Friday, June 06, 2008

no more teacher's dirty looks.....

school is out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i don't think any of my students were quite as excited as i was for the year to end. i bought a yearbook and passed it around for any students who cared to sign in and told them i would not be returning next year. a lot of them signed it and wished me good luck. i found it humorous that so many students were saying 'wow mrs. h you are super popular, i've never seen so many signatures on a yearbook, people must really like you.' i didn't take the time to explain to them that they too could have so many signatures if they didn't restrict who could sign theirs...

last weekend was ross' birthday. we hosted his parents for brunch on saturday morning and saturday evening i had arranged for some of his guy friends to come over for a video game and poker nite party. we both worked hard all day before the party...we bought 3 new ceiling fans for the house and ross hung one of them up in the den and fixed up stuff around the house. i cooked a bunch of homemade food for those guys...pepperoni rolls, veggies & dip, hotwings with 4 different sauces, queso & chips. and i picked up an ice cream cake from baskin robbins because this is ross' absolute fave. then i left them. with instructions to take pictures. and i went to dinner and the mall with BH. i returned to see they had taken 4 pictures. better than 0 for a bunch of guys i guess. they had 2 gaming consoles set up on our 2 tvs and i had to check out the wii. it was super fun!

armed with birthday money and giftcards, ross was certain we needed a playstation3. and so now we do. and we have enjoyed it a lot this week, from playing basketball against each other to playing against mike online, to watching blu-ray movies. very cool stuff. and a bonus! with the sixaxis controller, a lot of the games allow you to control the players by tilting the controller, similar to the wii. so now i can play a complex, nice graphics, tennis game without pushing any buttons. also in basketball you shoot free throws by moving the controller. i'm sold!

we did a bit of rearranging and enhancing in the den and are very pleased with the results. we have also been enjoying the pool...pics coming soon...i'm too lazy to go to my desktop and get them as i'm currently posting from the laptop. ross and i start in a tennis league next week so we have been trying to get some practice in this week. currently i'm enjoying my long weekend before i start my new job on monday. and mostly trying to realize that school is out and i won't be driving 40miles to get to work on monday!

4 comments:

Jennifer Josefy said...

award for best wife ever goes to: you.

I bet Ross loved the party you threw for him... I'm salivating just reading about the yummies.

I would love to see the four pictures you got out of those boys : )

Hope Ross' birthday was superfab... what's he doing for yours ; )

MISS YOU!!
oh ps good luck on MONDAY! exciting!

Evelyn said...

dido on what Jennifer said!

but i just really do have to add... it seems you are well in your way to joining the dork side with a whole 2 paragraphs devoted to video games. (hahahaha get it? dork side? not dark side?... i guess i could follow this with "welcome in".. but I don't fully classify myself in the dork side because I don't play video games ;)

miss you!

Martha said...

I'm so happy you are done done done!

Anonymous said...

you should totally get rockband for your ps3 :) super fun.