Friday's Five

Well, hello!  I *think* it might finally be spring, and I'm so glad it's Friday...I haven't worked a five day week in a while, and I'm exhausted!  Here are five things I'm dying to share this week:

1. The whole time I was running the Pitter Pat 10k I was thinking how fun it would be to come home and write about all the great moments I was having.  Then I went home and took a nap and forgot everything I was going to write about.  Anyway...it went great, I came in in 56:21, and it was cold. There's #29!

2. My newly painted and rehabbed dressing room is beautiful and I love it. It's just a gray room with clothing racks, but it makes me feel like a princess.  Oh, shoot.  That's #100. 

3. I am now obsessed with Feedly.  Honestly, I never really figured out Google Reader, and I just had a million blogs on my reading list on my iPad.  But I had to visit each one to see new posts, and it sooked.  Now, new posts come to me.  So stylishly, too.   

4. I bent down to talk to a student on Monday and ripped the rear of my pants.  I've had this happen before (I teach first grade--They are way down there!)  but before it ripped in the front.  I kept casually trying to feel the front of my pants for a rip, but I couldn't find anything.  Yep, it was in the back.  Huge hole.  Pink underwear.  Had bus duty in the gym after school. *sigh*

5. Someone please explain to me, in great detail, how to fix my hair like Megan Draper.  Why is this so hard for me?!

How was your week?  What are your weekend plans?

Have you ever had a wardrobe malfunction in public?

Any big goals accomplished lately?

A Visit Home

These were taken the last time we went to visit my family.  I grew up out in the woods, and I don't ever plan to move back, but it's a great place to visit.  My sisters make great models, and I almost got my mom, but she hid behind the cat.

I took my Kodak out into the woods just to play around with the focus, and I love the results, even without much help from me.  I don't really know anything about photography, just that I like it and want to get better.  Since I can't yet afford a nice digital camera, I bought an old camera at a flea market for $70 a couple years ago to see what it would do.  It's a Kodak Retina Reflex IV, late sixties I think, and it takes really great pictures that look much more special than anything I take on my iPhone.

I have this camera to play with, and I recently acquired my dad's old Minolta, but I do hope to someday legitimately learn how to take better photos, and perhaps eventually with a high-quality camera.  There are photography classes available at the University near by.  For now, however, I just like to play photographer with my neat old cameras.

{Music Monday} Peter, Paul, and Mary

This song is so beautiful it makes me cry.