I say we hit the cruise control

In the stereo: Tony (JC was in a minute ago *wink*)

I wanted to write something last night but the internet was being wack (lol) and now I forget. Now all I have to say is that I messed up my dad's cake again this year. Last year, everyone said it was good but I am a perfectionist and I hated the icing...the one I eventually put on was the third one I made. Today, I wanted to make something different. Jamie helped me find a recipe online for a cake with peanut butter icing. My dad LOVES peanut butter and most things have chocolate with, which my dad is allergic to. This did too, but it was so little I just cut out the cocoa powder. Well, instead of doing what the recipe said, to make a 13X9 cake, I made a 2 layer cake. The icing is dripping off the sides!! It is on a cookie sheet now, cuz I had to pop it in the broiler for a few seconds, and it is a good thing I didn't ONLY listen to my mom and put in on this one cookie sheet. I put it on one with sides all the way around and if I hadn't, it would have dripped all over the oven. I am just so upset. Guess maybe I should go eat some breakfast to drown my sorrows.

In the stereo: JC

Who thinks Marianne is obsessed with JC's CD? My back hurts again...Cari bit my finger in the car coming home from dinner tonight. I like pointing my finger at her and she pretends to bite it. But this time I pointed and wasn't looking AT ALL and she went to "pretend to bite", expecting me to pull away my finger but since I was not looking, she bit it. And it hurt. :( I said when I pretend to bite, I never actually close MY mouth, I just pretend I will. She's evil.

Talked to Parsons last night and again today. Can't wait to see her Monday. I hope Heather can come down too. Parsons was talking about this zine that Heather wrote years ago about Alyssa, and from what she told me it sounds hilarious. Heather is such a good writer...so is Cari. She likes when she has the house to herself cuz she writes. She is writing a romance novel. She kept saying I couldn't see anything then I found out she was sending Jamie pieces as they were typed. I felt left out. Hey, felt and left have the same letters in them just l and f rearranged...Wow, random thought patterns...who can tell I am tipsy???????

In the stereo: JC

My new word is "invisibilize", as in "I will invisibilize you". I said that about Cari on AIM and asked if that was a word and she said no but I can make it one.

So let me tell you about my day. Well, first off, last week, I saw that on this sign up sheet, the staff development teacher had me subbing tomorrow, which I didn't know about and had got another job. So, when I got up today, I had this feeling I wasn't supposed to sub today and that maybe she mixed up today and tomorrow. So, I get to work at 7:57 and wait for her to get there cuz she hadn't set out any papers for me as to what class I should be in. When I got a chance to talk to her, I asked and she said I was not supposed to be there. So I left. I stopped at Burger King on the way home and got a sandwich. When I got home, the phone was ringing. I didn't want to pick it up so I listened to the person leave a message. It was the lady, and as it turned out it was her 3rd message she just left. She was wrong and did need me today, so I drove back to work. Apparently, she sent someone else home too. Then, I guess on the third person, she realized maybe she should check her schedule and sure enough, all the first grade teachers were meeting together today so they had 6 subs in for them. I guess maybe she is getting distracted cuz all the state tests are this week, but she is kind of a ditz sometimes.

On my drive home this morning, I was thinking about all the things I would do with this new found day off. I had gotten it in my head that I would be home so I was disappointed I had to go back in. But I guess it was ok that I did go in cuz the class today was so well-behaved. Except for the fact that since there was testing, the kids in the portables got to be in the building so the first grade classes doubled up. So, we had 32 kids in one room with 2 subs. Let me tell you, that other class is quite loud! One more day til the weekend...I can't wait.

OH OH OH, so, Marianne FELL IN FRONT OF A CLASS YESTERDAY. I was hunched down on my feet to plug in something and got up a bit to sit in a chair but I missed the chair and landed on the floor. The kids and I had a good laugh about that one. They were a good class too (that was a second grade one).

