The Scholastic Book Fair was today at our school. The one mom was talking about it and I told her, "Hey, it's on my day off. I'll help you."
I'm so glad that I did. It was me and her until about 1:45 PM. Oh, she had people who said that they would help and they showed up hours after they said that they would be there.
Rrrr.
We had interim pick-up tonight, so we knew that we would be busy at 2:30 PM when school let out. We had staff show up to roam the floor to help people. Kay and I did the cash register and bagging. We saw the end of the first non-stop line at 4:30 PM.
We saw so many books go out tonight. I truly am excited for all of the incredible reading that will be going on since we are expected to have two more waves of snow storms. In the end, we ended up selling $4214.00 in books.
Wow.
K- came in with me this AM at 8:00 AM and she didn't leave until I did at 7 PM. She got many compliments for hanging in there and doing so well. Many parents said that their child would have never held up. An 11 hour day? Yup, mine amazed me and I'm thrilled. I only had to bark at her once. (The first and middle name belted out in the "I'm not happy" tone over a crowd. She straightened right up.)
Kay, K- and I closed the joint down with Mr. B- (the principal) in tow. Suffice it to say, we are all quite tired. It was a good day. We accomplished much. Kay and I make a great team!
Smiles in my day:
- K- had a great report today at interim pick-up.
- The book fair went well!
- The fire alarm was pulled by a kindergartner while we were having interim pick-up/the book fair. There was no real fire, the building was cleared, everyone was polite and great.
- I will sleep well tonight.
Have a great and safe weekend.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
2684
Last night, I gave my e-mail box some much needed attention. That number? That was the number of e-mails I deleted that landed in the trash file.
Ace Hardware
Bath and Body Works
Home Depot
Lowe's
Target
Vitamin Shoppe
Snapfish
Magazines.com
Air Tran
Statue of Liberty Cruises
CPSC
LL Bean
Lands End
i9 Sports
American Heart Association
Michelle Obama
Kohl's
And more. Hubs taught me a handy dandy little trick that I never knew. (He was surprised. Apparently, it is common knowledge to all but me.) If you click the 'from' on your main e-mail box page, it will throw the e-mails into alphabetical order for you. It was easy for me to breeze through them, mark and toss.
I have made this promise before and didn't keep it. Now, I promise to keep my in-box clean.
Smiles in my day:
- Gathering the required accoutrement to commence The 30 Day Shred. Now all I have to do is to commence.
- I came home to find K- and Hubs curled up in our bed, with K- reading a stack of books to Hubs. She read to him for 45 minutes.
- Getting the Saturday morning activities confirmed and moved a bit closer to each other. It makes the running much easier.
Have a great day!
Ace Hardware
Bath and Body Works
Home Depot
Lowe's
Target
Vitamin Shoppe
Snapfish
Magazines.com
Air Tran
Statue of Liberty Cruises
CPSC
LL Bean
Lands End
i9 Sports
American Heart Association
Michelle Obama
Kohl's
And more. Hubs taught me a handy dandy little trick that I never knew. (He was surprised. Apparently, it is common knowledge to all but me.) If you click the 'from' on your main e-mail box page, it will throw the e-mails into alphabetical order for you. It was easy for me to breeze through them, mark and toss.
I have made this promise before and didn't keep it. Now, I promise to keep my in-box clean.
Smiles in my day:
- Gathering the required accoutrement to commence The 30 Day Shred. Now all I have to do is to commence.
- I came home to find K- and Hubs curled up in our bed, with K- reading a stack of books to Hubs. She read to him for 45 minutes.
- Getting the Saturday morning activities confirmed and moved a bit closer to each other. It makes the running much easier.
Have a great day!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
I actually learned to type on a real typewriter.
It's true. When I took typing class in 1988-89 in high school, I learned how to type on an IBM Selectric typewriter. I was just so excited that we had electric typewriters at school, since I was typing papers on my mom's old high school typewriter that was definitely manual all the way.
So, how did I start thinking about my high school typing experience? We use carbon sales slips at work instead of NCR (carbonless) slips. My boss is allergic to NCR and I've actually gone garbage diving for the carbons when slips have gone missing. Carbons make me think of typing class.
Here goes:
1. I took typing from my mother's high school typing teacher. Mom graduated in 1967 and she said that Mr. J- was old then.
2. Mr. J- used to walk around with a ruler. If you let your wrists drop, he'd crack you with the ruler. No, it wasn't a love tap, either. I was scared enough not to get cracked, but I knew quite a few people who got smacked with the ruler. I still don't rest the wrists.
3. As a part of an assignment, I did an actual carbon copy. That's where the carbon comes into making this whole post come around anyhow.
4. Mr. J- was a fan of his daily swig of "cough syrup." At the same time everyday, he took a "dose" of "cough syrup" from his Dimetapp bottle. He never had a cough and Mom reported that he did the same exact thing in her class. Hmmm.
