October 19, 2009

1. My little cat violet is lying across my arms purring and napping.
2. It’s time to go get some lasagna, but who can move such a sweet kitty?
3. My TV might be ready by the end of the week.  Or it might not.
4. Up at 5:30, out of the house by 6:50 (hit the snooze several times) very busy weekend, it’s only Monday and I am tired already.  If I can go to 10 I can get 8 hours of sleep, get up at 6 and do it again.  Getting in two hours early is very helpful.
5. Violet jumped down.  Time for lasagna.

October 15, 2009

1. I love the show Glee.
2. Last night I was feeling headachy and thought this was either plague, or that I hadn’t had enough water to drink.  Paul brought me a big glass of water that I was sipping on while I was dozing off, and sometime in the middle of the night I woke up suddenly, and poured it all over myself. 
3. I also got a crick in my neck. Or I am achy from the coming plague.
4. I stayed at work until 7 tonight.  If I could do that for a few weeks I might be able to get caught up.  As it is, tomorrow I will be only mostly behind, instead of completely behind.  Victory!
5. I have nice cats.  They are especially cuddly now that cold weather is around.

July 31, 2009

1. Sitting up tonight with a sick friend. Praying for a good healing night of sleep for him.  Makes me think of another friend whose son is having chemo treatments.  Wish I could spell her for a night too.
2. Garden growing great guns (G!) but I think I might have traumatized a couple of the tomato plants by trying to get them in a tomato cage.  Know now that that is the sort of thing that should go on at the beginning of the season.
3. Ali and I saw Harry Potter 6.  Not terribly impressed.  Just not a lot of story there.
4. Not sure what to watch on Netflix as the night goes on.  Why is so much trashy reality tv not available online?  Is this a punishment for not having cable?  I want to watch cooking shows and badly behaved brides, is that so wrong?
5. I got my 5×7 of Dominick Fortunato, sent personally by Charlene Butterbean!  WOO!

June 21, 2009

1. AB and I hosted a tea party for our goddaughter yesterday.  This was quite successful, with little sandwiches, and playing with my dollhouse.  Violet the kitten stayed in her usual spot under the bed, only visiting from under the bedskirt, but Kevin the cat was quite sociable, and even received his own tea plate with some nice wet food.  He had good manners for most of the event, but eventually of course bad habits won out and he was discovered on the table, drinking from the creamer.
2. My garden is growing!  I was very surprised to see, when I went out to look on Thursday that there will little things popping up.  I didn’t realize that it would happen so quickly.
3. Will get to visit with some college friends today.  Very exciting!  Both were in Band with me.  Well, she was, he was our graduate assistant, assistant director of the band.  I think I am taking them to lunch, and I always panic about where to take people.  I think I have settle on crisp and juicy chicken near my school.  It’s just a little takeout, but has some tables, and certainly, has excellent chicken.  I can show them my school too.
4. I’m on vacation!
5. Michael and I are going to St. Elmo’s after church today.  I haven’t had much time with him yet, but now I can ramp that up.  I need to come up with some good adventures.

May 16, 2009

1. Another pretty good show last night.  Nice crowd.  I saw a couple kids I would have liked to talk to after, but it was hectic.  I wish there wasn’t a matinee today.  I am old, and need my rest.  Also, can’t imagine what kind of spazzing will be going on as they race about the building between the two shows!  I’ve got some papers to grade, but that sounds pretty boring, really.  Yesterday I went and had a nice sit on the porch at starbucks.  Maybe I’ll do that again.
2. My entourage came, mom, dad, Paul, AB and her mom, C and D.  That was very nice.
3. We tried the wig thing, and I don’t know how it looked, but there were a lot of laughs and I know the kid who did it really enjoyed it.  He kind of jammed it back on my head kind of crooked, but that made it even funnier.
4. I don’t know when it happened, but Prison Break snuck back on the air, on a new night, and last night was there series finale.  What?  I missed about 5 episodes I think.  Thank goodness for the internet where these things can be caught up on.  I need to do that show, Lost, and Heroes.  All these other activities are really interfering with my TV time!
5. Ali and I follow this blog, Adan and Lego.  Today in Taiwan, Michico and Arion are getting married, and I am absolutely excited about it!  I’ve been watching the countdown for weeks!  She seems like a sweet, kind of crazy artistic person, who loves her two cats so much, that they will have cardboard cutouts of them at the wedding.  That is a level of obsession I can totally respect!

