We did not do so well in round one. We came in 16th with 21 points. I don’t think our odds improved much in round 2. We only got 9 more right out of 16. At least this year, it isn’t all my fault that I did badly.
Monthly Archives: March 2008
My favorite Easter Candies
- Brach’s Classic Jelly Beans – mostly the green, yellow, and whites ones
- Peeps – specifically yellow bunnies
- Reese’s Peanut Butter eggs– they taste better than cups
- Yummy sugary melty candies from a candy store in New York
Each Easter season, Americans buy more than 700 million Marshmallow Peeps, shaped like chicks, as well as Marshmallow Bunnies and Marshmallow Eggs, making them the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy.
Things I like to do
Mom and Dad took off for Easter and left me home alone, so I am doing Mom’s list for today. Since she has told you all sorts of things about her, I thought I would tell you about me.
Things I like to do:
- Sleep on Mom’s pillow
- Chew the pond plants
- Sleep on the futon
- Eat
- Sleep on the love seat
- Explore the bathtub
- Sleep on the flowered chair
- Stick my head in the shower when someone is in there
- Sleep in my soft box
- Attack the trashcan
- Sleep on the table
- Chase the rainbow ribbon
- Sleep on Dad’s pillow
- Talk to the birdies outside
- Sleep on clean laundry
- Attack the rug
- Sleep on the rug
- Play with my toys
- Sleep on Dad’s legs
- Play with rubber bands
- Sleep on Mom’s lap
- Explore the porch
- Sleep on the glider
Cats are the sleepiest of all mammals. They spend 16 hours of each day sleeping.
TV moments I remember
I watch entirely too much TV. I will admit that. And yet…
I have very distinct memories of watching certain shows when I was a kid.
- I used to watch Dallas with my parents. I think it was because it was on Friday nights. I remember when they “shot JR” and brought on that guy pretending to be Jock.
- When Alex was moving out and Family Ties was ending. That was so sad.
- Matthew Perry, as Carol’s friend Sandy who died, on Growing Pains.
- The Mermaid, Terri Hatcher, on Love Boat.
- Did you see Nancy Regan on Diff’rent Strokes?
1980 – On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase “Who Shot JR?”
in Just-spring
Today is the official first day of spring. Spring is my favorite season. It contains several of my favorite events:
- My birthday
- Mother’s Day
- Easter
- The end of the school year (most years)
I also love the change in weather.
- I get all jazzed up and happy.
- Everything seems better.
- The days are getting longer and brighter.
- School is winding up.
- Things smell better.
- Flowers are blooming.
- It is warmer.
- I can stop wearing socks.
- I can wear short sleeves with no sweater or jacket.
- New things come alive.
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee
-- e. e. cummings
Common date of the Equinox. In astrology, March 21 the day of the Equinox is the first full day of the sign of Aries. It is also the traditional first day of the astrological year; and International Astrology Day.
Why I hate winter
- I get sick.
- It is cold.
- Freakin’ snow
- Icy roads
- I get sick.
1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
March Movie Madness 2008 Round 1
The first round has been decided. We did not do as well as I hoped. Sadly, it is because some of the movies I wanted won, but we went with the Lord’s pick.
We got 21 out of 32, I think. We also have a potential loss of at least 5 picks in the next round.
Best Lady found a big screw up! I have Wanda vs Ferris with Young Frankenstein winning. Duh. I emailed Jeff and I hope he will let me change it. If so, I will post a new version of the brackets.
Baby names
We are watching last Thursday’s LOST. It was a Sun and Jin episode. There was a sweet little scene with them on the beach talking about getting ready for the baby. Jin suggests they talk baby names, but Sun says it is bad luck. I don’t know that it could be bad luck if you aren’t pregnant.
Names I like for our yet-to-be-conceived baby. I am not going to tell you which one we have actually chosen for our first born.
Girls names are too easy. I just keep thinking of them. There are many ladies in our family that we would like to honor.
- Abigail
- Amelia
- Bonnie
- Betsy
- Caroline
- Caitlin
- Ellen
- Hazel
- Ingrid
- Isabella
- Joy
- Marion
- Ruth
- Sarah
- Sylvia
Boys names have not been as easy. There are lots of names that I like, but they either don’t go well with our last name or I have had a student with that name that was a problem.
- Benjamin
- Edward
- Elliot
- Eric
- Ethan
1990 – In largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts
17 things that are Green
- Grass
- Clovers
- My lunch bag
- Limes
- Mountain Dew
- Leaves
- The list next to my classroom phone
- My towels
- The “stone” in my class ring
- The walls at the Dummerston Grange AND the Putney Community Center
- My favorite color
- Spinach
- Emeralds
- Pickles
- Kakapos
- The Statue of Liberty
- Christmas Trees
1756 – St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
Never could tell a joke
A 22-year-old kid is sent to a maximum security prison for larceny. Benefiting from a cliché often found in prison stories, he ends up with an older, veteran cellmate who takes a liking to him and helps him get acclimated to prison life.The first night in the cell block, the kid hears something strange. Other prisoners are calling out numbers in the darkness.”Sixteen!”All the prisoners laugh, except for the new kid.
“Twenty-five!”
More laughter.
And so on. The kid asks his cellmate to explain what everyone’s laughing at.
“Well, at night, we’ve got nothing better to do than to tell jokes.”
“But they’re not jokes. They’re just numbers.”
“That’s all you know. Thing is, we’ve all been here so long that we’ve heard all each other’s jokes so often that we’ve memorized them. So rather than tell the whole joke again, we’ve numbered ’em all. Now we just remind each other of the joke by calling out the number.”
So the kid calls out, “Eleven!”
The entire cell block erupts in almost hysterical laughter.
Then the guy in the next cell calls out, “Fifteen!” Crickets.
The kid asks, “What happened?”
His cellmate answers, “That guy never could tell a joke.”
That is one of my all time favorite jokes. Just the line “That guy never could tell a joke.” can crack me up. And…sadly, it is reminiscent of me, I never remember the whole joke (unless it is short), but punchlines…I can do punchlines.
- “I pissed in its ear.”
- “It is dark in here.”
- “Wrecked’im hell, it killed ‘im.”
- Jesus Johnson
- “Anyone can roast beef.”
- “Sand”
1906 – Henny Youngman, American comedian (d. 1998)
1926 – Jerry Lewis, American comedian