A long time and a coma

So, I know I made a promise, but it's just so hard. I'm gonna try again. they may be short, they may suck. But I will try again to write on a regular bases.

Today I went to church and then came home to eat a big bowel of spaghetti. I proceeded to go into a carb coma and slept for four hours! Arg, I lost most of my day off. What!!!!

Congratulations to Kacy

Kacy graduated last weekend!  For those of you that don't know Kacy is my friend and sister.  She has worked really hard for the last three years to get her degree and I am so proud of her.  She stuck it out and not only got honors, but received honors with distinction!  There were only seven people in the whole class that did that!  Congratulations Kacy!  I am so very proud of you.  P.S. Your party kicked ass!

Asparagus Festival

Last weekend, my family and I went to the Asparagus Festival in Stockton CA.  It was so much fun!  There were craft booths and food booths and several stages.  We spent the day walking around and eating yummy things.  I had fruit on a stick, fried asparagus, a snow cone, and fruit in a cup.  yum.  

Here is a picture of my dad!  The band-aid on his nose is from some skin cancer he had removed.

The end of vacation

It's been almost a month that I have been home from vacation.  I planned on posting everyday, but the Internet at the house we were staying at sucked, so I didn't even open my computer all that much.  Then for two weeks after we were home I didn't turn on my wireless router.  

The vacation was beautiful.  I had a good time.  I also realized some things about my family.  Isn't it just Gods way to teach you something when you are trying to relax?

Oregon was awesome, I could move there in the blink of an eye.

Really bad at this

I am really bad at blogging.  My mom keeps telling me I should post more often.  I just am too lazy.  I will try to do better mom.

Day one

We left this morning on our trip to  Oregon!  It was a beautiful sunny day all the way up.  I think I even got a little sun burned (darn Swedish skin). Kacy drove to Redding and then I drove up to Ashland where we are staying for the night.  We stopped in Yreka for dinner at "Grandma's"I had a chef's salad.  We arrived in Ashland where I went to my favorite bookstore in the world, Bloomsbury books (will have to check the spelling in the morning). If I could I would live in a book store.  There is nothing more exciting and valuable in my life than knowledge and books give that.  I love they way they smell.  I love the way they look.  I love the way they communicate ideas.  I wonder all the time about what other people are thinking and feeling.  I have an inner dialogue that is running constantly in my brain, wouldn't it be great to hear someone else's inner thoughts for just a few seconds?  Books let people communicate their inner thoughts. Say, without normal judgment, things that they want to.

This was not meant to be a post about books.  It's supposed to be about vacation.  So far it's been fun!  I had grasshopper ice cream and found an ATM card.

Love to you all

K

A tiny town

Visit my town http://kiweville.myminicity.com/ 

Addition to my wish list

http://dutchbikes.us/velorbis/dannebrog/index.php

It's pink...it's a slip...and it's all mine

enough said

I am unique-just like everyone else

Today I taught seventh grade English.  The seventh graders are so into being unique.  They all want to stick out, but in the right way.  They don't want to stick out too much, but they all want to be special and unique.  Out on 19 students in my first class, 11 of them had on black t-shirts today.  It's a good thing that we are all the same on the inside.

All she does is sleep

Someday, when I grow up, I want to be a cat.  All my cat does is sleep.  Wouldn't it be nice to have two or three weeks just to sleep?

Black eye

He will get a black eye because he hit himself in the face with the guitar he was using.  I take no responsibility for the silliness of seventh graders.

The Bee-I-EE-I-EE

Today my kindergartners and first graders will be learning the Bee-I-EE-I-EE song.

There was a bee-i-ee-i-ee,
Sat on a wall-i-all-i-all,
And there he sat-i-at-i-at,
And that was all-i-all-i-all.

Until a boy-i-oy-i-oy,
Who had a stick-i-ick-i-ick;
He gave that bee-i-ee-i-ee
An awful lick-i-ick-i-ick.

