Ahhh, turkey day! With this day coming up, I am reminded that I need to find that Adam Sandler song! And make an apple pie tonight in prep for turkey day down in Klamath Falls as long as we can get by the snowy, snowy pass. I'm excited to get out of town and hopefully enjoy the snow and get some winter activities in (like snowshoeing, snowball fights, board games). Finally my fav time of the year is here when we can eat, drink, be merry, and get in the holiday spirit! I can bring out my Christmas music and decorations and drink hot cocoa EVERYDAY because I can. And of course, watch my favorite Christmas movies. But, I was think I would ask anyone in the blogosphere - what are your favorite Christmas movies? Me, here are my selections:
-White Christmas
-While you were sleeping
-Love Actually
-Christmas Vacation
-Home Alone (1 and 2)
-Miracle on 34th Street (both versions)
-and every once in awhile, It's a Wonderful Life
**please offer your suggestions too!**
I am excited to make cookies, have people over, maybe be crafty and just be happy. I'm sad that December is only one month long (and that it's filling up quite quickly!). Anyone interested?
Have a wonderful Turkey day tomorrow with you and yours!
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
nice knockers
I swear, when you miss a few days of work, you really really really don't want to go back. Especially when there is so much to catch up on and you have millions of teenagers begging for their papers back that I received this morning.
[Except I am the coolest teacher ever because I'm showing Young Frankenstein. Yeah, you KNOW you want to be in my class - come on!]
Being back at school even made me forget about the horrendous experience of trying to cancel a gym membership I was duped into signing up for and now cannot break because I didn't go to the gym 12 times in one month. So now I am being punished for 3 years.....mmm, I love people who like to confuse you and then tell you there is nothing you can do. Oooh, I'm getting all hot and bothered thinking about it. Luckily I have a couple of other people who are hot and bothered and trying to help me do something too, so that hopefully it will all get solved!
On a side note, Gene Wilder is just perfection. His lilting voice, his subtle but humorous demeanor, his craziness - ahhh, gotta love that. And I always loves me a good double entendre every once in awhile!
[Except I am the coolest teacher ever because I'm showing Young Frankenstein. Yeah, you KNOW you want to be in my class - come on!]
Being back at school even made me forget about the horrendous experience of trying to cancel a gym membership I was duped into signing up for and now cannot break because I didn't go to the gym 12 times in one month. So now I am being punished for 3 years.....mmm, I love people who like to confuse you and then tell you there is nothing you can do. Oooh, I'm getting all hot and bothered thinking about it. Luckily I have a couple of other people who are hot and bothered and trying to help me do something too, so that hopefully it will all get solved!
On a side note, Gene Wilder is just perfection. His lilting voice, his subtle but humorous demeanor, his craziness - ahhh, gotta love that. And I always loves me a good double entendre every once in awhile!
Friday, November 10, 2006
things I just shouldn't do, but I do...
*Keep food in the refridgerator, like cottage cheese, pancake batter, pureed pumpkin in the tin can, and lettuce, WAY too long which forces me to plug my nose and smell the aroma of the rotten food whilst dumping it all down the drain and then have to rinse out the containers, because you gotta recycle!
*Kick the restart button on the computer in the middle of typing and think, what? What did I do? Does the computer hate me? What?
*Whilst cooking chicken in a pan with a handle and then placing said pan in the oven for further cooking because the recipe told me to, and after taking chicken pan out safely with a towel (because oven mitts apparently to me are pussies), touching the handle when trying to scoop out the chicken producing a burn on my hand worthy of medicine. Dinner was delicious, yet the remainder of the night I felt the throb of pain from my g.d. ring finger. Hmm, maybe it's sign that I burned my left ring finger a few days before the anniversary. Or maybe I should heed the advice -hot, don't touch with bare hands!
**And yes, I did do all those things in the past 24 hours. What will I do today? Ahh, the possibilities are endless!
*Kick the restart button on the computer in the middle of typing and think, what? What did I do? Does the computer hate me? What?
*Whilst cooking chicken in a pan with a handle and then placing said pan in the oven for further cooking because the recipe told me to, and after taking chicken pan out safely with a towel (because oven mitts apparently to me are pussies), touching the handle when trying to scoop out the chicken producing a burn on my hand worthy of medicine. Dinner was delicious, yet the remainder of the night I felt the throb of pain from my g.d. ring finger. Hmm, maybe it's sign that I burned my left ring finger a few days before the anniversary. Or maybe I should heed the advice -hot, don't touch with bare hands!
**And yes, I did do all those things in the past 24 hours. What will I do today? Ahh, the possibilities are endless!
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
random...
It's amazing how one thing can consume your life to the point of saturation and then you can't "dry out" so to speak. Last year at this very time, I was saturated with wedding preparations. My parents were in town, more family was starting to arrive and I was planning what my students were going to do for the next 6 days while I got married and went away on the blissful honeymoon (aka wedding detox time).
Right now life is pretty similar sans the whole wedding prep - I'm taking off two days for work (one for Jury Duty and one for fun) and I have to prepare for those days. Along with that I hatched the brilliant idea to have 4 of my classes have papers due next week which means I have to correct or peruse 4 sets of rough drafts (which I did in two days thankyouverymuch). Also, I have to prepare for my next units and start to grade the rest of the stack of papers. All while maintaining a Yearbook deadline of November 20th with a group that is a tad disinterested or rather oblivious to the ramifications of NOT getting pages done or having enough pictures, etc. Yearbook is a time to socialize and finish up other homework, right? [to me, the slave driver, the answer is wrong!]
I did finish everything I needed to do tonight so I'm ready to drop off rough drafts at school tomorrow before I head downtown for Jury Duty. Sick huh? I swear, I feel like a slave to those kids.
Thank goodness we are going away for 2 days this weekend and I can forget it all for awhile......we're heading up to Seattle and actually staying in a hotel downtown (Hotel Max, http://www.hotelmaxseattle.com/). I'm so excited to be downtown in a city and just act like a tourist and such. Although it may rain, I'm still looking forward to storming the city with zeal! Hopefully this mini-break will give me a fresh outlook and I can return rejuvenated for the rest of the holiday season, really the best part of the year. I'm yearning for days of reading, journalling and enjoying. With a bit a school and grading mixed in.
Right now life is pretty similar sans the whole wedding prep - I'm taking off two days for work (one for Jury Duty and one for fun) and I have to prepare for those days. Along with that I hatched the brilliant idea to have 4 of my classes have papers due next week which means I have to correct or peruse 4 sets of rough drafts (which I did in two days thankyouverymuch). Also, I have to prepare for my next units and start to grade the rest of the stack of papers. All while maintaining a Yearbook deadline of November 20th with a group that is a tad disinterested or rather oblivious to the ramifications of NOT getting pages done or having enough pictures, etc. Yearbook is a time to socialize and finish up other homework, right? [to me, the slave driver, the answer is wrong!]
I did finish everything I needed to do tonight so I'm ready to drop off rough drafts at school tomorrow before I head downtown for Jury Duty. Sick huh? I swear, I feel like a slave to those kids.
Thank goodness we are going away for 2 days this weekend and I can forget it all for awhile......we're heading up to Seattle and actually staying in a hotel downtown (Hotel Max, http://www.hotelmaxseattle.com/). I'm so excited to be downtown in a city and just act like a tourist and such. Although it may rain, I'm still looking forward to storming the city with zeal! Hopefully this mini-break will give me a fresh outlook and I can return rejuvenated for the rest of the holiday season, really the best part of the year. I'm yearning for days of reading, journalling and enjoying. With a bit a school and grading mixed in.
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