TEACHER: George, go to the map and find North America.
STUDENT: Here it is!
TEACHER: Correct. Now class, who discovered America?
CLASS: George!
HAROLD: Teacher, would you punish me for something I didn't do?
TEACHER: Of course not.
HAROLD: Good, because I didn't do my homework.
TEACHER: I hope I didn't see you looking at Don's paper.
JOHN: I hope you didn't either.
TEACHER: In this box, I have a 10-foot snake.
SAMMY: You can't fool me, teacher....snakes don't have feet!
TEACHER: Ellen, give me a sentence starting with "I".
ELLEN: I is....
TEACHER: No, Ellen, Always say "I am."
ELLEN: All right... "I am the ninth letter of the alphabet".
TEACHER: Max, use "defeat", "defense", and "detail" in a sentence.
MAX: The rabbit cut across the field, and defeat went over defense before detail.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Speaking of Zombies
We watched "Wicked Little Things" this evening On Demand. It was one of the freebies, but it wasn't too bad. I don't like gorey, and this wasn't too gorey. Creepy little zombie children though...
Friday, January 30, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Mother Nature hates us...
I am SO SICK of snow! This was the kind of snow that hurts to shovel. It was thick, heavy, wet, and sloppy. It was NOT an easy clean-up!!
Then there was the whole ice dam situation. I come downstairs this afternoon (I spent most of the day upstairs playing on my computer and grading) and I hear a strange noise. Turns out, it is a practical DELUGE of dripping water in the bowed window in the living room. I move everything out of the way and get towels. LOTS of towels-the dripping went right through most of them. I call husband-no answer. I call mom-no answer. I call stepdad-no answer. I call in-laws-no answer. I call aunt-she tells me to call uncle. I call uncle, and FINALLY get ahold of someone!! He says it's most likely an ice dam, and to wait till the boy gets home because he doesn't want me on a ladder or on the roof when no one else is home (he doesn't want me there even when someone IS home). I look out onto the porch roof from the second story window, and I thought I saw the problem - there's an overhang from the main roof over the porch roof.
The boy finally gets home and gets stuck in the driveway. I hadn't had the chance to shovel since I found out about the leak. I had been trying to find ways to stop the flood. No luck.
I go out to help the boy, he heads to Home Depot to find a roof rake. Again, no luck.
I shovel the driveway, he shovels the roof. It doesn't seem to stop the waterfall in our living room, because all of a sudden the fire alarms are going off. Turns out the water started flowing through the living room smoke detector and caused it to go off. I unplug it from the ceiling, only to be soaked when the water pours out on my head. Luckily, most of the water came out on my head, and it was just dripping after that.
I finally get ahold of my stepdad, and he thought to have me check the crawlspace to see if there was water up there. BOY was there water up there! The rug in the crawlspace was soaked - we left handprints in the rug as the water seeped up. We cut the rug in half and rolled it up. The boy ran his section through the house because it was so completely soaked that it was dripping. We mopped up the crawlspace to see where the water was coming in from. We pulled a piece of insulation out of the way to discover the ice dam was actually on the main roof.
Back out onto the porch roof again....
The boy tries shoveling off the main roof on the side of the front dormer. Success! The water slows down and eventually stops.
We go back to shoveling the driveway, which was interrupted when the fire alarms started going off.
We have a quick dinner of mac n' cheese - organic, no less! (ann would be proud)
Then we start getting ready for bed. I went into the basement to get the towels out of the dryer to lay out by the window just in case, and I step in a puddle.
ARGH!
There's water on the basement floor. We don't know WHERE it came from. It was in the middle of the floor - not near a door or window. There wasn't any dripping through the ceiling or down the walls we could see. We mopped that up, and will have to check on it tomorrow morning. It's kind of strange that with all of the rain we got this summer, we didn't get ANY water inside of our house.
I replaced the towels in the living room, and noticed that we'll probably have to repair part of the ceiling around the fire alarm. There is a significant bubble in the ceiling plaster. It's empty - there's nothing in it, but it's only going to dry, crack and crumble off. I did manage to pop the bubble on the wall - I removed the water and it seems to have shrunk back up to the wall again. We'll see if it holds.
Oh - and did I mention that a stupid plow nailed our mailbox??
Then there was the whole ice dam situation. I come downstairs this afternoon (I spent most of the day upstairs playing on my computer and grading) and I hear a strange noise. Turns out, it is a practical DELUGE of dripping water in the bowed window in the living room. I move everything out of the way and get towels. LOTS of towels-the dripping went right through most of them. I call husband-no answer. I call mom-no answer. I call stepdad-no answer. I call in-laws-no answer. I call aunt-she tells me to call uncle. I call uncle, and FINALLY get ahold of someone!! He says it's most likely an ice dam, and to wait till the boy gets home because he doesn't want me on a ladder or on the roof when no one else is home (he doesn't want me there even when someone IS home). I look out onto the porch roof from the second story window, and I thought I saw the problem - there's an overhang from the main roof over the porch roof.
The boy finally gets home and gets stuck in the driveway. I hadn't had the chance to shovel since I found out about the leak. I had been trying to find ways to stop the flood. No luck.
I go out to help the boy, he heads to Home Depot to find a roof rake. Again, no luck.
I shovel the driveway, he shovels the roof. It doesn't seem to stop the waterfall in our living room, because all of a sudden the fire alarms are going off. Turns out the water started flowing through the living room smoke detector and caused it to go off. I unplug it from the ceiling, only to be soaked when the water pours out on my head. Luckily, most of the water came out on my head, and it was just dripping after that.
