student who irritates Mrs. Lueders: "Wait I don't have a pencil. I can't do the work."
Me: "Oh you'll still do the work. Borrow from a friend."
student who irritates Mrs. Lueders: "It's the last week of school. Who would have thought I needed a pencil? I didn't think we'd do anything the last three days."
clever student in the back (who I'm adoring right now): "Why does it matter what week it is. You never have a pencil."
Two points clever student in the back. I knew I always liked you!
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
June 2nd
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the best day of my life......
My wedding day!!!!
On June 2, 2007, I married the love of my life! Randy is my best friend. I know God had him picked out for me before I was even born. He gets me! I get him! We make each other laugh. People always say, "Man when I met you both, I couldn't believe ya'll were married because you both are so different." I had no idea we were so different. I guess the biggest difference is the whole extrovert/introvert thing! (oh and me being cool and randy well, you know..... :) Like they say, "opposites attract."
It's been a whirlwind of three years, but I think God has given us just the right amount of challenges and obstacles for our love to keep growing. Thank you Randy for being there for me, listening to me, and loving me unconditionally. You are the best!
Tomorrow we will celebrate with dinner out and watching our wedding DVD. No worries, I'm sure Randy will complain and ask if we have to watch the whole thing. Yes, we will watch the WHOLE thing, and probably the highlight clip twice:)
Here are some of my favorite wedding day pictures that friends and family took. The black and white photograph is from our photographer, Photos by Lydia. I could post these for hours; I love wedding pictures:) Enjoy!
My wedding day!!!!
On June 2, 2007, I married the love of my life! Randy is my best friend. I know God had him picked out for me before I was even born. He gets me! I get him! We make each other laugh. People always say, "Man when I met you both, I couldn't believe ya'll were married because you both are so different." I had no idea we were so different. I guess the biggest difference is the whole extrovert/introvert thing! (oh and me being cool and randy well, you know..... :) Like they say, "opposites attract."
It's been a whirlwind of three years, but I think God has given us just the right amount of challenges and obstacles for our love to keep growing. Thank you Randy for being there for me, listening to me, and loving me unconditionally. You are the best!
Tomorrow we will celebrate with dinner out and watching our wedding DVD. No worries, I'm sure Randy will complain and ask if we have to watch the whole thing. Yes, we will watch the WHOLE thing, and probably the highlight clip twice:)
Here are some of my favorite wedding day pictures that friends and family took. The black and white photograph is from our photographer, Photos by Lydia. I could post these for hours; I love wedding pictures:) Enjoy!
Monday, May 31, 2010
Memorial Day Fun
Happy Memorial Day!!!!
A huge thank you for all of the brave men and women who serve our country and for those who have lost their lives defending this great country!!! I am truly blessed to live in a nation that stands for liberty, justice, and freedom! Thank you soldiers:)
This weekend we spent most of our time at a close friend's lake house. I absolutely love Lake Travis, and the weather was beautiful. It was a great weekend to be on the lake.
Can every weekend be a three day weekend? I love that tomorrow is already Tuesday. More love for the fact that I only have to go to work for 3.5 more days:)
A huge thank you for all of the brave men and women who serve our country and for those who have lost their lives defending this great country!!! I am truly blessed to live in a nation that stands for liberty, justice, and freedom! Thank you soldiers:)
This weekend we spent most of our time at a close friend's lake house. I absolutely love Lake Travis, and the weather was beautiful. It was a great weekend to be on the lake.
Can every weekend be a three day weekend? I love that tomorrow is already Tuesday. More love for the fact that I only have to go to work for 3.5 more days:)
Thursday, May 27, 2010
the final countdown
58 more papers to grade in my teaching career
4.5 more days of school
6 days until our 3 year anniversary
7 days until I redeem my reserved Chick-Fil-A spicy chicken sandwich
19 more days until Philly!!!!!!
27 more days until Denver!!!!!
4.5 more days of school
6 days until our 3 year anniversary
7 days until I redeem my reserved Chick-Fil-A spicy chicken sandwich
19 more days until Philly!!!!!!
