I have finally gotten my classroom to a point where I feel like I can leave within an hour of school getting out (we are done-done around 4:45, so I usually end up being there until 7-ish). Today I left at 6 (it felt weird to see light outside). I decided that getting out early meant I could make an awesome dinner.
I get really annoyed with people who constantly Pin things on Pinterest, but just pin them to look at them and have something on their pin boards. So anytime I don't know what to cook for dinner, I pick something off my pinboards. If it's a Pin Win, I comment on it to say that it worked out. If it's fail (like the 2 cupcake recipe), then I delete the pin.
Tonight I made Chicken and Artichokes in a White Wine Sauce (note this also includes mushrooms). I was a little paranoid about making it because you have to coat the chicken in flour and then fry it on the stove, but the directions here were really easy to follow, and I did not burn the chicken or have raw chicken when I was done cooking. Everything was really great-I could have done without the artichokes, but Matt said he liked them.
Here is a link for the recipe: http://annies-eats.net/2010/08/02/chicken-and-artichokes-in-a-white-wine-sauce/
And on a side note-do not go to the grocery store after getting out of teaching small children all day on top of being hungry. I bought a ten-pack of Kit-Kats, chocolate chip cookie dough, Halloween cupcakes, a box of Nutter Butters, and the cinnabar bun things from the fridge section. Oops.
Funny things from my classroom:
My kids keep taking my markers and eating them or drawing on things. Today I fixed this by putting velcro on all the markers. Then I put them high out of reach. Take that kids!
Left my lunch unguarded to open a milk for a kid. I came back, a little girl had not only eaten my Lean Cuisine meal (I'd had like 3 bites) but she had also drained my bottle of water. Flash forward 2 hours: There is a bag of goldfish for snacks behind my desk (as in, a snack for me). Same little girl goes back there, gets my bag, and has 2 handfuls of my Goldfish in her mouth before I can stop her. I wasn't mad, all I could do was laugh!
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
School Year Quotes
Miss D: "Class why do we go to math centers?"
Class Response: "So you can let us have a little fun cuz you's a mean teacher the rest of the day."
Girls in my class at the reading center playing school:
Girl 1: "Okay, you get to be Miss Dellinger first. Then I get to be Miss Dellinger."
Girl 2: "No I want to be Miss Dellinger first!!!!"
Girl 3: "No I am Miss Dellinger sit criss-cross applesauce!!"
Boy: "But Miss D. I don't want to play with shapes, shapes give me headacheeeessss!!"
While passing out hand sanitizer before lunch:
Boy: "You have to be careful with that stuff Miss D. If you give us too much, our germs become SUPER GERMS and then they are immune to our germs and we will get sick."
(The look on his face was like 'duh')
While there were people at our school voting in the primary elections, this little boy said to the voting officials:
Boy: "You have to watch out for those Seperatists. They are the bad guys. Like the Democrats, they're bad too. You have to vote for people who support the Republic, like the Republicans. They are the good guys! VOTE REPUBLICAN!"
Same boy later at lunch: "I wish I were 18 so I could vote Republican Ms. D"
While talking about the weather and rain:
Miss D.: "So when the rain falls down, it goes in the rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, and into the ground. But what happens to the other water? It goes away because of something called, and this is a really big word, e-vap-or-a-tion. Does anyone have any idea what this might mean?"
Boy: "Yeah um it means that the sun comes out and drys up the rain. Then it goes back up into the clouds. Clouds are made of water. Then it falls back down again as rain or snow or ice. IT'S CALLED THE WATER CYCLE MISS D. DUH!"
Class Response: "So you can let us have a little fun cuz you's a mean teacher the rest of the day."
Girls in my class at the reading center playing school:
Girl 1: "Okay, you get to be Miss Dellinger first. Then I get to be Miss Dellinger."
Girl 2: "No I want to be Miss Dellinger first!!!!"
Girl 3: "No I am Miss Dellinger sit criss-cross applesauce!!"
Boy: "But Miss D. I don't want to play with shapes, shapes give me headacheeeessss!!"
While passing out hand sanitizer before lunch:
Boy: "You have to be careful with that stuff Miss D. If you give us too much, our germs become SUPER GERMS and then they are immune to our germs and we will get sick."
(The look on his face was like 'duh')
While there were people at our school voting in the primary elections, this little boy said to the voting officials:
Boy: "You have to watch out for those Seperatists. They are the bad guys. Like the Democrats, they're bad too. You have to vote for people who support the Republic, like the Republicans. They are the good guys! VOTE REPUBLICAN!"
Same boy later at lunch: "I wish I were 18 so I could vote Republican Ms. D"
While talking about the weather and rain:
Miss D.: "So when the rain falls down, it goes in the rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, and into the ground. But what happens to the other water? It goes away because of something called, and this is a really big word, e-vap-or-a-tion. Does anyone have any idea what this might mean?"
Boy: "Yeah um it means that the sun comes out and drys up the rain. Then it goes back up into the clouds. Clouds are made of water. Then it falls back down again as rain or snow or ice. IT'S CALLED THE WATER CYCLE MISS D. DUH!"
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
A Day in the Life...
