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guilt free

special k — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:38:59 +0000

guilt free girl scout cookies:
consume three samoas one hour before spin class.
yup…

the early bird gets the…

special k — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:16:47 +0000

gr…
It seems like I can’t bring myself to sleep in on the weekends here. I spend a whole week getting 4 hrs of sleep every night and finally it’s the weekend… and I’m expecting myself to sleep in…but I don’t. I can’t. I CAN’T SLEEP ANYMORE!! but I want to!!! My life is so surreal when I’m wide awake at 8 on a Saturday. ugh, I feel old.

with child

special k — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:33:40 +0000

Preschooler came up to me today…

kid:Do you have a child at home?
me: what?!
kid: Do you have a child?? at home?!
me: uh…no…lol… do I look like I would have a child at home?
kid: well aren’t you a mother?
me: no… do I look like a mother?
kid: so you really don’t have a child at home?
me:…no… how old do you think I am? Do you think I’m old enough to have a child?
kid: yes… but no, because you look younger than my mommy… so no child?
me: no……..
other kid: maybe it could still be in your stomach.
me: WHAT?!
other kid: well… that’s where babies come from! your stomach!

………kid was so insistent that I had a kid.

poison control

special k — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:55:18 +0000

so I guess my lack of z’s has caught up to me…
I’ve got food poisoning… or the stomach flu… I can’t tell what is what. I’ve got symptoms of both….like mad. can’t keep any food down.. I can’t even keep the Pedialyte down… Probably because it tasted a lot better as a kid. I swear I remember it tasting like juice. Now it just taste like…crap…encouraging more trips to the bathroom. joy.

edit

Ok so now I’m thinking it’s the stomach flu… I’ve been in and out of fevers/chills. The vomiting has stopped but I’m still losing plenty of liquid. I couldn’t think of anything I could have eaten that would do this to me. Everything I had recently was cooked or just purchased from the store. I meant it could have been poor packaging or something, but still, I think I would’ve felt better by now if it had been that. I’m pretty sure one of my students transferred something yucky to me. They’re a bunch of first graders who don’t know smack about hygiene. Well, some of them are good about it, but I can point out a select few who always have their hands in their mouths, wipin it on something else(me). OR really washing their hands after the bathroom.We have a bathroom in our classroom cuz it’s an old kindergarten classroom. I realized the other day that not all of them do. I caught one kid…
as kid walks out of the bathroom towards the classroom…
me:excuse me, go wash your hands.
kid:uh i don’t need to.
me: you just came out of the bathroom, you need to go wash your hands.
kid: but i didn’t use my hands, so i don’t need to.
me: *gave him a wtf look* I don’t know how you managed that, but I don’t care. Anytime you come out of the bathroom, you wash your hands.
kid walks away and sulks as he washes his hands.

I’ve been super paranoid this semester with these first graders. Washing my hands, using hand sanitizer every chance I get. I dry out my hands so bad with this stuff, but it’s so worth it cuz these kids are nasty. Apparently, it doesn’t help… I shouldn’t been taking my airborne. I got lazy and stopped, and now look what happened. gr.
I’ve managed to take down some congee today. But I’m dying for something else to eat. I really don’t want to miss out on the dinner at fushing tomorrow night. I’ve been craving that stuff for the past week… but even if I do get better enough to go, I doubt I’ll be eating anything there other than rice boooo.

z’s

special k — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:40:35 +0000

Monday- 3 hrs
Tuesday- 2 hrs
Wednesday- 4hrs
Thursday- 5 hrs
Friday- TBA

… How much sleep I’ve been running on every day of the week. Even though I got 5 hrs last night, it was the hardest to wake up from. 4 hrs and 6 hrs seem to be the easiest for me to wake up from, but 6 just isn’t happening any time soon… I’d love 8+…but I guess that’s just a weekend thing…

wow

special k — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:01:18 +0000

I had no idea…
but I think it’s pretty cool.

snooze

special k — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:28:55 +0000

thursdays… apparently the hardest day of the week for me to wake up.
unfortunately the most important day of the week for me to wake up early.

snow blow

special k — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:52:57 +0000

This snow is really throwing me off. I got all my hopes up just for a stinkin two hour delay. The teachers were saying something about not having to take days from their summer and all, but I could care less, cuz I won’t be there anyway. Moco got their cancellation, but apparently they’re up to day four. One more snow day and they’ll have to start extending the school year.
So back to my two hour delay rant. Why post a two hour delay when you can’t even get the roads cleared in time? By the time I got to school, the faculty lot was still covered in snow. They actually had to call the early bird teachers out of the school to move their cars so that they could do a clean job plowing the lot. Ridiculous. Sidewalks were still being plowed by the time the kids got there. What’s the point of having a two hour delay when you can’t even make the snow disappear before the kids get in? ugh. This county is just too stubborn to admit defeat.
I’m looking at this weekend snow and just dreading it. Why does it always have to fall on the weekend? I don’t get it. Ruins my Saturday. Last Saturday I almost went insane trapped in my apartment. The whole idea of feeling trapped inside was wiggin me out. I was so bored that I had to go outside and clean off my car just so that I wouldn’t lose my mind sitting inside. I couldn’t go anywhere in it… I just cleaned off the snow that was still piling up on it.
On Sunday, the first thing I did was run to the mall. And to my surprise I came out feeling ten times better. Retail therapy totally works. Must’ve been the killer deals.

alligator skin

special k — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:26:10 +0000

seriously. I feel like one.
My skin has been drying up to the point where I feel like I could turn into a reptile any day now.
It’s horrible!! I apply lotion endlessly all over… but I can’t bring it to school with me and apply it on my body in the middle of the day… but I do use my face moisturizer every couple of hours cuz I can feel my face peeling. I don’t get it! My skin has always been on the dryer side, but not THIS dry!! My back burns when I lay down sometimes because it’s so dry and it’s the hardest part to moisturize. arghhh… I can’t wait for spring

cheeeez gromit! you forgot the cheeez!

special k — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:50:01 +0000

I’ve spent the past couple of the days downing wine with cheese and crackers. I feel like I went to a vineyard for wine tasting… but all I did was visit my cousin who paid a visit to Total Wine in VA. I never really got into reds, but I finally did and loved it! I’m not really sure what I had…we went through at least 6 different reds. Plus the cheese was a bonus. I was never a big fan of cheese and crackers…well I never actually tried it till this weekend, but it was amazinggggg. It gave me a whole new perspective on Wallace and Gromit- A Grand Day Out. I loved that video as a kid, but cheese and crackers in real life never looked as good as the stuff on the moon. I’m officially sold. Cheese, crackers and wine. mmmm.