crushes, and twisters, and shoes...oh my!

This weekend was "Open House" at the girls' school. Here's E at her desk...so studious.

E's closest friends are boys. DG doesn't really click with the girls in her class, they're either too "girlie," negative, or not very imaginative. There's a group of boys with which DG plays superheroes, dragons, and other nerdy role playing games. These are not the "football" boys as DG calls the other boys in the class. (Jeez, jocks and nerds in third grade already *sigh.*) Anyway, we walked into the classroom and there was her friend "G," (using initials to protect the innocent)along with his parents and sister. He's new this year so, I had never met them before. As soon as we walked in, there was all kinds of pointing and whispering on their part. I heard the sister whisper teasingly "So THAT'S E." I introduced myself and G's mom informed me that they heard a lot about Emma at home. *wink**wink* Oh boy, that's the third mom that's told me her son has a crush on E. And she is COMPLETELY oblivious. It's very sweet, I just wonder when it's all going to change.

Speaking of boys, she did her science fair project with her friend "M" who, incidentally proposed to her in Preschool. Here's some of the project. (I had to cut "M" out as to not expose other peoples' kids to the dangers on the interweb). It was on tornadoes. They did a really good job and even made one of those tornadoes in a bottle thing. If you look at the board you can see they made it into a "Twister" board...get it? "Twister" she unfortunately inherited my sense of humor.


Then we ventured over to Kindergarten and got the grand tour from K. Here she is at her locker:



At any rate, she proudly showed us her desk, her favorite dress up clothes, etc. Then we went over to a bulletin board where her name was prominantly displayed on the "I lost a tooth chart" and the "I know my address and phone number" chart. She sulkily pointed to the "I can tie my shoe" chart and said, "I want to get my name up there."

She was right. I was shirking my parental duties. I had attempted to teach her her a while back, but her lefthandedness threw me for a loop...Literally! *ahem* Sorry. I promised her we'd get some shoes with laces and try again.

Tonight, we bought her some Hello Kitty kicks expressly for "project shoe-tie." I mentally prepared myself for the long weeks of knots and frustration that lie ahead. While E started her homework, I showed K the ropes --ha! (there I go again, somebody stop me) and said just work on some knots while I help E. No sooner do I read the directions on E's homework, I hear, "I did it." Sure enough, she did. An actual bow. "Wow", I said "Okay do the other one, I'll be right back." No sooner do I look at E's math problem, she's like, "Got it!" It was amazing. She's like a shoe tying machine. She did it, like, easily twenty-five times tonight. She's all psyched to go to school to show her teacher. Mrs. K better have that Sharpie ready. I don't think she's going to give her a minute of peace until her name is up on that shoe.

Here's what was probably successful attempt #20:

haiku review - oscar nominees - part ii

The Queen

stoic royalty
could have been on PBS
best picture? really?

not as think as i dumb i am

Although this test was really easy, I just want to prove to Mom and Dad that their hard earned money was not completely wasted on my education.

You paid attention during 97% of high school!

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!

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fun with wiki

I saw this on another blog, and, because I lack any originality lately, I will reproduce it here.

I went to Wikipedia and typed in the day of my birth, September 3 and found a plethora of information about that day in history. Here are the highlights.

3 interesting events:

1929 - Dow Jones Industrial Average reached all time high at the time (381.17), which was shortly followed by the crash of 1929.

1939 - World War II begins when France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, starting the Allies.

1976 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars and takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.

3 people who share my birthday:

1910 - Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality
1913 - Alan Ladd, American actor (d. 1964)
1965 - Charlie Sheen, American actor


3 people who died on my birthday:

1962 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894)
1991 - Frank Capra, American film director (b. 1897)
2005 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)

And an odd piece of trivia:

Date of death of Papa, subject of The Temptations hit record Papa Was a Rollin' Stone.

Wow that was really boring, but at least it was a post. I encourage you to wiki your own birthday and share your findings with me.

webshots

I am testing a feature on webshots to embed a photo slideshow onto a blog.
Let's see if it works



koryan03

Huh, what do you know?
Cool.

t i double guh --ow!

Have you read this story about the costumed Tigger character in Disney World who punched out a kid? (Thanks to Laura...I did)

Well, it seems as though even more characters from the Hundred Acre Wood have been harassing visitors in the happiest place on earth this week while posing for photographs with families.

Eeyore plunged a child into depression after continually whispering, "It's not worth it, life isn't worth living." into her ear.

Pooh nearly mauled a man who was eating a bit-o-honey candy bar.

And Piglet kicked a guy square in his haycorns.

not just for bad breath anymore

K: What are ass mints?
Me: (long startled pause) What are what?!
K: ass mints
Me: um, could you use those words in a sentence?
K: That's her ass mints.
Me: Where did you hear that?
K: On Charlie Brown, Lucy says, "That's her ass mints!"
Me: (relief washing over me) OH! Harassment! That means to bother someone.
K: okay

haiku reviews

The Good Shepherd

emotionless, flat
fraternities are silly
extremely long flick







Rocky Balboa

characters were pure
better than films four and five
nostalgia abounds