off of our discount (can't remember what), so we headed over there first (they were also advertising free totes for teachers). Turns out, you had to buy something in order to get the tote. Amanda got post its, and I got colored pencils. Good times for a tote with some free stuff in it. We ran home to get directions to some other teacher stores on the other side of town (which is like driving half way to Milwaukee from Madison). Went to the "free" store for teachers in the district. Turns out it's free the first time, but then you have to have 50 cents or 1 dollar taken out of your check in order to earn more "points" to come back for more stuff. I found a bunch of stuff that I would've paid a crapload for at a normal teacher store, so I guess it was worth it. We then headed to the teacher store that Amanda had a gift card for, and I spent a bunch. Amanda walked out to the car complaining that she still had more than half left on the card. Uh-uh. We headed to a couple more places, and then home. She went to a BBQ for new teachers at her school, and I stayed home determined to get my room unpacked and organized...while doing laundry. All of a sudden, all of the shopping, and little bit of sleep, hit me like a Mac truck. I was exhausted! Amanda came home, and told me I looked sick. I took my temp, but I was fine. Ended up playing Scrabble and Battleship online with Adam...kicked butt with Battleship, but sucked it up with Scrabble. Headed to bed, had the chills, woke up at 7, took off my sweats, and went back to bed...for almost 4 more hours! I haven't slept that late since I've moved out here! Got up, watched Celebrity Fit Club and Flava of Love, then went out shopping again. Headed to the teacher store closest to us so we could go to the clearance section. Amanda still hasn't used up the gift card. If I had had that gift card, it would've been gone by the time we left the store yesterday. Oh well...it's easier for me since I have a "normal" class, I don't have to look for Spanish things for my room. I headed over to the house I will be dogsitting/housesitting at Labor Day weekend to meet the dogs last night. It was a good time. The dogs are awesome, and so is the owner. She's my godparent's son's girlfriend, so they were all there last night, and we had a good time.

It was a good weekend in all. I'm hoping to get unpacked and organized this week, and to have pics of the new place up this weekend. :)