5. We had to have boxes of correction tape. They were slips of lighter weight overhead plastic with white baked on. When you goofed, you backed up, placed the tape between the paper and the ribbon, hit the wrong letter so as to white it out, took the correction tape away and typed the right letter in that space.
6. I learned to type by using a flip typing manual. It flipped over the top and was free standing.
7. Mom wanted my sister and me to learn how to type. It was her one required optional course in high school for us. She said that if we knew how to type, we could always get a job. Thanks to typing, I was an office assistant for a psychologist for many years in college. Hey, it paid the bills.
8. When I finished Typing II, I was typing 55 words per minute. (No, I don't know why I recall that.)
9. I just tested myself and I typed 80 words per minute. I would have been faster if it wasn't a UK based typing exam. Still, I think that 80 wpm isn't too shabby.
10. Hubs took a year of typing and is a hunt and peck typer.
Smiles in my day:
- My husband is my hero. It took him a half hour to thaw my wipers from my windshield. He also shoveled the driveway before I went to work.
- My husband also scored me The 30 Day Shred used for $4.99. I just need to pick up a few things so that I can participate in Rachael's Shred Challenge.
- K- didn't have school today (snow), so she went and hung out with Grandma. They got to spend a lovely day together.
Have a great day!
So, how did I start thinking about my high school typing experience? We use carbon sales slips at work instead of NCR (carbonless) slips. My boss is allergic to NCR and I've actually gone garbage diving for the carbons when slips have gone missing. Carbons make me think of typing class.
Here goes:
1. I took typing from my mother's high school typing teacher. Mom graduated in 1967 and she said that Mr. J- was old then.
2. Mr. J- used to walk around with a ruler. If you let your wrists drop, he'd crack you with the ruler. No, it wasn't a love tap, either. I was scared enough not to get cracked, but I knew quite a few people who got smacked with the ruler. I still don't rest the wrists.
3. As a part of an assignment, I did an actual carbon copy. That's where the carbon comes into making this whole post come around anyhow.
4. Mr. J- was a fan of his daily swig of "cough syrup." At the same time everyday, he took a "dose" of "cough syrup" from his Dimetapp bottle. He never had a cough and Mom reported that he did the same exact thing in her class. Hmmm.
5. We had to have boxes of correction tape. They were slips of lighter weight overhead plastic with white baked on. When you goofed, you backed up, placed the tape between the paper and the ribbon, hit the wrong letter so as to white it out, took the correction tape away and typed the right letter in that space.
6. I learned to type by using a flip typing manual. It flipped over the top and was free standing.
7. Mom wanted my sister and me to learn how to type. It was her one required optional course in high school for us. She said that if we knew how to type, we could always get a job. Thanks to typing, I was an office assistant for a psychologist for many years in college. Hey, it paid the bills.
8. When I finished Typing II, I was typing 55 words per minute. (No, I don't know why I recall that.)
9. I just tested myself and I typed 80 words per minute. I would have been faster if it wasn't a UK based typing exam. Still, I think that 80 wpm isn't too shabby.
10. Hubs took a year of typing and is a hunt and peck typer.
Smiles in my day:
- My husband is my hero. It took him a half hour to thaw my wipers from my windshield. He also shoveled the driveway before I went to work.
- My husband also scored me The 30 Day Shred used for $4.99. I just need to pick up a few things so that I can participate in Rachael's Shred Challenge.
- K- didn't have school today (snow), so she went and hung out with Grandma. They got to spend a lovely day together.
Have a great day!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tales from the Trenches: Caught by surprise.
Grant you, it could be much worse. They are predicting an inch an hour and my husband and daughter are out navigating the roads home from visiting the Columbus Zoo.
If either one of us knew this was going to happen today, they would have never gone.
Hubs is very good. He checks the weather and did check the radar before he left. He said that he saw nothing, so saw it fit to proceed. He left the zoo and called me at about 4:45 PM to say that he thought he was in a blizzard. At 6:45 PM, he called to say that he had reached a destination about 40 minutes away (on a good day) and he was going to take an alternate route, because he was convinced that the expressway had been closed.
He has not seen a plow truck on his entire drive thus far.
I'm expecting an 8 - 8:30 PM arrival home for my two weary travelers. A trip to Columbus takes about 1/3 of that time for us on a good day and with me driving. (I have a bit of a heavy foot.)
Here's what the National Weather Service has to say about us:
Smiles in my day:
- K- and I whipped together a Death by Chocolate cake this AM to help celebrate the President's birthdays.
- My people are safely driving home and Hubs is taking his time.
- Heat. How many people out there don't have shelter during the snowstorms? There are a fair number of homeless in the city.
Stay warm.
ETA: My people made it home in just slightly under 4 hours for the same drive it took them 2 hours to do this AM. (I make it in less time.) Hubs reports that the weather that he checked was Sunday's newspaper. I told him that was off Saturday's report. He said, "They can't be that far off, can they?" "They can, but this time you needed to check something more current." Though I will back him by saying that I didn't expect this either and I watch the news (often multi-tasking) and read the paper. Everyone is safe. If I were to bet, I'm thinking that K- will not have school tomorrow. There has been little to no snow clearing here and the roads are atrocious.
