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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
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7:08 pm - OMG
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I just finished reading Eclipse!!
Breaking Dawn has its work cut out for it if I'm expected to land on Team Edward. How can you NOT be on Team Jacob?!?!
AHHHHHH!!!!!!!
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| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
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9:45 pm - recent events
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WOOO for Thanksgiving break!!
Friday, after school, I headed up to DFW for Autumn's 1st bday!! We spent the afternoon at the FW Zoo, which was a pretty nice zoo! Lots of animals were out, and we even saw/heard the lion roaring! There was also a really cute rhino playing with a ball, pushing it around, 'picking it up' by smushing it against the wall, and later we saw him taking a bath!! The hippos were also taking a swim when we went by. Pretty cool to actually see some animals being active. :)
I started reading Eclipse up there (Saturday night while people were watching the UT game), and continued reading a LOT on Monday. I'm over half way done, but haven't done any reading today.
Today I've had quite the busy day. I met Carolin and Belinda for lunch (was sooooo good!! I can't wait to eat my leftovers!), and then we went to see New Moon. Loved it!! I am SO undecided as to whose team I'm going to end up on! I do think I love movie!Edward more than book!Edward. He's always so calm and quiet; I love the quiet. :) But I do love Jacob too! So still no decision from me.
~ After that, I went over to Jenn's to watch the AMAs that she had recorded for me. Then I stopped at Walgreens to stock up on things like deodorant and feminine items (I like to buy those kinds of things a lot at a time; you know you're going to need it eventually). Got some other stuff too, like toothpaste, shampoo and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Then I got home and played on the computer for a little while, and then watched Biggest Loser. Which brings us to now. And which means I haven't done any reading today. Things are starting to blur together now, since I have Eclipse and New Moon floating around in my head...
( the little birthday girl, and 6 of my gkids (plus my friend Adrienne) all in one pic without having to force them into it! (caught them on the sly) )
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| Monday, November 16th, 2009
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7:37 pm - the news i didn't say last wednesday
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I'm gonna be an auntie!! A real one, instead of godmother/faux-aunt. Not that I don't love that too, but this will be my first godmother/real aunt!
We were supposed to not be saying anything until they went to the doctor. My brother wouldn't believe it until the doctor deemed it so. Boys...
Baby is due on July 2! Maybe (s)he'll hold on til the 5th and we could have the same bday! And if it comes on the 4th, I won't be held accountable for my actions. Lol.
YAY! BABY!!!
This also means I'll be flying next summer. EEK.
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| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
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5:43 pm - new hair
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| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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9:10 pm - i have a headache, and here's a random update
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Writer's Block: If you were close to death, what would you choose for your last words? To whom would you want to say them?
At this point in time, I know exactly what I would say and exactly who I would say it to. Unfortunately, good people of LJ, you don't get to know. Because I am not near death. Also, these words are subject to change at my whim.
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Still can't find those cds. Although I probably should do my fair share of the looking instead of leaving it all to Tony.
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I'm guessing tonight's Biggest Loser was shot in early July, just after Michael's memorial. I don't know this, but they were at the circus, which was moving into the Staples Center for the day after his memorial. Fyi, I'm not happy about the red line thing, but I am happy with how the vote-off went.
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Today at school, we (4th grade team) had a meeting from 1:15-3:15. During the meeting, the AP was called out. 2 of Carolin's kids, who were in my room at the time, so I feel slightly response and very embarrassed by their behavior, were in the office!! And the aide that was in my room left a note with like 7 names on it!!! UGH!!
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Also, today I got my hair cut!!
current music: let me be myself ~ 3 doors down (you know, from the geico commercials)
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| Sunday, November 8th, 2009
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9:32 pm - can't find...
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Saint Anthony, Saint Anthony,
Please come down.
My cds are lost
And can't be found.
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1:17 pm - the past few days
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Last Thursday, we had 'Family Reading Night' at school from 5:30-7, which meant I had almost a 12 hour day. And guess how many kids showed up that evening? Personally, I had one. Well worth it, wouldn't you say? I guess the point is to make the opportunities available more so than how many actually come, but still. It makes it feel like a big waste of my time and our resources (considering we had to have take-home activities and such, which means spending money on all those copies).
I tried to do a little reading that evening, but I was worn out from having to be at work that long! I put the book down at 9:40 and was out like a light. Later, my phone rang, and I swore it was like 2am, but it turned out it was only 9:50!! As I said, I was hardcore asleep after that day!
