In the summer I get up later and later as the weeks go on. Sadly, at the end of the summer I have to learn to get up early again. I sometimes think I should be teaching night school. Only they don’t have that for elementary kids.
from xkcd
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the blog is all about me anyway, so most likely a post will be at least a little about me
Brought to you by the letter S (again)
for stuffed up nose
for a sinusitis diagnosis
for Sudafed, which didn’t help
for a sick day
for sub plans which took me 3 hours for a 90 minute class
for sleeping late on a school day
for shopping for a dress for my sister’s wedding
I thought this was such a funny quiz I had to try it for myself! Thanks Toddled Dredge!
My husband and friends will agree it is totally accurate! And? I actually use dashes in my speech and writing, so that is too funny! Although, I hate public speaking!
You Are An Exclamation Point |
 You are a bundle of… well, something.You’re often a bundle of joy, passion, or drama.You’re loud, brash, and outgoing. If you think it, you say it. Definitely not the quiet type, you really don’t keep a lot to yourself. You’re lively and inspiring. People love to be around your energy. (But they do secretly worry that you’ll spill their secrets without even realizing it.) You excel in: Public speaking You get along best with: the Dash |
My bear
Whoorl wrote a nice piece about her childhood blanket and challenged her readers to write too. I am writing about my favorite childhood stuffed animal. This week we had Staff Appriciation week at school and we each brought in an artifact that represents us. I brought my bear. Almost no one guessed he was mine.
He’s my bear. He doesn’t have a name. I always thought it was stupid when people asked his name. He’s a bear, a stuffed toy, why would he have a name? I know people name their stuffed animals, and in fact, I named other stuffed animals, just not my bear.
I have had my bear since I was about 18 months old. According to my parents we went to Florida to visit Sylvia and Bill that fall. Bill was my dad’s cousin, but they were way older than my parents, so they were more like grandparents. While we were there they had a birthday party for me. I certainly don’t remember it, but I have seen pictures. We were all wearing party hats.
I don’t remember a time not having my bear. He is flat and balding. His tongue is gone and his nose is rubbed off. His eyes are scratched and he has cataracts of clear nail polish from where I tried to fix the scratches. He used to be kind of yellow, but now he is a grayish color. His tag is worn and hard to read. When I was little and my mom would wash him, I would get mad. He got all fluffy and not comfortable. So I would throw him down the stairs and jump on him.
I took my bear with me everywhere. He went to DC with me in middle school. He went back and forth to college a dozen times or more. He always rode outside my bag on planes so he has been through several x-ray machines. He hasn’t traveled since I graduated, so I guess he needs a trip. I think he will go in the car with us to Sweet Briar this spring.
He doesn’t have a place of honor or anything. He still sleeps in my room, but he is buried under extra blankets and PJs to keep him safe from my kitty. When my husband is away, my bear sleeps on his spot.
He is my bear.
4 Things
- Four jobs I’ve had
- Recess monitor at arts summer camp.
- Cashier at town pool.
- Waitress at family conference center.
- Educational Technology Specialist
- Four movies I can watch over and over
- Four places I’ve lived
- Meta Glass 212
- Dew 202
- Manson 112
- Manson 205
- Four TV shows I love
- Four places I’ve vacationed
- Four of my favorite dishes
- Macaroni and Cheese
- Prime rib
- Thanksgiving dinner
- Potatoes, polenta, pesto, asParagus, ham from a Pig
- Four sites I visit daily
- Four songs I will stop and sing along with
- In Your Eyes
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Constantinople/Istanbul
- We Didn’t Start the Fire
- Four places I would rather be right now
- Home in bed
- Cancun
- Scotland
- a massage table
1930 – Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
Things I am thankful for
- My parents They have always been there to support me. My mother and I have a really good time together and my dad has done a lot for me.
- My sister Even when we don’t get along, it is still great to have her around.
- My husband In only 7.5 years together we have been through a lot. He has been supportive and amazing through everything.
- My friends How great is it to be an adult and have friends with whom you can act like a kid.
- My cat I can’t believe we were going to wait to get a cat. He is currently the joy of our lives.
- Electricity This one is self explanatory.
- Heat It may be spring, but it is still snowing in Vermont.
- Spring weather I can’t wait to not put on a jacket to leave for school.
1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
6 Days left in March
Seriously, I thought this theme would be easy for me. I thought, heck, I make lists all the time, this will be simple. Nope. I have run out of ideas. I have resorted to stealing them from the web. And honestly, I had this great idea for a list over Easter weekend, but I was away from my computer and didn’t write it down.
