If you have never been in a high school at the end of the year...then you haven't really lived. You know how people seem to behave strangely when the moon is full? It is like a full moon every day.
I swear, everything I had planned to do today has not worked out leaving me with very little time to find other options. AND my problem today has not been with the children, it has been with the grown people. I mean, how many idiots can you fit into this building without causing some sort o
It has been a hectic week around here!
Gatsby is doing very well after his trauma on Tuesday. Thank you all for your kind wishes for him! He is pretty much back to his wild little self! I am relieved!
I also have a request for you. On Tuesday two students at the school where I teach both lost a parent. Please keep their families in your prayers.
Also, please keep my mother in your thoughts. She has had a couple of TIA's in the last several weeks. These are not her first on
I have a 3.8 pound, six year old, toy poodle named Gatsby. He is very sweet, and I think of him as my child. I know that it isn't the same as having kids, but he is the closest thing I have to one right now so...
Gatsby has been loosing his hair the past couple of months and the vet cannot figure out what is wrong with the little guy. She suggested last week that it was possible that he was experiencing a hormonal condition due to the fact that he has not been "fixed." There really isn'
Just some things I had on my mind about this site and how great it is!
I LOVE THE PEOPLE ON THIS WEBSITE! Let me tell you why I am saying this... I was reading the post by CagedBird, and was moved to tears by what she said. I was further moved by howmany of you had written in response to her. I teach high school, and while I love teenagers, they can be cruel because of their own uncertainties and so I know it has to mean a great deal to her how much everyone has reached out to her.
It is offical...we have 18 days until summer vacation! WOOOHOOOO!
I am warning you that this blog may contain may errors...I apologize. I am using a laptop at school today because they have taken my desktop to fix. The screen on this thing is tiny and hard to read. What is worse is that they have disabled the thing that makes is so I can make the display bigger. Ain't that something?
I am very excited today because I am going to Merlefest this evening to perform with some folks in
It is that time of year here is good ole' Wilkes County, NC where we prepare for MerleFest. For those of you wondering what MerleFest is, I will enlighten you. MerleFest is the largest Americana music celebration in the United States. For for fun-filled days, 80,000 people travel from all over the world to hang out and listen to dozens of musicians including some very big names (ie Allison Kraus, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson just to name a few). I LOVE IT!
It is really funny. I didn't
Today I am going to vent about stupidity....my own. :im stupid:
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I was on Spring Break last week, so I took the opportunity to visit my Family Doc. He suggested that i have a cholesterol test done as he didn't have that information from the specialist I saw after my stroke. So I fasted Wednesday night, and arrived bright and early on Thursday morning ready for my test. I was pretty smug about it too because I said to myself, "I don't have a cholesterol problem. I don't
I love this beautiful Spring weather we are having. I wish it wasn't going to get cold again this weekend. This weather has given me one crazy case of SPRING FEVER. I have had to close the blinds in my classroom so that I don't stare out the window like the kids. That is slightly depressing because then I feel closed away from the world, but I don't think any of us will accomplish anything useful if all we are doing is staring out the window all day!
Things here have gotten interesting.
I had such a wonderful day today! First of all, I got to sleep in on a weekday. I love that! Then I went and had coffee at my favorite coffee place in the world. Then I got a pedicure on my way to Blowing Rock to go shopping! The weather in Blowing Rock was wonderful. It was warm (not hot), with a nice breeze. It was absolutely wonderful. On the way home, I took the Blue Ridge Parkway and took time to marvel at the beauty of the mountains. I highly recommend tha parkway...so peaceful an
Tomorrow is the big day...two years. Honestly, I am looking kinda' forward to it this time. I have made an appointment to get a pedicure, and then I am going shopping in one of my favorite places (Blowing Rock NC). Last year I took the day off as well, but I was so anxious about the whole thing, I laid around the house like a vegetable all day. Not tomorrow...tomorrow is I AM HAPY TO BE ALIVE DAY! :Clap-Hands:
I had to share this cool piece of news. I live in the county where the boyscout went missing ( I actually live about 20 minutes from that particular park. If you hadn't heard...they found him earlier this morning. The cool part is the fact that our cafeteria manager's husband was on the team that found him. He didn't go to work today because he felt led to go look for Michael. And find him he did! They are currently working to get him out of the place where he had fallen! :Clap-Hands: :ch
What a weekend! It all started with the arrival of my mom on Thursday afternoon. I wasn't all that excited about her coming because I have had a couple of very busy weekends and I just wanted one to myself. She was acting crazy the whole time. I asked her to delay her arrival until Friday...she just kept telling me that she couldn't. When I questioned her strange behavior, she told me to get over it. I was starting to think that she had finally gone nuts. Friday, she kept calling me at wo
About this time last year, we were in a faculty meeting where an insurance rep. from one of those supplemental insurance agencies was presenting about our supplemental options. I was just shy of the one year anniversary of my stroke. One of the plans he was describing was for care if you have a heart attack or stroke. No one was really listening (the kids got nothin' on the teachers) until he decided to share some statistics about strokes with us. It was all quiet until he said, "I bet you d
We had a great trip! It is safe to say that a good time was had by all despite the fact that we didn't get a whole lot of sleep on our wild adventure. We didn't loose anyone, and we all made it home safely. I have to brag on the fact that the kids at this school are just really good, nice kids. They didn't misbehave at all. They just did what they were supposed to do. We were some lucky people on this trip.
