We have these neighbors two houses up from us that are a piece of work. Every year they put flyers in everyone's mailboxes advertising their summer party. But these are not invitations. Oh no, they would never invite the lowly neighbors. These flyers are just a heads-up that they will be having a party, but none of us are invited. The flyers ( Read more... )

Ellie and I went to Theology on Tap last night. It's a series of discussions which I guess are supposed to have something theological about them and they take place in a pub. It's free and we thought it might be interesting, especially after we found out there would be a complimentary buffet before the talks. Free food? I am SO there. My sodas ( Read more... )

I saw a bald eagle flying around during snack today. He was just circling this pond area behind our school. The other second grade teacher and I decided to watch the eagle instead of our students for about 20 minutes. We saw a bald eagle last year next to school, which was the first time I'd seen one in the wild. Kind of made us feel patriotic ( Read more... )

I skipped school today (I got a sub) to go to some more training for StarLab as it has now gone digital and is completely different from the original StarLab that I trained for in July. There was this younger guy from Canada whose name was Pedro (I kept thinking Vote for Pedro every time he'd talk) and this old guy giving the presentation. It ( Read more... )

I heard my mom chuckling as she came up the steps and knew she had a joke for me.

Why did Tigger look in the toilet? she asked me.

I responded, To find Pooh. She asked, all surprised, how I knew the answer. I told her it was obvious and I might've heard it before, I can't remember.

She should not have been allowed to access the internet.

I'm in a bit of a mood. I spent over five hours with my sister and her two boys driving to three libraries today. I went with them on their library hunt (the county libraries are doing this thing for kids where they visit all 18 libraries in the county to follow clues to find something or other) because they were going to the library by my school ( Read more... )

My Mom just came in with my What Would MacGyver Do? t-shirt. She held it up and said, You should try to be more fashionable.

*quizzical look*

So, you're saying Threadless t-shirts aren't fashionable? People only wish they were as fashionable as I am.

Oh how my mother makes me laugh.

I watched the latest Doctor Who and after puzzling over ( Read more... )

On Monday Ellie informed me that she had won four free tickets to...wait for it...Christina Aguilera's Philly show on Tuesday night and would I want to come? As one of my mottos is "If it's free, it's for me!" I said, "Sure ( Read more... )

I just wandered by my mom downstairs. She's watching TV. I happened to glance at the screen and there's Jason Statham. I stopped and watched for a moment until I realized what movie it was.

My 66-year-old mother is watching The Transporter.

That is so random.

ETA: And she's getting really involved in it. She won't stop yelling Oh my goodness ( Read more... )

Me to my mother: I don't hang out with morons. That's why I have so few friends.

My mother: You know how Jesus spoke in parables? You speak in bumper stickers.

She thinks I should turn what I said into a bumper sticker and/or t-shirt. I think I agree.