What In Tarnation?!?!?

1. What is your favorite fruit pie?
I think that Pumpkin pie is technically a custard pie (and Google has been no help in my very brief time of research) and if that is the case it would be apple with a big scoop of ice cream. Yum!

2. Is the Boston Cream Pie, a pie? Defend your position.
I think it is a cake with a delicious creamy center. The Bostonites must be off their collective rockers. Cake, cream, cake all covered in yummy chocolate. That sounds like a cake to me.

3. What is your favorite custard , cream pie or pudding pie?
If pumpkin is custard, pumpkin.

4. What other desert item do you like with your pie?
Heavy cream that has been beaten to death with some sugar or ice cream as previously mentioned.

5. Who makes the best pie?
Before her passing, that high distinction would go to my grandmother. Though Michael is correct, Slice of Pie makes a tasty wedge and they also have a pretty high opinion of their pies. My favorite there would be the Toll House Pie with a large portion of their homemade whipped cream.

Since I added a sixth question last time, I might as well do it again!

6. What type of pie are you?

find your inner PIE @ stvlive.com

And you?

WITty points to the first person who can name the musical that contains the line that I use in the subtitle of this post. Go.

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Michael has started Sunday Lunch to take up in the absence of Sunday Brunch. I told him that I would participate as long as he didn’t post questions that only required one word answers. The first topic that I will be participating in is soda.

1. What is your favorite soda?
Right now my favorite flavor is Dr. Pepper but my favorite seems to change daily. Ask me tomorrow and I might give you a different answer.

2. How many or how much soda do you drink a day?
It would be better to measure my intake on a weekly basis. I would say I drink about soda about three times a week. That is actually up. While in college I decided to quit drinking soda completely and did that for several years (though I did pick up a liking, not a habit however, for coffee). Over the past year I have picked up drinking soda again but not nearly as bad as it was (two a day).

A fun factoid: On our field trip last Friday (yes, it is early in the year and hopefully I will have more details later about it) we saw several nutritional presentations that were actually quite good. One was on the our intake of sugar. If you drink two 20 oz. soda everyday you will force your body to process 114 pounds of sugar every year, and that’s just from soda! I found that amazing.

3. Do you drink it with a meal?
Not normally. Most of the time I drink water or tea with a meal. But then again. Sometimes I do.

4. What is the weirdest soda you have drank?
I will take this opportunity to change the question to: What is the oddest named soda that you haven’t tasted?

Has anyone had a Cheerwine? I haven’t and the name just sounds odd to me. I have seen it advertised on billboards and I recently saw it in Wal-mart…

Cheerwine…

5. Do you think it should be sold in schools at lunch time or ant other time?
Yes… No… Yes… Only if they have a coffee machine available.

And, I’ll adding Tim’s question: 6. What do you refer to soda/pop/coke/sodie as?
I live in the same general area that Tim does, so my answer is the same as his… soda. People asking me for a coke and they mean a soda just really confuses me, but maybe I am just easily confused.

Answer your lunch in comments or leave a link to your answers.

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Time to play catch-up.

“Health food makes me sick.” -Calvin Trillin

1) What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
As I think about it, nothing jumps into my head as being my favorite. I do enjoy Subway, Sonic and Taco Bell. In Rolla, I also enjoy Maid-rite, which I have only seen in Rolla, though I know there used to be one in Sullivan. They serve crumbled beef burgers. KFC is also delicious occasionally, but sometimes the KFC around here isn’t fast enough to be considered fast food.

2) How many times per week do you eat fast food?
I don’t eat fast food very often. Generally the weeks that I do eat fast food, it is only once.

3) Describe your favorite fast food meal.
Something that is served fast, hot, and full of flavor. A good value also increases the likelihood that it could be classified as a favorite.

4) Do you always Super-Size your meal?
Sometimes I do. If I am at McDonald’s I normally will because I really like their fries. I will also frequently super size at Sonic because I love their tater tots.

5) What is your least favorite fast food restaurant?
Any restaurant that serves primarily roast beef. I’m talking to you Arby’s and Lion’s Choice.

