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A Warm Fuzzy

Feb 262010

I am feeling pretty good right now and wanted to document it here. I had just arrived to work a short while ago when a woman I had never met came into my classroom to introduce herself to me. She is a tutor who works in the classroom directly next to mine, and our rooms are divided by a partition with a 2 ft opening at the top. The school was built with an “open” design so we have no doors. I can see and hear everything that is going on in the 5 other classrooms in my wing and vice versa. Anyway to make my long story short, this woman came in today because she wanted to let me know that she loves the way I teach and relate to my kids and how positive I am with them. She told me I inspire her to be a better teacher. Made me feel proud and appreciative to know that others can see how hard I try to reach these smart but often needy kids. Times are tough and we are expected to do even more with less resources. As teachers we often do not feel appreciated enough. Hearing those words made my day :)

Is anyone besides Sam interested in knowing more about my job as a Gifted Education Specialist? I know I don’t often talk about my job on here, but maybe when I find some time I will try to write more about what I do.

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MN Timberwolves Library Dedication

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Oct 292009

This past Monday was a very special day at one of the schools I teach at. Last spring our school was selected by the Timberwolves' Fastbreak Foundation to receive a library makeover. Over the past few weeks several members of the Timberwolves office staff spent hours and hours at our school, painting the library and putting together the new shelving and then re-stocking the library books on the shelves. The walls are the blue, green and white of the Timberwolves plus we got giant wall decals with the current Timberwolves players. Everything looks amazing!

Monday was the big celebration, with the Timberwolves people (along with school district administration) coming out to help us celebrate. A couple of the Timberwolves players were supposed to be there also but
were running late from that morning's practice. They finally showed up
after it was over and signed a few autographs. The organization has promised to bring the
players back when they can come, but with the start of a brand-new
season, it may be awhile before that happens, we'll see.

Crunch, the Timberwolves mascot was also along for the fun and even helped act out the book that was read aloud, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. It was great!!

After the celebration Crunch insisted he have his picture with me. Too bad I was in the middle of saying something when this photo was taken, I look like a big dorkis.

If you'd like to read the Timberwolves article about the project, read here.

Thank you Minnesota Timberwolves!!!!

It was a HOT one last week

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Jun 282009

Warning: Long post ahead!

To say last week was hot is an understatement. Especially when its 90'+ and you go a week without A/C in your house. The condenser blew and it needed to be replaced with a whole brand-new unit. An expensive one (of course!), which we were not able to have installed immediately. I am grateful to have great neighbors with cold houses who gave us refuge from the heat in the evenings up until bedtime. There were way too many sleepless nights with having a bedroom on the third floor and afternoon sun beating down on it, making it at least 100'. Fans didn't do anything but blow hot air around. I was so dang miserable and exhausted from lack of sleep, I swear living without a/c is detrimental to my health! The last few nights I slept in the basement, which helped some. The good news is a new unit was installed Saturday and my house is cold again. Yay! I will appreciate it forever and ever ;)

This past week was also the first week of summer school. I am teaching 5th grade reading to my class and the other 5th grade class. Its going great so far, my kids are all very well behaved and the room is nice and cool. Summer school takes place in this building (taken on a rainy morning last week)

This is the view out of my classroom. I had been waiting for a clear day and the right lighting to get this photo all week!

Speaking of pictures, I bet you're wondering why your blog readers were filled with photo posts from me yesterday. Well, I decided to import all of my posts from my Daily photo Blog into this Mi Vida Ocupada blog. I just don't know if it makes sense to me to keep two different blogs when I post so many photos over here anyway. I have a lot more traffic on this blog and sometimes it seems redundant to post my photos in both places. Initially the point of the Daily Photo Blog was for me to challenge myself to take better photos more often and I think I have proven to myself that I can do that. Especially with all the interest in the Photo Hunt Challenges that I have been posting. Photography has become my biggest passion in recent months, completely replacing scrapbooking (which I haven't done in a year now and have lost pretty much all desire). I hope you all don't mind seeing more of my photography right here!

Now about the Photo Hunt: On Tuesday, June 30th I will be putting up a new post with Mr. Linky so everyone who completed the Photo Hunt #2 can link to their entries. I know summertime (and life in general) can sneak up on ya when you're busy, but I hope we have a good turnout of people who completed it. I have just two more photos to take on my list, then I will be posting My Results. FYI- I am in the process of creating a brand-new blog just for the Photo Hunts. Stay tuned for more information and when it is ready, I will start redirecting all Photo Hunt related info to that site.

