Personal Updates

Happy Halloween to everyone!!

I’m not really sure that any one ever comes to this site anymore, because the wedding is a thing of the past.  But, I’m at work and bored and so I thought I’d update the few who do!  Yesterday, Trav and I celebrated our 5 month wedding anniversary.  He was so sweet!!  After he left for work, Trav called me back at the house to wish me a Happy Anniversary and to tell me he loved me.  Then, after he got off work, he surprised me with flowers-5 of the most beautiful long stem red roses I’ve ever seen with baby’s breath, greenery and a beautiful red vase.  Now, I’ll give Trav the credit that he’s never miss a "month anniversary" since we’ve been together, but usually we just tell each other "Happy Anniversary" and move on with our business.  Trav really blew it over the top this month, and I LOVED it!!  It made me feel so special.  It’s easy to forget the special, sweet things that should happen when you’re living together and experiencing all of the morning breath, dirty laundry and slouchy days.  But, yesterday Trav proved to me that no matter what, he’s a romantic at .  What can I say… I buy him a red stapler and 4 days later, I get red roses.  Isn’t life ironic, don’t you think??

Just when I thought I couldn’t be loved anymore, Beck reveals to me that she has bought me my very own red Swingline stapler! I have wanted one since that fateful day in 1999 when I saw Milton’s on Office Space. If I ever had any doubts about Beck being the perfect girl, they are long gone.
A RED STAPLER!

Update: I got the stapler in the mail yesterday. It was everything I was hoping for…and more. It doesn’t bind up as much and…everytime I use it, I think of Becca. How cool is that!

Rice is great when you’re really hungry and you want 2000 of something.

                –Mitch Hedberg

In case you ever wonder how Becca gets what she wants, take a look:

We sold our little pug Frodo after deciding it wasn’t fair to him to be locked up in his cage 8-12 hours a day. The poor pup had no stability because Beck was taking him back and forth between here and Lexington, so proper paper training was not possible.

Beck cried so hard when we took him to the pet store  to be sold. She kept saying, "He looks so little," after they put him in the display case. She was right: He did. He was ok with it, I think, because he immediately started rooting around in the shredded newpaper and throwing it in the air.

The lady at the pet store called the next day to say that he had been sold. The people who bought him weren’t even in there to get a dog, but the little guy charmed his way into their hearts by pawing at the glass and hopping up and down. The lady knew the people and said they were well off with a big house and fenced in yard. So, Frodo has literally moved on to greener pastures. He has probably forgotten us, but we will never forget him.

I don’t think I’ve ever added a post about it, but if you haven’t checked out the Pictures section in awhile, you should head on over to the Gallery. There are pictures of the wedding, the rehearsal, and other stuff. I have a bunch more pictures to add, but since I still have dial-up, getting them posted has proven very difficult. Maybe someday… :)

Believe it or not, I actually have a little house dog now. He’s an adorable little pug named Frodo. We’re working on paper training him right now, but in between cleaning up his messes, he’s actually pretty cute.

If you have ever hated the Microsoft Office helper known as Clippy (the paperclip that pops up in the corner), I’m sure you will love this.  Warning: This parody contains some explicit language. If you are offended by this, simply don’t click the link ;)

Sometimes, it’s so hard to understand why I got out of bed that morning. Today was one of those days. The kids were wild today, which is odd, because on Mondays, everybody is usually quite subdued. Three things happened today that made me do a double take and wonder if I were stuck in some awful pedagogical nightmare:

1. I hand a paper to a student that says Chapter 4 Practice Problem in large bold letters across the top. The student looks at it and asks, "Is this the chapter 4 practice problem?" Why?!?
2. In animation class, I decided it would be a good idea to review a short exercise about guide layers. I figured the best way to do this would be to have the students walk through a guide layer activity we did about three weeks ago. Before we began the activity, I announced not once, not twice, but three times in my manly teacher voice that "We have already done this activity. I want us to do it again as a review." Not more than thirty seconds after I have made this announcement and written the page numbers on the board did I hear from two different people, "We’ve already done this! Do you want us to do it again?" Why?!?
   
3. During break, I was in the hallway watching the kids file in from sixth period. A big, corn-fed boy comes barreling down the hallway and tackles the water fountain mounted to the wall. It knocks him backwards, and when he bounces to his feet and yells, "Take that you son of a…" As if this once incident wasn’t dumb enough, I have witnessed this no less than four times in the last year. Apparently, that water fountain plays a mean right tackle. Why?