Ms. Spam

Finding that right collector is murder. I sold my comic book collection for $250 dollars because I got tired of moving 9 long boxes of Amazing Spider Man and X-Men and rando Image house comics. That was over 20 years of comics.

Have you every listened to their podcast for the brothers? I like them. It's like two lumberjacks doing modern day lumberjacking who are actually kinda funny in a white guy way. LOL. I think they're hot but I have a type let me tellssss you!

I think some people are too comfortable for public life. Tina and I used to talk about that because our Mom used to be like "You're going out dressed like that? At least put lipstick on." My Mom would dress to go to the grocery store like in an actual outfit. There was no pj bottoms and braless and crazy hair to pick up potatoes and wine in my Moms book. So Tina was always done up. It took her 45 minutes to get ready to run to Walmart. I would tell Tina she had to let that go and be comfortable in her skin because she had mental issues stemming from that type of being. But people are getting more in that comfort zone regardless like everythings meant for public business. They talk like they're at home or with a group of close friends in public - like those people who yak on the phone and everyone can hear ALL their business as they shop or ride in a plane. They wear whatever and do whatever they'd do at home behind a closed door but out there like the line to check out is there living room. I want more boundries about that. I don't want to wear lipstick and do my hair to go to the grocery store but clean pants and not screaming at your kids like crazy person on a phone in public would be good. OR maybe I just hate messy people because it reads like you're a cluttered mind and to avoid LOL I say this as a fat girl and a lot of people probably make a lot of assumptions about me.

Ewwwwwwww. There was a really obnoxious woman on my last flight out of ATL last Sunday. We had the middle seat open between us because it wasn't a full flight and she spread out. I think she actually managed to kick me in my fat calves in the window seat when crossing and uncrossing her legs and she threw her coat across like I wasn't even there, so it fell partially on me and listened to her iPhone without headphones, but the Delta stewardess was like MISSSSSSSS here's some headphones and asked her to not block the aisles. and other seats without me saying anything. HA! People ruin everything with there weirdness.

Since it's going to be the battle of old people I'm thinking we need to replace the current batch with someone better. I think I'd vote for Al Gore.

Oh like my comic collecting days. Sad face.

Turns out having babies also helps the healing properties of Moms. A lot of health issues we have for us that chose not to have kids actually solve themselves through childbirth because the child gives back healing properties to the mother. Humans are freaks. Also yes, younger and younger for periods. It's all the unnatural food sources we eat.

OOOOOH do that tank swimming pool where the slide goes through a shark aquarium. It's at the Golden Nugget I think. The one I love which is for hiking and exploring and seeing lots of plants is Springs Preserve. Fun Dungeon at Excalibur is full of old arcade games kids can play. It's also home to the worlds biggest PacMan. The Downtown Container Park has a treehouse that kids can play in and lots of food options. Not to be outdone but the Golden Nugget there's also the Shark tank tour at Mandalay Bay. There's a car show that my nephews like to watch that's about building suped up cars and I think they do a tour of their shop but I am blanking on the name of the show right now.

there's a meme out there that my Dad shared to me on his phone letting me know that Taylor Swift has more Super Bowl wins than Dak Prescott. LOL Dad

YAY! I am so glad you won! It was a crazy season and weird play offs!

Oh man. I was at some bar in GA and it started slow but picked up after half time. I am okay with my crappy pick being the loser. Ha.

Sooooooooo the 49ers by three

holy sweet jebus. call your local precinct and ask for extra police presence in the neighborhood. it's like you're living the mean girls.

Spirit and Frontier was about $100 cheaper but one of the flights had me going from San Antonio, to Seattle and then to Atlanta. I was in the air for 18 hours. Southwest was the most surprising. Delta had non-stop (keep in mind Atlanta is Delta's main hub) and before points it was $429 for a week out from flying while Southwest's comparable non-stop flight was $639. When I fly to the western states I try and book on American as they're often cheaper than Delta. But American had me going to Dallas and no direct non-stop flights for $459. To be honest I am a flying snob. I like the way Delta preboards better than Southwest. Flying out of San Antonio is expensive but I didn't have time to drive to Houston and fly out even if it saved me over $100. Delta and American Airlines tend to have a better class of people flying sometimes too. I can't explain it. The times I flew Southwest I sat next to a girl who was obnoxious with eating, kept fidgeting like she was on drugs and had to get up nine times to go to the bathroom or families with lots of kids kicking seats or begging you to change seats so they can sit together. Spirit and Frontier tend to nickle and dime you. Oh you want to take a bag with you on the flight? Welll that going to be more. Pick a seat? Okay that's more. It's constant upsell. I hate that. Although Delta was pushing all kinds of things on me while booking. I have lots of family so I don't have to rent a car in Atlanta. Someone will pick me up and drop me off.

Right? Flying should be better than that. It's crazy. Welp my flight is booked! I hope I surprise my Dad!

