Taxing 3

 I finished up the taxes and got them mailed off before the deadline. Yay! My summer students started today and have already been a great help to me. More meetings tomorrow. Still waiting for some graders to finish up to complete all the grades. Managed to get home before the pouring rain!

Taxing 2

 Before work I picked up a new door handle and left it outside of James' door for him to install when he woke up. He called me in the afternoon to say it didn't fit. I thought that odd as it said that it fit standard doors and the door looked normal. When I got home James was out but I read the instructions and adjusted the handle so it fit and installed it. 

When I came home from work, I just worked on taxes and now have the rough draft done. Good copy tomorrow!

Whose door handle breaks in the middle of the night?

 Apparently James' does. I had to go down and rescue him as he was trapped in his room. Who has been googling door handles and 3am? That would be me!

Taxing

 This weekend I planned to do taxes on Saturday. I got through a good chunk but not done. Will work on it more tomorrow evening.

Saturday I cleaned the upstairs bathroom then went to Costco with Kim. Costco on a Saturday is mayhem. People everywhere!

Today I went to Food Basics, then Rustle, then Elevation and working on taxes.

Duos

 There was some new IOGO yogurt at Food Basics that was on sale because it was new and they were called "duos" which list 2 flavors. I was not terribly impressed before I tried it because I have had "mixed berry" yogurt and it is just a mix of berries and you can't tell the blueberries and raspberries apart. But in trying the IOGO duo it was peach and strawberry (The first one I tried) and it is really good with different flavors of peach and strawberry that are somehow separate.

I spent the day finalizing the individual student marks. Paul will need to review the failures when he is back from his conference. 

Tomorrow I hope to get the showcase marks out, just waiting for the last judge to email.

For dinner I made tex mex meatloaves, which were spicier than I expected but very good.

James is running tryouts and has lots of hockey drama stories.

Easter Monday

Easter Monday is always good for Easter chocolate! I was able to get a few deals with the limited supply left.

In the morning I wore my winter coat and it was still pretty chilly all day. I was dodging rain showers.

I forgot many things are closed on Easter Monday so I couldn't go to the Post Office.
 

Showcases completed

 Wed and Thurs were very long days but everything seemed to go pretty well and all the showcases are completed.

James told me about a new trend called "Italian Brainrot" which are AI images of animals that are mixed with inanimate objects like Bombadiro Crocadilo:

Tomorrow James is going golfing and running some hockey tryouts. At work I need to tackle my email and then work on finalizing the showcase grades.

Street cleaning

 The streets were cleaner today so the street cleaners must have been out overnight. In the morning I was working on showcase crises. So far have resolved them all but I guess there will be still new ones. I went home from 2-6pm as I need to set up the rooms this evening for the showcase tomorrow. In the afternoon I made soupe and ordered pizza so the fridge is full for the next few days of showcase and Good Friday. I also went by Food Basics to pick up enough to get us through. I always use the self checkout. I often have the same lady who is supervising the section. She has been talking to me about her grief journey and today she gave me a hug before I left. She is such a sweetie, just in a lot of pain right now.

First bike ride to work

 Today was the first day that I could ride my bike to work. The roads are still very sand covered so hopefully there will be some street cleaning soon.

We had an interesting meeting at work where my work was praised when they thought someone else did it (someone who had nothing to do with it) but when I revealed that I was the person who did the work it was brushed off.

It is nicer to have the longer days. The robins are hanging around. The backyard is currently filled with chickadees and juncos.

Wholesale

 Yesterday I biked to the Wholesale club. It is a lot like a warehouse but the prices are not wholesale. It is part of the Loblaws series and many of the prices were the same as Loblaws. It was a nice experience in terms of the shopping but the selection is less than Loblaws with the prices about equal so as Loblaws is so much closer I probably won't head out again regularly.

I needed to wear my winter coat yesterday but today I switched to the spring one. Who knows what tomorrow will bring?

Preparing for the presentation

 Tiny Kicks from Poems of Parenting

This week will be preparing for the final presentations. We had a good service at Rustle.  Monday I have a lot of email to get through!

The melt and the agitator

 

Before Rustle

After Rustle- note that the laundry line twisted at some point so the icicles on it are now pointing up instead of down

Currently all the ice on the laundry line has fallen but the trees are still ice covered.

In pulling the laundry out of the tub, I have found that one of the agitator fins has broken off so I have ordered a new one from Amazon.

Tomorrow is our last training session as next week is the last week of classes!

How it is going

 

Mid storm

 I could hear the rain/ice/sleet coming down during the night but there was not much accumulation in the morning. The bushes were bent and there is currently lots of crackling. The next wave should be arriving soon. This is what is looks like now but it doesn't do it justice:

Batten down the hatches

 We'll see how the weather tracks overnight.

We had a great time with the students doing testing with dry ice today. One week left!