first day of spring my @$$.  it is sleeting, there is snow on the ground and i have to wear a coat.  wake me when the grass is green!

	36°F
Mostly Cloudy	Feels Like 27°F

UV Index:	0 Minimal
Dew Point:	28°F
Humidity:	75%
Visibility:	7.0 miles
Pressure:	29.93 inches and falling
Wind:	From the South at 13 mph

Daytime High /                                                                     Overnight Low (°F)	Precip. %

Tonight Mar 20		Rain / Snow	27°	80 %
Sun Mar 21		PM Snow Showers / Wind	40°/15°	30 %
Mon Mar 22		Mostly Sunny / Wind	30°/11°	0 %
Tue Mar 23		Partly Cloudy	35°/23°	10 %
Wed Mar 24		Mostly Cloudy	46°/32°	0 %
Thu Mar 25		Cloudy	52°/34°	30 %
Fri Mar 26		Partly Cloudy	50°/33°	20 %
Sat Mar 27		Mostly Cloudy	50°/32°	30 %
Sun Mar 28		Showers	51°/32°	40 %
Mon Mar 29		Partly Cloudy	52°/32°	20 %

'Cause I love quizzes too...

another weekend nearly gone (yes, I feel this way at 9:00 am on a Sunday) and I haven't even opened my school bag.  Report cards are going home on Thursday, and I haven't done anything yet.  I have to write a letter about the trimester a comments on each kid, on top of doing the grade.  I am glad I am not a classroom teacher, I only have to do 10.  Some of them have to do up to 35, between their 20 classroom kids and up to 15 literacy kids!

On an up note, our theater company has another murder mystery today (we did one last week).  They are paying us $500!  It is sure to be interesting.

And even better!  The snow is melting away from our yard.  It may actually be spring again someday soon.

Home Free!!

T and I LOVE Trading Spaces.  We watch it all the time.  I couldn't believe it when I heard about this contest.  We watched tonight.  Our favorite tonight was the work the lavender team did (although I liked the green team more) so we voted for them.  I also entered the sweepstakes, a lucky viewer will win a tool kit or something. 

This is the table I want. This wonderful table can be found at Crate and Barrel for $1699.00.  We have no Crate and Barrel in our area, so it is another $250 for shipping.  So this lovely drop leaf extension table will be $1949.00 to get it to my house (of course we could drive over 2 hours to Boston and get it, but that's not exactly convieniant).Of course we don't have that much money kicking around either. 

And we do have a dining room table.  A lovely little thing my parents let me have when I moved out.  It's an antique.  It seats 4 comfortably and 6 if you like each other.  But right now...it looks like this.  Why? You may ask. Because it is old and the screws are falling out and so the leaf is loose.  So we flipped it over and T doesn't have the right screws to fix it.  So it is staying upside down on its new blue, green and yellow table cloth.  And I am shopping online for things we can't afford.

But I have found another that I like.  And it is made here in Vermont.  But we don't know how much they are yet. They come in different sizes, woods and legs.  I would like one with round ends, but they don't seem to make one here. And if they aren't too expensive, I might get this cabinet too.But I think we might hold off on chairs for a while, we have some mismatched ones that will do for now. But I like the Vermont Mission and Vermont Country Chairs.  It gives new meaning to "Windows Shopping."  See you all later!

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I will take any quiz, anywhere: CorningWare

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Family and friends will tingle with delight, when you present one of these enticing foods:

Glazed Baked Ham
Brunch Party Quiche
Roasted Garlic and Brie with Rosemary
Lemon Pound Cake

T and I saw a skunk last night at the hotel (the second time we have seen one as we were leaving a hotel).  It was a bad omen.  Tonight we came home from shopping and there was a slightly odd smell in the driveway, but nothing too bad.  But when we opened the door to the porch.  WHOA BABY!!!  Yicky gross smell.  We are hoping it is under the porch and not on it (don't know how it would have gotten on a closed porch...but it is a mess).  I am afraid to look around the porch lest I get sprayed.  Now I can't tell if the house smells bad, or if it is just my imagination.  Yuck!!  I am really not happy about this.

I saw this on gllady's Xanga Site, but I have been to Boy the Bear's Age Gauge before.

25 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America I was teaching my third grade literacy group when my para told me what happened.  i spent my entire lunch break watching it on TV.
23 years old on the first day of Y2K I don't even remember what I was doing, but I really wasn't worried.
21 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash I had just returned to college for my senior year and a bunch of us were hanging out drinking when someone came out to tell us.
18 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing The RA on my hall was from Oklahoma City and I watched the aftermath with her.
18 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder I don't remember this day, but the ride in the white Bronco was on my HS graduation day.
16 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center Several weeks later I was in NYC and drove by the building.
14 years old when Operation Desert Storm began I participated in a walk out and stood outside my school with other protestors.  But I was just a kid.
13 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall I hardly remember this.
9 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded I watched this on TV with my classmates and cried.  I was in the fourth grade.
7 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh I only had Apple IIs in my classrooms until I was in Middle School, but I had computers from 3rd grade on (and one at my house since I was 3)
7 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space I dont' remember.
4 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr. All for the love of a teenage girl.  I remember this, honest I do.
3 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
not yet 1 year old on the U.S.'s bicentennial Fourth of July I dont' remember this of course, but I have seen pictures of my dad dressed up for a play.  Hehe

And news that is also interesting to me:

1 years old when CBS introduced Dallas
4 years old during the first airing of Hill Street Blues
6 years old at the time the first Cheers episode was televised
10 years old when L.A. Law was first aired on TV
10 years old at the time the series Married with Children began
14 years old when Seinfeld was first televised
15 years old in the month Home Improvement began
18 years old at the time the TV series Friends began
20 years old when Everybody Loves Raymond first aired
23 years old when Who Wants To Be A Millionaire began in the US