Today I googled my name in images and the first result was this lovely dude to our left.

In my book, this is excellent.

No; really.

You may be wondering what I've been up to. The answer is simple: not much.

Okay, that's really not true... I've been quite busy, it's just that I do very little worth blogging about.

I've been spending tons of time with my new niece and plenty of time subbing and at Malley's in addition to my class. Life in general has been pretty good and lately I've had some especially fun experiences hanging out with itty bitty students - last week I was with 1st graders for three days and tomorrow will be my second day this week with a 2nd and 3rd grade gifted class.

I'm always exhausted after a day of subbing, but little kids really take it out of me. Luckily they're hilarious.

On Monday one little girl wrote a treaty stating that the class would be good for the rest of the day if I agreed not to put any of their names on the 'bad list'. She then had all of the table leaders sign it and then left a special place of honor for the main lady in charge... me!

Super cute; that's all I can say about that.

Today I was with freshman who are not quite so cute but that's a whole different story in and of itself that we won't even get into.

George's birthday was this past Saturday.

A quarter century and still totally smokin'.

On Friday I took him to Salmon Dave's for lunch where Miss Kate was doing an excellent job of hostessing and we rented Idiocracy (which you should all see).

On Saturday his dad took us to Don's Lighthouse and George made himself a fancy birthday cake so it was a weekend of excellent food.

Needless to say I'm still recovering from all the eating and living mostly in my sweatpants whenever possible (not that I really need a reason for gratuitous sweatpantage... it's just a good excuse).

So there you go.