So much happened last week and it was just too dang hot for me to sit down and blog about any of it. Biggest news of the week: Michael Jackson died. I was a little shocked at first, but not really. I guess I had a feeling he wasn't doing very good. I loved MJ as a kid (didn't everyone?). Thriller was my very first album and I loved, loved, loved every song. He has had so many great hits over the years. I never hated on him with all the drama in his adult life, although there is no doubt he had issues. I don't know what is wrong with me that I didn't cry when I heard of his passing, I mean I cried when Crocodile Hunter was killed?! Anyway, thank goodness the music of Michael Jackson will live on.

Last but not least, I wanted to direct your attention to the Product Giveaway on the Twin Cities Restaurant Blog. There are three things to choose from 1. Lounge Shaker set 2. Bottle Holder 3. Salt & Pepper shakers. Leave a comment on this post saying which product you like best and a winner will be randomly selected on July 7th. Feel free to direct anyone in the USA to the site. Blog about it, spread the word!

Student Project Fair

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May 222009

Oy! It has been a very busy week at work!
My day job is one that I absolutely love. I am a Gifted Services
Specialist but the main portion of my job is teaching the High-Ability
students. Every spring each of my students choose a topic to research
and then spend a couple of months gathering facts, taking notes,
finding photos and other graphics and then put everything together on a
display board. Between my two schools, I have been working with about 80 students on these projects. It takes a lot to help 80 kids get everything they need, especially when I work at a very low-income school and very few of them have computers at home. The past few weeks have been hectic as you can imagine. Here is my wonderful group of 2nd graders who put together a group project on Mammals of the North Pole. They each chose an animal and then were responsible for coming up with info and pics to add to the project. Here they are putting everything together. I was super impressed with how well the 7 of them worked together!

Once all projects are turned in and graded, we have a
Project Fair and invite the school to come see the projects. My morning school will have their Project Fair next Thursday but my afternoon school had theirs yesterday. The boards were all set up in a U shape on tables in the library and the guests had to wind their way around them as they read. Here is a snap shot of the set-up, but you can only see the inside of the U.

One down, one to go!

Bittersweet….

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Apr 272009

Today is a glum day around the school district I work in, especially at the school I teach at in the afternoon. Last Friday was the deadline for Principals to notify individuals whose positions were eliminated due to budget cuts and at least 11 teachers from our building were cut (including several tenured teachers). I can't even imagine how this will impact our building next year. District-wide we had to cut $25.4 million from our schools in one year, the biggest hit of all time. It is very likely that an additional $10 million will be cut due to an Education Bill that the MN House of Representatives passed next week. If this bill gets signed into law by the Governor, all teachers in our state will have our salaries frozen for the next two years. (That majorly stinks considering I am now at the point where my salary jumps up significantly each year!!!)
This time of year is one that always makes me nervous because my position as Gifted Services Specialist has been on the chopping block too many times. This year my prayers were answered and my positions are being kept intact. That is wonderful news for me, but I am feeling very sad for my colleagues that have to move on :(

First Day of School…..

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Sep 032008

The first day of school was a good one. So far I only have one big class of 6th graders at the beginning of the day, the rest of my groups will start next week.
Do you remember me complaining about the mess the former teacher left me to deal with? I have turned my new room into a much more comfortable, clean space!

It won't be long before the walls are covered with student artifacts and charts from our mini lessons.

Call me crazy, but I kind of wish I would've applied to get into a graduate Educational Leadership program starting this fall. I could probably crack it out in about two years, but I think it is too late to start this semester. Something i am thinking about and need to look into further :)

Done, Done, Done!!!!!

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Aug 042008

After taking my final exam this morning, I have successfully completed all of the requirements for my graduate program.

It is now all a distant memory!!! That means no-more-bitching-about-school-ever-again.

Celebration is in order!

Sweetness!!

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Jul 182008

I finished my practicum today!!! That means four weeks of vacation for me until I go back to work :)

I also got my test results back today from my final Praxis test (Middle school language arts) and I passed!!!

