Some Cards I've Made Recently

I like to find any excuse that I can make a card. These are two of my most recent I decided to share. The first one is a baby shower invitation that I made to send out for my friend Katherine.

I made these thank-you cards for the teachers I worked with at Lone Peak.

-Ashley

New Product

"I'll buy almost anything if it's shiny and made by Apple."
"I like how the email automatically says, 'Sent from a MacBook Wheel,' that way people know you have one."
I hope you like this video as much as I do.
- Scott

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Grocery Shopping

I was at the grocery store the other day, and I didn't have much time. I had almost everything I needed in my cart when I stopped to look at the drink section. While my back was turned, someone decided to take off with MY cart! I looked up and down the aisle to no avail. It was gone, and in it's place was another cart, full of boring, useless groceries. I didn't know if it would be quicker to go "shopping" again for everything I needed, but I decided to wait for a few minutes, hoping the culprit would come back to return the stolen goods. He never showed.

I went on a hunt, looking for my grocery cart. I'm sure the other shoppers must have thought I was crazy, as I was both discreetly and not-so-discreetly spying on what groceries they had in their own carts. "Hey Mister, stocking up on the Twinkies, I see??? Ma'am, one of you eggs is cracked. Do you really need THAT much toilet paper??"

I couldn't find it. The suspect must have purchased my groceries and gone home, or so I thought. I gave up and decided to get a cart to do my shopping over again, this time in reverse. As I was on my way to where I left off, I couldn't help but look at what other people were packing around in their carts. And there it was...not my cart, but the abandoned one. As he was approaching me, I couldn't contain my voice, and found myself shouting and pointing, "HEY, YOU STOLE MY CART! WHERE IS IT?!" He cowardly looked away, and said he left it by the checkout stand. I proceeded to follow him to the "checkout stand," which turned out not to be the front of the store, but up the middle of the far aisle on the end of the store, abandoned next to the kitty litter and feminine products, neither of which he was in the market for. He realized he made a mistake, wasn't man enough to fess up, and tried to bury the evidence.

If you play with fire, sooner or later you'll get burned. You may have gotten away with grocery cart petty crimes before, but not today. :)

Scott

Friday the 13th...

Teaching has its ups and downs. Sometimes I love it because the students are so fun, and participating. Other days the students just don't want to listen to me and it makes me feel bad. I think something was in the air today at school. Maybe the fact of it being Friday the 13th kind of stirred them up a bit. I'm not sure. The students were distracted by something that's for sure. I'm very glad that it is a long weekend! Sometimes I just have to remind myself that I really do want to be a teacher...

Exercise

My first blog post . . . Ashley's just too good at keeping everyone updated, so I never have a chance to write :) The intramural basketball team I'm on is now 2-0. We won our last game shooting free-throws with 0.6 seconds left in the game. It was tied before that, and our unfortunate opponents foolishly fouled our player on a 3-point shot. He easily sunk all 3 baskets, and we won 39-36.

I went running again tonight, and it's been a while since I've been running regularly. I was still able to run a 4-mile stretch, but my goal is to work back up to marathon stamina by the end of the summer.

That's all for now.

Yes I'm still Mrs. Stevenson even though I have a raspy, manly voice...

I lost my voice by the end of each of the class periods I taught today. It was not much fun. At the beginning of the class I apologized for my manly, rough voice. They were nice to me and quieted down without me having to talk too loud. It's funny looking back now because I sounded ridiculous---well I still do...

Can a teacher teach with no voice?

Today my voice has been going in and out today...It's a good thing that I had a guest speaker for my classes today! I hope my voice is not completely gone tomorrow. Can you teach a lesson through pantomime? I might be signing as a last result...It's too bad I didn't get a very good grade in sign language. Wish me luck tomorrow!

It's no fun being sick while teaching...

I got sick yesterday and I had to teach three periods today. My ears are plugged up so I could not tell while teaching how loud I was talking. I feel like I was yelling all day. My throat hurt so bad by the end of the day from talking so much. Luckily it was a late start day so classes were only 50 minutes. Hopefully tomorrow goes better. We did do a textiles lab today where I burned fabrics for the class--they liked that, except it stunk really bad. It's no fun being stick while teaching...