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Teacher Work Day

Today was a teacher work day.   As I posted on facebook today, 30 to 40 years later and I still LOVE teacher work days!   The beach was packed with what looked like high school students. 

Now, I consider myself slightly liberal.  (Many others consider me a left-wing commando, flaming liberal).  I confess I don't mind that description at all.  Anyway, even me with my live and let live attitude was slightly shocked  with all of the tatoos, body piercings, and butt cheeks hanging out of microscopic bikini bottoms that were intentionally designed not to cover anything.  And these were young, normal girls who were acting totally appropriately.  They in no way acted as if they were skanks in search of a pole.

Good lord have times changed. 

Anyway, sweet T had a fine time playing in the surf.  We then had lunch and returned home.  Dot stayed home cooking, as we had friends over for a small dinner party.

Of course, true to form with my crazy sister, disaster struck.  Remember her greasy hands pulling the cord out of the socket, slipping and hitting the underside of the cabinet and requiring stitches on thanksgiving day a few years ago? 

Well, this time her greasy hands dropped a big bottle of Baileys.

It shattered and baileys went everywhere...along with glass.  Of course what made it worse, is that she was mopping it up  and slipped on the slick tile, fell down, and bruised her knee.   Its all swollen and looks like it will be bruising with all colors of the rainbow.   She doesn't think its broken, and can move it well.


























Of course, the final result of the desserts was delish, even without the baileys.   We had a rum cake, fresh fruit, and a pecan pie.   The sports bottle/sippy cup you see on the table was filled with some maple boubon sauce stuff, courtesy of the pioneer woman.  Slather that stuff on all of it and you will no longer wish for whip creme.  Its just that good.

So the house is back in order, and we will probably be having a slow weekend.

Long Weekend

We have a long weekend coming up, courtesy of St. Petes having scheduled a teacher work day.   T and I have big plans to hit the beach and dodge scattered rainclouds.   Surf will be churning, so T will be quite annoyed that Mom will make her keep her swim shoes on, due to the danger of jellyfish.

T's bday party is shaping up nicely...despite a number of people who have still FAILED  to RSVP.  What's up with that???  I'll refrain from further comment here in an effort to keep it clean!

  I've ordered the loot bags for the kids, and they should be delivered shortly.   Only thing left is give the numbers to the rink, write a check, then walk away.  No muss, no fuss. 

I can't wait!

My Little Leprechaun

The Maxi Dress (again)

Dress #2 Photo shoot

Big Girl Dress!

We hung out at The Falls mall this afternoon, and T got two dresses from Justice...her new fav store b/c she considers it a big girl store. Luckily, everything was 40% off today, so it wasn't too bad. We got two dresses today. One for Easter that Mom likes, and this one that T fell in love with and HAD to have.

I recall being about her age, and having a Maxi dress. Loved it. Saw the same feeling in T's face when she spied this little number. She's thrilled that is "long". She has it on now and is refusing to take the thing off.

Her comment to me...."this would look really good with high heels".

Yeah, dream on, kid. You're still six. Just frickin' six. Not 16.

The Highs and Lows

After my busy day yesterday, T and I took off to the mall for some dinner and to stroll around. T had a fab time, as always, running around the mall's open areas.







































And then there are the lows. T was a big fat grump today after school. Not even her new birthday shirt that I ordered from Etsy cheered her up. She was just plain tired, cranky, and hungry.

I, however, was thrilled with the shirt. The bow can either be worn on the shirt, or in her hair. I'm thinking she whould wear it with some black capri leggings and a short, hot pink, tutu skirt. ...or maybe just hot pink leggings. haven't decided.

meanwhile, t came busting out of the cafeteria after school this evening, announcing "how do you like my new look?" She was very please with herself. Megan in her class gave her pigtails during aftercare. Of course, her dear old mom is always trying to convince her to let me give her pigtails, and she always refuses. But some snot-nosed kid asks her, and suddenly pig tails are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Peer pressure. Figures.

This and That

Well, I got the new license, but not without a bit a drama. Off I went to No Dade, only to find out that it is the only location within miami-dade county that REQUIRES one to have an appointment. Of course, NO WHERE on their damn website do they mention this. I can understand why they require appts. I poked my head in to check out what was going on inside, and it was a ZOO.

So, I quickly took myself off to another location which did accept appointments at the midway mall. I was in and out in 30 minutes. Seriously. For all my bitching, this was the frickin DISNEY LAND of DMVs. They had it down. 20 stations were manned to help the customers. Numbers given out to the customers. Chairs to sit and wait in.

Luckily, my new DL has a photo of me with my eyes open. The nice man let me take a do-over shot. In fact, he took one look at the first picture and said, "Why don't we take this one over". Yep. That bad. I was so concerned that I wouldn't have closed eyes in the picture, that I looked like a deer in headlights on it. Had my eyes open so big that I looked, in his words, "really scared".

I've been really busy at work with arrest warrants. a number of them. The affidavits in support thereof were over 50 pages. Can't say anything about them here yet, but if you tune into local news on Wednesday, you just might here about it...that is, if we can catch up with the defendants before they flee.

We are off to superwheels skating rink bright and early on Saturday. Going to book T's birthday party there. its set for 3/31.

That's it for now!

Day off tomorrow

Tomorrow I'm taking the day off work. Unfortunately, its NOT going to be any fun. I was notified courtesy of the Fla. Dept. Motor Vehicles that I have to renew my license and am unable to do it online. I must go into the agency. Unfortunately for me, the next available appointments are AFTER my license expires.

With no appointment, That means I will probably be there ALL. FRICKIN'. DAY.

I suspect that I have to go in b/c i have a really great, really old picture on my d/l. From back in the day when I was popping diet pills and was skinny. Really skinny. And young... in my late 20's early 30's. I call it my Barbie doll license I looked so good in it (as compared to other ID photos which are always just BAD due to minimum wage high school photographers).

Of course, the upside of having a photo bearing an image of me in all my late-40's over-weight glory, is that I shall never again suffer the stunned looks from merchants when they would view my license photo and compare it to me today. I just know they were all saying in their minds, " Oy, what happened to her!"

So, tomorrow morning I'll be fixing my hair and putting on makeup, in a sad attempt to improve the new shot.

I'm just hoping the get a shot with my eyes open!