My Journey

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Crack Whore

On Friday, one of my kids read the sentence, "The cow had a cracked horn." as "The cow had a crack whore."
OMG. So funny.
Only none of my kids laughed.
Which proves what low comprehenders they are.
And how far I have to push them before the state test.
And how different they are from my old kids, who would have laughed uncontroablly for at least 30 minutes if someone had made that mistake.
When I asked him to read it again, he said the same thing, at which point I could hear the dean on the other side of the wall start to laugh, and I had to swallow any laughter I had and walk him through the phonetics of why horn is not whore.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Tonight as I was waiting for the train, the guy standing in front of me starts making a really odd face/noise. He does it repeatedly, moving along the track. In my mind, I'm thinking, "What in the hell is wrong with you??" Eventually the person next to me asked him if he was okay and he goes, "I'm hissing at the rats. It scares them, makes them think there's a cat around. You know, cat, meow?" And then he hissed at me. And the guy. I couldn't stop laughing. And the hisser guy rolled his eyes and walked away, like something was wrong with ME.
Oh my goodness.
I live here.
With people like this.

Monday, September 01, 2008

And he still loves me...

Even though we ate veggie hot dogs/brats w/sauerkraut and chili, and corn on the cob 4 times in 6 days. Once we had mac and cheese, too. We were feeling ambitious that day.
Big weekend brunches have been reduced to....cereal.
Tonight, while eating the dinner of hot dogs and corn, he said, "This tastes like home."
"Even though we ate it yesterday, and 2 days before that?" I asked.
"Yep," he said.
You see, we used to plan meals and be super organized and varied in eating and cooking. But then I started working 60 hours a week and commuting 10, and getting up at 4:45....and suddenly, eating the same thing night after night doesn't bother me.
Eventually life will return to normal, right?
Or a new normal will be established.
Maybe we've already found it....in veggie hot dogs, sauerkraut, and corn on the cob :)