have managed to get to the end of this week with my brains intact and no visible signs of disease. since the stomach flu is going around, i consider that an accomplishment. austin has some of it on monday and went home early, and i felt a little icky too. but i went to bed that night at 7:30 and slept all the way through, so i think that helped.
it has been so far an interesting yet frustrating season of basketball. austin seems somehow to have gotten himself on the shit list of the coach. not sure exactly how that is, but i have to admit that from my standpoint, he has looked a little sluggish. he has done fine when he has played, but i think the asthma has become a problem. he is using the inhaler, sometimes twice or three times a game. i don't know if that has anything to do with it. i do know that austin has developed an attitude and is having problems with the coach's decisions. i can't say that i disagree. i haven't been able to figure out yet exactly what the coach is trying to do with the team. there is absolutely no consistency in the game plans and frankly, they don't seem to make sense. last night they played patrick henry and just nothing was working. in the second half he basically took out all of the starters, including austin, and put in the scrubs. they ended up losing by 2 points, which was good considering at points we had been down by 15. but it does make you wonder what might have happened if he had played the better players. i don't know much about basketball, so i guess i can't second guess what the coach is doing. but i don't think the players understand it either.
i bought the griddler for my brother today for a xmas present. it was not cheap by any stretch of the imagination, but i felt like he should have something nice for xmas since the parents aren't apparently doing anything. he has had a crappy year, no doubt about it.
there is snow in the western states and i am seeing that the temps are down in seattle and are staying down. they apparently have had snow, and i had a message from triest and rexburg has been pretty much inundated with it over the last few days. she said it was nice snow too, wet big flakes. i would kill for some snow and cold weather. we get a couple of days of it, and then boom, back to 50-60-70 degrees. it is very discouraging. no wonder everyone is sick.
i still have xmas stuff to do, in particular baking and putting up the yard lights. i am hoping that will get done this weekend. we'll see. i am ready for a break.
currently the month of december has been the month for reading about the undead. i have just finished TWILIGHT about vampires. i had to push myself through that one, even though it is the hot book right now. i read it because all the kids are reading it. i also started another one called WORLD WAR Z which george herring wanted me to read. this one is about zombies. then i read a manga japanese book, backwards, and that was all about monsters and killing and a notebook of the dead. i think it is time to quit with the dead stuff. time to catch up on all of my magazines and a couple of books i checked out for my own pleasure. i have done mostly reading of stuff that would be potentially for summer reading or new stuff in the classroom. i did read a book called WINTER RUN that i thought might be interesting to redneck boys. george seemed to think that the zombie book might be good for the boys. however, i have not found it to be engrossing since it has no plot.
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