The Beal/Cannon Family: Scratched Cornea

Last Sunday when I was doing some yard work I accidentally jabbed myself in the eye with the branch of a bush. It hurt a lot! On Monday I texted my brother Chase and he said I probably scratched my cornea and he called in a prescription for antibiotic drops for me. Sunday night was probably the worst of it. I had a hard time sleeping and I had no distractions from my eye pain. Monday was Martin Luther King day so I didn't have to go to work. I went back and forth trying to decide if I should call in sick on Tuesday or not. I went ahead and put in for a sub and submitted sub plans. By Tuesday my eye felt a lot better and I felt a little guilty for not being at work but the night before I couldn't keep my eye open for very long periods of time so it was hard to know! I was able to get a ton of work done and that was nice! I'm excited because I am coming up with some good ideas (I hope) for my Teen 2 class. I typically don't enjoy Teen 2 as much but if my ideas go well I might like it better! The first unit is on the family and on Friday I had the idea to have a family game night. I had three games (Pictionary, Guesstures, and Headbanz). I picked the groups and each group played each game for 12 minutes. Most of my classes did really well and had fun. Period 4 needed a lot of direction. Activities like that are a great way to form bonds and make the students get used to working together which is helpful for the cooking labs. I also tell my students that Teen Living is a life skills class and learning how to work with people you don't choose is a life skill! Our first cooking lab of the semester is this Friday and I will be curious how my students do. I will have a back up assignment for Period 4 for sure. I will be curious if they will follow instructions and be able to cook or not...Bless their hearts.

Scott helped Ryan study so he could retake his geography bee test. Ryan went from a 31% to a 69%! He got 146 countries correct. Wowza! Good work Scott and Ryan!

Poor Charly had surgery on Thursday. She was spayed and got a microchip. She was pretty sad on Thursday but has pretty much been mostly herself since then. She has to wear that stupid cone for 2 weeks! I bought her a recovery onsie and I thought she would like it better than the cone but to our surprise she did not! Cone it is.

I think I took this picture on Monday, not terrible looking but not normal either. My eye still hurts just a little.

My working buddy.

Post surgery. Poor sad puppy.

She does alright with the cone.

Look at this adorable onsie! It's supposed to help protect her from licking her sutures like a cone would but she HATED it.

Dinner with girlfriends. We ate at a pub in the North End where I work and it was good! I did see a lot of Boise High and North teens when we went to Goody's to get ice cream afterwards...not my favorite. I only saw one of my old students though. It feels really awkward to run into students outside of school, the worst is Roaring Springs!