Current mood:

sleepy

Ramblings...
I just need to win these next two Ebay auctions and then I am DONE for a while. I've already won 7 auctions of smaller lots of books by specific authors. Now I'm working on a bunch of Eric Carle books and a big lot of Caldecott award winners. Those auctions don't end until the day after tomorrow so I can take a break from watching the computer for a day. Even if I end up paying my maximum bid for the next two auctions I'll only end up paying about $2 per book when you do the math for ALL the books I've purchased/am going to purchase. Not a bad deal at all considering that a lot of them are brand new/hardly used. If I was paying retail for all these books (brand new) I could easily be paying close to $1000.

I'm going to be getting a lot of packages in the next week or so, haha.

The next step is to find books that fit the kindergarten themes. We have "All About Me" and "Transportation" and "Apples" etc. and it changes every two weeks. I also need some holiday books. I'm thinking that if I target the holiday auctions at least 2 months ahead of time I can avoid too much competition.

Ugh. All this strategizing! I should have bought books last year but, since they were readily available for borrowing, I just didn't bother. It was one less thing I had to spend money on.

I'm starting to gather ideas for my lesson plans for the first three weeks of school. I've already thought of some good things to do and gotten some ideas from the internet. I need my notebook that they gave us last year, though, so I can really get started. I'm going to try and have my lessons done monthly instead of weekly so that I'm not killing myself every week. I need to figure out a good way to type them up. Last year I had trouble because I never liked any of my formats and I tried using Excel but I suck at it. I think I need Dan to give me a tutorial.

That's enough about school. Now that today's auctions have ended it's time for me to go to bed!