Wee Woman

I remember first seeing a Smartboard when I delivered a white paper at a conference in Florida in 2001. I thought to myself…MAN! That thing rocks! This week, my classroom arrived in the 21st Century. Overnight Monday, the “magic Smartboard Fairies” (yes-I am quoting our IT PM) arrived and as they would say in the Ancient Mariner “Thar she (or he in this case) blows!”
I have named my new gadget Mr. Smith, the Doctor’s assumed human name when it is required and the name of the computer from the Sarah Jane Adventures. Now my Mr. Smith does not get summoned from the wall with cheesy music, but it does have kick butt speakers and a multi-region DVD player. My desk however, does look a little like the Tardis…so the poster of the Doctor over it is very appropriate.

I have to tell you…they have me hook line and sinker now. Give me a gadget like this and I might never want to leave the school! I love it to bits…

Used it at Parent’s night last night…felt a bit like Tom Cruise in Minority Report (only I am taller :icon_biggrin:) – and did not jump on a sofa!

So going to work these days is not so bad…when Mr. Smith is waiting for me.

MrWee is not jealous…yet!

…and even better than that…I have a “Master Hairdresser” – a guy called Ray. And as you will agree – he is a genius! I love my new do…and man, I am at least 20 degrees cooler.
But seriously, hair here is a very serious thing! This salon was HUGE – and posh! You get drinks…as many as you like (all soft…believe me…Wee would not be blogging tonight if there was alcohol). And folk were so nice…right down to Ray’s joke after the first cut “Oh…have you changed your mind?” – Argh…

But tis gone…finally. Only took me 8 years!

School is nuts…timetable is as strange as ever although my class sizes are very small (good!) I still am not happy with some of my allotted time. But that said, I think I am ready to roll. Mind you, they are digging up the avenue that is a main feeder for Car Pool…that should be interesting! I get in early…so I get a prime “Miniwee” parking spot. End…little bigger than the others. Perfect! As long as I am in for 7pm each day I get the good spot. It’s worth it for Miniwee…

MrWee thinks that he is married to someone else….

So decided that I would go in a day early to give me time to work on walls and stuff! Turns out that I stacked the desks in my room for nothing – the promised washing of the carpet did not take place. In fact, very little took place in M6 over the vacation…LCD projector was still as I left it – whole room was dusty. I did achieve a new pull down screen…and alas…the Smartboard alludes me still. We are assured by IT that they are on back order and they will be installed soon. As the saying goes…will not hold my breath.

Will be an interesting year in EMU land. The whole back field is covered with dirt. I propose a new sport…mud wresting! While showing the new teachers around today, we contemplated such difficulties ahead like, parking space (there is none!) and where the school will evacuate to in the event of a fire drill.

But my room rocks. I put up some fab. wall displays and the place looks ace! I am a happy camper. Now if I get the classes that I want I will be a very happy camper!

Found a dead frog in the pool filter tonight (MrWee and I are volunteers at the community pool and this week is our week!) Told one of the kids that was swimming in the pool that the French like to eat these deep fried. Think I really grossed the kid out. Poor wee frog. At least his last minutes were…well…watery!

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s blog when I will report on the imminent explosion of our Chinese teacher when he sees his classroom. Most of the junk from the Design Tech room ended up in there…and when he sees the mess…

…the Chinese are not the kings of the firework for nothing!

I have a painter! I will have lovely new colors by next weekend (fingers crossed!) Very excited! Hoping that I have time to finish all the trim and bits…but ohhhhhhh how cool! I will not even have to paint my bedroom!

So that was really the height of excitement today. MrWee is working late in order to keep me in the manner to which I have become accustomed (*grin*) and my feeling flush parents have decided that one trip to the States was not enough this year so they are coming in October as well as MrWee’s Aunts. This could be a lot of fun…full house again…except Wee’s Dad really likes to hog the bathroom. Just as well we have 4!!!

So bit of bad TV and bed…have done nothing but paint all day…ready to just kick back. Thankfully the heat wave has passed and I have the windows open! Bliss!

