Monday June 13

I do intend to carry on with my one-armed man story, but not today.

I left the frogs at home today. We still have 5 of them in our frog tank but I intend to let a couple of them go. Lord, help me to remember to take a walk down to our local creek with Boaz this afternoon and let 2 of them go. One of the remaining 3 frogs I would like to add to the pair we have at home. Those 2 are being well fed at the moment because there still seems to be lots of flies in our house. I'm hoping that with 3 frogs we might have at least 1 pairing of male and female and sometime gets some tadpoles.

Anyway, that leaves 2 frogs for the classroom and I think we should be able to keep only 2 of them fed through the winter.

A k-bar for the first person that reads this and tells me the secret word - "dashboard".

Tuesday June 7

From last time...

"You are looking well today Miss"

"Yes, yes, alright", came the reply.

The man with one arm frowned. "How long am I going to have to stand here?" he thought to himself as he stood there holding the door open.The woman continued filing her fingernails.

"Have you seen those people in the Guinness Book of records that have nails as long as cars?" He was trying a new tactic. Up until now the woman had been ignoring him.

Continuation...

"I bit my own nails" he said.

The woman's head shot up. She picked up her bag and fled from his presence.

"Woah!" the man thought. "It's not as if I said I pick my nose! How his a one armed man supposed to cut his nails?"

He laughed out loud. He let the door go and it squeezed shut.

The man had been working in this office building for five months now.

Thursday June 2

I enjoyed the singing at assembly this morning. I love hearing other people sing. There were times when I just wanted to play the guitar and not sing so I could hear the melody. Those are feel good moments. I think I will have a go at writing a short story.

"You are looking well today Miss"

"Yes, yes, alright", came the reply.

The man with one arm frowned. "How long am I going to have to stand here?" he thought to himself as he stood there holding the door open.

The woman continued filing her fingernails.

""Have you seen those people in the Guinness Book of records that have nails as long as cars?" He was trying a new tactic. Up until now the woman had been ignoring him.

Wednesday June 1

We had a training lesson for peer reading with Mrs Lee this morning. She read a story to us about a snail and a whale. The snail left a message on a rock that he wanted to have some cool adventures. The whale saw the ad and replied with a giant sized YES. So onto the whale climbed the snail. They did have lots of adventures – the last being a life threatening adventure for the whale. He managed to beach himself. Mrs Lee didn’t like the pictures on that page of the book because there were lots of people on boats and jet skis that weren’t wearing life jackets. Those people were the reason the whale got all confused and got stranded. Maybe they were drawn without life jackets because they were like irresponsible people who don’t care about the well-being of whales as well as the well-being of their own lives.

The book reminds me of a joke I must tell the class. It involves a snail as well. I think I will use Mr Reinecke as one of the characters in the joke. I hope someone reads what I am writing so they can remind me to tell the joke. Just before lunch today would be a good time. Maybe I will reward the person that reminds me to tell the joke. I don’t mind if people read my writing. I guess the purpose of writing is that someone read it sometime.

Tuesday May 31

Today at morning tea Mr Paterson gave us (the staff) a whole lot of yummy stuff to eat. I asked him what the occasion was and he said it was because today was the last day of Autumn. I also got a neat surprise. He had printed off a voucher with a picture on it and gave it to me. He made a bit of a show as he gave it. On the piece of paper was a picture of his holiday home. On the top of the paper were the words “This voucher entitles the bearer to….” He was gifting a weekend away to me and my family. Very nice. I had to laugh because he had printed an expiry date at the bottom of the voucher. He is trying to sell the bach. I joked that if he sold it before the expiry date I still expect the new owners to honour the voucher.

I am not sure when we will be able to make use of it. This weekend we have already booked up and each Sunday afternoon we have homegroup – I love homegroup and don’t want to miss that. Maybe we could go away on one of the weekends when I have a Friday off.