Friday evening, I went over to Jenn's house to watch Survivor (since I missed it due to Reading Night) and I was playing with Evan and his pants were shifting down and covering his entire foot so he was sliding a little on the tile. One time that he got close enough for me to reach him, I pulled his pants up for him. Here comes the cute part! He said something akin to 'gank goo jess' OMG I just melted. Like, how do babies even know when it's appropriate to say that?! It's amazing. :)
Yesterday, I went to the Aeros game with a group of kids from school. Several of our elementaries got their 'choirs' together and sang during one of the breaks in the game. Going to that meant that I missed watching the UH game. A check of facebook after I got home told me that it was yet another nail-biter-heart-attack-inducing game. Now I'm sad that I didn't stay home to watch. Stupid kids from school! :) But the Aeros game was good time. I've been a few times, and it's always fun. I must do that more frequently.
And this brings us to today. Today, I am lounging in pj pants. I'll probably take a nap at some point. And do a little reading. I had told myself that I was going to read Eclipse after the New Moon movie comes out. Right now, I'm rereading New Moon. But the thought occurred to me the other day that it actually sucks to read something after you see the movies, because the actors become more ingrained in your mind and the characters become more like the actors as you read. So, since I won't be seeing New Moon when it comes out anyway (I'll be in Dallas that weekend), I'm thinking I'm going to read Eclipse and Breaking Dawn before I go see it. Not that I don't already see stupid Kristen Stewart when I read, but perhaps the characters will be able to morph somewhat into how I see them instead of what Hollywood has given me. ALSO, then I can decide once and for all whose team I'm on. :)
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| Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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6:14 pm - fandango, grrr!!
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Fandango, you are pissing me off!!
Why would you tell me to go to fandango to rate something I recently saw, and then when I click the link, you already provide my email in the space provided, but when I type my password, tell me that that email/password combination doesn't exist?!?! Obviously, that's the email I used when I registered, because you're emailing me at that address. And the password could be only 1 of 2 things, and you won't accept either one!!
BOOOO-URNS to you, Fandango!!
current music: sunset driver ~ mj
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| Sunday, November 1st, 2009
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5:26 pm - this is it
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I saw This Is It twice, yes twice, this weekend. I just got back from seeing it the second time. It was really nice to see Michael in his own element and brilliant as ever, strong, powerful, creative, funny, soft and sensitive. Genius. Amazing voice, even in rehearsals. Amazing dancing. My heart simply breaks for him and aches with the loss of him. Kills me to see him as a child or hear him sing old songs. Such perfection even then, and such potential with his life before him. Kinda painful to see him in the months/weeks before his death. What happened to him (through the years and at the end)... was such a waste. Those responsible for his drug problems should be held accountable. I don't understand how a person can exploit another person like that, especially when you're a doctor and you've taken an oath to help people, not to mention the others in his life to do so.
Better stop before this turns into a rant instead of praise for Michael's final show.
♥
current music: this is it ~ mj
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| Saturday, October 24th, 2009
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8:25 am - nothing exciting to report... just checking in
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Boooo on this cold front that came through!!
Today is game day, baby! Go coogs!! *paw
Last night we had a random power outage for almost 4 hours. 6:30ish to 10ish. However, after the hurricane last year, my parents bought a generator. So, we made it through. Still, wth? Parts of my family heard something blow just a few minutes before I got home. Then my brother was on his way over, and he said he saw them working on it and watched them blow out something else. We had all heard the something else blow too. Fun times. Just like the Amish in Pittsylvania.
current music: i wanna kiss a girl ~ keith urban
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| Monday, October 19th, 2009
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7:31 pm - 101 (#88)
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88. Go to a corn maze
So on Saturday, a group of us went out to Dewberry Farms and got lost in their corn maze. Turns out, that place has tons of things you can do on a day of family fun. Definitely some place to go back to during the day, especially if you have kids that need to be entertained. So maybe it'll be several years before I go back there, but still, it's worth remembering.
~ The maze was nothing too exciting. Personally I think just having a separate entrance and exit would've made it a bit more interesting, but it appeared as though you entered, got lost, and found your way back to the entrance in order to exit. Along the way, there were little signs where you were supposed to 'color' a finger (maybe at some point they contained finger paints?) and when you got out, you matched them up to a board and completed a task. They were silly little things like 'act like a monkey' or 'laugh like a hyena'. According to the board, you were supposed to 'perform for your family!' :) We only found 4 of the colors and just pretended the last color would be on whatever finger we had remaining. Then again, we were pretending all along as there was nothing to color with. That gave a purpose to the maze, at least. :) Anyways, it was a good evening of wholesome, childish fun. Some of us want to go to a different, haunted one sometime in the next few weeks. :)
( pics at the maze )
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| Sunday, October 11th, 2009
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11:17 pm - online shopping/returns
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So a while back, I had bought some black shoes at Target and also wanted the same pair in tan. I had to order the tan ones online. When they arrived, they felt smaller for some reason. All the shoes have just been sitting in their boxes since then. Well, earlier today, I took them out. Put on the black ones. They felt ok. Put on the tan ones. They felt tighter. I matched up a tan with a brown, bottom to bottom, and the tan one was shorter. Smartie that I am, I then looked at the sizes. The blacks were size 6. I ordered the tans in a size 6. I was given a right shoe that is a size 6 and a left shoe that is a size 5 1/2. Seriously. Lol!
