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hi world. 
things have been pretty much the same with me.  school work.  more school work.  contacting parents.  hollering at kids.  grading.  progress reports.  typing.  more hollering.  you get the picture. 

on saturday i felt AWFUL...seriously out of it. i eventually worked up enough energy to go to walmart and i bought some drugs and some other random things. i took "daytime" tylenol for colds and whatnot and it knocked me flat on my tail. i spent all of sunday laying in the bed, sleeping all day. when i wasn't sleeping i was watching the "love saga" on hallmark. ...the movies that are based on jannette oke's books...well the had the whole series on starting at 11 am until 11pm. that is how i spent most of my weekend. :/ i am feeling somewhat better today...my head just hurts. i think it is partially due to the aliens and all of their nonsense and partially due to tropical storm ida bringing us a TON of rain tonight and tomorrow.... :/

in other news...

today i married optimus prime.  a kid had a cupcake that he gave me that had a autobot ring...  so they all said i married optimus.  it lasted maybe 3 minutes until my finger literally started turning purple from the circulation being cut off...

last night christy threw up the spiderman sign at me...just like spidey.  i threw it back just in case it meant something....

in which i realize i never really had the remote control of the world...

i found out today that my grandma was admitted to the hospital.  she went into her doctor and he wanted to have her observed at the hospital for a few days because of her heart.  i guess it has been beating irregular and has been racing.  it is brought on by stress...and the dealing of another family situation.  originally it was only supposed to be a few days...but lsf said it will probably be more than that.  i know that things change and i can't control the world, but i do not like change and i do not like being there when things like this come up.  lsf keeps reassuring me that she will let me know if i need to plan on coming home for family things.  i don't know.  i just get kinda funny when stuff like this comes up...it just bothers me.  i can't express it in words...but it just is--- i don't know. 

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(that is for you kli)

last week was parent/teacher conferences.  we had non-stop conferences wed/thurs/fri from 12:30-6.  it was nuts.  and we still had to do some on tues and one even today.  we had 2 not show up.  crazy.  ...speaking of crazy, i was a little worried about some parents and how the conferences would go and with a lot of prayer and help from the LoRd we had great conferences.  a few parents even made the comment "my kid has never been this happy before.  they love coming to school!"  that made me feel good...like i am doing something right and that this year has been good thus far...especially for the kids in transitional grades.

my sister had a random cat in her house yesterday.  hilarious!  i haven't laughed so hard in i don't know how long....  it wasn't her cat.  i guess it came in through the dog door and she walked out of her room to find the cat in the living room.  it was a black cat with a bell which of course leads me to believe that....JINGLES (!!) made it out to las vegas. 

speaking of jingles and those who love her/him oh so much... i am going to charlotte this weekend to spend time with aem.  i am very very much looking forward to seeing one of my dearest friends. 

in other news, i am taking my car to get looked at tomorrow by my friend's husband.  my brakes have been kind of funny and i am not sure if it is just because they need new brake pads.  i think i am going to see if he can just do a "check-up" on my car and make sure everything is ok...especially before i go to charlotte.  i am hoping there is nothing wrong or very few inexpensive things wrong... but i am also afraid of wasting his time with me just being ridiculous.  i just feel in my gut that i need to have my car looked at...just to be safe. 

ok world.  that is all for now. 

why are there so many armadillas on the side of the road??

there really have been a lot of them and there is something about the way they lay on the side of the road dead...it is kind of like even in their current state as roadkill, they are still the stuff. legs and arms (do armadillos have legs and arms or are they just all called legs?) straight up in the air.  they are intesne. 

it has gotten really chilly here and i don't have a coat, but guess what i do have (drumroll please)... an ice scraper!!!!  the other day beck gave me one that chuck had in a box upstairs.  it is perfect.  rachel + real actual ice scraper = true love

tonight beck and i *tried* to build a fire.  it was definitely not a "fischer fire".... it was lame.  someone bought these "eco-friendly" fire starter logs...they are the pits.  pretty much it is just some garbage compacted into a log that looks like poo.  there isn't really a ton of warmth coming from our earth friendly fire, but it does smell good...like chritmas.

on a completely unrelated note, i found this website that i really love.  pandora.com is a online radio station but it is customized for your tastes.  yesterday at work i typed in "misty edwards" and it brought up some of misty's music and then music that sounded like misty's and then some that was similar in other ways.  and you can choose if you like a song or if you are tired of one and it won't play that song ever again or for a month if you are tired of it.  it is pretty spectacular.

cold like the winter wind...

i have been in a mood lately.  it isn't easy to express how i am feeling.  not angry or hostile, but just not normal.  i haven't been able to shake it and i just really don't even know the reason for it.  i hate it because i have become short at work and easily frustrated, which is not fair to my students.  i am so tired of loudness and so tired of papers and so tired of disrespectful kids.  usually it is something i take in stride and not let get to me, but this week it has really really gotten to me. 

today we had chapel and the speaker was a girl who is a missionary to guatemala.  she is 22 and lives in the ghetto with gangsters and stuff.  the stuff she was saying was really impacting to my students, but what disturbed me was that i was not moved at all by it.  in the past seeing pictures of hurting people and kids in other countries would do something to my heart and today the whole time she was showing her pictures and talking, i felt no real emotion.  i could almost go as far as to say i really didn't care too much about what she was talking about or doing.  what has happened to me?  why am i not moved by the hurting anymore?  why do i not care about missions or about the work other people are doing?  i don't feel bitter....it is i am just not impacted by it anymore. i am thrilled that my students were impacted by what she was saying and i am not loving the fact that it definitely has pointed out a really disturbing part of my heart today. 

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i complelety understand that posting a video does not qualify as being a blog entry. a friend posted this on facebook today and i liked it. so i am posting it here. i hopefully soon, when something really amazingly wonderful happens, will have a real entry to post. until then, this is what you are getting.

this audio is the answering machine message of a school in australia. it pretty much speaks for itself. 

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