April 23, 2007
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Failure to Concentrate
Hunter
had his orchestra concert tonight. It was a great performance (Yeah,
flutemom38!). But, we are all saying, “Oh, goodie. No more orchestra
practice! One more thing off the list!”
Can
you tell I am eager for school to be finished? We have thirty or so
days left of school, and I’m more antsy than the kids are to be over. It’s been lovely weather, which never helps me to stay
focused on schooling. I’m not the only one, I know, but when Mom isn’t
setting a tone of diligent work, how will the children ever manage?Ah,
I think this is a dull post. It need enlivening with jokes. Here are a
few that the jester told during scene changes.What do you do with dead elements?
You Barium!Why did Mickey Mouse get shot?
Because Donald Ducked!Can you imagine a world with no hypothetical situations?
Why did Beethoven get rid of all his chickens?
Because they kept saying, “Bach, Bach, Bach!”What do you call a cow that just had a baby?
A decalfinated cow!
I
made crepes tonight for supper. It was nostalgic. A friend of mine made
me crepes with strawberries many years ago. I’ve thought of them with
fondness ever since. I loved every bite, but the kids didn’t find them
so appealing. (TGD and Hunter escaped the crepes.) At least it was an
inexpensive failure.
What was your most recent failure or perhaps your “grandest” failure?
Comments (38)
lol..i like the jokes..i remember some of them..from science class…..
mmm..crepes are awesome..
Most recent…failure to clean my bathroom!
Grandest…failure to stop bossing my now adult brother around!
I don’t know….
Well, some might classify other things as failure due to personal taste, but the one thing that I consider a personal failure as far as dinner goes was the night I had prepared all the toppings for pizza: pineapple, olives, pepperonis, sausage, etc. and then I shattered a bowl and a million little shivers of glass went all over the place including in the food I’d prepared. We went and bought pizza. Couldn’t bear to go through that again.
I, too, am getting antsy for the end of school. Congratulations that things are ending. I know how that feels.
Hahahaha! Good ones!
You are ready for school to be out? Me two, and three and four! Our students will be finished May 23 and the teachers will go for another 2 days.
The weather here has been so nice. I planted my flower bed this past weekend and moved my big plants out of the house. I have a bougainvillea and jasmine that move into the house for winter and back out for summer. I have had these 2 for 6 years and would hate to lose t hem. My lime tree moved out, also, but is only 2 years old. I think some day, I’ll have to quit moving it.
Failure? Gosh, I hate to think of them all! But for now, I regret not having properly house trained my yorkshire terrier!
ahhh…I have too many I can’t remember anymore. I think every time we try something new to eat, it’s a failure, at least partially.
I’ve stopped feeling guilty about going outside…we’ve even started taking our school work outside…that way, the girls are more motivated to finish
I’m not even an outdoor person, but I am definitely hitting the wall on school. I’m getting a lot of “teach me if you can” faces, which certainly doesn’t make it fun.
I haven’t been here for a while, and just saw all the latest pics of the play. It looks SO great. Lots of wonderful costumes–did you help with those? I really want to do another play. I think I missed my calling–LOL!
Loved your jokes. They’re just about our speed over here.
My greatest failure, so to speak, turned into a great success years later. I was making sweet ‘n sour chicken for my Beloved when we were in the early stages of our dating. He saw me chopping up the green peppers and asked if it was supposed to be a good meal. I told him, no, I always love cooking meals I think nobody will eat.
Anyway, fast forward about 3 or 4 years. We went on a cruise in the Caribbean that my dad had bought for himself and my mother but then couldn’t go on. One night, before the entertainment, they had the “Newlywed, not so Newlywed” game. My Beloved, in a moment, a delusion, thought this would be fun and volunteered us. Given that he was madly waving his arm and shouting, “Us, us, us” they chose us. One of the questions was “What’s the last bad meal your wife has fixed for you?” I answered that it was the sweet ‘n sour chicken and my Beloved answered that it was something with green peppers in it and the MC said we were wrong. A chorus then went up from the audience that sweet ‘n sour chicken has green peppers in it and I said that’s why he didn’t like it. The MC relented and we won the game. I still have the clock.
RYC, I have not made sweet ‘n sour chicken again and I will remember not to make it for you, if you ever come to visit MathMom and me.
Thanks for the laughs. Every homeschooling mom needs a good morming chuckle in late April!
My girls love crepes! Maybe its the gender thing?
I’m afraid I’m not the best example for my girls as far as homeschooling goes. I procrastinate getting started everyday anymore. I am NOT a morning person, and it is all catching up with me.
Tough question to answer. I’m not sure I’ve had a grandest failure, or even much of a grand failure. Not that I’m especially brilliant or skilled or anything, I just guess I haven’t done many things that are easy to fail. No, I take that back: I have failed in a great many things, but it would be hard to pick out one that would be especially interesting or grander than any of the others.
And as for my birthday, it was actually a very normal day, spent in usual Saturday activities—and some unusual, such as peeling wallpaper.
