Tire Blog

“What's a good number for ya?”

“Uh, what are you talking about?”

“A phone number?”

“Ohhh.” 

My mind went straight to some tire pressure number or a good price number.. Or some secret tire talk. And all they wanted was a phone number. 

My inspection was up in July. I am duly aware that is October 7th. I get nervous when I have to deal with car people. I've never been good with them and I always sound so dang awkward. I attempted to get my car inspected three times... Once the inspector had already left for the day.. Once I couldn’t even figure out where to park.. so I just left… and the last one they told me my car didn't pass. I thought he was joking. And he said no, you need two new front tires.

Well shoot. I'm entering October that is jam packed with events and zero free weekends and I don't have time to leave my car somewhere for a day! 

What is the solution? Take a day off! Duck dude just got back from Canada.. We could get 2 new tires, and call it a day! Easy enough, right? 

We get there and they come out to look at my tires just like my mom said they would. He asks me how many miles I have and I have zero idea so I turn my car on to see. In the background I hear Duck Dude say, "I'm gonna guess 95.. No.. 98,000" my car comes on and says 98,450... What? How did he know?! Well that's obviously why I brought him along. So they do a little tire talk and decide on something and I pay for it. Four hundred and twenty three dollars. Yikes.

Duck Dude and I go have lunch on a glorious patio and come back. They hand me my key, and we’re about to walk out the door when he says, “Oh, wait. They said they dropped your key fob and broke it.” Oh, cool. So Mario walks outside with us to make sure it still works and I start pressing my button. Nothing. Duck dude says try to turn it on. Nothing. I try pressing the actual unlock button on it. Nothing. Ah, bummer. They broke it, broke it. Duck Dude takes it apart right there (another reason why I brought him along) and says, “There’s not even a battery in here!” He goes on to say that obviously means they not only dropped, they shattered it and tells our friend Mario we will want a new one.

The whole time I kept my mouth shut and it’s a good thing I did. We stay outside while Mario goes to make some calls. Duck Dude tells me there’s nothing wrong with my fob I just need a new battery and if we can get them to give us credit, my tires won’t cost as much! All over my head, but I heard cheaper tires and I was in. We waited, Duck Dude made a few calls to make sure they didn’t cheat us out of money (another thing I would have never thought of) and I end up getting two hundred and eight dollars back!

That’s all fine and dandy if we can get my key fob working again. We get a battery and after the inspection place put the battery in backwards.. Duck Dude fixed it and my key fob is back to working!! Hooray!!! I’ll add “key fob expert” to the list of reasons why I am dating Duck Dude.

And I could currently make it rain with the 20s in my wallet right now. 

Top 10: Teaching

Lately, in my personal blogging world, I have found that teachers are blogging more about their classrooms. (Sidenote: when Duck Dude called from Canada the other night, he asked what I was doing. I answered hanging out with my blogging friends... aka just reading blogs. I'm cool.) I love reading other teacher's stories from elementary to high school. There is something about reading about other students that just lets me know I am not alone. So I figured I would join in on the trend and come up with my top 10 teaching experiences so far. Some are hysterical, some are outrageous, and some are awkward. Enjoy and happy Friday. 

10. The ridiculously awesome music videos my students have created. Instead of “Shut Up and Drive” it was “Shut Up and Combine [like terms]”.

 9. The class that would always hide “Petunia the Pumpkin” and make me find her each and every day.

 8. When I got to be a part of a coworker getting engaged... at school... on Good Morning America! Plus, I got to meet and take a picture with the very handsome Cameron Mathison. Hey-ooo.

 7. The countless letters I receive from typing class telling me how much they miss me. “You’re the only reason why I made it to ninth grade.”

 6. The April Fool’s day where they pulled the prank of “pelting” me with wadded up notebook paper as soon as I turned my back for 2 seconds.

 5. When I got personal apology letters from 3 boys that were having an inappropriate drawings war over each other’s notebooks. Most awkward parent phone call ever.

 4. The 8 + 1 = 10 sign they hung on my door that absolutely no one understands and I have to explain it every time and then I look like the kid on the AT&T commercial trying to explain why the joke is funny. “It’s queen that make it funny.”

 3. The day they all collaborated to wear ATM/UT/TCU shirts when the Lady Bears were making their run to the National Championship.

 2. When they created “Wanted” posters and hung them up all.. and I mean all.. over the school when my favorite volleyball went missing. I can neither confirm nor deny that there might have been some intense interrogations as well.

 1. When my students created a wedding date (July 2^nd) for me and my classroom neighbor, because we stand by each other in the hall during passing periods.. so we’re obviously getting married. And the paper engagement ring that is still on my classroom door. I’ve been happily unmarried for 3 months now.

