Hooray for Hump Day

TGIW. After a day like today, I am so glad that this week is more than halfway over.

Let's just be honest here. Today sucked. It was bad.

I have one student that is in my class for the second time around. She was retained, and she has some medical issues and severe behavior issues. To make a long story short, she and I had a very difficult time together today.

A few other students had a difficult day as well. I felt like I had a very bad teacher day, and I can think of 101 things I should have done differently today than I did. I should have had more patience, I should have counted slowly to 10 more often, I should have remembered that they are only 5 more often, etc. What can I say... it was just one of those days.

But at the end of the school day, I took a deep breath and felt ok. These days happen sometimes. It is what it is, and I move on. Tomorrow can only be better! I left work feeling thankful that tomorrow was a new day, where I (and they) could make better choices and have different reactions.

But THEN... I went to Wal-Mart.

Growing up, I loved Wal-Mart shopping trips. In general, I really have no issues with Wal-Mart, and there are some items that I will not buy anywhere else. However, the Wal-Mart that is literally just around the corner from our house has been rubbing me the wrong way since we moved in last year.

Everytime I go there with a list of things to buy, they do not have at least half of the things I need. Not only that, but when I buy those things elsewhere and then go to that Wal-Mart at a later date, they always seem to have the items I was looking for earlier. Just... never when I need them. For example: brads, china storage, Febreeze, brown lunch bags, only to name the first few that pop into my head. It is a running joke in our house. Need something? Wal-Mart won't have it. Maybe never, or maybe just until you don't need it anymore.

So this afternoon on my way home from work I stopped in to grab a few things, one of them being white lunch bags for us to decorate to make Valentine's mailboxes tomorrow. Let me give you a back story. Back at the beginning of the school year, I went to this Wal-Mart in order to buy brown lunch bags for some craft. I found white ones, but no brown. After searching all the shelves in that aisle for a few minutes, I asked someone. She said that no, they were all out of brown paper lunch bags (although I had some disbelief that this store didn't have such a common, everyday item, I was not surprised, because this is common for me there). So today I was feeling quite optimistic, because at some point in time they had these white lunch bags. Well... this is all I found when I got to the bag aisle.

The brown AND white lunch bag spot, full full full of brown lunch bags.

I came home and cried.