Three things to know about my mother:
1. She has an insentient need to always be accomplishing something (she brings a garbage bag on a walk so she can pick up trash)
2. She recently acquired my brother's 14 year-old dog. He is in good health, but rickety. My mom is in her 50's, she is in good health, but dramatically rickety.
3. She likes to document things: "when in doubt document in writing"
Email from this morning:
TJ # 2012-03-22 - AM
I let him out at 1:30am
came back 1:45 am
ate - slept for a while
5:30 am - Jeffery clipped on rope out front
6:30 - TJ gone - clip on rope - ??? disappeared/broken
6:45 - TJ returns
6:45 - 7:20 am - Mom & TJ to Golfcourse - Free Range
event less - but
At golf course, Mom, doing her civic duty as well as making herself satisifed --
proceeded to go off path, down SGC Hole #5'
The landscape - 60' slope with branches/shrubs/prickers galore
but bottom was filled with cans bottles... and a dear eyesour.
I totally filled the shopping bag with cans & bottles
with a bonus of 5 golf balls retrieved & covered about 1/2 of what was there !
Meanwhile, TJ, knew I was down 20 feet or so in the ditch
He left me to my task and kept checking back ---- several times.
About 10 minutes into the trash picking,
I looked up, and he was to my far right -
trying to make it down the steep hill, he had made it down about 5'
In response,
knowing that he weighed 62.3 lbs,
knowing that he wasn't able to climb back..
knowing that we were in a ditch surrounded by pricker bushes...
knowing that I'd have to carry or push him back up
I verbally commanded him to stop....
after he continued to pursue his aim to join me...or just ignore verbal commands...
I started hurring back up the slope
My hands grasping onto patches of grass...myself also slipping & sliding ...
to get back on the top to move to where I could climb down to retrieve him
Well, I was able to get about 5' down the hill and off he went, trying to continue his path - DOWN.
Then Suddenly!!
He rolled the rest of the way down, down, down (several rolls)
landing with feet up.... like a crab on the sand - in the prickers.
In panic, like Wonder Women, I slid myself down, thru the prickers
to help and....then when I was about 3/4th of way down...
The mightly determined TJ, righted himself
and then proceeded to go further in ... futher in....
until I couldn't see him at all.
I crawled myself up the hill, knowing that there was nothing I could do.
Finally, I reached the top, righted myself and ... and...just then !!!
Alas - TJ comes bopping down the path - so so happy to see me.
What to do?
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Monday, March 29, 2010
The Ridiculous inside my head
I decided to come up with a list of social phobias and anxieties. I am picture clear that 90% have no logic what so ever, but i can probably s pend 10 minuits on each one explaining you why- which im pretty sure is also not logical.
-Needing to walk sideways to get somewhere (in a crowd, theater, restaurant)
-Buying a toothbrush before noon
-Getting up for an old person on the train
-The D squared store in Davis
-Stores with less than 5 people in them
-Door greeters
-Dressing rooms
-Wave, handshake, hug?
-Talking to people I semi know
-Hanging up my coat
-The 10 items or less aisle at the super market
-Movie theaters
-Not drinking at a bar/party because people will think I’m pregnant
-The hello lines after a wedding
-The shaking hands thing at mass
-Orleans
-Initiating taking a pictures
-Not pumping a full tank of gas
-Art Galleries
-Stretching at the gym
-Urban Outfitters
-Needing to walk sideways to get somewhere (in a crowd, theater, restaurant)
-Buying a toothbrush before noon
-Getting up for an old person on the train
-The D squared store in Davis
-Stores with less than 5 people in them
-Door greeters
-Dressing rooms
-Wave, handshake, hug?
-Talking to people I semi know
-Hanging up my coat
-The 10 items or less aisle at the super market
-Movie theaters
-Not drinking at a bar/party because people will think I’m pregnant
-The hello lines after a wedding
-The shaking hands thing at mass
-Orleans
-Initiating taking a pictures
-Not pumping a full tank of gas
-Art Galleries
-Stretching at the gym
-Urban Outfitters
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Janet Story: U2
So the radio has been anouncing for weeks that U2 was doing a small concert at a secret location in/around Boston. Turns out it was leaked the day before (tuesday) that it was the Somerville Theator which is the movie theator/ small concert venue down the street from my house.
So once I heard that, my brain started turning about how I was going to get it. I thought about getting movie tickets, but I figured that was too obvious and they would cancel the movies. I honestly didn’t even check the site. When I got off the T, I walked around a little bit before I went home and the place was swarming with people/cops….no chance to get in (google it).
Fast forward an hour and Grill Cheese Dave (creepy next door neighbor) knocks on my door and tells me that he bought movie tickets the day before, they are actually honoring the tickets, but everyone thinks it’s a stupid plan, and no one will go with him. I of course thought it was brilliant and we left for the movie.
In front of the theater, there are a million fans/security/cops and we walk up with our printed movie ticket confirmation and they let us in to the building. In the lobby, they had police barriers in the whole back section, so it was impossible to just walk in like I belonged there. Plus they hadn’t opened the doors for the show yet, so it was very obvious we were out of place. We hung around the lobby for a little bit and bought beer, then security was like “RAH RAH RAH you have to go to the movie RAH RAH.” We went upstairs and watched The Wrestler.
