I love Bill Hader and am super sad that he’s leaving SNL. Who will play Keith Morrison with all the right creepiness!?
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2) We had a meet and greet at out apartment last night. It was a good time that included free wine and Italian food. All was going well until someone broke an entire bottle of red wine on the brand new tile floor…whoops. THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS!!
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3) We are still taking state tests. Ok, not really we, just one specific grade level. On one day this week a child took about 2 hrs and 40 minutes to solve 27 math problems. Two hours! It’s ridiculous that she was that stressed out about the test, that it took her that long. I mean really.
4) This isn’t really a thing for this Friday, it happened about a week ago, howevah… I’m going to have a sister in law! Woohoo! Welcome to the craziness Sarah!
5) Three day weekend! That is all. Especially when you have to deal with a child all week who continues to tell you they are going to Pennsylvania on Friday and she needs to pack up now…on Monday…
Time seems to have slowed down. I feel as though we should be in the last week of school,not the Wednesday before Memorial Day.
Ugh.
Anyway. Like I mentioned on Monday, my motivation has been lacking. So I tried switching up my workout on Tuesday. I’ll usually go to the gym and run/walk and do a couple of weights. This time I did a circuit workout that I found on military.com. Gotta be legit, right?
So there it is. I pretty much followed it except for the lack of leg curls (I just ran/jogged again). I also added another three minutes of running to the end of the workout. I liked it and I can feel it today. Not a bad way and I definitely do it again.
My motivation has been a little lacking as of late. Even though there is a gym two floors below me, I still find myself trying to think of excuses not to go. Dumb. It doesn’t help that my Runkeeper app doesn’t get good reception in the gym and marks my pace as 30 minutes per mile. Ummm no.
I’d be dawdling to use a new word study word.
This weekend was filled with going to a beer festival, good food, and art projects…
Long story short, don’t leave me with a sterno pot and chopsticks…
It’s Friday! The first week of state tests are done. There are still two more weeks left to go.
I’ve seen this on some other blogs and thought I’d jump on the bandwagon too.
So here it is, whether you like it or not, my day in photos!
Wake up! 6:00 AM
Drive to work.
School! I got to take all the butcher paper off the alphabet, so it was an exciting day indeed.
No talking! One of the other teachers had this pig in her classroom. It’s a pig (obviously)that oinks songs. It hasn’t oinked a song all year. When did it decide to? Oh on the one day where if anything out of the ordinary happens it’s on your head as a teacher…
Math inventory. It’s amazing that there was an abacus in my closet and I didn’t even know it. Does anyone know how to use an abacus!?
Lunch
I love my student’s spelling skills. That would be dog, skank, swkank, and school. Of course the word they all wanted to repeat was skank…
Recess…kind of…
Gliding while eating… This is at Rudee’s in Virginia Beach. I had not known about these gliders. It was pretty spectacular.
I tried a new frozen lunch today. I was a little wary since it was a frozen falafel. Nine times outta ten a frozen falafel is a fail. Ooo, I love alliteration.
Howevah, after eating TaDah, my mind has been changed. It was flavorful and delicious.
Oh and they provide good advice and warnings:
How true, how true.
I had a pretty awesome weekend, if I do say so myself. We traveled down to Raleigh to celebrate my brother’s girlfriend’s Masters degree. Woohoo, Sarah!
It started off with some baseball:
The Durham Bulls have a pretty cool ballpark. It was a great night and there were fireworks soooo…
My brother’s gf graduated the next day
Can you find her?
It was a great weekend visiting with family and meeting new family members.
This week is a testing week which = not a lot of fun. Our tests are all online which means I get to walk around a watch them click through answers. Not really, my group has been good about actually trying to answer the questions.
I’m up on all the latest lingo…WTF, Why the face? Oh Phil…
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No, but seriously! I was noticing the other day The Pig that people had pretty serious faces during the race…like the whole time. And then again yesterday I was at an event that celebrates, celebrates! reading and achievement. Then it hit me! These people aren’t mad, they just have:
Finished the Flying Pig Half Marathon in 3:27! If you haven’t checked your results…and why has it taken you this long? Go here!
The Pig was awesome this year. I feel like I say that every year, but it’s true every year.
First off, how can any day be bad when your morning looks like this?
A little blurry, but you get the jist.
Mom and I made our way to corral H, the blog isn’t called thelastcorral for nothing! We found a secret way to get to our corral. Okay maybe not really a secret, but it took us 10 years to figure it out!
Corral H had some beautiful scenery as well.
The Pig officials were playing songs that were either by Boston or had to do with Boston. The one that was stuck in my head all day was The Standells, “Dirty Water.”
Before the race started there was a moment of silence followed by “Amazing Grace” played on the bagpipes. It was pretty touching.
Then before we started we saw not one, but two rainbows!
At 6:30 we were off…well corral’s A-F were off, we waited about 20 minutes to be off. Once we got started it was pretty smooth sailing. The one thing I know I need to work on are hills. We just don’t have that many in Virginia Beach, funny huh? I could definitely feel the hills in my thighs and hips, but that’s really my only complaint.
There was definitely a larger police presence this year, and that was okay. There was a police officer or State Trooper at every intersection and water stop. They were also peppered throughout busy/popular sections of town. I know my mom and I felt safe.
Here’s the numbers:
15.34 – number of miles completed that day, according to my mom’s iPod
1- missed handoff of water leading to one glass of water being spilled down my leg
6 - “Awwws” from other racers upon reading my mom and I’s t-shirts
3 (at least) – times someone said that, “It’s all downhill from here” when it really wasn’t.
15? – water stops. The volunteers (Grunt’s) are always awesome. There wouldn’t be a race without all the volunteers at water stops, at the Expo and at the finish line.
Uncountable – number of creative signs along the course. My favorites, “WTH! Why the Hills?”, “I’m a stranger, but I’m proud of you!”, “I like Pig Butts and I cannot lie.”, “If this were easy, I’d be doing it.”
2- Number of states we walked through
33,582 – number of participants for the entire weekend of events.
10 – number of years mom and I have walked this race. Yup, we’re pretty spectacular.
We ended the day, the best way possible
UDF milkshake! Oh UDF I miss you in Virginia!
Another great Pig! Thanks to the race organizers, volunteers, spectators, and police. We couldn’t have done it without you!
