My weekend "flu" by

My father had his 56th birthday this past Tuesday (can my parents really be getting that old?!). I decided to go visit him and make him dinner. To make it even better, my mei mei (little sister), aka Qiu Lei, was able to come back with me and we were going to prepare a chinese dinner. Double bonus: I get to share awesome food and an awesome friend with my family and I get to spend some extra time before she graduates. The weekend started out well: B.B.Q for lunch, a trip to hastings for some afternoon fun and then off to do grocery shopping. Evan was finishing up an awesome characature (how do yo spell this word?) Qiu Lei and I were in the kitchen and all of a sudden I felt awful, but nothing hurt. I started feeling worse and worse. Finally, it happened. A little reversal in the lunch process and I have never been so turned off by ribs in my life. It got worse and worse. You would have thought I ate at Fuzzy's. :) I was completely miserable. We were supposed to come back Saturday night, but Evan and Qiu Lei decided we should stay. So...let me just take a moment to say how wonderful these two are. Our friend was getting baptized and we were so excited to go and they had plans for Sunday that they wanted to do. They decided to stay the night Saturday and stay longer Sunday, missing church and the baptism, because I felt bad. I felt so bad for them, but not once did they even act really bummed or pout or anything about having their plans rearranged. To top it off, they stayed up with me and kept checking on me to see how I felt and if I needed anything. My heart was overflowing with love for them and I was so humbled by their humility and serving hearts. So, my weekend wasn't what I was expecting at all, but I got to see my dad, grandma and was reminded just how amazing my mei mei and fiance are.

Ode to too much pop

44 oz of pop in my cup,
44 oz of pop,
Empty my bladder and fill it back up,
32 oz of pop in my cup.

32 oz of pop in my cup,
32 oz of pop,
I'm d.p.-ed out and getting wired up,
28 oz of pop in my cup.

28 oz of pop in my cup,
28 oz of pop,
Will be there in the morning when I wake up,
Because I put way too much pop in my cup.

Chips and Chats

I have concluded that skyping with my best friend is to my heart what fresh out-of-the-oven chocolate chip cookies are to my tummy. I love my whorts.....bet you don't hear that too often. :)

Horny and more (now that I have you intrigued, you will read!)

I think we all are always in need of a laugh; and well we know that kids seem to pull out some of the best lines, so try this one! My co-worker and I were supervising our kids in the cafeteria while they were eating. She walked by a table of our students and heard one of our normally well-behaved kids say, "I'm not horny!" After the shock of hearing a fifth grader say that, she proceeded with the protocol lecture of what is and isn't appropriate to talk about at school and as a fifth grader. As she halfway through her lecture, she notices the look of absolute bewilderment on his face. She then decides to ask him why he was saying that phrase, to which he replied, "They told me I look like I have horns."

Want another one? Last year, during reading time, one of my girls had her hand raised. She was reading a book about plankton and other microscopic creatures. She didn't understand the paragraph or know all the words. I pronounced phytoplankton for her and she proceeded to read the rest of the paragraph out loud to me. Everything was fine until she got to the parenthesis which said (tiny sea organisms). You can only imagine my shock when what should come out of her sweet mouth but, "tiny sea orgasms." Yes, that is what she said. If you don't get it reread it to make sure you got it right. To my horror, she continued on to read, "These tiny little orgasms....." I finally was able to compose a sentence after using all my energy not to show a terrified look on my face and alarm her. I told her the word was organism, and she of course had one more slip, but after that it was smooth sailing. My praise in both of these situations is that neither one of these two precious children had any clue what they were saying. Praise the lord they still have innocence.

Family and firsts

I went home for a quick trip to see my family this weekend. I went with my mom and grandma to see my cousin's high school basketball game. It was so much fun to watch the social dynamics of high school and junior high. Why walking in and out of a gym 20 times in one evening is so appealing I don't know, but I'm sure I did it too. I also had another first this weekend. I sold my dad's motorcycle. Yep...me, the girl who knows nothing about it! My dad wanted to sell it and told me he'd pay me if I put it on ebay and took care of all of it for him so I said sure. I didn't think anyone would buy it in the next couple weeks. Sure enough though, about 5 days into the listing a guy from said he was interested and wanted to drive up to take a look. I made the appointment and then my dad could make it so he asked me to meet the guy and show him the bike. I showed it to him, but the key wouldn't work.....probably because I brought the spare car key by mistake. In case you didn't know, a motorcycle key is very small. When I brought him the right key he fired it up and looked it over and said he'd take it and he didn't even haggle over the price! Maybe I found a new calling.....but highly unlikely.

Why I love my fiance....

Evan always helps anyone at a moment's notice and doesn't really grumble about it; one reason I really love him. I could learn more from him.

The false orange...look out Whorty!

So my friend Nila has this awesome Korean citrus tea and I decided I wanted to try to make some. Then when I found recipes I discovered it is easy to make...if you have citron. No, it is not an organic gasoline substitute, it is a citrus fruit that is kinda like a cross between a lemon, grapefruit and an orange. We don't have them in Emporia, but they are at some asian markets. I then wiki-ed the fruit and found that:

"While the most popular fruits are peeled in order to consume their pulpy and juicy segments, the citron's pulp is very dry containing only little insipid juice"

This doesn't sound like a big deal, unless you would have been in China and bought an orange and then found that orange to be really dry and not juicy at all.......why, it might not have been an orange at all! It might have been a citron. Yeah, that's all there is to this little detective story. I just got excited because I figured out how my "chinese orange" was dry.