Flick and Fellowship

So last night was the first movie night at the church. I can honestly say I had a good time.

We eat dinner there, green eggs, blue and red pancakes and sausage. Then we watched Freaky Friday in the chapel. That was a first for me, i've never watched a movie with the screen right next to the pulpit before, it was fun!!

Afterwards we split up in to adult/teen and kids. The adults did a short (20 minute) class on active listening and the kids did freaky science experements.

They will be doing the Wizard of Oz next month, can't wait since I can get even the hubby to that one!!

Cookie Time

It's started. It is finally here. Girl Scout Cookies.

We pressure the girls to go out and sell these wonderful tasting cookies, nevermind that we don't want to eat them becuase the are just too good to have only one, I mean really I can't just have an open box at the house, it will be gone before you can say Girl Scouts.

So this year we have a new council. 18 counties worth of scouts all trying for cookie booths in the same 18 counties at the same time. Add to this the fact that there are no booths at the local mall this year and you get very slim pickings for our county!!

My troop averages 12 booths a year. It's how most of the girls get their boxes sold. This year I have us signed up for 10, probably won't get them all, which is fine if I can still do the booth during voting day and the Lent fish fry. Ya know it's getting harder to sell these things with so few places allowing booths and the price going up.

Oh well what can you do....

Batteries and strep

Today we bring you....

How to get a new car battery.



Step 1 have a child complain about a sore throat for 2 days. (started after the bball game we lost)

Step 2 Actually look at child's throat and see white spots and swollen glands.

Step 3 try and find an urgent care in the area so you aren't paying $150 to sit in an ER for 6 hours

Step 4 find a place called MinuteClinic that closes at 4pm, about 2 hours from now7

Step 5 get everyone dressed and ready to go

Step 6 (this is the important part) Try and start the car and hear click, click, click...

Step 7 call for help!!

Step 8 help jumps the car.... we are off

Pep Rally

Ok to start with we no longer have 1 4-5 grade b-ball team. We have 3. The oldest is not happy because she's not on the same team as her bff, but atleast her other bff is on her team so it's not SOOO bad.


So the games were today. Totally not ready for it. Team C lost to LAGS something like 10 to 20 or some other horible score. They were really, really good. It didn't help that we had only 1 practice with the "new" team lineups. But now we know how they play so we will be practicing to their style.

Oh did I mention that they only have 1 team that is not from our school? That's right the team A, team B, team C and LAGS. Needless to say this is going to be an interesting bball season.

Later.

poems and such

So I was reading a friend's blog today ans she was talking about her hubby's poems. That got me to thinking of the stuff that I use to write. Talk about morbid (my stuff). Death, rape, abuse and all sorts of other nasty stuff. It's amazing I turned out normal...


I looked through the writings from back then... I can't even bring myself to typing any of them on here they are so bad. Major rabbling of a teenage mind. Kind of like this blog is my rabbling of a 30something mind.

Banned books??

Ok so I finally got to see Children of Men, and realized that I'd read the book years ago. When I went looking for the book online I came across this list from the ALA.

Items in italics are books I can actually remember reading when I was growing up. These are challenged books, based on the content or the author. I remember reading about banned books as a child, and then hearing about it when my own children started school. I still find it amazing that people try and ban books. Yes we do need to know what are children are reading, but not to censor it. We need to know so that we can talk to and help educate are children.

The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–20001

Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Forever by Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Giver by Lois Lowry
It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Sex by Madonna
Earth's Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
The Goats by Brock Cole
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Blubber by Judy Blume
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
Deenie by Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Fade by Robert Cormier
Guess What? by Mem Fox
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Native Son by Richard Wright
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday
Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Jack by A.M. Homes
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
Carrie by Stephen King
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Family Secrets by Norma Klein
Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
Private Parts by Howard Stern
Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

And just to make this "fair" this is the list for 2006
10 Most Challenged Books of 2006:

"And Tango Makes Three" by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
"Gossip Girls" series by Cecily Von Ziegesar
"Alice" series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
"The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things" by Carolyn Mackler
"The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
"Scary Stories" series by Alvin Schwartz for
"Athletic Shorts" by Chris Crutcher
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
"The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

Oh and let's not forget the Golden Compass series... (banned in a few schools in our county) And no I have not read it, I probably will, eventually. It's at the public library. It's not at school yet but that's only because noone has donated it to us.

books, books and more books

So I'm sheving the books in the school library since we have no librarian and the teachers aren't doing it, not right anyway and the kids well don't even get me started on that one.

I spent 3 days last week going through ever since nonfiction book and putting them in order via the Dewey Decimal system. Ya remember it? We learned about it in grade school oh and the public library in town uses it too, so this isn't a new concept. But for some reason every time I'm in there I get kids and teachers asking me where do I find this or how do I find that or I want a book about... Really people the charts are on the wall it will tell you that animals are in 500 and that jokes are 811 and that biographies are 900s on reference is 000 and so on. Can't find the ficition book you really want but know the author, try looking it up by he's last name!! Ficition is by author's last name, again just like the libary in town. don't even get me started on the picture books, we have 4 shelving units of them and no one, kids and teachers alike, can seem to get them in order.

It's like to newly cleaned window that the kids have to touch, the shelves never stay straightened. Oh well just one more thing for me to do when I'm at the school. Speaking of which I should get going.
Later gater.

Things that have happened in the last few months...

J and B had their little girl in Nov. Here is a pic of me holding her. (Yes that's a camp shirt)

Christmas at the club the day of the "big" snow storm. Santa didn't make it but we did!

Looks like that's all that on the computer... I can't wait for my system to be back.

Good grief!! Has it really been 3 months??

I guess not a lot has been happening.. or maybe it's too much stuff is happening... We now have scouts, band, church classes, basketball, and dance.

So my life these few months... hectic but nothing major, now last night... ok nothing good but I'll think of something soon.

Anyway the computer is in the shop and I've been without a system on the main floor for over a week. Finally got the kids' computer up from the basement and hooked it up, reloaded the interenet software and I'm in business!!

I get back from meetings and shopping last night and DH has youtube on and tells me to pick a group, any group so I think a minute and say Great White (don't ask I was trying for some weird one and couldn't think of anything). So we listen to that and I proceed to listen to all sorts of old 80s music.

We started with White Lion, then moved on to Warrant. Followed up with Adam Ant (yes I do like the music) and go into Scorpions then Chicago which you can't do without Peter Cetera since Chicago is nothing without him. From there it's on to Kenny Loggins, did you know he sang the theme song to Top Gun! And we end the walk down memory lane with Live, not my choose, but DH had come home by then and suggested them.

I'm very happy that the web cam is currently not hooked up or you would be watching a video fo me dancing around and singing all those old songs!!


Damn it's 2 o'clock, got to go and get the kiddies... wish they were donuts...