The anxiously awaited summer break is here! In fact, it's week 2 of 11, and I am mindlessly bored. What puzzles me most is the place in my head where I stored mental notes of all the things I wanted to do this summer while attempting to stay focused on the 51-ring circus called my classroom - that place in my head is vacant. I can't seem to recall a single thing I planned on doing. Or maybe it's that I finished everything I was looking forward to in the first 12 days: spend the day shopping with my sister-in-law, spend the night with my sister, grill fajitas and swim at Potter's, get a pedicure, layout by the pool, exercise more, clean out the apartment for a garage sale, organize our closets, make a few paintings/crafts/furniture, and spend a week with Mikey in Baton Rouge. I'm in the midst of the Baton Rouge thing, but that pretty much wraps up my list. Now for the next 9 weeks...
The buzz word for 2012 seems to be order. A myriad of definitions come to mind when I think of the word “order”. Alphabetical order is the sequence of my student files at school, personal files at home, debit and membership cards in my wallet. When I place my order at a restaurant I expect to receive exactly what I ask for. That doesn’t mean that I will occasionally have the opportunity to suffer through whatever nonsense the “chef” or “barista” thought I should have instead of what I requested. When I was a little girl I would order my toys into different categories: large to small, large in the middle and tapering to small towards the ends, by shape, by color, etc. When we were kids, Cas and I created a game in the Dillard’s dressing room while mom would shop for eternities. We each had a quarter and there were other coins that we would divide up evenly. The object was to “flick” your quarter and hit your opponent’s larger coins first, then move on to the smaller ones. There...
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