Gloves!!

I would love a nice set of warm gloves for the winter. There was a pair that I saw in a magazine from H&M but since they don't have online shopping I have no way of uploading a picture, but what I do have are three pairs of Coach gloves that I'm loving:

These are my favorite, and of course they're the most expensive at $128:

These are the most practical of the bunch in grey which would go with both black and brown, and they're a tad cheaper at $98:
These may be the happy medium between the two- cheaper, and a pretty color:

For now, they're just wishes!

Oh and ps, the planner I ordered is on back order from seejanework.com so I'm not sure when I'll be getting it but I hope it's soon!!

I also need new mascara (I'm addicted to Dior Show) and some Frederic Fekkai glossing cream....maybe a trip to Sephora is in order?

Oh!

And I don't know if people are scared, nervous, feel silly or dumb or what the reason is, but please feel free to comment if you're so moved to.

Maybe that's it, there's nothing comment-worthy lol.

In any case, feel free to comment so I don't feel like I'm blabbing away like an idiot to the world wide web with no one reading.

Which may very well be the case.

Ok enough, I'm going to correct tests.

Fire and Scolding

No, I did not say scalding, I said scolding.

Those are two words that, in that order, were my morning.

I've gotten really good at getting stuff organized the night before work so the morning is less stressful. So I've been doing the dishes the night before, setting out my bowl and spoon for cereal, knife to cut the strawberries for said cereal, butter knife for pb&j, fork to take pickle out of jar and into baggie, coffee mug cleaned and drying on counter, four packets of splenda for said coffee, and last but not least, my coffee all ready to be plugged in in the am and perk away.

So I did all this last night and this morning got ready, came downstairs and plugged in the coffee pot. Then I got the bread, sugar-free jelly and pickles out of the fridge for my lunch. I start to make my sandwich when I hear that the coffee pot isn't making its usual noises. It sounds sick. So I listen harder, and yeah, not working. So upon further inspection I notice that it looks like the top piece and bottom piece have like, come apart. This is essentially the coffee pot I have:

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And it looked like it was coming apart where the black bottom meets the silver pot itself. NG (no good.) So I attempt to maybe reconnect it, and when I lift it up I realize it's really light, aka there's no water in the pot itself. I unplug it, use a cloth and take the top off, then the pieces inside to see the actual pot itself and it sparks. So I put cold water inside the pot and it sizzles like a pan you just take off the stove and put in the sink: NG. There's smoke. I open the window to avoid the smoke detector going off. I decide to submerge the whole thing in the sink jic (just in case) so that any sparks or potential fires are put out.

Super.

So I make my lunch, eat my Cheerios with strawberries and head to work. I stop at the ATM first to take out money to buy a coffee. ATM spits my card back out at me and says to contact my financial institution. WTF (what the you know what) I figure my account is negative and just forget about my coffee and head to school.

Get there, am set up for today, ready to collect the kids' permission slips to watch scenes from Roots and Amistad. I watched both yesterday and knew what scenes I wanted to show the kids. I collect the permission slips for block one and two students forgot theirs. I had told them ahead of time that if their parents preferred they could have an alternative assignment. So instead of saying, well sucks to be you, here's your assignment to complete in the library! I said, why don't you head to the office and call home, see if your Mom or Dad could email me and just say you have permission. I sign their agenda books and they're on their way.

Kids are watching the clips, and my classroom phone rings. It's our Principal. SUPER. She asks me why two of my students are in the office calling home. I explain. She asks what the movies are I'm showing. I tell her. She asks when they got the permission slips. I tell her yesterday. She says "Well, I'm sure I made it clear that we would prefer to not have our students leaving class, and now I have them in the office and I am giving them a hard time about being out of class, so we'll talk about this later on."

SU. PER.

Then after the period my department chair comes in and says so....I was like yeah, I obviously shouldn't have done that, I figured it was better to have the kids have their parents email me than to just automatically give them the alternative assignment, he said oh I agree, just you know, if you have to have them call home, have them use the planning area phone (we're on the third floor) as opposed to the office phone (on the first floor, attached to the Principal's office) etc, etc, etc. So ultimately, not a huge deal, but I HATE HATE HATE getting in trouble or being scolded for shit.

So that's how I started my day! Fun!