I just have one more assignment and the final for my literature class. Hoping that will all be taken care of in the next couple of weeks!!

Ahhhh, it feels great!! This has been such a busy year for me with graduate school and work between two schools (three if you count this summer). So glad its all behind me now!

It’s All Good!

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May 302008

I got my test scores back for the Praxis II and I passed!
(Remember when i thought i bombed it? I got a much better score than I thought I'd get)
Doing the Happy Dance because I don't have to retake it after-all!
Woot woot

Awesome links from CoolCatTeacher

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Apr 292008

I recently came across a teacher blog that often has cool links, etc. A few days ago, the blogger behind the CoolCatTeacherBlog celebrated a birthday and put together this great list of cool internet services to check out. It looks like there are some great links, so I wanted to share.

Songbird – This is THE cool opensource alternative to iTunes and it is connected with Skreemr, the music search engine.
Timebridge – This scheduling system plugs into google calendar
or outlook and lets you invite people to a meeting, select four time
alternatives, and then it books the meeting time that everyone can
attend and puts it on your calendar. It reminds them and it rocks!!
Get Atomic Learning Free for 3 months —
Diigo – This cool tool has transformed my bookmarking, blogging, sharing, and twittering. Install it, set it up to send to your delicious account.
To get the most out of it, you definitely should use firefox and install the cute little bookmarklets. This is a definite tool for those writing papers!
Zoho Notebook
– This notebooking service completely and utterly rocks! Zohonotebook
gives you the ability to EMBED video and web pages as well as snag
notes from many places. It is an amazing tool! (Check out some of the pages I demoed in a workshop a while back.)
Google Forms – Google spreadsheets has a cute little tool hidden in the Share tab, the ability to create a form. We’re using this for the Horizon Project
managers to submit their weekly reports. It is so fast and easy and a
great way to pull information into a spreadsheet. I even have my
national honor society students entering their service time for me into
the spreadsheet.
Firefox
- If you’re still stuck in Internet Explorer, you simply must try
firefox. Give yourself a present! The plug ins are incredible. My
favorites are: the diigo plug in, technorati tag plug in,
Twitter – Again, try this one. Some say they don’t "have time for twitter" or don’t "get it." Just sign up, add me
as a friend, and then go in and see whose talking to me, add some who
sound interesting and then reply to their messages by saying @theirID
– so to reply to me, you’d say @coolcatteacher — You may just find
yourself conversing daily with some of your heroes.
Hulu.com – I’ve been beta testing this beauty which lets you watch all kinds of TV shows. Now, you can watch too!
Mogulus
- Do you want your own 24/7 TV station? You can do it here. Schedule
things to play. Merge videos from other places on the Net. Very cool.
AFI Screen Nation
- The Amazing American Film Institute has a new site where your
students may upload video and be evaluated by REAL producers, actors,
and directors in Hollywood. Their curriculum is totally amazing and I
use the videos that come with my united streaming account to teach digital film & movie making. I love the AFI digital storytelling curriculum and highly recommend it.
Toondoo – Make cartoons. This continues to be one of my perennial favorites for cartoons.
Ning
(for VIDEO sharing) – I LOVE Ning in the classroom and just found a
super cool new feature. If you upload video to ning, it automatically
converts it to the most compressed, appropriate version for the web.
You may then embed the video anywhere else. This is solving a lot of
our access problems for the horizon project b/c schools just unblock the Ning and have access to all of the movies!
Intel Mashmaker
- This lets you mash together all different types of websites and I am
enjoying working with it. There will be some things I share soon. This
is supposed to be a lot like Microsoft PopFly, which I’ve not tested yet.
Skype – This is another MUST have APP. If you haven’t tried it yet, get over there and take a look.
Classtools.net - Embeddable graphic organizers of every kind for your wiki or blog. I Adore this site and use it all the time in my classroom.
Wikispaces — This is my stable, well supported, wiki darling. One look at the horizon project wiki will tell you why.
Gmail
- With the most robust spam filter anywhere, the ability to filter like
a fiend, make folders, and import all accounts into one place, this
account is a dream come true. Even if you use another service, you can
enable pop on that account, set up a gmail and pull all of your
accounts into one. And if you use firefox, they have a better gmail firefox extension from lifehacker that is a must install!.
Gcast – I’m really enjoying podcasting from my cell phone — just a lot of fun!
FriendFeed – A cool little service that I’m really beginning to enjoy to help me follow just a few people.
Technorati Watchlist – A must use for bloggers watching those responding to their work and just to follow the things you want to know more about. The RSS from the search for your blog belongs in your RSS reader.
PhotoBucket – THE place I put my private photos. I like Flickr,
but somtimes I just want to make a really cool flash page for my
website or do something neat with photos, and photobucket has more
robust tools for my photos than I’ve found other places.
Big Huge Labs
for Flickr — This has some amazingly hilarious Motivational Poster
makers and just about everything you can imagine for your photos. Make
monster posters, make labels, make anything. If you have photos, this
is THE place to PLAY!
Feedburner is a must use for any serious blogger or school Webmaster.
You can burn the feed to feedburner, which will let you move your feed
from place to place without losing readers! You may also use Feedblitz to e-mail your blog posts to anyone who is "afraid" of RSS. Feedburner has so many other features that serious bloggers will appreciate.
Statcounter – This is my favorite place to track links, traffic, and more. Just a very reliable, accurate site.
Google Reader
– My RSS reader of choice for linear, sequential RSS reading (down the
page aggregation), Google Reader now lets you download google Gears and
read your RSS offline!!!!
Netvibes – For single page aggregation, I use netvibes as my RSS reader although my home page starts up with iGoogle,
I go to netvibes. Their new Ginger version allows you to publish your
pages and share with others. I teach my students this handy RSS reader
for their Personal Learning Networks.
EdTechTalk – Although I co-host a show here, I always get pumped when I listen to these shows. Do yourself a favor and take a listen.
Creative Commons Searching - This is THE place to look for images, graphics, and audio. It is a must use for students!
4Info.net -
I get the weather texted to my phone each morning. Every time a Georgia
Tech football or basketball game ends, I’m texted the score. You can
have stock tickers, rss reminders and more texted to your phone. It is
amazingly cool.
Newsmap
- When I want to take time to read the news, this is what I use. I
adore NewsMap. I teach my students to use it to get abreast of what is
happening in the world. If you have 1 minute to read the news, go here.
Classroom 2.0 Live Conversations
- Steve Hargadon is hosting these amazing sessions. Simply excellent.
Another place to "get pumped" and have some great ideas.
Cool Cat Teacher Wiki
- All my presentations, handouts, archives, and STUFF are there. I love
to get out sometimes and when I do, I want to capture it.
Slideshare – I LOVE this slidesharing site. It is very useful.
VoiceThread – If I could pick ONE tool for elementary ed, this is it, hands down.