Yay, this will be the cover of Tony's CD, which comes out March 30th, in case I haven't mentioned that *wink* how nice that it goes with my color scheme

In the stereo: Maroon 5...Cari just got it

Where has penguin baseball gone to? It's gone! Forever! :(

In the stereo: JC again

I really enjoy this CD. I think the one Tony helped write is one of my faves.

Got an email for being on Tony's street team to look at his management company's website. They apparently have a few full length songs of Tony's plus something else up. I CAN'T FREAKIN VIEW THE SITE. I am not happy...it says I need to have quicktime, flashplayer, and set the screen to 800X600. I downloaded those 2 things and changed my screen. Argh...

PS, I am seriously lacking love in my blog comments and I am sad...

In the stereo: JC Chasez..."all day long I dream about sex and all night long I think about sex and all the time I think about sex with you" -A.D.I.D.A.S.

lol...This CD, which I bought today, is really good. I wrote the above cuz that song is on as I type so thought it would be humorous...Tony helped write #5 on the album. I enjoy that song...not that I am biased or anything.

I have decided I will personally buy 5 copies of Tony's CD the first day it comes out and pass them to other people, meaning my sister, Jamie, Richard (Jodi's bf) and someone else yet to be determined. There is a contest for Tony's street team. The area's street team (mine would be DC area) whose sales for Tony's CD is the highest in the country will get a FREE performance of Tony!!!! I freakin hope it's us...but it will probably be LA or NYC area...oh well...

So I read the Parade magazine this morning, that comes with the Sunday inserts (which we get on Saturday). The cover story today was The Worlds Ten Worst Dictators. By clicking on that link, for some reason you cannot see the list but you can see the "Dishonorable Mentions". So, here is the list for you (in order from 1-10): Kim Jong Il (North Korea), Than Shwe (Burma), Hu Jintao (China), Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Crown Prince Abdullah (Saudi Arabia), Teodoro Obiang Nguema (Equatorial Guinea), Omar Al-Bashir (Sudan), Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenistan), Fidel Castro (Cuba, duh), and King Mswati III (Swaziland). Some of the things these men do are beyond belief, as I am sure you know or can guess. The Turkmenistan man has his picture on all money, statues everywhere, requires all children to read his book in school, and government employees must memorize passages of his book to keep their jobs. The Zimbabwean (?) allows elections but restricts their campaigning. He arrested and charged with treason a man of opposition who received 42% of votes. He has been in power since 1980. The E.Guinea man has been in power since 1979, longest of these men besides Castro. The state radio there announced that he "is in permanent contact with the Almighty and can decide to kill without anyone calling him to account and without going to Hell".

Why the hell do these people feel they have more rights to do shit to others than the others have? I know this is a long standing issue over time but come on. People are just ridiculously power hungry and it makes me sick.

Also in the parade, the column dedicated to teens asked them what their favorite cars were. These kids piss me off. One 18 year old thinks "watching moms freak out is hilarious" so she wants a Cooper and to take her mom for a ride in it. She loved the car after seeing it in The Italian Job and thinks it's "perfect for stunts and chases". Are you going to be doing stunts and chases in the car? Cuz seriously...anyway, another girl has a brother who lives in Liberia, where he would not be able to drive her dream car, a pink Chevy Corvette. She wants to take him for a ride on a "lonely road with lots of curves and drive 90 mph". And you want to be killed? How about a lonely STRAIGHT road and drive 90? Or, you could not drive 90 at all...lol...That girl is 16.

Enough about that...I have the house to myself for a few hours while Cari and mom go to a movie...yay!

In the stereo: mix CD

First, have you ever not paid attention to a word you were typing and it ended up being a word but not the one you wanted to type? That just happened to me on IM and it has happened a few other times to me.

