Rice a Roni

You know, this is really good stuff. I usually have a box on the weekend if Grant has to work. yesterday, I had the fried rice kind. Its really pretty easy to make...you are supposed to cook the rice vermecelli mix with 2 table spoons butter or margerine until the vermecelli becomes golden brown...but, well, whatever...once the butter is melted I move on...it always turns out fine, im my opinion! I don't know where I'm going with this. I think, primarily, I am trying to avoid correcting this stack of essays. I guess I should go now.

Bye.

I'm not the only one...

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

- John Lennon

This Morning

Ok, so normally when I wake up in the morning, I get up and turn off the alarm as fast as I can (which is on the other side of the room) and then I put in my contacts, and then (hee hee) go back and lay down for a few more minutes of warm lazy time before jumping in the shower.

So this morning I am laying there in my warm lazy time, and struggling to stay awake. Usually this isn't a problem, but I have been known to dose a bit when I go back to bed.

So, I roll over to check the clock to make sure I hadn't overslept, when I realize that:
A) I haven't put my contact in yet,
and B) The alarm hasn't gone off yet,
because it is 2:30 in the morning.

I really don't want to know how long I was laying there trying to actually keep myself awake. Thant has never happened before.

Yikes. I I am so tired.

Red Ribbon Week

Today, my kids were asked to come up with a Red Ribbon (Drug Awareness and Prevention) slogan. I just about busted a gut when I heard this one, in perfect accent:

"Mare - uh - juh - won - uh
is bad, mmmmmm-kay?

Rent Soundtrack is Here!

The Rent soundtrack is here and available!!!

"HOW DO YOU MEASURE A YEAR?"
Rent - In theaters Nov. 23 (69, 935 minutes from the posting of this blog)

Over..what's next...

Well, Back to School Night is over. Yuck. No fun. I don't know if I am giving parents what they really want to hear or what. I ddi't get a lot of feedback. Oh well. I had plenty to say! I talked for the whole 30 minutes easily.

Today after school I am going to home school Amy and then I am going to Pasadena for a weekend conference. It will be a sort of nice mini vacation, I guess...thats how I am looking at it! The conference is all about GATE stuff, So it should be useful. I'll get a lot of information!

Laterz

Back to School Night

Back to school night starts in ten minutes. I hate the waiting. I am not a patient person. I want to get this over wth. I hope that I don't speak to quickly, so there is a whole lot of time left when I am done. I hope I make a good impression. I am being judged tonight. Yikes. Classroom presentations are so much easier. Maybe I should have practiced what I was going to say. Hee hee! Oops. Oh well. I have to pee. I always have to pee when I am nervous. But then I don't really have to pee. If I were going to go the the bathroom, that little pee pee muscle would give me a wink and a tear and that would be all she wrote. I am sure you are thinking about what a lovely visual that is. Three minutes. I should publish this and go. I hope that tear doesn't roll down my leg. Wish me luck. It will all be over in one hour!

Just sittin around

Hi. I am sitting here in my classroom. Grant is setting up my printer on my computers. He is wonderful. I just finished correcting my papers. We're going to go see Grandma at her rehab facility tonight. We were going to swing by Dinseyland, to, but I don't think we'll be making it. I have Back to School Night in two days. I am not close to ready.

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

Rent Quote of the night:

The opposite of WAR isn't PEACE, it's CREATION.

Choc Walk

Buenos nochas,
I did the Choc walk at Disneyland this morning. It was awesome! I really had a good time. I was impressed by how many people showed up, by the number of charecters who cheered us along the way, and really by the whole experience all the way around. Next year I would like to be more organized and actually get a team going. Today, Angie, Cori, and Kevin, Amy's brother, went. Kevin is just the sweetest kid ever.

I am super tired, however. Its been a long day.

peace, tonight...