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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Fire in the Hole!!!

Question:
How many of you have a military background?
Do you have training for hostage situations?
Are you a negotiator?
Do you know the rules of engagement?

Grab your artillery ladies- we are going in!!!!

Where?!?!?

Where are we taking this army of Squirrel-friends???

We are heading over to Yahoo! and we are getting my email BACK!!!!

They have been keeping it from me all day long-
I can't check anything~
It tells me to wait.

I wait.

It tells me to close my browser and restart.

I restart.

It tells me to delete my cookies and empty my cache!?!?!?!

What?!?!
I'm not eating any cookies and I don't have anything hidden anywhere!???

(Just kidding- I went to Firefox Preferences and took care of both of those.
and now I want cookies.
I don't have cookies.
This upsets me even more!!!!!)

Why? Why? WHY?!?!?!?!

I want to read my email.

I have tried to read it on every computer I have come in contact with today-

it said NO!
I don't like being told no.
I give the orders around here and I want to read my email!!

I wanted to post the giggles and laughs we had while eating pop rocks for the first time. But now I am grumpy.

I'm a grumpy squirrel!
(Plus I don't feel  like uploading the pics)

I think the only thing that has  made me giggle since I got home was the playground squirrel on Reagan's blog.

I am going to hit up our PTO to get these on our playground!
There must be something in the air because this squirrel looks grumpy too....so grumpy in fact that he threw off the guy on his back.
Squirrels don't like guys on their backs!
And we don't like it when Yahoo! holds all our email hostage!

I am going to take lots of pictures tomorrow for the linky at Holly's.
I am going to upload those pictures (tomorrow).

I am going to get back onto Yahoo and try to retrieve my emails...I would let them know about the problem-
but I CAN'T get into MY email to send them anything!!!!!

Deep breaths, deep breaths.




Monday, April 16, 2012

Writing and Upcoming Giveaway

Hola Chicas!

I am very excited about writing/language this week.
The series has "How Sentences Begin and End". Really?
We have been in school for 148 days.
I would hope that they have a firm grasp on How Sentences Begin and End!!!!!!

I didn't take any pictures today....boo!
My phone was dead and my camera was on my desk at home.

But we started Abby's Pop Rockin' Writing Unit today.
I used a colorful gift box with ribbon. It is a little smaller than a pop tart box.
You would have thought I had brought in a box as big as the room.
They ooooo-ed and awwwwww-ed.

Lots of guesses-
one stinker did guess candy- but I am a no food room this year (two peanut allergies)

so one of them blurts out "You know she won't give us candy! 'Member? It aint her job to rot our teeth!"

(The things they 'member).

Anyhoo. The box is filled with packages of pop rocks....It is going to be so much fun!!! shhhhhh! they still don't know.


Now, if I can draw your attention over to the right-
 you will see that I am  only 3 lovely followers from being at 250.
250!
That's 1.3888888889 followers per day since my blog started.
Some might think that  you can't have .3888888889 followers- but some of these ladies are teeny tiny! (I crack myself up!) Love you, Kristin!

I asked  3 of my  buddies- (I just tried to mix "blog" and "buddies" together, but it sounded like "bloodies"- just doesn't sound right. I wouldn't want someone to call me their "bloody")

Reagan








Holly









Staci

YOUR NAME




 to help me celebrate....and guess what- they said yes! All three of them!

They are all three very generous
and there may or may not be
 a car and cruise being given away this time.....


ok, that's a lie.

But one of them is thinking of giving away $1000!!!


Ok, that's a lie, too.

There might be Tpt gift certificates, colorful units, and cutie pa-tootie coffee cozies.
There might be THREE winners!
There might be a chance that I will come to your house and perform hits from the '80s!


ok, the first two were true- but the last one was a lie....


I was just trying to buy your blogships 
 get you to come out and play!!!!


Well, I have a book to finish- my work is never done


another lie

My work is done and I get to read a book for fun!!!!!

Send a bud or two over here so I can get this giveaway going!!!!


Sunday, April 15, 2012

THE BEST SATURDAY EV-AH!

I couldn't fall asleep last night-
and then
I couldn't wait for the alarm to go off this morning!!

The MR couldn't get any sleep either because the clock is on his side-
so I kept saying
"What time is it? What time is it now? How much longer til the alarm goes off?"

{I think he is going to be moving the clock}.

Speaking of clock-
This is a comment from my very sweet friend Reagan:
I swear on all that is good and chocolately- that I would never, ever, ever text someone at 5:30 in the morning.
Unless, I was "sleep texting"....
which I HAVE eaten in my sleep before, but that does not require the dexterity that is needed to send a text.
There must be something screwy in texts from Tn to Tx.
To prove my innocence:
Don't hate on my old phone.
 I sent it when I left school on Friday:) I promise.
I love that you yelled "SQUIRRELS!" though....
I'm always messing with our bookkeeper and I get these one word emails...
"SQUIRRELS!!!!"

hee hee

OK, now on to
THE BEST SATURDAY EVER!!!!!

