Amanda Loves Kristen

I just love Kristen Chenoweth! Here are some great songs:

Glitter and Be Gay from Candide (if you watch just one, watch this one!)

Taylor the Latte Boy

The Girl in 14G

Kristen Plays a Prank on the Ellen Show

More Random Thoughts From Amanda

Here are some random thoughts rolling around my brain:

1. All last week, I had to go to work and see that my neighbors were on break. Now it is my turn to stay home. Mwa ha ha (evil laugh).

2. My cats would like to read my blog if their brains were bigger than golf balls.

3. I talk about my cats way too much.

4. My friend, Tiffany, (who is a loyal reader:) is coming to Columbus this weekend from Cincinnati and I am going to be in Cincinnati. Isn't ironic (don't you think?)

Amanda Sees the Stragnest Things

I am way too observant for my own good. Must be the ADD/OCD thing. (By the way, my friend Stephanie told me a good one. A bumper sticker that reads something like, "I have CDO (OCD in alphabetical order) the way it should be!")

Anyway, I had a professional day today, which meant getting to school by 8:00 AM, which, translated in "Amanda Hates the Morning Hours" lingo means "Wake up as late as possible and get breakfast to go."

So, I drove by Tim Hortons (I'm a recovering Tim Hortons Addict by the way, I guess I fell off the wagon) to grab some Timbits to take for everyone. I was pulling away from the window and around the building to the exit. This is one of those Tim Hortons that shares a building with a Wendy's. (Is Wedny's plural? Or do we just make it plural like "Krogers," "Meijers" or "Wal-Marts?" Just kiddnig on that last one, but I do know people say it.) As I was pulling around to the Wendy's side of the building, there was a guy standing in the drive through lane power washing the road (this is a guess, I was a little bit distracted trying not to hit him that I didn't get a good look). Luckily, I wasn't heading for the Wendy's drive through, so I wasn't really close to him as I came around the corner. But, right behind me, there was this person who apparantly needed Wendy's badly, and came around the corner really fast. In my rearview mirror, I saw this quick movement. It was the road washer guy jumping out of the way of the oncoming vehicle!

Seriously, why do I notice these things?

Amanda Keeps Talking About Nail Polish

I was thinking about the OPI site and how they never seem to have my coloring (like when you are choosing your skin tone when "trying on" the different shades). They never have a Chinese hand! :) So, I went to the Taiwan OPI site thinking, "Now, they will have a Chinese hand!" But it was all in a different language. Ah! I can never win!

Amanda Is Lazy

So I was looking at my friend Megan's blog (My Single View) where she shows her toes and her pedicure. I thought about taking a picture of my toes (cause my feet are way cuter!;) but then I felt too lazy to walk upstairs to get the camera and then load the pictures onto my computer. Lazy, lazy, lazy! Maybe another time.

Anyway, I was thinking about my toe nails and about OPI nail polish colors. You know, with the really cute names. Then I was thinking about the color I got which was called "Dutch Tulips." So I went on the site and looked up "Dutch Tulips" and it looks nothing like my toes! But I did find some interesting things. You can pick any color and see it on "your hand." This is sure to provide you with hours of entertainment when you should be doing something more productive like cleaning the toilets or vacuuming the carpets. Go try it yourself.

Also, there is a Taiwan OPI store! Of course!

Amanda Wonders Again

Hmm. What should I write about? I'm not sure right about now. How about, "I got a pedicure on Monday." (and the guy cut my toe, even though he had very pretty arms with tattoos, so if my toe falls off, we know who to blame) Or "my school makes me wheeze." That's all that's on my mind right now. Nothing new to report.

Amanda is a Fan of Social Experiments

You know that ABC thing called "What Would You Do?" (or something like that) that makes up scenarios and then video records people's reactions? At first, it was interesting, and it might be kind of overkill now (ABC should take note of "To Catch a Predator.") Anway, are you ever paranoid that you'll be in one of those things? And also, shouldn't we always live life like someone is watching us?

Yesterday, I when I was stepping out of my house and locking the front door, I saw this guy driving around with a plastic Kroger bag sitting on the hood of his car (right on the crack between the hood and the windshield.) He was driving away from me, so I couldn't really catch his attention. First, I worried that something in his lunch was going to fly out and crack his windshield. Then I laughed. Finally, I wondered if there was some sort of hidden camera somewhere. Welcome to the paranoid world of Amanda.

Amanda Wants to Hear All Your Stories

Today must have been "National Tell Your Teacher the Most Random Thing That Comes to Your Mind"Day. Maybe it comes every year after St. Patrick's Day. Or maybe it is the symptom of the nice weather. Anyway, here are some real quotes I heard today:

"My dog got lost."

"I lost my tooth at the pizza place last night."

"He just hit me in the boob!" (Girl Scout's honor, one boy said this to another today!)

"My mom had the bumpy brown things that stick out of your skin taken off and she is really sore" (Translation: mole removal)

"My shoes are broken."

"I accidentally knocked my friend's earring out at recess."

I also had a girl say that one of our sign language signs looked like, "a retard hitting a wall over and over again." I'm pretty sure she had no idea what that meant. And she looked really surprised when I told her that it was a rude thing to say.

Lastly, I yelled at a boy today who lost his temper after losing a game. He sulked over to the wheel to "change his clip" (our behavior system) all the while, huffing and mad and crying and upset. Yelling at his classmates, "What are you looking at?"Then at the end of class, he runs up and hugs me, crying still, saying, "Oh, I'm in big trouble!"

