rash is gone

well im not sure what caused it but the strange rash is gone for now...thanks for everyone's advice!!

strange rash....

sounds weird...but i was washing dishes tonight and pushed up my sleeves and something caught my eye...there was this strange red rash on my forearm...
let me know if you have any ideas as to what it might be let me know...

the red spots are slightly raised and are tender to the touch...
richard...any thoughts?

vocab lesson

so there is big talk lately in the news of a Nor'easter coming our way...i won't try to convince you that i know what that is...i actually had to ask one of the parents of my students...he explained it as being a big storm system that moves up the east coast and stalls over us...and dumps a ton of snow on us...this is the wikipedia's definition of it: A nor'easter (also northeaster; see below) is a macro-scale storm along the East Coast of the United States. A Nor'easter is so named because the winds in a Nor'easter come from the northeast, especially in the coastal areas of the Northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada. More specifically, it describes a low pressure area whose center of rotation is just off the East Coast and whose leading winds in the left forward quadrant rotate onto land from the northeast. The precipitation pattern is similar to other extratropical storms. Nor'easters also can cause coastal flooding, coastal erosion, hurricane force winds, and heavy snow. Nor'easters are characterized by having an association with a warm front, cold front, or occluded fronts.

so in terms i understand we are under a severe storm warning from sat night through monday morning...we are being told to expect 18-24 inches of snow by the time we wake up on monday morning...this seems so far fetched to me....
it has been snowing or flurries almost everyday at some point for the last 2 weeks...today i took so more photos at school pre-nor'easter...we'll see what happens...here are some pictures that don't even come close to capturing the beauty of today's snowfall....

i will be taking pictures after this big storm hits...we'll see if it ends being everything they are saying it will be...
just in case i borrowed some snowshoes from my classroom so dominic and i can use them on sunday or monday maybe...
let it snow...let it snow...let it snow

cats and boxes

i don't know what it is with cats and things they can crawl into but im glad i took courtney's advice and didn't buy out the pet store of their toys...thura seems happy enough playing with whatever we have lying around...she especially likes boxes and cardboard rolls...



she also likes to be involved in everything that i do...including the computer...this is her usual resting spot while im checking email and such...

she also thinks she is human and should therefore have everything that i have...i had just poured this glass of ice cold water...i turned to put the water picture back into the fridge and this is what i come back to....

her latest favorite place to sleep while we are in the living room has been under the christmas tree...
Merry Christmas to all of you!!!!

countdown

the countdown has begun! two weeks from tomorrow (sat.) dominic, thura and i will be on our way down to the sunny island of bonaire...can't wait to be sitting in the sun chilling out with family and friends...
here's a little peek of what we will be looking at and surrounded by in two weeks...

fitz live...

this is one of my 'brothers from another mother'...shane, or fitz to all of us...he has to be one of the funniest guys i've ever met...he loves chevy novas and has a tattoo of one on the inside of his bicep...in this clip he transforms his nova into a pinto...
love ya fitz!

thanksgiving 2 days early

so we had our thanksgiving dinner a couple days early to we could have our 'brothers from another mother' there as well...it was amazing...we had 2 suites both had kitchens and the 2 aarons, my mom and joy cooked...we had ham and turkey from honey baked ham...
it was the first thanksgiving that these guys had had in 5 years i think they said...we had a lot to be thankful for this year!
hope everyone had as great of a thanksgiving as we did!!!

traveling with Thura

wow...traveling with a little kitten can be interesting....we had 6 flights in all and she did awesome! of course everyone loved her...how can you not...she is so small and cute...here are some pics that were taken on the trip...this is the first time she met dominic...i think she loves her dad... :-)

this gives you an idea of how big she is...this is compared to dominic's foot...haaaaa

She decided to try and help dominic pack....hard to get a good pic of her because she moves so fast...

which one is which???

so dominic and i flew out to san diego to spend thanksgiving week with my family as we welcomed jake home from iraq...he got to meet my sister charity and her husband aaron for the first time...
we were all hanging out in the living room watching tv and charity walked up behind dominic and starting rubbing his back...she said "heeeellllooooo"...it wasn't until my step-mom sharon said "you do know who you're rubbing right?"
charity freaked out...she got all embarrassed and said she couldn't tell the difference from behind...here is her photo proving her point...
dominic is the one on the left...aaron on the right...