Round and Round I Go

I'm about to go crazy....

When i moved to Louisiana from Pennsylvania i tried to get my registration transfered over, then i didn't have the money to do it so i put it off.

the reason i didn't do it when i had the money at first was because i was missing a piece of paper.  The piece of paper that says i paid my initial sales tax on my vehicle when i registered it in the first place.

When i bought my car, i lived in PA, but i bought my car in OH, and then registered it and paid the taxes in PA.  so purchase paperwork and sales tax paperwork were not together.  I can't find my sales tax paper.

I emailed the Pennsylvania department of transportation (PennDOT),  they are bound by law to not disclose sale tax information so i was redirected to the department of revenue.  Who told me i need to contact penndot.  AAAAHHHHHH

I explained to the nice, clueless,woman that they said they were NOT ALLOWED to help me, and that they (penndot) had given me their information.  So she transfered me to an agent. and I left a message on his voicemail....

He called me back "i'm not sure why they directed you to me... I deal with estate taxes and wills... but here is the number to the department of motor vehicle sales tax"

REALLY?!?  It took three people before they figured out that THAT might be who i need to contact?  i would think PennDOT would know of the existance of that department, thankfully the man at the department of revenue in the office of estate taxes knew that my question regarding proof of my motor vehicle sales tax paid should be directed to the department of motor vehicle sales tax... WOW what a concept!!!

At least i have a direction to go in now

I Have Not Yet Reached That Age... or maybe i have....

There is an age at which adults need to realize and accept that they are no longer teens. That their bodies have more rule on them than they have on their bodies. 

Today my students got to go on a field trip to Skate Heaven, Roller Skate Rink.  And they begged to come roller skating with them.  I was good, really good at roller skating in highschool.  But it's been a good 9 or 10 years since i last put on a pair of roller skates.  But I gave it a shot.

I can still roller skate.  And i still do decently well.  I got a few kids of mine going at a decent pass on their own, and i had a good time and a good work out.

And then I learned how much more it hurts to fall when you're older.

So it was time to get back on the bus and return to school.  I got one of my students off the rink and went to check on her older sister who'd just fallen.  After she was up on her feet again i circled around to leave the rink and help my students get their skates off and turned back in.

One of the "Refs", those employed by the rink to keep watch over the rink, in the rink, and I collided.  He didn't realize i was exiting the rink and tried to cut between the exit and myself.  I couldn't stop, neither could he.

He hit hard.  I heard him lose his breath. I didn't hit as hard as he did, but i did hit my elbow off of his knee.  I have a nice lump and bruise on my elbow.

Lovely...

But i had fun and so did my students

SPIDERS!!!!!

Hello, My name is Rhiannon, and I suffer from arachnophobia.

THERE I SAID IT

I'm pathetic when it comes to spiders.  I get freaked out by pictures of spiders.

My grandmother likes to tell the story of when i was a teenager, freaking out over a spider in the shower.  I screamed as though i was being killed, hit my leg off the faucet, bent the faucet.  Grandma couldn't find the spider even with me pointing at it.  It was small, and was the same color as the wall.

In highschool I had a teacher who had a pet tarantula in his classroom.  I was less than fond of it.  My teacher wanted to show me that they were harmless so he got it from it's tank and stood next to me with it on HIS hand.  I shook and cried.  When the spider escaped from its tank, my teacher told me he'd taken it home while it molted.  when it showed up in the tank a few weeks later, he THEN informed me that it had been loose in the classroom.

I asked him what he would have done had it crawled up by me during class.  His response? "Probably scrape you off the ceiling".

So flash forward to today...

One of my students brought a GIANT remote controlled spider to school today.

I knew it was there, he was good about it.  Only got it out to play at recess

I was watching the play ground, not the ground.

I feel something touch my ankle and.....

THERE WAS THE SPIDER

I screamed, jumped, ran

He laughed, fell on the ground, laughing to hard to even stand back up.

Then he took to chasing girl in my class around with it.  After that the spider was forced to be a captive to his book-sack.

I hope he enjoyed himself.  I'm afraid I'm going to have nightmares.

