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Saturday, April 02, 2005

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Metro Girl
By Janet Evanovich
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How does the time pass so quickly?  First, I'm looking forward to spring break for myself, then for Susan.  Now, they are both over.  It's Spring, though, so who can complain?  Just a few short weeks and another summer rolls around! 

The back yard is looking good.  Let's hear it for tulips!  Let's hear it for the Aussies coming in 2006 and me going to Germany that same summer.  Whoohoo!  That summer will be so amazing because Susan will have her masters degree, I'll be a seasoned traveler, and we'll have international company.  Let's hear it for fantastic!


Tuesday, March 08, 2005

  I've been to Baton Rouge to see Susan and got the bonus of being with my sister and having fun at the cassinos in Shreveport.  Now, I need sleep!

From Susan's Xanga:

WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME?: Peggy Sue Grant Billingsley

NICKNAMES?: Most Beautiful, Love, Cutie, Best Mommy in the Whole World…Oh, sorry, those are titles.  Nicknames:  Mrs. B and Mrs. Bill and the general public will never know the other two.
SINGLE OR TAKEN?: taken

BIRTHDAY?: Jan. 29
ZODIAC SIGN?: Aquarius
AGE?: Who's asking?
HAIR?: yes
WHERE DO YOU LIVE?: in my own little world, or, that's what the voices tell me.

WHAT COLOUR UNDERWEAR ARE YOU WEARING RIGHT NOW?: white, of course!  colour?  did this orginate on the island?

WHAT ARE YOU DOING RIGHT NOW?: If you can't figure that out…

WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU DID?: Cooked dinner.

WHAT IS RIGHT NEXT TO YOU: ½ full bottle of water, a mouse, and the telephone
WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU ATE OUT WITH?: My mother and aunt.

IF U WERE A TOY, WHAT WOULD YOU BE?: a raggedy, but well-loved stuffed animal

>WHERE WOULD YOU WANT TO GO ON YOUR HONEYMOON?: do I get to have another one?

>WHO WOULD YOU WANT TO SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE WITH?: Bill and my grandkids!  Oh, I forgot.  I don't have any grandkids.
HOWS THE WEATHER RIGHT NOW?: almost summer!

LAST PERSON YOU SPOKE TO ON THE PHONE?: Bill
LAST PERSON WHO TEXT YOU: stupid phone company
LAST PERSON YOU TEXT: no one
WHAT DO YOU THINK A TOBLERONE IS?: the chocloate bars in the shape of triangle. I learned how to pop the parts apart.
U WEARING RIGHT NOW?: jeans and a soft, green shirt and New Balances.

DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS?: no

WHO DO CONSIDER YOUR CLOSEST/BESTEST FRIEND?: Bill, Jodi, Susan, Grant, my mother, my aunt, Gerrie, Jeanne, Lucille, Cynthia, Janice, and it goes on.  I'm very, very lucky.

WHAT WAS THE BEST ADVICE EVER GIVEN TO YOU?: Take care of yourself or you're no good to anyone else.  Like most advice...

DO U OWN A VEHICLE?: Yes!  I love my car!
HAVE YOU EVER WON A SPECIAL AWARD?: I got the Best Mom in the Whole World award
WHAT ARE YOUR FUTURE PLANS?: I have to make plans?  When does this stop?  When do I just get to drift?

FAVOURITE FOOD?: beans and cornbread, my mother's German chocolate cake, pecan pie, pizza, bbq ribs, apple dumplings, lasagna, hamburgers, fried chicken, Hersheys, gravy, fried eggs with toast and bacon and grape jelly, Lucille's sweet potatoes, Russell Stover candy…wonder what my last meal will be?  How could I forget Fritoes and bean dip and Snickers?  And, come on, Coke floats?  And pot roast and garlic toast?  Okra!!  I left out grilled cheese?  So, maybe I should have said everything except liver, tomato, and blood sausage.

FAVOURITE FILM: Clueless, Follow Me Boys, MASH, Goodwill Hunting, Driving Miss Daisy, Pretty Woman, French Kiss…all the good lover-type movies
LAST FILM YOU SAW AT CINEMA?: Can't think.

FAVE BOYS COLOGNE: Brut, but the original that you can't get anymore.

>FAVE GIRLS PERFUME: Charlie

>DO YOU LIKE TO DANCE?: no

ARE YOU TOO SHY TO ASK ANYONE OUT?: NA
IF YOU COULD CHANGE YOUR NAME TO ANTHING, WHAT WOULD IT BE?: Grandma

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE?: big time!

WHAT IS THE MOST STUPID THING YOU HAVE EVER DONE?: Ask my daughter what she did with Taylor Edwards.

DO YOU LIKE SCARY OR HAPPY MOVIES?: happy, by all means!

CHRISTMAS OR EASTER?: BOTH  One wouldn't make sense without the other!

KISSES OR HUGS?: Both from family; hugs only from other folks
IF YOU COULD CHANGE ONE THING, WHAT WOULD IT BE?: Grant's health
WHAT COLOUR ARE YOUR PYJAMAS: mostly blue  (pYjamas?)  I'll bet an Aussie wrote this, or maybe Prince William?

