I Have a New Toy!

When you were a kid did you ever order from those Scholastic Book Club order forms?  Do you order from then now with your own child?

Well, every time you do, you earn bonus points for the teacher.  Somehow I acquired 24,781 points over the years.

That's a lot of points.

A......lot......of......points.

So many points, in fact, that I ordered this and I still have about 5,000 points left over.

Do you know what this is?

Yep!  It's my new iPad!

I LOVE IT!

I found a great apple green cover for it (no apple pun intended - really) and I am set to go.

(See how it goes with my little old green iPod?

Are you hoping for one of these under your Christmas tree this year?

No Pictures?

I can't seem to load any pictures onto blogger this morning.  I have picked a winner, but, cruel giveaway holder that I am, I will not announce the winner until I can post pictures.  Heartless, I know.  I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.

Anybody else having this problem?  Pictures aren't even loading on some of my favorite blogs.  Hope it gets fixed soon if it's a Blogger problem.  

Don't worry, I won't wait forever!  I'll post later today with or without pictures the winner of my cardboard canister giveaway.

Happy Monday!

Laptop Dead! (Accompanied by sounds of sobbing)

I feel like crying like Lucy would when Ricky would chastise her.  WAAAAAAAANH! (Worker Bee does not believe that is the correct spelling, but I hear an "n," don't you?)

Today computer tragedy struck.  My laptop.................died.  Reminds me of a writing exercise I did as a kid and I still have my students do sometimes.

What good luck....
It's the school's laptop so I don't have to pay for it.

What bad luck...
As of now no data can be retrieved from it.

What good luck....
I did a full backup last week.

What bad luck...
I didn't save anything I created for school (or my blog) this week.

What good luck...
The home computer is up and running.

What bad luck....
The home Mac is not portable.

What good luck...
Uh oh!  I'm out of good luck!


What bad luck...
My principal is doing an evaluation this week and I'm one of those teachers that doesn't use an overhead, I just use my Promethean board.



I'm going to have to go RETRO  
(or should I say - OLD SCHOOL) all over those third graders!





What? More bad luck....
Whew...I think I covered all of the bad luck!

So what's a teacher/blogger/internet addict to do when her Mac will only do this?  And then even stops doing that?

WAAAAAAAAAAANH!

(DON'T WORRY, I'M REALLY OKAY, IT JUST FEELS GOOD TO VENT!  TRUST ME,  I KNOW IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS IT IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD.)