The dog park opened today....WOOT

The Raising Canes dog park opened this weekend. We had a blast with the Kabillion dogs that showed up. Raising Cane's is a resturant that only serves French fries and chicken fingers. It is also incredibly addictive. Since David and I seem to have a ticket to get on the fat train we had to avoid the free chicken strips and lemonade. We got these gift bags and they had what appeared to be a cookie. It has chocolate on it, so I figured it was a people cookie. Upon taking a bite out of one, I discovered that it was a dog biscuit, but it tasted like a cookie, just a really hard cookie. That's right, I took a bite out of a dog biscuit. I've really got to get my sweet tooth under control.

My first week of school

Okay....I'm aloud to breath now. My first week of summer school was pretty hectic. I might as well be back in school, and I should come to terms with the fact that I will probably be in school forever. My schedule so far starts with summer school at 7:30, teacher training from 2:30 until 4:30 and then usually studying, doing homework, making lesson plans, and reading teacher stuff until about 11. I came home yesterday afternoon and slept for 2 hours. I like it; it's just a lot of stuff crammed into 5 weeks. I also need to begin counting my weight watcher points again.....boo. Teachers tend to have free donuts and cookies everywhere, which I totally succumb to.

That's right, I'm smart.

I got my Praxis scores today.....190 out of 200! When the telephone said my scores to the TBR ladies they went "WOOOOO!" Oh yeah, I get the Praxis recognition of excellence for high scores.

David's parents are coming into town today to have tons of Liziana fun. If it doesn't rain, I want to go on a swamp tour.

David and I called Ash on the phone yesterday to see about the chicken pox, and he said to David, and I quote "When I'm big, like 16, I want to be artisting all the time." He also asked if we had lions and crocodiles in Louisiana and wanted to know if I had grown the pumpkins that were in the pumpkin cookies I sent him.

I'm a brunette now. Pictures to come in the near future.

Is everyone having bad luck lately?

Elizabeth broke her leg in 3 places, Ashur has the chicken pox even though he to the vaccine, and Christy had to go to the cruise emergency room and get hooked up to an IV b/c of back spasms. Good grief, it's only a matter of time, before everyone I know has some other weird health problem. Everyone unaffected, take vitamins, drink orange juice, avoid itchy kindergarteners and stay away from steep hills.

GET WELL SOON, EVERYONE ELSE :)!

Peanuts

Okay, so we did it, we bought a wii. I couldn't hold out any longer. I know it's kind of a frivolous purchase, but we had a blast with it yesterday and should have for many days to come. This also is a very powerful incentive for coming to visit us.

In other news, I'm pretty sure I'm allergic to peanuts. I've been eating peanut butter a lot lately, and it's something I used to never eat. I kept getting these uber-stomach aches. I looked it up online and apparently your throat does not have to close up if you're allergic, you stomach might just beat you up from the inside. Peanuts are now on my no-no list. Except for the Charlie Brown ones.

I start teaching next Tuesday, wish me luck. Ashur has the chicken pox. My parents and Christy are in Venice. This made me super-happy on the way to work this morning, check it out you nay sayers:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90584068

Recent Work by David Carpenter

I promised slides and here they are. David made these shovels. They are ceramic overlaid with lace. I most definitely cannot explain it like David can, but the shovel pieces are essentially about the death of the blue collar job, and the value of manual labor in America. The first piece is an over sized helmet in a school chair, which reminds me of a dunce cap. The second piece is a biomorphic form (don't ask). I think they are beautiful! (My favorite it the second shovel.)

Workin' for the weekend

After an extremely hectic Mother's Day at the flower shop, David and I decided to start a garden. Little did we know but an entire system of large, log-size tree roots were right under the spot we were digging. It took us all day, but here is our little vegetable garden. Since I've had such horrid luck with the containers, we'll see if this works. If it doesn't, I'm throwing in the towel. We had a good weekend and perfect weather. I work at the flower shop for another week and a half, and then on the 27th I start summer school. I know I can do it, but I'm still nervous. I feel like I hold all their little futures in my hands. I'll keep you posted.

Hilarious

http://www.thereporter.com/ci_9180205?source=most_viewed

Finding a pitbull in your yard is better than finding one in your hood.

Go shorty, it's your birthday

I had a FABulous birthday. David and I ate sushi and he got me gray chucks, a green ceramic guinea pig and a green bracelet. Baby Christy graduated college and I talk to everyone at the party. We took the dogs for a long walk. We went over to our friend Ryan's house for BBQ in the afternoon. Ashur, Jed, and Isabella sang happy birthday to me over the phone. I told Ash I was a teacher now, and Joe said I should have seen the look of confusion on his face. He said "what is Uncle David?" I said "He's an artist." Ash said "oh.....good he can help me make a T-Rex." Oh the possibilities :). The day was capped off with a super fun Dance party at an art gallery. Sunday we saw Iron Man, which was great, and did pretty much nothing else. It was a great weekend and a great birthday. It's official Chandle <30

Bye Bye, Bunk, Hello Dobasch

We found someone to take Bunk. He's driving all the way from Slidell to get him. My mailman said Bunk was an expensive dog, like a 700 dollar dog. I would only want him cause he's lovable. He does have a small eating-things-you-don't-eat problem. He has eaten a cord to a fan, a cable, and an entire bandanna. I gave him a big big hug this morning and told him to be good because he'll be gone when I get home.

Everyone at work got me a balloon and a Chocolate Dobasch cake for my birthday. It's a special Louisiana cake with like 10 layers of frosting. (I know you're salivating, Cody). Christin also sent me a big bag of her famous watermelon cookies, which I almost ate all of with David yesterday. This American Life premerie was amazing. I love love love that show.

We've got three art openings this evening and then I've gotta get up and go to work in the morning. I hope everyone has a great weekend. 27 in the house!!!!!!!!!!!!!