Posted by Brad on March 13th, 2010 — Posted in Journal
Lutheran Schools Week has ended. Whew! It was a wild ride. The kids were crazy all week.
Yesterday was Multiple Birth Day, where you dress like someone else. It’s not one of my favorites, because it requires so much work to figure out what to wear. We teachers decided at the end of the day on Thursday that we would wear jeans and a red shirt.
Every time I dress in jeans and a long-sleeved red shirt I brace myself for time travel. When I was a little kid and drew pictures of myself, I was always wearing blue pants and a long-sleeved red shirt. I figure that at some time, I must travel back to the past and meet my young self. And I must be wearing jeans and a long-sleeved red shirt so my young self is inspired to draw pictures that way.
The shirt I wore yesterday has a tiny logo on it. Whenever I wear this shirt, all day long I brush at that logo with my hand, thinking it must be a piece of lint or food or something. It isn’t.
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Posted by Brad on March 12th, 2010 — Posted in Journal
Yesterday was Crayon Day at school… we were to wear all one color. I was excited because as I was browsing at the mall this past weekend, I stumbled across some jeans on the clearance rack for $10 that were bright purple. Awesome! The store I was in was H&M. I like their clothes because they’re funky. And in keeping with that, the pants I bought were cut a little weird. The first student who saw me said: “Are those skinny jeans? Eeew!” Heh.
Among us Middle School teachers, we almost got a box of eight crayon colors, but no one wore orange, yellow, or blue. Still, I think we did a pretty good job:
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Posted by Brad on March 11th, 2010 — Posted in Journal
I made the double recipe of Calico Beans last night. It was huge! It called for three cups of ketchup. I rarely have ketchup at home because the places I order food from always offer it for free. Since I was buying some, I decided to get a bottle of Heinz and a bottle of Hunt’s, because I’ve been curious for a long time about the difference. Here are my findings:
Hunt’s: smelled like vinegar, was quick to come out of the bottle, and tasted sweet. It reminded me of tomato soup.
Heinz: smelled like vinegar, was thicker, and tasted sharp and salty. It made me think of french fries.
In the end, I don’t think I would be able to tell which of the two I was using if I just got it from some restaurant. But Heinz tasted more familiar. Maybe more of the places I usually eat at use Heinz.
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Posted by Brad on March 10th, 2010 — Posted in Journal
I went to the grocery store yesterday to get ingredients for a recipe. It called for pork and beans. I stood in the bean aisle for quite a while searching. I needed four one-pound cans. Nothing like that existed. There were 15 ounce cans of pork and beans, and there were seven pound cans of pork and beans. The rest of the beans were called “baked beans” or “beans with bacon” or “beans with chipotle salsa”. Where the heck were the pork and beans? I just got some 15 ounce cans. I hope it’s okay that I’m four ounces short on the pork and beans.
I also got an indulgence while at the grocery store: I bought cut flowers. I had to get some oriental lilies. I LOVE them. Their smell makes me happy. Their price usually puts a quash on the whole thing, but yesterday I didn’t care. They were worth their eight dollars, by golly! They’ll last for a week or so. And one dollar per day isn’t so bad.
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Posted by Brad on March 9th, 2010 — Posted in Journal
This week is National Lutheran Schools Week. We always do fun dress days for the occasion. This year we have some new ones. I’m glad. It gives me new challenges.
Yesterday was “Dress Like a Teacher Day”. Us teachers said we were going to dress like students. I even wore glasses to make me look more studenty. But when I got to school, all the other teachers were wearing a white shirt and a tie. They were dressed like me! Then the students started arriving. They were also all dressed like me. What was going on? Well, yesterday was March 8… exactly one month after my birthday. They had wanted to surprise me like this on my birthday, but we weren’t in school because of the snow. So they did it yesterday. It was hilarious! I should have had some clue. The paper above says “Dress like a CERTAIN teacher”. Hehe…
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