And as I just saw your last comment, I always stress the first syllable of “destrier”, though I couldn’t say for certain that it is correct, as I was the first person I ever heard pronounce it.
As for Hasta, it is Latin for “spear”, and an aventail is that very familiar garment of chain mail that is worn round the head, neck, and shoulders of a helmeted man-at-arms (not the sort of thing one usually names a ship, but I like the sound of it). 
Cute jokes. My kids would just love them! I will have to remember to share those with them today.
I know what you mean about wanting the kids to be out of school. I have been dreaming of those summer days too. But I am wondering how it will work with me working from home with the kids home, all day. I am glad that I am only working part-time though, so that we can still do a few things together on my off days.
I don’t know what I would consider my most recent failure. I have been trying to focus more on the positives instead of the negatives, so I am viewing all things as a positive; no matter how challenging that can be, lol!
My grandest cooking failure, or at least the one my kids have never let me forget, will be known forever at our house as “The Rice Rock”. In making rice, I had a brain misfire and switched the amounts of rice and water…. one extra-solid rice rock, coming up. Needless to say, nobody tried to eat it. I don’t think we could have penetrated it with normal kitchen utensils anyway.
I spent my whole young life wanting to be an Air Traffic Controller. I went into the military expecting to be one and then I failed the program after two years. I was so disappointed at the time.
sesame chicken….. I had the heat too high….so the sauce was really really jelly like….. and it all stuck together in one big mass….. it still tasted good… but didnt look that good…. ill try it again at lower heat next time….
This seems to be a recurring failure for me…….. I make a huge pot/casserole/pan, etc. of some elaborate/expensive/or last minute dinner, all to find out that the meat I just bought is bad, the rice I dumped in had bugs, someone used the special ingredient I bought, or the can of spaghetti sauce I just poured over the meat had a big clump of mold in it, etc. ARRRGH!!!! I hate it when that happens! Needless to say, (if it’s needless, then, why do we finish the sentence by saying it???) I’m very careful about my ingredients now when making a large or expensive meal.
It’s beautiful weather here, too! My girls were done with their work quickly (hallelujah!) and have been playing outside all afternoon!! They are all dressed in their “dress-up” clothes – long satin dresses, bonnets, parasols, aprons, etc. They’re so cute!!
I’m working on our homeschool support group bulletin today (our first one!), so I’ve been tied to the computer all day….. I gotta get out in the sun and do some gardening before I miss out on this gorgeous day!! bye! Have a very fun day & don’t make your kids work too hard!!
Loved your jokes, by the way! Too funny, esp. the “decalfinated” one!!
And I negelected to ask: what is your complaint with Death Angle?
*Angel* I mean. I always do that.
Thanks for stopping by. Hope that you don’t mind that I subscribed, I want to be an English teacher someday…
Yes, that is my husband and me. Thanks for the compliment!
I lean more towards Christ-Follower (Mac), but I agree that both sides have a point.
A conversation overheard today:
My mother: You complain all the time, about everything.
My brother: No I don’t! I resent that.
yea,the Grand Canyon was intense…one of the guys I went with kept going to look over the rim(the areas w/o railings) and I was freaking out,as I’m scared of heights lol…but it was incredible!
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Grandest failure…hmmm…I’d prefer not to say! I think that I may still be in the middle of it.
RYC: The thyroid ultrasound looked great, but I am still waiting for the “official” word from the doctor. She has been certain that I actually have Graves or some other disease and not just pregnancy related hyperthyroid. We’ll see.
I hope you have a great night!!
your right i didn’t really get it
oh well
RYC: yep…ive been working at HEB at least part time for almost 9 years now….i was 16 when i made that my SN….
I don’t call crepes that you loved a failure… My most recent sewing failure was a top that looked so terrible on me I cut it up to make the yolk of another shirt. I haven’t finished cutting out that one. I also used a few pieces to make a sun suit for Little Widget.
I have failed to have lunch with my favorite person in the whole wide world in quite some time. How about this Friday?
I think we should all ask TP a few revealing questions! She always asks so many herself. Not that I mind, since I just read everyone else’s responses.
Mary…thanks for the video…I laughed aloud. We saw that on YouTube and that is what started the “we need to do that” craze around here!! Just goes to show you – great minds think alike!
Your comments are always so nice! Thanks.
I’m just trying to post as a non-Xangan. It can be done now1
Failure…hmm, let’s see my parenting? My house? my gone by the way side looks? My car cleaning? My attempts to teach myself to sew? did I mention the out of control hous and kids? Biggest failure huh? Could I pick more than one?
hmm.. not sure, but finals week starts on friday 5/17 and ends 5/25, and if I remember correctly, my last final is on a wednesday…… anyway, vague I know, but I should totally be able to come to P & P cuz I’ll be completely finised by then!
Loveee,
Daniel
I´ve had my share of failures in the kitchen arena. I remember in the early years of our marriage, dumping the whole skillet full of food because my husband did not like it!!!! I was so hurt! And for me the succes or failure is whether my husband like my creation or not!