Now I get to go by Benny's after school and buy a new coffee pot. And never forget to not put water in it ever again.

Oh, also my bank account was not in fact negative, I have no idea why my card was rejected. Another mystery to solve.

Careers I will NOT be pursuing:

Stripper.

This Friday was a low-key one for me, which was just what the doctor ordered. I didn't go out, laid low, and decided to go to the gym for the Cardio Strip Tease class that's from 7:30 to 8:30. I've been wanting to try it but just haven't gotten there because it's on a Friday and it's at the Fall River WOW which is kind of out of the way, but the powers aligned and I was good to go last week.

Let me just preface this by saying that the music was great (aka BRITNEY, fitting for a class of stripper moves), the instructor was super nice and the other women in the class (all three of them) were nice too. I just could not stop laughing though.

I like to think I'm an OK dancer. I took dance for more years than I'd like to count, I have rhythm, I have choreographed before, granted it was a high school lip sync contest, but we did win first place! So I mean, this shouldn't have been as big of a disaster for me as it was.

Let's just say that the Foxy Lady won't be calling me for my services any time soon....I probably looked like I was having a medical emergency along the lines of a seizure or something. The window that looks into the daycare room from the work out class room, should probably have been blocked, I most likely scared the children.

But nonetheless it was really fun! And I plan on going back again, hopefully bringing some friends with me. Because if there's one way to bond with your friends, it's definitely by group exercise with a stripping theme!

Funny the way it is.

Shameless Dave Matthews reference there. But seriously, it is!

I *just* posted about the agenda that I want to order from seejanework.com and literally a day or two later I get an email from them saying that if I subscribe to their blog in my reader (btw if you're not using google reader yet you're insane) they will send me a 40% off code for one item on their website!

Cha-ching! $40 agenda? Not for me? $24 thank you very much!!

Now the tough part....which color?

Feel free to comment your thoughts.

Go Bears!!

So before I run off to our sexual harassment training in a few minutes I have one more funny story about yesterday. Not only did I bless my first block before they left for the day but I misunderstood a voicemail.

So I see I have a voicemail on my classroom phone, check it, it's the guidance secretary. She is just letting us know that we'll be re-instituting our collared shirts on half-days deal. I think, ok I have collared shirts, nbd (no big deal) but I don't really see why a school-wide voicemail was necessary for that but whatev.

I get to work today (in my black Lily Pulitzer polo) and I notice my boss has on a football jersey. Mentally I say, wtf is he wearing? Odd.

Then I run the superlative forms from homeroom down to the first floor and pass a co-worker with a UMass Dartmouth tshirt over a long sleeve tshirt and I think, Wow, he's really dressed down today!

Then, light bulb.

No, not collared shirts but COLLEGE shirts. Which is why the guidance secretary sent the voicemail, because you go through guidance for your COLLEGE applications so let's promote COLLEGE to our students.

Dully noted. (I don't even know if that's the right word for that saying and I like saying it. I should probably find that out.)

UPDATE: I just looked at my blog and saw this post and thought, "Go Bears"? What the heck was I talking about? That's because I participated in college oh, negative percent of the time and forgot that the reference was to the Bridgewater State College Bears....oh if I could go back in time the fun I'd have had in college....

Fun idea!

I'm always finding really cool things online or on etsy that I want to buy, for myself, gifts, for my house, whatever and then I save the link or I bookmark the site, but then I always forget! I guess I could relate this foray to my blog in the sense that I always manage to forget when I find really neat things, so it falls under dumb things I do.

Here's the plan:

I'm going to have a series of posts that are dedicated to either online finds for myself, that I would love; gifts for others, dream items that I could never afford but if someone were so inclined they could def purchase for me, etc. A sort of online wish list. One of the perks of having a boyfriend was that I would make lists of potential gifts for myself, from him, including websites/stores, sizes and colors and I generally got everything on my list. Sucks he turned out to be a total jerk- he shopped well! So this is another version of that, sort of.

And no, that unit test hasn't finished itself yet, it's getting there. This is another mental break from making it.

What I am definitly getting for myself, unless someone else buys them for me first, which btw feel free to...

This planner:

Which can be found at www.seejanework.com although I'm not sure I can decide on a color. Suggestions?

Ok I really need to finish this stupid test, so more updates to come on my wish list soon...

