It is graduation season. The graduation invitations have already gone out. (I hope they have at least!) The kids are worrying about final exams or restlessly finishing out the last few days of high school. In honor of graduation, I give you the best advice song ever. It may sound really cheesy but take it to heart kids! Stay young!
Tracking receipts
Now that I'm teaching Zumba, I have to keep track of my related receipts for tax purposes. I wonder if I should use Royal Imaging document scanning and keep them in a virtual file instead of putting them in a folder or something. It would definitely be easier than trying to remember where I put the physical receipts. I'll have to look into the costs for it. It just might be doable.
It's not summer yet!
Despite not officially being summer yet, we are at the beginning of our second heat wave of the year. It is expected to be so hot that some of the area schools are dismissing students early. My daughter's school isn't currently on the list but today is their last full day of school anyway. They only have three half days left after today. While I do love the summer, I like it when it gradually gets warmer. It sucks when it goes from 60 to 90 overnight. (Note to self: Buy cheap sunglasses. The sun glare hurts during the drive to/from work.) If we're lucky, this will be a short heat wave. I'd like it to be over by next weekend. That is the date of our dance recital. Recital sucks when it's a million degrees out. It can get hot again after recital.
School is almost over
Yesterday was Field Day at my daughter's school. She did OK. Our family isn't really the 'jock' type though. One of the other classes seemed to have all the jocks so they pretty much won everything. (There's three classes for each grade.) My daughter had fun and, really, that is all that matters. As an aside, I'd like to mention that sometimes it annoys me that TV stations have moved from analog tv to digital. We have a TV at work but we don't have cable or satellite or anything like that. We used to just use the analog signal. Then we had to get a digital converter box. Now some of the channels randomly pop in and out. Sometimes we'll get a channel, sometimes we won't. It's annoying.
Favorite Friday
I love the Discovery show "How It's Made." I don't watch it nearly as often as I'd like. Mostly because I never remember when it's on. Anyway, today's (late) Favorite Friday is how ball bearings are made. It's pretty interesting. For some reason, these shows always make me think of the episodes of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood where he would go to a factory or something and show the kids the 'behind the scenes' stuff. It's Mr. Rogers for grown-ups!
Full time Zumba dream
I am currently stuck between a rock and a hard place. I would really love to teach Zumba full time. It is so much fun that it doesn't even seem like work. Unfortunately, I can't do that until I can make more money from my classes. I can't teach more classes because I have to keep working full time. I have been looking for a new full time job that will, hopefully, allow me to teach more often but there's a lot of management jobs listed, which isn't what I want. I'm going to keep working hard though. One day I will prevail.