Tuesday's Rundown

Hiyas!

Got a bit of rambling to do , but before that , I want to say a big CONGRATS to fellow blogger Bogart in P Towne - as he proposed to his girlfriend Claire and she said YES!!! Click HERE to see the story and the ring...

After Saturday night, we didn't do much Sunday but rest up. I did do the laundry ( and YES I'm still keeping up with my promise to fold and hang it all up the same day its done), and I did the dishes, and made spaghetti for dinner. Oh yea, and I played on the computer too.

Yesterday I mowed the front lawn, but didn't do it while wearing my leg braces so by the time I was done my legs felt like I had run a race, and I was very unsteady , so after a long hot shower I didn't do much else where I had to walk. I knowI should wear my braces but my left one is rubbing a huge blister on my heel, so I did put a call into my orthotist and he will come by and check them out on Thursday. Maybe this week I'll actually take pictures of them and show u how deformed my feet are so you get an idea...

Anyway, today I got to sub for 7th grade science. I had one 8th grade class. I wound up having more free time then I had as of yet while subbing so it was a good day all in all. The teacher I was subbing for was one of the 7th period athletic coaches and I checked with the other coaches this morning and they said I didn't have to come help them, ( WHEW!).

Most of the 7th grade I had already had a week ago when I subbed 7th grade English. Most of the kids remembered me ( good or bad thing I can't figure out though..) and I in turn remembered the trouble children. The ones that drove me to the brink.

Today I was determined to not let them get away with anything. The classroom I was in is right next to the office. First period was ok, a bit loud , but they kept it to a low din. 2nd period? pretty much the same, except one loud mouth, but he took heed of my warnings and was ok the rest of the time.
3rd prd? this is where the day started to unravel. One side of the class was behaving, the other was not. Since I still don't know them all by name yet, I had one girl ask me if she should go get the counselor since she knew names of the ones misbehaving and I told her yes. The counselor came in and they behaved the rest of the time.
My 4th period? I only had one kid who would NOT do anything I asked him to do . He told me he didn't know what he should be doing. I told him if he had his mouth shut he would have heard my instructions. I opened his book for him. Told him I wanted at the very least the first part of the worksheet done by the time class was almost over. He continued to putz around, get up out of his seat, talk and still NOT do his work. I gave my first talley. ( these are given when students have been warned repeatedly and still not doing what they r told to do... parents have to sign , and there are consequences if they get 3 or more in one week...)
6th period pretty much the same as 3rd - counselor called, and one boy was trouble, lol.
If called I will still sub for 7th grade as I am getting used to them now, lol.

Stopped on the way home and got Chicken Express - I got my first check today - YAY ME:) and I had no clue what to make for dinner.

My mom is coming out here tomorrow for us to spend the day together. I do have to run by the post office to mail Michelle her candle basket she won for knowing all 17 of our movie lines from the contest Nikki and I recently held, then I have to go cash my check.
We will probably be going out to lunch too, so I'm looking forward to that.

When we got home today though, Nicole and I were greeted by barf on the chair by the door, barf ( I think) on the couch and after the dogs were let out and came back in - barf full of grass in the den. YUCK! Got that all cleaned up and I will further investigate the wet spot on the couch - if it was doggy upchuck or if my older doggy had an accident which she never has before.

Will hopefully get to take some pictures tomorrow of my mom and I. Hope ya'll have a great evening. I know we are going to watch results night of Dancing with the Stars, then I'm not sure whats going on, so talk to you later!

Saturday Night On The Town...

Saturday night we had a BLAST!!!! We had some friends come in from Oklahoma just for the night and we went out to dinner and to see the Musical TOMMY. Nicole went with us , never having seen a musical before. We knew she might not understand some of it but we knew she would enjoy the music. I had heard Chris talk of it, since he is so entwined with music, but didn't know much else about it except that it had great music.

We also went out to eat beforehand at Texas Land and Cattle - YUMMY! but none of us had dessert since David had just been put on a pretty strict diet, that his son was following with him for the most part for support. Oh my bad - Nicole had dessert - she had some oreo cookies:)

Anyway hope you enjoy the pics!

The Playbill:


This one was taken after the show when some of the actors were in the lobby. This was Nicole and I with the hunky guy that played Tommy's father. ( Sorry some of the pics were blurry)
He was very nice and asked Nicole how old she was , what grade she was in and stuff. She was very happy!

This was the keyboard player and one of the singers of the band in the show - the bands name was Oso Closo and they ROCKED!!! We got one of their CD's. It was really cool how they integrated the band into the actual show though - very well done. Chris was very excited to meet him, so I took a pic of my happy hubby.

This is the same guy with Nicole. When some of the actors found out it was her first musical they hugged her and asked her how much she liked it, so this guy was happy to have his pic with her!

