dad diagnosed the boys' travelling condition best

home! today was a long driving day! the gps lost signal off and on in oklahoma. (thanks oklahoma...) and i wasn't paying close enough attention-apparently i missed my turn off, and ended up going through tulsa. boo. much longer than necessary. whenever i looked back in the mirror to check on the boys, what dad said on our trip to iowa rang true: chaco seems to enjoy the trip, and bruno seems to endure it.

oh, guess what i found when i was packing bags to leave...the usb cord! woohoo! umm..here are the pics of the dogs on the trail:

bruno posing-chaco was to busy smelling things

on a mission to get over the bridge!

i had to go to the bathroom and get fuel at one point and turned off the toll road, and it was a single booth, same lady when i exited and when i got back on...she looked like paulette from legally blonde (bend and snap hairdresser). the second time i drove through, she asked, "where did you get that?" and she was pointing at something in my car, only i wasn't sure what. i said, "the shades? the seats?" she pointed again-oh, that. i told her it was a trunk organizer from walmart. by that time, there was a car behind me and three cars lined up on the other side.

as you can see, i had to rig it with caribiners

i thought i would make it the rest of the way home without needing to stop, but nope, we had to find a petsmart in mckinney. while we were there, the trainer saw us and said, "why haven't i had you guys in training?" and i told her we were from dallas, just passing through. she proceeded to let me know what an amazing trainer she was..top 10, blah blah blah (as i was trying not to have an accident), i may have interrupted her to ask where the bathroom was.

it was a wonderful and relaxing vacation, but it always feels good to be home. i definitely need to get into some sort of routine. my body is feeling the effects of all of the 'special occasions' we've allowed ourselves....

this was at pizza hut-i thought it was funny-the evolution of the pizza cutter

bruno just found the petsmart bag and the treats we got.

got too curious and got his head stuck in the handle.

blessings-
julie

no, i am not cutting pizzas in my classroom

in·trep·id  /ɪnˈtrɛpɪd/ Show Spelled[in-trep-id]adjective: resolutely fearless; dauntless

i was stuck behind another vehicle today...bet you'll never guess what kind of car it was... an intrepid! how did you know? only the driver must not have known what the name of the car meant, because it was sitting there waiting to make the turn for WAY longer than necessary. def-initely not a FEARLESS move.

this may or may not have prompted me to find out what the meaning of elantra is...there was an interesting discussion board on a hyundai site-best i can gather, it is a play on a latin word meaning to elevate or lift one's spirits. well, it lifts my spirits, but there are a few things i still miss from the g6...i just found out this morning that it is stuck in the ice ages-it doesn't have automatic headlights..i thought all cars were now born with automatic headlights. i was driving in the dark this morning (only i didn't realize it because of the streetlights). 

the worst part about all of this is that i really thought it was important enough to explain it all to you.

i mentioned my brother and some of what is going on there, but his wife explains it a little better than i did. she talks about it on her post that she posted last night. you can access it by clicking here. 

it was brought to my attention today at lunch that if you read the sign in the bathroom slightly differently, it sounds like the kids had a choice of either throwing toilet paper or teachers on the floor.if you need to read it again, click here.  it was also a relief to notice today at lunch that mcdonald's shows their employees how many items they can put in each bag.

relieved.

 

i have this great cutting utensil i use often. well, one of my students may have walked in the other day and saw it and asked, "ms. robinson, why do you have a pizza cutter?"

i love it-it makes cutting fun.

 this morning someone also left some earrings in my classroom...it reminded me of when i was in 4th grade.

no claimers yet.

 i had a crush on justin, so one of my friends, amy, talked me into going to the dime store with her to get him a ring (and candy cigarettes). that's when a dime actually went a little further. so i bought a ring and i don't remember what she bought. so, then we were going to try to find his house (when a dime was really worth something it was also safe to walk all over town and not worry about crazies)...we didn't find it, and the ring was actually big, so we went back to my house and found some yarn, because she let me know that the best way to make a ring fit was to wrap yarn around the bottom side. i chickened out and never gave the ring to justin-i kept wearing it.

 this afternoon before i left school i was really happy that i stopped by my box! look what i found!

oh! a royal invitation! I ACCEPT!

i went a couple of years ago with a coworker and had a great time. it's always pretty much the same thing, but free food? c'mon! who's in?! bring a guest! the only thing is, you have to remember to bring wet naps and hidden plastic silverware....

 if you drive a car with a name that means something, know what it means!

julie