The Ka-tet Cantina

[Spideyman]

Jojo87 -- please take care of your back, Johanna. Many healing vibes your way. You need this vacation to relax and enjoy.
(((((HollyGolightly's daughter)))) teaching is a gift to the students.

Nikos Kazantzakis, writer of ‘Zorba the Greek,’ on teaching – “Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.”

 

[king family fan]

Jojo87 -- please take care of your back, Johanna. Many healing vibes your way. You need this vacation to relax and enjoy.
(((((HollyGolightly's daughter)))) teaching is a gift to the students.

Nikos Kazantzakis, writer of ‘Zorba the Greek,’ on teaching – “Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.”

Beautiful Quote

 

[Spideyman]

Beautiful Quote

First heard that quote from Leo Buscaglia during one of his lectures. Resonated with me being a teacher at the time.

 

[Grandpa]

Holly: All the best to your daughter! My own daughter(-in-law) teaches math at a school that has a bunch of at-risk kids. In fact, for a bunch of the kids, English is the second language. She's found it rewarding, frustrating, compelling, and depressing. And sometimes tragic. And very time-consuming. When she started on her beginning teacher's salary, working late into the night, every night, I was sometimes wondering if she was getting minimum wage. It's a conundrum, sometimes, that the people we put where we need them the most, we pay them the least.

Jojo: Hope you feel better VERY soon and that it doesn't affect your trip!

 

[Moderator]

Good Thursday everyone!!
Been the worst day ever. First when I went to my car this morning, my sister had accidentally forgot to close the passenger side window. It rained pretty
much last night and had came water inside the car. Then at work something happened to my back. Suddenly I got a horrible pain in it and have hard
to walk now. Not even painkillers seems to help. I hope it's nothing serious. My vacation begin soon and I really not want to spend my vacation in bed being
ill.
Here has raining most of the day. Now sun try to shine between the clouds. I listened to radio when I drove home from work. Been pretty bad
weather in this country. Flooding, t-storms, hard rain. Firefighters and ambulances have had busy days. A man was hit by a lightning, in another place it
rained so hard that the streets and roads flooded and two buildings had caught fire because of a T-storm. Hope Mother Nature calm down soon.

Have a great day and take care of you, be well and stay safe.

(((Our SKMB)))
(((all in need or not)))

Hope your back feels better soon but if it doesn't maybe have it looked at in case something serious is going on. Sending healing vibes for you. Hope the weather improves for your vacation, too!

 

[HollyGolightly]

Y'all are the best! I think most teachers work so hard, so many hours and don't get the pay or the recognition they deserve. It's my hope that they truly love what they do and seeing the kids thrive is rewarding for them.

 

[king family fan]

Jojo87 -- please take care of your back, Johanna. Many healing vibes your way. You need this vacation to relax and enjoy.
(((((HollyGolightly's daughter)))) teaching is a gift to the students.

Nikos Kazantzakis, writer of ‘Zorba the Greek,’ on teaching – “Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.”

Hope your back feels better and you enjoy your vacation.

 

[Ebdim9th]

Life happens at all the wrong times.... but sometimes it's just distractions not anything dire, y'know?

 

[Jojo87]

Thank you so much for the healing vibes. It is not any better yet and I have my last workday tomorrow. If the back is very painful tomorrow at work
and I have hard to move. I'll try to call a co worker if she can come and work couple of hours and I'll go to a doctor instead. Let's see maybe it's
better tomorrow. I'll pray so. If it's to believe in forecast I get wonderful vacation weather. Sunny and super hot. Fine by me.

Bed time for me.......

 

[pegasus216]

Healing vibes to you Jojo.

 

[cat in a bag]

((((Jojo)))) healing vibes!! You take care.

Been another busy day here. Running errands and filling the fridge. Should be able to relax for a while now. Hubby is grilling tonight, all I need to do is throw together a fruit salad.

Have a great afternoon and evening! Big hugs and positive vibes to all!

 

[Wulfman]

((((((Holly's Daughter))))

Positive vibes to you! Hoping this is it for you!

Thank you, I am feeling better. Having a difficult time with the heat and an in-law per say but other than that life is going good. So I am going to quit being growly unless it is eating time. *laughs*
I finished a couple paintings over the last few days. Trying to do something different. I was wanting to paint Traditional style Native, but don't want to stick to the usual suspects. So I painted a rhino, a couple elephants and now a giraffe. I started work on a lion. So I am keeping busy with positive and my mom is proud of me. She has some of my art work hanging in her place. When I am there, and she has guests- it is hard to hide when the spot light is on. *shake my head* Least I am getting better about speaking with strangers.
Thank you Tet Mates.
((((All in need or just would like a hug)))))

 

[Neesy]

I was cooking up some chili-and-cheese quesadillas for dinner. Grandma was in the living room. I remembered a song from my youth, from Mary Poppins, and started singing it in sort of a little kid's voice. I sometimes do make things up as I go along. I sang:

If you want this choice position
Have no felony conviction

Take us on outings, clean our shorts
Play games, all sorts

Never be cross or cruel
Never feed us motor oil or fuel

Love us as a son and daughter
And never smell of latrine water

If you don't beat or emasculate us
(at this point, I started hearing noise from the living room)
We will never give you cause to hate us

We won't hide your spectacles so you can't see
Put wasps in your bed or arsenic in your tea...

Then I had to go to the living room. Grandma was dyin', laughing. I didn't think it was that funny, just making up goofy stuff as I went along, but sometimes a person is in a mood for such things, I guess. I repeated a couple of the lines a couple times the rest of this evening, and she guffawed every time.

You have been hired for the position! (Tell the maid to send all the other applicants away!) (I loved the Mary Poppins movie when I was little). Then after we saw the movie together my Mom bought me the book

 

[Neesy]

kingricefan I love Costco. I get as much of our "stuff" there as I can. You can't beat the cash-back perks, the return policy (I once let chocolate covered almonds melt in my car and the took it back and gave me a new canister!), the $1.50 hot dogs, so much tp and pt you never run out.

Lepplady That's pretty sexy, but I'd like an under the clothes one the trains your waist to look like Scarlett's O'Hara's.

Grandpa I love Mary Poppins and totally remember those words. I sing while I cook. The most random things come to mind to sing, don't they?

Y'all - my 22 year old is about to begin teaching high school biology in an at risk school. I'm proud of her, but I'm so worried about her ability to maintain control of her classroom. The school she is teaching in is very close to where I work. Out of the 380 graduating seniors last year, only 3 made the required ACT score for college entrance. She's got her work cut out for her. I don't want her to fail. If you could take a moment and throw some blessings, positive thoughts her way or if you're a teacher and have any advice, I'd be happy to pass it on. She's a very smart, idealistic girl. I'd love for her to make a positive difference in the lives of these kids.

Sending some good vibes her way - perhaps she can inspire some of those students and improve their lives - good luck!

 

[Neesy]

((((Jojo)))) healing vibes!! You take care.

Been another busy day here. Running errands and filling the fridge. Should be able to relax for a while now. Hubby is grilling tonight, all I need to do is throw together a fruit salad.

Have a great afternoon and evening! Big hugs and positive vibes to all!

Throw a weenie on the barbie for us (we'll bring a hostess gift)

 

[cat in a bag]

Throw a weenie on the barbie for us (we'll bring a hostess gift)

You got it! No gift required, your company is enough!!

 

[Neesy]

You got it! No gift required, your company is enough!!

Thanks - it is so hot here. Hubby is not a fan of AC. I am on the second floor where it is about 83 degrees. On top of that I decided to use my laptop so it is generating even more heat!
I wish I had a nice cool pool to jump into!

 

[cat in a bag]

Thanks - it is so hot here. Hubby is not a fan of AC. I am on the second floor where it is about 83 degrees. On top of that I decided to use my laptop so it is generating even more heat!
I wish I had a nice cool pool to jump into!

Oh, me no likey pools anymore. Wasn't too crazy about them to begin with but now? Uh-uhhh! No.

 

[Neesy]

Oh, me no likey pools anymore. Wasn't too crazy about them to begin with but now? Uh-uhhh! No.

A lake then? How about a nice deep bathtub full of cool water?

 

[cat in a bag]

A lake then? How about a nice deep bathtub full of cool water?

A lake sounds great! Bathtub too. Just no diving!