J ended up w/the megafluvirus. Yeah. That's right. The same one that's been haunting me for days. I felt great yesterday, but today...not so much. Today I felt like I'd been run over with a truck. At least for the first half of the day. The 2nd half...well, I felt great. Instead of feeling like crap, I suddenly started feeling pretty darned good all of a sudden. This is the weirdest virus I've ever had! It's CRAZY! It won't go away and it keeps coming back all of a sudden and rendering me absolutely worthless for a period of time and then completely dissapearing! It's making me look like a flaky faker who wants to just get out of work! (SO not true!)
But at least I'm feeling better now.
J sent me a text and told me he was going home early today. He NEVER goes home early. And he's already called in sick for tomorrow. Yeah, that's when you KNOW he's feeling lousy. And I know exactly how he's feeling because I dealt with that all weekend long.
Tonight, I'm feeling great and actually made myself some pumpkin soup for dinner. Sounds gross, I know, but it is SO good! (It's savory, not sweet like pumpkin pie.) And I managed to polish off almost an entire bottle of cheap white zinfandel. Not on purpose...I just got too into my book I was reading and kept pouring myself more wine. I looked up and the bottle was almost entirely gone! This is what happens when I get busy reading and not paying attention to how much wine I'm drinking! Holy crap, I am going to have one heck of a headache tomorrow! Not good. It's a good thing I don't usually get distracted to notice how much wine I've had!
Just a note...it may be cheap but Sutter Home White Zinfandel tastes pretty darned good! :)
Hope you're having a fun night tonight.

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Got a quick funny story for you. And need advice about what to do...

We were on a walk with our class and my co-teacher says to the kids "Look kids, there's some chrysantheeums." Yes, you read that right. She said it like I spelled it...chrysantheeums. And kept on saying it, over and over and OVER! She said "Say it with me...chrysantheeums." I gritted my teeth and pretended not to hear her mispronouncing this word AGAIN AND AGAIN and teaching the kids to mispronounce it over and over until finally, I said "Chrysanthemums". And you know what she said? She said "Oh, you're from Texas, aren't you?" I said "UH, NO, I'm from Oklahoma and it's called a chrysanthemum!" See? Pronunciation: kris-AN-the-mum. Click here to make sure I'm right. It was all I could do to keep from yelling that to her. I mean...come on, why do you think it's called "mum" for short?


Yeah...this is from the woman who drives the car w/the bumper sticker that says "Goddess Bless America". Trust me, I take much pride in reading our weekly Bible story in front of her and playing our "Sing and Play Ole' Bible songs CD every single day. Can I get an AMEN?!

Today? Today, I'm feeling less like crap and more like me. That's always a good thing. I think I'll go to work tomorrow. Hopefully J doesn't get this. It was NASTY! And also a good solid reason why I've gotten a flu shot every single year since I was 18 and maybe even before that. I think the last time I remember getting the flu I was probably 12 or 13. I've been SO lucky! And I'm sure the flu shots helped tremendously. But I guess this year I got lucky. (Or UNlucky!) Everyone! Go get a flu shot! Now! Go! You'll thank me later, I promise.

The flu. Not the best way to spend a weekend, let me tell you. :( This sucks.

Sometimes I wonder why we even bother...

Today, we took our class on a nature walk. We walked right past this house that has some unusual archetectural features and we call it "The Alphabet House" because if you look hard enough, you can see several letters in the decorative moldings and latticework of this house. This week we've been studying the letter A and this is one of the most noticable letters you can see when you look at this house. Mind you, this is FRIDAY and we've been studying the letter A all week. Apples, Noah's Ark, Acorns, Autumn, if it starts with the letter A, we've talked about it this week. What did we hear when we asked the kids what letter they could see at the top of this house? Crickets. Nothing else. Sigh. Let's see what happens when it's my turn to teach them the letter B next week.

See what happens when I don't blog for a while? Yep. 4 posts in one day and not a single picture among them.

I've been DVR'ing Rachael Ray's new talk show. What do you think? I kinda like it. Sure, she's all hyper and crazy and uses way too many slang expressions in one sentence (Gorg! must be short for gorgeous...I think.) but I do like it. Something about her unpretentious style I like. Her 1st 2 shows were a little spastic, but i think once she calms down and gets used to the idea of having a live audience and guests and everything that the show will be pretty cool. Her 2nd show had Oprah as the guest and you could tell that poor Oprah (and I use that term VERY loosely) was just terrified about the idea of actually EATING what Rachael cooked. Pizza with actual sausage, pancetta, cheese, and crust. Not that imitation stuff, but a real pie? Yeah, she looked like she was thinking she'd have to break out a size bigger clothes just from looking at the food. But then she did say she was on ner way to Africa the next day to help choose children for her special school, so maybe she figured she could afford to eat a slice or two of real pizza. And I did notice that Rachael's show was produced by Oprah's Harpo productions, which would explain why Rachael kept saying "Thanks, I owe everything to you." Now I get it. But if I was Oprah, I would have insisted on being the first guest. Diane Sawyer was pretty interesting, but if I'm bankrolling the whole thing, I'm gonna at least get to sit on that cool couch before anyone else does.
Anyone else seen the show? If not, check it out on your local channel and let me know what you think.
Overall, I think it's pretty YUM-O, as Rachael would say.

