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So, you know how when someone gets or thinks they got a little bit of power they go all, "I'm the best! No one is better than me!" Crazy?

Well, that happened to one of the girls I work with this year.

We used to be friends. Now she's just someone I work with.

Everyone has some very nice (and by that, I mean very naughty) nicknames they now use behind her back.  I didn't make any of them up, but I certainly understand how she earned them.

On Tuesday we're all supposed to take our classes over to the main cafeteria for a fundraiser kickoff to promote those stupid "World's Finest Chocolate" sale that parents everywhere are tortured with every year.

Don't even get me started on how I think that company should be sued for false advertising because they DO NOT have the "World's Finest Chocolate"!

Also, you really DON'T want to get me started on how stupid it is that my principal thinks this is worthy of interrupting class time, but heaven forbid we give kindergarten kids an art project or take up an entire day right before Christmas reading The Polar Express and pretending to actually go to the North Pole!

Anyway, I'm in class Monday morning and there's a loud knock on the door and look up to see Ms. I'm Better Than Everyone In The Whole World standing there.

I felt sick. Nothing good ever comes of her intrusions.

Earlier in the year, I even told her that everytime she comes around I just want to slit my wrist.  She thought I was joking.

Not so much!

I open the door to have her ask me if I'm going to the fundraiser rally.  I say that I thought it was on Tuesday and not on Monday.  She informs me that I am wrong.  It was today and the principal even said it on the morning announcements.

I quickly line my class up as she moves on to the next door to let that teacher know she also forgot.

You see, she knocked on EVERY kindergarten teacher's door to let us know that she was wonderful and remembered we sucked and forgot.

We all rushed our kids over to the main campus only to find out that no one was waiting for us in the cafeteria.  We stood there and waited while I told everyone that I was pretty sure it was on Tuesday.

Eventually, my principal came out laughing because.....wait for it.....

I WAS RIGHT!

Score one for the underdog!

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A wonderful wasted day!

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I woke up early today and moved to the couch.  I then stayed there for 4 hours before I even thought of moving.  I wouldn't have moved then but I was hungry.  LOL!

OCG and my friends tried to talk me into going out tonight, but I explained that there was just no good reason to go out when anything we wanted could be delivered.  They weren't amused!  LOL!

I wonder if I can get by with this two days in a row.....

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If it's really cold where you are.....

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If it's really cold where you are this post is probably going to make you angry.  SORRY!

My friend Ingrid has never seen snow.  We were talking about it back when OCG and I were planning our Tennessee trip.  At that time we talked about getting some other friends to join us in taking a road trip up to the mountains after the holidays.

We got pretty excited and decided to start saving our money, so we would be ready when we decided to go.  Well, the holidays came and everyone got busy and we haven't really had time to talk about or plan our trip.

Wednesday night I was with Ingrid and we walked outside about 10:30.  It was cold, or at least, what those of us in Miami consider cold.

We were talking about it being cold and how we weren't dressed for the weather.  There was some lady standing close by and when she heard our conversation she spoke up and said that it was supposed to get down to 50* overnight.

This set Ingrid off!  She immediately started talking very loudly....."That's it, I'm not going to work tomorrow!  I can't leave my house when it's this cold!"

I just laughed and said that I thought we were going to need to postpone that mountain trip we were planning.

I haven't talked to Ingrid today, so I'm not sure if she went to work or not.  I did and the temps got up to 72*.  On Friday it supposed to be 79*. 

Winter is rough!

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Don't use a shoebox!

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The second day back from vacation and I was actually more tired than I was on Monday. LOL!

The kids were just as tired and I felt like I had to work twice as hard to get any work from them.  In science we're talking about the similarities and differences in plants and animals.  I was trying everything I could think of to get them to realize that they both need space to grow.  I was getting nothing!

I asked if they had ever seen their moms or grandmothers take a plant and move it into a bigger flower pot.  They hadn't and a couple of them couldn't understand why a plant would be in a pot to begin with. I had to explain that a flower pot is very different from the pots their moms use when they cook dinner.

You have to remember that these are city kids and when we plant things at school we use the clear plastic cups so we can watch for roots.

I was getting desperate and it was almost lunch time so on top of being tired I was also a little hungry and maybe that's why I just couldn't think of something wonderful to say to that got through to them.

At least that's the story I'm going with.  LOL!

My abilities as a teacher reached an all time low when I asked if they were the same size now that they were when they were babies.  They responded with laughs and a very adamant "no".  So I continued on...."What if, when you were a baby, I had taken you and placed you in a shoebox.  Do you think you would have been able to grow as tall as you are now?

After I asked that question something happened in my room that NEVER happens.....there was quiet!  Everyone just looked at me and no one said anything until one little boy finally spoke up and said,

"That would be really mean."

Now, I need you to remember that I was tired and hungry so that you don't judge me too harshly.

  I stood there with all of them staring at me and the only reply I could come up with was...

"I wasn't planning on putting the lid on the box."

Yeah, I'm going to try this lesson again tomorrow.

Wish me luck.