Ewww

This definitely falls into the category of weird things that you'd rather not know.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/27/insect.dye.ap/index.html

I mean, I can see how if you were trying to keep kosher or were a vegetarian, that eating a daily diet of little squished bugs would be deeply unsettling. I prefer to file the idea in the category of "things that are true, but dwelling on them would cause some sort of psychosis."

Other things in that category include all the partially fact-probably true-nobody knows for sure kind of things we all use to repeat to each other in middle school, like the number of spiders you ingest in your sleep over your lifetime, etc.

Still....ewww.

We're not in Kansas anymore

Well, I had great expectations of filling a blog with witty or deeply profound quotes on a daily basis. But as you can see, the whole "daily basis" thing is not quite happening. I guess I didn't realize that you have to have some sort of working memory left at the end of the day to remember any great quotes. Aha! Now we see the problem. (Sorry to disappoint, Mary Wilsford:) )

(Cute quote of the day: "That's astrocious!" said one of my students after looking at her terrible handwriting on one of her papers. It definitely was astrocious.)

So, if you haven't heard the news by now, which would be unbelievable since news travels at the speed of light in our varied communities here, we're going to Delaware! You can read Josh's blog (http://joshua627.blogspot.com) for all the details of the weekend, but man oh man, what a whirlwind. As of April 1st, if all the ordination stuff goes smoothly, Josh will be the assistant pastor at Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Newark (which is pronounced "NEW-ark," not "NEW-erk" like the one in Jersey).

Finding a house, packing an apartment, finishing a job, cramming in last minute fellowship...it's no wonder my head is scrambled!

the guessing game

That's right folks...name that illness!

Here are the clues...

1. Hacking cough
2. Super sore chest
3. Voice like a man or a frog, depending on the hour
4. Child in class out with severe bronchitis today

Any guesses?

Well, my guess was probably the same as yours, so I signed myself up for a doctor's appointment ASAP. (Which is rare for me...I'm definitely a tough-it-out-unless-I'm-dying kind of girl.) But since we're flying to Delaware for the weekend for a church interview, I figured I shouldn't give everyone the "gift that keeps on giving" when I shake their hands.

Turns out it's just an upper respiratory infection. (That shouldn't make me happy, but it really did!) Antibiotics are my magic pills.

So, okay, this is not really a funny quote, unless you count my kids asking me all day,
"Mrs. Erin, are you sick?" as I coughed and hacked my way through the day. I could have thought of a clever response, I'm sure, but the reaction time was just a wee bit slow today!

in the beginning...

Josh: "So, how attached are you to your socks?"

Me: "Ha ha! Um, I don't know, why?"

Josh: "Well....I accidentally vacuumed up one of them today."

sigh....

This is why I have a quote board now.....

Remember your freshman year in college when everyone had the ubiquitous dry erase board for writing down those things that seemed oh-so-funny at 3 am? "Ha ha! We're cool college students now...we have quote boards!"

So, my life seems like an entirely different existence from those first days living away from home. But somehow, I never have completely escaped the urge to write down the absurd, loony, or downright funny things I hear and read.

So here's a little window into the things in my day that make me laugh...and here's to extra socks. :)