time: 8:40 am; location: riverside

You can probably guess with the title of this entry that something happened, once again. Well, you'd be right. I was running with my running group yesterday morning, and we were almost done with our 4 mile run. (The farthest I've run to date.) The end of our run has us running down Riverside on the sidewalk towards Congress. Literally 2 minutes away from where we started it happened. There was a manhole cover slightly up and I didn't see it and I tripped! 

I was literally inches away from smashing my face on the concrete when I somehow forward rolled onto my right shoulder into the grass! I don't understand. How am I doing these forward rolls instead of smashing my face? Don't get me wrong, I am glad I'm doing it, I just don't understand how it happens. I'm not thinking, wow, I'm about to loose my teeth, maybe I should roll out of this fall? Whatever, I'm not going to question it. I didn't come out unscathed however, and thank god no one tripped over me and fell. I, of course, fell on my other knee and scratched the crap out of my palms and right elbow.

You know how famous people die in threes? I'm now assuming I will fall in threes. (Crissy, is this true? I know you fall a lot.) I'll let you know when it happens again. I'm sure it will be within the week since that's what happened this time.

time: 6:10 pm, location: casis

Let me begin by letting you know what I am wearing today. I'm wearing a super cute plaid dress and brown wedges. So, Nichole and I stayed late to plan for next week, and while we were planning we realized we forgot to make copies of a few things we need for tomorrow. So we walked over to the fourth grade hall to make said copies. The quickest way to get there is to walk outside the building from our hallway to the other hallway. On our way back we were having a lovely discussion, both of us holding a stack of papers, as well as 10 paper clipped stacks of small pieces of paper for a game we're playing.

Next thing I know my hands are flying in the air, my papers go flying! I fall on my knees and do a forward roll to my back. As I am doing my forward roll I distinctly remember thinking, "wow, my dress is over my head right now." After my forward roll I am laying on the ground outside with my dress up to my waist, panties on display. I start laughing hysterically. Nichole looks down at me laughing hysterically. I look over and my papers are EVERYWHERE! I finally get enough sense to pull my dress down and sit up. My knee at this point it super bloody, my hip hurts, my elbow is bleeding, my wrist hurts, and we are still laughing. Nichole finally asks between laughs how she can help me. I say I have no idea.

Finally I get up and she helps me get all my papers. As we finish the walk to the room I ask what happened, and how ridiculous I looked. Her response, "I have no idea what happened! We were talking and I was looking at you, and the next thing I know you're on your back laughing." Hopefully we picked up all of the game pieces so we can still play the game tomorrow.

I seriously don't remember the last time I actually fell. Can you get workers comp for this?

portraits

It's that time of year again! In the first week of school we do a lot of get to know you stuff. One of the things we do is partner them up and they interview each other, and then they draw a portrait of each other. I of course give them tips on how to draw faces, remind them to try to match the colors of their eyes, skin, etc. Of course tears ensue from those who can't draw and are being made fun of by their partner. We definitely still do this more for our amusement than anything else since the kids don't really like doing it. Here are the gems from this year. (Unfortunately I have an even number of kids so no one drew me. Although I kind of want to make each of them draw me just for the fun of it.)

This last one was brought to me with no hair on the top of the head, and I made him go back because she was bald. Also please note the "freckles" all over her face, and her mismatched teeth. Nichole said she looks like a meth addict and she couldn't stop laughing. This is definitely one of my favorites. Enjoy!

michael scott and dating

A few days ago I was getting ready and doing my hair. I went to the kitchen to get some water, and when I walked back into my room I was just about to sit down to straighten my hair when I stepped ON my turned on straightener! I immediately screamed and ran to stick my foot under the faucet. I was going to post a picture of the gross blister on my toe, but I figured since the last picture I posted was of a dead cricket, I should avoid another gross picture so soon. (You're welcome Rebecca.) Of course I told Rebecca about what happened. Her response, "Who are you? Michael Scott?" Apparently I am as big of a dummy as he is.

I also joined match.com last week. Within the first few days I had 2 emails from guys asking me for my number because "they would love to see me tonight." No thanks. I also started talking to one guy who asked for a "full body pic." Excuse me, I am not in middle school anymore. I've gone on two dates so far, and both (to my surprise) actually went well! I'm sure there will be more stories to tell, so check back for that!

aunt courtney!

So I can officially tell everyone that Rebecca is pregnant and I am going to be an aunt! I can't wait! The week after I found out I went to the Co-Op to buy some things for the kid and went a little nuts. I am  totally going to go broke buying things for it, and I am ok with that. According to Rebecca she is 10 weeks, so her baby is the size of a prune, but it's 2 inches so technically she's the size of a plum or large lime. Either way, it's probably a super cute no longer webbed fetus.

the first kill

I think Luna is ready to become an outside cat. She likes looking at the birds outside, so I got a bird feeder for her so she could look at them more often. Yes, I do get that that is a mean tease. But she'll get over it. So about 20 minutes ago I let her out on the porch after her continual meowing. While she was out there this GIGANTIC cricket jumped in front of her, and she became a predator for the first time...and she actually got it! I was proud and grossed out there was a cricket in her mouth. Unfortunately you can't see it very well, but that's one of it's legs and abdomen sticking out. (In this picture she looks just as surprised as I was that she caught it.)

Luckily I had shut the door behind her since it was hot, and poor thing, all she wanted to do was bring it in and show me. She couldn't meow like normal because then the cricket would be gone. I felt so mean standing there looking at her while she looked up at me wanting to get in. But no way man, if that thing wasn't dead it would be hopping around here when she dropped it. OR I would be finding cricket parts all over the apartment over the next few days. No thanks. Finally she started meowing so I knew the cricket was out of her mouth. Either she ate it or let it go, who knows. But this sad leg was all that I saw leftover by the door. RIP cricket, RIP.

blabberize

For the past 2 days I've been at a technology training. Basically we learned about new stuff we'll be getting in our classroom and a bunch of really cool websites we can integrate into our classroom. One of my favorites is blabberize. Below is a rant by Andy Rooney.

And here is the one I created on blabberize with a rant I bet Andy Rooney either has, or will do at some point. Enjoy!