today i was yoda. tomorrow i might be chewbacca...deal with it.

so...yesterday i had my follow-up interview. i left school right after my last kiddo was picked up and drove down so that i could locate the correct building, as it was not on campus. i ended up locating the place with no problem (besides the fact that i was about an hour early; punctuality is one thing, over-extending their hospitality might be a little on the unacceptable side). so i went to a nearby tom thumb to get some small non-perishables.

while there, i really had to use the restroom-hate public restrooms...when i walked in, there was someone in a stall and the door was about two inches open, then i saw a hand reach down and grab the bottom of the door to pull it shut (thank goodness), so i proceeded to the last stall. while there, it sounded like the lady was giving birth (very vocal), then it sounded like it progressed to a wrestling match....and she was talking to herself. i heard the flush and washing of hands and i thought it was safe to come out to avoid the awkward moment of meeting this person...but no. she was still there when i walked out. it was a store employee. friendliest thing. she was smilin', said hello, asked how my day was, kept talking all the way out the door. hmm.

 while i was there, i purchased this tea, thinking it was a type of green tea (the title was a bit deceiving)...i saw that it had senna, but thought, surely it's not going to have any effect. well, i drank it around 8p.m. and by 4 or 5 a.m. my stomach was hurting when i woke up i realized that indeed those china-folk of old knew their herbal plants and medicines! in fact, i think perhaps the lady i met at tom thumb had drunk something similar!

it's herbal, not green

yep..it works

once i left, i headed back to the smu building. i went inside and found my room. i was still a little early. anyhoo, after i did my thing, i left still feeling uncertain about the results. at this point i have a reason to feel this way. i honestly have no idea which way this will go.

on the way home i stopped at walmart to get my perishable items. i also got doublemint so that i could celebrate grandma today.

i also found a couple of cool cups to use at school...they will work perfectly-

this is for days when i am feeling wise and on the ball.

you can imagine how i'm feeling on the days i use this one.

 so when i got home, i took a few minutes to chop up my greens. i LOVE it when veggies are pre-washed!

i have a student teacher now, and today was her first day. the interesting thing is that when we were talking during specials, i mentioned the class i'd just had, and she said, they're crazy...and not in a good way. (...even she noticed).

tomorrow we continue our poem project for  dancing in the wings.

goodnight!
julie

cutting it close at the grocery store and being a good human

first day back-thought i was up at 8:30, and time seemed to go by really fast when i looked at my computer clock...i had forgotten to change the microwave clock when i got back. so i was actually up at 9:30, and time was not, in fact, flying by before my very eyes. good thing.

and when i got on the scale this morning, i thought i had gained more weight than i did over the weekend....shea makes me eat things that are bad for me. (but in all fairness, we ate some things that were good for us as well, and she let me talk her into putting ground flax seed into her smoothie!) so i was pretty thrilled about that. and i wouldn't have it any other way!

we walked for a bit today and then i debated on whether to walk up to tom thumb or drive, so i walked. i took my recyclable bag and bought some of the necessities. i needed my veggies, fruit and salmon. when i got up to the cash register, i had only put $34 in my pocket because i didn't want to take my bag with me. so i was watching very closely as the gal was ringing everything up. so when it got up to 31.54, i only had one thing left to ring up and i asked her to price check it first-$1.50....i did it! i was within a dollar of my allotment! so i got the blackberries!

as i was leaving the store, there was a young guy sitting on the brick wall outside by the grilling mesquite wood and as i walked by, i was taking my jacket off to tie around my waste because it was warm out, and he said, "excuse me, miss, do you have a couple bucks? i'm trying to get enough money to buy some groceries."  i told him i had no money left, finished tying my jacket and then grabbed the 80 cents in change and went back and gave it to him and wished him good luck-i should've offered him some of my veggies or something. hindsight.

i was very happy that i had remembered to grab the remote gate opener from the car before i left so that i wouldn't have to wander down to the pedestrian gate...i guess i could've used the access pad...again, hindsight...next time!

nothing fancy

when i got home chaco found something and was chewing on it and i knew it wasn't food, so i tried to get it from his mouth. afterward our discussion was something like this:
chaco: why are you always sticking your hand in my mouth?
me: why are you always putting stuff into it that doesn't belong?
chaco: because i'm a dog and that's what we do.
me: well, i'm your human, and that's what good humans do.
chaco: good humans put their hands in others' mouths?
cannot wait for tomorrow-another beautiful day of spring break! i have some drawing that i must finish, but perhaps i can do that outside!
julie

tom thumb believes that coke zero spells love...

what a beautiful night to have the window open for a crisp, cool breeze with a warm cup of coffee and a throw with chaco snuggled under beside me. love it!

i had to stop at tom thumb on the way home because i needed salsa...on the way out i couldn't help but notice the valentine display. very cool...and i'm sure it was very time consuming to put together!!

i would NOT have wanted to be one of the people creating this masterpiece...

i felt a little like jimminy cricket walking around the store because i was carrying my umbrella around...ok, besides the fact that i wasn't wearing a top hat and top coat...nor am i a green cricket...the only similarity really i guess was the umbrella..shoot, for all that, i could've felt like mary poppins. only i didn't open my umbrella and float in...nor did i sing to a fake bird on my finger...ok, so really...i did not resemble any famous character with an umbrella.

i have got to get a water cooler at school like gigi had. now that i'm actually drinking water, it would be a joy not to carry so much water in and out, up and down...gigi, was it culligan's? plus, i can use it for my coffee...and to wash my hair...just checking to see if you were really reading carefully!

well, as much as i love this weather, i sure hope the lightning and thunder doesn't kick in again once i'm asleep!
julie