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| My driveway when I got home tonight. |
If either one of us knew this was going to happen today, they would have never gone.
Hubs is very good. He checks the weather and did check the radar before he left. He said that he saw nothing, so saw it fit to proceed. He left the zoo and called me at about 4:45 PM to say that he thought he was in a blizzard. At 6:45 PM, he called to say that he had reached a destination about 40 minutes away (on a good day) and he was going to take an alternate route, because he was convinced that the expressway had been closed.
He has not seen a plow truck on his entire drive thus far.
I'm expecting an 8 - 8:30 PM arrival home for my two weary travelers. A trip to Columbus takes about 1/3 of that time for us on a good day and with me driving. (I have a bit of a heavy foot.)
Here's what the National Weather Service has to say about us:
556 PM EST MON FEB 21 2011See? I knew that taste of spring thing was too good to be true. With our winter, one could only hope that it was a sign of permanent warmness. Uh, no.
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST TUESDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST TUESDAY. THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
SNOW WILL BE MODERATE TO HEAVY FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE
EVENING...BECOMING LIGHTER OVERNIGHT. SNOWFALL RATES COULD EXCEED AN INCH PER HOUR THIS EVENING. STORM TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING WILL BE 4 TO 8 INCHES. SNOW WILL DRASTICALLY REDUCE VISIBILITY AND MAKE FOR HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS TONIGHT.
NORTHEAST WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL HIGHER GUSTS WILL ACCOMPANY THE SNOW AND CAUSE SOME BLOWING AND DRIFTING.
Smiles in my day:
- K- and I whipped together a Death by Chocolate cake this AM to help celebrate the President's birthdays.
- My people are safely driving home and Hubs is taking his time.
- Heat. How many people out there don't have shelter during the snowstorms? There are a fair number of homeless in the city.
Stay warm.
ETA: My people made it home in just slightly under 4 hours for the same drive it took them 2 hours to do this AM. (I make it in less time.) Hubs reports that the weather that he checked was Sunday's newspaper. I told him that was off Saturday's report. He said, "They can't be that far off, can they?" "They can, but this time you needed to check something more current." Though I will back him by saying that I didn't expect this either and I watch the news (often multi-tasking) and read the paper. Everyone is safe. If I were to bet, I'm thinking that K- will not have school tomorrow. There has been little to no snow clearing here and the roads are atrocious.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Just when it almost all melted.
Our winter weather advisory that was due to expire Sunday night at 10 PM is now due to expire on Monday morning at 7 AM. Argh.
Here are some things that made me tip my head to the side this weekend:
- Why is it that K- and I kept getting plowed over by people with carts rushing ahead of us in line? Both places this happened at, K- and I had a few things in hand. The people had carts and special orders. One woman said, "Oh, um." :insert weird giggle: All I could say was, "Don't worry Ma'am, it appears to be the theme of the day."
- The "Real" Housewives of - - - ? I've never watched the show. It seems that these folks are not likely to be scrubbing their own floors, tackling laundry stains with the talents of a true laundress determined to have clothing spot-free or possibly even making their own bed. (I'm a bed maker. It's all Mom's fault.) I know that the shows are popular, but wonder if it is the allure of the rich and sometimes infamous, a look into the world that most of us don't live in, or if it is just flat a train wreck and you can't help but to watch.
- Bob the Builder, This Old House, Ask This Old House, Victory Garden, Antiques Roadshow, Curious George, Simply Ming, Arthur, Between the Lions, Rick Steves' Europe, Clifford, Craft in America, Cyberchase, Faces of America, Julia Child, Kratt's Creatures, Maya and Miguel, The National Parks, 1900 House, Sid the Science Kid, Word Girl, Zoboomafoo, Nature, America's Test Kitchen, Lidia's Italy . . . I would be incredibly sad to see these programs elimated. Honestly, we have antenna cable. We love PBS. Obviously, we watch it quite a bit here. General cable scares me anyhow.
- Why there can't be more narrow Stride Rite sandals available for my child to wear with her Easter dress other than one (yes, one) pair. They are cute, which is great, but selection! My kid can't be the only kid with very narrow feet. With any luck, they'll fit.
Smiles in my weekend:
- Spending a day at home with my people.
- Making a pot of chicken corn chowder (it grew and had to move to a bigger pot). It was delicious! We'll be having it for the next few days.
- Greek yogurt.
- The fact that K- was able to play outside for HOURS! at a time (Praise Jesus!!!) for several days this weekend. It was very windy and a bit cold, so it was necessary to have a full hat on and hood up and fastened, but it was all good. She had lots of fun swinging, drawing, chippin' and playing soccer.
Have a great day!
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