Is It A Full Moon? Because the Crazies are Out.

This morning, as i sat and waited for a traffic light to turn green, I noticed a large cross at the corner across the street.  In the south, crosses in someone's front yard isn't that uncommon.  It is after all part of the Bible Belt.  What got my attention was that the cross had never been THERE before, and there was a street evangelist standing in front of the cross.

I've been involved in street evangelism (when i was a teenager - something we did at church camp), i can tell you, that standing by  a 4 lane highway at an intersection with a two lane high way and jumping out at the cars, screaming and waving a Bible, is NOT an effective way to bring people to God.

It is, however, an effective way to get hit by a car.  Or carried off in a straight jacket.

I mentioned this to one of my co-workers at work.  She replied, "we passed by there this morning, my daughter kept asking me; ' mommy why is that guy yelling at us?'"

I wonder if he got arrested, i think you might need a permit to be crazy on the side of the road...

My other question is.... How did he get that 6ft+ cross to the street corner?

Shower Shocked!

Today was a busy day. I had a lot to get done.  Dropped Alayna off at day care, went to the camp to clean, came home and finished cleaning, even got my car cleaned out.  Got Alayna from day care and came home to play.

After dinner it was bath time.  Bathed Alayna, got her dressed, left her to play with paw-paw and dee-dee, and went to take a shower of my own.  Got a hot shower going and climbed in to clean off and relax.

Too my surprise when i got out of the shower, 1/2 of my clothes were missing.  My shirt and my bra were gone.  Just gone.  And then i realized i left them near the bathroom door.  My daughter pulled my shirt and bra out of the bathroom by reaching her little fingers under the closed door and getting a hold of the fabric.  so now i'm standing at the door going "um... Denise?" lol.

Thank you Alayna! I love you and appreciate your "help".

So Much to be Thankful For!

Yesterday was Thanksgiving, a time to thankful for what God has blessed us with.  I have been blessed greatly by God in the last couple of years

August 13th, 2009 5:52pm @ Meadville Medical Center, in Meadville, PA, My baby girl, Alayna, was born 7lbs 11oz, 21 1/4 inches long

In February of 2010 I learned that the man I'd always thought was my father, who left when i was 7 and I never heard from again until i was 21 may not be my father. 

In March of 2010 the DNA came back positive, Brent Caldwell, not Mark Weller was my biological father.  So many questions answered.

In May 2010 I got to meet my biological father and the rest of my family in Louisiana.

 In July 2010 I received a job offer to teach Kindergarten at a private christian school outside of Baton Rouge. 

Alayna and I moved to live near my father and so that I could to take the teaching job.  I love my job. And I found a church that feels as homey as the one I grew up in.

August 13th 2010, my angel turned 1 year old.

In September, I met someone.  Someone I all ready knew of, but didn't really know.  We met on facebook, and chemistry was felt immediately, on both side (i know he told me so).

Mike S. and I got to spend some time together recently when he came for a visit.  Yes, I moved from PA to LA and met a guy from my hometown who still lives in PA.

Spending time with him let me know that EVERYTHING i thought i felt I really feel.   I've never been so happy in my life.  I have so many wonderful blessing in my life, how can I be anything but happy?

Kid shows are teaching our kids wrong

Yesterday I heard two things on Sprout (the tv station for toddlers and preschoolers) that was straight up WRONG.

1.) On the sharing show  they said that they would share the apple by cutting it into 3 halves.

2.) On the goodnight show they were talking about insects and they asked some kids what their favorite insects were.  And of course the first answer was a Spider.  Now regardless of what i think of spiders.  Spiders are NOT insects.  They are Arthropods (a creature with a segmented body).  However and Insect is a creature with 3 body segments, 2 antenna, and 6 legs.  Those unnatural creatures we call spiders only have two segments and have 8 legs.  They are NOT insects.

No wonder American children are behind in math and science skills, we're teaching them wrong from the start and instead of advancing we spend their later years correcting all the things we taught them wrong in the first place.

Grandma no longer seems so odd for correcting the grammar on the news and on lamb chops sing along show (a show that was banned in our house for their inability to use proper grammar).