WHAT COLOUR'S YOUR TOOTHBRUSH?: purple and white
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS QUIZ?: much, much too long

FAVE PART OF THE OPPOSITE SEX?: voice

WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD: panic, followed closely by nausea
WHATS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP?: I wonder if there's a new e-mail from Susan or I wonder if Grant is here.


ROLLER COASTER, SCARY OR WICKED??: Puke.
HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU LET THE PHONE RING BEFORE YOU ANSWER IT?: 4

IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON, DEAD OR ALIVE, WHO WOULD IT BE?: Assuming this would mean someone I didn't already know, I think Plato.
IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB IN THE WORLD WHAT WOULD IT BE: grandmother

IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL?: It was half full when I started, but I've been drinking while writing so it's about 1/6 full now.

WHATS YOUR FAVE NUMBER?: 11

FOR GIRLS TO FILL OUT ON GUYS

BOXERS OR Y FRONTS: I don't care.
DARK OR FAIR: silver/grey is good  I'm becoming a fan of bald, too.
TALL OR SMALL: tall in spirit and confidence, small ego
MOST IMPORTANT PHYSICAL FEATURE: smile & smile often!
CHOCOLATE - WHITE OR MILK?:  milk
ROOT BEER OR DOCTOR PEPPER?: dr pepper!
MUD OR JELLY WRESTLING?: neither.

SKIING OR BOARDING?: Susan said:  never done either...i want flip flops, not snow boots—I say:  ditto
DAY OR NIGHT?: day in the summer, night in the winter

SUMMER OR WINTER?: summer, summer, summer!!
CAKE OR PIE?: pie most of the time
SILVER OR GOLD?: silver to look at, gold to own
DIAMONDS OR PEARLS?: diamonds
SUNRISE OR SUNSET?: in the morning, sunrise, in the evening, sunset
HAVE YOU EVER BROKEN A BONE?: isn't answering this sort of like jinxing yourself?  A little toe at the airport.

DO YOU WEAR RINGS?: wedding set

>DO YOU HATE ANYONE: probably; but I usually find out I hate a PART of someone or an action, not their whole being. 

ARE YOU LOUD OR QUIET: loud, sadly.

ALONE OR CROWD?

PARTY OR CONCERT?

 


Saturday, February 26, 2005

So, it's the weekend after a very long week.  Too many little things to remember.  I should just carry a tablet with me all the time and put things on my list and check them off.  I just can't remember all that I'm supposed to. 

Funny:  my little first graders are just too cute and too smart.  While researching rabbits following a study of Beatrix Potter, they came across the information that the white-taled rabbit is the fastest on the plains going at a speed of 45 miles per hour.  That's because they can leap 17ft in one jump, or hop.  That's the same as 5 meters.  Of course, we had to see how long that is, so we used two meter sticks to see.  After seeing how far one hop was, we then had to know how many hops a rabbit would take to get to the library, being the fastest rabbit on the plains and all.  At the 10th leap, we looked back to see how far we had come to get to the library doorway.  That's a long hall (or haul, as the case my be)!  My mistake:  you'd think after teaching a hundred years, I'd know better than this:

"How far do you think you could get in 10 hops?"

Stupid woman!!!  You ASKING first graders to hop?  NUT!  So, they hopped and then hopeed to the water fountain and counted the hops.  They wanted me to call them rabbits or bunnies.  After all, Jack, one of the students is a real rabbit (Jack rabbit, get it?)

So, we ate turnips from Mr. McGregor's garden and called it a day.  We'll do more research next week.


Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Testing is OVER!  Thank goodness.  I even have everything filed.  It's over, over over!  And, the first part of TAKS is over, too!  So, except for two days in April, it's just me and my kids and learning cool stuff!

One of my fourth grade dads is going to help us set up a night for astronomy at the park!  That will happen some Friday night in April.

Cool, huh?


Sunday, February 13, 2005

For goodness' sake.  The party's over.  I've been looking forward to this for a long time.  It was successful.  The people were wonderul and the food was good, and Gerrie even sent a centerpiece which made the whole thing just perfect.  I had bought conversation cards because all the people wouldn't know each other, but it turned out that I sure didn't need any!  Eveyone seemed to enjoy themselves and had a part and, and, and!

If you want to make a good meatloaf, you should get a package of lean ground beef, add sauted garlic, onion, and bell pepper chopped fine, about a third cup of picante sauce and bake in muffin tins for 35 minutes.  Perfect!

There are left overs:  come on over!

Oh, the COOLEST thing:  Susan gave me some little heart-shaped marshmallows for my birthday.  What was I going to do with them?  I hadn't planned to serve hot chocolate.  Hmmmm.  Maybe chocolate covered?  But, would that mess up the heart shape?  What to do.  In the meantime, I had purchase little votive candle holders that said, "Still in Love 2005".  There was one at each place.  Guess what?  I put the marshmallows into the two heart-shaped bowls Grant got me for my birthday and set one at each end of the table.  Everyone got a fondue fork, and we had tiny marshmallow roasts!  It was great!!!  Even the fainthearte eyerollers got involved.  hahahahaha!!!

Thanks, Grant and Susan!



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