Higher Education

I have a daughter in high school now. So far she seems to be doing fine and managing well. Except, I got a phone call today from one of her teachers. The teacher rambled on for a bit and said things like "Megan just doesn't seem to be very organized and seems kind of out in left field. Really she has horrible organization. And at the end of class when everyone else was leaving she got up to sharpen her pencil and when I asked her what she was doing she just gave me a blank stare and mumbled something. I just wondered if maybe she should be taking some medication. I wouldn't know because I don't have access to that kind of information so I thought I'd call you to find out what the story is."

It's been two hours since that interesting phone call and I think I'm sort of still in a state of shock. Medication? Really?

You say Poe-tay-toe, I sa Puh-Tah-toe......

Last night Jason climbed into bed around 1 AM and asked if I knew how to spell "sleight of hand". I mumbled "s-l-e-i-g-h-t" and after a second of disappointed silence he said "how did you get so smart?"

He should have asked me how to spell prestidigitation and legerdemain (synonyms for sleight of hand). In my semi-comatose state I might have missed one of those.

Typical week at the Scotts house.....

This is what happens in a typical week at our house:



The boys (and sometimes the teenager) wrestle.



Megan has a concert (choir or orchestra, take your pick!)


Mom drives all over the place on various errands and takes pictures of stuff she thinks is "eye catching" through the car window. (this one was snapped on the way to the bike shop to fix a flat tire because EVERY plant in Arizona has thorns).




The boys drag themselves out of bed and try to sleep on the couch until it’s time for the bus to come.






Zach comes to stay with us for a bit. (this time we went to see him get his Eagle!)



Mom and the teenager try on clothes and mom buys the teenager a new shirt.



The boys get dirty building sand castles and want me to take pictures of it (in the dark). Then they fight me about taking a shower. They love their dirt.










The boys build something with all the chairs, towels, sheets, and pillows (and then ask if we can leave it for several days).

epithets.....who knew?

So you've heard the phrase "dirty old man". I knew that the "dirty" part is an epithet. I don't actually remember learning the definition of epithet but if anyone had asked I would have said it was a slur against someone. ie...two-faced.

However, did you know that "Alexander the Great" is also an epithet?

Turns out an epithet is just a word that is used to describe someone or something and can clearly be either positive or negative.

Couple of rules: it is always a metaphor (never a simile) and ancient epic poetry (think Homer) is full of epithets.

It can even be a stand alone comment: ie...."Swine" (Miss Hannigan to Mr Warbucks -- this could've been a "who said it?")

It's going to take me a while to get used to the idea that calling someone a "peacemaker" is indeed an epithet.

Who said it #23

"I'm just kiddin'. She jus' likes me for my body."

Who said it #22

For my Who said it post this week I'm going to do a series of quotes. Every time this Father and Son interact it makes me laugh.

Son: I'm sorry, Father, but the truth is, this is not my day for talking seriously.
Father: Well, what do you mean, sir?
Son: I mean that I only talk seriously on the first Tuesday of every month. Between noon and three.

Father: What are you doing here, sir? Wasting your time, as usual?
Son: My dear father, when one pays a visit, it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time and not one's own.

Father: I don't know how you stand society. A lot of d%#*d nobodies talking about nothing.
Son: I love talking about nothing, Father. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Son: There's somebody I want you to talk to.
Father: What about?
Son: About me, sir.
Father: Not a subject on which much eloquence is possible

Father: Married yet?
Son: Ask me again in half an hour

Son: (to a statue) It is a great nuisance. I can't find anyone else to talk to. I'm so full of interesting information, I feel like the latest edition of something or other. Well, after some consideration... so much to do, there's only one thing to be done. There comes a time in every son's life when he must, indeed, follow his father's advice: I shall go to bed at once.

Point's for naming the movie, characters, or actors

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...

yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like his shirt and flip flops
blue his eyes with a blue pair of glasses
and a blue bike
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around






The boys love singing this song and watching the video on you tube. Yesterday I noticed how much blue Andrew had on and starting singing the song to him. He pointed out that he has a blue bike too and then refused to stand still for a picture!

Who said it #21

"Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!"

Who said it #20?

"Death comes unexpectedly!"

Who said it #19

"What, you think you're some kind of Jedi,
waving your hand around like that? I'm a Toydarian. Mind tricks donnat work on me."

Who said it #18

"Close your mouth Michael, we are not a codfish."

Who said it #17

We've had a request for a hint. So here is the phrase in the context of the conversation. Hopefully this helps. original post "How's my butt?"

CLUE:

And that’s what I’m trying to tell you. What women are looking over, okay? Pecs and a cute butt.

You mean, like, ‘he has the cutest butt’? Where did I hear that recently?

Everywhere. You can’t even turn on the news without hearing about how some babe though some guy’s butt was cute. Who the first babe to say this was I don’t know but it caught on.

"So, how's my butt?"

The Phantom of the Opera is There.....

I was taking a picture of the new gap in his teeth and the light happened to catch him just right so that he looks like the Phantom of the Opera!

In other news: I had to bribe him with a dollar just to get him to wear a long sleeved shirt today. I don't know what he has against long sleeves!

Andrew picked Green!

So this morning Andrew went in to get his cast! Up 'til now he has just had a splint on. I got to see the metal pins sticking out of his arm. Don't worry...I won't post that picture.

He looks like a mummy in that picture. It's spirit week at school this week. Monday was pajama day and today was Professional Day. He looks very handsome in his tie!

Who said it #16

"I don't want sunbursts or marble halls. I just want YOU!"

Let me know if you need a hint......

Pictures from the Hospital

Andrew is home from the hospital and it only takes us 5 minutes every day just to put a shirt on! Here are some pics from his stay at the hospital.



The pediatrics ward had a play area for kids.

They also outfitted him with a lojack (which made me think Kojac - I have this weird word association thing going lately - don't know why I thought of a dog from a Stephen King book) and I had to "sign him out" for a walk through the serenity gardens.



If anyone tries to take a child through the doors of the pediatric ward the lojack shuts everything down and alarms go off. We were looking at a picture on the wall as a lady kept trying to leave. The doors refused to open and we finally figured out that Andrew was standing too close. He wasn't out the door so no alarms were going off, but it had locked the doors down.

Of course there appeared to be a glitch in the system the day we were there. Anytime an adult left the alarm went off and they'd have to call security to come turn it off. Talk about crying wolf!

We are glad he is home!

Who said it #15

Am I going MAD, or did the word "think" escape your lips? You were not hired for your brains, you hippopotamic land mass.

Who Said It #14

Went away? "I dwell in darkness without you" and it *went away*?