not a good way to start the day

the smell of Iams lamb meal & rice formula dog food. not good at all but I am hoping it helps poor oscar super pug extraordinaire he has been having some sort of skin allergy or rash or something for two weeks now. he has been to the vet, had a steroid shot & takes benadryl every day and I thought it was getting better but no, so I found a forum for pug owners-does everyone have a forum these days? it is apparently a pug thing so I am trying a food change & going by the health food store to look for some holistic stuff to hopefully help the poor little guy

school coupon scandal update

I have discovered the reason behind the horrible little girls selling coupon books for 1/2 price.
first prize to the top seller is 4 tickets to the the sold-out hannah montana show.
so glad I have a boy!

great way to start the day

the smell of freshly baking bread from the bakery up the street at work! Makes me want to bake some bread this weekend-yes yeast, kneading, rising the real deal-I use to bake more b.c.(before-connor). Or I could go the easy route I do have one of those fancy bread baking machine that we got for christmas oh 3 years ago and it's still in the box..

maybe when I grow up

I should be an orthodontist. I made an appointment for C first of all the more convenient office to us does not take patients??? I don't know if she meant new patients or just patients & I did not want to ask what the point of the office was if it did not take patients maybe that's were they go for cocktails or something? Earliest appointment of the day is 9 a.m. & latest is 3 p.m. must be rough...

gardening

I am resolved next year to put out a garden in our backyard. My sil was over last night & we were talking about all of the hepatitis, salmonella and food recalls this past year & a vegetable garden just seems to make sense-plus fresh veggies at the grocery store can get expensive! When I first married into the family my fil always had a huge garden each summer, I use to love family dinners it was like go to a farm stand that didn't charge you! His last few summers being up & about he only planted greens-but lots of greens, more greens than several families knew what to do with. We were living at the house the last garden year, and fil had told his church friends to come by & please help themselves to some greens. At the time we were living in the house, C was 1 & just walking so he would help pee-paw pick greens, very cute indeed but more importantly it was the good 'ol days when C took naps. Yes naps those wonderful couple of hours of bliss and quiet for mommy & daddy. We could nap as well, eat a meal or watch a movie good times, good times..anyway inevitably these church folks would RING THE BELL just to let us know they were going to pick some greens. I'm sure it was polite and all but come on did I need to know? If I looked out the window and saw strangers picking greens I was not exactly going to call the police or anything!

shysters

Each fall knox county school students sell coupon books to make money for the school system. $10 will get you a really valuable book of coupons that you can use around town throughout the year. The sales kicked off this thursday-or at least the info came home in the backpack thursday, they were off friday so we did not get any books for C to sell yet, I suppose I could have gone by the school thursday & bought some them but I didn't. C did come home with stories about what prizes you can get if you are top seller, allegedly $300. Now he won't be a top seller. Top sellers sell crazy amounts, he will sell around 15-20 enough to get a tee shirt & a few other silly awards. The top sellers are usually kids with parents that own a business & can sell them at the front counters, if it came down to it I could probably do this where I work but you have to front the $$ for the books and I don't have hundreds of dollars to do this plus 15-20 is just fine.
So friday after work we stopped by the supermarket only to be accosted by these little shysters selling coupon books for $5! They also had the nerve to ask me if I wanted to buy one! I was walking with my clearly school aged child! What am I going to say no C I won't buy a coupon book from you but I will send $5 less to buy it from these strange girls?

pet peeves of the week

-put down the cell phone and drive your car
-that stick coming out the side of your steering wheel, it's call a turn signal you can move it up & down to indicate to drivers around you which direction you are moving your car in
-those cars & trucks that have sirens & flashing lights, they are called emergency vehicles, pull over for them, they are headed to an emergency
-SLOW DOWN IN SCHOOL ZONES

color me thrilled

just got back from taking C to the dentist. C my lovely mutant sized 7 year old, just turned 7, 7 year old apparently has the mouth of a 10 year old. This means we have to go to see an orthodontist for a consult like now at the age of 7. damn we need to win the lottery, damn we need to play the lottery so we can win the lottery

fair update 2007

fried twinkies rock!
that's all I got tonight more tomorrow...

no child left behind?

I know this is a knox county school thing but I am guessing it is tied to the no child left behind crap. spelling last year: we would get a list on monday the kids would have a spelling test on friday, great straight forward we would work on these words each night as "homework". This year they have decided this is not the best way to learn or test spelling, students should learn in context? So we have no specific list to work with, they do send home a list of sentences that have key words to learn for the week-maybe one or two will be on the spelling test which consists of inane sentences-
When we hike we will mix a cake.
really?
My pet has a fine fin.
so?
and these 2 were just last week's there are many many more! They may technically be correct grammar but they sound stupid.
Plus the grade is not just for spelling it includes grammar & handwriting. Handwriting???!
Poor C keeps getting an S on handwriting because he is not using the correct denealian method, I have a hard time counseling & correcting him on this one I cannot recall the last time I put so many damn curly loops on my letters...