Plan A was to sneak in thru the upstairs door which leads to the balcony. That didn’t work because the door was locked, plus there was literally security everywhere inside. Plan B was to take turns going to the lobby to buy beer and hopefully get lucky. I saw some of their sound check on one of my outings, but because everyone that was inside was either an employee or a cop, I was a sore thumb…..but that’s right I saw U2’s sound check!!!
On my final voyage, they had opened the doors, so the lobby was swamped. They checked tickets at the door of the building and gave everyone a wrist band. I was already in the building, so no one check my ticket, but they were they were checking wrist bands in front of the section they had blocked earlier. I stood there for a while, then when they flashed the lights, a bunch of people rushed in, so I followed them and got lost in the crowd.
So now I got into the building and passed the wristband people, but now I have to get into the actual theater. The issue is that ushers are standing at the doors, checking tickets, and directing people to their seats. I went upstairs to the balcony and some lady asked me for my ticket, so I turned around and walked down stairs. My hands are shaking at this point….. I almost surrendered because I couldn’t get passed the F-ing ushers…..the show had started and now there is no one in the lobby and I’m starting to stick out again.
Final Attempt. I walk downstairs open the door to the theater and walk in. The usher asks for my ticket and I bee line it to the right of the theater like I didn’t hear him. A bunch of media people and Grill Cheese Dave were standing along the walls so I stood there with them for the entire show.
The show was pretty sick. They played 5 songs and did a Q& A., but he only song I recognized was Vertigo.
So once I heard that, my brain started turning about how I was going to get it. I thought about getting movie tickets, but I figured that was too obvious and they would cancel the movies. I honestly didn’t even check the site. When I got off the T, I walked around a little bit before I went home and the place was swarming with people/cops….no chance to get in (google it).
Fast forward an hour and Grill Cheese Dave (creepy next door neighbor) knocks on my door and tells me that he bought movie tickets the day before, they are actually honoring the tickets, but everyone thinks it’s a stupid plan, and no one will go with him. I of course thought it was brilliant and we left for the movie.
In front of the theater, there are a million fans/security/cops and we walk up with our printed movie ticket confirmation and they let us in to the building. In the lobby, they had police barriers in the whole back section, so it was impossible to just walk in like I belonged there. Plus they hadn’t opened the doors for the show yet, so it was very obvious we were out of place. We hung around the lobby for a little bit and bought beer, then security was like “RAH RAH RAH you have to go to the movie RAH RAH.” We went upstairs and watched The Wrestler.
Plan A was to sneak in thru the upstairs door which leads to the balcony. That didn’t work because the door was locked, plus there was literally security everywhere inside. Plan B was to take turns going to the lobby to buy beer and hopefully get lucky. I saw some of their sound check on one of my outings, but because everyone that was inside was either an employee or a cop, I was a sore thumb…..but that’s right I saw U2’s sound check!!!
On my final voyage, they had opened the doors, so the lobby was swamped. They checked tickets at the door of the building and gave everyone a wrist band. I was already in the building, so no one check my ticket, but they were they were checking wrist bands in front of the section they had blocked earlier. I stood there for a while, then when they flashed the lights, a bunch of people rushed in, so I followed them and got lost in the crowd.
So now I got into the building and passed the wristband people, but now I have to get into the actual theater. The issue is that ushers are standing at the doors, checking tickets, and directing people to their seats. I went upstairs to the balcony and some lady asked me for my ticket, so I turned around and walked down stairs. My hands are shaking at this point….. I almost surrendered because I couldn’t get passed the F-ing ushers…..the show had started and now there is no one in the lobby and I’m starting to stick out again.
Final Attempt. I walk downstairs open the door to the theater and walk in. The usher asks for my ticket and I bee line it to the right of the theater like I didn’t hear him. A bunch of media people and Grill Cheese Dave were standing along the walls so I stood there with them for the entire show.
The show was pretty sick. They played 5 songs and did a Q& A., but he only song I recognized was Vertigo.
Monday, May 29, 2006
Geography with Paul
Paul: Name two popular German cities based on 2 popular American foods?
Kid1: American Chop Sewy
Kid2: French fry
Kid1: hotdog
Me: keep going, close to that another word for a hotdog
kid1: a frank
Me: ok so whats the cities name? farankfur.....
Kid1: Frankfurter
Paul: No
Me1: take of the er and you get.....
kid2: frankfurt
kid1: thats what I meant the whole time.....
ok name the other one
Kid: Chesseburger
kid: frenchfry
kid: hamberger
me: think city not food
kid: hamberger city
me: no
Discussing the significant of sports teams like the Denver nuggets and the new England patriots
me; what is significant about the Philadelphia 76es
Paris: Philadelphia was the 76ht state
Me: The Prime- Meridian is the 0 degree line of latitude that goes through Africa. Its the same as the equator, except it goes up and down.