Foul mood today

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Apr 262008

I bombed the Praxis this morning.
Woke up after a terrible night sleep, drove to the testing site and arrived 5 minutes before I was supposed to be there to find out they changed the location to a different high school. I hightailed it through the east side to get there in time, to discover that there were a million testers and only one woman checking id’s.

The test did not go so well.

I was overconfident going into it after taking a practice test online…..I aced that so I mistakenly thought I had nothing to worry about. It was HARD. Much harder than I was expecting. The only section I feel good about is math. The social studies focused mostly on government crap….and not just US gov’t…..other countries around the world! And for the life of me I could not remember all the parts of a cell and what their functions are. Damn, I feel like such an idiot. It was so long ago that I learned all that stuff in college. I was really hard on myself and had a breakdown in the car on my drive home.

It has been cold and windy and wet and I want nothing more than to just curl up on the couch with my babe and watch a movie. Instead I obligated myself many weeks ago to go to a bachelorette party tonight for a good acquaintance. I feel bad, but I just don’t feel like going tonight (but I am going to). I am in such a poor mood that I know I won’t be my usual fun self. I will not be drinking because I have to drive all the way home and get a decent night sleep for a change so that I can spend most of my day tomorrow studying for my stupid american literature mid-term that I will be taking on Monday morning. I’m not in the mood to bomb another test this weekend, know what I mean?

Okay, I need to go get ready for my party and shake off this crabiness.

Tales of an Inner-City Teacher

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Apr 232008

Hola amigos!!

