Today

Today it felt like Monday. I'm glad it's not. Weird to have a little "weekend" in the middle of the week.

Today maybe a quarter of my 7:45 math class was there. The teacher wasn't either but we were supposed to come and teach each other for our test.

Today I stole a poster.

Today I got my Geometry Theorems and Proofs book from my teacher that I made in my geometry class about a year ago. The teacher made a face when I took my backpack off to put it away (a face like "why are you doing that in here??") and he hurried me out and closed the door behind me.

Today I ate a brownie in my Family Foundations class. I wasn't going to but my teacher made me. It was really gooey and good.
Today I went shopping for some necessities. I only brought $15 into the store with me because we didn't need much. I got a couple extra things then stopped because I remembered that I only had $15 with me. My total was $15 even.

Look how cute these wire cards are!!

The 4th of July

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!

How can you resist that face?

Late post...

Tom took this picture when we were feeding the ducks and geese at the park.

Happy Birthday to Tom!

28!

We celebrated Tom's birthday yesterday because we're so busy during the week.

But TODAY is his BIRTHDAY! :D 

We had BLTs with basil that smelled SO good! Tom found a good bunch of it at Albertsons. And he bought some seeded rye bread. Dinner was SO amazing!

And for dessert...

 Peanut Butter Ice Cream Pie

with lactose free ice cream.

This is what is left from yesterday. We did give two slices to friends and I ate a small piece because I wasn't feeling too well and Tom ate the rest.

And to finish the day we watched How to Train Your Dragon, one of Tom's favorites.

Tom's Mugs

These are Tom's mugs.

I helped him scrape out the inside before there were ready for their first firing so that something could actually go inside of them and so they weren't so heavy. 

They are so cool.

He glazed them too but he put too much on so it bubbled and gathered at the bottom of the mugs. We had to use a grinder thing to get it off and glass was flying everywhere. We had a rule that we had to leave a little space unglazed at the bottom so that it wouldn't run down and get stuck in the kiln.

Students who weren't enrolled in a ceramics classes were actually not allowed to do anything but sit there and watch. So we made it a late night date and I smuggled him in and said, "just act cool." (what movie?)

Don't tell anyone. ;)

AND on one of the last days of class when his mugs and plates were sitting on the table all done my teacher held them up and said, "Do these belong to anyone in here?"

...

Of course I didn't say anything!

And then he made an example of Tom and told us to be careful not to put too much glaze on. :/

Oops.

Tom's Bowls

These are the bowls Tom whipped out before I could even center the clay!

They're a little thick but he did a good job.

Old Pink Desk

The other day I drove past an old pink desk with drawers on one side with handles like these:

 except they were wooden like the desk and blended in nicely. On the other side were shelves the width of the desk with rounded edges. The paint was peeling off and it was dirty. 

It kind of looked like this:

Kind of.

This desk was on someone's lawn with a bunch of other junk and a large phone number. 

It was so cute. I imagined taking the pink paint off and painting it another bold color. I loved it right when I drove by for some reason...

I got the number and called for a price.

$10

I talked to Tom about it. He said, (and I thought of you, Mom) "take a picture of it and I'll make it for you one day."

PSH.

We really don't have room for it anywhere. It's really heavy and it will take a lot of work to make it look good. And then what to do with it when we move? Sell it? Haul it with us across the country? What to do with it and where to put it now being dirty and pink?

I could have bought it yesterday.

Someone else wanted it and I could have bought it last night.

...

I didn't. :(

I at least wanted a picture of it.

I drove past that lawn this morning and there was no old pink desk.

I'm a little sad.

Who knows why I wanted that thing but I thought twice about it, hesitated and missed out.

Tom better make one for me now. ;)