May 10, 2009

1. Who is it out there who keeps searching “5 things eleanor?”  That is the most popular search leading to this blog.  People, please, bookmarks!
2. I was a scone making machine yesterday! 12 coming out of the oven every 15 minutes for four hours.  Reviews were very good.  Having the  girls prep all the dry ingredients into bags was very handy.  The food processor and I worked though our getting to know one another issues and are now boon companions.
3. This play is in four days. AHHHHH! (I have tickets.  Call me!)  I don’t feel very ready, and need more practice.  This week is going to be pretty tiring I think, but I hope fun.  One of the problems is that I don’t want to be a teacher backstage, but I can’t help but notice things like people leaving trash around, or not being ready to go.  I just need to let the stage managers handle that stuff and try to losen up.  On the other hand, I think the director is hoping I will ride herd a little.  But I am tired of people looking nervous when they see me coming!  I don’t want this to be more of that.  I want to be happy fun time girl.
4. My dear kevin the cat hung very close today, as I hung pretty close to home, napping beside me or on me, and that was very comfortable.
5. I did go out to have coffee with my mother for mother’s day.  We talked about The Magnificent Seven, which was on PBS last night, and both agreed that that Yul Brenner was one fine looking fella.  Also he went through the whole movie and never got a spec of dust on his snappy black outfit, not one spec, for the whole movie.

October 23, 2008

1. Home today.  Very little voice.
2. I will probably go tomorrow, because we have a field trip, and I don’t want to leave the Other teacher hanging.  I’ll load up on medicine, and won’t say much.  I’m sure that will be a relief to the children.
3. Kevin’s fine.  He went back to the vet, got knocked out again, and had blood taken and was x-rayed.  They didn’t find anything wrong.  Hooray!  He has lost a little more weight, but that could be because of his time in the cone.
4. Altar Guild crew leader this coming week.
5. And a helmet liner knit along at Buzz Bakery.  That should be fun!

October 13, 2008

1. AB and Ali and I went and had a little spa afternoon, as a treat.  I got a massage, and it felt good, but I am pretty sure at one point he beat me with a cat o nine tails or something.  I do love my pals though.  They always make me laugh.
2. Kevin has the cone off!  Hooray!
3. Today I plotted out how to use my planning periods, assigning each one a specific topic.  I think this will help, so I spend less time wandering around saying “duh” when they occur.
4. I’ve been listening to Harry Potter on my Ipod, and I sometimes listen to it at night.  I think I get in about 3 sentences before I fall asleep,  but it keeps playing for hours, so I end up rewinding every morning.  I wonder if it has some sort of sleep timer, among its many functions.
5. Very relaxed and sleepy.  This whole masssage concept has merit, except for the beating part.

October 8, 2008

1. On the mend, but still in the cone.  Doesn’t He look like Little Lord Fauntleroy with that bow?
2. There’s a thin line between barely organized and total chaos.  Welcome to my world.
3. The Wedding in Kentucky was lots of fun.  The reception was in a tobacco barn.  I had some hilbilly bare feet, because I got a blister from my new shoes right away.
4. Get this!  The bartender and car parkers had aprons with the Episcopal Shield on them.  So I went and made small talk, and it turns out that they are doing a capital campaign, and one of their fundraisers is hiring themselves out at parties.  Awesome!  I smell a motion at the next vestry meeting!
5. We stayed on a 100 acre horse farm and made friends with 5 horses and a dog named cricket.  Also I ate a cinnamon bun as big as my head.  Ok, a slight exaggeration, but it was close.
6. The drive through West Virginia was really beautiful.  And the little car that just won’t die cranked out over 1000 miles!

October 2, 2008

1. Kevin is better, but seems depressed about the whole cone thing.  Can’t say as I blame him.  The good news is that he does not have feline lukemia or feline aids, so that is a great relief!  He is in a big pile on my lap right now, purring away.
2. Watching the debate.  Lively.  I shall comment no further, but I did enjoy reading this, and if I was playing along, I’d be drunk by now
3. Paul and I are going to a wedding in Kentucky this weekend.  One of the guys from the band.  Should be a good time, the reception is in a tobacco barn!
4. It’s about a 9 hour drive and we are going to leave in the AM.  Now that the stress of the school week is over and Kevin is on the mend, I am really looking forward to it.
5. We have the greatest permanent substitute in our school.  I couldn’t get him for the day tomorrow, but he did have one period free, and said he would come down and help the sub sort out the technology in the lesson.  He is training to be a teacher and comes in to observe me sometimes, so he knows the gist of my lessons.  In addition to being a great help, he is also really interesting, and the kids love him.  He had a 30 year career on capitol hill, helps us get great guest speakers, comes to town meeting, and the other day, I went looking for him, and I found him upstairs, helping run the guitar club!