Life is so precious…

I had a student graduate a week ago today, and now she is gone. I think her father said it best:

 

I’m L’s father. The lady in the car in front of her was a dr. and did everything she could to help her. I met her at MH. When they got her there the trauma surgeons did everything they could to save her life. She had so many internal injuries that they just couldn’t do it. L was the love of our lives and touched so many people. I talked to the state police this morning and they have no idea as to what happened yet. It is a needless acident. She was on her way down here so that we could go find her a new car for her graduation and she was leaving for London and Paris with her grandmother on Wednesday for her graduation trip. Both her mother and step father and me and my wife are devistated that this happened. Her brother D so was so so close to her got to the accident scene and couldn’t be with her, but we followed the ambulance to MH and were there when they told us they couldn’t save her. All of the people at MH were truly upset for such a senseless loss of life. We are truly grateful for what time we had with L and will truly miss her all the rest of our lives. All she wanted to do was to go to school to become a pediatrition to help kids throughout her life. She is still with us and now she is in heaven with her cousin C who died 8 years ago and she loved to no end. She was truly a very special and one of a kind person and there is **** in our hearts that she is gone. I love and miss you L.

a letter I had to write

remember these:

well here is what has become of them. A letter I had to write to my principal this morning.

Mr. D,

This is going to sound a bit sill but I did call my department head and she said I should let you know what has happened. Me being the sweet tooth that I am, I had a bag of skittles and a bag of chocolates in my desk drawer that I purchased Wednesday morning. When I came in today there were  chocolate wrappers on my desk, I thought this odd because I don’t leave wrappers on my desk. So I got to looking at them and there are 3 wrappers when I know that I have only eaten 2 of these chocolates (trying to curb that sweet tooth) so I open the desk drawer and the bag of skittles is also open (it is resealable, I opened it but had resealed it). So it is something as small as candy theft but maybe who ever cleaned my room last night is also taking things from other teachers. I also feel that I need to dispose of the skittles as a custodians hand was in the bag, I have no idea if they washed their hands after using the restroom and now I certainly don’t feel as if I can share them with my students as I had intended to do next week as they took their finals. This was a 6-7 dollar bag of candy that now I feel as if I have to through away.

 

Thanks for reading all this!

I shouldn’t have said it but I did…

I had one of my SPED students make up a test today. He requires someone to read his test to him. When he came back today he told me that,”You should grade my test easy.”

Me: I’ll grade your test the same way I graded everyone else’s.

SPED: Well you should grade me at a lower standard then the others.

beware this is what i said but i think he needed to hear it.

Me: “Just because you place yourself at a lower standard doesn’t mean that I will. I expect more out of you.

He then proceeded to ask if todays finals review was extra credit or if I was going to take a grade on it.

Duh?

Pack your bags girls, we are gettin’ out of here…

So after all of the fun I had with my camera and all of the hard work I have done outside (days and days of work) I have decided that either I am new, ever going off the sidewalk at my house again or I am moving. Why would I do all of that work and then just abandon it you ask? Did I see another child of the earth? Nope. Did another huge centipede crawl out from the depths of H-E-double hocky sticks? Nope.

As awful as those things might have been this was worse. I’d post a picture but just the sight of this would freak me out and I sure wouldn’t take my own picture!

My husband has been putting up a fence around our property. He was working on the fence last night and I went out to tell him that his dinner was ready. While standing there something moved on the ground in front of me, I was startled and jumped but it was a little lizard (which my fear for has lessened over the years, not that I would touch one or anything but I can stand it if they are a few feet from me). My husband seeing my jump, asked what if I saw it. I said yeah a little lizard ran into the bush.

He said, “Oh then he must still be in the hole.”

I asked, “what is in the hole?”

He asks, “Did you look in this hole?” and motions to the post hole just a short 5 feet away from me.

I reply, “No, what is in there.”

… and what was is stupid response? “Oh just a snake.”

“A SNAKE!” I YELLED AS I START RUNNING FOR THE HOUSE. “WHAT KIND”

he calmly says, “oh just a little bull snake”

“BULL S____” I SAY. “YOU HAD BETTER KILL HIM HE IS ON MY PROPERTY!”

