I'm just all giggly.  I LOVE karma...LOVE it, I say!  What a wonderful thing it is.

On another note, congratulations to my friend Jillian.  I hope the day was beautiful in so many ways for you both.

I'm looking for a really good, reseasonably priced, trustworthy, place to take my sewing machines for routine maintenance and minor repair.  Does anyone in the Raleigh area have someone they recommed?  Laura?  Sharon?  Anyone?

So, after much debate and planning, the master schedule for the school year is "mostly" planned out.  Due to budget cuts and other problems, I agreed to help in some unusual ways, but now I'm in a bit of a panic.  I have FOUR preps for this year.  I'm teaching two Advanced English classes, one Resource English, a drama elective and a speech/debate ( Read more... )

I was looking for the name, artist, CD title..something!...to a song I heard in a store awhile back.  I have FINALLY found it!  It's an absolutely great song.  It's "Smile" by Uncle Kracker.

http://www.wowlyrics.com/read.php?wow=2301560

I have heard this song twice now and still can't find the name of it nor the artist.  It has a leading line that goes "You make me smile."  That's not the title though becasue I've searched satellite radio, local staions, every search engine known to man, etc.  It's a newer song too.  The artist/group sounds a lot like Aerosmith but it's not them ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, ANDY!

Friends,

I am trying to get rid of a junked Honda CRX from my driveway.  I'm in the Raleigh area.  Does anyone know of anyone that will pick it up for free and take it to sell to a junkyard or scrap metal salvage area?  I'm desperate to get rid of it!

I had read the news earlier in the day about Farrah...beautiful, young Farraah.  I told Matt about it but as she was a resident in my generation, he had heard her name, but couldn't put a face to it.  A couple of hours later I went to the computer to find a picture (the famous sun-kissed, swimsuit poster) for him to see and that's when I saw the ( Read more... )

Ok, fine, you aren't going to pay us the bonus we were promised and guaranteed when our students did well on the EOG's.  Yes, we were pissed off but we are teachers.  We bent over, took it, and prepared our lesson plans for the next week.

Jump ahead a couple of weeks.  We are told that longetiviy pay is also being cut, killed, taken back, ( Read more... )

Life with Matt just keeps getting better and better.  I am one damn lucky woman.

I love you, baby.