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Name: Liz
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: Dallas
Birthday: 2/16/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: Reading (anything by Francine Rivers), Laying Out, Traveling, Dancing, Watching MTV, Eating (especially Mexcian Food!), Shooting David Mitchell's guns, Homestar Runner, Baseball (Go Yankees!), Shooting Fireworks, Doing My Famous Sparkler Dance, Finding new things to do in the Metroplex...
Expertise: I am an expert at teaching 5 year olds which really feels more like herding cats. I'm also an expert at shooting rabbits!
Occupation: Education/training
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
7/6/2005
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| Interesting WeekendI went home for Easter & it was WONDERFUL! The trees had turned green; it was just me, Mom & Dad; and it felt good just to be HOME!
However, there were some interesting events. Two of my cousins have just had babies. (One of them is MY AGE!!) So, my great aunt decided that we should have a baby viewing. For those of you who are not Southern, this is a tradition where you gather all of the family you can find, put out a few pitchers of sweet tea and lemonade, and pass the babies around so everyone can "Oooo & Ahhhh" over them.
I was ok about going to the baby viewing (also known as the "Sip 'n See" in my family) even though I had no baby, no husband, and no boyfried to actually take. (Clint stayed in Dallas, so the only proof I had of him was a picture on my aunt's refridgerator.) Walt even said it was like a bad "Sex and the City" episode! Well, I was fine, until my dear mother decided to give me the "It's ok that you're 24 & you don't have a baby" pep-talk. For those of you who know my mother, you know how she can push things & go on & on & on! It was TORTURE!! Finally, my dad had to tell her to stop & he took me fishing just to get me out of the house!
The good news is we caught & kept 14 fish & I got to bring them home to cook for dinner!!!
Here's a pic of the "Sip 'n See." I'm the cute one who's NOT holding a baby!
And here's my mother with her only consolation, a "grand-dog."
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| I've got the GREATEST news!!
I don't have to teach Kindergarten any more!!!!! Next year, I will be a Second Grade teacher!
The interesting thing is that I will have some of the kids that I had last year in my class! Hmmm...let's see, do I want the oppositionally defiant girl who can already read past a 3rd Grade Level, the child who laughs at you when he's in trouble because he is "brain damaged" according to his grandma, or my "boyfriend" from last year (Jeremiah is going to marry me when he's older. We're also going to prom & McDonald's someday.)?
It's going to be interesting, but I'm SO freaking excited!!!!!!! I want to jump up & down, but I'm too tired!
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| Is it over yet?Moving....I HATE moving!
I'm moving to Big "D" & I'm totally pumped about it! What I'm not pumped about is moving all of my crap. I think I moved every single semester I was in college, & because of that, I loathe moving.
The good news is Clint & his friend Mike moved all of my big stuff on Monday night. All I have left to do is clean up the random crap that is left in Mesquite, clean the apartament I'm vacating & then arrange all of my crap in the new place!
My new place is fantastic. It's a lot closer to everything in Dallas & it has an EXTRA closet! Tell me, what girl wouldn't kill for that!?!
The bad news is that I'm transfering all of my stuff like cable, internet, ect. and it SUCKS! They want to charge me $40 just to transfer my cable! C'mon, you know all they have to do is flip a switch somewhere to transfer my service....is that really going to cost me $40?! Sure is. I just told the girl on the phone that is "bull shit" & it didn't seem to bother her at all. I'm guessing that she hears this quite often.
Well, I better get back to cleaning & packing....ugg!! | | |
| QuizFarm.com....it's addictive!Ok, so after reading Hickman's sight, I took the quiz...then another...then another...and yet another.
Here's what I've learned so far....
I am Captain Jack Sparrow.
I am a Reformed Evangelical.
I am Goofy.
I am Carrie Bradshaw.
I think I am just confused, after all my mom is now referring to herself as Maximus! | | |
| Today was an interesting day in Kindergarten...
One of my boys was at a center and he was playing with two counting bears. He was making them kiss, and then said, "They're lesbians. Good-golly, miss-molly."
So I called him over & asked what he said. Of course, it took a while to get it out of him, but he finally said, "I called them lesbians."
I must have had a horrified look on my face (as I'm sure you do right now!), so he said, "What? Some girls are."
I asked where he had heard about this concept & he told me he saw it on a movie.
Long story short.....I explained to him that was a grown-up thing & that some of the other Kindergarten kids might not understand. I also explained that thier parents might not want him telling their kids about it or discussing it. So we are NOT going to say that word in Kindergarten!
Seriously though....did that really happen today? Did I really have a 7 year old explain lesbianism to me? I got to thinking....when this kid gets to be my age, he will look at movies like "Brokeback Mountain" and think..."What's the big deal?" Kinda the same way that I watched "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" & thought "Soo....what's the big deal?"
It just frustrates me & scares me to think how quickly these kids are growing up. There parents are not protecting or valuing their innocence and childhood at all!! What kind of lives will these kids have if their childhood (foundation) is so rushed & filled with corruption? I have kids that watch R-rated movies, know more cuss words than I do, and go to bed later than I do. What do they have to look forward to? I can still remember how exciting it was to be allowed to stay up & watch Seinfeld after the 10:00 news when I was a SENIOR in high school! I just don't understand why we don't treat kids like kids! There's a reason that we come into this world as infants and have a time to be innocent & enjoy silly and fun things. Heck, we've got the rest of our lives to discover the ugly, sinful & sad side of life. Why expose 5 year olds to it? | | |
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