I think he must have laughed then as I ran the tenth of a mile back to the house and firmly shut the door and in a panic call my mother to tell her the horrid news that I know have to move and that I may be getting a divorce if my husband is stupid enough to bring that thing any closer to the house where I might see it. My mother understands (the fear of snakes is a genetic trait among women in my family) she wouldn’t blame me for divorcing my husband for bringing a snake with in 5 feet of me.

So the hubby comes in for dinner. I emphasize the dire need for him to kill this snake and take the dirty carcass far, far away. He laughs and says, “but it is a good snake.” Again I almost swear at him.

He eats dinner and then goes back out to work on the fence and I hope kill the snake.

He comes back in when it starts to rain and tells me, ” I filled that hole with water so the snake could get out but he was a lot bigger than I thought he was.”

Me: “How big did you think he was?”

Hubby: “Oh about this long.” Holding his hands about 2 feet apart.

Me: “A TWO FOOT SNAKE AND YOU WEREN’T GOING TO KILL IT ARE YOU INSANE. HOW BIG WAS IT?”

Hubby: “well he came up to about here.” holding his hand to the middle of his chest.

ME: “THAT IS OVER 4 FEET! OH MY OH MY! WHAT DID YOU DO WITH IT? YOU DIDN’T BRING IT TO THE HOUSE, YOU DIDN’T JUST LEAVE IT OUT THERE FOR ME TO FIND DID YOU????”

Hubby: “No I threw him in the wash on the neighbors property.”

Me (very sincerely): “Oh honey, thank you. Your my hero. Is there anything you need, want? I’ll do anything you need. Would you like some cupcakes? cookies? a pie?”

Hubby: “Cupcakes sound good.”

Needless to say I fired the oven right up and baked the evening away and I won’t be found out side unless I am riding the riding lawn mower with the chopper blade down and my feet in the air! Snakes Beware I’ll chop you to bits, you had best stay 5 miles from where ever I am!

What was I thinking?

Any one want to clue me in on what I might have been thinking this morning when I purchased this?

… and as much as I hate to admit it, the intent was not to share this bag. In addition to that I like these little sugar balls but I don’t love them.

Water hose + Flashing = Fun

So I was outside watering my flowers when I noticed that my first Iris had bloomed soo I ran back inside to grab my camera.

Then I was watering and had some fun with the camera, my flowers and the garden hose. Let me know what you think.

I’m just gonna…

As a teacher you hear a lot, kids even teenagers will say things in front of you that you never, ever wanted to hear. I have been jotting down some of those things I hear and will post them and the thoughts I have about them later, but today I heard the kids talking about a Bon-Jovi song, one that a few had never heard. So Darling Llama says, “Hmmm, I’ll just U-Tube it.” U- Tube is no longer just a website, it is now a verb. I understood the Gooooogle thing and have often told my husband to go goooogle something but now we are U-Tubing. 

 

Man I haven’t even hit 30 yet but today I felt old.

A little game…

I have posted a few memes about myself, and when I post them here I am always serious an honest as a few people who read this blog don’t “really” know me. When I receive these fun little questions in my email, I answer them in any wacky way I feel like. My mother finds them funny so I though I would share my latest with you. It is okay if my mother is the only one that laughs, I teach high school I have no illusions that I am funny.

 

Here goes:

 

1. What time did you get up this morning? I never slept, see below

2. Diamonds or pearls? I’ll steal either

3.  What was the last film you saw at the theatre? do you ever really see the film because I for one have never ever seen the film at the theater, I think you might get arrested

4.  What is your favorite TV show? JBilly and Bobby and their 56 kids

5. What do you usually have for breakfast? HeMan-Super Mario-Wonder Woman Crunch

6. What is your middle name? Jacob-Jingle-Heimer

7. What food do you dislike? Bugs

8.  What is your favorite CD at moment?  the ones that come in the mail, they are great frisbees

9.  What kind of car do you drive? the bat mobile

10. Favorite sandwich? I prefer beach sand but not a fan of wich-es

11.What characteristic do you despise?   blue tongues

12. Favorite item of clothing? Well I am really not attracted to clothing

13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? right now, a cabin in Ireland, ALONE