OK, for what I came to write. I subbed "staff development" today, which means I was in different classes so the teachers could go to meetings. I was in 5th grade for 1/2 hour, which was too long. I knew I didn't want to teach them but this just reaffirmed that. This one girl in there is a straight up bitch. I hate to say that about an 11 year old but come on. I pick them up from lunch and we are in the hall and she is talking to this other girl. I asked them to stop talking. She crossed her arms. I asked her to turn and face the front and she refused. She walked into the bathroom. I said she needed to come out. She said she had to go and I said "you need to say something to me". THIS WAS IN THE FIRST 2 MINUTES OF MEETING HER. So all we have to do when we get back to class is read our "favorite" book that they brought in (for the celebration previously mentioned). She wouldn't shut her mouth. And she would make rude comments to this other girl that really pissed me off. Some of her rude comments were about peoples looks and shit and if I was her age, I would tell her to look in the mirror. She has messed up eyes, those that look like she is looking one way but really looking at you. And her 2 front teeth are chipped. She has no reason to make fun of others. Sorry, she just pissed me off...maybe it's cuz I saw myself in some of those other girls...

On to something else...I talked to Michelle from Hood online today (actually, I still am as we speak). She received an envelope from Frances today. It was a "generic" letter about how she has been the last year and how God has helped her and all. She included a donation envelope. Michelle said she didn't finish reading the whole thing but from what she saw, nothing said where the money would go...weird...that Frances...

OK, Jamie is on now and maybe she will want to play Scrabble online finally...lol...

The school I work at just found out we won a national reading award. Not sure what it is called but we were 1 of 100 schools who were finalists and had visitors at our school 2 weeks ago. They told our principal and others that they were impressed, including one lady wants teachers at her school to come watch our kindergarten classes.

Anyway, due to this, tomorrow is pajama day at school. I love pajama day. We had one in November and I wore my ladybug slippers, that everyone loved. I don't think I will wear them tomorrow, cuz I have to go to portables and back in the building all day. But, I will probably wear my pjs. Yay!

better than the book one...

You're France!

Most people think you're snobby, but it's really just that you're better than everyone else.  At least you're more loyal to the real language, the fine arts, and the fine wines than anyone else.  You aren't worth beans in a fight, unless you're really short, but you're so good at other things that it usually doesn't matter.  Some of your finest works were
intended to be short-term projects.
Take the Country Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid

So not true...

You're The Giver!

by Lois Lowry

While you grew up with a sheltered childhood, you're pretty sure everyone around you is even more sheltered. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, you were tapped on the shoulder and transported to the real world. This made you horrified by your prior upbringing and now you're tormented by how to reconcile these two lives. Ultimately, the struggle comes down to that old free will issue. Choose wisely.


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

In the stereo: No Doubt Greatest Hits (or whatever it's called)

I am sad...that's all...

In the stereo: Kenny Chesney

So the video for "There's Goes My Life" came on (not long after finishing up listening to Kenny's CD). Jamie and I think the guy in the video is so hot. Anyway, I was standing there with this fat marker in my hand singing the song. Then I asked Cari if I should do my Becky impersonation. Do you all remember it? Man, those were the days...

Jamie: Cari and I think Kenny should have changed the lines in the song at one point to either "that girl's my wife" or "that girl's my life". It makes sense and would bring variety to the song.

In the stereo: random song list of "boys"

So, Cari just called and said "guess who just left my store?" I love it when people say this. Hmmm, Ms. Favret? George Bush? Big Bird? How can you guess when there are absolutely no clues? Anyway, she said it was Marcus. He told her to tell me to call him. Riiiiiight. Whenever he talks to people I know (except Jamie, I think), he always tells them to tell me to call him. It sounds so stupid. Like I would call him. I do wonder, though, Jamie, if he even remembers that we are friends. I find it hilarious though that nearly everyone I know has seen him since we graduated high school and I haven't. Doesn't that mean something????

OK, so, people actually create live journals to pretend they are famous people? I found one for "Tony Lucca", which had links to all these other people from MMC, including "Keri Russell" and "Matt Morris". This is a really lame role play game. They all include things about Tony and Keri getting married in January! Riiiiight...the final straw was in "Matt"'s journal, where he wishes a happy birthday to "Brittany". You would think if these people are trying to pretend so people believe it, they wouldn't make a dumb spelling mistake like that. Why do people do things like this? Do they have no lives?????????

