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| what;s up with me and technology?? my gmail is saying error 502 and it won't load. Not cool, google! Firefox is messed up on my laptop...not cool, Mozilla! | | |
| Okay, so I'm not a numbers person. At all. this is not news...and the idea of a budget is disgusting to me. I like to do what I want to do/buy what I want to buy when I want to do/buy it. This is why I'm in education of English/ or of little kids....I'm not trying to tell anyone how to run their lives-- just telling them how to write a complete sentence! (Blogging is not my example of correct sentence-writing.) So I'm attempting to spend less money by going to the grocery store and making meals at home instead of going out. I;m also trying to cut down my beverage consumption by drinking/making the drinks at home. I repeat the numbers thing-- but this Tazo chai that I love is 3 and some change a cup at Starbucks-- and is 3.99 + the cost of a half gallon of milk for a gallon of this. That's insane markup, people!
Continue that thought for alcohol...and since I'm a bartender, it's not a big deal for me to make exactly what I want at home...that's a good thing! If I screw it up, it's my fault, I don't have to send it back! (see: lemon drops at Applebees!) And... I'm a total smoothie junkie and those are SOOOOO expensive when they are in their convenience's sake packaging-- straight from Ardens or Smoothie king-- so I've been buying the little jugs of Arden's/Naked whatever is organic and blended fruit juice.
However, I've had some mishaps in this department and it's frustrating...first of all, when you freeze these, they are good once they've been thawed and shaken for a long time. Even though I'm a bartender, I don't really like shaking beverages for a long time. The protein ones taste like puppy/kitten nourishment formula. ie: vanilla-chalky-assness! Yuck! Twice, I've had a half one that I've meant to bring into work with me and I've left it to melt and subsequently stink the hell up my car. Yikes. The latest is that, although I CAN read, apparently I don't really do it. (And I consider myself observant.) The Arden's juice I bought that was cranberry and labeled "Shooters" was for shots. Yes, brilliant, I know. Plus, it was 16 ounces and one serving was labeled 1 oz, with 16 in the bottle. I'm not a numbers person, but I can handle that....I was wondering why it tasted SO freaking bad....and Katy, Jesse, and Will helped me put it together that it was not supposed to be ingested by the bottle, but by the shot. It's some intense fruitness.
My goodness. In other news, at least I'm back to some fruits/vegetables/nutrition that's not white or cream-colored (the "bland colors of the American" diet). Believe me, this was unintentional that I hadn't had a vegetable in a hot minute. All the delicious flying biscuit breakfast I had was kind of all my usual fare--eggs and bread/starch + cheese. Yum. Six Flags with Dan today was awesome-- except for the additional stomach churning I had from the rides along with the bucket-o-cotton candy and the frozen coke. I'm so good to my body. Ah yes, if I had to give end with a cliche-like quote, "Variety is the spice of life". Buon appetito, amici!
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| So, today was the last day of school at Kilpatrick Elementary and I had no idea I'd feel so sentimental!! The kids had their awards ceremony/graduation (sadly, for some, this may be the only level of school they complete-- 5th grade) and then the Farewell Parade. Let me say, this is the best thing ever for the last day of school. The kids were super calm, reflective, and not rowdy. (convenient, given what other kids usually act like!)
All the other grades-- K-4, lined the hallways of the school, along with the parents who attended the ceremony, and the teachers. Songs like "It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday" and "I will remember you" were played through the school and all the 5th graders paraded through the hall-- when they got to the kids, all of them broke into applause! It was so touching-- I got a little choked up-- this happy girl in a wheelchair named Noni was leading the parade-- but when my kids (my 3 boys who mean sooooo much to me) passed by, I started bawling! It's so hard to explain the feelings-- that these kids have been so much of my life every day and me theirs-- that that ends and they will be thrown to the wolves in middle school next year-- oh my gosh! It's ovewhelming. I'm so, so grateful for the moments I had with these kids this year-- I've learned so much about myself and the world-- and they learned how to read, as a side note. Victor, Jose, and Brandon-- happy 5th grade graduation! :)
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| So, 5 % chance I'm wrong here, but I think I ran into Will Smith yesterday.
I was in Smoothie King by City Hall East (Atl)-- and there was this guy who at first glance looked like Will Smith. In retrospect, people were acting all star-struck around him, so, hmmm. The smoothie guys messed up my smoothie (big surprise!) so I walked back in to ask them to fix it...but the line was long, etc, so I turned around kinf od fast and went back from the door-- smash! OOMPH!.. I ran directly into the bellybutton and wall of a tall black guy with sunglasses and a hat down over his face-- he sounded JUST like Will Smith when he apologized and asked if I was allright.
Anyone know if he's in town? He was drinking protein shakes!
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| haha, now Grease is going to be in your head allllllll day. (Or all the day, as Carlos says!)
Well, I resigned from my position at Kilpatrick Elementary today and it feels really, really weird. School is still in through Friday-- but I'll only be there a day and a half because my masters classes start. Note to self, figure out the appropriate places for apostrophes in degree titles. That bugs me when they're wrong and honestly, I'm not entirely sure when they're right. hmmm
I've got a couple of trips planned soon-- Chattanooga next weekend (I moved it because I was exhausted-- no, suffering from exhaustion like on Oregon Trail) last week-- between the Talent Show, grad school and financial aid stuff, my Grandma Marilyn's funeral, housesitting for Bonner and Spence, Katy's graduation, my birthday, work, and fighting with Will....I couldn't really handle a whole lot. The weekend after that I'm going to DC for a couple days to hang out with Adam before he moves to California. I need to schedule a trip to NY and hang with Annie-- she's got an open offer of a free place to stay-- I might do that solo...could be fun. I haven't traveled by myself since summer 05 and there's something nice about it. Adventuring alone gives you time for retrospect and makes you have a comfort in your skin that you can't have unless you're willing to be around strangers and make some strangers acquaintances. Anyway...
I think finaid stuff is going to settle itself out with Agnes Scott-- everything really feels like it's falling into place lately. I mean, I'm sad it's the end of the year and all and I'm going to miss my kids a lot-- it's been an enchanting year. I mean, enchanting in a realistic way-- with bumps and bruises and all, but sparkles and glimmers in all kinds of unexpected places. I've learned alot from my kids and my coworkers-- and I've been a big part of some kids' educations. That's so important to me to be needed. I hate feeling useless.
I've gotten a job at That Pottery Place in Decatur-- some random hours working the store and also summer camp stuff. Hopefully all will go well and then it might continue into the fall and spring-- it would be a nice job to do while working on this MAT thing. I'm such a dork-- I love school. I had orientation on Thursday (Mom came with) and it felt like another chance for fun college stuff that I might have missed at Oxford. I'm really, really excited because I love classes and learning and all that jazz...I'm a little scared about middle school and actually being stuck teaching high school to repay my loans...but it will be okay. I'm just trusting that. Too much is pointing me in that direction to feel otherwise.
Children of Men-- man, go see that movie!! It's so awesome. It's Cuaron and he does wonderful films-- but the fluidity with the disjointedness of reality and it's contemporary nature to our current history....man, chilling stuff. Children of Men. wow.
have some funny quotes from my kids-- ask me about them-- here's the key phrases-- white elvis jackets, cancer's going around, and 24 whores....man, I'm going to miss these 2nd graders.
Time to sleep.
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