14. Favorite brand of clothing? On sale

15. Where would you retire to?  I’ll never get to that point so I don’t think about it

16. What was your most recent memorable birthday? the first, yep I remember it

17. Favorite sport to watch? the salt and pepper fights when the cable goes out? IDK i don’t watch sports

18.  Furthest place you are sending this? G- She lives in her own world, I don’t know how to get there. HAHAHAHA

19. Person you expect to send it back first? fred Flinstone

20. When is your birthday? Same as yours, the day my mother gave birth to me

21. Are you a morning person or a night person? I am forced to be a morning person, that doesn’t mean I am a nice person in the morning or that I resemble a person, I am just a blob

22. What is your shoe size? depends on what size the cute shoes come in

23. Pets? a husband, he is hairy so he counts right? I also have 130 darling llamas that I tend to once each day

24. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share with us? I have duck flu

25. What did you want to be when you were little? a dino-sour digger-upper or a star following pilot

26. How are you today? i r fine

27.  What is your favorite candy? Myself, you really have to know me to get this one

28. What is your favorite flower? ones that don’t make me sneeze, oh wait there aren’t any like that so I guess tulips and lilacs

29. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? june 45th, when it gets here we will all be over joyed, no it wasn’t a typo

30. What is your favorite past time killing ants with snap pops, boy I am getting mean.

31.              What are you listening to right now?   The sound of a top secret box in my room humming and 30 mutant aliens breathing and asking to go to the restroom

32. What was the last thing you ate? a bug – ha me touch a bug are you kidding

33. Do you wish on stars? yes, I love wishing on Donald Trump

34. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? oh now that would be fun, I would be poop brown so no kid would ever eat me, no then I might look like chocolate and get eaten so I would be white, no that might look like marsh-mallows and I would get eaten so I would be… please don’t make me be a crayon

35. How is the weather right now? snowing 36 inches an hour. 215 degrees below zero, dark. Made you glad for your weather no matter what it is.

36. The first person you spoke to on the phone today? Cinderella, she called to borrow my glass slippers, she lost her’s again

37.  Favorite soft drink? I don’t drink anything soft, it might get caught in my throat.

38.              Favorite restaurant?    A Clean one

39. Real hair color? gold but I dye it so ya’ll won’t get jeeelll-ous

40.              What was your favorite toy as a child? not bugs I tell ya

41. Summer or winter? Well neither are very good names if you ask me

42. Hugs or kisses? depends on who you are, if I don’t know you then you better not touch me.

43. Chocolate or Vanilla? I am a twisty girl

44. Coffee or tea?  beans or leaves gee let me think…

45. Do you want your friends to email you back? This is a rude question, like hey does this dress make me look fat, do you really want people to answer this.

46. When was the last time you cried? Never, I have never cried, not even as a child, it is a super hero power I have

47. What is under your bed? The portal to hell, who keeps track of what is under the bed

48.  What did you do last night? I invaded a small country just off the coast of Wyoming

49. What are you afraid of ? bugs, must we go over this

50. Salty or sweet? gross you eat bugs

51. How many keys on your key ring? wouldn’t you like to know

52. How many years at your current job? 582.3141592

53. Favorite day of the week?  odmsnhvjemvday

54. How many towns have you lived in? all of them

55.  Do you make friends easily? well I bought this dough, but you have to kneed it for like 5 hours and then roll it flat and then cut it out the coat it with sugar and spices and then let it rest then place it in the insta-matic. So I never get past step one

56. How many people will you send this to? a negative zero

57. How many will respond? 2346^592 * 467383020

A reflection of who I am…

Ok so Learning to Lean did this and tagged everyone who wanted to give this a try so I did.  These women (my mother and grandmother and my aunt) are a reflection of who I am. Everything great in me comes from them, with out them I would be nothing. Happy Mother’s Day!

I’m not a mommy anymore…

 

This is a picture of my baby, Fezzywig. A few weeks ago he woke us up at 4 am with a pitiful cry. His little belly was full and it seemed he couldn’t go to the bathroom. I took the day off and took him to the vet with the help of a good friend. The vet said he was blocked and had crystals in his bladder and other parts. He spent the next 3 days at the vet before I could take him home. The poor little guy couldn’t hold in anything and leaked all over my floor. We loved on him and waited for him to return to his normal crazy self. He didn’t and we had to put him down a week after I brought him home.

Our house is super lonely with out this little guy. He kept us entertained. We will miss him.