Life moves swiftly

It's been a busy year, I suppose, and time has flown. I can't believe it's December already! Thankfully we're done with trips out of town for a while, and we don't even have any scheduled visitors in the near future. The holidays will be very mellow this year.

I had planned to get so much more done by this point, but oh well. I'm still subbing occasionally, and party of the busy-ness of this fall was doing all the necessary bits & pieces to renew my license, like take several exams, etc. Subbing is still frustrating though, and I certainly don't want to become a classroom teacher. I'm such an anomaly- a woman who doesn't desire kids, a sub who doesn't want to be a teacher. That's just who I am, I guess. Sometimes I feel it would be better if I could find some other job that would take me from October through May, even if it paid less than subbing. I only work about 8 days a month on average anyway. Having a flexible schedule is lovely, but the work itself (when I can get it) is really wearing. I had to kick kids out of class the other day for fighting, and the past couple of years a lot of the kids have just been awful in general. I barely even get to knit in class any more, since I have to police them every second of the day even during videos.

Knitting itself has put forth several frustrations this year too, several projects showed themselves to be far too big about half-way through the process, prompting me to give up on one and rip the other back about 6 inches. But I persevered, and can now say I'm one sweater away from completing my 13 sweaters for 2010, though this last one will be the hardest of all, since it's for Ryan, and therefore a foot or more bigger in circumference than my normal knits.

So as usual, there's not much news from the Coos. We're getting to the final stages of planning our Costa Rica trip for a few months from now, and the dogs enjoyed the snow we received just before Thanksgiving (but didn't enjoy my Aunt's dog on Thanksgiving, unfortunately). Verne spent an awesome week+ with us recently, and my Mom, Bro & Nephew just were here for a long weekend. If you're reading this, it's probably your turn to visit! Come to the coast, we miss you all!