Absolutely Fabulous…the show I am watching on BBC America. Brilliant! Throwback to the 90’s when humor was funny. Talking humor, check out http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d – Paris Hilton is now running for President of the US. In response to John McCain’s (REP) “Party Political Broadcast” as we called them in the UK, Paris is now running, with Rhianna as a possible Vice. Good for her I say! Sure if it is coming down to who is the biggest celebrity then why not Paris? Free hotels for all!

So today, after a fine walk of the subdivision (which is the local exercise – the owner of the local gym has driven all the cul-de-sacs and determined a three mile route!) I came back to the joys of sanding down the banisters of the stair rails while listening to the strains of Neal Bortz. Bortz is the local talk radio host who claims to be a libertarian but spends a lot of time pointing out the faults of Democrats and the Barack Obama’s campaign for the White House. It is VERY entertaining – you learn things like how the plane that Barack Obama is using is now called “O-Force 1″ and that he has a liking for the Solomon Brothers Jewelers. Well, it is good background noise for painting.

On the painting front, it seems that no-one wants to come paint my Great Room and Hall. In our house these are the two story high ceiling once trendy in the 90’s type of room that will require me to either scale Everest type scaffold or do an Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider 1 type of swinging from the light fitting in the hall. Quite like the idea of being Lara Croft and stuff…but the lines would certainly not be straight and since Rimmer is not available to serve up my tea and guns I am not for this idea.

Floor wise this evening we visited the fabulous Lowe’s Home Improvement store where the riveting buy of the week was a sander! I am now the proud owner of a Black and Decker sander! I know that all you DIY junkies out there are very envious and are now drooling over the keyboard as you read… :icon_rolleyes:

Today was also a day of revelation…of the scrap booking kind. A friend in the cove (Cocktail Cove – the end of our street where the inhabitants oft frequent their front lawns with beverages of a nature on a Friday evening…although I understand that a new trampoline has the cove frequenting one of the back yards to watch the wee ones bounce around while drinking whatever concoction has been brewed…) Since my scrapbook consists of a large box of photos in the basement, I thought that it might be nice to organize this stuff…just about 8 years of life. Now Weewoman.com does the latter four years pretty well..when I update it and play with the pictures…but the rest of our lives are in that box. So have started with the organizer box…which could be an ongoing project for the next eight years. Thing is, you have to have a creative bone in your body. I think I broke that bone in the summer of ‘83 when I fell out of my Granny’s Plum tree while trying to pick the only ripe plum that it ever seemed to have…on the top branch…

Exciting day tomorrow peeps…upstairs banister!

So I did not sleep last night. I have no clue why! Was not too hot…aircon was on it’s usual temp…but as it turned out, MrWee did not sleep either. I had the impression of impending doom so resolved to call Wee’s Mom to make sure that life in Ireland was normal. It was. My cousin’s first child is making her a grandmother…at the ripe old age of 32. Might I say this kind of thing runs in this branch of the family! It is kind of a “have the kids young” type of branch…the one that really should have been pruned from the tree a long time ago!
So a very normal day…Jazzercise…DIY store…Brooke Knows Best and I love Money. I did manage to clean the car – which was FILTHY! After vacuuming and hovering and bemoaning the fact that some bugger has managed to chip the back bumper, I came in and washed out the vacuum. Half of a head of hair in there was in there. Wee’s Niece was on a recent visit…and has taken to gothic styles in hair…black and evidently falling out in clumps! No doubt I will be finding bits of my niece for the next few months! Must say, like the hair that way…not liking what it is leaving behind.
And here I am…in front of Reba while MrWee folds laundry. There is a reason why I don’t post every day.

Mind you, once I switch this off, it could get interesting. I complained to the Subdivision Yard Nazi’s today (otherwise known as the Homeowner’s Association) about a lawn near us. I have to mow our sodding lawn (or more correctly MrWee does…I edge…well sort of!) so they should too! We don’t pay some fancy lawn company like next door. We do on occasion use the slave labor of the other next door’s kid! But he is in his teenage year and is…well not regular in his lawn care duties.

Will explain at a later date about the whole culture of the Yard Nazi…needless to say it makes Desperate Housewives look tame around here.

Ah well…Top Gear is on tonight. God bless BBC America!!!

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