MMMM Biscuits and Gravy

We got a new staff member here and there had been several people interested in having biscuits and gravy at my place, but 10 of us crammed in my place is a little ridiculous.  So I decided a good welcome for our first meeting would be a brunch type festival.  Biscuits and gravy and a Denver omelet scramble.  I think cooking the gravy was the best part because I was listened to George Strait and cooking it the way I'd seen Grandma Davis do it a million or so times.  Had to serve it in a pot which isn't that big of a deal, but Scott and I were watching some show on on some channel about remaking a decorating scheme with swapmeet stuff and one of their tips was use soup tureens for planters because they go for cheap because not a whole lot of people use them.  The both of us could remember Grandma using hers like crazy.  Cabbage roll casserole, beans, gravy, tortilla soup, etc.  Oh also the biscuits were star shaped because that's the shape cookie cutter I had.  :-)

Teacher's Day

Korea is a pretty cool place in that there are awesome holidays all the time.  Take for example you have two birthdays. A solar calendar one and a lunar calendar one.  There's a Children's day, a Parent's day, a Teacher's day, etc. On Teacher's Day I got some presents from my 1st graders.  I got flowers from one girl, some vitamins from another and a reusable shopping bag from one of the boys.  I decided that I was going to write them thank you notes, but I was going to write it in Korean for them.  I wasn't expecting their reactions.  They were elated to see something in Korean that I had written.  One girl opened it up and instantly I got a hug.  :-)  The other highlight of the day was getting ice cream from a gas station later that night and the person serving the soft serve looked at me and goes 선생 which means teacher and I nodded my head and I got a couple of extra swirls of the ice cream.  :-)

Whenever I get reactions like this from kids it always makes me think of this audio clip from School of Rock

Audio Clip

Own Worst Enemy

What's the old saying "You are your own worst enemy"?  I definitely proved this during my run on Sunday morning.  I was running and tripped myself and face-planted on the asphalt and skidded into a bush.  After a morning start like this I put my sleeping mask and an ice pack on and went back to bed.  I needed to restart the day.  When we were drinking outside the gas station later that night one of the other guys was like did anyone see you?  Pretty sure seeing as there were a ton of cars around.  Anyways so I've got these nice marks on my hands and a couple scrapes on my forehead.  I thought that was all of it but in the shower found out my hip and thigh on my rightside have a nice bruise and raspberry.  When I went to acupuncture today I had a bandaid on my hands and the Dr. was looking at it and asked what happened and I explained and so his solution is thrust a pin right through the bandaid.  That hurt like the dickens.  The good news is that my hands and thigh took most of the beating from my fall.  I was lucky and didn't break my fall with my face like mom did a couple years ago on her run.  :-)

A Day with ZZ

So I've been jammin' out to some ZZ after rewatching the Two and a Half Men episode where they guest star and also recent Bones episodes where Billy Gibbons keeps popping up as a recurrent guest star.

So I decided to undertake a personal challenge of describing my Monday incorporating as many ZZ song titles as I could.  I've also taken the pleasure to hyperlink to the YouTube videos for each song.

So I woke up and my head kept going Bang Bang from the night before.  It was a good night, but we were definitely a bunch of Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers.  Boss man was in a good mood last night as we had all Just Got Paid.  We had a lot of fun having a Party on the Patio at his house.  I decided to go for a run and that helped my head, but wore out my Legs .  Got back from run and got Buck Nekkid and took a shower.  Ate some yogurt, cereal and oatmeal with Brown Sugar of course.  Put on my shirt and tie for work, because I'm always a Sharped Dressed Man.  It was way bright outside so of course I had to wear my Cheap Sunglasses.  Saw several ladies with their parasails Waitin for the Bus.  Bought the Korean version of a burger with Bar-B-Q sauce and told the nice lady that I see two-three times a week "I Thank You." Went to my acupuncture appointment and felt like a Pincushion.  When my physical therapist was working a knot out of one of my shoulders I felt like She's Just Killing Me.  Then the doctor was decompressing my lower back and I definitely felt like he Got Me Under Pressure seeing as he was putting his entire weight into it.  Went to work where I organized my desk and was Stackin Paper.  My 1st graders always comment on the days that I wear my Texas Belt Buckle, Monday was no different.  Went home because I was exhausted after work and Person of Interest was on so I had myself a TV Dinner.

Ok that's about it for Monday.  I really enjoyed having fun with it, maybe I'll try Aerosmith or George Strait in a month or so for the next one.  There will be another update coming shortly.  Either tonight or sometime this weekend.  There will also be lots of pictures from the party at the Boss's house.

Portraits

So two of my first graders decided to draw pictures of me... I thought they were definitely postable... One unfortunately makes me look like a gremlin, but the other isn't too too bad.

Mmmmmmm Mexican Munchins

So in honor of Cinco de Mayo (just about as good of a reason as any to eat Mexican food) I made a small Mexican feast for the work crew.  I started with a pairing of refried beans, one with a little spice and the other without.  Then I made some black borracho beans that had this hearty taste to them.  Then I made some ground taco beef with some nacho cheese.  I finished it off with a chicken enchilada casserole , once again one spicier and one less spicy.  Plenty of chips were provided for all.  You would've thought I had brought free money for everyone at work.  Then again we are teachers and there is something to be said about teachers and free food.  I don't know what they were more excited about, the food, or the fact that it was tasty Mexican food.  All of us had trouble teaching afterwards because we had that post-Mexican dinner buzz in our stomach that all you wanna do is sleep.  Unfortunately the students had an exam in that class and the teacher does nothing but proctor, which is increasingly difficult after a Mexican feast.