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!

Amanda Clarifies

When I said that I want to grow up to be like the girls on the Daft Body video, what I mean is: I hope that one day, my head, too, will grow a shiny outer layer and resemble a giant toaster, while my stomach is flat and my inner thighs don't touch. Just wanted to clear things up.

Amanda Is In Love (With YouTube)

My new favorite video:

Daft Bodies

I want to be them when I grow up:)