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We met October’s fourth grade teacher tonight at the Willow Brook orientation. We met spotz’ first grade teacher this past Tuesday evening. I haven’t met Lug’s teacher at the Oak Ridge Preschool yet, but the Missus has. I think it’s going to be a good year the bunch of us. Things are getting off to a good start. Honestly I find it hard to believe that October is beginning her last year at the Elementary school, but not to worry. We’ll be going to that school for a long time, what with four kids.

I was talking to the Missus the other day about what October reads. I was saying that I don’t see her read very much unless it’s Harry Potter. I was slightly concerned because she read and enjoyed that series so much, but I wasn’t seeing it carry over to other books. I’ve brought home several books for the girl, but she’s the proverbial horse led to water and didn’t really read them. I work in a library where I make many different reading suggestions, so I don’t care if people take or leave my advice. That’s not the point. I just want to see her reading something. The Missus assured me that she reads a great deal at school.

I was prowling through her desk tonight at the orientation when I found a copy of a Laura Ingalls Wilder book she’d checked out from the school library. Turns out the Missus was right and I’ve realized how much October has a life of her own that I don’t know about. Sure I “knew” that before, but seeing is believing and I’m typically a doubting Thomas. Which is really another post for another day.

…the dude, easily twice my size, who decided it was okay to cut ahead of me as I waited in the car line to drop off Lugnut this morning.  Not a big deal, in the grand scheme of things, but highly irritating.  Of course, it didn’t help matters that I called the guy out on it, and that he stopped his car, got out, and yelled at me.  Lug, fascinated by the exchange, said, “That dude in trouble.”

I should have just left it alone, ’cause I don’t want to be making trouble at the preschool.

The Moaning Meme, via Vixen’s Den

5 people who will be annoyed you tagged them.

• Nine Months

4 things that should go into room 101 (??) and be removed from the face of the earth.

• Ticks.
• Ball-point pens.
• Anything disposable that doesn’t have to be.
• Video game systems.

3 things people do that make you want to shake them violently.

• Make mouth noises: smacking lips, chewing loudly, etc.
• Let very young kids run amok and without supervision. I see this all the time at school functions.
• Refuse to be accountable.

2 things you find yourself moaning about.

• The phone, when it rings and I don’t want to talk to anyone.
• The crappy food served in school cafeterias. Would it kill them to have something whole wheat?!

1 thing the above answers tell you about yourself.

• I don’t like annoying most people, ’cause the thought of tagging five people to do this makes me very anxious. So, I just tagged Bos. Now I’m feeling less anxious, ’cause it’s fun to annoy him.

RULES

• Link to the original meme at freelancecynic.com so people know what it’s all about!
• Be as honest as possible, This is about letting people get to know the real you!
• Try not to insult anyone - unless they really deserve it or are very, very ugly!
• Post these rules at the end of every meme!

Selective readers
“This ain’t permanent” I said
But I ain’t back yet

Been a long, strange week
And Friday night was surreal
It was beautiful

But I gotta go
I just fixed up an omelet
And reading Potter

Transformer’s problem:
You spend more time fixing them
than you do playing.

A walk in the woods
yesterday with the boys.
We look for rocks there.

Spotz plays with legos
while the church service goes on.
I think about haiku.

The Missus at home
reads the last Harry Potter,
not wanting its end.