Two Weeks...

Some photos taken over winter break of Madison and my nephew, Owen...

It has been two weeks of pure bliss.... pretty much any day I do not have to work is a great day. We took a trip to Jacksonville, Florida to visit my sister and her family and then we spend a few days visiting my parents up in Northern Virginia. We did lots of shopping, went ice skating, had several lunches with friends, I baked like a crazy lady, and got caught up on season 1 of Gossip Girl.

I am excited to see my teacher friends and my students tomorrow...but god I love staying at home. Maybe I will stumble across Mr. Right sometime in 2009...and maybe Mr. Right will also be Mr. Makesalottacash and I can be a stay at home mom....a girl can dream.

Wants and Needs...

After spending much of my two week long winter break traveling...I have a ton of things I NEED to do tonight...

• grade a stack of essays


• do two loads of laundry


• unpack


• work on next week's lessons for school


• send out some thank you notes


• make a much needed trip to the grocery store (after our fridge/freezer crapped out before out Florida trip...I've yet to fully replenish)

Madison is at a play date now and all I really want to do is...

• Curl up on the couch with a glass or two of champagne, a piece of the awesome coconut key lime cake I made the other day (I have one more day before I start kicking ass again with WW), and my new Gossip Girl Season 1 Disc (4 or 5...cannot remember) that came in the mail today and just relax.

I wonder...which one I will do...

Midgets & the Movies

So I am well aware that 'midgets' is not the correct term to use, however "Little People and the Movies" or "Dwarfs and the Movies" just didn't have quite the same ring to it.

Anywho...last night I went with my parents and my daughter to the movies to see "Marley and Me". I get to the front window and there are 4 people selling tickets...two of which are little people. I of course end up with a little person selling my tickets. No offense to little people...or big people for that matter...as I am a huge fan of TLC's show, "Little People, Big World". Anyways I am standing there with Madison trying to purchase three tickets for "Marley and Me" and one ticket for my dad (who refused to see Marley and Me) for Valkerie (sp??...Im too lazy to Google the correct spelling) and this little person starts pretending he is the Regal Movie Patrol and says "You know...this movie is sorta like Old Yella if you get what I am saying...". Um...thank you. I didn't ask if you thought this was an appropriate movie for my 9 year old who I watched "House Bunny" with last week and who learned all about the reality show, The Real Housewives of Atlanta at school from her friends....I want three tickets.

Anyways...there are three people behind me. Two guys...and a girl. So I overhear the one guy saying to the other little person who was selling him tickets "Hey...are you two brothers?". I just about died...the little person aka Regal Movie Patrol who was ringing me up, says "Why...do we look alike?". I could barly contain myself and had to call my sister to share. After spending several days visiting my parents this was the highlight of my day.

So now my mother who is finished smoking her upteenth cigarette in the 23 degree weather outside of the movie and my father who has parked the minivan have come in. They all get in line to get popcorn and other various crap (which I did not partake in...thank you very much) and I am walking through the lobby so Madison can see the arcade games and what do you know... one of the little people from the ticket window...comes gliding through the lobby on his motorized jazzy and almost plows me over... HILARIOUS!!!

I made it into the boring movie alive. If you are a dog owner...you will like it...if pets aren't your thing (THEY ARE SO NOT MINE) then just skip past this movie.