jennifer patel

We made our own Angry Birds set up for Alex's family birthday party. I remember trying to spray paint a huge refrigerator box with spray paint for his 2nd birthday. It took way too much spray paint. So instead of spray paint, I bought reject wall paint from Home Depot. It was cheaper than the cost of spray paint, and while a little more time consuming, did the job with one coat. We found green and red balls at the 4th Wal-Mart we visited. I think even Alex realizes how thankful he should be that we always go to Target instead of Wal-Mart. Even in Southlake, Texas where the money floweth over, there were some weridos at Wal-Mart. I guess it's barely in Southlake, more in Colleyville, but whatever... "Can you believe this huge card is only $3.00?!" shouted a woman checking out before us as she grabbed a candy bar from the display and started eating it. The Valentine's Day card was the size of a folded poster board and yes, I judged the hell out of her. ...

photo credit: Lynn ( Lynn in Love ) All he really wants is a cell phone or iPad with every version of the Angry Birds app that exists. I can't in good conscious make that happen, so I decorated his presents, found clothes, and board games with the Angry Birds theme. Is that just teasing? It's because at Christmas, I had no idea he had asked anyone for Angry Birds. Both Santa trips we made, he asked for movies and Batman. He had no good answers for anyone when they asked him what he wanted for Christmas...not even world peace! I picked him up from school right after the break, and the kids were lining up for recess. As they were putting on jackets and forming a line, his teacher was reading off this huge piece of butcher paper listing what each child had asked for from Santa. The kids were all yelling, "Yesss!" when asked individually if they got their present from Santa. Then she yelled out, "Alex, did you get Angry Birds?" Alex yelled back,...

I recently made the decision to start regularly working out again. Winter always sends me into these lag periods, where I'm like, "eh"... Spring (or fake spring, like we've been having) always wakes me up to recognize my self-loathing, resulting from prolonged, minimal endorphin production. As most parents know, if you want to regularly work out, work a job, and parent, you have to stay on a very strict schedule. The first thing that gets booted from my day is TV. Unfortunately, the need for sleep usurps the need to watch House Hunters . Last week, I was prepared for the next school day and had time to spare before going to sleep. I grabbed the top issue of my backlogged stack of trashy celebrity magazines and read (captions of pictures) on the couch, next to V who was watching Wheeler Dealers . Wheeler Dealers is a man show and the commercials they play during shows, of any kind, are supposed to appeal to the demographic the show attracts. I need you to wat...

I'm not going to link this to Facebook because it's not really important, just something I want to make sure and remember while it's fresh. Also, this year I'm going for straight up quantity over quality. Walking into my school every day is like entering the gates of hell. It's my job to be involved in something hilarious, if possible, every day before I leave the building so the devil doesn't win. Today was a week's worth of hilarity. I am pretty weird, and I've met some pretty weird people but today, I met bizarre . I really needed video or recording for this because it's kind of unbelievable... My next door coworker was out today and had a sub. She had subbed once before in the high school area and I heard stories at lunch about how strange she was. She set up the table with a table cloth and other things I can't remember... I teach classes straight through to lunch every day which takes a lot of endurance, but I am rewarded with th...