This is David and his son Matthew. We actually met them online about 6-7 yrs ago. They play the same game that I've mentioned that Chris and I play. We had met them before in real life, and talk on the phone all the time. Davids wife Teena was unable to come unfortunately, so she stayed home with their youngest daughter Susanna, who is a year older than Nicole.

We wanted to be able to see them off this morning before they went back to Oklahoma and go out to breakfast , but it was going to have to be way too early because Matthew had to be at work by 1:oo this afternoon since he couldn't find anyone else to fill in for him.

You know who this lovely couple is

David took this pic, got it a little blurry, lol. We had been laughing and if you take a pic with my phone and move just a bit - you get blurry. Guess he was still chuckling a bit when he was trying to take the picture.

Just a pretty building near the Dallas Theater Center that I took a picture of while killing time outside, soaking up the nice evening air before the show started.

Poster on the wall showing the cast

After it was all said and done, we asked Nicole if she understood it. She said parts of it, but she really liked the music. Matthew explained parts of it to her , then it made more sense.

Hope ya'll had as fabulous a weekend as I had!

AND THE WINNER IS...

Ok, we were going to let the contest run through Sunday , and I would announce the winner Monday. But alas someone has gotten ALL the answers right.

So without further adieu, the winner is MICHELLE of Honest and Truley.

The two that were in the running for the prize for getting 15 of them right , until Michelle gave her answers, were Rick of Organized Doodles, and Yvette of Hot Chica In Me.

The Answers were as follows:

1 Sixteen Candles
2 Jerry Maguire
3 Somewhere in Time
4 True Lies
5 Jerry Maguire
6 Top Gun
7 Aliens
8 RV
9 Mama Mia
10 Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark
11 Top Gun
12 Under the Tuscan Sun
13 Sixteen Candles
14 Dirty Dancing
15 Blue Hawaii
16 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
17 Star Wars (pick your version)


So congratulations to Michelle, and thanks to all who helped me celebrate my 200th post! Nikki and I had a great time coming up with the lines, and a great time seeing your answers. I especially got a big laugh out of one of the answers that Stephanie gave- when on the last one
" I have a bad feeling about this' - her answer? ME TOO!

HAHAHAHA, good one Steph!

I'm at home again today with the strept throat kiddo, who is still in her jammies, doing puzzles and watching her tweenie shows.

Have a great day al!!!

Home Instead

*UPDATE*
Well we just got home from the doctors office and yuppers the kiddo has strept throat. She got a mega antibiotic shot in the butt, so she is not a happy camper. I had to ply her back into a half decent mood with the promise of Wendy's for dinner. She loves their chicken nuggets, and any new toy that will keep her occupied and in bed while recuping is welcome, lol.
So she will be home from school tomorrow too, /sigh, was hoping we could get thru the first 6 weeks with no sickness. It was not meant to be.


Well I'm home today instead of subbing for the 6th grade class like I was supposed to. Nicole woke up not feeling good, and I've thought all week she was coming down with the cold I had lastweek, but she just keeps complaining of her throat for the most part. Since we have friends coming in from out of town Saturday for a night on the town, I want to make sure shes ok:)

Shes currently in her Hannah Montana jammies, curled up in bed with one of the dogs watching TV and munching on frosted flakes, lol.

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As for our contest that is currently running, there are two people up for the prize. So far those two people are the only ones that have gotten 15 right. I'll wait a few more days for entries, then announce the winner on Monday the 29th.

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Lastnight after we had our fill of Dancing With The Stars 3 day season premiere, Chris and I came back here to the computer room while Nicole watched one of her tweenie shows. Chris got on my blog to see how many movie lines he knew then clicked on one of blogthing quizzes I had up there and started taking all these funny quizzes, so I got on there too. We got some interesting ones to pop up, such as
What kind of bagel I am ( plain btw)
What kind of kisser I am
Was I normal about sex
What my pimp name, my stripper name and my adult movie star name were

Anyway we got a great laugh out of that, including our friend that we were on IM with at that time. Also had a quiz on there on How Texan are you? and since we live in Texas we had to take that one... I got only 29percent Texan, and Chris got like close to 90 percent I believe since he was born and raised here, lol.

Anyway will let ya'll know what doc says about Nicoles throat.

If you still want to enter our movie line contest , please just scroll down two posts:) to my 200 post contest:) and have a great day!

This is a bad word...

Yesterday I got called in to sub for 7th grade English, with one 10 grade pre-AP class.
I have to say that some of the 7th grade classes I had didn't act much better than the younger classes I normally sub for. I also let them know it. Only one class truly taxed me , and they ALL got in trouble. Oh well, their normal teacher would be back, and they will get reprimanded for it.

