Just Tripping Along The Freakazoid

My sister and I just laughed so hard my stomach still hurts. And of course it was a topic prolly only we find funny and is very unPC in a way When I visited at the end of April. Ssome kids down the block found supposed tadpoles and gave my nephew one of them. Since then my sister has been dealing with this thing. She's been like I have not cleaned the water or anything and it still lives. She then was asking me how long it takes for a tadpole to turn into a frog - and I said hmm and teasing said about 4 - 6 weeks (I think really most varieties itakes about 8 - 10 weeks) Well this set her off cause she was like Julie it is a frog head and tail and no legs, it is deformed. I wanna get rid of it. I have it on the microwave and it is just like staring at us. So I start teasing - well you left it on the microwave so it got zapped and is deformed now and is prolly going to turn into a monster – or maybe it will never grow its legs . And I go on about well you could oopsie it inttoil...

Was getting gas yesterday and pulled in and there is a pickup truck with a big boat. I pull up and ask for my $10.00 worth and watching finally notice the guy up on the boat fillig it up - he is shaking his head going, "Shit, oh damn, shit." Well we keep getting our gass and he is muttering and occasionally grinning so I have to ask next time I catch his eye, "How much" "306 gallons and I thought it was not empty, oh shit." My next thoughts are - "Crap fill my tank hurry before he sucks the damn gas station dry" lol ------------ My co worker is a goof but then so am I - so we are always laughing. He was telling me flag football stories yesterday as he was preparing for the schools annual staff vs players softball game. He use to use the hup swivel step to keep his flag safe. So here is this grown man demonstrating how he'd be running and then do a "hup" and like shot his hip out and over and skip while still running. He said ...

Well been long week - Thursday was my anniversary - well ex-anniversary now I guess. It is also the day my ex called and said he had signed and I needed to sign the property settlement divorce papers as that is the major step in the divorce (still have to do the file in court and he wants to do it early so I am whatever) so hey is that a life cycle for you or what... married and the separation official process all on the same day.... we have biologic cycles, weather cycles, oceanic cycles, geologic cycles, bank checking cycles, menstrual cycles, guess my relation went in a big cycle too.... funny - more than feeling melancholy over being anniversary I was more depressed over fact I was not depressed about being divorced (well separated, official court stamp still needed for the d word) and yet I thought I should be and then realized what really hit me is the not being in a relationship Friday had to sit through this web conference for work that was not scheduled until 3pm - who sche...

Keeping Busy Whew- had an awesome day Sunday – went to a concert with a friend from work – traveled up the parkway to Asbury Park and the Stone Pony to see John Eddie and Lisa Marie Prelsey – that was fun. We got to Asbury park early and fond it is a run down place and true shore town as the venus the stone pony is across from the boardwalka dn the ocean and nothing really was open. We walked around a bit, hit a local dive to have a drink watching the locals. My friend enjoyed teasing me as I was facing her and she started decribing this one person. My back was of course to the person and from the colorful description what is the first thing I wanna do??? Turn around, and of course I can’t, not in a place like this and her describing this person. Don't look, don't, okay drop a napkin damn she moved, try to stretch damn she moved, stop laughing at me Donna and stop telling me all the funny, I wanna see dman it. Actually the person I went with was funny and kept getting me in...

Finals week for one college class I teach and last lecture and lab this week for the other with final next Tuesday. My students conned me into driving out to the college yesterday to hold a review for them. I am such a push over - hour drive out and back to help them review... but I was glad some showed up and if it helps them... then that is what matters. That is the type of person I am - kinda pain in the ass for me - but it matters to me to help people out and do stuff. So many people today don't take the extra step or only sometimes do or even end up getting kicked or ignored I figure enough shit comes from other sources why be a source of that myself... of course that leads to sucker being printed on forehead and ending up in situations that are really more pain than pleasure... but I keep sticking my hand out to help and sometimes yeah it gets chopped off... I suppose the practical side of me knows one day the hand does not grow back, one day I do not hold it out... But u...

Awesome field trip, the students were great, weather rocked and we stopped by Pat's Steaks in Philly on way back for lunch. And I did not get lost, lose any students or have anyone injured - even though we had to go down a couple of outcrops on our butts, yay prides, butts and all intact! The students enjoyed it, many never having really done anything like this and saying they never had a teacher who made them do stuff like this or made them laugh and the like. I mean I had them up and down the hillside, on hands and knees peering at rocks, digging in the dirt for sediment, drinking from the stream and acting like a bunch of giddy kids. Plus they learned something too!!! Lol I love checking different things out and traveling and learning. Listening to the students talk was great and fun and the drive up and back was cool too, got into a lot of conversations cause the students range in age from 16 to upper 40s in my class - that is a great mix because the perspectives are so dive...

