My new Baby.

Since she is so new, I don't have name for her yet, but am pleased to announce the new addition to my family. She has about 40 miles under it's belt...I've been the only driver since mile 14. The light doesn’t do her justice, it’s a really deep, solid blue color.

Under the hood she has 140 hp, 4-cylinder, purrs like a cat engine.

Interior she has air conditioning, cd player, aux input jack for ipod, etc. She has a cool digital odometer & speedometer. She gets 36 mpg on the highway. I have included some pictures. Many friends have had babies this year, so I didn’t want to feel left out. I wanted to share my baby announcement, too! If you are in town...I can’t wait to drive you somewhere, if you are out of town...maybe I can drive and visit you soon!

A new day

One of my sisters and I have a new name for Thursday...it's Friday Eve. We've decided it sounds better than Thursday.

So, Happy Friday Eve! It's so close I can taste it.

Oh...on the agenda this weekend. Test drive 2-3 cars. Next week...it's probably buying a new car!

YIPPEE!

Countdown

Okay...

11 school days until the AP Physics Exam
25 school days until the AP Physics Final
31 school days until the last day of finals

Oh my...I can't believe how time flies.

The Meal

Last weekend was so much fun! We ate a lot...here's our Saturday night meal!

Today...I am starting the big car shopping expedition. More on that later!

Spring Break.

I am in one of those careers that has built in holidays. I really needed a week off, here came spring break. While I don't want to brag...I think everyone deserves a spring break. Should we adopt the French way of life...I believe they have a 40 weeks of work per year. What are we doing working 50. And who really takes their 2 week vacation these days?

Now, as a teacher I have this whole week off. I went to Washington, DC this past weekend to hang out with my parents. We went to the natural history museum, saw the cherry blossoms, went to the air and space museum, sat at the Hirshorn museum, bought a digital camera, found awesome fabric at G Street Fabrics. As far as meals, we had two awesome meals. One was at the Lost Dog Cafe, one was at Sweet Water Tavern, and the last was at the Dog Fish Grill. Yummy.

I then drove north to a small town just a bit past Baltimore to Abingdon. Here is where I spend 2.5 days with a college roommate, Jess, her husband and 5.5 month old, Mikaela. It was so fun hanging out with a stay at home mom and her daughter.

As far as this weekend, more college friends. Chris and Leah will be here later tonight. I am so excited here is the menu for the weekend.

Friday Dinner: Vegetable Enchiladas, Guacamole, Refried Black Beans, Salsa, and Chips.
Friday Dessert: Chocolate cake or Ice Cream (Moose Tracks)

Saturday Breakfast: Pancakes, Bacon or Sausage, Eggs, Toast, Coffee
Saturday Lunch: Chicken Salad in toasted bread bowls, Grapes, Apples, Root Beer
Saturday Dinner: Spinach Stuffed Chicken, Vegetable Saute Couscous, Salad
Saturday Dessert: Chocolate cake or Ice Cream

Now that I have a digital camera...I start to document more of my life.

10 more weeks until Summer break.

A Bad Day Revisited

Just so you know this is how my day started...
1] My neighbors were on their porch drinking at 2 AM loudly talking, which kept me awake most of the time between 2AM - 5:30 AM.
2] My automatic coffee maker didn't put the grounds in for me last night...so I had to make my coffee twice because the first pot was just hot water.
3] There was ice on my windshield, which I had to scrap...which required me finding my scrapper since this is the first time this winter I had to scrap.
4] While I was scraping my windsheild, my neighbors were still partying from last night and came out to see how I liked the ice. (I was already a 1/2 hour later than my usual departure from my house to work, due to a sleep in, and they were drunk).
5] I needed gas in my car, gas tank door frozen shut.
6] Pump at gas station wasn't on for the morning yet, so I had to wait 5 minutes for the ever efficient gas attendant to actually turn on the gas.
7] I forgot to drink my orange juice, so I was starving by the time I got to work.
8] Before I got to work today, I had clocked 40 hours of working this week. It's only Thursday.

I think I am having a bad day and possibly a bad week.

AP Physics

Here I am on a Sunday morning, I just have done 2.5 hours of studying to teach my AP Physics class tomorrow. My head is tired already and it isn't even 11 AM. I have never studied or worked this hard in my life. I love teaching a higher level of physics, but really what is magnetic flux. Seriously that's what I am teaching on Monday.

You know, I don't even think I remember learning about this in college. Also, who really remembers those freshman level classes anyway. You know if I went back to undergrad now, I would get so much more out of those classes. I wished I paid more attention or at least studied a little bit more. (I am a nerd).

Thank God for good students. My students are gracious with me. I think I have them fooled into thinking I might know what I am talking about. Although Friday, they asked if I could go on to the next lesson and I said "No, I just couldn't." The real reason...I looked at my notes and I saw magnetic flux and the internal dialog was, "What the hell is that?" No, we can't go on...I can't let you get too ahead of A day folks. I teach 2 classes of AP Physics students....I meet with them every other day for the entire year. Instead of just having them for a semester.

Well..enough procrastinating. I have 60 Honors Physics lab reports to grade and am trying to work out #4 on that AP Physics Quiz I am giving on Wednesday. I'll leave with this quesition...is it fair to put a question on a quiz that the teacher can't do or understand?