I am officially highly qualified!

For those of you who know, I have now taken a test that costs $105, 5 times!  You do the math.  But as of today, I passed and am now highly qualified.  It doesn't mean anything monetarily and there is no badge of honor or prestige...it just means that I am allowed to legally teach the subject matter I teach.  It was my own personal Goliath and now I am parading his head around for all to see!

Test Date:  08/22/2009
 
LEAH A JENKS
PHOENIX, AZ 85022
 
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Test:  039  Middle Grades General Science
Status:  Passed
 

RIdiculously crazy dream

So many people know about my new job teaching in the highly gifted program this year.  What some people don't know is that the REACH (program name) parents are extraordinarily generous people.  They use a lot of their own personal money for the benefit of their childrens' learning in the classroom.

WELL!!!  I n my dream last night I walk up to my classroom door and the whole outside is decorated with pumpkins and leaves (that magically no one is touching, which wouldn't happen in any middle school in America).  When I go inside, my classroom has been transformed into a fall wonderland and I can only guess it was the REACH parents because I didn't do it.  Every inch of my room looks like a street straight out of the midwest with changing leaves, all new red, orange, and yellow color schemes.  It's AMAZING.  The colors on my walls even changed.

It was like this all over my room.  I remember jumping up and down and screaming like a little girl.  I was in fall heaven!

This will not happen of course because that is just madness but what a FUN dream.

Crazy with editing

So I've mentioned how much I love this new photo editing website. Well, this has to be the weirdest one yet. So much fun
Before

After

Sticks out like a sore thumb...or toe

So on Sunday I decided to reorganize and declutter my life per Kathy's blog post and did not clear the doggy stairs when stepping over them. I didn't clear them because I was holding clutter. The result was the most painful event I can remember in my adult life. It was the "I want to throw up" and wish I was 5 so if I cried like one it would be okay.

Who knows if I really broke the toe because getting an x-ray would be such a waste of time. If it's not broken I spent too much money and they'll send me home with nothing. If it is broken I spent too much money and they'll send me home with nothing.

I ignored every person's advice to tape it to the next toe however because that just hurt too bad. No thank you. The bruise yesterday was pretty bright but today is fading while it spreads across my foot.


Oh yes...the dots are me measuring the spreading bruise for my science class. They love when bad things happen to me because they get to investigate it.