But I just went to target.com/returns, and they don't have an exchange policy. Basically, I'd have to take the shoes to a store to return them, and then reorder the shoes. Which means I'd have to pay for shipping again! What a rip off!! I'm a little annoyed right now! When I originally clicked on my reason for the return (too small), it allowed me to type in more explaining the situation. Then when it offered me the return choices (to a store {and again, I'd have to reorder and pay shipping again], post office {send them back and the cost will be deducted from my refund, and then reorder, etc} or self return {I'd have to pay to send them back, then reorder and pay to have them shipped to me} ), it says 'Because your return is not the result of our error...' Seriously?! It is your fault, target.com!!! No fair!!
current mood:  annoyed
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| Friday, October 2nd, 2009
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9:00 pm - sick :(
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So on Wednesday, as I was leaving work, I was feeling a lil bit sneezy and was just thinking it was the onset of allergies. I made a hair appointment for Friday and went home to take a Benadryl. I went to bed at like 8:30.
On Thursday, I had tons of sinus pressure (hate when it's in my teeth!) and congestion and was freezing all day long. Still wasn't sure. The coldness might've been because my classroom is like an ice cube. But I drove home with no AC on and was still cold. Plus achy. Plus sneezy and drippy and stuffy all at the same time. I took my temp and had 100.0 fever. I can't even remember the last time I actually had a fever!!! And I was still debating on if I should call into work for today. But after about an hour, I did. Couldn't get a sub I wanted so I just put it in the system. Emailed my partner so she could print out some directions for whoever showed up. Canceled my hair appointment (sads).
I've been laying around all day and I still feel like crap. I'd had OJ. I've had soup. I've slept a whole lot. The fever has gone up and down and done all sorts of crazy things, and I'm wondering how long this is supposed to last.
Also, side note. At about 4:30 in the morning, as that storm was above us, my doggie decided to come paw at my bed. I tried to get her to jump up, but she wouldn't. Which meant she needed or wanted to go outside. Seriously. With the rain and the thunder and lightning? She didn't believe me though. I actually had to take her to the door and open the door for her to see it. Then she backed up like uh uh I'm not going out in that! Silly.
current mood:  sick
current music: yippe ki yay mini sirloin burgers
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| Monday, September 28th, 2009
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6:31 pm - haaay!
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I'm trying to post more often instead of letting things build up and then pass me by and they never get written about. It's kinda sad when stuff happens and I'm like "I'm gonna write about that!" but after a few days of me not getting around to it, the feeling wears off. So, I gotta be more on the ball.
Friday, I was at work til 7 and was near tears by the time I was leaving. It's hard to decide how I really feel about staying late, because staying late sucks, but it also means I take nothing home with me. But I was in a mood last Friday.
Today, I left at about 5:50, but no mood today. I felt quite productive! (I was quite productive on Friday, but even so, mood.) I went through my gradebook and pulled missing assignments for kids and clipboarded everything up so it's all in one place. Now during silent reading, or when they finish the current day's work, they can get their clipboard and start working on stuff they either didn't finish on time or were absent for. Yay! I'm the world's worst at having kids do their unfinished or make-up work!! The worst! So hopefully I'll keep up with this now and they'll get stuff done.
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| Sunday, September 27th, 2009
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2:39 pm - jury duty
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Last Thursday I had jury duty. It was quite the upgrade in adventure compared to the other time I went and just sat in the freezing assembly room all day. This time, I was in the second set of numbers that they call for the first group of people. We went downstairs and numbered up. Then we tunneled around, went through a metal detector, tunneled some more, and finally arrived outside a court room. We renumbered, which put me as juror 8. We entered the courtroom, and I was pretty smilie. Dorkily enough, I was pretty excited. I was hoping I'd come across a Jordan-McAfee-type lawyer, but no. :( Anyways, the whole time we were being questioned, I just sat their quietly. I had no previous experiences with any of the things they were talking about. It was some oil and gas company that had sued another company and the other company was countersuing them back. They were asking about the oil and gas industry, independant contracting, different kinds of contracts, real property... I had no clue. Which sorta had me thinking, great I'm completely unbiased and they'll pick me. When the judge asked for scheduling conflicts (as this case would last at least 2 weeks), one of the other jurors ahead of me, who was a teacher, went on and on about math benchmarks that she's in charge of and parent conferences and missing 2 weeks and not being confident about talking parents if she's missing that time and being 'very concerned' (which she said like 3 times) about all of this. Which I thought was ridiculous after the judge had said there was pretty much no work related reason that you'd be excused from the case. I hadn't been planning on saying anything, but since she said that, I did raise my hand and say 'Since the other teacher mentioned it, I also have parent conferences the week of Oct 5-9' But that's all I said, I didn't go on and on. And further down the line, one of the other jurors who I didn't like too much, who's in education but I don't get the feeling she's an actual teacher (she had raised her hand about contracts and other stuff and piecing it together has me rolling my eyes at her), she said she had a field trip scheduled on Oct 9 to the science museum. Please. Are you freaking kidding me?
