Something to enjoy. A pumpkin comes into existence only to find loneliness. In an effort to make a new friend he creates a nightmare.
A scary story just in time for Halloween.
10.29.2008
10.27.2008
Happy 1/2 Birthday to Me!
Today is my half birthday. Awesome.
Happy Half Birthday to me!
Happy Half Birthday to me!
That's it. I only get to sing half the song.
10.26.2008
555-WREN
JOYS
- dark chocolate
- glow in the darks stars
- riding my bike downhill while pedaling as fast as I can; I have a speedometer on my bike so I’m always trying to break my record--currently 27MPH
- piñatas cracking open; it’s like every dream you ever had coming true all at once
- free stuff
- centipedes
- that someday the world will run out of chocolate
- people with a gun and a grudge
- heights
- being betrayed again by a wrap-around skirt
OBSESSIONS/COLLECTIONS
- rocks; (currently over 200 in my collection) maybe you’ll think twice before agreeing to help me move!
- Whitney and I often get into these “conversations”/disputes over grammar and pronunciation; we usually have to consult an outside source for verification
- facebook; can’t get enough
- I want to visit every national park
- snoqualmie ice cream; so creamy and delicious
SURPRISING THINGS ABOUT ME
- I have a freckle in my left eye
- I have all these weird mannerisms that I don’t realize I always do, then someone points it out to me and I am surprised to realize they’re right later when I catch myself at it--a few examples:
- I pull my left sleeve down and hold it in my fist if I’m wearing a long sleeve shirt.
- I drive with my right hand under my left knee.
- If I have to get back into bed after hitting snooze (and folks, I do HAVE to) I always lie back down on the opposite side.
- I flunked second grade, surprising when you consider how brilliant I am now :)
- Unlike regular kids who wake up on Christmas morning to presents from Santa, I get something from both the Clauses. Mrs. Claus always makes me a cake and sends it along with her sweetheart.
- In my last life I was a hamster, don’t worry I wasn’t one of those non-cute rodents. Viva la Hamsters!
10.25.2008
Vote Help
Here's a website I found for undecided voters.
VoteHelp is a nonpartisan candidate calculator that compares your views to those of Barack Obama and John McCain. You take a quiz to compare how you would vote on issues and see who is most similar.
1. Input your opinions
2. Weight the importance of the issues
3. Find out how McCain and Obama's views match your own
Here's the link again: http://www.votehelp.org/
Happy voting!
VoteHelp is a nonpartisan candidate calculator that compares your views to those of Barack Obama and John McCain. You take a quiz to compare how you would vote on issues and see who is most similar.
1. Input your opinions
2. Weight the importance of the issues
3. Find out how McCain and Obama's views match your own
Here's the link again: http://www.votehelp.org/
Happy voting!
10.24.2008
Low Calorie Friday Treat
So here's how this started:
A few years ago, I brought cookies for my students on a Friday. Not just because it was Friday, there was a valid educational reason. Something do do with testing variables.
Controlled Variable: Oreo type sandwich cookie top and bottom
Manipulated Variable: Creme filling in chocolate, vanilla and mint
Responding Variable: Number of students who chose each cookie type
But the facade was transparent and easy to push aside. I knew it. They knew it. It was Friday and I thought a treat was in order.
They loved it, so the tradition began.
A few years ago, I brought cookies for my students on a Friday. Not just because it was Friday, there was a valid educational reason. Something do do with testing variables.
Controlled Variable: Oreo type sandwich cookie top and bottom
Manipulated Variable: Creme filling in chocolate, vanilla and mint
Responding Variable: Number of students who chose each cookie type
But the facade was transparent and easy to push aside. I knew it. They knew it. It was Friday and I thought a treat was in order.
So a few weeks later, on a treat-less Friday, the students begged for a Friday treat. I said, um, ok. But that I didn't have any high calorie treats so it would have to be a low calorie treat. Then I dug around on my hard drive and found this sound clip.
They loved it, so the tradition began.
- movie clips
- audio clips
- funny cartoons
- weird stories
- once we figured out our secret code names with the Name Change-o-Chart 2000
But this week we are talking about the nature of light. Does it move as particles or waves?? I couldn't find anything to give them. So after we cleaned up after the lab. SUPER MESSY today; we had to get the mop out and everything. I played some Queen for them and we practiced our air guitar.
It's become a fun tradition for me and the scholars entrusted into my care. I even sometimes have former students stopping by my classroom on Fridays to get treats. But I need some multimedia resources. If you, or anyone you can think of has any thoughts, ideas or favorite clips, please let me know.
I'm excited to hear your suggestions--don't disappoint the kids!
Love, Loopy Wafflesniffer
It's become a fun tradition for me and the scholars entrusted into my care. I even sometimes have former students stopping by my classroom on Fridays to get treats. But I need some multimedia resources. If you, or anyone you can think of has any thoughts, ideas or favorite clips, please let me know.
I'm excited to hear your suggestions--don't disappoint the kids!
Love, Loopy Wafflesniffer
10.05.2008
Beans and Holes of the Black Variety
Earlier today I was trying to remember what exactly a pulsar is. I know this is information that was once at my fingertips but it seems to have retreated into the dark recesses of where ever forgotten things go, something to do with the hippocampus, but I forget.
(that is a funny joke, get it? hippocampus, memory, I forget. )
Ok, I apologize. I should relabel it simply as "a joke" not as "a funny joke".
