Trees

I got my trees today. I got 3 Red Robe Locust trees. This is the "before" picture of my very naked back yard.

And this is the guy from Growin' Crazy delivering them. They planted them and everything. BUT, I don't have an "after" photo yet. I'll keep you posted. The arrived at 7:15 AM. Hope the neighbors didn't mind the hydrolic shovel thingy too much!

595

I paid my first mortgage payment today! It was check 595.

Why am I so excited about this?





Because a mortgage payment means I OWN A HOUSE! My very own house that I don't have to share! (Well, except for the dog!)

Spanish I Worksheets

So, I've decided that my first semester cultural project for Spanish 1 is a bust. Frankly, they don't like it and neither do I. So, I'm cutting it out. TODAY. I was going to let them do their presentations, but I couldn't figure out WHY that was a good idea. I mean, then I have to grade it! I think I'll just cut journals 7, 8, and 9 totally. If they turned 7 and 8 (and 9?) in on time, I'll add 10% to the grades for 4, 5, and 6.

We're starting chapter 3 today. Which includes clothing.

Do you have ANY idea how difficult it is to find non-smutty pictures of underwear and panty hose? Geez! I ended up with this photo for panty hose. Which I think look like deflated legs.
And this one for "underwear." Don't even get me STARTED on trying to find ladies' undies!


I hope the worksheet is a success. It SHOULD be, we've done this type of thing before. I'm printing it at MDI and we're not going to double side it so they can cut it apart later for flashcards.

Kim's Outside Office

Lily is afraid of the dishwasher. So, we went outside. She went to the far back corner of the lot, made a little hole and laid there. She REFUSED to get up. I just let her be -- earth is grounding.

Kim's Outside Office, take 2. Like the first time I did this I just really needed some fresh air, sunshine, and getting papers graded. This time I've got a chair and Lily's bed.


She didn't use it!

Underworld Myths

We're studying the Underworld in my Latin class. The myth (and they HAD to accept it!) was to write a myth about the Underworld. As part of the assignment, they also had to PRESENT the myth. This is one of my students presenting her myth.


Another shot of the underworld. The girl in the black toga belongs to this myth. The other is helping (she provided the Dinos)

And the REASON the red-head is in a black toga? She was an "actor" in yet another myth and the math teacher stapled the toga onto her and she couldn't get it off!




Why no faces? (I know, it takes a lot away) Because these aren't my kids and I don't want to blast their photos all over the Internet but the MYTH was worth sharing.

In fact, we're thinking of a way that we can collect everyone's myths and publish them into a book at the end of the semester. It would be a full myth cycle of the 17-odd students in my class. If they don't want to be published, I'd let them off the hook, I'm thinking.

Workin' the Leads

Dad & I bought some leads through a website for home based business opportunities. I'm staying really positive about it all. I've had a couple of good contacts and left a lot of messages. The best part about it is a FREE website I can send my prospects to that explains about the service. They can't enroll or request more info so my lead can't be "scooped."

Oh, the Young Gunz call tonight was awesome. Jesse McPherson was on it. He's 26 and makes $100,000 a year with Pre-Paid Legal. Woot! I want that to be me.

Dad is already at 9 Player's Club points and I've got 5. Yeah for November!

Comma Club

Dad's in the Comma Club already. I'm so proud of him!


I'm next: workin' hard.

Sun, Water & Smaug

So, I've been over-the-top emotional the past week. And no, it's NOT a girl thing! I've been just down and upset and easy to anger.

Today, after helping Dad & Mom outside at THEIR house (grumpy for a while then happy happy) I started to think about something: How long had it been since I'd been in the sun for any length of time?

Yeah, that would be a month. Since our October camping vacation.

NOT GOOD for an Arizona girl!

So, since I have Smaug stowed on my back porch. I grabbed some leftover broccoli soup, a BIG glass of ice water, Lily, and some tests to grade, and spent an hour in the sun. I feel a lot better. I don't know how much grading I really got done (it's hard to grade in full sunlight -- it's glarey) but I am feeling a TON better.

Note to self: More sun. More water.






What on EARTH was I thinking!

Blog Updates

Okay, so I was VERY bad in posting during October. However, being the sneaky person that I am, I'm actually retroactively updating my blog. So, keep an eye on it to see what I was up to in October!

And, yes, I did delete a post from Monday. A student from TCP was killed and I had posted about it. Afterwards, I decided that I didn't really want to post about it. It's sad, it's private, and after getting a very kind comment, I realized that I didn't really think it was appropriate to talk about it.

It's rough, but I'm dealing with it.

It's Exciting!

Woot! Pre-Paid Legal just changed our compensation plan to put in even MORE money and to make it easier to advance. I'm really excited about this. It now only takes 6 SIX people to get to Manager and 21 to get to Director.

I'm putting it out there:

I intend to create three new Director Legs by January 1, 2009 or sooner.
I intend to be an Executive Director by January 1, 2009 or sooner.
I intend to be in the "comma club" for November and December.

Check out the new info at http://www.prepaidlegal.com/go/keldredge