Ooooooh

There are so many pretty things at Anthropologie that I would love for my house. I should be making a unit test right now but I'd rather add the pictures of what I want to this post....

For on top of my dresser:
In my bathroom, maybe for makeup brushes:
In living room on a shelf somewhere, or table:
On bookcase (note, in my rock collection when I was a kid I def had one or two of these lying around....)
And some fools gold!
Pretty for maybe bedroom or living room:
Just a cool skeleton key bottle opener, as a side note I wish the keys to my house were skeleton keys like my Gramma's:
Cool grey coral for living room or bedroom:
I hated chemistry (loved Mr. Poirier but hated the class) but I think these would look cool on display in the kitchen or maybe dining room:
Living room shelf or book case:
Library card drawer pulls, need I even say more? I'd love an old card catalog just for storage:
School house clock, because duh I'm a teacher! I feel like it would tick-tock loudly though, and it's kind of pricey (at $128- eek!)

Sigh....this makes me want to repaint my second bedroom, possibly repaint my bedroom, install shelves in my bathroom closet, shelves in my living room, art in my dining room and a bagillion other things. If only I had money....donations are gladly accepted!

Ugh back to the test...

Down with G-O-D?

Not so much.

I'm not a religious person by any means. I rarely go to church and besides the rare Godly-intervention regarding fast/fatty food I don't think that much about religion.

So today, at the end of first block I was sending an email out to my lovers- Meaghan, Nikki and Laura- and then the bell rang. I looked up mid-sentence from my email to say to the kids, "have a good day" except "bless you" came out of my mouth.

Um, what?

Weird.

Almost as bad as the time I went to ask my class if they needed make-up work but instead I asked them if "anyone needed make-out work"- whoops!

Good news!!!!

No, I did not find the sweater.

Buuuuut this may be better than finding the sweater.....ready???

Drummrollllll please!

I've lost 8 pounds!

Not to toot my own horn or anything, but since swearing off fast foods and mostly avoiding fatty foods and getting to the gym on a more regular basis I have slowly started the crawl to fit back in to the ridiculous amounts of clothing that don't fit anymore! Yay!

I'm lame.

Since I've cut back on the drinking, I have nothing to blog about. Hm. Should this tell me something?

I heart Britney Spears.

Seriously. No joke here.

I've seen her four times in concert, my fav being her Dream within a Dream tour of, I think it was 2003? Amazing. Loved it. There was an indoor monsoon on stage, I mean come on. Next favorite was the Circus Staring Britney Spears which was the most recent, least fav was the Onyx Hotel tour where she met K-Fed and hurt her knee and stopped touring.

But anyway, we're on the positives. She has a new single. It's called 3. I heart it. Can't wait til it's released on iTunes. My students asked me today why I just didn't download it on limewire or whatever and I said, "Because I want to support Britney and illegally downloading her music isn't a way of showing my support."

(Image from perezhilton.com)

They laughed at me. You may too. That's ok with me as long as you're laughing.

This was random I know, but I just want to avoid making a Jeopardy review game and test for Monday. Or whatever the heck I'm doing in my world class on Monday. My brain is fried and I have 45 min to kill before I can leave work.

If you want to listen I'll supply a convenient link for you!

Lame

This doesn't even really qualify as blog-worthy but I haven't updated in a while so I figured it's better than nothing. I could be wrong though, you may have preferred nothing.

Today is "Green and White" day at school in honor of the home football game tonight. Now, if it was "Red and Black" day I'd be good to go, and you'd think that considering I graduated from this high school I'd have some school-color-themed garb? Negative.

So I had some thoughts for potential outfits as I was showering (that's when I think about what I'm going to wear, in the shower) but when I got out of the shower, eh wasn't feeling them. It's FREEZING in my house in the AM so the green dress I was envisioning was out, but after the failures out possible outfits #1, #2 and #3 I just threw the dress on and called it a day.

I get to school and proceed to realize that my legs look like cacti as they haven't been shaved in, um about a week or so? Hey, no boy will be touching them and LaLa doesn't seem to mind so don't judge.

I tried to stay as far away from the kids today as possible because I was embarrassed by my lack of personal hygiene.

I think I've hit a blogging low. And I've only been blogging for a few weeks. That's bad.

And incase you're wondering, no the sweater hasn't surfaced. We're going on two weeks.