27 more days until Denver!!!!!
Monday, May 24, 2010
Busy, Busy, Busy!
I love this time of the year. Things work related start to slow down (7.5 more days, whoo!), and life gets super busy. Randy and I've been going and going. All of the summer sports leagues have started (or continuing). Monday night was church softball. Wednesday night was basketball. Thursday night was city league softball. In addition other fun things have been happening.
The Weimar Wildcats baseball team is still in the play-offs. My alma mater is going strong. One of my favorite players is the star pitcher. Dylan is a sophomore, and I was so proud to watch him pitch on Thursday night when they played in Manor. I've known Dylan since he was six months old when I first started babysitting him. He was the cutest little thing with this precious curly hair. He used to get so mad at me when I'd even just pat his head. "Penny leave my hair alone!" hahaha
Well over the years (16 to be exact---geez I'm getting old) our families have grown extremely close. I adore his parents and younger brothers. John Michael, the middle son was a ring bearer in our wedding and is my parents' godson. Basically I think of the three boys as my little brothers. I was honored to cheer Dylan on last Thursday. Even my mom came up to watch her baby pitch. (Kevin and I used to complain Dylan got more Christmas presents than we did. We were such brats.) My mom adores Dylan and was just glowing in the stands.
Friday, Derryk and Rands went down to Giddings to watch the foundation for the next house be poured. Aren't these pictures fascinating? Nothing like concrete. (Side note: Randy loves these pictures. He would!) I know they're boring. They are doing the framing this weekend, so stay tuned all my "Home Improvement" lovers.
Lastly, we finished off our crazy week by going to Longview for a wedding. Man, what a long and boring trip. Randy about killed me. I whined; I moved around in my seat ALOT!; I graded papers; I read magazines; I sang to him; I counted cars. Wow, I was bored! We drove close to 5 hours to help celebrate Tommy's wedding to the lovely Melissa!!! In the words of Dave, "Tommy is good people." I agree. I love Tommy! He is a LaGrange guy and fellow Longhorn. Randy and him even had a class together in college. In fact, my first college party ever attended was at Tommy's apartment. It was a beautiful wedding, and we were glad we got to be apart of their special day!
Randy is 6 foot tall. He said after the picture, "Man I felt like I was 4 foot tall next to Tommy and Layne."
There are more wedding pictures on my facebook. This uploading thing is for the birds. Nighty night!
The Weimar Wildcats baseball team is still in the play-offs. My alma mater is going strong. One of my favorite players is the star pitcher. Dylan is a sophomore, and I was so proud to watch him pitch on Thursday night when they played in Manor. I've known Dylan since he was six months old when I first started babysitting him. He was the cutest little thing with this precious curly hair. He used to get so mad at me when I'd even just pat his head. "Penny leave my hair alone!" hahaha
Well over the years (16 to be exact---geez I'm getting old) our families have grown extremely close. I adore his parents and younger brothers. John Michael, the middle son was a ring bearer in our wedding and is my parents' godson. Basically I think of the three boys as my little brothers. I was honored to cheer Dylan on last Thursday. Even my mom came up to watch her baby pitch. (Kevin and I used to complain Dylan got more Christmas presents than we did. We were such brats.) My mom adores Dylan and was just glowing in the stands.
Friday, Derryk and Rands went down to Giddings to watch the foundation for the next house be poured. Aren't these pictures fascinating? Nothing like concrete. (Side note: Randy loves these pictures. He would!) I know they're boring. They are doing the framing this weekend, so stay tuned all my "Home Improvement" lovers.
Lastly, we finished off our crazy week by going to Longview for a wedding. Man, what a long and boring trip. Randy about killed me. I whined; I moved around in my seat ALOT!; I graded papers; I read magazines; I sang to him; I counted cars. Wow, I was bored! We drove close to 5 hours to help celebrate Tommy's wedding to the lovely Melissa!!! In the words of Dave, "Tommy is good people." I agree. I love Tommy! He is a LaGrange guy and fellow Longhorn. Randy and him even had a class together in college. In fact, my first college party ever attended was at Tommy's apartment. It was a beautiful wedding, and we were glad we got to be apart of their special day!
