Sunday, September 30, 2007

I Need Your Advice

I've gotten about three emails from classmates.com stating that I've gotten three seperate posts to my profile on their website. The deal is that if I wish to see them, I need to pay up. So do I subscribe to their site to see them? Will I see substantive messages or three people that just say hi?

What do you recommend?

How do we celebrate an anniversary? With a sore throat!

My husband and I have now been married for a decade. I don't feel old enough to be married for a decade. It's a bit surreal.

We test-drove a Suburban yesterday. It was a two-year-old truck that was very clean except for the... smoky smell inside. We kept telling ourselves that it wasn't that bad, because the XM radio/DVD player/4X4/leather seats were oh so enticing. When we went to a Mexican restaurant right afterward to talk about it, we realized that we were all congested from the cigarette smoke. So we kept talking about it. And we went to a detailing place to see if they thought that they could get the smoky smell out. The man said, "Maybe." A $30,ooo investment into 'maybe' is a bit much for us. Plus, do we really need a Suburban when we could get a minivan that can also haul stuff and get better gas mileage? I'm thinking that an Odyssey or a Sienna is a better choice for us.

Oh, and I still have a sore throat from the Suburban.

We're off to stay in a cabin next weekend. Hiking fun for the family!

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

OK, so I skipped a month (or nearly two)

Hi. Me again.

Want an update?

West Coast was a blast. I highly recommend Oregon (yes, Oregon) as a vacation spot.

Returned from the West Coast and was back to work 13 hours after stepping off the plane. Helped to train new teachers, became a mentor, and started setting up the classroom.

Which wasn't ready to my standards, but the kids came anyway. And I started teaching anyway. (They've all been learning anyway, too-- so it's all good.)

We had friends over. Which involved a melting, exfoliating grill (don't ask), appletinis, and bocce-ball stealing toddlers.

More teaching.

We replaced the doorknob of the interior door of Mark's bedroom. The punk had learned how to flip the lever-style doorknob and was able to release himself from his room at his own will to come and scream down the stairway at us. The round doorknob is a gift from heaven.

We rented a Tahoe and got 20 miles to the gallon even with the stuff we hauled(when some of the small SUVs we've been eyeing only get 15 MPG or so)-- who knew? What do exurbians with large cargo capacity purchase? A new grill and a lot of bags of mulch, of course.

Went to Artsfest to get my yearly Good Elephant fix. Happy, happy, happy. This pottery really does speak to me.

Baby screaming. Have a good one.