spring weekend

wow only week left of community college classes where I"m teaching ENglish Composition I classes. 4 each day, 3 days a week... and next summer at Whitewater Bay, water fun park here in OKC. I'll be working cash control counting money all day and accounting for each dollar and cent!
things are moving slow for me these days. not really sure where God wants me to end up working at this point in life, but I just have to keep depending on Him to put me where I can best be used, whether that means making more $$$ or not. ALthough I have to make myself stop thinking about how much I'd love to teach fulltime at my current community college since an English faculty member jsut retired... and how less excited I am about going back to public school. I have to remind myself there may not even be an opening at OCCC, and there may be 50 people ahead of me anyway that could be hired. so I have to take WHATEVER I can find at any public school for the benfits! ha ... I'm even considering looking for middle school math openings here in the city.
of course being more practical and spend thrifty means making do with what I can find to entertain myself without travelling or shopping or updating or decorating etc etc anything. I suppose that's why I find myself quite content to preen the yard of weeds and walk aroudn to see how things are growing and water and care for them. that comes cheap. of course I am constangly aiming to clean and condense inside my house as well. I decided I should try to condense so that if that perfect job came up overseas, it would be a simple task to put things in boxes and move right away.. ha that's my goal in thinking when cleaning and organizing the house.
I did have some fun while getting some plants at Home Depot last week, by checking out paint chips and colors. One of the things about getting hired fulltime again in OKC means I'm signing on to live here a few many more years in OKC, and that would mean in this same house, so the prospect of a new job means I can start brainstorming what new floors and walls and colors etc... actually I have this project I'm thinking of to ornament the house a bit outside this summer. more on that later.
It's been a very nice weekend. mainly jsut grading lots of "writing to convince" papers. and they are not really all that convincing but the students are learning how to cite sources using MLA style. finally! the worst one to grade are students who never come to class and then turn in a paper, and I"m slashing right through it correcting all the things we've talked about many times in class, and if they'd been in class for the TWO peer review sessions, even their classmates would have marked some errors made. ahh well. one more week and I'm FREE until June 7th! :P