I know the dates I will be doing my comps. Yikes!! I get the questions Nov. 13 and they're due Nov. 27. I actually couldn't have timed it more perfectly because the week that I get my questions is Parent/Teacher conference week so we get off early all week. If I can make so that all my conferences fall on monday, tuesday and wednesday, then I'll skip out early thursday and friday to come home and work. And I'll also have the day after Thanksgiving off to work on them too. My goal was to not take any days off from work since the maternity leave for APS sucks ass and I'll have to use up all my own time.

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So last saturday night we had all our friends over for a pumpkin carving party. Don or someone brought a bunch of carving templates he downloaded, like an owl and Garth Brooks. The next morning I went to get a bowl of cereal, opened the cabinet and found the owl template on the plates. Yeah, haha!! I open the refigerator and found the Garth Brooks template. Today I went to heat up oatmeal and opened up the microwave and found some James Dean template. Very funny!! I don't even know who did it. Probably Don and Matt.

The Rules:

Write a journal entry with six random facts about yourself. Then, pick six of your friends list and tag them - no tag backs. These rules should be included in your entry.

1. I enjoy bugs. Not just pretty ones, like butterflies, but most bugs, like rolly pollies and crickets, are cool to me.

2. My back hurts every day of my life now, and I know it's only going to get worse as the babies make themselves at home. ;)

3. I have slept with two stuffed Tiggers for years.

4. I really do like my kitties (don't tell Robert!)

5. I miss Adrian and Jonathan.

6. My grandparents live in the next cul de sac from me, and they do all our yardwork.

I tag sandybutterfly ktbugsmom empressmiaka ragdoll_amba stell_21 wallflowers____

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Smoking rant (don't read if you smoke):

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I'm 21 weeks today! One week from today is our next doctor appointment. Grounded better spread HER legs so we can see what SHE is!

Tomorrow my kindergarten class is putting on a play. I've invited all the parents or families of my class, my mom, and grandparents. We've been practicing all week and did the play in front of two other kinder classes just to get the feeling of an audience. I hope everything goes okay!

It's going to be the cutest little Hallowe.... I mean, uh.. "Fall" play since I don't know when!

A girl on one of my pregnancy communities posted a picture of her belly at 36 weeks.... and it's the same size as mine. I'll be 20 weeks tomorrow. Mostly, though, I think she just wanted us to see her cleavage.

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Robert's grandpa is not doing very well. He's moving into a nursing home at the end of the week and the family is skeptical about how long he has left to live. What's sad about that is people aren't that attached to him, so when he does die, I'm sure everyone will be sad, but then they will have no problem getting on with life.

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I don't know what to dress up as for Halloween. Something inexpensive and easy and warm. Any ideas?

I am halfway to meeting my two angels!! Can you believe it? It feels like just yesterday we were trying *wink* and all of a sudden I'm halfway through my pregnancy.

I love my babies.

imalittlekid's Halloween party:

2cbetter dressed as the Duke of Holt.
aivalli dressed as a Lyons-Gallaher UtilitiesInc. employee.
aliasness dressed as Paris Hilton.
ambaaa dressed as a skeleton.
blackhawk845 dressed as Heidi Klum.
blackrose_42 dressed as a 1970's disco child.
brighten dressed as a character from Harry Potter and the Cauldron of Miami.
bsdotcom dressed as a rainbow fish.
callmesteam dressed as the Governor of Indiana.
dj_jonny_flash dressed as Cameron Diaz riding a dog.
dragonflylover dressed as a zombie.
empressmiaka dressed as someone who just poked themselves in the eye.
firedemonlover dressed as a fusion.
ghostowner13 dressed as Michael Jackson.
justbeachy2412 dressed as a bottle of Estrcit.
kailorien dressed as a character from "Almost Famous".
kitangel dressed as the President of Bahrain, though it looked more like a new superhero: Snow -wave.
lamanteventidue dressed as Elmer Fudd, though it looked more like the Lord of Blue Ridge.
larrra dressed as a bear.
magpiefirefly dressed as Woodrow Wilson.
molsey dressed as Chekov from "Star Trek".
msdrewsleuth dressed as Karl Rove.
mylla dressed as a drunk goblin, though it looked more like the Cardinal of Osbusdale.
nuintincowen dressed as the love child of Rush Limbaugh and Connie Chung.
numinorean dressed as a Level 11 fighter.
pee_truck dressed as a outfielder for the Expos.
phrenk dressed as Adriana Lima.
ragdoll_amba dressed as a hockey.
rainswolf forgot to put on clothes!
sandpiper729 dressed as a leather widow.
sandybutterfly dressed as a fullback for the Broncos.
saxomofo dressed as a elk.
starbursidereus dressed as a disturbing self-made character called "Cheeseball Barfmouth".
stella_21 dressed as a new member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Vulgar Ambassador.
terminator dressed as Kirsten Dunst.
wallflowers____ dressed as Janet Reno.
wholly4jesus dressed as your father.
writerlywife dressed as the Duke of Morgraf.
zendej dressed as Optimus Prime.

