A- Attached or Single: Single
B- Best Friend: Joee
C- Cake or Pie: Cake
D- Day of Choice: Thursday... it's a great TV night, there's still time to look forward to the weekend (I think this all stems back to elementary school, when Thursdays were early out, we had library and music and not much else)
E- Essential Item: Diet Coke
F- Favorite Color: Red
G- Gummy bears or worms: Worms
H- Hometown: Midvale
I- Indulgence: books
J- January or July: July (one of the 3 reasons to be a teacher - June, July and August!)
K- Kids: just 27 little darlings, recently released into the wild world of summer
L- Life is incomplete without: chocolate
M- Marriage Date: in about 10 years or so
N- Number of Siblings: 1 sister, 1 cat, 1 dog
O- Oranges or Apples: Apples
P- Phobias or Fears: Spiders
Q- Quote: "If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats."
R- Ring size: 8
S- Season: summer
T- Time saver: driving really fast (ha ha)
U- Unknown Fact About Me: is there really anything unknown about me?
V- Very Favorite Store: Utah Idaho
W- Worst Habit: being lazy
X- X-ray or Ultra sound: at this point in life, neither if it can be avoided
Y- Your Favorite Food: Chinese (anything made by Miss Gong, my Chinese maid!)
Z- Zodiac: Scorpio
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Dreams or Nightmares?
Hoorah! School's out for summer!
Unfortunately, school will begin again before I know it. Friday night - my first night of fun and relaxation, my dreams (which I don't usually remember anyway) were about school. Saturday night - after a whole day of non-school thought - my dreams were about school. Hopefully, tonight will be different!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
One more...
What Type of Movie Would Your Life Be? | |
 | You life would be a Comedy. Most everything is all fun and games. It's difficult for you to be serious about almost anything, typically seeing the sillier side of things. While this is a great outlook on life, it also makes it difficult for people to take you seriously. However, people are attracted to that thing about you that makes them laugh so hard they pee in their pants (although they will never admit it). |
| Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com | |
Good results...
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader In Spelling? | |
 | You got 92% correct! You are a 5th Grader. You did it! You got them right! Be proud and don't be afraid to say "I am smarter than a 5th Grader!" Next stop...flaucinoccinihilipilification |
| Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com | |
Teaching at Hogwarts
Which Hogwarts Class Would You Teach? | |
 | You would teach Potions. You are a creative person. You're the type of person that could change a situtation around in a short matter of time. You are also artistic and when it comes to new ideas, you're the one everybody else turns to. |
| Find Your Character @ BrainFall.com | |
Monday, May 26, 2008
A stitch in time...
Mother's Day. Christine. In the kitchen. With a knife.
Yes, I am a dope. Yes, I know the difference between onions and my finger. Yes, I realize care should be taken when slicing food. And yet I managed to cut deep enough into my finger to end up needing stitches. Duh...
So. We were all helping cook and fixing fixin's for hamburgers for Mother's Day dinner. I was slicing onions, and sliced into my finger as well. It started gushing blood, so I took myself to the sink to take care of myself. It didn't really hurt, just was very inconvenient. I got a paper towel on the wound to stop the bleeding - hoping to see that it wasn't a deep wound after all. Mom and Holly finished making dinner, and I sat down to recover. After eating (a girl's got to have priorities, right?) it was determined that my lovely cut was deep enough to warrant a visit to the doctor, so off I went, taking Holly with me.
The Jazz game was on at the Instacare where I went, which provided some entertainment for Holly while I waited. Turns out that a Jazz player got stitches during the game as well - what a great connection between the two of us - ah! I had a cute nurse check me in, and a nice doctor to stitch me up. The stitches didn't hurt - I was even able to watch - but the tetanus shot was a killer! The Jazz game had 4 more seconds when I was finally done (we got there at the beginning of the 2nd quarter, I went back in the middle of halftime), and it was tied up, so we watched the last 4 seconds of regulation, and sped home to watch the Jazz beat the Lakers in overtime.
