I'm tired --- ready for a 4 day weekend!

I'm exhausted. We are in "full speed ahead" mode at school. That is one reason. Every year we do this as iLEAP and LEAP assessment week approaches. After assessment week, we all are completely wiped out....teachers and students. I know we just read instructions from a book verbatim, then sit and watch the kids take a test, but the mental strain is completly exhausting. I come home everyday during testing week, and go straight to bed. Very stressful week as we have so many stipulations and rules to follow that you are scared to touch those darn test......they might burn you or something. Ridiculous how a test can determine a child's complete school career in one week. Ahhh, I'll save that for another Blog Post at a later date. Just thinking about it makes me stress out. Probably after testing week and it is all over with. I will just let it rip......muahahahahahah!!!! I cleaned the yard, and did my weekly cleaning in the house. Katie helped, so it went really fast!!!! Went to the casino and played for a while, but again, you just sit there, but it is not mentally exhausting. I have all this USM intern stuff to finish. That is stressing me too. I will be so glad when I'm finished with that. I can't say finished with school cause I have to keep going to get certified to work with Hearing Impaired students. I want to get certified as a Educational Diagnostician, so I have that too, and for goodness sake, 2 more classes to take to be certified as a Guidance Counselor in LA....go figure. Master's Degree from an NCATE approved University plus 42 other hours of graduate work and the State Department of Education says I still need two classes to be a certified Guidance Counselor in LA. Gotta love them guys who decide all this. By the time I get the Master's, I will need to get a PhD to pay my student loans..... Na, I will get it all done somehow. Brought the van to get a bunch of work done on it, so "I am on foot" so to speak. Just busy, busy, busy. Blah....and too think, I will probably teach summer school to boot!!!! I just keep thinking to myself, one day when I'm old, I will have no choice but to slow down. O, well...........I think I'm going to bed. Goodnight!