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Tomorrow is the big day! OOooo... I can't wait!

With this glorious day that I have off, I planned on working on my midterm that is due Wednesday. Well, I have done everything but work on it. Can you say "procrastinate?" I slept in, watched TV, cleaned house a little, went to the grocery store, went to my mom's house, fooled around online a little... ohmygosh... I can't imagine if I have this little motivation for a piddly 4 page midterm, how am I ever going to get through comps???

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I can't believe I forgot to post this when it happened. We (the Kindergartners of Hodgin Elementary School) went to the zoo for field trip last week. So all week, our committess invovled making zoo animals. We made lions, giraffes and elephants. I led the group working on the lions because it was so involved. So after they glued all the pieces together, I would have them copy the word "lion" on the paper to label it. Well, one day with one group, I wrote the word upside to me but right-side up to the group of kids sitting around me and it looked right until I noticed that they all labeled their lions "Loins." I had spelled it wrong! How stupid! So I have my "loins" hanging in the hall for all to enjoy.

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The automated lady that answers when I call my voicemail has a major attitude. I listened to a message then listened to the options "would you like to save, delete, etc..." and I didn't choose anything because I assumed it would just skip to the next voicemail. Well, the stupid ho comes on "Are you still there?" How rude!

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I took Zeus to Petsmart to get groomed and he looks so handsome! But the groomer told me that he has a tumor in his mouth. I have needing to take him to the vet to have his teeth cleaned because his breath smells worse than a porta-potty (poor guy), but now it will probably be more involved to get rid of the tumor. What is with my pets and tumors?! My kitty has one on her lip and had one her paw, my mouse has a ginormous one on her side, now Zeus has one on his lip.

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Two more days until we find out if we have a Gwen and The Edge, two Gwens, or two The Edge's!!

We went to the zoo today for a field trip and I got to see a very tiny, baby hippo!! He (she?) was the cutest thing on earth! I wanted to nunnle him...

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Hooray for a three day weekend. It's fall break Monday, so no school. Wahoo!

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I've lost my ipod. :( I had it this morning on my way to work, and I thought I put it in my teacher's bag, but it's no where to be found. Unless it fell out in my class and I just didn't look hard enough. Ugh.

My principal seems to think that I can get my Level II license this year. She wants me to really try because she knows next year I will be too busy with two babies to do it, so I would have to do it the next year. And I was telling her about my class I'm taking and the final project that will be due, and she thinks that I will be able to use that project (and possibly my comps question papers) for my dossier. Wouldn't that rock if I got to Level II this year!! W00t!! I'm totally going to look into it.

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A week from today we have our appointment to hopefully find out the sexes of the babies. Let's hope they flash us!

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Lost tonight! *squee*

Robert is the cutest softball catcher on earth.

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Lost tomorrow! *squee*

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I got a new student today. When her mom introduced her to me, she said "she's still learning how to talk." GAH!! She's starting kindergarten and can't hardly talk! I couldn't understand a thing she said. She's super cute, but holy crap.