Paris: It must me freezing there
Me: Freezing why?
Paris: Its like zero degrees.
Kid1: American Chop Sewy
Kid2: French fry
Kid1: hotdog
Me: keep going, close to that another word for a hotdog
kid1: a frank
Me: ok so whats the cities name? farankfur.....
Kid1: Frankfurter
Paul: No
Me1: take of the er and you get.....
kid2: frankfurt
kid1: thats what I meant the whole time.....
ok name the other one
Kid: Chesseburger
kid: frenchfry
kid: hamberger
me: think city not food
kid: hamberger city
me: no
Discussing the significant of sports teams like the Denver nuggets and the new England patriots
me; what is significant about the Philadelphia 76es
Paris: Philadelphia was the 76ht state
Me: The Prime- Meridian is the 0 degree line of latitude that goes through Africa. Its the same as the equator, except it goes up and down.
Paris: It must me freezing there
Me: Freezing why?
Paris: Its like zero degrees.
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Process forms
When you send a kid out of the class they go to the 'timeout room' calm down, fillout a timeout sheet and then come back to class. I recently read thru some of the process sheets:
Process Forms
Why did you get a time out?kid: "What happened was Janet asked me what state the pilgrims were from and i said Idaho"
Why did you behave in this manner?kid: i behaved in this manner because she told me to stop and i didnt stop
Discribe what happend in your own words:kid: I finished my work, so i decided to meditate and put my fist in my mouth
Why did you act out? I acted out because Paul (teacher) told me to put my fist in my mouth.
How do you feel about what you did?I feel fine because Paul told me to do it, and followed his direction.
What should you do next time?Next time i could not put my fist in my mouth
Process Forms
Why did you get a time out?kid: "What happened was Janet asked me what state the pilgrims were from and i said Idaho"
Why did you behave in this manner?kid: i behaved in this manner because she told me to stop and i didnt stop
Discribe what happend in your own words:kid: I finished my work, so i decided to meditate and put my fist in my mouth
Why did you act out? I acted out because Paul (teacher) told me to put my fist in my mouth.
How do you feel about what you did?I feel fine because Paul told me to do it, and followed his direction.
What should you do next time?Next time i could not put my fist in my mouth
Saturday, March 5, 2005
Why I love My Job- More quotes from the kids
"all staff are bitches except for Janet"
-David W.
"did you know that the only ingredient in water is liquid"
- Chris B
“I have throw up in my stomach and its moving to my brain"
- Chris B
"If I had a choice between school or gouging my eyes out with a large metal spoon and replacing them with Cadbury eggs, I would have to choose the Cadbury eggs method."
- Chris R.
"thats why God made fists.....to punch people's lights out"
- Brandon
kid 1: "janet how do you spell journal"
kid 2"janet, how do you spell Indians"
kid3: "janet how do you spell guide"
Ben (thru the time out room wall) "why dont you guys get a fucking dictionary and she spelt have those words fucking wrong anyway"
Chris B: "janet can we contract to make the perfect water recipe"
Chris B:You know those big gray game boys from the olden days......
- a kid at work
me: what happens if your on a date and you want to make sure you have enough money for what your ordering?
Junior: I dont need math yo, I would just take out my cell phone and pretend i'm calling my mom and add it up on the calculator and be like, "whats up mom" and pretend im talking to her while im adding it yo
Sam: What do Buddhists Believe?
Paris: they don’t believe in god
Ollie: Isnt that an aithiest
Paris: no they dont believe in annnnnyyyyy god
Paris: what is the hell, is that some sort of vodo crap
me: what
Paris: i just walked by and the light turned on
me: its a motion detector
Chris T.: Did you know that beef is the most grown crop?
Me: No
-David W.
"did you know that the only ingredient in water is liquid"
- Chris B
“I have throw up in my stomach and its moving to my brain"
- Chris B
"If I had a choice between school or gouging my eyes out with a large metal spoon and replacing them with Cadbury eggs, I would have to choose the Cadbury eggs method."
- Chris R.
"thats why God made fists.....to punch people's lights out"
- Brandon
kid 1: "janet how do you spell journal"
kid 2"janet, how do you spell Indians"
kid3: "janet how do you spell guide"
Ben (thru the time out room wall) "why dont you guys get a fucking dictionary and she spelt have those words fucking wrong anyway"
Chris B: "janet can we contract to make the perfect water recipe"
Chris B:You know those big gray game boys from the olden days......
- a kid at work
me: what happens if your on a date and you want to make sure you have enough money for what your ordering?
Junior: I dont need math yo, I would just take out my cell phone and pretend i'm calling my mom and add it up on the calculator and be like, "whats up mom" and pretend im talking to her while im adding it yo
Sam: What do Buddhists Believe?
Paris: they don’t believe in god
Ollie: Isnt that an aithiest
Paris: no they dont believe in annnnnyyyyy god
Paris: what is the hell, is that some sort of vodo crap
me: what
Paris: i just walked by and the light turned on
me: its a motion detector
Chris T.: Did you know that beef is the most grown crop?
Me: No
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