"Dirty" Jobs

Well, It's day five of Sore Throat 07. It's not a good campaign. I think the nasal irrigation has taken my normal moisture away and I have the driest throat EVER. So, I now sound sexy, or manish, depending on what you think is sexy.

Connor went poo-poo in the potty again last night, so we started the poo-poo chart on the fridge. 5 Stickers and he can get Harvey!!! What's amazing is when he just disappears and then comes out of the bathroom with the good news.

Kelsey has started standing up in her crib. The problem is that she can't figure out how to sit back down for some reason and stands there SCREAMING her head off and biting the crib rail. She gets hysterical. It's really bad. We have tried to teach her how to slide her hands down the rail to sit back down, but she has not gotten the hang of it. What I don't understand is that babies just fall onto their butts all the time when they are first learning to stand or walk. But in the crib-where it's padded-it somehow becomes impossible to just sit back down???? Weird.

Trebs mentioned that she is currently watching The Tudors. Great show-if you missed it, rent it when it comes out. Speaking of . . . Did you see the season finale? The opening scene of the season finale was, for lack of a better word, grody! To put it as nicely as I can, in the opening scene King Henry is standing there pleasuring himself while a mae servant is kneeling in front of him with a cloth to catch the . . . well, you get the idea. Sounds like a new episode of ˆDirty jobsˆ. Ha ha ha!

If it burns, it's working?

I tried the "nasal irrigation" this morning (see post below). I think my nose was too stuffed up to snort the salt water. I got a little bit all the way up to my nasal cavity, but no burning. Hmmmmmm. . . Not enough salt in my mixture? Didn't snort enough? High tolerance for pain? Just a dumb thing the P.A. made me do thinking it was hilarious and laughing behind my back as I left the doc's office?

New Job :-(

Yes, I know, it's summer . . . but we must pay for our bills. So, I have gotten a summer job at Lane Bryant, which is about 1 mile from our house. I interviewed yesterday and had training today. It was pretty boring, filling out forms and watching videos on "Shrink" (which everyone seems to know is loos prevention, but being out of the retail market for over 10 years, I had no clue!).

One funny thing was when we had to go out into the store and create an outfit to certain parameters, then come back and talk about it. Afterwards, we had to return the items to the floor. I was waiting for this older lady to finish getting something off the rack, so I asked if I could help her. Once I untangled the shirt from the hanger she said, "OK Now I need some white pants with elastic waist." Which is hilarious in and of itself because that is to polyester-1970's and sooooo old lady! So I told her we didn't have any with elastic waists but I could find another pair for her. She wanted to sit down, and as she did she asked for the pants and for me to pick out 3 more tops for her that would go with white or black pants. What's even funnier is she had no idea what size she was and wanted me to figure it out!!!! Luckily the store manager heard all of this and asked some one to take over for me so I could go back to my training! SO funny! I guess I just jumped in with both feet!

On a bad note, I came down with a sore throat about 15 minutes before my interview yesterday and feel awful today. I got drugs though and hopefully those will kick in ASAP! Another funny (but not ha ha) note, the doctor wants me to do "nasal irrigations" to loosen up the PND (Post Nasal Drip). DISGUSTING!!! Snorting salk water-eeeewww (which she warned me will burn). Why would I take this advice!?!?!?!? I'll keep you updated on whether or not I do this and if it is a successful treatment! Hee hee!

"School's Out For Summer!"

Yeah!!! I can't believe we are finally done! I shouldn't say finally since I was on maternity leave until December 4, but still . . . Yeah! It's done. Despite the fact that this year has been extremely trying with one particular class, they were actually pretty good today. I would say that this was a good last day. Most off the time I am so annoyed by the end of the day that I don't even care that they are leaving.

Just a few reminders: Visit my Avon Walk page and donate if you can (even small amounts-it all adds up!). http://www.avonwalk.org Click donate and search for me by name. Or send a donation to PO Box 7637, La Verne, CA 91750

Also: Visit the

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blog. And please, PRAY!


A few headlines from around the country that I found funny:

1) Honey, the baby's spacewalking
“Baby monitor picks up NASA's live shuttle video.” Hilarious! Luckily the mom can still keep an eye on the baby with the other channel. Here’s the whole story:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/14/baby.monitor.space.ap/index.html


2) Mr. Mayor: Shut up and grow up
Oh this is even funnier! There is some kind of editorial on how poorly “Villareconquista” is handling his divorce on the LA Times website. They don’t go into much detail, because Villaraigosa is asking people to give them privacy, but I love that the LA Times is actually headlining this title! And just when I thought they were too liberal . . . maybe the pendulum is swinging the other way???
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez14jun14,0,6964079.column?coll=la-home-local

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Another BIG DAY!!!!!

Kelsey started crawling today!!!! Yea!

Guess what made her start moving . . . the vacuum!!!! So funny! She wanted to touch the vacuum bad enough and finally went for it. Just a couple of slow "steps", but she is on the way!!! Hooray!

BIG BIG DAY!!!

We have been working on potty training and Connor has gotten pretty good and going pee pee in the potty. He has even started telling us when he has to go. So, tonight he went POO-POO in the potty for the first time!!!!!! YEAH!! He was in the bath and he grabbed his bottom and I asked him if he had to go. He said no, but then a few minutes later he suddenly stood up and said "I have to go poo poo!" So he got out and went in the potty!

His reward was to go get "Harvey" (a crane-train from the Thomas the Train set). BTW, there is an emphasis on the 'h' and the 'r' sounds when he says it. It's hilarious! When we went to Target they were out of Harvey's so we got a Transformer instead. I think Dan was more excited than Connor (and Connor was pretty excited).

Tragedy

Unfortunately a tragedy has occurred. Last night some students from my school were involved in a car accident. One 8th grade bot was killed, another 8th grade boy is in critical condition and the driver (who is the injured boy's 17 year old brother) was also killed. It has been a horrible and emotional day for all. I briefly had one of the boys in 6th grade, but remember him as being a really nice kid and a good student. He will be missed.