Mental Health Tuesday

Today has been really nice so far.  I took a mental health day for sanity purposes.  My first year of teaching my mentor teacher, who was also my high school teacher who told me every day I needed to be an art teacher, sat down with me and my plan book and we would find days when all my classes were working on projects and he would make me take that day off to do whatever I wanted.  I've stuck to that in my 5 years of teaching.  Its the philosophy of how are you supposed to take care of everyone else if you don't take care of yourself?  Bradley and I were woken up at 8:30 by one of the cats and spent an hour watching the today show and then headed out to breakfast.  After that we went to DSW and Super Target to look for shoes and ended up with a pair of cute wedges and a set of new pillows.  Bradley just made his way to work and I have the afternoon to myself and a yoga class later this evening.  I think today is just what I needed!
 

Hi Tuesday. You were kind of a frustrating day.

I am glad the day part of Tuesday is over.  There is nothing nicer than coming home to sweetly smelling quiet house after a chaotic day.  The closer we get the Thanksgiving the harder it is to keep going at work.  Visions of sleeping in and mashed potatoes cloud my concentration.  When it gets like this I try to make plans to take care of myself so I don't turn into a crazy stressed out person.  Yesterday I went to the gym, came home a took a hot shower, got out to Bradley making dinner, and crawled into my bed with the heated mattress pad turned on full blast.  It was sooo nice.  And tonight I have plans to meet up with the husband and my good friends Rachel and Erwin for dinner and a movie.  Part of Bradley working for Secret Compass is reviewing movies so we are all going to go see Skyline.  I have no idea what it is about except for aliens and blue lights ( I am well informed huh?).  It is just going to be nice to meet up with some friends and enjoy the evening.