computer games

Here's something that maybe no one knows I do almost every week for the past 3 years, and I wish I did every day... I play tetris on my computer. Well Missy and Jess may know because they may have seen me do it at my desk. I'm not that good, I think the highest I've gotten is about 25,000 points. It is so addicting though. I make those silly noises like, "aheheheh." "ugh." "joooodi!" "why did you do that?" then of course my back and neck always kill at the end of it because i haven't moved my head an inch because you have to concentrate so hard on what you are going to do with that next tetris piece. ooh! I have a game that is so cool. I'll find it tomorrow and then add it. it's a really cool brain teaser game. I love any kind of puzzle thing. I did an entire puzzle last Sunday in one day. pretty good.

the beat of marley

I've been listening to Bob Marley. What is it about Bob Marley that makes you think that everything will actually be okay?
I think I know. It's the beat. I remember that beat when I was in Belize. Belize was the only time in my life where my top ten favorite thing I've done lasted only 2.5 hours. Dancing in Belize in the middle of the day on the ocean was that one time. My other top 9 were 24 hour events of good things all in one day.

Do you have to know where I am?

I was just mapping out running routes on http://www.usatf.org/. It's pretty cool if you want to try it out! You map out your route and it tells you exactly the distance you are going to run or just did run. It got me thinking that you could tell people where you are at all times. Running and Camping... those are the two places that you can actually escape and people not know where you are. But NOW.. you can map it out and tell people where you are. I could go running and leave the map out for people to know where I am going. I actually did that when Sparky and I went winter camping this past winter. I left a little map out for Jess and told her what time we would be hiking and exactly what hike we were going to be on. Of course I trusted Sparky to keep me alive in the freezing cold weather, but you just never know.

Why do we like to keep constant tabs on ourselves and make sure people know where we are? In case we die? Well, you're dead so it doesn't matter. I guess maybe in case you get kidnapped.. because then they know what point you were taken from. What's the probability that I would actually get kidnapped? hmm.. i'm sure that is online somewhere... there is probably a map of the different probablilities of getting kidnapped around the US.

you, me, him... who?

One of my students found this note in the hall and I actually had to draw the people out and point arrows to figure out what she/he was talking about.

note: "Sexi mexi I dk if it's true but did you tell ryan marten to ask me out for you."

It seemed like a simple sentence, and I instantly thought that she like Ryan Marten. But then I decided to sit down and figure out who "me," "you," "ryan marten," and "sexi mexi" all had to do with each other.

I dare you to figure it out. I did.

a girl that deserves her own blog all on her own.

I have another girl who constantly constantly constantly wants your attention. I could probably tell several stories about .along with all of this... she always wants to show your her pet rock who talks, in the middle of math she'll want to go to the computer and work on her newsletter, in the middle of spelling, reading, science, read-aloud.. anytime really she'll want to go to the bathroom, in the middle of social studies she'll feel like she is going to throw up, in the middle of science she'll want to go copy her newsletter, in the middle or reading she'll want me to get yarn out, in the middle of who knows what she'll want to show me something she brought from home, in the middle of math she'll want to tell me that we won't be needing our folders in music today, right before lunch she'll want to call her mom because she is still going to throw up, in the morning she'll want to tell me about her rock collection or the locker she made, during reading groups she wants to show me her Pippi Longstocking and friends popsicle sticks she has made and if I think there hair is the right color, She burns wood chips outside with her magnifying glass, she won't leave school just in case we will be watching Bill Nye the Science Guy, at the end of the day she'll want to show me her new book and she'll want to do ANYTHING to get an Aaron's Allowance.
You may think I'm joking or exaggerating, but this all happened today, and I don't even have a good enough memory to actually remember everything.

my kids

I think my kids are funny. My kids... meaning my 5th graders.
I have one kid who when at recess swings on the swings and sings opera on the top of his lungs. I love to listen to him. I wish I could sing opera on the top of my lungs everyday.
I have one kid who on the very first 5 minutes of meeting him ... he said, "Miss Aaron, I went to a Lego Camp this summer and I have been desperately trying to find a lego league. Could you find one for me?!!"
I have another kid who when he looks at you, I swear to God he looks like the cat from Shrek. He is the most adorable creature alive.
Of course I have already discussed my fly lover and my polka dot bathroom sobber.
I have another kid who when anything surprises him he yells, "Holy Cow!"

This is a shout out to all of my friends who are Buckeye fans,
One of my kids came in this morning with a plastic bag. He brought a buckeye for every student in the classroom for good luck on the test. He's one of the leaders of the class. I have never believed in luck and today these buckeyes did not disprove my theory. The buckeyes did not help them on their math tests.

me vs. Rachel Ray

I was making corn salsa tonight, thinking this would be quick. I start with the cherry tomatoes, the most essential ingredient for salsa. One by one I take a tomato and slice it longways, then take one of the halves and slice that in half. Then I picked up the other half and sliced that side in half. Good! 4 little pieces. Halfway through the carton, I thought Rachel Ray would have been finished with the entire salsa by now, and probably even would have moved onto the next dish by now. Well maybe I can't cook an entire Rachel Ray meal in 30 minutes for 5 people, but I sure can cute tomatoes in 30 minutes. Go me!