What In Tarnation?!?!?

From Bene

Your Blog Should Be Blue

Your blog is a peaceful, calming force in the blogosphere. You tend to avoid conflict - you’re more likely to share than rant. From your social causes to cute pet photos, your life is a (mostly) open book.

Class dismissed!

From Spare Change. Not sure about the ALL CAPS formatting but here we go:

1. WHAT COLOR PANTS ARE YOU WEARING RIGHT NOW? Blue denim.
2. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? The most recent Cinecast Podcast with a review of Serenity which I WILL BE SEEING VERY SOON! (Had to keep with the ALL CAPS formatting.) It is a very positive review BTW.
3. SOUPS OR SALAD? If it is a good Caeser or Italian salad, I go with that, otherwise, the soup.
4. WHAT’S THE LAST THING YOU ATE? A slice of pumpkin pie.
5. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?
   
   

   You are

   What Rejected Crayon Are You?

6. WEATHER RIGHT NOW? Overcast and it is currently my favorite temperature: 61 F!
7. LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? A teacher with (suprise) a tech problem.
8. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT YOU THIS? I went and got it.
9. HOW ARE YOU TODAY? I am blessed and tired just a bit but I got home before 5:30.
10. FAVORITE DRINK? Sweet tea
11. FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM? St. Louis Cardinals
12. EYE COLOR? Blue. Steely blue.
13. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? Every other month. Not right now.
14. SIBLINGS AND THEIR AGES? Eric… 23.
15. FAVORITE FOOD? I will second Bryan: a good thick steak
16. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? Flightplan, which I very much enjoyed. It had a Panic Room feel to it. B+
17. FAVORITE DAY OF THE YEAR? Today.
18. ARE YOU TOO SHY TO ASK SOMEONE OUT? Sure
19. SUMMER OR WINTER? Fall
20. RELATIONSHIPS OR ONE NIGHT STANDS? not this question again. Pthpt.
21. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA? Chocolate
22. DO YOU WANT YOUR FRIENDS TO WRITE BACK? Write back to what?
23. WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? To what?
24. LEAST LIKELY? Least likely what?
25. LIVING ARRANGEMENT: Apartment
26. WHAT BOOK(S) ARE YOU CURRENTLY READING? What is Reformed Theology?, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, White, i-Safe Curriculum Guide
27. Name as it appears on birth certificate: There are some people who would love to know…
28. Number of candles on your last birthday cake: 27
29. Pets: A nice rock
30. Piercing: I accidently stapled my finger today…
31. Tattoos: I got blue overhead marker all over my hands today…
32. Hometown: Sullivan, MO
33. Town you live in: Rolla, MO
34. Have you ever been to Africa? no
35. Croutons or bacon bits? Both, unless either is fake. Then, the other. If both are fake, I’ll have the soup.
36. Favorite day of the week: Sunday.
37. Favorite restaurant: Asked and answered, do a search in the handy little searchy box somewhere to the right.
38. Favorite sport to watch: Poker
39. Favorite ice cream flavor: The one that I am eating at the present
40. Favorite fast food restaurant: Subway
41. What color is your bedroom carpet? Gray or steely blue.
42. How many times did you fail your driver’s test? 0
43. Before this one, who did you get your last e-mail from? I got this off a blog. The last e-mail I got was from TiVo.
44. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? I don’t have a credit card, however, if I did it would be at the Apple Store.
45. Favorite place to vacation: Where’s the next mission trip?
46. Last person you went out to dinner with: Probably part of the Cranium Leakage gang.
47. What is your favorite snack food? I don’t really snack
48. Favorite outdoor activity? Recess duty. No, I really do like it.
49. Favorite indoor activity? Hmmm….
50. Time you finished this e-mail? For the last time, this is a blog entry. And what happened to the ALL CAPS? 7:22 pm

Your answers?

Class dismissed!

I made it my goal this week to be away from school everyday this week before 7 pm. It has become a very tiring getting away from work at 8, 9, and 10 pm at night. It makes for a long day.

I was able to reach my goal on Monday but I failed tonight. Between a 3 hour meeting after school and getting sub plans together for tomorrow, I didn’t get away until 10. Maybe it wasn’t a good week to start my goal.

Every week I tell myself that the next week will get better and I will be able to settle in but each week is the same as the last.

So yeah, I am whining a little bit, thank you for the indulgence.

I will have a couple of reviews up for the new TV season, as soon as I get to actually watch them. Thank you TiVo!

Class dismissed!

