Funny Stuff

After our last TTT I was forced to play a joke on Shitface. (Yes! Shitface don't listen to anyone else - I really was forced!) (TTT gals - we know the truth!)

Anyway, I told Shitface that after we had had a few drinks ToadMama thought it would be a great idea to dye our white dog pink. And yes, I mean bright pink!

See for yourself:




And the best one. Where they are drying him off after dying him:



These are the pics I sent to him via text message on his phone as he was out on a boat in the Atlantic Ocean.

I didn't even get a text back. With in seconds (literally seconds) my phone was ringing and it was him. At first he didn't believe me. He kept saying, "that's not our dog." After ensuring him that yes, that was indeed our dog and our kitchen, he was furious! I think he even threatened to cancel all future TTT's because we obviously couldn't handle our alcohol. And I'm sure something like, "why would you ever think of doing something this stupid!" probably left his lips too.

The plan was to have him believing this until he got home 2 weeks later. However, I definitely didn't anticipate him being this mad and I definitely didn't want him to be THIS mad at me for the next 2 weeks. So I cracked.

I finally gave in and told him it was a joke and let my laughter out. BWAHHAHAH! Toadmama photo shopped the pictures!! Don't they look great!!! BWAHAHAHAHA!

Yet, he still didn't think it was very funny. Not even a little.

So he comes home tonight - I wonder if he'll be able to get a laugh out of it now?

[Editor's Note: Sorry for all of you early readers - I temporarily forgot how to use spellcheck]

Everyday Math Sucks

So Girl's school for the past 3 years has been using this Everyday Math program. The logic of it makes sense - for the most part. You essentially learn a topic and come back to it continuously throughout the year. It's not like other programs where you learn it, test it and then never touch it again. That part makes sense. But the way they teach them to do things just seems ridiculous!

Take this problem for example:

Partial-Sums Algorithm	2 6 8 + 4 8 3 ________ 6 0 0 1 4 0 1 1 ________ 7 5 1
Add 100s Add 10s Add 1s Add partial sums

Really - you have to go through all that work to get that answer!?! You can't just teach them to carry the number like we learned. (I thought it worked pretty well that way.)

And this one:

I really don't think this makes ANY sense! Why make them go through all the extra work?

And then there is the issue of money. The way they have been teaching money is like this:

Whereas:

P = penny
D = dime
N = nickle
Q = quarter

DUH!

But the problem now lies in that my child can't look at coins and tell what they are because they don't have a P,D,N or Q on it and their not all the same size! They rarely use actual money or pictures of actual money.

So when this problem on her most recent math test came home wrong I couldn't get upset with her. They never actually use coins or pictures of coins for anything - except of course on this test!


She looked at it and figured it was the biggest coin so it had to be a quarter. (And to make it worse the coins really aren't even to scale.)

I'm really struggling with the fact that she isn't learning the basics that everyone has always used. Could you imagine an adult standing in line at the bank trying to add up a deposit slip and have to go through all of this to get an answer?

Does anyone elses kids use this format? Does it make sense to anyone else? If your kids use it, do you and your kids understand it?

Is October Over Yet?

It's the first day of October! CRAP!! That means that the stupid holiday called Halloween is now on my children's minds.

Am I one of the only ones out there that loathes this holiday?

First of all you get dressed up in some stupid costume and then go around and beg for candy. Who doesn't love free candy? Well for me - I don't have much of a sweet tooth and the whole thought just bothers me!

And if you had my Girl, you would probably see one of the many reasons I can't stand it. Take last year. I take her to Target to pick out a costume. The first one she wants is upwards of $45. I refuse to spend that kind of money on a costume said child will only wear once.

I pick out a costume I think she will like and she rolls her eyes at me. I guess that ones a no go.

She then picks out another costume appropriate for a 22 year old - not a 6 year old! I tell her no way in hell!

I pick out another costume to be met with those same glaring eyes of "are you kidding me". That's too babyish. I'm not wearing that.

She picks out another costume - decent until I look at the $50 price tag. I tell her that's too much money and she proceeds to whine and cry that this is the ONLY one she likes and why can't she have it!

I pick out a similar costume that doesn't have all the "bells and whistles". No way she exclaims, that one doesn't have the cool shoes! ( I didn't know we were buying it for the shoes!)

This proceeds to go on for about 45 minutes when I give up and tell her to pick a costume in the next 5 minutes or she isn't going at all.

And what do we end up with? The first costume that I picked out!

And this goes on every year! I think I'm just going to spare myself the pain this year and get her costume online. That way I only have to listen to her whine at home and not at the store that she doesn't like it and then ends up loving!