I went to upload my Thanksgiving pictures, and I only took one. And it's not even of people. It's of the turkey Wendy made out of fruit. Pretty freakin cute.
Thanksgiving was an epic feast, just how I like it. Lexi is so excited to go to grandma's house on Christmas day because she says it will be just like Thanksgiving.
I bought an amazon gift card at the grocery store the other day, and the cashier, who is younger than me I think, asked me what amazon was. And I was like... Um, really? Ok, well, it's a huge online store that has books, clothing, lots of stuff. And she says... Is it used? Um, yeah, I'm buying a gift card to give people used stuff for Christmas? No, it's not used. Like, seriously, who under the age of 60 doesn't know what amazon is? I hate that cashier anyway. One time when Josh was a little tot with his bad excema she said that her little boy got really dry skin, too. So I was like, Yeah? What do you do for it? All excited to get a good tip for a new type of cream or something. And she looked at me like I was an idiot and said, "I put lotion on it." Oh, well, lotion. Why didn't I think of that? Der. She's just kinda rude and crusty all the time and I avoid her line when I can. I like the two nerdy guy cashiers. They totally know what amazon is because one of them told me all the gaming stuff you can buy on there last time I went through his line.
I've got so much work to do by the end of the term. I think I'm going to have to do a lot of it over the break. How will I force myself? I don't know. I have to grade essays, and these suckers are going to be really bad. They are struggling so hard on them, and I'm really not sure why. Next year I'm giving them about 100 pre-approved topics to choose from because they are choosing stupid stuff, and yes I do know why they are struggling... because of the topics they are choosing. Why do almost all teenage girls want to write about eating disorders and abuse? And abortion, but I refuse to read any more of their horrible papers on abortion, so I've banned that topic. Seriously. It's an argumentative paper. You can't write about eating disorders! So then they try anyway, and it doesn't fit the criteria, so they have to change topics in the middle, and argh. Anyway, got some other stuff to grade. I have two online classes that have to be finished by the end of the term. One won't take much, but the other will take a little time, so I probably ought to do it over the break. I had to apply for this exemplary teacher thing, not because I'm exemplary but just because... well, just because, but I got the paperwork done today, so that's one thing down. And I was in charge of the charitable giving campaign and sent that in this week. Yay! Got a few things checked off the list.
Was supposed to go to a derby parents' meeting last night, but ditched it in favor of Christmas shopping. Gotta finish the Christmas shopping. I'm almost done, but it seems like I buy one thing and remember two more.
Sean and I are coming up on our 20th anniversary. That's just nuts, yo. So strange. We've been through a lot over the last 20 years. My wedding ring got too small-- well, I got too fat-- and I stopped wearing it a while ago, and Sean lost a diamond in his. So we were going to get them both repaired, but then we decided to buy new rings. He likes tungsten carbide, and I want something other than a diamond. So I'm looking at just a band or maybe a different stone or even a CZ. I just don't want any conflict stones or metals, so I have to do a little research to find out which stones and metals don't come from conflict mines nowdays. It seems like everything does. Even metals for electronics and cell phone components. Ugh.
Off to go watch my new favorite reality show, Storage Wars. Gotta love Netflix.
