Thumbs up for Technology

I used to live for the weekends, now that I'm not working they don't hold the same enjoyment for me.

The only thing I have planned for this weekend is to go to a play tonight. I'm hoping that my head cold goes to sleep for the duration of the trip and the play as right now I'm walking around in a cloud of fog.

Today I am thankful for technology being what it is. I remember when I started college and I had used the first internet browser and seen the first web page and that was when the majority of people who had email accounts were through an institute of higher learning. It is amazing to think back just how times have changed.

As I mentioned, I am thankful for technology. The girlchild came home from school yesterday with her prideplan and a letter th at she'd written. This prideplan is a weekly sheet that they get at the beginning of the week and although there isn't much space on there to write a lot, I think it's a very good idea. This sheet has columns for Monday through Friday and is divided into sections for behaviour, teacher comment area, homework assignment, what books they've been reading and for how long, a section for parents to send a comment to the teacher and a signature area for parent to say they acknowledge everything on the paper. The girlchild had a problem with her conduct yesterday and after talking to her about it, she felt justified in her actions (kicking the bathroom door after being spoken to by her teacher) and said that the next time it'd just get worst with the teacher. If this had been any other child I would have just said that it's anger talking and that they don't really mean it. However when this same child has been in counselling at school (for behaviour at school) and counselling after school (for behaviour at home) you can't afford to take statements like that too lightly.

My husband has been deployed less than a month and we decided that he wouldn't call on a scheduled basis. The only time/s he'd call would be if I asked him to or if he wanted to. This works out fine for me as I am lucky enough to get several emails from him daily and he doesn't really enjoy talking on the phone. Anyway, I sent him an email yesterday about what was going on and suggested that maybe he should call. It seems that whenever daddy is away, I'm the mean dragonlady occupying space. Of course during this time she feels that if daddy were here he wouldn't think this was a big deal yadda yadda yadda. This isn't true, but you can make yourself believe all sorts of things when said person isn't around to set you straight.

Thankfully hubby did get the email and called within 25 minutes and they seemed to have a nice phone call. Turns out that she didn't like what her father had to say and refused to comment any more on it. Amazing how that happens.

I wish I was feeling better so I could drive and see what Vilseck has to offer, however that is going to be the case. The cold meds that I've been taking said not to drive as it can make you drowsy (any and all meds seem to make me drowsy) so I guess we'll be staying in and I'll be hoping that she won't be complaining about how bored she is.