Confession time. One of the men I find the most attractive is Bing Crosby. Yes, I realize he is dead and that he made movives roughly sixty years ago, but I still find him quite wonderful. Truth be told I think this has a lot to do with his crooner voice. That and the fact that he stars in my favourite Christmas movies and always plays such a wonderful hero.
This confession leads me to yet another confession. I love Christmas and not in the traditional "Yay-it's-December-first-now-I-can-put-up-my-tree" way. More in the "What-do-you-mean-I-can't-keep-the-tree-up-all-year" way. I bring this up because I found myself longing for my favourite holiday while working the early shift in the deli today. Perhaps this was because I worked until eight last night and started back at four-thirty this morning, or perhaps it has to do with the fact that I feel like I haven't seen the sun for about two or three weeks (it has been a rather wet summer thus far), but regardless, I was wishing for Christmas. This then resulted in my singing Christmas carols, ranging from "White Christmas" (thus the thought train of Bing) to my own deli version of "Jingle Bells."
Yeah, if I ever begin to wonder why I'm single, the fact that I have rewritten "Jingle Bells" to work in a deli setting is probably a good indicator. Why? Because I actually dedicated a shift to coming up with wording that rhymed. And so between the hours of four-thirty a.m. and one p.m. I could be found singing and dancing throughout the deli to Christmas carols.
Somedays I realize how happy I am that God loves me. Despite my quirks, oddities, and unusual personality traits, He still loves me. He probably shakes His head at me and sighs, but He loves me!
Such is the life of a Christian single.
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Saturday, 16 July 2011
Friday, 3 June 2011
Annal 16: Tale from the Field Trip
Today our school went on a field trip to a nearby dinosaur museum. I love my students, but a total of four hours on a bus with them definitely makes things interesting! The following is one of the conversations the took place:
Student 1: "Ms. S, do you still have pictures I drew for you from kindergarten?"
Me: "I'm pretty sure I do in a box somewhere."
Student 1: "That's kind of wierd."
Me: "Well I like it when you guys draw me pictures. That's why I put all the ones from my students on my wall."
Student 2: "Ms. S, you should marry an artist."
Me: "Why?"
Student 2: "Because then he could draw you pictures all the time."
Student 3: "And because you can't draw."
I had no indication that the conversation would take this turn, which is proof that my students (and students from other classes) are more interested in my lack of a marital status than I am at times! That being said, I had another eye-opening "that's-why-I'm-still-single" moment later on in the day. We were hiking back to the bus after visiting dinosaur tracks when I began to sing Christmas carols at the top of my lungs (in my defense, it had been snowing that morning--yes, on June 3--and was getting ready to snow again). The students with me began to belt out the songs as well and so we filled the forest around us with our renditions of "Jingle Bells," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and "Deck the Halls." It was lovely, but carols in June could be another reason why I am still single.
Such is the life of a Christian single.
Student 1: "Ms. S, do you still have pictures I drew for you from kindergarten?"
Me: "I'm pretty sure I do in a box somewhere."
Student 1: "That's kind of wierd."
Me: "Well I like it when you guys draw me pictures. That's why I put all the ones from my students on my wall."
Student 2: "Ms. S, you should marry an artist."
Me: "Why?"
Student 2: "Because then he could draw you pictures all the time."
Student 3: "And because you can't draw."
I had no indication that the conversation would take this turn, which is proof that my students (and students from other classes) are more interested in my lack of a marital status than I am at times! That being said, I had another eye-opening "that's-why-I'm-still-single" moment later on in the day. We were hiking back to the bus after visiting dinosaur tracks when I began to sing Christmas carols at the top of my lungs (in my defense, it had been snowing that morning--yes, on June 3--and was getting ready to snow again). The students with me began to belt out the songs as well and so we filled the forest around us with our renditions of "Jingle Bells," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and "Deck the Halls." It was lovely, but carols in June could be another reason why I am still single.
Such is the life of a Christian single.
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