Is This a Ride at Six Flags or What?

Okay. These past two weeks have been nothing but one roller coaster after another!

Let me begin:

• We started with Open House where I was able to meet a few parents and new students (all are new to me this year). However, I spent the majority of my night roaming the halls, helping direct parents to their classrooms, and chatting with my favorite new librarian. (It's her first year as a librarian, but she's taught theater/drama and English at the HS level for over 10 years - can you imagine how fabulous her read-alouds are going to be?!)
• Then was Day One. I should say that this was enough said, but I did survive. I taught 12 classes and still managed to love every minute. My principal came by to make sure I survived with this schedule (which is loaded to the absolute max - only 1 other music teacher in the district has a schedule like mine... it's rough). But I smiled and actually said "It was great! I'm a rockstar, so I new I'd be fine once I got the kids in here!" (Professionalism is seeping from my pores, no?)
• Well, within the first 3 days, I had lost my voice and the glands in my throat had started to swell. This is the wonderful thing about being a voice major/singer - you get this "feeling" and you know it's all downhill from there. Luckily, I loaded up on more vitamin c and sucked on cough drops enough to be fine once Monday returned.
• On to our first FULL WEEK. If I wasn't tired within the first 3 days, then this did it. It was sad in the fact that my hubs caught a 48-hour flu-like "bug" and was vomiting and out of the office for a couple days. Luckily, I took care of him, and made it through the week alive.
• This weekend, on the other hand, is another story. Pretty sure my lovely, well-deserved, 3-day weekend began with a 4:30 a.m. wake-up call. Yes. I caught the sickness, too. I missed my sweet alma mater's first game yesterday (GO COWBOYS!), and stayed home throwing up all day. (Yes, in case you were wondering, T did go to the game and tailgate all afternoon. I'm not bitter.) haha
• I will say that the only thing that was disappointing throughout the first full week was that a teacher actually kept 5 students from my music class with them, because she felt that they needed to "write procedures for her." Are you kidding me?! They only come to music only 3 times a week, and I do not feel like it's appropriate for them to miss my class because of a punishment given by their classroom teacher, not to mention that they also get a grade as well. I'm quite positive there is plenty of classroom time to make that up. Well, 3 boys returned separately all at different times within our 30 minutes once they'd finished. Such crap. (Mind you, this is also the teacher that has already been late picking up her kids, made them wait at my door while my next class was outside because she was finishing up a call on her cell phone, and is not my favorite person. We've only been in school EIGHT DAYS!) Just need to vent. Thank you.

Hope everyone else has a relaxing few days! Good luck this week!