What do you get the person who has everything?

We've all had the problem of trying to find a gift for someone who pretty much has everything they want already... and even if they didn't have it, they would buy it when they saw it. I have this situation with many people I would like to give gifts to in my life, and one such person is my wonderful babysitter, Bri-Bri. Her birthday was last week, and I knew that I paid her enough for her to buy whatever she wanted, but I still wanted her to know that I was making an effort. So, I got creative. I made her a card, and every word that is in italics and colored is a candy.

To Our MAzing Bri-Bri:

We thought we’d Take 5 to let you know exactly how Extra special we think you are. When we’re in a Crunch you’re always a Lifesaver! “Your boys” are like the 3 Musketeers, and no matter what kind of Goobers they are, or the Mounds of Whoppers they leave for you, you’re never a Butterfinger and things turn out perfectly.

There may have been a few Snickers from Airheads that think babysitting isn’t a worthy pastime, but Now and Later there’s NO ONE we’d rather trust with OUR boy with than you. Come Payday you deserve 100 Grand! Too bad we’ll never have that much to give. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
Happy Birthday!

Luckily, she thought it was pretty creative too, and I'm still allowed to leave my boy with the other woman in his life that loves him almost as much as his mommy. :)

I'm so excited!

Since January of 2003, I have been attending classes at SFA in order to get my master's degree in secondary mathematics education. I have enjoyed being able to get my master's without much cost to me, really nearly none, and without having to go like a real college student again. No early morning all week long classes, no dorms, and no yucky cafeteria food. We only go to SFA one Friday and Saturday a month, and then there were three summers where we went for a total of six weeks each summer. Now, during that time, some members of our class had to stay in a dorm, but I live close enough that I was able to shower in my own shower, and not the closet they call a shower that would cause a clausterphobic person to hyperventilate.

My point in all this is that I am finally in the home stretch! I have five class meetings left! I am so excited! This is the last August that I have any classes, and then next will be no more September classes and so on, until December, when we officially meet for learning for the last time.

Once that is over, I have to turn in a portfolio of all my work and how I've applied it to my teaching over the past three years, and then take a monstrous test over the topics we've discussed over the past three years, and then I will walk away with my master's degree! :)

The only thorn in my side about all this is that my little sister will have her Master's in December. So, she will have hers a few months before I will, and she will have finished hers in less time than it took me to get mine. But, I can always say that I got mine for free! :) Sometimes being a math teacher really pays off!

I've Noticed...

I live in the way, way out boonies, compared to most of you people that live in or near a city. I live about 25 minutes outside of a little town that most of you wouldn't even consider as a city. So, on my way to town, or to school, or to the sitter's house, I drive by mostly pastures and lots of cows and other such farm animals on these pastures. I was once told something that I didn't believe, but I have since paid better attention and now am a true believer.

I have noticed that any time I drive by a pasture with cows, they see me coming and at least one of them raises his or her tail and proceeds to relieve him/herself. I'm not joking! Every single time! It's almost like they see me coming and say "Oh No! Human!" And it scares the poop or pee out of them!

Next time you drive by a herd of cattle, pay attention, see what you find!

Sucks to Be Him

I found this on a news site, and thought that I should share it with my adoring public. The parts in italics are my own personal comments...

3 wives greet man after triple bypass surgery

LONDON - Some people bring flowers, others bring balloons. When Melvyn Reed's three wives showed up to visit him at the hospital, they brought an unexpected curtain call to his years as a double bigamist.
British police confirmed that after Melvyn Reed woke from his triple bypass heart operation earlier this year(wonder if stress caused his heart problems), his complicated marital affairs took a turn for a worse. All three of his spouses had turned up at the same time, despite his efforts to stagger their visits.

Media reports say that, upon realizing that something was amiss(and how did they realize this, did they know each other?), the wives held a meeting in the parking lot, and learned that they were all married to the same man.

The 59-year-old company director from Kettering in central England turned himself into police on May 12 saying he was married to three women at the same time, and confessed to bigamy, an illegal offense in Britain(where isn't it illegal, so I know not to move there!), London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

A spokeswoman for the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that Reed had turned himself in to police in Wimbledon, south London in the presence of his lawyer, and admitted he was a bigamist.

He pleaded guilty to two charges of bigamy on July 19 at the Wimbledon Magistrates' court, and was given a suspended sentence of four months in prison and ordered to pay 70 pounds ($126) in costs, police said. (Is that ALL? $126? Are you kidding? Does he have to pay anything to each woman, at least?)

It wasn't immediately possible to reach Reed or his three wives. A phone call to one of the women went unanswered. Reed's lawyer Laurence Grant was not immediately available at his office for comment.

The Metropolitan Police said Reed married his first wife, Jean Grafton, in 1966, then left her without divorcing her. He went on to marry Denise Harrington in 1998, then married Lyndsey Hutchinson in 2003.

British media have widely reported that Reed recently moved back in with his first wife, Grafton. They say she is the mother of his three grown children.

The Metropolitan Police said Harrington and Hutchinson had sought advice on getting their marriages annulled. But media reports say lawyers have advised the women that their marriages were never valid.

Interesting, isn't it? How some people think that the law doesn't apply to them, or how one woman isn't enough for some men. What a jerk. This makes me very thankful that I am married to the ONE man who chose me to be his ONLY wife. :)

One of those days

Have you ever been in the shower and forgotten whether you were about to pick up the shampoo or the conditioner, and you couldn't remember whether you had already shampooed or not?

Have you ever shave your underarms and washed up, and then gotten out of the shower, dried off, and remembered you needed to shave your legs because you were planning on wearing shorts, so you had to get BACK in the shower just to shave?

Have you ever been in such a hurry to get out of the bathroom that you put your makeup on, and your lipstick, and then remembered that you forgot to brush your teeth?

I have.
Today, in fact!

I better get back on track by Monday when school starts. Ugh.