NETA

Today and tomorrow I am attending the Nebraska Educators Technology Convention. So far so good! I was engaged by the keynote speaker and I am attending the first session that he is presenting. I am excited to get some ideas to take back to school and share with my students and fellow teachers.

Happy Spring Morning.

This morning I was driving to school listening to Bono sing Magnificent from the new U2 album No Line on the Horizon. As he was singing "Magnificent" a little robin bird landed in the middle of the road, right next to the car stopped in front of me. Robin proceeded to hop across the crosswalk, crossing the street to join his friends sitting on the terrace next to the street eating bugs. I smiled and laughed a little. He used the crosswalk. Amazing...

Magnificent...Really.

The Cleaner

Even as a little kid I could sniff out problems.

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Mamas and the Papas

What wisdom...

I was looking for my iTunes for some inspiration for life.

A kid told me I was weird today...True. Then I started to think about what makes me, me. I started thinking about all the stuff that weighs me down every day.

Sometimes friends leave your life when you don't want them to, and then others reappear, you make new friends and burn old bridges. Daily life gets hard sometimes. I want to be a better diabetic, by better I mean more responsible ALL the time, not just when it suits me.

I am behind on my grad work, behind in grading, feeling like I am behind on me. I really want to lose some weight and become healthier, I want to teach myself how to embroider tea towels. I want to paint my bedroom. I want to clean out my closets. I want to start singing again. I want to remember to put lotion on every morning. I want to wake up without feeling tired. I want to work on the landscaping on my terrace. I want to start writing again...

Then I clicked on Make Your Own Kind of Music in my iTunes.


Nobody can tell ya
There's only one song worth singing
They may try and sell ya
Cause it hangs them up to see someone like you

But you've gotta make your own kind of music
Sing your own special song
Make your own kind of music
Even if nobody else sings along

You're gonna be nowhere
The loneliest kind of lonely
It may be rough going
Just to do your thing's the hardest thing to do

But you've gotta make your own kind of music
Sing your own special song
Make your own kind of music
Even if nobody else sings along

So if you cannot take my hand
And if you must be going
I will understand

You've gotta make your own kind of music
Sing your own special song
Make your own kind of music
Even if nobody else sings along

You've gotta make your own kind of music
Sing your own special song
Make your own kind of music

Thats what I am doing.

Cass Elliot sure knew how it is.
*Making my own kind of music* Don't let it hang you up to see someone like me...I am just trying to be me, for me!

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Hilarious

We love Flight of the Conchords. That Jemaine Clement is one funny guy. I was missing some of my good friends from school...S.P. I have been Google Chatting with nightly, but I was having VT withdrawals. I emailed to see how he was doing and let him know that I am still alive. What I got back was an email that contained a link to the following...






Needless to say I about peed myself laughing. You be the judge. Click on the "View Site" button above.


I think this is the best though.

Bugz the Musical

H.D. was the horsefly in the 2nd and 3rd grade musical this week. I was going to video tape it, but that was before my bout with super germ. I did not get to school to borrow a video camera and we do not have one. C'est la Vie...Aunt B was the sicky chauffeur.

I have pictures that Aunt B took on my camera instead. He had a great time and I think he was the best costume! Of course that is also because I made the wings and put together the ensemble c/o of things we had lying around, parts from old costumes, and a quick trip to Goodwill (cowboy boots in just his size!). I am not sure about the makeup, one of the other moms did it. If I had been thinking we would have done a mustache and stuff at home but, oh well.

Enjoy...we did.

H.D.'s line in the musical was "*Whinny* I'm a horsefly and I hurt anyone who with me tangles." Which rhymed with the gypsy moth's line before...something something "spangles."

:)

Sick of Being...

SICK!

I went to the doc on Tuesday for my dumb foot. It has been bothering me for a while. Turns out I have posterior tibial tendonitis in my foot. That was good news. It is getting better...Anyway Tuesday night I started with a scratchy throat and fever...Wednesday fever, cough, body aches, SLEPT ALL DAY...Thursday off to the doc. Upper Respiratory Infection and she prescribed antibiotics. About 2:30 the antibiotics hit and I was sick sick sick...(I will leave it at that).
Today the crippling headache hit. My forehead feels like it is splitting in half. My cough is disgusting and I am irritated, I want to be feeling good. I am tired of not feeling good. AND it is supposed to Snow tomorrow. SNOW...seriously...

I think I would like to have some Hot and Sour soup.

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