Monthly Archives: September 2007

When I was little and went to birthday parties, there was usually cake and ice cream. I always just wanted the cake. The two were never to mix! Maybe I didn’t like the runny melted ice cream getting soaked up by my cake. I always loved apple pie as a kid. But when others were putting a big dollop of ice cream on top, I refused. Just the pie for me, thanks. But in the past year or two, something has changed. Now I like ice cream with everything! Maybe what started it was the famed Cookie Monster at Cheddars. It is a giant warm cookie with ice cream, chocolate syrup, whipped cream, nuts, and a cherry on top. It is absolutely my favorite dessert. Or maybe it was in Turkey when I bravely tried apple pie at a restaurant, not sure of what kind of concoction of this all-American treat I would get in a foreign country. It came topped with ice cream and totally wonderful! In Turkey I also tried peach cobbler for the first time, also served with ice cream. Maybe it was that I was really homesick for familiar Southern food that led me to try this which I had always said I didn’t like. But it was really good! (Good job Kaela!)
And lately, starting with a trip to Braum’s when we lived in DFW, I like brownies with ice cream. Dairy Queen has this thing called a Brownie Earthquake, sooooo yummy!
So needless to say, I have changed my ways. I am totally an “a la mode” girl now!

Zippers bother me. And I don’t mean the kind that keep your clothes on. I mean people who zip back and forth between traffic haphazardly, at great risk to all around them. I see them often on the main road that I travel to and from work each day. Of course they are more frequent in the morning when folks are in a hurry to get to work. If I am in the right hand lane, I have a clear view down the white striped line and can frequently see them “zipping” back and forth from one lane to another, going between cars with inches to spare, with nary a turn signal to be seen. Oh the tickets that could be given for “failure to signal lane change”! It frustrates me when I am near the zipper. They angle across diagonally behind or in front of me in order to get the least bit ahead of everyone else. I was taught that you don’t change lanes until you can see the other car in your rear view mirror, because then you are sure that they are far enough back that you won’t clip them or be in their way when you scoot over in front of them. But these people don’t even seem to ever look, they just dart across. It kills me when I can see the zipper (usually a small sports car) up ahead, going back and forth from lane to lane. Just pick a lane people! Right lane, left lane, right lane, left lane, in front of a dump truck, past the suburban, cut off the van full of migrant landscape workers…..no signals, no warning to anyone. It really doesn’t make me angry when driving, I just know that one of them is going to create an accident and then the road will be really backed up. It just isn’t safe! If any of you out there are zippers, I encourage you, please, just set your alarm 5 minutes earlier and you will save yourself and many other drivers some stress on the morning commute. Just hang back in one lane, listen to the radio, and enjoy the cruise.

By the way, I know I haven’t blogged much lately. But I have been having blog post ideas. So I am writing them all, to be posted at a later date.

So for those of you that like to check blogs daily, but you don’t want to spend hours at work clicking on all those links because your boss might walk by and see it…..here is a quick way to check all your blogs.

Google Reader!

Click here and you can either log in with a google account or create one. Over to the left, there is a box that says “add subscription”. Click on it and a box opens. Copy your favorite blog address and paste it in the box and click “add”. It will search for an RSS feed (I don’t know what that is and it doesn’t matter) and it will put the blog on a list. It will tell you how many unread entries there are. (The first time you do it, it acts like they are all new, but you can click “mark all as read” to clear it out.) Then you just log into google reader and you can see all the new blog posts. It is very cool! The one thing is that sometimes (Kaela) the pictures don’t show up, I don’t know why, they usually do, but occasionally they won’t. And some people’s blogs don’t have an RSS feed (Chels) so it won’t load it. So you still have to check those people’s the old fashioned way.

So there Kasey, is a post and a how-to for you

On another note, I started school last week. It is overall really good. The kids are very well behaved! The drive has been 45 minutes so far, which is longer than expected and a little annoying. The first day there was a flood. Some plumbing problem sent inches of water into some rooms and we had to keep our 6th periods the rest of the day. My room was fine.

A funny thing happend on the third day of school. There is one little girl that I had noticed already because she talked to me quite frequently. She is in 1st period. In 3rd period, in walked this girl again and I thought, “didn’t I already have her today? Or was that yesterday? And didn’t she sit on the other side of the room? Is she in the wrong class? Or does she have her schedule mixed up and she thinks she has me twice? Or maybe she thinks it is advisory?” I was very very confused! She seemed like a bright enough girl, why would she come in twice? And she obviously knew it wasn’t advisory because she was doing her math warmup. And I really do remember talking to her first period because I had to move her seats…. Still very confused! So I got an idea. I pulled up my class rolls on the computer. First period, there is her last name…third period, her last name again, different first name! Twins! I have twins and no one pointed that out to me! Identical twins at that. And the next day they wore the same shirt! I can’t tell them apart at all. I can barely remember which one is which period. I have got to get them side by side and figure out the difference. There’s always something…