Two more weeks until spring break. Two more weeks until spring break! Fellow teachers, what are your plans?

Hooray! I’ve been watching FNX via N. Minnesota Public Television for years. There are some great shows out there that deserve wider recognition. My personal favorites are Wapos Bay and Fish out of Water.

My sister got a globe for Christmas one year in a nice sturdy box with two holes for the globe to stick out. I’m not sure where the globe went, but we had that box for about 15 years. The cats loved it and fought over it. Sometimes all you need is a bit of cardboard with a hole or two in it.

My only advice is to make sure your kitties are used to riding in the car without it meaning a trip to the vet. We had a cat when I was a kid that loved to go for car rides no matter where we went. My other cat only went in the car when it was time to go to the vet. She had to be in a cat carrier because she would…

I agree wholeheartedly. I’m excited to see where they take the story in the next one.

I saw it yesterday with about 100 middle schoolers. It was so much better than I thought it was going to be!

I am sooooooo late to this party. Whatever. I chaperoned a reward day trip to the theater to see Star Wars, so yeah.

Nope, but my argument is strictly anecdotal. The mathematician side of will argue, however, that just because the Marines didn’t have anyone perform well doesn’t mean they are nonexistent.

It’s actually not that bad. I pop my pumpkin in the oven, and then I make my crust while it’s cooking. The recipe I use calls for 2C pumpkin puree, 1.5C cream, .5C sugar, one egg, and then I throw in a bit of cinnamon and some nutmeg. This year I blended up the egg, cream, and other dry ingredients first before adding…

West Coaster, here, so I just put my dinner in the oven. I did make my pumpkin pie this morning, and I baked bread yesterday. Now it’s just time to chill out with my sexy novel, my cranberry wine, and continue to avoid the very large stack of homework that I need to correct by Monday.

For those of you who are familiar with Iowa City, you know that July 31/Aug. 1 is when everyone moves. For some reason all leases are up at the end of July, and all new leases start August 1st. Here I am, 21-years-old on the morning of the 31st helping my boyfriend and his mom clean his disgusting old apartment and…

This may be morbid, but today I got to check out the carcass of a stranded blue whale. Never in my as a lapsed Iowan did I think would be standing ~30 feet from the largest mammal on the planet.

When I was student teaching, one of my classroom rules was to not use the word retarded. Naturally, there were some clever work-arounds. One my boys came up with resharted. When asked how that would work, he drew me this:

I am no longer in PDX, but I will say that I found all of my apartments on Craigslist. Be prepared for competition (applications, references, etc.) if you decide to rent a place on your own. Also, don’t discount SW Portland (Hillsdale, Barbur, Multnomah Village). They are quieter, more residential neighborhoods that…

You forgot the in the butt part. In my house all mom jokes have to do with my MILs ass.

It’s almost as if they’ve come completely full circle to how it looked before they started messing with it.

My Hawkeyes kicked butt today, too! Yay for winning!

You and me, both! Although, I also had a crush on Axl Rose in the early 90s, so take my taste in famous guys with a grain of salt.

One of my good friends worked at Starbucks years ago. He and his crew would draw two little circles on the bottom of the coffee cups of disagreeable customers. Why two little circles? When the customer would tip the cup up to drink it would look like a pig’s snout.

May I suggest checking grocery stores and/or bait and tackle shops near the ocean?