lame excuse

it's thursday, so that means a faculty meeting at 8:00 a.m.....ugh.  our principal always tells us to be there on time because she starts the meeting right at 8:00.  this morning one teacher had the nerve to come waltzing in to the meeting at 8:05, and do you know what her excuse was?  "they were catching a guinea pig!"  what a lame excuse!!!  and guess who that teacher was....ME!!!!!!!

i walked into my living room at 7:40, ready to go.  we were even going to be there 5 minutes early because it only takes about 15 minutes to get to our school.  when i stepped into the living room i expected to see the two varmints taking care of last minute business---stuffing backpacks, tying shoes, etc.  but, OH NO..............

colby had a laundry basket in his hands, dangling it upside down, and spencer was armed with my swiffer broom.  i'm not really sure which one said it, but i heard, "he went that way!!!!"  if i was a cartoon character right at that moment, my face would have been blood red and steam would have been pouring from my ears and nostrils!  it was only the 2nd day that squirt was allowed out of his cage, and he was already loose!

i stood there a moment watching the 3 of them running around in circles around my chair and daryl's recliner.  i remember thinking, "of course this is happening.  why should i be surprised? this is my life.  this is what they do!!!!"  the varmints didn't find this whole situation nearly as stressful as i did.  they were laughing every time squirt outsmarted them and ran away.

i was getting madder by the second.  normally i'm pretty quiet in the mornings because daryl is still asleep when we leave for school.  but i'm fairly certain i was yelling this morning!  i remember shouting about being late for my meeting and that squirt was NEVER allowed out of his cage in the mornings before school.  

it took us nearly 15 minutes to catch squirt!  we almost had him right at the beginning of the chase.  spencer and i managed to corner him underneath daryl's chair, and we told colby to reach under and grab him.  so what did colby do?  he raised the footrest on the chair and squirt ran right out!!!!  ahhhhhh!!!!!!!!

i don't really think we were the victorious ones in the end.  i think squirt just decided that he had messed with us long enough and stopped running.  what a morning!  and i hadn't even gotten to school yet!  {let's just say school was just as dramatic as my morning at home...}

this afternoon after school was much better, though.  i finally got my hair cut!  i have been resisting the urge to cut my bangs for the past two weeks.  they were driving me nuts, but i knew that if i trimmed them, i'd just jack them up like i've done every other time i cut them!

after the haircut, daryl and i went to dinner at copeland's.  it was nice just to be with him.  then we went to see the movie slumdog millionaire.  thanks to sammy smor and her man!!! they rented an entire theater and invited 100 or so of their friends/family to come watch the movie. i had never seen it.  it was a very intense movie, but i really liked it.  {thanks for coming to babysit, grandma!  you rock!}

photo of the day #119

movie night

that's earline waving at the camera!  everyone else just groaned when i took the picture!

quote of the day:  "Hey Mrs. Hayes!  Did you know cavemen discovered Venus?" ~one of my darling students "discovered" this little-known fact today as we were doing research on the planets....