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College Week Pretend Photo
From Sarah over on Confessions. It’s college week at my elementary school right now, and there are different ways we’re supposed to promote this. (Like wearing your college hat, sporting your college colors, etc.)This is a problem because I don’t … Continue reading
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Around Town
From Sarah over on Confessions. Some things going on around our town these days:*As of Monday, we’re down in the double digits as our highs. After MONTHS of walking the dog in 88 degrees at 6 in the morning – … Continue reading
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Oh how pinteresting!
From Sarah over on Confessions. If you haven’t yet discovered Pinterest for yourself, let me introduce you! It’s a way to virtually pin your favorite finds around the internet – you can use it to organize favorite recipes, decorate your … Continue reading
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(accidentally) free starbucks
From Sarah over on Confessions. It all started on the last day of school. My cooperating general education teacher gave me a $10 Starbucks gift card to thank me for all of my help this year. It was totally sweet … Continue reading
I got a boo-boo
From Sarah over on Confessions. Kids want band-aids for everything. Every bump, scrape, bruise, or imaginary injury needs a band-aid STAT. I can’t count the number of times a student will come up to me to show me their boo-boo… … Continue reading
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and… cue all the teachers drooling
From Sarah over on Confessions. Wait a minute, hold the phones! A new classroom product has hit the shelves, and I neeeeeed it!Behold: Crayola Dry Erase Crayons! Yes, CRAYONS!The coolest part about them is that you actually need a cloth … Continue reading
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"bored" games
Are you bored yet?Sometimes it’s easy to get bored on vacation. I used to, but now I have too many hobbies to get bored! If you’re searching for things to do with family, there are always board games!Here are some of my favorites to play with family:Ap… Continue reading
for my next trick, i’ll show them ctrl-alt-delete
Every Tuesday we have a grade level planning meeting after school. I work with the first grade teachers, who are all lovely dears and a whole lot of fun to work with. Their computer skills, however? Not so up-to-date.
So I was showing them how to create a mock district math benchmark test on the computer. A sample test question may have two boxes – some with bunnies, some with dogs, and then they’ll ask you to bubble in which box has a greater number of animals. So I was doing a lot of formatting to get clipart into text boxes and such things as my colleagues looked on.
I didn’t realize just how little they knew about computer stuff until they got ALL EXCITED when I inserted a page break to create another new page (“You mean you can just start a new page whenever you want to?”). And they almost threw a celebration when I showed them Ctrl+A to highlight an entire document!
Who knew it would take so little to make me look so good?
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at least I didn’t get a spanking this time
One of my mom’s favorite stories about me from when I was little was the time that I was “back-talking” in the car. She was so upset, she pulled over to give me a swat. When she finished, she asked me: “Do you know why you got a spanking?” “Yes,” I said tearfully, “because I was talking backwards!”
It’s one thing to talk back to your mother, but it’s another thing to talk back to a security officer.
Like yesterday. I had to go downtown for a training. Unfortunately, each of our district’s various buildings are all in really bad parts of town. You know, the part of town where it’s not unusual to see shady looking characters drinking out of a paper bag, or the occasional drug deal go down.
Also? Parking is tricky…. especially when you have two GIANT crates of very heavy confidential folders you’ve been asked by your supervisor to drop by. So I decided to park in the closest lot, the one that I think is reserved for all the supervisors. I laboriously lugged up one crate of folders.
As I was carrying the second load, OBVIOUSLY struggling with each step and with each door, the security officer in the building stops me.
“Where did you park?” she demands. “Because if you parked in that lot over there, you’re not supposed to.”
And… I kinda snapped at her.
“LOOK! The only reason I parked over there was because I had to lug two huge crates up to the fifth floor. I’ll move my car when I’m good and ready!”
In my defense, though, I was in the middle of trying to juggle fifty pounds of paper, navigate around the crazies outside, and open the door without using my hands. I was a little too busy to be polite, uniform or not.
even writing this makes me want to throw up
I had no idea what to blog about today until I saw my most recent comment from Unicycle Rose. She wondered about the M&M story I referred to in passing in my previous post. So, go away Inspiration, I just got a writing prompt!
I was five years old and living in California. I don’t remember where we were going or why I was given M&Ms, but somehow I ended up sitting in the back of our station wagon. The back, as in behind the seats… in the storage space. With no seat belts. Because I guess in 1987 everyone wasn’t all hung up about children’s safety.
So there I was, peering out of the back windshield, eating my plain M&Ms and watching the traffic behind us. It was dark and I entertained myself by figuring out which side of the highway was going faster: the cars with the red lights stopped on the opposite side, or the cars with the white lights on our side.
I still hadn’t figured out who was winning when I suddenly got very carsick. And I was feeling quite uncomfortable with my belly full of plain M&Ms. I threw up before I could stop myself.
I don’t remember what happened next but I’m guessing that we had to pull over and mom probably got the fun job of cleaning me up.
And since that day, the very thought of plain M&Ms makes me want to vomit. Peanut ones? I love! Plain ones? Bleeecchhh.
Years later, my psychologist husband assures me that I’m not crazy (at least not in that sense!)… that I have developed what’s called: “learned taste aversion”.
So what foods make you want to barf?
