another priceless conversation

While at the gym tonight, I was watching Locked Up (a great show about prisons/inmates on MSNBC). I began laughing uncontrollably when I heard this conversation:

booking clerk: Are you on any medications?
inmate: Crack cocaine. And prozac. That's for depression, you know.

Perspective

Today, I got to hang out with a certain 5 year old that I seriously love. We were talking a walk to the park with my dog, and on the way home, started talking about how hungry we were....

Mycah: I'm starving!

Me: Me too! We'll cook dinner when we get back.

Mycah: Actually, people who are starving are dying because they don't have any food. So we are just really hungry.

She's a smart one, that Mycah Rae!

Reality

some days, life sucks.

today is one of those days.

Total Confusion

Today was just like any other - except for the baby shower after school I forgot about. And also forgot to buy a gift for. I decided make a Wal-Mart run during lunch, figuring I had about 45 minutes to get there, figure out something to buy, and get back to school before kids started filing into my room. On the way back to school, I realized I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do with the kids who would be walking into my room in 10 minutes. I got back to school, threw something together, and walked into the hallway to greet my 5th graders. As I entered the hallway, 2 of my kids walked by with their violins. I looked at them strangly, and asked them where they were going (they were walking past my room). Maria looked at me and replied "to strings." I asked them WHY they were going to strings - it was time for them to come to me for reading. Louie (who looked really confused at this point) stopped and said "but Miss Miles. It's WEDNESDAY. We don't HAVE reading today." To which I replied a defeated "oh. that's right."

I just saw a bumper stick on the back of a car that said I'm a Girl Gone Wild.

It was definitely a man in his 70's driving.

Takin' It Step by Step

If you're lucky, this will be my last NKOTB entry...for awhile. I've been trying to think of ways to recap the night, and without being there, it's almost impossible. I've come up with a few, though...

1: Donnie Wahlberg STILL has the right stuff. I'm just sayin....

2: I've never screamed over boys like that. Ever.

3. BEST CONCERT of my LIFE. Seriously.

4. Doing an NKOTB song for a talent show my senior year of college DEFINITELY paid off when it came to Hangin' Tough. I did all the dances right along with them.

5. A woman sitting behind us asked me "so how old were you when they came out?" She was definitely MUCH older than me...so think twice about making fun of me now.

6. I bought the new cd. And LOVE it.

7. Need I say more?

Hangin' Tough:

I was the recipient of much flack today at work about going to the NKOTB show last night. Let me assure you, internet world:

I'm unashamed. Completely.

More to come :-)