 Kids will be kids and when you get overwhelmed by the demands of being a good teacher, it’s sometimes necessary to remember the good times.  

Sherry = Toby

Yesterday, I was super proactive and got a new ID while I was at the administration building. I had one of the ladies I was writing curriculum with walk me down to the office I needed to go to.... HR. I've gotten emails from this lady before and she's never really seemed too friendly. So the conversation went a little like this:

Me: "Hi! I needed to come and get a new ID!"

Sherry: "Why do you need a new one?"

Me: " Oh you know, my little ID holder broke like two years ago and my resourceful use of scotch tape to keep it together didn't hold up, so they fell out at some point and have since been lost in the deep abyss of middle school world."

Sherry: "You lost it two years ago?"

Me: "Oh yes, maybe two and half years ago..."

Sherry: "And you're just now doing something about it?"

Me: "Well, I kept hoping that they would eventually show up... and then I forgot about them.. and when you have a master key there really is no point to have a swipey ID with you because I don't need to swipe anything, I just use my key!"

Sherry: "It's a security issue. What if someone picked up your ID and used it to get into the school?"

Me: "Well it's been 2 years and no one's used it yet!"

Sherry: "Here's your new one. Try not to lose this one."

She was just a little ball of sunshine and I kind of felt bad for her after I left.... until this morning when I proudly put my new ID on my keys and realized my name is spelled "Molly." ughhh she didn't even spell my name right!!! And then I went back to thinking about how much she sucked. Maybe The Office is right about HR people... maybe they do suck and she was just a Toby and she probably thinks I'm an idiot but I don't really care because I feel like I have a lot more fun in my life than she does in hers and this is one really large run on sentence.

Speaking of my life being fun. I'm super excited that these little pieces of clothing are currently "in transit" to my apartment!

As well as this little diddy... Cause I'm gonna attempt to be all hipster like and wear it on the front of my head... like the girls next to my pretty headband... and I'll probably look at my students with my eye half open just like she is.. and keep my lips nice and pursed to make sure I pull off the full hipster effect. 

                             

Here are two things I got from the above paragraph. 1. I am not a fashion blogger... still. and 2. I will probably decide almost immediately that my ears are way to big to wear a headband like that and go back to my normal way of wearing headbands. It's still a pretty headband. 

Happy Hump Day!

Quack Shack

One of the best things about Duck Dude’s new house is it has a shed in the back!

The shed is air conditioned, has cable, and it has an old school phone which I, personally, think is adorable. That way if Duck Dude is ever misbehaving I will just banish him to his shed and I won’t even feel bad about it.

I like to personalize things and I wanted his shed to have a shedwarming gift. So I started to think of how I could add a little something to his shed for him. I’m not going to buy him some nails, caller id for his phone out there is not necessary, and he has plenty of camo…. So I decided to make him something. I make those little sign things every now and then and I started brain storming. "Quack Shack" was obviously going to be used and then I thought about “only dead ducks allowed” as a little slogan or rule for the quack shack.

I utilized my funny resources (thanks blonde sister)… and we came up with 3 rules for the Quack Shack. I went through 2 different maroons because it’s an ugly color I couldn’t find the exact shade I wanted until I settled on a “black cherry.” I still diluted it with a metallic gold to give it a little shine and once I got the color just right I double and triple checked with my two sisters and another faithful Aggie friend.

It’s hard to keep secrets from your significant other, so he saw it before it was done. It was a lot easier to just show him than move everything off of the kitchen table when he came over for the jiffy casserole last Monday. It’s now finished and as soon as he gets back from Canada he can hang it on his shed wall! 

 

Toast to September

Do you remember.. the 30 days of September? Sung like the Earth, Wind, and Fire song.. obviously. My answer to my own question is no. I could have sworn it was the 1st of September yesterday. 

Here's to parents who are unwilling to accept their child is anything less than #1. Wowzers.

Here's to your boyfriend actually enjoying going to Sams and Kirklands with you on a Saturday. #newhomeowner

Here's to a student teacher that leaves at 2:45 every day. Because that's reasonable in the teaching world.

Here's to not having to do anything the next 2 weeks because of said student teacher. The bright side.

Here's to being back at a .500 winning percentage with my volleyball team. Two game win streak  means we're at 2-2 baby!!!

Here's to the Rangers making me believe in them again and here's to them probably breaking my heart somewhere in the near future. 

Here's to being way more concerned with my Baylor Bears and RG3 than the Cowboys. I can't help myself. 

And here's to October being just as busy if not busier than September. Zero free weekends, but so excited about all of them!