Just found out Amazon has Tony's CD up for presale. It says it will be released March 30. Yay! I am so excited! I knew March but didn't know it would be that late...guess that's better than April! I freaking can't wait...can you tell I love Tony?????

Just got home from going to Penn State today with mom just for the women's bball game. It was the first sold out crowd for the women there, something like 17,000 tickets sold. We KILLED Michigan, 73-44. It was one-sided from the beginning, getting it off to 26-6 early. We had 5 girls reach double figures, including a freshman, who this was her most yet. We sat in the second to last row all the way up top--a ton of stairs and rather scary but we didn't get up until we left.

So the Parade magazine, that comes with the Sunday Washington Post, came today with the inserts. The main article is about Dr. Seuss and his 100th birthday. So I decided to write on here how my grandfather knew him. They both graduated from Dartmouth in 1925. We don't know if they had classes together but my mom says they did talk. I like to tell kids in school this info and the ones I have told haven't seemed to find it as fascinating as I do. I do feel special that I have a Dr. Seuss connection though...So, I just realized my grandfather would have turned 100 himself this past December. That's pretty damn exciting. And scary...I always wanted my grandmother to live to be 100. When I would tell her this, she would say no way would she want to. Well, she lived to be 91, which is still damn old (that was 4 years ago). I miss her...she was such a hilarious woman...though I do hear stories I can't imagine happening...

Somehow the Sublime song "Date Rape" got in my head...I have it on a mix CD Cari made me 4 years ago but haven't heard it in years...I still remember when Cari sent me that CD at college. It was junior year, cuz I was living in the corner room (Amy and Sarah's the next year). And I remember listening and finding Cari put that 2gether song "Calculus" on the CD and Tiffany was like obsessed with that song...ok, not obsessed but she found it amusing...and then those girls did that song for Air Band...wow, Air Band...ours senior year was so good. I don't get why we got robbed...maybe cuz it had to do with drinking...Heather, I have it on tape if you would like to see it in March when you come down...good times...I seem to really like "..." today...lol

So I am talking to Jamie now and an image popped in my head of these dolls we had when we were younger. Cari, Jamie and I all had one then I got a second. Their hair grew with one arm was in the air and you could crank the other arm to make the hair shorter again. My second one's hair changed colors in the sun. I LOVED those dolls and don't know what happened to them. And now Jamie and I can't remember what they were called...

In the stereo: Tony Lucca...but it's only in my head cuz it's not 8 and I am up but no one else is

A bar window Jamie saw in Italy...

so, I made valentines for the kids last night. I cut out 4 hearts of different shapes of construction paper and glued them together to look like:

I wrote the kids names on like I drew mine in this picture, with dots but darker so they could see. They were cute!

In the stereo: Joe Firstman

yay, I have internet back! It feels like forever. We still don't get all of our digital cable channels though...not happy. Oh well...

Today was my last day at my long-term job. We celebrated Valentine's Day. I got a few from the kids. It was so cute. They loved it all.

I have to tell you about what one girl said to me Monday. I kept wanting to write it in here but I haven't been able to. This was our conversation:

A: Ms. Greene, who taught you to be so nice?
M: Who do you think taught me?
A: God?
M: Well, who else taught me?
A: Your mommy?
M: Yes, doesn't your mommy teach you to be nice?
A: Yes, but sometimes I am mean.

I thought that was adorable. Especially for a 5 yr old to admit that she is mean sometimes! I'll miss those kids...but not the stress. Today was such a long day I need to lay down and rest...we were all exhausted.