So, I worked briefly in the 2 yr old room today and saw no evidence at all for why people use the term "terrible twos". (Totally joking here.) Then I helped out in the infant room for about 4 hours. Yeah, and to use a phrase I heard somewhere "It was so cute it made my ovaries hurt." Where I heard that, I don't know but you ladies that want to have kids "sometime but not now" know what I mean. No, that does not mean the Crafty famiily will be having a new addition any time in the near future, but it did sure make me wish 30 wasn't looming in the not so distant future. I always said I'd like to have a baby by the time I was 25 and I'm 3 yrs past that now. Not that it's a race. I know, "wait until you're ready, you have plenty of time, blah blah blah". And I also know "there's never a perfect time, you never can have enough money, blah, blah, blah". Yeah. I've heard all that so much that all I hear is the Charlie Brown teacher-talking kind of voice.(You know the one.) And still somehow I keep hoping the magic college degree fairy will grant me my degree first. Like tomorrow. Then maybe we'd be able to think about having kids. But there comes a time when you have to wonder..."yeah, I'm waiting till a better time, but at what cost?" Know what I mean?

Blog? Oh yeah...I have one of those.

What have I been doing? Nothing too exciting. Just working. And who wants to hear about that? Work is going well. I decorated my house for fall. (Wow, exciting stuff, huh?)

I did do one fun thing I could blog about. I got together w/a friend from work and we cooked ourselves dinner. No husbands, just 2 girls who like to cook whipping up some pretty tasty dinner for themselves. It was pretty fun. We made Pumpkin Soup (served in hollowed out pumpkins no less), Roasted Chicken with Rosemary and Garlic, Bruschetta, and Oreo Truffles. It was SO hard to pick a favorite thing...EVERYTHING was good! And we even got to talking about trying to start up that cooking club that I dreamed up that never got off the ground. I think it would be pretty fun and I know my friend L would be in it. Probably Amy and Kelly too. That would be pretty fun. Jason could be the official taste-tester, dish do-er and/or wine pourer. :) Anyone else care to join us? We could do a long distance thing. We'll post the recipes on that website I created for the cooking club and then you can cook them and tell us how you liked them. (Uh yeah, I'm sure I'll have lots of takers on that one...probably about as many people as showed up to the last cooking club meeting. ZERO!) Anyway, not sure if we'll do the cooking club thing or not. I have several people who say they'd do it, but when it actually came down to it, I'm afraid it would be a flop like last time. Any suggestions?

Special note to S:

Woman, if you'd call me once in a while, maybe we'd do something fun (like a concert) together too!

A

J just hollered in here (oooh, isn't that a lovely country-sounding phrase) and said "Tom Cruise is in DC tonight, watching a Redskins game in the owner's box." While that once might have made my heart go pitter-patter, ever since the whole couch-jumping, Scientology practicing, weirdo phase he's been in...uh, nope. No pitter or patter going on here. Just eye-rolling in disgust that someone who I used to watch over and over (Cocktail) and have the hugest crush on could turn out to be such a freak. What to you think, ladies? It's a sad thing, isn't it?

No, I have not fallen off the face of the earth. I'm still here, just been extremely busy. Quick overview...

*the trip to Oklahoma was great. I could write a LOT more about my trip home, but that will have to wait until another time.

*work is going surprisingly well. Had a little "talk" with my co-teacher after she insulted my lesson plan and I set her straight on a few things. I definitely let her know I didn't like the way she came to me with new ideas and said "this is what we're gonna do". She got the hint. I hope.

*since I got home from Oklahoma (my REAL home!), I've been so crazily busy that I was actually glad for Monday to roll around again so I could get back to a normal, less busy schedule. I feel like I need a weekend to recover from my weekend! UVA football and tailgating w/Jason, Amy and Kelly on Saturday, then PAT GREEN (!) concert in DC Sunday evening w/Jason, Amy and Heath. It sure was fun but like I said, I'm glad to see Monday roll around so I can actually get to sleep at a decent time! What a fun but busy weekend!

*Patches cat has been meowing at the back door all evening and when J and I finally looked outside we found 4 kittens sitting on our back porch. My first thought was NO WAY! We are NOT feeding/taking in FOUR kitties! But as I'm typing this, I'm feeling pretty guilty because we didn't at least put some cat food out on the porch. But then the rational voice kicks in and says "NO WAY! If you feed them, they'll keep coming back!". Sigh. What is a cat lover to do? I just keep telling myself "I'm NOT going to feed them. I'm NOT going to feed them."

That'll have to do for a post for now. I'm going to bed early!
More when I get time.
:) Amy