My Life on the Sub List 1st Grade

A first grader told me that I had an "elf ear".

1st grader: I want to kiss you.

me: Ohhhhh, no. That's okay.

1st grader: I know, i've just been thinking about it.

I turned around and one of the boys had colored his nose blue.

My Life on The Sub List

I had to send a 5th grader to the principal. Don't worry he had already been there once today because they thought he started a fire in the bathroom yesterday. How does that even happen?

A 1st grader asked me for my "texting number" so he could text me later.

‎"If I see one more paper cell phone I am going to take it and make long distance phone calls with it. Making your phone bill really high."
-me to a class of 5th graders

2010 Books

This year I tried to keep a list of all the books that I read. I read 28 books this year (still working on 29 and 30).

I wanted to share my top 5 books that I read this year.

1. The Help. I cried, I laughed, I cried a lot more and can't stop thinking about it.

2. The Hunger Games. The first in a teen trilogy. Excellent read.

3. The Last Lecture. Amazing.

4. Immoveable Feast. If you like Paris, you will definitely want to go there after reading this.

5. The Tipping Point. It's 29, but it's well worth a spot on the list.

Happiness is (3):

Sunday morning Farmer's Market at the Channel Islands Harbor with the fam.

happiness is (2):

The first official day of Spring! (in CA we have been having Spring for the last month, but that's besides the point)

Happiness is (1):

A package of Blue Bunny Peeps!

One Time...

In college I had to take a Geology class. Once for a project we all had to meet early one Saturday morning on Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) to look at rocks. Our teacher made us wear hard hats...I'm fairly certain for humility's sake. We also all had clipboards that had our research questions on them that we had to answer.

So there we are standing on the side of PCH with our hard hats and clipboards looking at rocks. Lots of trucks and cars started pulling up and loading a whole bunch of equipment. All of a sudden a really fancy car pulls up and out gets Mary J Bilge wearing this furry vest thing.
She was there we learned to film a music video. At the time our teacher was standing with his back to the ocean and we were facing him. Mary J was behind him and we were all much more interested in her than listening about rocks. So the teacher made us all turn so we were facing away from Mary J.


At 57 seconds is what we saw her filming. She is wearing a fuzzy vest and standing on rocks near the ocean.