Today’s list is:
Days left in March
- Wednesday, March 26 I have decided to slack off today, so my kids are doing Type to Learn and Professor Fizzwizzle. After work I have to go to the grocery store. The Lord has rehearsal (did I mention he stepped into a part 4 days before opening night?) and I am going to watch TV and go to bed early.
- Thursday, March 27 Today we have massages for Staff Appreciation Week. Mine is first thing in the morning. I hope the guy isn’t late. In the evening we have rehearsal. I am going to have to step in for T since he will be at the dress rehearsal for his other show. I hope bedtime comes early again.
- Friday, March 28 Opening night. I won’t be going. I will be going both Saturdays, so I am making other plans tonight. I thought I might get my Sunday Schoolers to go to Hill’s play, but it is getting kind of late for that. Whatever I do, I am not over eating. I have to weigh in on Saturday.
- Saturday, March 29 Today is m high school best friend’s birthday. She lives a couple hours a way and we don’t talk much any more. She and her husband split up this past year and she is totally starting over with 2 kids. I sent her flowers. I hope she likes them.
- Sunday, March 30 I am planning to take my Sunday Schoolers to visit a different church today. We’ll see how it goes. I am trying to find ways to get them engaged and involved. Then I have rehearsal. Fortunately it is an afternoon rehearsal. Unfortunately, it is to accomidate my husband’s matinée.
- Monday, March 31 Today I start Girls on the Run. I haven’t heard from my assistant coach; I don’t have that many registrations; I am totally not prepared. But since it is my 5th year, I should be okay. Then I will be late for an evening rehearsal. But I may get to go to bed early!
1484 – William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop’s Fables.
39 things I would do if I won $390 million
- Hire someone to repaint the outside of my house and fix the shingles.
- Finish doing over all the rooms in our house.
- Buy new cars. A Ford Escape Hybrid either in Vista Blue or Kiwi Green for me.
- Buy a new car for my sister and each of our parents.
- Buy the most high-end Macbook available.
- Give a large donation to my church.
- Give a large donation to my college.
- Buy a theater curtain set for the high school auditorium.
- Pay for a really nice wedding for my sister.
- Get braces on my bottom teeth.
- Make a scholarship for Star Island in honor of my old friend Sarah.
- Make a scholarship for a girl, from our high school, going to a women’s college in honor of same friend Sarah.
- Hire a personal trainer and a nutritionist.
- Fix the steeple on our church.
- Buy a new house.
- Adopt.
- Buy a house for my sister.
- Invest.
- Hire a personal masseuse.
- Have a chef (to work with my nutritionist) and housekeeper.
- Completely rebuild the outdoor stage at the park.
- Do over the computer lab at my school.
- Make Girls on the Run free for girls in WSESU.
- Endow a really nice birthing room at the hospital.
- Pay off my parents’ house and apartments.
- Rehab the entire downstairs and Sunday School wing at church.
- Help Star Island with the electrical and fire improvements.
- Locate the two “Little Sisters” I had at Tye River and send them to college.
- Buy a radio station and hire John Ashley to play nothing but oldies and do contests.
- Boob job (smaller and higher).
- Buy a house on a loch in Scotland.
- Open a yarn shop.
- Buy a new building for the Drop in Center.
- Rehab and add onto the Morningside Shelter.
- Rehab and add onto the Women’s Crisis center.
- Repaint the Grange and get new lights and curtains.
- Help out the Nursery Schools and Childcare centers in our area.
- Give money to my town to fix up the town offices.
- Retire and travel the world.
2007 – United States lottery Mega Millions set a new world record for the highest jackpot ever offered of US$390 million.
Movies I can watch again and again
Last year I participated in a March Movie Madness game. This year’s game will be played with comedies. My husband and I will be choosing the movies together (he may not know that yet). I hope I do better this year than last. I think I was in the bottom 3.
In no particular order (except the one I thought of them in):
- The Muppet Movie
- Say Anything
- A Fish Called Wanda
- Two Brothers
- Gosford Park
- Romeo + Juliet
- Mulan
- Shrek
- Finding Nemo
- Monty Python’s Holy Grail
- Sweet Home Alabama
- Princess Diaries
- Legally Blonde
A list of things about me right now
- I have been married 5 1/2 years.
- I don’t have any children…yet.
- I have a cat named Orlando.
- I teach computer skills and reading to elementary school kids.
- I live in the town I grew up in.
- I like to knit dishcloths.
- I teach Sunday School.
- I love LOST, Heros, and Big Brother.
- I am overweight.
- I am sick and tired of snow.
On March 1, 1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.