I posted on Twitter that “A clean house is the sign of a boring life…my life must be pretty exciting then.” Which of course it’s not. I have a dirty house because I am lazy and folding laundry sucks, it’s far more fun to throw it on the floor and have a scavenger hunt for something to wear…especially when in a hurry. :P But in a way it got me thinking, I’m really not doing anything very interesting with my life as of late? I seem to have zero drive. Now I will admit that my health has played into it but I feel that I’m using that excuse, as well as complete lack of funding for fun stuff, to just kind of wander around. I really feel like I am just floating through life right now. Do you ever feel like that? Like you are just going through the motions day in and day out as each day goes passing by. I blink and half of April is gone. Half! And then that gets me thinking, stop wasting life! I just lost several people in my life who would be more than happy to have an … [Read more...]
Humble pi….
When I taught math, there was no day that I loved more than that of Pi Day. March 14th (or 3 14…get it?). Let’s face it, math can sometimes be a bit dry and from a teaching stand point it can be very hard to motivate students to want to learn higher math. When asked why we had to learn this “stuff” I usually replied, because “I had to and it seems only fair to make your life miserable as well”. Which they all know I was teasing, kind of. The real reason you learn math of course is money. Most of the jobs that pay the best involve you getting a degree that uses higher math. That tends to motivate students a little more. :) I mean, even drug dealers (at least the good ones) should know the metric system. :P But Pi Day was the one teaching day a year I was sure the kids would have fun….yet educational at the same time. Every year we would have team competition where they would earn points for each event, like a decathlon. Nothing like eating a pie, but then having to … [Read more...]
Love Shack Baby…
So I just wanted to show everyone that I stayed true to my word and made my gingerbread house. I originally wanted to make a Groundhog Day one, but there isn’t a lot of ground hog day candy out there…except to make the ground hog out of. So I went with Valentine’s theme. And even though I am not a big fan of Valentine’s Day (it’s so not fair to men), I do love Valentine Day décor. I think it’s all the pink. I love me some pink. I must say that it was just as fun, if not more fun to decorate the gingerbread house this time of year. No pressure to get it done. I just sat there watching cheesy romantic 80’s movies and making myself sick on conversation hearts. BTW, when did “email me” become a romantic saying? The theme of my Love Shack was Love Yourself. No, not in the “no mom, don’t come in my bedroom” 14 year old boy love yourself kind of moment. But in the Whitney Houston greatest love of all loving yourself kind of way. I don’t actually remember the day … [Read more...]