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Well, it is official. I am completely insane, as are the other 5 teachers who are taking 65 sophomores and seniors to Washington, D.C. tomorrow morning. We will leave here at 5:30 am and will be gone until Saturday night. We will have a very good time I am sure, however, I feel a major case of exhaustion coming on. I often wonder what wonder what we are thinking every time we take this trip, then I remember that we have a very large proportion of our students who have never traveled outsid
Okay, so I don't really have a good reason for the title of this blog. I didn't have one, so I wrote the first thing that came into my mind. :hahaha:
I had one of those nights that I have sometimes. I went to bed with a headache. I took some medicine, but couldn't sleep. This is really frustrating to me because I wonder how much longer I am going to loose sleep every time I have a headache.
A simple headache was the beginning of a nightmare. Everytime I have one, it makes me on
So last night's blog made me really consider the people around me. My family is great, and I don't want to diminish their value in my world, but they live pretty far away so I have managed to make other people part of my extended family. It makes me feel really lucky.
Every Friday afternoon during the school year I have coffee with these two teenage girls from my church. WE have been meeting this way to have a short Bible study and such for almost five years now. I really feel like they
Sometimes I forget how lucky I really am. I have some of the best friends in the world, and sometimes I realize how empty my life would be without them. One in particular has been on my mind lately. She woke up one morning and thought that she was having a stroke because her speech was slurred and one side of her face was drooping. She raced to the doctor to find that she had Bell's Palsey. It happened during a very stressful time because she was in the process of taking a play she had writ
I was doing some research online today for the novel Night by Elie Wiesel. I am finishing up a unit on it with my students and was looking for some information to answer some questions from a couple of my students. I was shocked, angry, hurt, and any other adjective that means really *beep* off about what I read. A man ASSAULTED Elie Wiesel in a hotel during a PEACE CONFERENCE! :Tantrum: Then to make me even madder :ranting: I accidentally found the website with an article that is supposedly
Okay...so I went to the chat room for the first time tonight. I really enjoyed it. I also felt like I should update my blog since Asha made mention of the fact that she remembered some of the things I had written. I must say...I thought that was really cool of her to remember that. Thanks a lot...that made my day.
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I live in the northwest corner of North Carolina in place where we typically get some cold weather in the winter. That is of course until this year. It simply has not been all that cold, until yesterday. I am a teacher, and doesn't it just figure that on the coldest day of the year so far some little darlin' decided we should have a bomb threat. This of course resulted in our entire student body standing outside in the freezing temps for about 45 minutes.Some of our students had just dressed
I seem to have the worst luck around the holidays. Especially any holiday that involves visiting my mom's house. March 27, 2005 (Easter Sunday) I had a stroke. A few months ago, I visited her, and I got the worst cold in the world. Well, my visit this time was complete with a minor injury; last night as I was staggering out of the bathroom in the middle of the night half asleep, I kicked the door frame with my pinky toe and broke it.
Other than that I had an absolutely wonderful visit
In my last entry I mentioned that the friend I visited with in NYC and I had known and loved each other for over half of our lives. I wish it could be more than it is...but I will NEVER be his type as I am a girl. I love him, but not as anything more than my friend.
I am so excited about the ending of this week. The semester at work is finally over, and we get to start fresh again in January with new classes and students. I love new beginnings.
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Last weekend in NYC was GREAT! :Clap-Hands: I had such a good time, I was not ready to come home in the least. It was a really unique experience to see my friends on a New York stage. I was so excited, I just about drove the friend I was staying with crazy on the way there. Being in NY this time of year also gets you into the spirit of the season. The decorations, and lights, and windows of the stores. It was amazing! I have been there several times, but never at Christmas time! Did I
:Clap-Hands: Today is the big day! I leave for a big weekend in NYC. I am so excited, I am driving myself crazy. I am leaving work around 11:15. This is one of those days where it seems time is dragging on at a snail's pace.
I love winter, and snow, and coats, winter clothes; I am so glad it is going to be cold while I am in NY. The clothes thing might be a teacher thing. My students often are scantily clad in the summer time despite our best efforts as a school to cover them up. B
