Numbers and such

Today was Maths Day!
To celebrate National Literacy & Numeracy week (I hope you have been celebrating this too) we had a whole day of measuring, patterning, data collecting, counting & dividing - in the form of running, dancing, playing, building, drawing...and watching the traffic (who would've know that 107 cars drove past our school between 12:20 and 12:30 today if it was for our data collecting kids?!). It was a really good day!

It was also really sunny. I am really burnt.

Maths day was one of my jobs for the year. I love planning and logistics and maths and forms, so this worked really well for me. It was really interesting seeing how the things I planned played out in real life through my amazing colleagues, they adapted & put their own flair on things and came up with some incredible results! I work with really fabulous people.

We also had a Maths Information Night for the parents tonight. About 30 parents showed up to learn about addition and subtraction. I 'got to' (when you come up with ideas, it often becomes your responsibility to follow through on them) present the information on Year 3 & 4 Maths. I'm not really the 'speak in front of people' type & I had a complete mental blank when it came to the compensation strategy...hmm. But apart from that I think it went pretty well (though that compensation strategy is going to haunt me forever now... I'll probably dream about not being able to subtract 35 from 49...Arrrgh!).

So it's been a 13 hour Maths lesson today (don't you wish you had one of those everyday?). Time for bed.

Oh in other news... Telstra said my t-box hadn't been sent (oops) and it's definitely on its way now...  and yes this is the 3rd time they've said that... in the past 4 weeks. Ahh good times.

Also my house needs a good clean... hmm 'good' probably isn't a strong enough word here.

Also it's only 9 days until school camp! woo hoo!

Hmm there's too many things I could write to sum up this weekend.
It has been surface level fun! I have hung out with some great friends - starting with a sleepover with my 9 year old piano student on Friday night... ALOT of junk food, board games, nintendo 64, explaining that I don't have a wii or abc 3 (because I am STILL waiting for my t-box) and finding heaps of things I forgot I had - who knew I still had the pop-up card kit?! Of course we played Mouse Trap, because no sleepover is complete without it, & i won my first ever round of mario kart :) I learnt some good life lessons from hanging out with T, which maybe one day I'll write about!

I also got to watch my friend win her netball final, 42-41. I am so not a netballer. The constant whistle-blowing drives me insane. After a while the whistles from the 5 games in the immediate vicinity of where we were sounded a bit like crickets chirping & that made it a bit more bearable cos it was funny (the actual netball fans didn't like my metaphor). They played super well & made it to the grand final!

Last night another friend had a massive bonfire on her property. It was fun to hang out & toast marshmallows (and oranges...eww). Such a nice night. and sooo good to catch up!

Today I was on kids church...hmm.
Then I sewed 3 chickens and watched the whole of season 2 of phineas and ferb (such a fun show!)

So all in all, if I read that summary I could say that it was a super fun weekend, and it was. I just wish I could switch my head off. I think I have been over-thinking stupid things and have become so frustrated about things that aren't even things, hmm. I'm glad I live on my own, cos of there was anyone around me at the moment I'm not sure I could be kind. On the other hand, I sort of wish I had someone to ramble at...hmm.  I've also had crazy pain in my back & horrible girl pain for the past 2 days. so not fun.
So yep. I'm grumpy and not heaps fun tonight. Really need to spend some time with God & get my priorities straight.

I think God is using Telstra to teach me patience...