Randy is 6 foot tall. He said after the picture, "Man I felt like I was 4 foot tall next to Tommy and Layne." There are more wedding pictures on my facebook. This uploading thing is for the birds. Nighty night!
Sunday, May 23, 2010
I follow the rules!
I am a rule follower. It's a little annoying to others that I obsess about knowing ALL of the rules/expectations and then following them. "Uptight" probably is a better descriptor than "care-free" when it comes to rules.
On the bottle of my thyroid medicine it says, "Do not eat for thirty minutes after taking medicine." Well, I watch the clock. 30 exactly, not 29 minutes, nope if it says 30, they really mean 30! I'll wait until that minute hand reaches the 12 before I eat my breakfast. If there's a "No right turn on red" sign, just forget it. You can honk all you want at me. But hello I'm not going to get a ticket just so you can arrive somewhere 5 minutes faster. Chill out! I'll go on green, and p.s. thanks for the dirty look when you speed past me.
Even as a kid, I tried to follow all of the rules. I remember crying when I figured out that I missed a step on an assignment, or when my mom got pulled over by a cop for speeding. I've always obsessed about being in accordance with rules and procedures.
Speaking of my mom, she doesn't necessarily follow the rules. It drives me crazy. If there is an available shoulder to pass a line of cars, we'll off-road it. I just about die every time she tries to take back things at stores. If there's a sign saying, "No receipt, no exchange," she just ignores it. She puts on the charm, and before you know it we're walking out with cash in hand for an item they carried 6 months ago.
Well today one of my biggest fears happened while I was waiting in line to check out at HEB. I never have under 10 items in my basket. If you do, I'd like to shake your hand, and then ask how you do that. So I'm in line behind the family carts waiting patiently for my turn at the check-out. This worker comes up to me and says, "Ma'am, you can go to the express check-out. There's no line."
Ummm, ummmm that would be breaking the cardinal rule of grocery store checking-out.
"Do not get in the express line if you are over 10 items." Even if I have 11 items, I'll wait in the family lines.
Well I pretend I don't hear her. She can't obviously see because I'm close to 40 items, so I can pretend I can't hear. We're even.
"Ma'am there's no wait at the express check-out."
Flashback moment to shopping at HEB with my mom>>>> You know how when you're standing 5 deep in the line, and a cashier opens up a new line. The cashier will say, "I can help who ever is next." Well my mom always assumes this is her. Everyone knows the next person up to the register should get first dibs with the new cashier. Not my mom. I have explained this over and over. She just replies with, "Penny, I have lots of things to do besides wait in line." The other people clearly don't as I duck my head and follow her lead. I know they want to abandon their groceries to follow us out in the parking lot just to ram their carts in our car.
Back to the story....
Me: "But ma'am I don't have 10 items."
HEB worker: "But I'm the manager."
Me: "Yes ma'am!"
Dangit! How could I argue with the manager. She calls the shot; no one hears her; and now I'm the idiot who can't count.
I immediately turn as red as my sweet smelling strawberries which are probably item number 48. And what do you know, there's a lady who comes up right behind me with 4 items. Bless her. She probably has her car running with a dog or an elderly person waiting on her. And here I am against my will unloading and unloading and unloading my cart. Blasted manager. I tell the clerk in a really loud voice, "I'm sorry I don't have ten items, but the manager told me to come to this line."
Great, now I can't count and I'm pathetic.
The clerk was like, "whatever you liar." Can you imagine how many times they hear that line in a given week? Note to self: Don't mention to mom. She'll start using that one.
What a stressful ending to my joyous trip to HEB.
And you can guess correctly, I declined help out to my car.
And I know they don't use that line in the express line. I should have stuck around to see if they offered the lady with 4 items help out. Doubt it!