OK, so Cari and I were watching The Davis Cup tennis today. The US is playing Austria. I keep thinking how freaking hot all these young American tennis players are! The Davis Cup team right now consists of Andy Roddick and Robby Ginepri playing singles, Mike and Bob Bryan playing doubles and Mardy Fish as the alternate. Every one of them is hot! Even James Blake and Taylor Dent, who are not on the Davis Cup team but play for the US, are hot. PS, did you know Minnie Driver used to date Robby? He's only 21...she's 34. Also, I got Mike's autograph this summer...I can tell the difference between Mike and Bob. Cari thinks I'm nuts, cuz my reason is Mike just looks nicer (not in a handsome way but in an approachable way) but I can! Every picture I see of them, I can totally tell. (In case you can't figure it out, they are twins) Anyway, I guess that is enough about tennis, since you people don't care about it! LOL

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Your favorite book:	An Appraisal of Magical Education in Europe
Pet you bring to school:	Brown Hawk Owl
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No school again! You know why I like this so much? Since I am long-terming right now, I actually get paid for the snow days (or ice days, in this case). If I was just subbing like normal, I would not get paid. Guess it was a good idea I decided to take this long-term job since I am now getting paid for 3 days I haven't worked. Yay, me!

Got the Hood Inter(net)actions email today with this in it:

Monday, February 16, 6 PM, TAKE A KID TO THE GAME! TAKG is a NCAA sponsored program that encourages local youth to enjoy local college hoops. Bring your child to the double-header women's and men's basketball games against conference rival Chestnut Hill. Games, prizes and other fun events for the "kids" in attendance. Men's game is at 6 PM, Governor Thomas Johnson High School Gymnasium. Tickets are $4/person, kids 12 and under free and parents bringing children to the game will receive $1 off the ticketed price. 7:30 PM tip off for the women's basketball game at Hood College, Gambrill Gymnasium, admission is free. Basketball fun for all!

Another night like this was in a previous email. Again, I question why this is considered a double header. The games are played at 2 different places that you can't walk between if you want to make the second game on time. It really erks me that men's games cost money and are not played on campus.

RRRRAAAAAARRRRR!!!

PS, that sentence that starts with "Games" is bad grammar, is it not? There's no verb...

OK, Amy, I did it. I actually always wanted to see it mapped out. Thanks!



create your own visited states map.

In the stereo: the new Kenny Chesney--He sings about me!

So I guess I am documenting my sickness in here...today I woke up with a painful ear. I woke up literally EVERY half hour last night. My nose was dripping so I slept with a tissue under it and every time I woke up, I turned over. My ears got better but now they hurt again. And the feel clogged. I don't want to have an ear infection. Please don't be an ear infection!

Stayed at school til 5 today. Getting the room cleaned up and ready for visitors tomorrow. Our school is a finalist for a BIG reading award in the state. It is a great honor. So everything has to be in tip top shape. Hopefully we will win the award--that would be exciting!

OK, I am going to go lay down...my body is aching...I have to sit in little chairs all day and my back hurts bad enough when I am not sick that now it's just awful. Good night!

No school today...it was supposed to get real icy during rush hour this morning...I know freezing rain came down cuz I went out to get the newspaper before it got bad. Now it's just rain. It is supposed to change to snow in the next few hours but we'll see.

There was a kid shot IN a DC high school yesterday. He was a football player being recruited by coaches at many colleges. It happened at a school that has had many problems in the last year. How sad.

I got out of bed last night and got a glimpse of my posters from college, where I had people write their favorite things on. I don't know if Heather remembers them but I am sure Amy and Sarah do. I searched the posters from freshman and sophomore year and the ONLY thing Heather wrote was "Heather's goldfish Aggie, Benito, and Claude". I was sad Heather didn't write anything else!

I had a scary dream last night. I went to a wedding. My mom and Cari were there, along with some people from high school and college. Some girl from h.s. waved and called me over to sit down and I did but then these boys started getting pissed that I was there and said mean things. I went away and they ended up trying to break in my car. Later that night, we were home and heard our garage door open. (Our automatic opener is broken so people CAN just open it now) We called the police but the same guys from the wedding stole my mom's car cuz mine was in the shop (which it is today). The police came and got all the info about the guys from the wedding and stuff. Then I woke up. What the hell does that dream mean?

