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Coffee Talk

Friday, February 17th, 2012

Today I put my big girl pants on and went back to work. I was ok until about 10 am and then it felt like someone was shoving a needle in my left jaw again.

 

I’ve been breakin all kinds of rules lately, including using an electric tea kettle to heat water and sip on some chamomile tea in my classroom.

Ahhh doesn’t that just look like it will make you feel better?

The kids find this tea kettle fascinating and make all kinds of comments.

I heard the best conversation of all today.

 

Girl 1 (while watching me pour my tea):  Eww tea, it is so gross. I hate tea.

Girl 2:  Yeah tea is gross.  I love coffee. Coffee is like so good when you put a bunch of sugar in it.

Girl 1: Oh no you can’t drink coffee. Coffee will make you look so old and make your face look gross like this (pulls her cheeks) and you will just be old looking and ugly.

Girls notice me watching them and listening.

Girl 1: Well, that only happens if you drink coffee when you are a kid. It doesn’t hurt grown ups. They just stay looking like (pause) grown ups.

 

Yeah, nice recovery ladies. Don’t mess with the sick teacher on roids. She’s moody and sweaty!

 

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Sick Day

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

I’m sick.

Like icky, lose my voice sick.

I stuck it out through Extended Pain Day tutoring, but I had to get a sub for tomorrow.

Someone needs to call that nurse in Costa Rica; the one who gave me that HUGE shot in my bum, and tell him to bring me some meds NOW! That was a run-on sentence, but I don’t care.

I will post all my Valentine Party Pictures tomorrow. It was pretty sweet, until a parent showed up with 20 regular-sized frosties to give the kids.

Nothing like 20 kids who already had all their Valentine Party junk food topping it off with FROSTY.

What do you like to do on a sick day (the real kind…not the mental health kind)?  Growing up my dad would nurse me back to health with Sprite and Saltine crackers. I would watch Little House on the Prairie because that is all that is on at 10am other than Price is Right (AND I HATE THAT SHOW).   After Little House was over it was a boring afternoon waiting for Saved by the Bell at 4pm.

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Tuesday Confession: Low IQ

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

I must confess. My IQ score has probably dropped 20 points in the past year…and will likely drop another 10 or so by the end of March. Let’s just say I wasn’t in the gifted category to start off with. Just cause I teach em, doesn’t mean I am one!

You see, it’s all these meetings I have to go to! THIS (tabloid) research proves it. We all know how I value the Dailymail’s opinion!

 

OK, I don’t really want to joke about that. I’ve already gotten in trouble once this week for my big mouth. More on that another time.

Seriously though Teacherbarbies, my students have LOST THEIR MINDS. They are doing some crazy stuff. If I had a dollar for every time I’ve said ARE YOU KIDDING ME this week I would be RICH!

Thankfully there are one or two golden moments that save the day, like this one:

Girl:  Do you watch The Voice?

Boy:  No, I don’t watch TV unless it is Law and Order.

Girl: Oh yeah Law and Order is the best.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!??!!?  You are 9 years old and watching Law and Order? OMG

Less than 24 hours til the BIRTHDAY BASH STARTS!!!

I <3 Farmboy!

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Tuesday Confessions: Extended Pain

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

It’s Tuesday and it is time to make a confession.

I fell off the wagon. The cereal wagon.

I was really naughty on Sunday and bought Honey Nut Chex. I vowed this would be the last box of Honey Nut Chex, and it would last at least a week.  The box in the recycle bin tells another story.

You see, Tuesdays are now Extended Pain Days.  Out of the goodness of our Teacherbarbie hearts, we tutor students until 4:30 (my school gets out at 2:30)….and wait around for their transportation until 5:07ish (today).

It’s a tough job, but somebody has got to do it ;)

Which is why I crankily rewarded myself with a bowl of cereal when I got home at 6pm….and then a second bowl…and then oh heck there are just crumbs left so throw ya head back and finish the box off with a bang.

I need an intervention.

I must also confess that my face looks like a Proactive before and after picture, except it is just the before side.

I blame that on stress, not the cereal. ;)

 

Whew…I feel better after sharing that. Tomorrow I will be sharing my new crafty calendar I made over the weekend. February is Farmboy’s birth month and I am coo coo for cocoa puffs over birthdays! :) (I had to fit in one more cereal reference…sorry)

 

 

 

 

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We Have a Winner!

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

We have a winner for the favorite picture book giveaway!

Congratulations Mrs. L!!!

Her favorite book was 

Email your information to emailhappydally at gmail dot com!

Thanks to everyone who participated. This was something new and exciting for me!  An extra BIG GLITTERY THANKS to OhBoyFourthGrade for getting the ball rolling on the linky party. YOU are AWESOME! The pony will be sending you something special too! ;)

I enjoyed reading the link up posts, and I must admit we Teacherbarbies have excellent taste in picture books!

Have a VERY happy week!

 

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Wedding Bells

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Fourth grade was all a twitter today. (Is that an expression?)

Valentine’s Day must be coming soon…or a full moon…oh who am I kidding it is one pod full of cray cray

Wedding Bells are in the air. As well as homeworkitis, but that is another post.

While picking my students up from the cafeteria, a jolly little fellow came up to me and shared his joyous news.

Kid: Ms. Hendon I’m engaged (While proudly showing me his tiger striped, band-aid ring on his finger)

Me: That’s nice, you put it on the wrong hand. Get in line.