One funny thing did happen yesterday though. Have you ever heard that country song by Tim McGraw called 'Back When'? he is talking about the difference in things from when we were kids compared to now; one such verse goes something like this

"Back when a Hoe was a Hoe, and coke was a coke, and crack's what you were doing, when you were cracking jokes; back when a screw was a screw, the wind was all that blew, and when you said I"m down with that well it meant you had the flu"....

get the picture?
well, I was reminded specifiallyof that song when one of the 7th grade girls came up to me with the packet I had handed out to them and told me there was a bad word in the vocabulary list - she pointed to HOE. I didn't laugh at her, but had to explain that the 'HOE" she was thinking of was spelled HO, and that eht HOE in the vocabulary words menat a tool used to get weeds out of a garden.
/sigh.

Anyway, I sub for 6th grade tomorrow, and I know some of the kids in this class before as I've had them in various other classes I subbed for before and I like most of them and they seem to like me so all will be well.

If you haven't entered our contest, you still have time to enter so CLICK HERE. My co-host and BFF NIKKI has some of the music on her blog from some of the movies that are answers if you need a bit of a memory jolt, so CLICK HERE to hear some of that music. You can see the prize up for grabs too when you look at the original contest post - it is from my friend Connie Dubois of Bayoumoon Candles.

Hope you give the contest a try, and have a great day,

Ya'll come back now , ya hear?

Happy 200th Post to MOI:)

*UPDATE*

I received the gift basket that is going to be won by whoever figures out ALL the movie lines!

Here it is:

Seems that Connie added a little extra - included in this adorable basket is one Pearberry candle, one matching handmade soap, one homemade beeswax lipbalm ( that smells and tastes like honey), and a little votive, but I cannot tell the scent of that one... If you win this you will definitely enjoy it becasue I enjoy the candles I received for my anniversary from her:) Shes fantastic!
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YAY, this is my 200th post. Never thought I'd get my blog this far. I had a lot of fun on my 100th post , creating a contest and giving away a fabulous prize. This one is no different.
Well, maybe a little bit.

This CONTEST is being co-hosted by moi and my BFF NIKKI! We have both been wracking our brains trying to come up with lines from movies that will make you think a bit.

The prize, which I will post a picture of when I receive it in the mail, is a small gift basket from my friend Connie Dubois of Bayoumoon Candles. She agreed to give away to the winner a candle and matching scent soap all made by her. I think she mentioned something about Pearberry. She makes beautiful baskets, and if you don't remember the one she made for my anniversary present, look here...

Some of these lines may be from movies as far back as the 50's, some from the 80's , or some much more recent, but either way, hope you have fun! The contest will be up for a week, and the winner will be the first one to get them ALL right , or if no one gets all of them, then the one with the most right!

Get your Movie thinking caps on, and Here we GO!!!!!:

1. "I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.."

2. " You had me at hello"

3. "Is it you?"

4. " I married Rambo"

5. "SHOW ME THE MONEY!"

6. " Goose, she's lost that lovin feelin"

7. "LET GO OF HER YOU BITCH!!!"

8. " It's a big rolling turd!"

9. " I have THREE possible fathers???"

10. "Snakes? why does it have to be snakes? "

11. "Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash"

12. "Ladybugs, lots and lots of ladybugs..."

13. " Whassa hoppenin' hot stuff?"

14. " Nobody puts Baby in a corner"

15. " My babys come home from the war Daddy!, My Chadwick is hooome..."

16. " dad?" "what?" "Dad" What?" "DAD?" "WHAT??"

17. "I have a bad feeling about this..."


OK, there they are! If you know your movies, you may figure out we were a bit tricky and put two lines up from the same movie:)) aren't we sneaky?

Anyway, leave the answers in the comment section of this post in order to be entered!

Hope everyone had a great weekend:))

Happy Saturday to All!

Well its certainly a lazy Saturday. I hadn't seen my mom in several weeks or more so she decided to take a ride out here today which was really nice.
I had to run to the grocery store and bank, so her , Nicole and I did that, then went to the local yummy Italian restaurant and picked up pizza and eggplant parmigiana for lunch. After that Chris decided he wanted ice cream, so we ran to Braums.
Had a very nice visit with my mom, even though I talk to her 2-3 times a day.
I wanted her to look at Nicoles feet. Why you may wonder. Well lately Nicole has complained of her right ankle hurting. The first time it looked maybe SLIGHTLY and I mean MINUTELY swollen, so we put ice on it and told her to take it easy. Ever since then, by the time she gets home from school she is limping on it.
Now what is freaking me out just a tad bit is that when she gives me her foot to look at, and I compare it to the other one, I see no swelling or any other abnormality except on the side of her foot. It looks a tad bit like my moms and mine, with the CMT.
When my mom and I were first diagnosed, Nicole was 3. They said to have her checked before she went into Kindergarten and we did and they said she was fine. They also said to get her checked again in about 5 yrs or so and I think it may be time... Just say a small prayer as I go to call the MDA nurse Monday to see who I may be able to take her to.

It was nice to see my mom, and the house got cleaned before she got here, so I can have a fairly uneventful weekend. Hope ya'll enjoy yours too:)
Don't forget the contest coming Monday!

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