I wanted to let you guys know about another side-project blog that I have taken up……

http://urbanteachertales.blogspot.com/
I have always been reluctant to write about my job on my personal blog for many reasons, but I feel that I have a lot of things to say or share. I am thinking about writing a book someday about my experiences and this new blog is a way for me to start writing it all out! I am keeping my exact details anonymous (location, district, etc) on that blog so that my identity isn’t public, but I would love to have all of my friends read it …..please go check it out! And don’t forget to add to your Feed Readers!

This feels good :)

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Apr 222008

Today I received my grade for the poetry explication that I was complaining about a few weeks ago. It turned out much better than I had originally expected. Here are the instructor’s comments:

This is a fine explication of a difficult poem. Your essay is well organized and presents a careful “reading.” Good attention to both denotation and connotation. Nice job!

Grade: A 4/22/08 J. Rohloff

The poem that I analyzed was Mulatto by Langston Hughes.

It wasn’t as bad as I thought, but I must admit this was the only poem I really "got" out of the ten we had to read.

I’ll take it!

I have to take my mid-term exam by proctor in the next week, but I have to take a day off of work to do it. I cannot believe this class is only half-way through…it seems like it has been forever! Once I take the mid-term I am going to cruise through the last few essays.

My final fine arts art/social studies project is also coming along :) I am writing a unit on Japanese culture to use with 4-8th graders. One specific criteria of the unit is to include a lesson plan where you teach social studies by using the fine arts. Specifically, to find a piece of art that is in a Fine Arts museum and have students create a replica and connect it to the larger unit. Since my unit is on Japanese culture, I am going to have students create a mini- Japanese 6-paneled screen. I have to bring in three "stages" of the artwork and present it to class next week for my final. So far I have stages 1 & 2 done, just need to do my 3rd one in its entirety. I will post pictures of it when the whole thing is done.

My Praxis 2 exam is this Saturday morning at the crack of dawn. Shouldn’t be a problem from the practice tests I have seen! Flying colors, baby.

Skippyjon Jones (Its story time!)

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Feb 222008

Do you know this book? Its my current favorite children’s book…so much fun to read aloud! (I NEED to get the other books about Skippyjon, he’s too cute!)

This video isn’t the best because I was using my little point and shoot to film while I was reading it…not so easy to do!

Check out my read aloud below, the story is about 7-8 minutes long. Your kids will enjoy this one!

Awesomely Generous…..

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Feb 172008

Its time for me to brag and tell you how awesome the students at one of my schools are…..
For the past five weeks I have coordinated a campaign at my school to collect "Pennies for Patients". Pennies for Patients is a fundraising effort that many schools participate in for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The goal is to have students bring in coins and then we donate it to help kids with cancer.

Our goal for the campaign this year was to raise $600.

Guess what?

We surpassed our goal and raised over $700!!!

As I was collecting the final week’s worth of donations, I noticed that one 5th grade classroom had collected over $60 in ONE WEEK. There was a $20 and a $10 bill included in this $$, so I made a comment to the teacher about it. She told me that one boy spent the entire weekend working for his grandma, doing odds and ends around the house and was rewarded with a nice amount of $$. He took his entire earnings and donated it. I almost cried from the generosity of his gift!! These are incredibly poor kids, yet they are happy to give what little they have to help save the lives of kids with cancer.

Just thought I’d share :)

Holy Guacamole, Batman!!!

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Feb 152008

Its been a BUSY week.
And I am not just talking about all of my bday celebrations ;)

February is always my busiest time of the year at work, I have so much to do (administrative and paper-work wise).
I feel like I’ve gotten a LOT accomplished though, so I am feeling pretty good about it.
Wish I was able to spend more contact time with my students, but my schedule is going to free up in two more weeks, can’t wait!

Class on Wed. was good…I think I have redeemed myself for missing the first night. Whew! Got a lot done on a group project that I am presenting next week. The rest of the smester should be pretty easy sailing. My Literature course, on the other hand, is kicking my butt. Or it would be, if I actually got my rear-in-gear and started working on it. I’ve decided that I am not going to kill myself to get an A in an undergrad course, because the end result isn’t going to mean anything to anyone but me. Very rarely in my life have I settled for a B, but having to analyze good books and then write essays on it…boring. I love the reading part, I just hate having to analyze it, ya know??

