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Manic Monday – March 23

It’s Manic Monday time and today’s questions and answers are:

Do you screen your phone calls? Most certainly.  I pretty much answer though if I know who it is – what I don’t do is answer if I DON’T know who it is.  I wait and see if they leave a message and then check that to see who they are.

When was the last time you lost your temper?  Really bad – January.  There was an incident when I thought my students were being mistreated and I was not happy!

When you’re lost, do you ask for directions? Yep, yep. But thanks to Mr. Garmin as we call him in our family, those times are now few and far between.

Manic Monday/Monday Morning March 9

It’s Manic Monday time and today’s questions are:

  1. What would you do with an extra hour each day?
  2. Do you wear a watch? If so, tell us about it. If not, how do you keep track of time?
  3. If it was possible, would you want to know how many days you had left to live? 

A pretty easy set this week, huh?  So now for my answers:

  1. What wouldn’t I do? I’d be working on my to do list – probably doing a lot here online with my blogs.
  2. Yes. I have to wear a watch daily or it drives me crazy.  I’m currently wearing a silver Mickey Mouse watch.
  3. Absolutely not.  I would not want to live with that knowledge hanging over my head.

Want to get to know some other bloggers?  Go to your blog and answer these questions and be sure to go back to the Manic Monday official post for today and share your link.

I normally write two posts, but decided this week to combine this one  - mostly for time sake, I have to be to work early this morning.  So moving on to another of my favorite memes – Monday Morning Meme hosted by WriteFromKaren.

1. You’ve been invited on a talk show (which talk show?) to explain your job to the hosts. What would you say you do on a daily basis? (And yes, stay-at-home mom IS a job!)

The only talk show I watch is Oprah so I guess that is the one I’d have to say – I don’t even know what other ones come on anymore.  What do I do? Well I’m a high school teacher so everyday is a new day.  You never know what will happen each day, but every day I see 85+ teenagers through my doors and attempt to teach them a little about grammar, writing, and reading.

2. What words do you hate? Why do you hate them?

Besides some of the stronger curse words, I hate the words – can’t, never, eventually and shut up.  I hate can’t because once my students really get it in their mind they “can’t” do something, then I have the harest time changing their minds.  Never and eventually are just words that always mean unhappiness to me.  Shut up is a phrase that I just think is ugly.  I hate it.

3. What’s the best advice you’ve ever received. What’s the worst advice you’ve ever received.

The best advice was to always be a mommy – always make that important – but to remember there’s more to me than that.  The worst advice? I don’t know….there’s been guys my friends recommended over the years that they told me I really should give a chance that I wished I hadn’t pretty soon – does that count?  I really don’t know that  I’ve been given much bad advice in my life. I surround myself with some great people.

4. Bailout shmailout! What this country needs is __________. Why does it need this specific thing?

To restructure our education system so that we don’t leave any children behind, but we don’t prepare them ALL for 4 year universities.  We need to understand and respect that many will go to technical and vocational schools and prepare them for that.  We need to teach them all real life skills (like basic cooking, balancing a checkbook, etc) instead of forcing them all through chemistry, physics, and calculus).  Why do we need this? Because as we continue to raise expectations and try to mold our children into university bound students, we are in fact leaving a lot behind because they shut down, give up, or drop out. 

Manic Monday #3

It’s  Manic Monday time again.  All you have to do is answer the questions that are posted for the day. What a great way to get to know other bloggers, huh?

This week’s questions are:

If I was a car, I’d be:

If I was a drink, I’d be:

If I was emotion, I’d be:

These are supposed to be easy ones, but I acutally found them kind of hard. But here are my answers, nonetheless:

If I was a car, I’d be a taxi.  Why? Because I seem to nothing but run and run and never get to a final destination.  :)

If I was a drink, I’d be a Long Island Iced Tea because it has a little of everything in it.

If I was emotion, I’d be bipolar – different at the drop of a hat.

Manic Monday #2

I missed last week but want to get back in the habit of participating in Manic Monday. All you have to do is answer the questions that are posted for the day. What a great way to get to know other bloggers.

Today’s questions are:

  1. What’s one of the simple pleasures in your life?
  2. What do you like to snack on when you watch a movie?
  3. If you were a Survivor contestant, what would be your luxury item? 

So here’s my answers:

  1. Snuggling on the couch with my daughter and watching a movie
  2. Chips with guacamole and/or salsa
  3. Either an mp3 player or my blow dryer.

Now it’s your turn.  Answer these questions and head over and leave the URL on the official Manic Monday post.

Maniac Monday #1

I’m experimenting with a few different meme’s this week.  I enjoy them because even when I’m feeling clueless in what to write about that day, they give me something to focus on while I wait on ideas to kick back in.  This one is super easy.  It’s called Maniac Monday and all you have to do is answer the questions that are posted for the day.  What a great way to get to know other bloggers.

Today’s questions are:

  1. What is your favorite candy?
  2. Name one thing that you’d want to receive as a gift for Valentine’s day.
  3. Can we truly love someone who loves another?

These are some pretty simple questions, huh? So here goes my answers:

  1. My favorite candy is Hershey’s Hugs.  I love white chocolate.
  2. With all the car problems I’m having, that would be the perfect gift.  (I might as well wish big huh?)
  3. I think so. Maybe I’m a romantic, but I don’t think you can’t control who your heart falls for.  I think you will love who you love – whether that love is ever returned or whether the situation is not ideal.

If you’d like to participate, head over to Maniac Monday each Monday and get the day’s questions.  Answer them on your blog and go post your link on the official day’s post.