Monday Minute 11/29/10

Hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving break! I know we did. It was great to see family and friends, and really special to come home and decorate the house for our first Holiday with our beautiful Liliana. She LOVED it when we walked outside and she saw the lights in front of the house. Anyway, here is our weekly Monday Minute!

I always put this, but since we have new people participating all the time, I want them to know what's going on: if you guys ever have any suggestions of questions or want to host your own Monday Minute one week, just email me!! To play along, just grab the button below AND link up at the linky at the bottom of this post! Then, encourage your readers to follow suit. Also, if you don't want to do your own post but want others to know your answers, feel free to do so in the comments!




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Questions

(1) What's your favorite fast food establishment?
 (2) What's your favorite sport to watch on TV?  
(3) Do you like mushrooms and onions?  
(4) If you had to get a tattoo tomorrow, what would you get done?
(5) What are your thoughts on the female proposing marriage to the male?

Answers

(1) I LOVE me some Taco Cabana! Unfortunately, those aren't around much...mainly in Texas. If you're ever driving and you see one though, stop in. Aside from that, I LOVE Jack in the Box. They have delicious tacos for 99 cents. And, the commercials are pretty damn hilarious. HERE, take a look.

(2) This is a rather difficult question for me to answer. I am a die hard fan of two teams:

 The Texas Aggies (who played a fabulous game on Thanksgiving by the way) 

AND

The San Antonio Spurs (who played a fabulous game today by the way).

So the big dilemma...do I like College Football or the NBA better?  And ultimately, I must side with College Football.  I'll watch just about ANY college football game as long as it's a decent game.  I just love college football season and get giddy for it to start every year.  I could watch football all day Saturday every week and be beyond content.  I hate how other girls claim to be huge college football fans, but it's just a fashion show or social hour.  I sit down, comment (or rather scream) at the refs, and get right out ugly if necessary.  Also, I could be a commentator.  Seriously, I always say something just to have them say the same thing a few minutes later...I think they have a mic in our house.  Can't wait for the bowl games! ; )

(3) NO!  I think all recipes could do without both, especially mushrooms.  The texture is so slimy...eww.

(4) Believe it or not, this one was easy for me to answer, because I've considered it before.  Never really seriously I must admit...I mean people, I fainted when I got my second hole in my ear remember?   Anyway, this is what I'd get if I was forced to get one tomorrow:

I love music and it's shaped like a heart which would signify the love I have for the most important people in my life.  I dunno, I think it's pretty, somewhat unique, and could be made really small (the #1 criteria I'd be looking for).  What?  I HATE HATE HATE and DESPISE needles. I think the farther away I stay from them, the better.

(5) I'm fine with it!  As long as both people want to get married, I don't see how it matters who asks the other person.  In fact, if memory serves me correctly my godsister proposed to her husband, and they are amongst the most sound and put together marriage I've ever seen.  Evan and I strive to be just like them in so many ways.

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Monday Minute 11/22/10

Wow, I feel like it's been forever since I hosted the Monday Minute last.  I hope you guys enjoyed having some fun questions last week over at Powdered Toast Man.  He'll be hosting one for me in December while I'm out of town, so I can't wait to see what silly stuff he offers us then.  But, for this week, we're back to my questions! : )

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Questions

(1) What's your all time favorite book?

(2) What are your pets names?

(3) What kind of undies do you prefer (thong, briefs, boxer briefs...choose depending on your sex)?

(4) If you could go back in life, what would you now chose to do for a living?

(5) Do you hit snooze in the morning?

Answers

(1)  This one's easy for me ... The Last Lecture.  I don't know if you guys have read this book, but I highly recommend it.  Evan and I read it out loud to each other every evening before bed.  He had to read the last chapter because I was bawling.  It's a book that a Dad (Randy Pausch) wrote to his children because he had terminal cancer and wanted to pass along the lessons he wouldn't be able to teach in person.  The lessons aren't just for children.  They were so insightful, meaningful, and inspirational. In fact, now that I'm a Mom, I think I'll read it again. Watch this video.  It's what made me buy the book.

(2) We have one doggie and her name is Linda Mujer (Pretty Woman in Spanish).  Normally, we call her Linda.  When she's in trouble, it's the whole name.  She's the cutest little beagle mix you've ever seen.  At the law firm I worked for last year, one of the partners called the clerks his legal beagles.  So, since then, her nicknamed has been Regal Legal Beagle.  I think just calling her Linda would be shorter.  Seriously though, she's freaking adorable...

