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| The first graders have been preparing to sing some holiday songs this week. I was explaining to them that "O Tannenbaum" means "Oh Christmas Tree" in German. And I made sure the students were pronouncing the words correctly. In the hallway after school I ran into a grandparent (of a very serious child, not one to goof off in class very easily) who said they were very excited to see the performance. And then she said, "I had to tell you, because I thought it was funny, that my grandson thought the words to 'O Tannenbaum' were 'Atomic bomb' and he kept singing it like that at home until I corrected him." Oops... I guess that just shows how much the students pay attention to me. "Oh he did say he thought it was German though," she added. Well okay so they are sort of paying attention... haha. | | |
| Here is where we went last weekend. Well okay we really went to San Francisco for my cousin’s wedding and a family reunion of sorts. But on the way home we stopped by the abandoned airfield at Crows Landing since we had wondered about it the last few times we’d driven past the Crows Landing exit. Well okay so it was more like we were wondering about the freeway-side facility which turns out to be a big trash incinerator facility run by Covanta Energy Corp. and we came across the airfield info as well. And we like old abandoned structures. And tumbleweeds! The last picture on the Crows Landing portion of that website (the abandoned control tower) is pretty much similar to what we saw. We were also hoping to see a more abandoned version of something like this. But we ended up just seeing some of the old radar equipment from that photo, sitting around in an open lot with lots of tumbleweeds. Of course there were crows! And there was the most beautiful bunch of giant agave with dried-out flower spikes that must have been at least three times my height! We took photos but I’m too lazy to go get them now. Maybe I’ll put them on flickr at some other time. Trust me the agave bunch was super cool though. Gigantic! | | |
| Aaaaargh. I’ve been coughing my head off for two weeks straight. Went to the doctor last week to make sure it wasn’t anything worse and to get some good ol’ cough syrup with codeine in it. Which I’ve taken in the past and have been fine with it. But this time they also gave me prednisone and antibiotics. Because the day before my doctor’s appointment I just happened to get a spider bite. Nothing poisonous but it made my entire thumb swell up and I somehow got these weird spots all over me (they were calling it a systemic reaction?) and they were worried since I’ve had bad reactions to common insect bites in the past. So in the past week I’ve not only been living with a wicked cough and an itchy thumb. But I’ve been sick to my stomach and dizzy from all the meds. AND I’ve had insomnia which I NEVER have (I’m usually more on the narcoleptic side if anything). Mixed together these meds have left me feeling worse than just the cough itself! So last night I finished the last of the meds and today I’m finally feeling a little like myself again. Never have I been so thankful to just be fighting the remains of a nagging cough and on my way to being healthy again. Obviously this was nothing compared to what some people go through on a daily basis but for me this was pretty bad. I threw up more times this week (like four times) than in my entire life up to now! Blah…. while sick I also missed two days of school (would have been more had we not had a four-day weekend), three ballet classes and rehearsals, six yoga classes, countless hours of peaceful sleep… Anyway I just thought I would write this update to complain. What good is a blog if you can’t complain when you’re sick? I told Meow I know what she felt like when they gave her these meds that made her tummy sick. And I told L that I am really thankful for his homemade soups… leek and garlic soup, butternut squash soup… he makes the yummiest homemade soups and they have made me feel better when nothing much else could these past two weeks. | | |
| Woe is this blog. Time sure flies when you're having fun. Or when you
have Facebook. I'm not all that into using Facebook but it's a lot
easier to update a status line than write in complete sentences on this
blog... not that anyone is saying that one must absolutely blog in
complete sentences but you know what I mean! So yeah summer was really
fun. The nice beach trail was open again so we walked that a lot, went
out for breakfast a lot, did yoga a lot, and I did zero summer ballet.
Oh and we went to Turkey! If you really want to be bored to tears,
check out the travel photos on flickr. Okay fast-forward to now... in
spite of all the talk of monumental budget cuts to education in this
state, I still have a job - yay! So recently I've been back to going to
work and school and ballet as usual. And yoga. And lots of little
weekend trips to the Land Of The Very Hot for this and that. And did I
mention that a ton of people we know are getting, or have gotten,
married this year? It's a record-breaking number for us. I think by the
year's end there will have been at least ten weddings? Not all of which
we attended but still... that's a lot. We've been to a few so far this
year and then we still have like two more to go. Craziness. What else
is new? Oh yes. L's grown a beard. And I just got new eyeglasses.
End of update! =) | | |
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So I was just on facebook and saw that one of my
non-local friends, that I only know through yoga, had recently updated
her status and it read “N is in the fire!!!!” and I saw that she just
happened to be online so…. anyway here is how our chat went: --------
Me: which fire are you in and are you okay?
N: hi! i am in the fire of transformation and it rocks and i am PERFECT! thanks
Me: oh okay i thought you were in one of the wildfires… haha. okay
have fun! =) come to so cal some time if you ever have the chance
please! =)
N: that is funny! i am looking for studios to teach at in so cal! maybe you can put in a good word for me… -------
I don’t know I just thought this was kinda funny though. Oh and
minutes later I see that her status now reads “N is in the fire of
transformation!” Haha.
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