Awesome Cheese in Rockula

If you get a chance, go to Netflix and watch Rockula. It's an awesome 80's movie. I remember watching this as a wee lad. I found it on Neflix and recently watched it again..and again (I'm not going to lie). It's as awesome as I remembered. It has all the 80's cheese like music videos IN the movie, dancing, chokers, teased hair, and trench coats over loud clothes. Awesome. You'd be a fool to miss this gem!

Preparing for Hibernation

I think my cats are preparing for hibernation. Since we moved I've noticed they both have been eating, eating, and eating some more. I pour two cups of food in the morning and by night it's all gone. They're taken to begging for canned food. I just feed them more. I'm not alarmed because one (Cookie) I've notice has gotten thinner since he turned 15 and the other (Piddles-Gayle) is a little chunk with a generous rump. This happened when we moved into our new house. Hmmm...

Possible theories:

1. Going up and down the stairs wears them out and they eat more..
2. They're eating for two, but they're both males..
3. They dreamed in their lil cat dreams that we were out of food...once
4. They think we're not coming back when we leave in the morning..
5. They're preparing for battle..
6. They're going into hibernation soon

Interesting Klepto

I have some interesting kids in my class. One student is always stealing pencils. I asked him to knock it off because at any given moment, someone is missing a pencil. He doesn't take any pencil (well actually he does), but he inspects it first. Very, very, VERY carefully.

Once I watched him take a pencil and study it over and over while he was to be reading. He hid it in his pocket, pulled it out and studied it from tip to eraser -even holding it in his palm like he was weighing it. I called his name and said, "Is that your pencil?" He says, "I don't think so, but I'll hold on to it in case." He reluctantly handed it over after a stern look.

The following day I heard that same line, like clockwork. "MRS. CAAAAAADMMANN, SOMEONE STOLE MY PENCIL! IT WAS RIGHT HERE!"

I look over the said thief and immediately see a "new" pencil in his shirt pocket. His excuse?

"It was on the table, I didn't think it was anyone's. Actually you should thank me, someone could have stolen it!"

I have spoken to him about this and his response was "What? ME? Take pencils?" (with a "new" pencil in his shirt pocket) I wonder everytime he has pencils in his pocket now. I've seen him with everything from mechanical pencils to itty bitty golf pencils, he doesn't discriminate.

Looking back, I figure it's better pencils than anything I could think of....until all my black pens went missing yesterday....

Nervous Tic or OCD

I was talking to a student and he says, "Mrs. Cadman, why do you pull out your hair when you're talking to me?" "What, say it again?" He repeated. I didn't relize this, but he's right. I'm not sure if it's a nervous tic or a new habit I picked up, but Inoticed I do this around certain people and in certain situations.

Examples: I caught my self pulling out long hairs slowly, one-by-one, when talking about the testing that was coming up. I caught myself again when I was talking to a parent over the phone.

I sort through the strand for a the thickest of the bunch. I think it might be due to the white hairs I have been finding as of late. They're usually the thickest.

I CAN'T STOP AND PEOPLE ARE NOTICING!!!

Baby Names

Not that I'm thinking of having children right now, but I think the names Legume, Killian, and Rogue are awesome. Hubby says no (a bean, beer, and too X-men-ish). I explained that I either name our children whatever the heck I want or I charge him womb rent.