My Dad is turning 80 and they want to surprise birthday party my old man in Georgia. I want to go but I have no more paid time off from school so basically I'm flying out Saturday early and coming back possibly on Monday or Sunday. WHO the hell flies Spirit? I think I'm going to pay extra and fly on Delta because non-stop and I trust them to be less stupid.

Music. Nothing but music for me. And it's probably not music you guys would listen to as it's mostly for parts I sing in choir. So church music. I'm working on learning to do solos so I need free voice lessons. HA Oh and math nerd tutoring videos to learn new math stuff because I came up in old math teaching but I am forced to teach in new math speak and UGH. So probably nothing you guys want. LOL

ALSO HOLY FUCK IS IT EXPENSIVE TO BUY TICKETS TO THIS THING

I thought this had been posted for some reason. I think for fun we should post the points we think will happen. But you know, just pick! In this corner we have the most sensational, inspirational, this is the Taylor Swift BandWagon SHOOOOOOOOOW, the Kansas City Chiefs who's rusty defense and will to beat Tom Brady out of a record with Gronk drove them to beat ALL other teams to go to Las Vegas. Fly into Vegas on flight 1989 and fly back on 87. LOL VS. The DAD team, a Dad son player/coach thing going on that's only happened in the NFL one other time in the MacCaffreys, a young quarterback who wants to marry his own sweetheart and a guy who's wife designs jackets for the girlfriends of other teams players, where is that bullet train to Las Vegas when you need it San Francisco 49ers. So basically pick your red shirt to actually win, Chiefs or 49ers.

UGH that was all terrible decisions by coaches in the last half. Those Lions!!!!!!! Not gonna lie I like Taylor Swift MORE than before because of her football love. It's like she's getting a second chance at high school.

Kansas City pounced. If the Ravens had not made those mistakes on any other team they’d be going to the Super Bowl. Now Detroit needs to kick some assssssss

Detroit Kansas City for the SUPAH BOHWL

I am more familiar with my area schools so that helps me but not you. I just feel terrible for you because school should be a support network for the parents and your tax dollars should work for you. Personally I think a lot of schools have fallen victim to the crap culture that pervades a lot of things like politics and work now too and nothing productive comes out. Ugh.

Pre-puberty is a bitch. It's one of the reasons I LOVE middle school. It's full of weirdo kids whose bodies are growing faster than their motor skills (especially for boys so they can't walk down a hallway without touching fifteen things) and girls trying to figure out what the hell is going on and why is their hair so screwy? Kids are hitting that puberty mark sooner so fifth grade is sometimes the time I have that talk about what's going on with their bodies with some parents who are concerned. School counselors have also seen a rise in irritability due to covid learning. There was something about learning in the comfort of their own homes where they felt safer to vent or act out but now they're in classroom settings and haven't learned some coping mechanisms (especially if it was a home with no parent at home during online learning or a parent to whom they imprinted off of for behavior and also doesn't work well with challenges). I generally read the class and back off a bit of I sense struggle with a concept and go back and review some things they previously got that lead to this learning step. We've also seen more introversion and it's harder to get kids to be more interactive. They've learned to cope on their own and having others around them builds a layer of anxiety that they've not learned to establish a kind of working in groups type pattern that they're normally exposed to through classrooms starting in lower grades that was missed. I've also wondered about kids who are more prone to be annoyed by students doing things like that marker squeak for Q because houses are much bigger and families are not as large so they don't learn what it's like to live with lots of people on top of each other. Many of my students live in larger households which are multigenerational so squeaks of markers are not the trigger for irrational anger outbursts but some kind of weird competition to out do another student in class over say grades or answering a question faster or my favorite the "Snitch" which is always someone tattling on another classmate over something. They also pass around more stupid viruses. GOD DAMN THEM TO HELL WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS YOU FILTHY HEATHEN AND SNEEZE OR SNOT SOMEWHERE ELSE LIKE A TISSUE. As for Q's teacher and fellow students I have kinda stayed out of that. I think this is a painful part of growing up and moving her constantly actually may stunt her growth as person and school potential. She's being the bigger person, and this breaks my heart, but the world is full of really shitty people. Moving schools generally will mean more of the same stupid behavior from jerk parents and their crotch fruit but a school may react to it differently. As a teacher I want to really smack a parent who is behaving like "MY KIDS BEST FRIEND" and not a parent trying to raise a child to be a good person. If you move her a lot in schools, it sometimes creates an unintentional effect of an administrator seeing constant change and making assumptions about Q and you as her parents that shouldn't be applied but we're human. If you do choose to move her to a different school, I actually recommend as a teacher you look in a poorer school district or somewhere lower income. Somehow those kids respect learning or at least their parents do and they tend to not be their kids best friends. Plus Q may shine more which could be a confidence booster. I've had a few kids move to SAISD charter schools from richer neighboring schools and blossom and make friends and do better in my school because there seems to be a kind of social equalizer. No one knows where you kid comes from in my school because 75% are dropped off by their parents and school meals are 100% free for all kids regardless of income.

Giant hugs! Pets teach us so much but this one lesson hurts the most.