yo yo ma- rx for relaxation

well, the truth is that i was not planning on posting tonight because i got busy taking a practice test (cd-computerized), and it took awhile (yes, i took the un-timed version, and it still convinced me that i am not quite ready...in fact, it made me feel dumb). so i have decided that as i study more vocabulary i am going to try to incorporate at least one word into the posts from now on.

thankfully i have the musical stylings of yo yo ma to calm any damaged nerves...nothing is as soothing as bach being played on cello...breathe in deeply and let it out-i feel like i should be in a huge velvet-red library in some grandiose mansion surrounded by antique books on every wall, with a strange spectacled man smoking a pipe on a gold-trimmed bench by a window...but i'm rather quite glad i'm not!

for those of you confused, yo yo ma is not a strange rap group with songs about your mom....

today began and ended with more studying-tired of it yet? i am...and so are the boys. as i was bent over reading the preparation guide today, chaco decided that this was how he was going to help me:

ma, don't worry, i got yer back!

i started to deviate and write a card, but then i felt guilty about not studying...perhaps it's because i spent the money on the test and need to be a good steward of that (or perhaps it's the idea that if it's going to leave me impecunious, i should take it seriously so that i don't have to shell out the money i was planning to use on a kindle fire for another test). i cannot believe i'm paying to take a test. i hate tests. why pay to take one?? it seems ridiculous.

last night shortly before i went to bed, i had to take two of these.

good thing i had to use them last night...oh wait, i thought the due date was this year (see, bad at math-me)

i don't know what i ate that caused the problems, but i will say that i am rather impressed... amazed.... fascinated.. RELIEVED at how quickly they worked! i don't know how scientists came up with it, but i truly am grateful. i need to go get some more because that's the kind of thing you want to have on hand, no messing around with chancing it trying to get to the store to buy some (if you know what i mean)...

so, sometimes when i'm sitting here writing these posts, i pretend i'm tom hanks in 'you've got mail.' i use the godfather voice and do the "monday, tuesday, thursday.." line. don't ask why i just shared that with you...it's just a little inside tidbit. don't judge.

big day tomorrow...nope, not really.
julie

we're all hippies!! no, we're all multicultural!

school today was pretty routine...we came to agreement on field trips and then we made dr. jones rub her temples, and close her eyes a few times...i'm not sure if it was that she was taking a nap, trying to find her quiet place or genuinely trying to focus on the issue at hand. we are certainly an animated bunch-so much to say and so little space in which to say it. it's hard to get a word in edgewise when you're with us. trust me, there will never be a want for words.

i don't know that we came to any real solution, but it was good to have our red ribbon people in to talk to the kids about not doing drugs. according to the kids margaritas are a drug. afterward, the kids received multi-colored bracelets. one of the boys said, isn't that like the hippies wear? (thinking of tie-dye) and i smiled and said, "hmm, yep..go ask the visitor." and she yes, then he said, "hey! we're hippies!" isn't that the antithesis of red-ribbon week?? the kids had no idea about that, though.

i told the kids it wasn't really tie dye, it was multi-colored to symbolize multiculturalism. they fell for it.

lunch today was so relaxing! i just had a salad in my room and let yo yo ma serenade me with a few cello pieces. it was wonderful!

on the way home, my thoughts went the the old show: that's incredible! i remember we used to sit around and watch that as family time back in the early 80's before we moved to honduras in 83. it was great to see the incredible feats, medical mysteries, etc. it ran from 1980-1984. strangely it was taken off air a year after we moved. perhaps we were their viewing base...so they had to cancel when we moved. i'd love to go back and see what things we thought were incredible back then! i wonder how many things might have been precursors to breakthroughs that have happened since then.

tomorrow is sunglasses day...wonder if i have any that are light enough to wear inside...oh, this is when i wish i had blu-blockers! perhaps i will stop by a gas station tomorrow and see if they have any...hmm...


hope at the end of the day you have done something that people could yell at you, "that's incredible!"
julie