Day 4, Plotting my day.

April 19, 1989

"I'm so excited, I was accepted into the National Honor Society, I'm so excited! My friend didn't make it, she wasn't happy for me, but I'm ecstatic!"

Dear Jennifer,

You are going to laugh, I walked out to my car yesterday morning and it said "Low tire pressure".  Naturally, I reached for my phone to call either my husband, who was sleeping, or my dad, who was 3 miles away.  I didn't do either, I got in the car, took it to the air pump and checked all my tires. Sure enough, the front two were low.  Now don't judge me, as anything "auto mechanicy" or "car issuey" I don't like messing with. That was your forte, but air in the tires, I can do that.  Believe it or not, it was the first time in my 20 years of driving that I have ever put air in my tires.  (New thing!)  I did call my husband after I put the air hose back and it kept hissing at me, he told me that it would shut down on its own.  What I love about him is he doesn't laugh at me when I try new things that he has already done, he is a pretty patient guy.

I walked into my classroom today and hung all my degrees. I've never hung my degrees.  Right next to a picture of you and I, I hung your Aerospace Engineering Degree. I made sure mine had bigger frames, though, just saying. (New Thing!)

Then on to my most favorite thing of the day.  I had a mentor teacher come in and teach all my students how to use a graphing calculator.  I was so excited. (Hence, the diary statement above and the excitement over NHS. When I was 16, it was a miracle if I passed a class). I had been teaching Line of best fit and my mentor teacher came in showed it on the TI-84. It was so much fun to hear the kids; "WOW!, WHOA!" "WAIT! I did something wrong!"  (that's my favorite because then I know they are engaged.).  I really need to buy a class set of these.  I was never taught how to use a graphing calculator in high school or college.  Now I use a cool program by Dan Meyers (my math crush!) desmos.com.  Jenny, you would have lost your ever loving mind if you had this back in middle school and high school.

I continued to give O F's yesterday.  Can I tell you it is tougher when it is the next day and it is the background of your mind.  I started letting negative comments seep in and I accepted them instead of rejected them.  No good, it feels icky and I don't like it.  So my goal is to go back to my O F's as the front of my day and speak using only my personal mission statement.

Day 4 down, still unsure what day 5 will bring.  Now that I am more aware, I am finding I do new things daily.  Mom reminds me that new things don't always have to be exciting and life changing.  I think that is a good reminder, I always want something so positively (notice the word positively) life changing.  I think if that happened everyday it would probably be pretty exhausting.

Until tomorrow....