~ Anyways, they ushered us all out for about 30 minutes and when we came back in, they told us who was chosen. They picked 4 people in front of me, which had me a little panicked, and then skipped over me and kept going. Whew!
~ So, to sum up, jury duty can be a very interesting process, who knew?!
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| Friday, September 25th, 2009
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11:10 pm - where the wild things are
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| Thursday, September 17th, 2009
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8:22 pm - long time no type, 101 (#54)
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Hello LJ. Sorry for the delay. I have been stopping by each night and seeing what's up with everyone else. Just been too tired to sit down and talk about what I've been up to or not up to.
Now, to see if I actually write about things that have been going on, or if this ends up being quite pointless...
Ok seriously. Locked post coming up. Lol.
Alright so anyway... yeah, stuff has been happening since last I've posted, but none of it has gotten posted, and yeah, I don't feel like it anymore. It's just been school junk and what not. Oh, here's a pic of my scrapbook page - one of our ice breakers the week before school started was to make a scrapbook page; they'll all be compiled in a scrapbook for the office coffee table. ( picture pages, picture pages! (ok, it's just the one page, and it's really more of a [scrapbook] page picture) )
Ok, now I'm editing and adding more to this. Because some things have popped into my mind that I'm thinking 'oh yeah, I could tell about that'.
54. Babysit for Jenn once a month
Last Saturday, I watched the kids while Corey worked and Jenn was away down in Gtown for a scrapbooking weekend. We had good times. We chalked up the back porch. And also, last Thursday night when I stopped over, I thought I was hearing Evan calling me his version of "Aunt Jess", and sure enough on Saturday, Corey was like 'Did you hear him saying Aunt Jess?' :D It's totally cute.
Also, we're doing a mentoring program at school this year, starting with kids who failed TAKS and also with a few lower grade behavioral problem kids thrown in. I have a 5th grade girl (TAKS failer) and a 2nd grade boy. He's actually been on my watch list. I had his older brother my second year, and I had been waiting for another older brother and him to get to 2nd grade. The year the other brother was coming to 2nd was last year, when they moved me up to 4th. This one, I had already been trying to build a repoire with back when he was in kinder. Wow, I just went back and found some old posts about older brother and can't believe the things I'd forgotten. I guess this one is just like OB. I was thinking this one was worse. Ain't it great the way your mind can block all the terrible stuff right out? Anyways, suffice to say, these kids have a special place in my heart, as much as you want to kill them when they're right in front of you. :D
current music: picture pages, picture pages, lots of fun with picture pages
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| Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
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9:29 pm - mj xword puzzle
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Today's xword puzzle at chron.com was titled "The Thriller is Gone" and had a bunch of MJ songs in it. :)
current music: got to be there ~ jackson5
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| Monday, September 7th, 2009
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9:51 pm - into the wild
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So, in the beginning of August, I watched this movie Into the Wild about this kid who graduates from college, gives his entire savings to charity and travels around the country, heading towards his ultimate goal of spending time in the Alaskan wilderness.
It was a slow moving, but beautiful movie.
Then a couple of weeks ago, I saw the book at B&N, on one of the high school 'required reading' tables. I picked it up, and it was far from as wonderful as the movie. It hopped around too much and the author spent 2 chapters telling about his own adventures in Alaska. Like we care?
Today at McDonald's, I saw some presumably HS kids with the book. If I were the social type, I would've struck up a conversation, or told them the movie was better or whatever. But I guess they're 'required' to read it, so it's not like they could just go out and watch the movie instead. :)
Anyways... if, for any reason whatsoever, this meager little post has intrigued anyone, may I suggest watching the movie, not reading the book. Gasp! This and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory are the only two movies I can think of (at the moment at least) that are better than the books.
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| Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
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6:41 pm - compliment
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