Crayons in my coffee

Cleaning out the old brain May 28, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — Vanessa @ 11:17 am

I need to clean out my brain (and my car–still piled with all my office junk). It is day 3 of summer “vacation” (aka “just work a different job, a little less often”), and I can already feel the summer slipping away. We’ve already had one tiny vacation with old, dear friends. Too bad it’s over. I’m really trying to have a real social life for the next little while. Also going to try out a dance class with a friend (I dance like a white girl, as I’m sure you can imagine). I need to exercise in a bad way.

The tag on my car is expired. Why is it so hard to get to the stupid emissions place?

Baby Girl is becoming a demanding little booger (she’s kind of cute, though). Her current thing is finding a post-it note pad and pens, dragging them over to us, and SCREAMING, “A! A! A! E! E! E! O! O! O!” This means we are to write letters and ask her what they are. She DOES NOT want to write herself–just for us to write for her. We, like all good first-time parents, initially took this as a sign of her superior intellect. Now…it’s just a little annoying. Mostly pride-inducing, but also a little annoying because of the pitch, volume, and frequency of the demand.

The checkbook has disappeared and I. can. not. find. it. It is driving me out of my freaking mind. You’d think I would get used to losing things. I don’t.

Okay. Baby Girl is screaming. Back later.

 

Things kids said to me today May 1, 2008

Filed under: Uncategorized — Vanessa @ 11:19 am

Son of friend who watched Baby Girl today: Don’t worry. This video game isn’t even one of the violent ones. When you shoot the guys, there’s not even blood or guts or anything that comes out.

Student: Sometimes I like to look at the sun for a long, long time until my eyes burn. You can look right AT it, ya know? I like it.

Student: Do you have any candy? If you ever get some candy maybe next week, will you come back to my class and bring some only to me? And especially not to Jaden?

Student (kindergartener): When I was a kid, I didn’t know how to read. Now I can read almost anything except sentences. Those are hard.

Student: My teacher said I can’t have another birthday until next year. That’s not fair.

…and a teacher: I asked you before about doing a screening for AD/HD on my whole class. Were you serious when you said you couldn’t do that? Really? I’m pretty sure they all have it. They were really, really bad during TCAP.

(Unfortunately, that last one was 100% serious–but most teachers are awesome, I promise).