Leave your leftover brunch in the comments if you haven’t done it already.

Later taters!

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“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

1) Are you an organized person?
No. Yes. No. Yes. I adhere to the philosophy of organized chaos. Really, it depends on the situation.

2) What is one thing about your home that has to be just so or it drives you crazy when it comes to organization?
My computer. I am very particular about the setting and organization on my computers. It is bad enough that if you let me use your computers for any length of time, I will have changed your settings. I really do intend on putting them back but I always forget.

3) Do you have one little nuance about your organization that most people consider to be a little over the top? What is it?
Not anymore. I used to alphabetize things like music and/or tape/DVD collections but then one day I realized how much I hated alphabetizing in grade school so I quit.

4) What is your favorite organizational tool? (bins, closet organizers, etc.)
Tools! I don’t need no stinkin’ organizational tools! Actually, one of the elementary teacher’s best friends is rubber storage bins. I still don’t have enough.

5) Where is your favorite place to buy organizational needs?
The cheapest place.

A PROGRAMMING NOTE:
I will be leaving tomorrow for the SBC Convention in Nashville, TN until Wednesday. Many hotels are now equipped with free wireless Internet connections, but I am not sure how much time I will have to be posting.

I have a future post that will be appearing Monday on Batman Begins.

Feel free to leave your brunch or a link to your brunch in the comments.

Later taters!

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“Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.” -Marcus Brigstocke

1) What is your favorite board game?
The most recent board game that I really enjoyed was Scene It. I have blogged about the game. I also really enjoyed the Buffy the Vampire Slayer board game. I liked playing as the “big bad” and destroying everyone. I also enjoy Life, Clue, Sorry, and in small doses Monopoly. Mancala is a game that I had a blast playing with the kids in my class.

2) What type of games are your favorite? (IE, board, card, participatory, dice, word games) The computer or video variety. Is that a possible choice on this question? Yeah, I enjoy video games. Not sure what a participatory game is, but I don’t think I like it.

3) How many games do you own, and if possible, list them.
I own many games, most of them are in my classroom. I couldn’t even begin to list them. Well, I could, but it would be a chore.

4) Do you enjoy computer or video games? Which one is your favorite?
See answer 2. The Star Wars Episode III game was alright but the camera was terrible. My favorite that I have played recently is Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. The only bad thing about that game is it takes me forever to get through a level. I try to be really sneaky and that just takes longer. The last Nintendo game that I played and really liked was Mario Kart Double Dash. What a hoot!

5) Describe a great childhood memory of an outside game.
I have rather unfavorable memories of the earthball that we used to play with at Boy Scout camp. I remember this thing being huge of course, much larger than me, my memory could be exaggerating things a bit. I don’t remember any rules of the game, I just remember pushing the ball around, maybe trying to get it in a goal or something. One of the teenagers decided it would be cool to kick a soccer ball as hard as he could into the earthball. It was just unfortunate that kicking coincided with me running at the earthball on the other side. The soccer ball hit the earthball and thanks to Newton’s laws, the energy from the soccer ball transfered to the earthball, and hit me. With all that equal and opposite force crap, my body was sent sailing (I don’t actually remember any of this, but I’m sure that my body was flying through the air). The first thing I remember after the impact of the ball with my rag doll-like body was laying on the ground, no where near where the earthball attacked me, with all the other campers and adult like people gather around me with these panicked look on their faces. It goes without saying, I did not want to return to camp the next day. Of course, as fate would have it, my parents were out of town and I was staying at a friend’s house, so I really didn’t have a choice.

Oh, the question asked for a great childhood memory? I don’t have many of those. Maybe Red Rover… No, getting clotheslined and having my trachea close off doesn’t bring back fond memories either.

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Not on time, but brunch is served…

“Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon… the two most beautiful words in the English language.” -Henry James

1) What are your plans for the summer? Are you planning on taking any trips or vacations?
I am. I have a few coming down the pipe. They may or may not prevent me from updating here, so mark your calendars.