As we pulled into the parking lot of Demo's, I sent Laura a text
"We are pulling in.." and  when she wrote back "I see you"
I got so giddy...
(and  I had begun to calm down during our 1.5 hour drive)

I hopped right into their van
(the restaurant wasn't open yet).

It was so neat- there I was, in a van with 4 women (Laura, Heidi, Mary, and Kelli) meeting for the first time
but it didn't feel that way!

This was one of the pictures taken at the end- but I am putting it in first, so you can put names and faces together:)
Can you guess who is taking the pic?
It was the MR. You can tell because I am the only one looking at him!!! Which means that I am the only one
NOT looking at the camera that is taking a picture of the rest of them:)

I got to sit next to Jessica from Under the Alphabet Tree.
And that is a big deal, especially because we are in the same district! And this was the first time we met!
I thought it was so cool to know that there are other Clarksville bloggers-
Tangelia is also from our district! (Buggy in Kindergarten)

Laura (Kinder Kraziness) put a lot of work into this!
She had strips with questions for us to answer and then she drew them out of  a cute basket and we
won PRIZES! I love prizes.
One of my answers had the word "fart" in it- go figure!
But look at what I won!
Laminator- here I come!
Here is a picture of us working hard on our questions-
We had four tables that were put together with a break in the middle-

Seeing the food in the pictures reminds me-
Before our food came, I asked our server for "to-go" silverware. (More on my metal affliction)

He looked at me a little weird, but he brought it.
Then after our food arrived, I heard one of the ladies say something about being hard to eat with the plastic fork.
I didn't realize that he brought little to-go packets for everyone!
Ha ha! So i got up and stole picked up some rolled silver in cloth napkins for the rest of the ladies!!!
I had some hearty pasta with sauce and chicken, and it was not
an easy feat to get that fett on that little fork- but because of my "condition"-
I worked my way through it:)

Jennifer and Shana are two teachers from Dickson- they are working on a blog - and we are anxiously waiting more details on that so we can follow!
They brought very sweet gifts for everyone:
They had these cute jars with M&Ms and a sweet poem about being great teachers (thank you)
and a little note saying we are all Tea-riffic!
Laura made us all these cute deskplates with our names!!!
And Heidi put together these wonder reading packets
 (complete with *kid whackers*)
that was for Jessica:)
Kerri had an awesome grab bag o' books for each to choose from:)

We played the purse game- I LOVE the purse game!
I brought these little gift bags for those who won.
(Walmart has some cute little stationary- and who doesn't love candy??)
After the food and games

we traded in our tickets for prizes at the counter
{no, wait- that was at chuck e cheese}

Ok, no tickets to redeem

But we did have some very insightful conversations about our state's new EVAL system-
 Given the choice between dealing with the new eval system or going to chuck e. cheese,
I would choose the chuckster-
 and I detest that rat.
I avoid every party we are invited to that takes place there!
But I would rather go there everyday for the
rest of my life,
 for a month solid,
 for a week,
every other Tuesday for a month and a half
than try to understand the engineering of this new system.

But rather than let all that get us down- we talked about the part we love~
That is why I love my "bloggy life"!

I am definitely loving my bloggy life more than my everyday life right now-
the main reason is because
"Danci" {formally known as "Stan"}
has to finish doing the taxes.
 So rather than be lazy and read blogs all day tomorrow-
I have to wrap that up - bleck!

I leave you with my littlest Little-


This was at Opry Mills after the Meet Up.
We took a look-see now that it is re-opened after the flood.
The only thing we ended up buying was a  Land Speeder from the Lego Store-

He always wears a disguise when we are out for fear of the paparazzi...they are always like
"Miss Squirrels! Miss Squirrels! Over here!!! WHo are you wearing today...? What are your thoughts on...?"

He just can't take all the publicity:) giggle giggle- quack- oops!

Thanks again to Laura-
and I am definitely in if you are planning a getaway this summer- someone just has to come get me!




Friday, April 13, 2012

Just for ME!!

I can barely contain myself!

I have my alarm set to get up @ 7:30am, which is EXTREMELY early for me on a Saturday.

And I am leaving the house by 9am with my personal driver (the MR)...and we are heading to the TN Blog meet up!!!

Chickadee went out with me to pick up a few goodie things to package up as "prizes".
I filled 4 of them.....in case we play some games or something- and if we don't do games, we can do that crazy..."What's in my purse?"

This is what I had to endure while we were out:

 Yes, that is my 15 year old daughter IN THE CART on her PHONE.... I'm so glad we had  quality time together this evening.

While we were in the check out, I saw the HEADLINES:

BRANGELINA is ENGAGED!

and I thought about how cool it would be if the MR and I were so famous we could "smush" our names.