Then tomorrow I'm getting another new student. He's Spanish (or his mom only speaks Spanish... my principal didn't really know which) and I have pretty low numbers compared to the other ESL endorsed teachers.

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For Tamara: My babies are the size of a large pear. :D You would think I would ge able to feel them a lot more easily being that big already.

My cat... I don't know, she's so weird.

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Red River was awesome. I slept most of the time. I shopped some, too. But the R&R was what I enjoyed the most. And it wasn't freezing cold like I expected.

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Robert has his first softball game tonight!! Kyle and our new friend Matt are on his team too. It's going to be so cute! He plays catcher. *snicker* I hear he's not very good. :D

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Last night it dawned on me that my comps are coming up in less than two weeks. GAH!! I can't even believe it! I nearly started crying, I was so scared and freaked out.

Write a journal entry for this meme with six random facts about yourself.
then, pick six off your friends list and tag them - no tag backs.
these rules should be included in your entry.

1. I like kids and animals probably more than I like most adult people.

2. Eveytime I use the restroom at work, as soon as I start to "go" I get this overwhelming feeling of panic that I forgot to lock the door and someone is going to walk in at any minute.

3. Throughout high school, I had a crush on nearly every boy that crossed my path.

4. I love looking at old scrapbooks I have made over and over.

5. I pierced my ear a third time a long time ago, it kept getting infected, and now there is this wierd lump where the hole used to be.

6. I have a nervous habit of shaking my leg whenever I'm sitting down.

I tag writerlywife callmesteam dj_jonny_flash sandybutterfly magpiefirefly saxomofo

Should I bother posting that I have pink eye again, or should I just let you all assume that at any given time, I have pink eye?

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So dumbass Marlena-dog stepped on my glasses this morning, and broke them right in half. But she won't get a severe beating after all because I took them to my eye doctor and they just happened to have my frames in stock, so they just switched out the lenses. I was already able to pick up my new glasses this afternoon. We would be minus a dog if that had not had worked out as it did. (Zeus put her up to it, I'm sure.)

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I cried so hard last night. Well, what else is new right? But I saw my poor little mouse get on her wheel and try to run on it, and couldn't because of her stupid tumor. It made me so sad.

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My stomach felt so heavy today. I couldn't even stand without tons of weight and pressure pulling on my tummy. I need one of those support wrap things.

I think I felt movement the other day! I was just sitting here on the computer and it felt almost like scratching on the inside of my stomach, only very gentle and quick scratching. I poked around my tummy but didn't get anything else. I'm fairly certain it wasn't gas or hunger. *squee*

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Tomorrow is Pajama Day at Hodgin Elementary School! I will be wearing my Spiderman pj's. It'll be great!

stolen from sandybutterfly

1. Your Middle Name:
2. Age:
3. Single or Taken:
4. Favorite Movie:
5. Favorite Song:
6. Favorite Band/Artist:
7. Dirty or Clean:
8. Tattoos and/or Piercings:


1. Do we know each other outside of Live Journal?
2. What's your philosophy on life?
3. Would you have my back in a fight?
4. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?
5. What is your favorite memory of us?
6. Would you give me a kidney?
7. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
8. Would you take care of me when I'm sick?
9. Can we get together and make a cake?
10. Have you heard any rumors of me lately?
11. Do you/have you talk(ed) crap about me?
12. Do you think I'm a good person?
13. Would you drive across country with me?
14. Do you think I'm attractive?
15. If you could change anything about me, would you?
16. What do you wear to sleep?
17. Would you come over for no reason just to hang out?
18. Would you go on a date with me if i asked you?
19. If I only had one day to live, what would we do together?
20. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you?

Is it just me, or does Jessica Simpson look totally different in the ads for that new movie she's in? It's like she did some plastic surgery to her lips and cheeks or something.

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We go to Red River this Friday. I love that place. I thought this would be the year I would be hiking Wheeler Peak (the highest point in New Mexico), but I have other things going on. ;)

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Our house is finally cleaner. That makes me happy.