So I Was Just Thinking

Please post what happiness is to you...It can be silly or serious or both. I want to hear from you. So...GO FOR IT! Love, Annemarie

A week ago, my husband called me from a convenience store near work to tell me he had a flat tire. I dropped everything I was doing to go get him and take the flat tire to my least favorite but closest store, Wal-Mart. The guy was very helpful and got us a tire very quickly. This experience must have caused me to drop my guard regarding my feelings about the Super Mega Mart. About two days later, my mother told me that my husband borrowed the pick-up truck because someone on the highway noticed he had another bad tire. Since the first tire already was outside the Victory budget, it was going to have to wait until payday. On payday, my husband handed me a paper paycheck (very rare,) and I went immediately to the credit union whose lobby closes at 5 o'clock. In I walked and handed the woman my husband's signed check. She then proceeded to inform me that I could not deposit his paycheck from a very well-known employer in our community. Said teller continued, "If he comes in,...

Does Anyone else find this completely bizarre? How many kids are going to want to eat fried chicken or cheese that has a face. This is fodder for the vegans who say, "nothing with a face." Then to think that once you follow the foods they are in your tummy having a party?! That's just too much. I just wonder how anyone could think that DJ Lance and his supporting cast could be a good idea. Children's television show producers need to remember that when children are watching their shows, parents have to be in the vicinity listening to this drivel. Let's get one more glimpse at the idiocy of this show. (You may have to turn up the volume it is a bad copy.) Oh, and yes, that IS Elijah Wood looking like a madman. Have they forgotten the movie The Puppetmaster ? Okay, this is the last one. I promise. Someone managed to combine my worst nightmare with one of my favorite songs. Thanks for humoring a crazy lady who has lost her mind listening to children's television ...

Everyday I read to my students a chapter from a novel. Not just any novels, not "chapter books" as they like to call them in the library. We read City of Ember, Sign of the Beaver, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Where the Red Fern Grows....The list is a good one. They love when I sit down with them and say, "Next chapter." They hate when I have to close the book and send them off to write about it. Not because they don't like the work, but because they can't wait to hear the rest. The challenge comes for them during their assignments when they have to look up words from these wonderful books. Are you going to find words like begrudging or proprietors in the Children's Dictionary that the school provides for us? Not likely. When I began teaching the Talented and Gifted Cluster class, my friend Chris gave me her backbreaking unabridged dictionary and a paperback dictionary that seemed to have every word a student might need to make it through a challenging...

I have written about CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome) on Myspace before, and have claimed to conquer it. Not entirely true, but things are better than before. A different kind of chaos reigns supreme in our household, that of the canine kind. About 4 years ago we rescued a puppy from local animal shelter. You may ask what kind of dog it is, and to that I will defer to the opinion of the shelter which called her a Catahoula Leopard dog. Though that label is highly suspect. The older she got, the more she looked like she had a lot of German Shepard in her. However, my daughter still insists on calling her a Catahoula Leopard dog and justifies it by the ONE little spot left on her tail. Zoey ................................... Real Catahoula For a short-haired dog, she certainly sheds a lot. Even though she is a large dog, she is an inside dog. This is pa...

CREDITS 1. The Annemarie , 2. Buen Provecho !! , 3. cove , 4. Purple fingers , 5. Nicolas Cage leathered up , 6. Chill.NeSs , 7. We ♥ Norway , 8. Untitled , 9. Day 137/365: Lord, I Lift Your Name on High! , 10. The Earth is God's Canvas. , 11. Amazona amazonica, Papagaio-do-mangue, Orange-winged Amazon... , 12. El Arco del Triunfo... ¿¿en Valparaiso?? So I was reading Tweets from Twitter pals and heard some sad news about Aleida Franklin - a SISter at SIStv . She passed away yesterday in a car accident. I began going through the bloggers who spoke of her and ran across her blog where I came to find that she would have been a wonderful person to know. Everyone who knew her had nothing but wonderful things to say about her. Anyway, she had posted a mosaic that she had created on Mosaic Maker through Flickr using the following guidelines that I have copied from her blog: If you'd like to make one of your own, here's how you do it: Type your answer to each of the questions b...

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