I'm a long-lost chipmunk

My voice is squeaky and my throat hurts.

Stop making fun of me.

Just to clarify...

The wedding has not actually been called off.

It's still on, with all of the boatloads of work that goes with it.

Peter, there's no need for concern!

getting ready!

Today I bought the ingredients to make the peanutbutter pecan pie for Thanksgiving. I also bought the ingredients for and made my hot and sweet snack mix. It's pretty yummy.

You mix together:
Chex, Cheerios, Popcorn, Pretzels, and Craisins

Drizzle vegetable oil and tabasco sauce over it

Then sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar

Bake for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

YUM! The first taste is sweet, and then a few seconds later you feel some heat. :-)

Not much longer would you be mine....

Instead I heard it through the Grapevine!!

After our little lip sync performance, the boy said the wedding's off.

The girls and I told him that I changed the bridesmaid's dresses to our grape costumes, which was fine with him, because he said it would anger the bridesmaids more than him.

HA!

Way to go Dustin!

Our very own Rookie of the Year.

WOOT

the miracle of life

As I was feeding my fish last night, I noticed that one was missing. I looked around, and I can't find it anywhere.

It's gone.

My fish have a nasty habit of doing that. Darn fish.

Anyhoo....

As I was searching the tank for the big blue fish, I see something move in the corner. Something very very tiny.

I look closer.

It's a BABY fish!

A teensy weensy tiny winy baby fishy.

I don't know which one was the mommy, but one of my fishies had a baby!!

My hands are covered in marker

I hate when grades close on a Friday...because that is going to pretty much be my whole weekend. Grading papers. Argh.

FOOTBALLLL!

So I went to my first football game at the high school. This is my third year there, and I've only been to the one, sad to say. I had a lot of fun wrapped in a blanket from my car, dancing around to the music. Both the varsity and jv cheerleading squads were there. The JV girls are mostly middle schoolers, which is fun to see them outside of school. When I first got there a bunch of them all surrounded me and were hugging me. I thought "aww...they love me" then I realized they were just trying to get warm so I shoved them away! :-P

Papelbon on Letterman

This guy is hilarious!!

It's officially Halloween!

Mine's the cat and pumpkin sitting in the window. The boy made the creepy vampire face.

Yay for messy fun!!

oh yeah...and by the way....

swish!!

woot!!

We did it like before in 2004!

newest newest wedding idea

Ok, so after talking to the boy, he seems to want to have childhood pictures of us instead. What do you think about that instead? Better?

Newest wedding idea

For those of you who are in my close family (and my soon to be family), we have an idea for decorations at our reception. We want to have pictures of other family member's weddings in frames around the reception hall. I have some seashell frames of different sizes. I'd like to have the parents and grandparents in larger frames. We thought it would be fun to not include the names, so that people have to guess as to whose wedding picture they are looking at.

What do you think?

is there something I don't know??

We have lost yet another staff member in the middle of the year. This isn't normal. And this isn't just any staff member...this was the FREAKING DIRECTOR of special ed.

Is the ship sinking? Am I one of those people in denial on the Titanic that didn't realize the ship was actually going down until the water is quite literally above my head?

I'm not so sure this is a good feeling in the pit of my stomach.

swish, swish

What's that I hear? Could it be the sounds of a sweep?

Sox update

Youk is being benched tomorrow night....we'll see how that goes.

Papi at 1st base always makes me tense!

aw crap...

No Wakefield for the World Series.

and they've done it again!!

I stayed up REALLY late last night to watch the Red Sox KICK SOME BUTT!!!

That was a GREAT game! and as everyone keeps saying, the final score was NOT indicative as to how the game went. It was a nail biter up until the end.

Staying up until 1 am, and the alarm going off at 5 am is a BAAAD combo. I was so tired this morning I put my coffee down sometime around 8:30 half full and I didn't find it again until 6 pm tonight during jazz band.

argh

Is this California, or Massachusetts?

I woke up at around 1:20 this morning because my cell phone fell off my bedside table. I didn't think much of it, since I had only been asleep for about an hour (having stayed up for the SOX game). I picked it up, and went back to bed.

I woke up the next morning to reports of an earthquake that hit Littleton Common. It was a 2.5 on the Richter Scale.

Students were telling stories all day about how their pets woke them up. I don't remember thinking earthquake this morning, but apparently it was felt across the area.

Yesterday's Yard Sales

One electronic instrument tuner - $1.00

One ceramic Mardi Gras mask - $0.25

One ornamental french horn - $2.00

One Mozart CD - $1.00

One bag of 88 granny squares in assorted colors - $2.00

One pocket music dictionary - $1.00

One musical figurine of a girl playing a piano - $2.00

One pair of maracas from Mexico - $0.50

Total: $9.75

Fun day!!