Thursday, January 13, 2011

A Letter

Dear Neighbor,

That flailing mass of purple you saw go flying? Yeah, that was me.

You know, it is generally polite to STOP and ask someone who has FALLEN ON ICE if they are okay. That's right. I saw you. Your daily run around the neighborhood should definitely not be interrupted. But if you don't want to be interrupted, then you should probably not GASP and make EYE CONTACT with the person who screamed curse words on her way to the ground. You certainly didn't need to bother with the cracking noise that followed the cursing. That was nothing. Probably a rabid squirrel fight.

You are totally the best neighbor ever.

Love,

Abigail

PS - You might want to be on the lookout for random snowballs being thrown your way tomorrow on your run.

PPS - I probably shouldn't compose letters when I have an angry head injury.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Stir Crazy

I am now headed into my fourth day off from work due to the nasty road conditions. I was actually jealous of Bryan as he headed off to work for the first time earlier this morning. Do you know how sick and twisted that is??

In all seriousness, I am ready to go back to work. I was actually hoping for a workday tomorrow - maybe Friday at this rate?  I miss my friends and the munchkins. If we don't go in on Friday, we won't go back to work until next Tuesday!! (MLK holiday on Monday) That is nuts!! Right now, there are also rumors floating around that they will take away our February break in order to make up for the lost days this week. Knowing how l-o-n-g the distance between MLK weekend Spring Break in April feels, I am not a fan of that idea. At all.

On a happy note, I've gotten a lot done at home - caulked a bathtub, blogged, written lesson plans, cut coupons, folded about a million loads of laundry and cooked 3 meals a day almost every day since Saturday. We've even managed to stick to our New Year's low/no carb diet. Do you know how hard that is when you are stuck inside and all you want is a grilled cheese and soup??? Luckily, on our trek to Kroger I found some low carb tortillas on an almost empty bread shelf and viola! Cheese Quesadillas and Soup!

We've had fun together - playing Wii, watching movies and our good friends John and Neeley came over last night.  I made a big pot of black bean soup, a salad and some "goo" (Thanks, Mom!) and we were able to enjoy the sound of other peoples' voices for a few hours. :)

I hope this finds everyone warm and toasty! I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to some sunshine this weekend!!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Snowmaggedon 2011

I am currently enjoying my second day off, watching Scott Pilgrim Vs The World with my sweet boy. We picked it up yesterday on our walk to Kroger. That's right, our walk to Kroger.



Our front steps:
3 inches of snow covered with a lovely icy sheen

We did discuss using the car, but on our way to the car we almost broke ourselves so we decided to hoof it. We were going to get beer for the big game and it turned out to be quite the adventure!

That would be the ice that kept us from driving.
There was lots of it.
If you think he looks happy here, you should have seen him after we got the beer!

It took us about an hour and a half to walk there. We were super-bundled up: multiple shirts, sweaters and coats, pajama pants under jeans, gloves, scarves and boots. There were a few fools driving, but we were pleasantly surprised to see lots of other folks walking - and most of them for the same reason!


Evidence that we weren't the only crazies.

When we arrived at the blessed Kroger parking lot, it was empty but the inside was a different story. Packed! There were lots of other "walkers" who were loading up with similar goodies. We have plenty of food at the house, but times like this make me crave a few essentials: hot coffee and tomato soup. We also grabbed several Redbox flicks: Scott Pilgrim, Easy A and Grownups. The walk back was shorter, 45 minutes, as everything was downhill this time. After our 3 hour adventure we decided that we had probably burned all of the beer calories we would consume during the game. :) We did enjoy a delicious pot roast once we thawed out and warmed up again.

As we sat down to watch Scott Pilgrim this morning, Bryan had a revelation: "Crap. We have to take all those Redbox movies back."

Stay warm and stay tuned for Part 2: Return to the Redbox!

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Point, Click, Give! :)

I know I recently asked for your help regarding my sweet Ruby, but this help only requires you to click. :) 

Oprah recently named Donors Choose one of her favorite things for 2010. In a partnership with Bing, she is trying to donate $1,000,000 to teachers in need. If you follow a short registration process to make Bing your homepage, they will send you a $5 email gift card/donation code to apply to any project you want! 


Guess who has a project on Donors Choose?? ME! :) 


If you would, pretty please, follow the steps below and use a $5 donation code to help fund my project, it would mean the world to me! It won't cost you anything but time!


1. Click here: Bing Holiday Project: Donors Choose 
2. Click on the orange "Start Here" button.
3. Fill in your email address for "I Choose. Bing Gives $5."
4. Visit your email and retrieve the donation code.
5. Go to my Donors Choose page and look on the right hand side for the Give Any Amount pull down tab. Type in $5 and click the green arrow.
6. Review your cart and click through to check out.
7. Copy the donation code from your email and paste it in the "I have a gift code!" box.
8. Click on "Place My Donation" to apply it and you're done!


I really appreciate anyone out there taking the time to do this. It's quick and painless and will (hopefully!) provide my kiddos, my co-teachers and I with some invaluable technology to help them "close the gap." 


Please do this before the opportunity "expires" on January 15th!

Muchas Gracias from all of us in Room 3! :)

 
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