First things first, how many pellets can a quail gun shoot at once and why is Dick Cheney allowed to use one. I mean, the poor man has at least 100 pellets in his upper body and face! If this isn't a sign for gun control I don't know what is.
Now that the political rant is out of the way I can catch you up with the 7th grade happenings. We had our first official game today and the boys played hard, I was very proud of them. We still lost by like 30 points but that's ok, I am one of those people who believes winning isn't everything. I got to run the scoreboard, it was very stressful and I am pretty sure the game lasted longer than it should have becasue I kept forgetting to push the button but it is hard to coach and push the buttons at the same time.
I will miss Thursday's game due to an unavoidable dentist appointment but I am getting some snacks around to send with them so they won't miss me too much!
On a personal note I have finally gotten my tax stuff ready to send in and have only had to reopen the envelope 4 times to add stuff. All in all I think it went well, I couldn't imagine if I had to file for myself :-) It is almost midnight so I should probably go to bed but then I will start coughing. I don't even have to lay down, just go near the bed and the tickle starts. I was thinking about sleeping in the guest room to trick the tickle but that sounds silly so I will give it a shot. I wonder how long until my immune system is sufficiently built up to fight off the middle school germs. Good night!

My dad reminded me that I forgot to update you on the shooting, I know you all were worried. I don't know what happened. Could have been anything really but no signs of violence as of yet so I will just pretend it didn't happen. Today was the new teachers first dayy and her had the flu soo tomorrow is his technical first day. I hope the kids are good, right now they have this mentality of we got rid of one let's do it again.
Today was day 2 of basketball practice. I am coaching 8th grade morons! They don't know their left from their right and can't count, not to mention that I had to hold their jewelry because they can't play with it. I had more diamond studs and gold chains in my pockets than most girls will ever have. Sarah is rightm she asked me when it became ok for boys to wear earrings in both thier ears. I don't know but these boys better get rid of them before I do. We have our first tournament on Saturday so please pray for us. I did sprints with them today and I ran faster than all of them, and I am the most out of shape person I know! I better get to bed, lots to do tomorrow.

Bad news first - The math teacher on my team was fired today, I have mixed feelings about this because she was incompetent and yelled a lot but she is a human being and she was nice enough. Although I was listed in her reasons as to why she was not able to do her job appropriately. I also don't know what SIOP is and I took the final for the class tonight.

Good news, I was observed today and that went smoothly. It was also job shadow day so all but like 20 of my kids were absent so that made the day a lot of fun for me and the students who were there. Tomorrow I have my first basketball practice, my class got in the way of it this week. And I am going to the "O" club (the officers club on base) - so who knows maybe I will meet mister right :-) My grandma asked me the other day if I was seeing anyone and when I replied no so said, me either. I guess no one wants to go out with me after my last 2 boyfriends died! I couldn't help but laugh, she said it so matter of factly.

It is about 10:45 and I have been home from bowling about a half hour. I just heard gunfire very close to my house. The dogs are all barking and people are milling about in a frantic way. I am going to stay here and hope that it doesn't happen again. When my heart stops racing I will go to bed. (If you are still reading this you just found out what it is like in my head as I was just typing what I was thinking) Trust me when I say it is tiring to live in here all the time. I am going to crawl under the covers and hope there is no police tape when I go to work in the morning . I will keep you posted.