I am Staci. He is Dan.

We would be the star studded couple:

"STAN"

somehow- doesn't sound as glamorous.

Oh! Oh!
I have to share my door! This is the inside-
 My Super Sentences are still on the outside- this is the inside of the door.
My door is open a lot- and it can't be NaKeD!
And I can't crochet a cozy for it!
Well, I could.
But that would  be a blanket.
And that would be weird.
 On a door.

This lesson is from a Unit on homophones that I purchased from Jen R. 's Tpt (Surprise!)


 We did a little I Have Who Has with the Concentration cards. And then they each got to choose a set of cards.
Their homophone pairs are on these great shoes {that are included in the unit} on the front, and on the back, they wrote a sentence using the word correctly.
I purchased this huge thing of bulk ribbon from Ebay a few years ago. So we laced them up and then I hung them up!

It took me a while to think of  a "punny" banner.
(I love to lay on the floor and color these when the room is quiet at the end of  the day).






A Conversation today:

Boy: Miss Squirrels?
Me: Yes?

Boy: How come your name isn't on our centers and there are other lady names?
(referring to center envelopes that say A Cupcake for the Teacher, Jennifer Ross, Heather Price, Amy Lemons, etc)
Me: Well, honey- because Miss Squirrels didn't make those- those names are the ladies who made them.

Boy: Why do they make them for you?
Me: Well, they don't make them FOR me?

(and before I could finish)
Boy: Then how did you get them?
Me: I bought them and then printed them, cut them out, and brought them to school.

Boy: But I thought YOU didn't make them.
(BLARG!)
Me:  I didn't....

Boy: But you just said you did
Me: No, I print them....(and needing this conversation to end, I said) . I print them after these ladies make them JUST FOR ME and then I bring them to school.

{Stage direction- "Me" exits stage left....as far left from "Boy" as she can get)


So, thank you to all you WONDERFULLY talented ladies for making all these terrific things JUST FOR ME!!!!

Well, it's time for me to get my Beauty Sleep:)
Can't wait to tell you all about my day tomorrow!
Have an AWESOME Saturday!!!
zzzzzz.........zzzzzzzzzzzz...............zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!



Thursday, April 12, 2012

12 on the 12th



I LOVE the 12 on the 12th linky!

I have some doozies for you today!
First, let me say that the one thing that has been the biggest part of my day- cannot be photographed.

(You are going to love this...)
I was aggravated by this all day- I mean like seriously, from the moment I got out of the van.
It drove me crazy~ and I figured out why when I made my first trip of the school day to the ladies room...

(and i don't know why I feel so comfortable telling you all this, but...)

What was it?

THE WORLD'S WORST WEDGIE {edgie, edgie}!!!!

and I figured out why...

My UNDERWEAR WERE ON BACKWARDS!!!!

They are Ambrielle Boy Shorts- VERY comfortable when worn the right way....
not so much when worn BACKWARDS...

hee hee

I tried "walking it out", I stretched it out...I "rationalized" it out...."well, I have gained a few pounds, maybe I am getting a boot-ay.."

.but no, I just got dressed too quickly.

I miss tags- remember when everything had a tag in it and you could put your clothes on with no worries?- gone are those days...now everything is stamped in...I think I am going to write a strongly worded letter to the powers that be to get those tags back in our garments....especially the under-roos!

On to the linky:


1. I looked ALL over for these shoes before our Easter trip...found them...today!
2. This is the portable pharmacy that I have to keep handy in my desk drawer for my boys. The Tums and Gas X packets are mine:)
3. All of the "knick knack" squirrels have been relagated to the top of the filing cabinet. The newest member is the one in the overalls...he looks angry. Maybe because his hat is too small.
4. I didn't have to cook tonight!!! We went out for Chinese! (The MR is not diggin' me taking pictures of everything).
5. A perpetual lesson as to why we DO NOT throw our treasure box sticky animals up into the air....these were thrown up there 3 years ago....they are now part of an Explicit Instruction Lesson when I show them how they NEVER come down:)
6. Tomorrow is Friday.
7. As tall as I am, My hands are still the size of an 8 year old's. I know, weird, huh?
8. My charger BIT IT!!! I still have the ground plug thingy to hook to the adapter...but this is NOT mine- it belongs to the system!!!
9. Can you see the steady stream of drizzle? Drives my neighbor crazy!!! I have learned to tune it out.
10. Centers are  still looking decent 146 days in.
11. I have made it my mission to help with "A" and "B's" college fund...therefore I purchased another AH-mazing center packet from Jen R at The Teacher's Cauldron....tee hee
and finally
12. This is the $.75 soda machine that only takes quarters on the days I only have dollars and only takes dollars on the rare occasions when I have quarters.

Well that is my 12 on the 12th:)
Be sure to link up at







Chin up muchachas.....tomorrow is Friday!!!!
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