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Oh, Yeah

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To recap: Time spent on The Great Macaroni-Starry Night Project:   * 2 hours in the classroom   * 5 hours at home prepping the night before; 1 hour sealing the project once done   * 8 days of gloriously self-involved bitching before, during and after project completion

It's Fun To Be Neurotic!

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So this last Sunday I decided to have another one of my Dessert Extravaganzas.  Having learned from last year, I worked ahead and started making and freezing cakes about 2 weeks ago.  This means I was much less-bitchy on the actual day of the party; hence, Bee wasn't nearly as ready to divorce me.

Chernobyl of the West

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Grab Your Pitchfork, Mamma

While studying for my Elementary Education degree, I was a student teacher in a third grade classroom.  My mentor, an involved but disillusioned veteran teacher, did a wonderful job of creating fun projects and a cozy classroom for her students . . . while concurrently making them tense with her inconsistent moods: you just never knew what would set her off, and if that thing was really your fault or just her whim-of-the-moment.

Time Flies

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(there was one vote for every answer but "B" and "F") And the answer to last week's poll is: