2 posts in 1 day..very unusual for me, but I couldn't help it. I was talking with a friend on Sunday about one of the greatest television shows of all time. Arrested Development! I love it so much the theme song is even my cell phone ring. I was shocked, appalled, saddened, mortified, and 100 other various adjectives to describe my disbelief. He had never seen or heard of Arrested Development. Since that day I have vowed to share its message of sarcasm, quirky, and absurdist satire. I gladly shared the three seasons I own on dvd. So fingers crossed he gets as much pleasure from Michael Bluth and his family as I do.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Today's Festivities
So I love my mother dearly, and am so glad she has joined the 21st century by way of texting. I am proud to say she owes her success to me, seeing as I taught her the art of a text and this is what I recieved this morning at 5:09 am (we're still working on the time issue, though she is 2 hours ahead).
Mom 5:09 am: In morons in the news( K addition: a morning segment on a family fav radio station) they told a story of a stabbing that took place at the Cinemark 22 in Lancaster, CA ( where I graduated H.S.) Someone was using their cellphone during the movie when a man leaned over and asked if it could be put away. The boyfriend, in his anger, jumped the man and stabbed him with a meat thermometer!
Kelsey(at a respectable) 7:13 am: Lancaster is a classy place. They use meat thermometers as shanks to show their refined nature. Who the heck carries around a meat thermometer. Do they consider that packing?
Mom 9:50 am: Didn't you always carry one for emergency?
Kelsey 10:37 am: Its never been my emergency weapon of choice. I prefer a turkey baster! (Though in conversation via facebook, my sister informed me of my true preference, a fork)
Mom 11:17 am: solid choice.
Kelsey 11:40 am: thank you! (this may or may not have actually been sent)
Now that I have given a little insight into one of my hometowns if I happen to overreact to a inquiry such as putting away my phone, and I happen to mutilate your arm with a fork and do something with my trusty turkey baster I can not be held responsible!
You have been warned
Mom 5:09 am: In morons in the news( K addition: a morning segment on a family fav radio station) they told a story of a stabbing that took place at the Cinemark 22 in Lancaster, CA ( where I graduated H.S.) Someone was using their cellphone during the movie when a man leaned over and asked if it could be put away. The boyfriend, in his anger, jumped the man and stabbed him with a meat thermometer!
Kelsey(at a respectable) 7:13 am: Lancaster is a classy place. They use meat thermometers as shanks to show their refined nature. Who the heck carries around a meat thermometer. Do they consider that packing?
Mom 9:50 am: Didn't you always carry one for emergency?
Kelsey 10:37 am: Its never been my emergency weapon of choice. I prefer a turkey baster! (Though in conversation via facebook, my sister informed me of my true preference, a fork)
Mom 11:17 am: solid choice.
Kelsey 11:40 am: thank you! (this may or may not have actually been sent)
Now that I have given a little insight into one of my hometowns if I happen to overreact to a inquiry such as putting away my phone, and I happen to mutilate your arm with a fork and do something with my trusty turkey baster I can not be held responsible!
You have been warned
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Additions..
I need to add to my favorite quotes from students.
1. "You smell like chocolate chip cookies!" - Grady
2. "Why aren't you married yet?" -Landon
"She's not even old enough to get married yet!" - Rebecca
"Yes, she is, and I have the perfect guy for her! Louis!" - Grady
P.S. Louis is Grady's 14 year old brother!
More to come, I am positive!
1. "You smell like chocolate chip cookies!" - Grady
2. "Why aren't you married yet?" -Landon
"She's not even old enough to get married yet!" - Rebecca
"Yes, she is, and I have the perfect guy for her! Louis!" - Grady
P.S. Louis is Grady's 14 year old brother!
More to come, I am positive!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Ramblings of a crazy woman...
Why is it that when we make a mistake, whether it is something minor, like a small child (or a teenager) taking a piece of candy from one of the bins at a grocery store to the even bigger mistakes we just keep on doing it? Yes it is easier to fall back in to old habits and routines rather than put froth a conscious effort to try and better yourself. Whether you believe in a god, or just being a decent human beign with a moral code it shows a great deal about a man or woman's character. Courage is not walking into a situation blindly and hoping it all turns out well, and that in the moment you may make the right decision. Courage is protecting yourself, you dignity by making a decision ahead of time, by knowing what decision you will make before you encounter that situation. Courage is when that situation presents itself you stick to your guns, whether or not the choice you will make will be the popular one. Growing up my mother had a quote posted on our pantry doors that read, "What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right." I wish that I had appreciated the efforts my mom and dad went through to make sure they were teaching me correct principles, and show that appreciation more readily. I wish that as siblings we had shown our appreciation for their concerns for us, our safety, and our salvation rather than right off the efforts as the crazed wishes of our parents. I know my parents want the best for each and every one of my siblings, and I hope that to the day I die I make them proud of me. I know that the sacrifices they have made to help me succeed, to put me through school have not been easy. I hope they know how pleased I am to say they are my parents, how grateful I am for their examples.
I am sure my children, one day, will say I am a crazed parent, a product of the generation I grew up in...but I hope they know I had 2 wonderful examples of how a parent cares and loves their children, and it is them that I do it for. If that reasoning is not enough... I'll blame it on their grandparents!
I am sure my children, one day, will say I am a crazed parent, a product of the generation I grew up in...but I hope they know I had 2 wonderful examples of how a parent cares and loves their children, and it is them that I do it for. If that reasoning is not enough... I'll blame it on their grandparents!
The Real Meaning of a well known Chirstmas Song
The Origin of the Twelve Days of Christmas
You're all familiar with the Christmas song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" I think. To most it's a delightful nonsense rhyme set to music. But it had a quite serious purpose when it was written.
It is a good deal more than just a repetitious melody with pretty phrases and a list of strange gifts.
Catholics in England during the period 1558 to 1829, when Parliament finally emancipated Catholics in England, were prohibited from ANY practice of their faith by law - private OR public. It was a crime to BE a Catholic.
"The Twelve Days of Christmas" was written in England as one of the "catechism songs" to help young Catholics learn the tenets of their faith - a memory aid, when to be caught with anything in *writing* indicating adherence to the Catholic faith could not only get you imprisoned, it could get you hanged, or shortened by a head - or hanged, drawn and quartered, a rather peculiar and ghastly punishment I'm not aware was ever practiced anywhere else. Hanging, drawing and quartering involved hanging a person by the neck until they had almost, but not quite, suffocated to death; then the party was taken down from the gallows, and disembowelled while still alive; and while the entrails were still lying on the street, where the executioners stomped all over them, the victim was tied to four large farm horses, and literally torn into five parts - one to each limb and the remaining torso.
The songs gifts are hidden meanings to the teachings of the faith. The "true love" mentioned in the song doesn't refer to an earthly suitor, it refers to God Himself. The "me" who receives the presents refers to every baptized person. The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. In the song, Christ is symbolically presented as a mother partridge which feigns injury to decoy predators from her helpless nestlings, much in memory of the expression of Christ's sadness over the fate of Jerusalem: "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! How often would I have sheltered thee under my wings, as a hen does her chicks, but thou wouldst not have it so..."
The other symbols mean the following:
2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues
4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
5 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch", which gives the history of man's fall from grace.
6 Geese A-laying = the six days of creation
7 Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments
8 Maids A-milking = the eight beatitudes
9 Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit
10 Lords A-leaping = the ten commandments
11 Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles
12 Drummers Drumming = the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed
You're all familiar with the Christmas song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" I think. To most it's a delightful nonsense rhyme set to music. But it had a quite serious purpose when it was written.
It is a good deal more than just a repetitious melody with pretty phrases and a list of strange gifts.
Catholics in England during the period 1558 to 1829, when Parliament finally emancipated Catholics in England, were prohibited from ANY practice of their faith by law - private OR public. It was a crime to BE a Catholic.
