FBI

This morning it was 32 degrees! It is not supposed to get that cold here on the surface of the sun! Sarah and I dug out our cute trench coats, hers green, mine pink and dressed warmly but fashionably in dress pants and light sweaters as we had bus duty. As we were walking out in our sun glasses we decided that we should be FBI agents instead of teachers because we looked really good.

Then we stopped at Walgreens for cold and flu supplies (propel, vitamin C drops, Kleenex) and I waited in the car. There was this guy driving a mustang with Nevada plates taking digital camera pictures of Walgreens. The store, the sidewalk, the street around it, it was weird. Then he went in and started going up and down the aisles very nonchalantly. By the time Sarah got to the car I had spun a web of mystery and intrigue that involved a super smart criminal who knew where every crack in the sidewalk was and murder.

So we decided we should definitely get to be FBI agents!

Lessons Learned

Here are two things you should not do at 4 a.m.

1. Shop online. While this seems like a fine time to do Christmas shopping because no one cares enough to be snooping and you think everything is fine, let me tell you, your faculties are not all there! For instance, when they ask you if the billing address and shipping address are the same and you are not going to be in Arizona to recieve the package or give the package on Christmas day you should not say yes. And it is a big deal to go back and change it as I am finding out so again, do not do your Christmas shopping onlione at 4 a.m.

2. Write Christmas Cards. Again, seems like a fine idea. I was wide awake, it was a quiet activity and needed to be done as soon as possible since I am flying out on Tuesday. Except, yep, you guessed it, the faculties are missing again. Much white out is needed at this point in the morning because all of a sudden you have forgotten things like how to spell your hometown and your grandparents name and that your cousin moved even though you visited her this summer at said new home.

Anyway, learn from my lessons and please forgive any white out that appears on your christmas greetings, it was mistaken with love!

Not Better When Older

There are some things that are not better when you get older and being sickness is one of them. Monday I survived on a bottle of water because I was sure that if I got out of bed I would be overcome by death and the by the time Sarah got home from work the water supply was getting low, it was a good thing she came home on time.

I was mess, as Sarah so nicely put it in her blog I was tossing my cookies for hours and I will spare you all the details now and say that I will never have to worry about becoming a belimic. Having a migraine for so long has been terrible (30 some odd days now) but that flu was worse, I truly thought it was the end, every part of me hurt. I will stop whining now and get on with life as it is 4 am and I do have to go to work today. I missed two days and I leave Tuesday for the Diamond clinic in Chicago to see about this nasty headache.

WE are getting ready for a cold snap here, low of 38 tonight, I am not sure what that will feel like here, it will be strange I guess I will get to see if the heater works!

Jolly day!

Today was a good day. My students created adjective posters based on the jolly ranchers that I gave them. It was fun, they like to make things with scissors and glue and the like. It was fun to see them work and work and not be loud and obnoxious, not to mention that I got alot of work done as well.

Tomorrow is the annual student vs. teachers basketball game which should be fun. The kids are pretty pumped up for it but I have a feeling the teachers don't have as much of a lock on it as we did last year. Should be interesting to say the least. Then it's turkey day which means four day weekend!!!!

Twilight zone!

Saturday Sarah and I went to Los Algodones, Mexico to go Christmas shopping. We had a great time, I know I have been there alot when the waiter at the restaurant recognized me! Usually we get offers for boyfriends and bodyguards and all this stuff that is nice for our self esteem. This time was different. At one point one man asked me if I was Sarah's mother! As if! And then this guy offered to be my boyfriend but then reconsidered because I was too tall. Let's just say the compliments were not pouring out of the south this weekend.
We did get lots of nice things though and I guess it's a good thing I am getting my haircut tomorrow if I am looking like Sarah's mother.

Physic Cats

The other morning Sarah and I were having breakfast and we remembered the physic cats. When we were visiting Santa Monica they have street performers at night to entertain the locals and the visitors. One of these street performers was a man and his cats, his physic cats! He said that for a fee his cats would tell the future. Now, we did not test this out but I did hang around for a few minutes to see if anyone would. The only thing I saw was a cat playing with some money, it was cute but I did not see anything paranormal about it.
So that's the story of the physic cats.

28 Days

No, I did not see the movie, this is how many days since my migraine started. This one is a doozy. Luckily I have ot missed any work but I am taking lots of pain meds and slleping alot. I am going back to the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago on December 19th when I go home, it makes me nervous being so close to Christmas and all but I am really trying to trust God.

I know I haven't blogged much and I am sorry but with th meds and the sleeping there isn't much time for other things. Here is a cute story though. When we read in class we read a style that is called popcorn reading. The kids read and when they are done they choose another child at random and so on. I let my students read as much as they want and then pick someone else but some teachers only let them read a paragragh. Some of my students, being lower, have trouble with transitions from one class to the next. Troy really likes to read so when he got picked he would read a paragraph and then say popcorn troy, read another paragraph, say popcorn troy and on and on it went for four or five paragraphs. I was laughing a little, trying not too but it was really cute.

These are my students, not the brightest bulbs, but they make my days!