Update: DANGNABIT! I forgot to program the Amazing Race. Poop. Maybe the TiVo recorded it by itself. Or maybe Pressed did. Or maybe I can find it and download it off the Internet via BitTorrent,

Happy Johnny Appleseed Day. John Chapman was born on this day in 1774. (Read more about the significance of the day here.)

The teacher that I team teach with told me last week that the other third grade classes where going to be making applesauce and a few other activities and she asked me if I wanted to team up and do something. (We have learned in the past that if we team up we can do twice the amount of stuff in the same amount of time.) My response: “I’m a lemming, where’s the ledge?”

So today our classes were apple cooking freaks. Not only did we cook up not one, not two, but three crock pots of applesauce, one crock pot of apple butter, a great big pan of apple crisp and 70 mini apple turnovers. It was pretty fun and we used a ton of apples. Plus, the smell was pretty great and we got to eat when we were finished.

Hope you had such a tasty Johnny Appleseed Day!

Class dismissed!

From Sisters’ Weblog:

Rules:

1. Go into your archive.
2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.

Here’s mine:

With exception of my mistakes, it went off without any technical problems, which is rare.

This is in reference to a Mother’s Day PowerPoint presentation (oh remember those days) that I put together. This post doesn’t reside on this server so here is the complete text:

May 12, 2002
Mother’s Day
I hope that everyone had a good Mother’s Day! Mine was busy but good. I was in charge of putting together a PowerPoint for church with the senior adult mothers in the church. Finding music and scripture was tough but it all worked out. With the exception of my mistakes it went off without any technical problems, which is rare.

How was your Mother’s Day? Tell me when you comment on this lesson.

Mr. W, out!

Posted by Christopher at May 12, 2002 10:00 PM

Comments
My mother’s day was very good. We took mom to Du Kum Inn for lunch. Church was busy with all that was going on. I thought that everything went very well.

Posted by: Michael Morgan on May 13, 2002 03:53 PM

Well my Mom’s day was great considering I don’t have any kids, and my mom was all alone on Mother’s Day for the first time ever. A sarcastic “yey” for going to college so far away. Oh- Mom said she really enjoyed the Mother’s Day service at church. Hats off to you, Chris-py Cream.

Posted by: Erin on May 20, 2002 01:38 PM

Gee, my post were bunches shorter back in the day.

Class dismissed!

From e-mail:

TEACHER: Maria, go to the map and find North America.
MARIA: Here it is.
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America?
CLASS: Maria.
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TEACHER: Why are you late, Frank?
FRANK: Because of the sign..
TEACHER: What sign?
FRANK: The one that says, “School Ahead, Go Slow.”
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TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.
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TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell “crocodile?”
GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L
TEACHER: No, that’s wrong.
GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.
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TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
DONALD: H I J K L M N O.
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
DONALD: Yesterday you said it’s H to O.
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TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have to day that we didn’t have ten years ago.
WINNIE: Me!
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TEACHER: Glen, why do you always get so dirty?
GLEN Well, I’m a lot closer to the ground than you are.
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TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with “I.”
MILLIE: I is. . .
TEACHER: No, Millie….. Always say, “I am.”
MILLIE: All right… “I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.”
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TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father’s cherry tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father didn’t punish him?
LOUIS: Because George still had the ax in his hand.
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TEACHER: Simon, do you say prayers before eating?
SIMON: No sir, I don’t have to, my Mom is a good cook.
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TEACHER: Clyde, your composition on “My Dog” is exactly the same as your brother’s. Did you copy his?
CLYDE: No, teacher, it’s the same dog.
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TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
HAROLD: A teacher

Ouch!

Class dismissed!

This morning, thousands of students and adults are meeting around flagpoles. They have one purpose. Prayer. The cool thing about prayer is that you can do it anywhere. It is like the perfect “Can you hear me now?” commercial. So today at WIT?!?!? we are going to have a See You at the Computer (SYATC). Feel free to leave a prayer in the comments.

• Intro
• Where in the world in Michael? Let’s call him!
• Intermission
• We woke Michael
• Craig shares some big news with Michael
• Congratulations
• Awkward moment of silence
• Michael’s Cool List
• Michael tries to go back to sleep
• Details about the big announcement
• The Melting Pot
• Don’t drop it!
• Send your well wishes
• Hacked… by a hacker
• At least it wasn’t p0rn0
• Lower car and gas payment
• Episode 13
• Feedback and a winner
• Fifth Anniversary Bash
• The Cool List
• Contact Us!
• Pretty, pretty princess
• They ate the wedding party
• Here comes the music!
• Well, bye!

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Originally recorded September 18, 2005
38:23
27 MB