Category Archives: Life

Jun8

one of those lazy, crazy, mazey days of summer

Posted on June 8, 2013 by beth

somehow, once again, i found myself trapped and wandering through the rat maze that is ikea, and with my incredible lack of anything even resembling a vague sense of direction, it took on a whole new level.

it’s definitely an extreme sports experience in itself, and after following the trail around and around, and eating a horse meat-laced meatball or two, and collecting lots of odd colorful plastic springsprongthingamajigs and blonde wood-ish items, i was left wondering what they were and what were meant to do.

i chose the items i did simply because they looked cool and really no other reason. and the fact that i felt like i had to get something so that i would be allowed to find my way out again. now that the olympic committee has dumped some of it’s current sports events, i’m considering proposing this whole experience to them for their consideration as an indoor winter sport. maybe a better match for the x-games though?

along the way, i swear i saw people nervously look over their shoulders and skitter through what looked like secret shortcuts and potential passageways out, only to never return. possible slides right to the checkout line or the parking lot?

whew – i need a swedish cocktail, if only i could figure out if that glass thing i put in my giant blue plastic bag was meant to be used as a cup or oil change pan?

skoal!!!!!!

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

Cullen Hightower

Jun6

life in the key of z

Posted on June 6, 2013 by beth

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another walk down the hall with my kindergarten class.

another answer to a question much bigger than i ever imagined.

‘hey z, what does that key around your neck open?’

‘it opens everything in the world,’ says z.

Jun3

i am now the ‘janet jackson’ of the kindergarten world

Posted on June 3, 2013 by beth

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nothing like the feeling of wearing my spring dress and strappy sandals to school. ha – winter be damned, i was floating on air – swingy, breezy, light, summery! found out halfway through the day, at recess, that not only was my dress light as a cloud, it was also completely see-through. i only found out at that point because a fellow teacher described exactly what i was wearing under my dress while i was wearing it, and happily chatting away with her in the sun. thought back on all the places i’d been that day – beginning with a stroll past the administration at our faculty breakfast, greeting our children at the curb as they were dropped off for the day, a saunter past many parents in the hallways, a walk to another building on campus and a meeting with human resources, dropping off the kids at specials’ classes all over the school, lunch with 2 classes, and on and on. well, at least it makes me feel better about the day i wore my shirt inside out all day as i completed errands all over town. not so bad in comparison and it really puts things in perspective – i am now beginning to better understand how janet may have felt after her wardrobe malfunction at the super bowl. i wonder if we’ll have a dress code next year?

Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

Ellen DeGeneres

Jun2

i didn’t know sheep could fly

Posted on June 2, 2013 by beth

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as we waited at the gate for our plane, i was amazed by the new ‘system’ in place. i couldn’t quite get a handle on it at first, didn’t know exactly where to sit, where to line up, when, etc.

this is how the gate agent explained it to me. ‘we’ll call you by your letter and you stand in a single file line by the pole that has your number on it that goes with your letter that we’ll call and then we’ll call you by letter and number together and and we’ll know you by that. there are approximately 100 small strips of spaces with seats with numbers.’ being the black sheep that i am, i waited until the last possible second to get into line in my assigned number/letter place, and was met with gate agent glares. i think some of the other sheep may have been upset with me too.

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader – occasionally in the right direction.

Alexander Chase

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Albert Einstein

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Stendhal

Jun1

things i learned in my kindergarten classroom today #3

Posted on June 1, 2013 by beth

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as we walked down the hall and he pointed into a classroom, v said to me, ‘i had a girlfriend eve, who is in that big kids’ kindergarten room, and she is 6, one year older, but now she has a new boyfriend, and so i got a new girlfriend, who is 5 like me, and is right in our own room.’ (well played v, and for some reason, the only word that came to my mind was, ‘cougar.’)

May31

met this big guy in a honky tonk in nashville….

Posted on May 31, 2013 by beth

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think he may be from out of town too.

May29

this is know (now) about nashville.

Posted on May 29, 2013 by beth

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1. the bullets & mullets store

2. cowboy church

3. dukes of hazard museum

4. goo goo clusters

5. honky tonks

6. live radio shows

7. southern stack breakfast – slow smoked pulled pork, sweet potato pancakes, fried apples, fried egg, home fries (pile it up, pour syrup on top, and go)

8. everything tastes better in a mason jar

9. full sized replica of the parthenon in the middle of a city park

10. washtub, washboard, spoons and other random household items band

11. mosey-ing is a speed you amble through life with

12. speak-easy’s still exist

each of these are part of life there and i love them all.