On the bottle of my thyroid medicine it says, "Do not eat for thirty minutes after taking medicine." Well, I watch the clock. 30 exactly, not 29 minutes, nope if it says 30, they really mean 30! I'll wait until that minute hand reaches the 12 before I eat my breakfast. If there's a "No right turn on red" sign, just forget it. You can honk all you want at me. But hello I'm not going to get a ticket just so you can arrive somewhere 5 minutes faster. Chill out! I'll go on green, and p.s. thanks for the dirty look when you speed past me.
Even as a kid, I tried to follow all of the rules. I remember crying when I figured out that I missed a step on an assignment, or when my mom got pulled over by a cop for speeding. I've always obsessed about being in accordance with rules and procedures.
Speaking of my mom, she doesn't necessarily follow the rules. It drives me crazy. If there is an available shoulder to pass a line of cars, we'll off-road it. I just about die every time she tries to take back things at stores. If there's a sign saying, "No receipt, no exchange," she just ignores it. She puts on the charm, and before you know it we're walking out with cash in hand for an item they carried 6 months ago.
Well today one of my biggest fears happened while I was waiting in line to check out at HEB. I never have under 10 items in my basket. If you do, I'd like to shake your hand, and then ask how you do that. So I'm in line behind the family carts waiting patiently for my turn at the check-out. This worker comes up to me and says, "Ma'am, you can go to the express check-out. There's no line."
Ummm, ummmm that would be breaking the cardinal rule of grocery store checking-out.
"Do not get in the express line if you are over 10 items." Even if I have 11 items, I'll wait in the family lines.
Well I pretend I don't hear her. She can't obviously see because I'm close to 40 items, so I can pretend I can't hear. We're even.
"Ma'am there's no wait at the express check-out."
Flashback moment to shopping at HEB with my mom>>>> You know how when you're standing 5 deep in the line, and a cashier opens up a new line. The cashier will say, "I can help who ever is next." Well my mom always assumes this is her. Everyone knows the next person up to the register should get first dibs with the new cashier. Not my mom. I have explained this over and over. She just replies with, "Penny, I have lots of things to do besides wait in line." The other people clearly don't as I duck my head and follow her lead. I know they want to abandon their groceries to follow us out in the parking lot just to ram their carts in our car.
Back to the story....
Me: "But ma'am I don't have 10 items."
HEB worker: "But I'm the manager."
Me: "Yes ma'am!"
Dangit! How could I argue with the manager. She calls the shot; no one hears her; and now I'm the idiot who can't count.
I immediately turn as red as my sweet smelling strawberries which are probably item number 48. And what do you know, there's a lady who comes up right behind me with 4 items. Bless her. She probably has her car running with a dog or an elderly person waiting on her. And here I am against my will unloading and unloading and unloading my cart. Blasted manager. I tell the clerk in a really loud voice, "I'm sorry I don't have ten items, but the manager told me to come to this line."
Great, now I can't count and I'm pathetic.
The clerk was like, "whatever you liar." Can you imagine how many times they hear that line in a given week? Note to self: Don't mention to mom. She'll start using that one.
What a stressful ending to my joyous trip to HEB.
And you can guess correctly, I declined help out to my car.
And I know they don't use that line in the express line. I should have stuck around to see if they offered the lady with 4 items help out. Doubt it!
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
supermarket sweep!
I love the grocery store. I love the scales in the produce department. I love the free samples (especially in the cheese section). I love pulling all those yellow HEB coupons off the shelves. I love buying cajun sesame sticks in bulk. I love the self-check outs.
What do I hate?
I hate not knowing if things taste good. Especially if it's an expensive item. I hate throwing food away, so if I buy it, someone is going to eat it!
So this post is my top recommendations for my new favorite snack. Go ahead and buy it! I've taken the chance factor out for you!
This goes great on the pretzel crisps. I bought the garlic and herb type.
Happy snacking!
What do I hate?
I hate not knowing if things taste good. Especially if it's an expensive item. I hate throwing food away, so if I buy it, someone is going to eat it!
So this post is my top recommendations for my new favorite snack. Go ahead and buy it! I've taken the chance factor out for you!
This goes great on the pretzel crisps. I bought the garlic and herb type.
Happy snacking!
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