So I was just looking in the mirror when I thought about something that happened about 10 years ago. Back when I twirled baton, I used to carpool with these other two girls who lived in Gtown. One was about my skill level and KINDA my friend...the other was better and such a snot. One day while riding to practice (in the friend's mom's van), the snot tells me I have a big nose, like one of our baton teachers. I snapped back at her, saying "screw you", when I didn't even know what the phrase meant. Of course, the mom driving got so pissed at me. But anyway, I don't think I have a big nose.

Every day in this long-term job so far, a girl has told me she likes my hair (each day, it's a different girl). It's so nice...but I want to cut it. I got it cut Jan 12 (I only remember cuz it was Jamie's bday) and my stylist cut these short pieces in the front and I get glimpses of just those pieces over my shoulders and I think it might look cute to have all of my hair that length...it'd be about my shoulders, maybe a teeny shorter...should I cut it?

Speaking of the kids, a parent volunteer came in today and while the kids were in Media Center, she and I talked a bunch. She told me her daughter loves me! I was excited...ok, enough about me...good night!

In the stereo: the actual radio!

So I got hardly any sleep last night. The freakin game was on for forever and I HAD to watch Survivor live. I am so sad Tina got kicked off first. That was my favorite tribe! I hope they do better in coming challenges...

I woke up today with a terrible cough and massive headache. Not that I don't have a headache nearly every day but this was the kind where it feels like there is a balloon in your head and it's being blown up. I still have it (the headache, not an actual balloon...ok, boo on my joke). My throat feels better though. My nose is still clear but my ears feel clogged. I told the kids I was sick and could hear things weird. They kept asking about it. ONE girl said she has felt like that before...then again, these are kindergartners, so they may have but just didn't think about it. My body aches BIG TIME. I wish I was back in the dorm with awesome people who give massages (ie, Amy). My mom is not very good. Cari is good but she refuses to massage me. I think it's cuz she did it once and it was so good that I bugged her about getting another one. She never gave me another...and it's been almost a year.

Anyway, I am going to go lay down til mom comes home and we eat dinner...bye

So I am definitely getting sick. Not only does my throat hurt still, but I have begun sneezing, have a headache, my body aches, and I am very dizzy. I probably shouldn't be on the computer because of the dizziness but I was bored and decided to post again.

I wrote a post almost a month ago about this website. The "girl" (everything is supposedly) was writing about what happened to her friends this fall. Apparently, all of them died except one, who disappearred. The girl who was writing said she had cancer and it was inevitable that she would die so she was confessing everything online and said she would kill herself by drowning in the lake (which was meaningful in her stories) today. I was away for the weekend so I missed seeing her posts from Thursday and Friday (she always seemed to post late at night). I checked the website today and every post has been deleted and each says something about being deleted by the Sheriff's department. I have always found this all very "interesting". I honestly don't think it was real. I think maybe this person was doing this for attention, especially since people like Wil Wheaton have gotten book deals based on their blogs. If she did tell the truth and is now dead, well then I am an idiot but I find it hard to believe. If you didn't read any of the posts, then you wouldn't know, obviously. Anyway, it was all very interesting...

OK, I guess I will go lay down. I may need to nap. I want to watch Survivor live, since I would run the risk of someone spoiling it in school tomorrow, so I will be going to bed late. Being sick, I need my sleep though...we'll see...

In the stereo: a mixed CD of songs from high school...I love it

My throat hurts a lot. This usually means I am getting a cold. I should have it when I wake up Monday. I don't like working while sick. I basically don't have much choice while long-terming. However, we should be getting a snow storm Monday night so let's keep our fingers crossed (maybe I will have the kids do a snow dance tomorrow...and I will sleep in inside out pajamas...one can hope). I haven't had a cold since September, which is AMAZING for me, so maybe I shouldn't complain. But, I was hoping to go all winter without getting sick...luckily I rarely get sicker than colds...

What should I have for dinner?