My Valentine and I had a yummy steak dinner last night and watched The Brave One with Jodie Foster on our new Playstation 3. Blu-Ray rocks!!!! Hoping to buy a new TV soon :)

Hoping to relax, get some homework done, and scrap this weekend. No school on Monday…woo hoo!!

Have a good one, everyone!!!

BIG OOPS!

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Feb 072008

So last night was actually NOT the first night of class…..LAST week was!! Apparently I was not alone in thinking this….four others showed up for the first time last night too.
Made me feel like a total dumb-ass!! This class is with an unfamiliar professor as well, so accidentally missing the first class made me feel even worse because the last thing I would ever want to do is give a professor a bad impression of me!
Oh well, nothing I can do about it now. She is giving us newbies until next week to turn in the assignments she had already assigned for last night.
The class is an integration of teaching social studies through the fine arts. We have many art projects to do, but most of them we will be doing in class. Compared to last semester, this class should be pretty easy.
Its my distance-learning American Literature class through LSU that is going to be the butt-kicker! We are reading a ton of great material in that class, but I have to analyze and write a million essays. I swear I haven’t written an essay since I was in college…..and that was many, many moons ago!

A short study break…

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Dec 092007

I’m on page 20, trying to wrap things up on my good ol’ math project. This was the beast that I have been dreading all semester.

I am so tired of sitting here at my computer.

I cannot wait to be done. I am so tired. I estimate that I have written approximately 150-180 typed pages this semester between the three classes.
Is that crazy or what?

Making Good Progress….

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Dec 092007

Just stopping in for a quick minute to say hi.

I am on page 14 of my math project :)

Going to keep cranking away on it today and hopefully have it finished by tonight!

I better get going….

The past 21 hours have made me really CRABBY!!

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Dec 052007

I am not usually a "crabby" person, although if the cards are stacked against me, it doesn’t take much.
And usually unfortunate things tend to happen to me in numbers.
We got several inches of snow yesterday afternoon. This always slows the evening commute down some, but last night was REDONKULOUS. I left work at approximately 3:22 to head downtown Mpls for a very important meeting I had on campus starting at 4pm, with a private meeting arranged after the big meeting. I won’t even begin to tell you how bad traffic was for me to travel the 15-20 miles or so to get there from work, but I did take a picture of my clock and elapsed time (E/T) when I finally pulled into the parking garage at St Thomas. Thank God the person I had the meeting with was waiting around for most of the night because of the horrible traffic….I was not the only one it took over 3 hours for.

I am so thankful it only took me 1 1/2 hours to get home after the meeting, only double what it normally takes. I wouldn’t have been able to handle another 3 hours in the car.

I woke up extra early this morning, in a decent mood. The sun is out, the snow had stopped, and I had an 8am appt. to get new tires on my car I was promised I would be out of there in less than an hour, but unfortunately the previous owners of my vehicle never mentioned that there are locks on the wheels that need a key to be removed. And with my luck, wouldn’t you just know that the key was no where to be found anywhere in the car? Previous owners did not know where to find said key. To make a LONG story short, the wheel shop did everything they could with the resources they had to remove the locks, but no such luck. They had to run to Lexus to get the right tool, which fortunately Lexus had in stock. Great, I’ll be on my way soon, right? But of course with me, when it rains, it pours. The damn tire machine BROKE with my wheel stuck to it. Took about an extra hour for someone to come out and fix the machine. 3 hours and a half-sick-day later, I was able to leave with my new tires. Too bad it cost me an extra $100 because of the wheel-lock problem. Grrrrrr.
I hope the rest of my day & night go better….I will be presenting my final lesson tonight in my health/science class. Only two more weeks of class after tonight. Can’t wait! Now I just need to get crack-a-lackin on my HUGE math project.

Wish me luck and a better night!

PS Happy birthday to Maria today!

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A Warm Fuzzy

MN Timberwolves Library Dedication

It was a HOT one last week

Student Project Fair

Bittersweet….

First Day of School…..

Done, Done, Done!!!!!

Sweetness!!

It’s All Good!

Awesome links from CoolCatTeacher

Foul mood today

Tales of an Inner-City Teacher

This feels good :)

Skippyjon Jones (Its story time!)

Awesomely Generous…..

Holy Guacamole, Batman!!!

BIG OOPS!

A short study break…

Making Good Progress….

The past 21 hours have made me really CRABBY!!

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