Don't trust the commercials

I don't have tv but started watching biggest loser with a friend a couple of seasons ago and it is still a Tuesday night tradition. If you watch it I warn you-don't trust the embedded commercials. They always talk about how great the new extra gum is and how great gum is when you are trying to lose weight. . . so I was in the checkout line the other day and thought I would give Extra Berry Pearadise a try. First impression a little harder than normal extra gum, but whatever. Then I made the near fatal mistake of leaving the package in my car. Oh my goodness-when I got back in my car the smell was so atrocious I was gagging. For a joke I decided to put the pack of gum in a co-workers car to see if it had the same effect on her-and sadly it did! To make matters worst she went to pick up her pregnant sister to take her somewhere and she almost threw up for real! So of course, being me, I told the company their gum stinks-literally. We will see what they say. If nothing else at least the poor college student that works at Extra's customer service had a good laugh and chances are they went right home and bought a pack of gum to put in their roommates car! :) I know you are almost curious enough to try it huh-go ahead and try, but I warn you I took the gum out f my car over a week ago, and the smell is still lingering!

What's wrong

I am seeing life in a whole new perspective with this little bunch of students I have this year. I still do not understand their view of the universe, but maybe you could help me. As a language activity the other day we were looking at pictures that had things wrong with them-for example: there was a man fully clothed taking a bath, a man walking up the side of a building, a dog taking a boy on a walk. . .you get the idea. Usually this activity is easy for the students and we laugh about all the silly things happening in the pictures-this time I just plain laughed at the kids. Let me give you one (of many) comment. I showed them a picture of a girl dressed in a raincoat holding an umbrella with hotdogs falling from the sky. "What is wrong with this picture?" The students all looked at the picture for the longest time before one student asked "Where's the ketcup?" as if that was the biggest thing wrong with the picture. So-next time you find yourself in a hotdog rainstorm, please count yourself lucky if your hotdogs have ketcup on them-I mean it could be worst :)

Halloween Costume Help

So I already have a costume request (demand?) for next year but I have no idea what to wear this year. Let me tell you my costume dilemma that stems back to at least when I was 12 and maybe even to when I was 6 and was a red crayon (I won a best dressed prize for it and looking at the pictures I was very cute and what a creative idea but you should see my face-not so happy). For mutual when I was a Beehive we were invited to the big Halloween dance. I was so excited and thought about the costume for weeks. I had been hearing some of the cool girls throw around the idea of being a witch and I thought I could do that-so I did. Well I was the ugliest witch I have ever seen at Halloween and you should have seen the big hairy mole on my face-it was amazing-that is until I got to church. All those cool girls were indeed "witches" but the cutest most stylish witches you have ever seen. And that was just the beginning of my dislike for dressing up for Halloween-dressing up I like to do, but I just can't seem to master the technique of looking cute and sexy as I do it. So back to my current dilemma-Kendra has requested that I be the pirate ship next year (not the most attractive image as I envision it, but mom-once you figure out how to make Kate's birthday cake for this year do you think you can figure out how to make a pirate ship). Back to this year. . .I am open to suggestions. . .

WHAT TIME IS IT?

Since this is a public blog I will be careful so I don't get fired, but lets just say that this morning it was already light when I got out of bed. I faintly remember my alarm clock doing something this morning and I could almost testify in court that I only pushed the snooze, but well lets just say that I left the house for work/school without combing my hair or putting on deodorant (it is a little too personal to talk about underware so I won't), and lets just say that it was a good thing that it was a conference day and not a day with kids because. . . I have never done that before. Yikes-it is a good thing I got my hair cut and styled all cute yesterday so that it looked only 1/2 way cute or 1/2 way ugly today at school. Wow! What a way to start the day!

You all think bloggings fun

Okay okay so I'm posting something (sorry Luke no picture of a frog yet. I'll work on that one.) I do not have internet at home and blogs are banned at school so I get to blog only when I make it to the library and there is an empty computer (Othello is small but even so there are only 3 computers with the internet). On the days I am able to go to the library and do get a computer I have 30 whole minutes to try to post a blog of my own, check all of you blogs and try to get a comment or two on them too. Then you wonder why I am not reading books or updating my goodreads account-phew. Oh yeah, and to make matters worst the internet at the library has been down for 2 whole weeks (how dare they). This is hard work being in the blogging club-I'm not sure I'm cut out for all this stress and the pressure of it all. My favorite is when I call one of you (when I say you I am refering to my sisters-not sure who else is reading this but I am probably not refering to you-sorry no offense) anyways when I call and you cannot tell me stories because you tell me to just check your blog. Oh yeah sure that is not as easy as you think (see above note). Friday I was talking to Luke about the cool big frog that I caught. He got really excited and said "that's so cool Aunt Charity. Now all you need to do is take a picture of it and post it on your blog!"