So then that bee-i-ee-i-ee
Began to sting-i-ing-i-ing;
He stung that boy-i-oy-i-oy
Like anything-i-ing-i-ing.

And then that boy-i-oy-i-oy
Began to yell-i-ell-i-ell.
He told that bee-i-ee-i-ee
To go to...

It's not what you think!

THE WAY I SEE IT #7

The way I see it on my coffee cup was a really cool saying by Yo-Yo Ma.  I was so excited to share it with you all.  Until.............................................

The way I see it, I should not have a tablespoon of grounds in my $3.00 coffee!  And this wasn't all.  Most of them I spat out in the last couple of sips, as I tried so desperately to drink the last half of my cup.  Arrrrrr, our local Starbucks sucks. 

Girls night

Last night was a girls night at my house.  We got together and watched "The Holiday,"  ate a million chips, and drank cool-aid and gin!   

The top three things on my wish list

These are the top three things that I would buy if I had a million dollars and paid off my student loans!  

1.  A 1964 Vespa

2.  A Ms. Pacman table

3.  Closet organization shelves

Math and science....what!!!!!

I taught fifth grade math and science today.  I know what you are all thinking..."she sucks at both those subjects, how can she teach them?"  Well my friends, those are now my best subjects!  so, HA HA HA to all of you that know that I was bad at math and science in high school.  I have grown.  Now I'm just waiting for these guys to grow.

A couple of weeks ago, one of the blogs I read posted a recipe for hamburger pizza.  So I got all the stuff I needed on the way home for school to make it (To be truthful my mom had most of the stuff already at her house, and she put the pizza dough in the bread maker at lunch time so that it would be done when I got their for dinner).  So here it is, I dedicate this pizza to Beth!

One flute

One lonely flute player today.  I usually have a large class, but today kids were sick, had tests, and forgot instruments.  So today for my final class I had one lonely flute player.

Scooter

Have I introduced you to my cat Scooter?

The good and the bad

The good news is that I got jury duty!  I love jury duty!  A day off to sit and read, doing your duty as a citizen, and because I live in a small town I always see friends.

The bad news.  I just got a new passport to go to Mexico this

 spring, but they took my old one.  All my old stamps and visas are gone.  It looks like I have never been anywhere in my life.  So sad.

Piano lesson Tuesday!

Piano lesson after school!  He showed up late, but at least he is here!

The way I see it.

The Way I see It #26 - Failure's hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever. - Po Bronson, Author of stories, screenplays and nonfiction, including What Should I Do with My Life?

The contra bassoon

It is a very rainy and cold day.  My third graders are watching a wonderful video called "The Orchestra."  They are cracking up at the sound of the contra bassoon.  With each new instrument they pretend to play along.  This is the best part of my day.  Growing up I never, never, wanted to be a teacher.  I always thought it was a thankless job and that the kids (including myself at times) never respected the teachers the way that they should.  It is still a thankless job with little respect, but I know now what made all my teachers do it.  This is Jared playing the bassoon!

The First of Many

     I have started this blog in hopes of keeping my family and friends updated on the happenings of my life.  I also want to start to remember those things that are important to me.  While this may not be the most exciting blog in the expanse of cyberspace at least it is a chance to keep in contact with my loved ones.  

     For example, today I went to the grocery to do some shopping before school.  I got some fruit. I am now at school and have had four music classes and a drum class.  The 4th grade guitar players are setting up now.  I better get out there to subdue the chaos.

40min. later...all done!

     The rest of the day I will be teaching and then I will go home to my messy house.

Today though my real post is on my notebooks.  as many of you know I am a lover of all things paper and I love notebooks.  I have over 20 notebooks filled with lists, recipes, journal entries, math problems, drawings, house plans, pictures, and everything I find worthy of writing down. 

I have just today started a cafe and wine review notebook.  

  At UOP I had a theater professor that forced us to write three pages of journal each day.  I hated it!  He never cared what we wrote, as long as we did it.  Many times he would get pages of curse words and letters telling him how much I hated to write.  If only he could see me now!