My kids at school were pretty awed at my large finger dressing. When I could take it off and sport just a bandaid and neosporin, we looked at it through the ProScope - very cool stuff.
I went back this last week to have them take my stitches out (I probably could have done it, but ew... I didn't really want to...). The same cute nurse who checked me in last time checked me in again, and took the stitches out. He remembered me being there to have them in. He did a fine job taking them out (really, I guess I could have done it... but again, ew...). He was worth going back anyway. Hee hee.
Yes, I am a dope. Yes, I know the difference between onions and my finger. Yes, I realize care should be taken when slicing food. And yet I managed to cut deep enough into my finger to end up needing stitches. Duh...
So. We were all helping cook and fixing fixin's for hamburgers for Mother's Day dinner. I was slicing onions, and sliced into my finger as well. It started gushing blood, so I took myself to the sink to take care of myself. It didn't really hurt, just was very inconvenient. I got a paper towel on the wound to stop the bleeding - hoping to see that it wasn't a deep wound after all. Mom and Holly finished making dinner, and I sat down to recover. After eating (a girl's got to have priorities, right?) it was determined that my lovely cut was deep enough to warrant a visit to the doctor, so off I went, taking Holly with me.
The Jazz game was on at the Instacare where I went, which provided some entertainment for Holly while I waited. Turns out that a Jazz player got stitches during the game as well - what a great connection between the two of us - ah! I had a cute nurse check me in, and a nice doctor to stitch me up. The stitches didn't hurt - I was even able to watch - but the tetanus shot was a killer! The Jazz game had 4 more seconds when I was finally done (we got there at the beginning of the 2nd quarter, I went back in the middle of halftime), and it was tied up, so we watched the last 4 seconds of regulation, and sped home to watch the Jazz beat the Lakers in overtime.
My kids at school were pretty awed at my large finger dressing. When I could take it off and sport just a bandaid and neosporin, we looked at it through the ProScope - very cool stuff.
I went back this last week to have them take my stitches out (I probably could have done it, but ew... I didn't really want to...). The same cute nurse who checked me in last time checked me in again, and took the stitches out. He remembered me being there to have them in. He did a fine job taking them out (really, I guess I could have done it... but again, ew...). He was worth going back anyway. Hee hee.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
4 days and counting...
Where did the school year go to? I know we were busy doing what we were supposed to be doing for the past 176 days... but really, where did it all go? The year really went by quickly, especially the last 5 weeks after our spring break (the last time I found the time to blog!).We've had a lovely time at school since testing. We dissected owl pellets (a very cool kind of gross...), have been working on scrapbooking our yearbooks (it's fun to see how creative the kids are... I'd bet many of my kids have moms who don't let their kids do their own scrapping, and the kids have done pretty nice jobs of their pages. Plus, I get to release some of my excess paper for the project - yay!), and have listened to the first Harry Potter book on CD (they like listening and have to stay pretty quiet to listen well - a bonus!)
I'm also busy packing up my room for my move down the hall to the fifth grade! I've known for a while, but didn't want to say anything until the end of the year, mostly for my own mindset - I needed to get through with the year with these kids at the forefront of my mind, not what I'll be doing in the fall. I haven't told my kids yet... so we'll see what they say this week when I do tell them. They might not care so much... but then once the rumors spread throughout the 3rd grade and the school, well, someone might care then. Hee hee. It'll be sad in some ways to leave 3rd grade. My team was great - Liz, Charlotte, Bobbi, and Ryan. Liz and Charlotte are staying, Ryan's moving up the 5th grade, and Bobbi is leaving to teach 6th grade at another school. I've spent a lot of time working on things for 3rd grade. But I am excited for the challenge of new curriculum and using the technology they got from a grant last year - laptops, a projector, digital cameras, document handlers... right up my alley! Well... more next week when I am less pressed for time - yay!
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