"The Twelve Days of Christmas" was written in England as one of the "catechism songs" to help young Catholics learn the tenets of their faith - a memory aid, when to be caught with anything in *writing* indicating adherence to the Catholic faith could not only get you imprisoned, it could get you hanged, or shortened by a head - or hanged, drawn and quartered, a rather peculiar and ghastly punishment I'm not aware was ever practiced anywhere else. Hanging, drawing and quartering involved hanging a person by the neck until they had almost, but not quite, suffocated to death; then the party was taken down from the gallows, and disembowelled while still alive; and while the entrails were still lying on the street, where the executioners stomped all over them, the victim was tied to four large farm horses, and literally torn into five parts - one to each limb and the remaining torso.
The songs gifts are hidden meanings to the teachings of the faith. The "true love" mentioned in the song doesn't refer to an earthly suitor, it refers to God Himself. The "me" who receives the presents refers to every baptized person. The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. In the song, Christ is symbolically presented as a mother partridge which feigns injury to decoy predators from her helpless nestlings, much in memory of the expression of Christ's sadness over the fate of Jerusalem: "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! How often would I have sheltered thee under my wings, as a hen does her chicks, but thou wouldst not have it so..."
The other symbols mean the following:
2 Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments
3 French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues
4 Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
5 Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch", which gives the history of man's fall from grace.
6 Geese A-laying = the six days of creation
7 Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments
8 Maids A-milking = the eight beatitudes
9 Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Holy Spirit
10 Lords A-leaping = the ten commandments
11 Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles
12 Drummers Drumming = the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
What I am thankful for...
1. My family
2. My challenges, silly but they help me grow
3. My teaching opportunity, and my students
4. My parents
5. Good friends, who heaven only knows why they put up with me!
2. My challenges, silly but they help me grow
3. My teaching opportunity, and my students
4. My parents
5. Good friends, who heaven only knows why they put up with me!
Teaching's Top 10
10. "We don't call them Beetle Bugs in this country" - Dawson
9. "Look boys, we need to sit quietly, ok?" -Me "We're not boys Miss Foster, we're men. See I have a mustache. I shaved it this morning. I like it when your hair grows back faster" - Dawson
8. "Please clear everything off your desk, I am looking for the table that is ready with their arms folded and voices off" - Me "Well, I'd rather not." - Cameron
7. "Dog pile on teacher" - Daniel
6. Daily stories from Rebecca, my retelling would do them no justice!
5. "It's already 8:30, and I need my caffine IV, stat!!" - Me
4. "We planned a double date, Grady will go with Lena, Cameron will go with Lindsey, and Miss Foster you get to take Dawson!" - The boys "Wow, aren't I lucky" - Me
3. "Miss Foster, I love you" (then he blew me a kiss) - Reece, and he's not even in my class.
2. "I think for our next field trip we should go to the temple. I'd really like that" - Landon
1. "Miss Foster, you and me, never gonna to happen" - Grady
9. "Look boys, we need to sit quietly, ok?" -Me "We're not boys Miss Foster, we're men. See I have a mustache. I shaved it this morning. I like it when your hair grows back faster" - Dawson
8. "Please clear everything off your desk, I am looking for the table that is ready with their arms folded and voices off" - Me "Well, I'd rather not." - Cameron
7. "Dog pile on teacher" - Daniel
6. Daily stories from Rebecca, my retelling would do them no justice!
5. "It's already 8:30, and I need my caffine IV, stat!!" - Me
4. "We planned a double date, Grady will go with Lena, Cameron will go with Lindsey, and Miss Foster you get to take Dawson!" - The boys "Wow, aren't I lucky" - Me
3. "Miss Foster, I love you" (then he blew me a kiss) - Reece, and he's not even in my class.
2. "I think for our next field trip we should go to the temple. I'd really like that" - Landon
1. "Miss Foster, you and me, never gonna to happen" - Grady
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