So I looked through some books to try to pry the info out of either the book or my brain. Then got sucked into this little astronomy book I found. Sucked in figuratively not literally, as in a black hole. So now I remember that a pulsar is a tiny, super dense, rapidly spinning neutron star. But I find myself once again totally mystified as to what exactly a black hole is. I can explain the words; I read the chapter twice. It's the concept that remains elusive. A black hole is an incredibly massive object that doesn't take up any space. None. Not even a little bit. Very strange. The laws of physics break down and can't really explain it, so how can I be expected to explain it here? And yet for all its strangeness and mysteriousness--how very, very cool!
Want to know something else strange but cool. There is a woman in Bellingham who makes black licorice scented soap. I have a bar on my desk. As I'm typing this post, I'm breathing in the rich aroma and CRAVING black licorice. I'm not so foolish as to take a lick, I know that would end badly, but I want to. So very, very much.
Downstairs we have a big jar of jelly beans; I like to dig out the black ones. So even if I went down there to get a bean, I don't think there are any black ones left to mine.
Yesterday I was standing in the kitchen digging through the jar looking for favorites. Soon my 1 year old nephew is standing at my knees yelling "kis, kis" his word for skittles, it works for jelly beans too. I have no ability to say no to a fellow sweets lover. And my nieces and nephews can all attest to the fact that I have never willingly said no to anything they've asked for.
Soon there were 8 n&n's standing around me and I was doling out candy to everyone :)
Tess will only eat pink ones. I tried to give Jack and Kate ones that matched their shirts as they both drool profusely when eating candy. Brielle wanted a root beer one but got shafted when she bit into a coffee flavored one. Yuck! Also yucky is the buttered popcorn bean. My own opinion, not shared with the rest of the world apparently, as it pops up on a lot of jelly bean eaters favorites list; including my niece Anna. Megan liked the strawberry cheesecake. Linzi, the blueberry.
But now they are all gone, even Jack who was staying here for a week with my sister Siri. So I have the beans all to myself! (Insert evil laughter here.)
I do have to fight the parentals and Kay for them, but I think I can outrun my parents and Kay uses a walker, so I should be able to take her. She's sneaky though. We sometimes hear her down in the kitchen in the middle of the night dumping jelly bellies onto her walker tray. What she lacks in stealth she more than makes up for in determination.
For Christmas about 5 years ago I bought Damon a packet of the Harry Potter inspired Jelly Beans. Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean. We enjoyed them together. I remember trying dirt, soap, black pepper and sausage (it could have been bacon?, I'm not sure). But didn't try vomit or booger, which sound even more disgusting than buttered popcorn. Of the weird-o flavors, dirt was my favorite, but one was enough. In other words, dirt isn't going to show up on my top three flavors list. No, that special place of honor belongs to Hot Cinnamon, Black Licorice and Coconut.
What's your favorite flavor bean?
(that is a funny joke, get it? hippocampus, memory, I forget. )
Ok, I apologize. I should relabel it simply as "a joke" not as "a funny joke".
So I looked through some books to try to pry the info out of either the book or my brain. Then got sucked into this little astronomy book I found. Sucked in figuratively not literally, as in a black hole. So now I remember that a pulsar is a tiny, super dense, rapidly spinning neutron star. But I find myself once again totally mystified as to what exactly a black hole is. I can explain the words; I read the chapter twice. It's the concept that remains elusive. A black hole is an incredibly massive object that doesn't take up any space. None. Not even a little bit. Very strange. The laws of physics break down and can't really explain it, so how can I be expected to explain it here? And yet for all its strangeness and mysteriousness--how very, very cool!
Want to know something else strange but cool. There is a woman in Bellingham who makes black licorice scented soap. I have a bar on my desk. As I'm typing this post, I'm breathing in the rich aroma and CRAVING black licorice. I'm not so foolish as to take a lick, I know that would end badly, but I want to. So very, very much.
Downstairs we have a big jar of jelly beans; I like to dig out the black ones. So even if I went down there to get a bean, I don't think there are any black ones left to mine.
Yesterday I was standing in the kitchen digging through the jar looking for favorites. Soon my 1 year old nephew is standing at my knees yelling "kis, kis" his word for skittles, it works for jelly beans too. I have no ability to say no to a fellow sweets lover. And my nieces and nephews can all attest to the fact that I have never willingly said no to anything they've asked for.
Soon there were 8 n&n's standing around me and I was doling out candy to everyone :)
Tess will only eat pink ones. I tried to give Jack and Kate ones that matched their shirts as they both drool profusely when eating candy. Brielle wanted a root beer one but got shafted when she bit into a coffee flavored one. Yuck! Also yucky is the buttered popcorn bean. My own opinion, not shared with the rest of the world apparently, as it pops up on a lot of jelly bean eaters favorites list; including my niece Anna. Megan liked the strawberry cheesecake. Linzi, the blueberry.
But now they are all gone, even Jack who was staying here for a week with my sister Siri. So I have the beans all to myself! (Insert evil laughter here.)
I do have to fight the parentals and Kay for them, but I think I can outrun my parents and Kay uses a walker, so I should be able to take her. She's sneaky though. We sometimes hear her down in the kitchen in the middle of the night dumping jelly bellies onto her walker tray. What she lacks in stealth she more than makes up for in determination.
For Christmas about 5 years ago I bought Damon a packet of the Harry Potter inspired Jelly Beans. Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean. We enjoyed them together. I remember trying dirt, soap, black pepper and sausage (it could have been bacon?, I'm not sure). But didn't try vomit or booger, which sound even more disgusting than buttered popcorn. Of the weird-o flavors, dirt was my favorite, but one was enough. In other words, dirt isn't going to show up on my top three flavors list. No, that special place of honor belongs to Hot Cinnamon, Black Licorice and Coconut.
What's your favorite flavor bean?
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