Yesterday evening after dinner, I left the TV off…a very rare occurrence.
The reason?
I had cupcakes to bake for my 6th period class. It’s small in number, and we had a number of behavior issues the first three months of school; however, with consistency and accountability, the kids have grown into a cohesive group. They finally earned their 2,000 Class Dojo points and are having a celebratory party today.
While I prepared my vegan Crimson Velveteen Cupcakes, I was tuned into Twitter and the Proverbs 31 Online Bible Study party. It’s the first online study I’ve done, and I am so excited! I’m in a Facebook group that’s being led by a longtime online knitting/bloggy friend.
I must have been quite the sight…laptop on my counter, mixing bowl not too close but not too far away…Pandora belting out a mixture of Ingrid Michaelson songs and Christian tracks.
I’d overfilled the cupcake liners, so when I pulled them out, there was cupcake overflow around each cupcake…that dried into hard-to-remove cupcake overflow.
Sigh.
It took me quite a while to clean the pans. One of them is an air bake tin, so it can’t be submerged in water.
Bigger sigh.
I used some of my newfound muscles and scrubbed for a longggggggggggggggg time.
I had also decided to prep for a crockpot dish that I wanted to turn on before leaving for work. I know myself, and it’s hard to get much accomplished in the morning besides my daily workout, shower, and beauty regimen.
Oh my, but I had to saute the chicken first, thus making ANOTHER mess that I had to scrub up.
Oh wait. There’s more though.
While all that was transpiring, I was washing a load of clothes…of which I had to hang up about half of my stuff because I am quite particular, you see.
I was multi-tasking to the highest level…because I tend to be an overachiever, as you already know.
My students and co-workers may find me bleary-eyed in the morning. Thank heavens for the cancellation of a regular Wednesday morning meeting. I won’t have to be on my game immediately after stepping onto campus.
Small miracles, people. Small miracles.
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