A few hours later…

Girls: Ms. Hendon they are getting married on the bus today. Lil Susie is the minister and Lil Johnny is the best man. (FYI I call all kids Lil Susie and Lil Johnny, thank you very much South Carolina)

Me: Who’s the bride?

(girls point out the blushing bride…she was possibly beaming)

Me: Oh lil Susie. Marriage isn’t meant for fourth graders.

Girls: Yeah, he gave her a paper ring with fake diamonds.

Me: Bummer

He could have at least gotten her a Ring Pop!

Did you ever fake marry someone on the school bus in fourth grade? Yeah, I waited til fifth. Joking. I only wished I could have married Matthew P. on the bus…or his twin brother!

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Tuesday Confessions: I’m a Weirdo Magnet

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

I have a confession to make. I’m a weirdo magnet. Wherever I go, I seem to attract them.

Please don’t be offended. I’m not talking about the people I know and love. I’m referring to strangers…weird ones…are drawn to me.

For example, a random man came up to me in Target a few weeks ago looking desperate. I thought he was going to ask for money.  Instead he asked me, “What’s a onesie and where can I find them.”

Yesterday’s encounter was a 12+ on the WEIRDO scale (and that scale only goes up to 5).

I’d stopped by Central Market to grab some dinner. Central Market is very Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi (as Kevin on Real Housewives would say). I shop there because most people in the parking lot drive vehicles that are MUCH nicer than mine, therefore they are less inclined to ding my door…and you all know how much I hate that! grrr

OK, back to the story.

I was browsing through the cheese section when a stranger walked up to me and asked this:

Weirdo:  Excuse me, where did you get your boots?

Me: (Gushing because my riding boots are Fab, and thinking oh what a nice man who wants to buy his wife some boots for Valentine’s Day)  OH these are Clarks. They’re a British company. You could probably get them at Dillards, but I got mine in a boutique. I’m sure you could find them online.

Weirdo: Great! I belong to a Star Wars group and those would make the PERFECT (with gusto) Jedi boots. We’ve been searching for the perfect pair for a long time.

Me:

Weirdo: I’ll have to tell all the guys about them. Thanks miss.

Me:

As you can see, I was speechless.  I am in love with my boots. They are buttery leather goodness.

My heart was broken. Did I really look like a Jedi in my cute Teacher Barbie outfit? Did that weirdo really just ask me this question in the middle of the market?

I came home and googled Jedi boots.

I found this.

That man has a good eye for boot fashion.

Thankfully I looked like Obi-Wan Kenobi, because Ewan McGregor IS HOT!!!

So I will continue to rock my Obi-Wan boots around town, and apparently the invisible homing beacon that draws all these odd folks in.

“I have a bad feeling about this.“
―Obi-Wan Kenobi[src]
Are you a Star Wars fan?  Random fact- I watched the Star Wars movies in numerical order, not the order in which they were released.  I wouldn’t recommend it. LOL

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Favorite Picture Book Giveaway!

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Happy Monday!

To start off the week, I am hosting my first ever giveaway on Happydally!

It’s a Picture Book Linky Party for my Teacher Barbies!

Link up a picture or post about of your favorite read aloud book , and you might win a copy of one of mine!

On Sunday, a winner will be chosen randomly to receive a hardback copy of Ignis by Gina Wilson to add to their classroom or home library!

This is one of my favorite character building books. It also has LOVELY illustrations.

SO, click below and be sure to share a link to your favorite read aloud Teacher Barbies!

I can’t wait to see what everyone shares!

 

 

 


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Currently January

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

Having fun with my Currently list today. If I were one of the Seven Dwarfs, I’d be Sneezy today!

 

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Tuesday Confessions: Dirty

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

I have a confession.  I have planned in advance not to wash my hair.  I am too tired after spending 7am to 8pm at school today to explain all the details why, but if I don’t explain a little this post will seem even more silly. I’m silly. Sleepy silly.

I do this quite often though.

I don’t know why I’m confessing about my dirty hair.

I have a dirty hair scale I’ve created in my mind. Like a rubric for all my Teacher Barbies out there.

It includes things like…

What time of day did I was my hair yesterday or today? (The later the better)

Did I eat in any restaurant that made my hair stinky? (Greasy Spoon joints like Jim’s or Mela Indian food)

Did I put my hair up in a bun during planning and now have a giant crease in the back of my hair?

Can said crease be hidden by putting it back in a bun?

Can simply braiding or pinning my bangs back cover it up?

Does anyone give a *@#$?  (No)

See all the decisions that go into washing hair?!!?

I have complicated the situation by cutting bangs again. I LOOOOVVVEEEE chunky bangs.  One problem. She didn’t cut mine chunky enough.  They are very 2nd grade cute cut, not hippy 70′s wannabe cut.

Bangs get durty. Fast. I notice this more now that I am Katy Perry brown.

 Good bangs day for Katy

 Dirty bangs day perhaps?

Using cleavage, I mean flowers to distract us from your dirty bangs?

 

I love Katy Perry.

Have no fear friends. I will not be stinkin up the place too badly.

I know it is best not to wash your hair everyday, but to help I use THIS STUFF!!!

I highly recommend it (and you can find it at Walgreens and Target)!

And because I haven’t LMAO enough today, you must watch this kid sing my favorite Katy Perry song (Yes it has been around a long time…still funny to me) Why didn’t he download the lyrics!? lol

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I need to work. I’m too tired.

Maybe tomorrow I will tell you about the fun stuff we did tonight at our Ancient Cultures Time Traveling Event! I don’t know why I capitalized all that.

Anyone else have funny hair secrets?

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