Friday already???!!!!

I'm so excited!  It's Friday - that in itself is super; however, this is a special Friday because this is the Friday before TCEA - the Texas Computer Education Assn. Conference in Austin, TX.  Now I know some people don't get excited about their education conferences but I do - this one is awesome.  We learn so much and have fun doing it.  Then we get to eat fabulous food at fantastic restaurants all over Austin. 

We've been going every year for several years and the hotel we stay in knows us when we walk in and register.  They take good care of us.

So this weekend it is crazy - I have to shop for the trip, pack for the trip, get the hair done - you don't think this southern girl would go on a "big" trip like this and not get the hair "freshened" up do you?  Then there is the grocery shopping - I think we take enough munchies for 10 people and it will only be three of us this year. (That makes me sad.)

Leaving Sunday afternoon - yes Diana and I will be there in time to watch the Super Bowl!  Maybe go out and eat/shop or both.  We come back on Friday afternoon.  It's a full week of fun workshops and seeing friends from the past.  I'll be posting throughout the week so stay tuned for pics and commentary from hippy dippy Austin.

Vacation from Technology

I had a wonderful weekend of shopping, cooking and relaxing with my family.  My mom and I shopped and found some of the things I had been pinning on Pinterest, mostly for organization 'stuff'.

We also hit one of our favorite places, BIG LOTS!  I love it - you never know what jewels in the rough you will find at Big Lots but it's like winning the lottery when you do!!  We found some great encouragement cards in stationary, canned Luck's apples (for frying don't you know) which we weren't able to find anywhere else in town and the perfect little picture to finish off my bedroom wall!  Great success!  As we were checking out, Mom was quite hungry.  She began opening the Peanut butter filled Oreos before I had paid for our loot.  So funny - reminded me of parents in the grocery line trying to keep their children out of the purchases.  Role reversal for sure!

Saturday afternoon we watched the Texas A&M Aggie basketball team beat Travis Ford's Oklahoma State Cowboys.  This is always a game we like to see because Travis played at Kentucky - pretty good small guard and always has a quick temper.   Since watching him coach in Aggieland he seems to find a way to get a technical most of the time; however, he did not this game.  He had reason to yell a bit though - the refs were a bit on the sad side.

Yesterday, Mom and I made Shrimp Creole!  I love that stuff.  My hands still smell like the onions I chopped but it was well worth it!  Yummo.

Next on my TO DO list for this week is getting ready for TCEA (Texas Computer Ed. Assn.) Conference.  It's in Austin and once again my peeps and I will be at the Embassy Suites.  This is always a fun time and a time to see new techie things for the classroom.  We also receive some good training at this conference.  This will be our last TCEA Conf. together and will just include Randi, Diana and me.  (So sad that Martie doesn't get to go this year.)  I'm feeling a little melancholy about it - can't wait to go and learn but sad that we won't have this time together ever again.  Times change and budgets do too.  I hope we are able to adapt to both!

Whew, I've rambled on today.  Now back to work.  Off to help more people with their STaR Charts....