Amanda Cross Dresses

Our talent show is coming up and we've been working on the teacher act. I used audacity (free audio editing software) to put together a mix of "older" dance songs. I'm coming out on Old Time Rock and Roll a la Risky Business complete with a white shirt, boxers, sunglasses and socks. So, I went to Target today to buy a white shirt and boxers. This created a very interesting picture (I think) that I was opening all the bags and holding up the boxer shorts to myself. And, I must say, I sort of wish that I was a man. Let me explain, I wore a small in mens (I ended up buying a large though because the small was quite tight in the hips and I didn't really want to go out on a stage wearing a hip hugging shirt while wearing boxers). Ahh, that helps the self esteem greatly. I guess if I can't be a small woman, I can be a small man.

Amanda Must Learn to Breathe Through the Anger

I really don't like cable companies. I think that they are the downfall of our society, among other things. Why do we have to waste money on channels that we probably never even watch? I got rid of my cable tv about two weeks ago, thinking, "Hello, I can save $50 a month by getting rid of this thing that I hardly ever watch." So, I get a new bill from the cable company, and the same internet service that cost me $30 last month now costs me $54.99. Why, because the cable company is trying to get all my money! Stupid, scheming cable stupid.

Amanda Ends the Suspense

My Girl. Are you a pink chippie winner too?

Amanda Is the Pick Chippie Queen

Do you know what a pink chippie is? It is the little triangle thingy that you get when you answer an entertainment question right in Trivial Pursuit. Well, I am hereby instating myself of the queen of all things pink chippie. Yesterday, Stephanie was talking about a student named Vada that she had, and I was thinking, "Vada, Vada, that name is from a movie." Two seconds later, I thought of the movie.

I knew it! Do you?

Amanda is Confused (Again)

I know that I am not really with it this week with my cold and all, but I have had several confusing things happen in the past few days.

1.) I was at Kroger looking for some NyQuil and I found this really great deal, buy one, get one free on Kroger brand NyQuil stuff. So I decided to get the 20 pill pack for $5.59 which would give me 40 pills for that price. I was so impressed with myself for finding this deal and I was ready to go pay for my pills, when something else caught my eye. A combination pack of 20 daytime pills and 20 nighttime pills for $4.49 + buy one, get one free. Does this make sense to anyone? Why would anyone buy 40 pills for $5.59 when you could get 80 for $4.49? I stood there for a while wondering if I was reading it wrong, or what the catch was, but there was no catch, so I bought my 80 pills at a great sale price.

2.) While at Kroger, I was really there to pick up a prescription for this antibacterial ointment that I put in this sinus rinse that I do (which is truly a Midevil torture device) when I have a sinus infection. They said that they didn't have enough tubes to fill my order. "Enough tubes?" I thought, "I was only picking up one." Oh no, they wanted to give me six. Six! I have only used one or two in the last three years, and they want to give me six at a time! Not only that, but I am set up to get 132 tubes of this stuff before the year is out. That made me really confused.

3.) I started reading "The Jane Austen Book Club" today, and I am already confused because it is written in the first person, but you don't know who that person is. They say that there are six people in the club, but each time the author talks about a person, he/ she talks in the third person, but they also use words like "we," "I," etc. Maybe it is a Jane Austen thing.

Amanda Congratulates Herself

Did you know that I've only looked at my own blog 43 times? I'm pretty proud of myself. I figured I accounted for at least 3/4 of my views! (I don't know what that math equals out to, I'm just a music teacher, but I'm pretty sure it is more that 43!)

Amanda Thinks, "Yikes!"

I'll write this quick because I'm pretty sure that I have three pounds of congestion in my sinuses and I can barely hold my head up any longer!

The other day in class, we were singing a song that talked about getting the measles. I told the kids a little bit about the measles because they really don't know very much about it these days. So I talked about people getting the measles and even dying from the measles and one kid raises his hand and says, "I know what else you can die from . . . leukemia." Background, I have a kid who had leukemia in that class. (Enter, "Yikes" moment). Oh, boy, they all turned around to him and said, "Are you going to die?" (Enter "crap" moment/ "why am I the only adult in the room right now?"). He just shrugged his shoulders and said, "Obviously I'm not dead yet!" Someone else said, "Yeah, he's a survivor!" (Enter "sigh of relief moment" quickly followed by "let's move on" moment). You gotta love kids:)

Amanda Sees Funny Things on QVC

So, I was watching QVC the other day and there was a big silver bonanza going on. I saw two things that made me laugh. The first was a bracelet that has lots of tiny disco balls on it:

The other funny thing was a pair of earrings that looked like the red hats on Devo's music video "Whip It:"

Amanda is Cathcing up on Rock of Love

Do you know how when you drive by an accident, you can't look away, your human curiosity gets the best of you and you must survey all of the damage? That is what I think draws me to the VH1 show, Rock of Love. It is like a train wreck. Contrived, possibly scripted train wreck, but entertaining none-the less.

Speaking of not being able to look away, do you ever look at road kill? If you've known me for a LONG time, you might already know that I find it very interesting to look at road kill. When else can you see the insides of something? It is so cool. Plus, I work in the roadkill capital of the universe, Pataskala, Ohio, so I see it often. Pataskala is a Native American (politically correct as always) word for "land of the wandering cat." (Please don't believe that I am telling the truth, I'm only joking). There are random cats wondering around which povides for the worst sort of roadkill ever, a dead cat. That's the kind I don't like to look at.

One more random turn in conversation, when I had my gallbladder removed, I got to keep all these cool pictures of my insides. So cool. Kind of like the allure of roadkill, I like to look at the insides of me!

OK, I need to pay attention to my show!