Well decided to celebrate Cinco de Mayo by cooking – made tortilla chip and green chile crusted salmon, jalapeno chicken sausage, and homemade Mexican rice. Only thing missing was my jalapeno cornbread – I was not that ambitious… lol Finishing up more grading for my geology class. We have a field trip scheduled for tomorrow morning but weather may call it off, well the students think it will be called off, We are meeting at 7:30 and if I can break into the college if still raining, we will have the field trip anyways – yes they are not getting a day off – I am a "hard ass make them work" teacher… :-P If we do go, should be fun. It is a nice location in the middle of Philadelphia – yes a park in the city and yes geology there too – lol Actually to do most field trips I have to have the students drive at least an hour or so (and listen to them whine) cause well southern NJ is FFFFLLLLAAAATTTT – lol Not to dis where I live but except for the funny make me laugh so hard I chok...

Hooray tests are graded Hooray Hooray Hair is shorter (been trying for a long time and finally got my usual - straight so it just hangs at my shoulders and my bangs are right about eyebrow length - wow a real rebel in hair fashion - and oh I have never, ever colored my hair at all, not dye, or paint or as my crack-addle brained sister once did.. flashback coming up Oh My God It's PINKKKKK - screams of true terror screams heard through the house... MY SCALPPPPPPPPP Its pink are you bleeding Beck? Oh my god Beck your head.. its PINKKKKKKKKKKKK Calm down what hap... Wait I gotta stop laughing - ph shit Beck your whole entire Its was supposed to work, Jessie is so going to dieeeeeeee, oh my god its pinkkk Beck what exactly - can I see the dye package maybe there is a way to reverse package thrust at me as she whimpers Um beck this is a package of Tropical Cherry Koolaid - see the Koolaid man - where is the... Oh shit - you didn't I didn't;t have any money and Jessie read in Te...

Okay feeling better - getting back on track - lol - whew and blech and phoeey to the up and down - sent sisters mother day's cards and a most useful gift - McDonald's coupons - lmao - yes either to send the kids out or to escape and just veg...

I think things are messed up bad and I never meant to do it god help me if she does something stupid... I have been trying to do the right, nice thing... i think I am failing... death, despair, the cancer and shit are winning.. trying to stay more in the mndset like my last posts... but I am a bit worried here... not for me, for her... I found myself, my cente even if it is not where I want it (hence the three strikes title cause you all know what comes next in that saying).... but I actually am ok with that just upset with this tangled web.. it si soooo, I can;t see the start point anymore - lol but the end point is starting to scare me crap

Well had an ok weekend - too short kinda but when is it not (well I suppose if you work, or have a horrible family reunion to attend too or get into it with some skanked out ho who is trying to steal your boyfriend/girlfriend... not that I have to worry about the last or prolly ever will...) But Saturday was ok - taught my lab in the morning - we did shorelines and beaches - aka why those idiots buying million dollar plus homes in California and here along NJ shore are idiots and throwing their money away and why people Wildwood laughing their asses off as Ocean City and towns North of WW spend millions of tax dollars to pump sand onto the beaches that is swept away by nature and deposited guess where - Wildwood - LMAO - hehehehe - wait I pay taxes although I do not live in a shore town - yet somehow some of my taxes still go to beach replentishment.... oh FUBAR Anyway after lab a person from work, her son's school 4-8th grade puts on a musical every year and his babysitter ...

Okay had to see meaning of quote I ended last entry with Viva La Loca (cause I like that song but like another song with a french phrase that I embarassed myself with because I did not know the meaning and got into a funny conversation with someone.... I had to check so if I am warbling this chorus in the middle of somewhere I will not blush) - in freetranslation.com - this came back I LIVE THE LUNATIC So hey it works for me :) I am a Lunatic and living so whew that fits and if I ever find that special woman then maybe I will type to her Adorar al loco :-D

Starting with a big WAHHOO – got my contract for next year – I have my job for another year – the job that leaves me frustrated and exhilarated, overworked and getting to do new things. I love it but find it very hard and overwhelming quite often. Also working on these curriculum things with teachers – whew some teachers are very very worried about writing the curriculum and I am actually scared because I have never done this – it is like doing the trapeze without a net – I have no f*ing idea what to do really or where this will end up Hmmm side ramble – I have never done a trapeze – I'd love to try but I have a feeling it would end up like this awful experience at Epcot Center in Florida Epcot has the different countries and each country has a ride or theme activity and then a restaurant and such. Well in Norway or such they have Viking themed stuff. One thing is this Viking ship playground. Well I had to go on it cause well I go on all the playground stuff at Disney as well a...