• June 20-22: SBC Convention, Nashville, TN
• July 2-8: M-Fuge Camp with the Youth, back in Nashville, TN
• July 11-15: Centri-Kid Camp with the children, Bolivar, MO

2) What is your favorite summer activity?
Finding a cool place to be. I prefer the cooler temperatures of fall and winter to the heat of summer. Mission trips are fun too!

3) Do you sunburn easily or tan well?
Well I do not tan well, but I am don’t sunburn too easily, either.

4) Do you enjoy the warmth and heat and rejoice in it, or shrivel away from it and stay indoors all summer long?
Asked and answered counselor! Well actually it wasn’t asked but I have already answered, review answer 2. (Practice reruns are great!)

5) What is your least favorite thing about summer?
Heat and allergies.

Deposit your brunch in el commentays!

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“The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.” -Peter DeVries

1) Do you enjoy eating out and why?
Ummm yeah. I consider it a hobby. Eating out lets you experience all kinds of great food and as long as you aren’t going out by yourself you get to have some good fellowship with those that you are with. Really what more could you ask for?

2) Where is your favorite restaurant?
The list changes every single day. I like all kinds of restaraunts. It would probably be faster to name those I don’t like. Lion’s Choice and Arby’s because they serve roast beef and I don’t like roast beef. I will also skip Craker Barrel because I ordered a sandwich from there once and there was still wax paper in it. I do hold a grudge with eating establishments. I also do not Chili’s for no apparent reason. I also hate Mazzio’s because, well that a really long story and I might have told it here before. I will have to search around. {Anna} will probably remember if I told that story.

3) What are your standards for tipping?
No less than 10% unless the service really sucked. The better the service the larger the tip. Pretty simple really. No tipping at “workaraunts.”

4) Do you have one entree, appetizer or dessert that you specifically go out to get at a restaurant from time to time?
Yes. I always have Tiramisu from the Olive Garden, normally preceeded by soup, salad, and breadsticks. Whenever I go to Joe’s Crab Shack, I most normally get crab legs. Those are the only two places that I can think that I have to get a menu item everytime I go there.

5) Describe a horrific experience that you had while dining out.
The most recent would be an experience that {Pressed} and I had. We couldn’t decide where to go. Finally a new BBQ place in town called Studebakers. I had been there once just after it opened. Menu items were really pricey but the food was alright. I warned Pressed about his impending sticker shock and we entered. The food was expensive but we stuck with it. I had to change my mind several times while I was standing there because the kitchen kept running out of food! “Sorry, we just ran out of that!” “Don’t have that either.” “Try something else.” “Let me check and see if we have any baked potatos.” Finally after ordering it was Pressed’s turn. He wanted the same thing as me, a pork steak with a baked potato. He ordered just as a lady came out from the kitchen. “Don’t sell any more pork steaks, we just ran out.” “Sorry. We just ran out.” Pressed of course was stunned. He turned to me and said, “Get your money back we are leaving.” It of course took and good seven minutes to get my money back but I did. Needless to say we won’t be returning there.
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Sunday fun:

There were many days last school year that I sounded exactly like Dogbert in my job as Tech Contact for my building. I have been known to mercesly take old hardware equipment out of teacher’s rooms. It really needed to be tossed, but they never seem to believe me. So I get to be the bad guy. A role I don’t play too much.

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“Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

1) Do you live in a place where it snows often? Describe your typical winter and how often it snows/ices/sleets.
The amount of snow in Missouri varies. One winter it will be a winter wonderland and then other years (like last year and the beginning of this year) not so much. Snow, like the rest of the weather in Missouri is a crap shoot.

2) Have you ever been snow skiing? Where have you gone?
I have been with a group who was ice skiing. New Years this year as a matter of fact. I however, did not dear do it, for fear of breaking my neck.

3) What is your favorite part of winter?
Snow, but not the ice. I also like the decreased number of allergy problems.

4) If you had the choice, would you move somewhere where there was a hard winter?
No, I don’t think so. I like the fall and spring seasons best and normally places with really hard winters tend to skip over those seasons.

5) What is your favorite winter activity or sport?
Staying inside and watching the snow fall.

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