 Linda when she was a puppy.  She was 3.5 pounds of adorableness.

Linda today: still adorable, but now she's a whopping 14 pounds (yeah, a tiny beagle, I know).

(3) None of your bees wax. But, if you most know, I wear slacks often and I HATE visible panty line, so think about it... And, for you gross minds out there, no it's not going commando.

(4) This one's really tough for me.  The answer is ... I don't know.  There are so many things out there that I wish I had thought of.  One is having gotten my doctorate in Political Science instead of Juris.  The other thought is going in to Architecture.  That one is completely uneducated though.  However, the poli sci thing?  That would have been great.  That being said, no regrets is the way I live my life now, so I'm very happy where I'm at.

(5) NO.  I HATE snooze hitters.  Really, I do.  This was one thing I made very clear to Evan when we got married.  If he hit snooze, this would just have me stay up, thus leaving me with less time to sleep.  We let the alarm ring once, and only once.  Darn you snooze hitters of the world!!!!

Have a FABULOUS Turkey Day guys!  Link up and go check out others answers, especially to the favorite book...I can't wait to hear of some new reads I have to buy!

Stuck in ISS

Today I was SO excited for school.  As you guys know, I'm the interventionist at my school.  And I do all subjects.  Yep, apparently I'm supposed to be a pro at each subject.  And I'm sure that sounds like a breeze to you, but let me give you a tiny little quiz to show you what I had to quickly review this week so I wouldn't sound like a complete and total idiot in front of the kids while I was TEACHING them the material ...

(1) What parts of an atom are located inside and outside of a nucleus?
(2) What is the mass of a particular element from looking at the periodic table?
(3) What are the stamp act and intolerable acts?
(4) What is the equation to find the slope of a line?

If you knew the answer to all of these, then more power to you and I guess I'm dumb.  However, if you're normal and not a total geek like me, you know what I'm talking about.  I know these aren't technically difficult, but I've forgotten everything I've learned from school!  But today, not today...TODAY I knew my stuff ... I was giddy about my lesson for today. Today was ... wait for it ...

CONSTITUTION DAY!

Yesterday afternoon I spent an hour thinking about the lesson plan I would give for Constitution Day.  I don't think you understand, the opportunity to teach the constitution is like crack for a law school graduate.  I made this fun flash card game and I found great reading material full of informational and interesting little tid bits.  I was ready.  I was stoked.

Then...

"the substitute for ISS cancelled just now.  We have nobody in there.  Would you please go in there?  All day."  So, that's what I've done.  I've sat in a room with all the trouble makers and have had to say "be quiet" "stay seated" "you may not speak to an adult like that" etc etc...all day long.  It has been frustrating to say the least.  And, it was my constitution day!  (I say like an over dramatic baby)

But, my ultimate goal, why I wanted to teach is because this is all supposed to be a team effort.  This is where the team needed me today and obviously, I was incredibly needed.  Somebody has to be in this room constantly.  They aren't even allowed to get a drink of water by themselves.  We all get in a single file line and walk down to do it twice a day.  It's very structured.  However, for some of these kids, it's their 3rd time in here, so I wonder "does this work?"  "Is this really punishment to them?  Or do they actually kind of like the peace and quiet?" I don't know the answer to these questions, but I do know that even though I'm glad they trusted me enough to handle this responsibility today, I needed something positive to happen ...

Bank of America SAVED THE DAY!  Do you know what I ordered today, and completely for FREE? 

Behold our free Holiday gift to ourselves.  With our credit card we get points for every dollar we spend.  Normally we have to use them for something boring that has broken around the house, but this year we were fortunate and nothing happened.  So, we built up enough points to buy a RED WII!  And ain't it a beauty people?  I know you're thinking, "the Wii has been out forever.  You are a loser."

But, as I've repeatedly told you guys, we are cheap.  Very cheap.  The only other gaming system we own is a Game Cube that I bought used for Evan three years ago for $30.  This is a very special treat for us and we can't wait to play together.  Yippee!

Don't you just love the irony in this post?  I start off being mad at children for not acting more like adults, and I'm an adult that can't wait to play with a kids toy.  Shh....don't tell them.