If Bobby knew differently he didn't speak up, which understandable. Apparently Broward decided to give them the whole week for Thanksgiving, and make up a day this week. Oh well, I haven't even received email notification from any class of his absence and normally I get them instantly at the start of each period when he is out, so they must have minimal attendance.

Dana, I'm sorry for your loss. Wishing peace and comfort for all who love your grandmother.

Oreos have a soothing effect. Especially if you do the twist and dunk, if that's your Oreo thing.

I have found that in trying times, putting Oreos in a bowl, pouring milk over them, and eating them with a spoon to be efficacious.

Parent fail. Apparently school is in session today in Broward County.... The principal told him that half the staff and students didn't show up.

If half the STAFF didn't show up, I'm thinking it's not so much "parent fail" as "Communication Fail".

Yeah, that seems like a big communication fail on the part of the school district.

I'm surprised I didn't get an email or robo call from the principal because I get bunches of them regularly on far less important issues. Then again, I could have checked the calendar which shows today as a school day. I just hate wasting an absence day in case we need it later. Oh well.

I had a moment of worry this mornig when I found out that my friend's kids are back in school today.

Ive never seen a holiday where so many people don't know if it is one or not.

A lot of school districts that would normally treat this as a holiday are not because they need to make up snow days from the Halloween storm.

despite the reasonableness of Vortex's argument, I'm in the camp of:

Ive never seen a holiday where so many people don't know if it is one or not

Isn't today a federal holiday to boot?

I'm even more embarrassed to say that 2 of my employees showed up this morning at the office for work. After emailing me about the apparent holiday they just did a few things they had in progress and then went home. I was out sick all last week so we didn't discuss it specifically, but we were closed the Monday after Christmas. So boss fail too.

We had people calling the store today to find out if it was open.

We were open yesterday and Thanksgiving. The only day we aren't open is Christmas.

I forgot the banks weren't open and now my rent check is late, I'm going to take it to my landlady, apologise, and ask her to wait until tomorrow afternoon to deposit it.

My New Year's Resolution for the year is to - try new things and push my self.

Which I think is flexible enough to actually be doable. One of the things I did was sign up for an online Drawing 101 course. I got pencils and sketch pads at work and I'm going to try drawing.

Also I need some - ~ma towards my brother. My X SIL is being completely unreasonable over custody arrangements again. They were splitting the month, now everyone is moving closer so she was going to have my nephew during the week and my brother on the weekends. Now my XSIL wants my brother to accept every other weekend.

My brother put his foot down and said they'd go to a mediator. I hope that goes well. My XSIL never bonded with my nephew, he doesn't want to go to see her, he never says he misses her and she's never apart of his pretend play.

However, he did have his first day of pre school today. He calls it "preschool college" because my brother is going back to college next week.