the power of iphones

I have had a cell phone since I was 16. In those 11 years I never have dropped my phone in water or the toilet. Well, my 11 year streak just ended. Last week I dropped my phone in the toilet! The second it fell in I pulled it out, and that's when the ridiculousness started. Since I have never dropped my phone in water I didn't really know what the best next step was. So obviously I turned off my phone and then shook it really hard to get the water out. That would totally work right? I then put it in a cup of rice to try to get more moisture out. 

Well....I got bored and about 2 hours later I took it out and turned it back on. It worked! However, I noticed certain sounds weren't working. Hmm...instead of turning it off and putting it back in rice like I should have, I started texting Wes asking him what to do. I also googled it and it said to plug and unplug headphones while music is playing and that might fix the problem. I tried that, but unfortunately there was rice still in the headphone outlet thing and I totally smashed rice into it. Oops. My next brilliant idea was to get a toothpick and start picking the rice out. It kinda worked. But no sound. I decided to leave it alone and hope for the best. 

Most of the sounds are working now, but I for sure shorted something out. Do I live with it randomly working and then not working, or splurge and get the new iPhone? Decisions, decisions. Also, how in the hell is my phone still working? I bet the ghost of Steve Jobs is looking over my shoulder protecting my phone. I'm sure he doesn't have anything better to do wherever he is and is watching out for my phone.

jealous faces

I went shopping over the weekend and stopped into Payless. Typically there aren't many shoes worth even trying on. But I hit the jackpot! I tried on some awesome green snakeskin stilettos. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture. But fortunately, I took a picture of the best shoes ever! Of course I had to buy them!

You are seeing pure amazingness! Gold heel, gold zipper up the front, and covered in black...fur?...Mohair? (What is mohair?)...Who knows. I zipped them up, and walked out of the store with my head held high wearing my new favorite shoes!

Ok seriously? Obviously the only part of that that's true is I put them on to send a picture of them to Angie. Please, I am not Jenny from the block (although let's be serious, she isn't anymore either). Seriously Payless? I  really will be so happy if I see someone wearing these out in public soon.

never eat soggy waffles

Ok, I realize I have been posting mostly about school lately. Well. Deal with it. Once school starts back ridiculous things happen that I must inform you about. Yesterday we were looking at maps and learning about the difference between compasses and compass roses. Afterwards we came up with different sayings to help us remember how to draw a compass. I told them I learned "Never Eat Soggy Waffles" when I was their age. After the lesson they did a really fun activity, and one of the questions was to write their compass saying. 

Oh man. 

Well, I guess I wouldn't ever want to eat soggy wieners either! Ben was in my room as I was checking them and I started laughing, and when he gave me a weird look I told him why I was laughing. He asked why the kid wrote that. I told him why not? Wieners is a funny word. He just about fell out of his chair laughing at my response. Hopefully that conversation doesn't seem weird when he tells his mom about it.

kick off your sunday shoes

Last night my friend Eric and I were going to go to Alamo to see 50/50. Even though it's been out for awhile, it was sold old. So in the lobby we start looking for other movie times at other theaters, and discovered Footloose was starting soon at the theater in the mall. Now you would think it would take some arm twisting to get a boy to go see Footloose. Nope. I'm pretty sure Eric danced back to the car in preparation. As we drove there I thought about going to see Footloose, on opening night on a Friday, at the mall. I was expecting either a bunch of people around our age seeing if it was any good compared to the original ready to sing along, or a bunch of middle school girls ready to scream at Ren every time he came on screen.

Surprisingly the movie was pretty good! It was mostly people around our age, and the girls next to me sang along to several of the songs. And one of them totally belted out the last song. I usually go see movies at Alamo, where they have a strict no phone policy. Because I have been spoiled, hearing several phones going off was annoying. AND one dude (I'm assuming) who was in one of the first few rows was on his phone most of the movie. If I had been sitting anywhere near him I would have been pissed. On our way out of the theater we even saw this one girl dancing back to her car. 

All I want to do now is dance! I need to go practice my dance moves to be ready for a spontaneous dance party. While I practice, enjoy the most ridiculous, and the best dance scenes ever.

parent-teacher conferences

One of the worst things about teaching in Austin is that you HAVE to do parent-teacher conferences twice a year. For some kids it's really great because I need to talk to the parents about something that is going on with them either academically or behaviorally. But for the rest of them? A waste of both of our times because they are doing fine, and are awesome. Anyways, conferences were this past Monday. Overall they went really well, but I did have 2 really funny things that happened. 

1. One of the families that came in are from Asia and have many beliefs about school, performance, etc. that I'm sure everyone has heard/read/experienced before. The dad said something about that he wasn't going to let his daughter go to as many birthday parties this year because it just gets to be too much. (Agreed!) And then he said, "Parents at this school just love their kids too much! They give in too much." Oh man I loved that! I wish I could have laughed, but he probably would have been offended when I just thought what he said was funny.

2. One of the mom's came in and her son came in towards the end and she asked if he had anything else that he wanted us to talk about. He whispered in her ear and she said you need to tell her yourself. So then he said, "Well, (for the purpose of this we will call her Dolores) Dolores won't call me my name. She keeps calling me dude. Dude, dude, dude, dude. Ugh. Dolores is so annoying. Why doesn't she just call me my name?" Luckily he was looking at his mom while I stifled my laughter. She looked at me and made the same face I assume I was currently making. When he walked back out of the room we both started laughing. One of the best things was the way he said dude. It was more like dood...I don't think that cleared it up. Well, whatever.

I had 4 make ups yesterday, and 2 more tomorrow and then I'll be done. Finally! Hopefully I will finally start sleeping again after Thursday. One can only hope.

raccoons are scary

I had a post I wanted to make last week and totally forgot about it until today! Why did I finally remember it? Probably because I had a run in with those scary ass raccoons again! Last week I woke up at 5 to go run at the gym. I have to walk to the front office to get there, and luckily there are some lights outside so it's not pitch black. About halfway there I noticed a raccoon. I kept my eyes on it, but kept walking. Then I saw another one, and the first one was following me. Then a third one popped up and all three had their eyes on me and followed me. It was really scary! Finally as I was right by the office there was a dumpster they all ran into.

Terrified that I almost got rabies I heard a scream. It sounded like it came from the pool, so when I got into the gym I looked at the pool to see if anyone was in it. There were! Not only were there 6 people, but there were 6 naked people! Already my morning had taken 2 unexpected turns. The treadmill faces the pool, so I couldn't help but look at them. It was a weird way to wake up. They could totally see me, and knew I could see them since there were lights all around the pool.

When I went to the gym yesterday I only had to deal with those same scary raccoons trying to give me rabies. Luckily I had my eyes on them so I totally knew what they were up to. I was ready to kick them if necessary.