Ever get to a place where your heart is going in two opposite directions and screwing your soul and mind over as it rips you apart so bad you physically hurt? Yea? Me too... Ari Scott - Fill Of Love (written by: Ari Scott) fill of love all i ever wanted was to be accepted and all i ever wanted was not to be rejected and all i ever wanted was just some love love love love love love love love all i ever wanted was an explanation of life and the universe and why it's here and why we are here upon this earth wanting and needing love love love love love love love love i need someone who can explain these things to me and like me for who i am and not go away when things get sticky dirty and weak bu-duh bu-buh bu-dup-a-dup buh bu-dup all i ever wanted was some adoration and all i ever needed was some adulation and if you can give me these things then i'll give you the time and love love love love love love love love i need someone who can offer these things to me and like me for who...

Been working to update my web site and adding stories including the Online Love stuff I mentioned earlier http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jstratton1/

Okay I guess sometimes I just get a little enthusiastic when I teach. I tend to move around and not stay still as it is – I start out up front by the projector and overhead. But slowly I start walking around up and down the rows and sometimes even talking from the back. Well by now I hope the students are a little use to it. Well especially lately I know I have really been getting into the topic I have been teaching – plate tectonics. Well I see the amusement on my student's faces as I say things or do things or ramble on and make odd phrases – cause my blondeness shows through (not in an overtly bad way) in my teaching. Well tonight I am talking about convergent plate boundaries – places on the Earth where hundreds to thousands of miles (should be kilometers but since the United States is like one of three idiot countries not using the metric) well these pieces of crust come moving together creating over time mountain ranges like the Himalayans. Now I am already skating on thin...

Below are a few songs by Savage Garden – I love their stuff – especially the CD titled Affirmation To me that CD is like one massive love story/dedication – it just really for me hits the way I view some things and if I ever feel enough to dedicate the CD to you, well then that means the romantic sap in me is rearing its head and you mean a lot – of course I could say that about a lot of songs – my relationship Lyrics file I keep is like up to 50+ pages – lol and always adding songs every day Anyhoo Day started off with a bang – literally – I fell outta bed cause I forgot to set the alarm and was almost late for my workshop so in a hurry and got tangled up in the sheets – I am always getting tangled up in something – lol I am a klutz both physically and mentally – tripping over thoughts and words – lol - I joke about being blonde and such but I really am a frazzled, rambling, spacey blonde more often than not - that's me - deal or leave me a lone - after 30 seconds my short temr me...

So watching the L word and really liking it – YAY for renting – BOO I only have basic cable…, also grading labs, having a kitten claw its way up my leg... just a normal Thursday night/Friday morning. Made it through my meeting Wednesday without major puking I was sooooo nervous and it went okay. I got all upset and it was not too bad. Had a chance to get a free kitten Wednesday so I went for it. It is orange and white and named Gyro Too - I have a history of naming animals after foods... hmmm let's see Cocoa, mustard, mayonaise, gyro, cheesesteak, I could continue but have embarrassed myself enough on this subject My mind finally stopped the hectic ramble as today was a little slower and tomorrow is paperwork catch up day – never thought I'd be saying PAPERWORK IS AWESOME I guess never say never – you never know what may happen, almost anything is possible just usually we don’t get what we want or wish or desire or we get it in bucketloads and choke on it but all things have...

Not what I normally write - but I really liked it... i can hear it by J.E.S. April 2005, I can hear it. It has been going on for the last hour. I could hear it in the bedroom as I lie on top of the neatly made bed. I could hear it in the bathroom as I sat against the wall staring at the toilet. I could hear it in the kitchen as I stood at the sink just looking at the drain. Intermingled with the steady caress of raindrops on my roof it comes through again. Every two minutes. It slices through all other thought, noise, activity. I pull the comforter I keep on the couch over my head muffling the sound of the rain. I start to relax, perhaps I am…. BEEP I curl into a ball as with that simple, basic sound I feel the breath ripped from my lungs. The comforter slides to the floor forgotten as the couch shakes in time to the raindrops, the shudder of the couch matching the heaving sob that rolls from the deepest pit of my stomach up through my chest and glides up the back of my throat...

Decided to try and keep track of what I am doing just to see what a day is like - and I will be honest - I missed stuff I did - just could not write and remember everything - I should wear a pedometer and see how much I walk too - lol - and this is not the busiest day I have had lately - this is pretty slow Thursday up at 6 to get myself and daughter ready 7 - drive to drop daughter off with my ex at his house and coordinate some things 740 - get to work - answering phone messages, printing workshop materials and all sorts of projects first period 755 - 845 Spanish class comes in and helping students creating Spanish children's books in Publisher - damn line tool work, damn it work, work, live, you can do it.............., um student so and so how about we try something else - lol - Teacher forgot ALT codes for Spanish characters so I Googled for her and printed a few sheets for reference - we got the students typing everything up no excuses - lol we are styling now!!!!!!!!! Spanis...