I finally get ahold of my stepdad, and he thought to have me check the crawlspace to see if there was water up there. BOY was there water up there! The rug in the crawlspace was soaked - we left handprints in the rug as the water seeped up. We cut the rug in half and rolled it up. The boy ran his section through the house because it was so completely soaked that it was dripping. We mopped up the crawlspace to see where the water was coming in from. We pulled a piece of insulation out of the way to discover the ice dam was actually on the main roof.
Back out onto the porch roof again....
The boy tries shoveling off the main roof on the side of the front dormer. Success! The water slows down and eventually stops.
We go back to shoveling the driveway, which was interrupted when the fire alarms started going off.
We have a quick dinner of mac n' cheese - organic, no less! (ann would be proud)
Then we start getting ready for bed. I went into the basement to get the towels out of the dryer to lay out by the window just in case, and I step in a puddle.
ARGH!
There's water on the basement floor. We don't know WHERE it came from. It was in the middle of the floor - not near a door or window. There wasn't any dripping through the ceiling or down the walls we could see. We mopped that up, and will have to check on it tomorrow morning. It's kind of strange that with all of the rain we got this summer, we didn't get ANY water inside of our house.
I replaced the towels in the living room, and noticed that we'll probably have to repair part of the ceiling around the fire alarm. There is a significant bubble in the ceiling plaster. It's empty - there's nothing in it, but it's only going to dry, crack and crumble off. I did manage to pop the bubble on the wall - I removed the water and it seems to have shrunk back up to the wall again. We'll see if it holds.
Oh - and did I mention that a stupid plow nailed our mailbox??
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
After all...I am my grandfather's granddaughter
In my self-defense, I didn't order the Power Juicer off of the actual infomercial. But I did get it. (from Macy's).
I made my first glass of juice this evening after dinner. It was REALLY good too! Even the boy liked it! I combined 2 oranges, 1 carrot, and a starfruit. (I only added the starfruit because I needed to do something with it before it went bad)
I'm excited - fresh juice!! Yum!
I made my first glass of juice this evening after dinner. It was REALLY good too! Even the boy liked it! I combined 2 oranges, 1 carrot, and a starfruit. (I only added the starfruit because I needed to do something with it before it went bad)
I'm excited - fresh juice!! Yum!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
so much snow...
Is it just me, or have there been more snow storms this year than in most recent years? Global warming my butt...
Thursday, January 15, 2009
New computer!
I have my new laptop! Yay!
It's a new Dell Inspiron 1318, and it's blue. :-)
It has Windows Vista on it; I'm still trying to figure out how I like it.
Bill told me it sucks...
My tech guy at school told me it sucks...
....my decision hasn't been made yet.
It's a new Dell Inspiron 1318, and it's blue. :-)
It has Windows Vista on it; I'm still trying to figure out how I like it.
Bill told me it sucks...
My tech guy at school told me it sucks...
....my decision hasn't been made yet.
Here we go again!
It's musical time again!! At least this time around I'm not doing it for the first time ever.
This year I am putting on "Willy Wonka Jr". The show is March 27, 28, and 29. Mark your calendars!
Today were the call-backs...I HATE this part. I like it much better when one person comes in and blows away the competition, it makes my job much easier. This year I had a hard time deciding between a BUNCH of characters. I had to call back students for Charlie, Willy Wonka, Veruca, and 3 of the mothers. It's so difficult to decide, but I think I made the right decisions. (I hope).
At least when I announced my decision to the students who had stuck around, they were all happy for each other, and were congratulating each other. It was great to see. No one seemed to go home upset at least. However, we'll see what tomorrow brings when the entire cast finds out.
This year I am putting on "Willy Wonka Jr". The show is March 27, 28, and 29. Mark your calendars!
Today were the call-backs...I HATE this part. I like it much better when one person comes in and blows away the competition, it makes my job much easier. This year I had a hard time deciding between a BUNCH of characters. I had to call back students for Charlie, Willy Wonka, Veruca, and 3 of the mothers. It's so difficult to decide, but I think I made the right decisions. (I hope).
At least when I announced my decision to the students who had stuck around, they were all happy for each other, and were congratulating each other. It was great to see. No one seemed to go home upset at least. However, we'll see what tomorrow brings when the entire cast finds out.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Super Mario Drummer
This is quite cool.
I suppose you'll have to settle for the link...since I had problems embedding it.
Click here
I suppose you'll have to settle for the link...since I had problems embedding it.
Click here
Dead computer
It is no longer close to dead.
It's dead.
Thank GOD the boy got me that external hard drive and I could back it all up!
It's dead.
Thank GOD the boy got me that external hard drive and I could back it all up!
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Death of a computer
Say goodbye to the Inspiron 6000. It has gotten me pretty far, but is dying. On its way out. Kaputskie.
In a week or two, I will have my new laptop. It's smaller, lighter, has more memory, and is way cheaper than this one. And it's blue!
I am stuck using this piece of junk for a few more days - then you shall see the pics and blogs that I used to make, but haven't been able to for fear of computer explosion...
In a week or two, I will have my new laptop. It's smaller, lighter, has more memory, and is way cheaper than this one. And it's blue!
I am stuck using this piece of junk for a few more days - then you shall see the pics and blogs that I used to make, but haven't been able to for fear of computer explosion...
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