Last week (late post, I know), I had an interview on Monday, then went to my aunt's house to visit. While there, my grandma called and said she needed to go to the hospital. We sat there for HOURS, and it took everything in me not to kill one of my little cousins who was being a brat. We finally left at 4 AM and got home around 4:30 (found out she has Diabetes and high blood pressure plus an infection). I just crawled into bed with my little cousin instead of trying to drive home so late at night.
The next morning, I had a phone interview with a school. BEST interview of my life-while we interviewed I had several files open on my computer to help me out with questions, and I was cuddled up in bed in warm pajamas. I was kind of half asleep from being up all night though, so I did not do as well...I just enjoyed being able to lay in bed instead of stressing about what to wear and driving to the school.
Interestingly enough, I had to hop out of bed after the interview to be at court at 1:30. You see a few weeks ago the Sheriff's Department called my house, and said I had been subpoenaed to appear as a witness in court for a theft/robbery for someone I did not know. He would not give me any information about the case. I just assumed it was for a robbery I witnessed at a grocery store in like January, and I was confused as to why it would just not be going to court. So I went to court under the impression that this is what I was witnessing for.
My cousin came with me because honestly she had nothing better to do, and we thought there might be some interesting characters at the courthouse. Is it a little ridiculous you have to pay to park at court? I mean really, I was subpoenaed, so it's not like I couldn't go...why should I have to pay to park?
Here is my awesome park job...and yes I fixed it. In my defense, I was trying to look at the spot number while I parked so I would know how to pay for my spot.
So my little cousin and I both set off the metal detectors. My high heels and her diamond ring. The guy told us only real diamond rings set off metal detectors. So ladies if you want to know if your ring is real, take it through a metal detector!
We went to our courtroom, and we were SURROUNDED by interesting people. Some people looked like they had just come from the club or rolled out of bed. Saw a few people from high school, of course.
When we went inside, I got confused about where I needed to go because I did not hear my name called. When I tried to ask when everyone was moving around, I got yelled at by the bailiff to sit down in the front row...where all of the "accused" were sitting. A nice young lawyer finally explained that I needed to wait until the person I was there for was called, then someone would call me to testify. So I went and sat back down.
Later on, I got called up to be answered some questions by the prosecutor (I think?). He asked me for my license plate number. I was confused, but I told him and then he looked confused. Then he said, "Do you know why you are here?" And I said no, that no would tell me and I did not know this person. He laughed, really hard because I looked so confused. Then he asked for my old license plate number, and I said it was stolen but that it was ZVH-2046...then he said this: "We caught that guy driving around with your plate. He used it to rob an ABC Store in Gastonia" OHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Not what I thought at all!
See this post: http://littlemisshollydolly.blogspot.com/2011/04/license-plate-blues.html
I was laughing when I went back to my seat because I could not believe that is why I was there. I was told that they would never catch that person because the only way he would get caught was if he had my plates on and a cop ran the plate and knew it was stolen. He basically put it on his get a way car (a car identical to mine) so when the guy called the tag of the car after the robbery, they could not identify the robber. Luckily a cop got him that night!
I ended up staying longer than I was supposed to-I thought I had to go up and be sworn in, but it turns out the person just needed me to verify the incident and who I was. Crazy!
The next morning, I had a phone interview with a school. BEST interview of my life-while we interviewed I had several files open on my computer to help me out with questions, and I was cuddled up in bed in warm pajamas. I was kind of half asleep from being up all night though, so I did not do as well...I just enjoyed being able to lay in bed instead of stressing about what to wear and driving to the school.
Interestingly enough, I had to hop out of bed after the interview to be at court at 1:30. You see a few weeks ago the Sheriff's Department called my house, and said I had been subpoenaed to appear as a witness in court for a theft/robbery for someone I did not know. He would not give me any information about the case. I just assumed it was for a robbery I witnessed at a grocery store in like January, and I was confused as to why it would just not be going to court. So I went to court under the impression that this is what I was witnessing for.
My cousin came with me because honestly she had nothing better to do, and we thought there might be some interesting characters at the courthouse. Is it a little ridiculous you have to pay to park at court? I mean really, I was subpoenaed, so it's not like I couldn't go...why should I have to pay to park?
Here is my awesome park job...and yes I fixed it. In my defense, I was trying to look at the spot number while I parked so I would know how to pay for my spot.
So my little cousin and I both set off the metal detectors. My high heels and her diamond ring. The guy told us only real diamond rings set off metal detectors. So ladies if you want to know if your ring is real, take it through a metal detector!
We went to our courtroom, and we were SURROUNDED by interesting people. Some people looked like they had just come from the club or rolled out of bed. Saw a few people from high school, of course.
When we went inside, I got confused about where I needed to go because I did not hear my name called. When I tried to ask when everyone was moving around, I got yelled at by the bailiff to sit down in the front row...where all of the "accused" were sitting. A nice young lawyer finally explained that I needed to wait until the person I was there for was called, then someone would call me to testify. So I went and sat back down.
Later on, I got called up to be answered some questions by the prosecutor (I think?). He asked me for my license plate number. I was confused, but I told him and then he looked confused. Then he said, "Do you know why you are here?" And I said no, that no would tell me and I did not know this person. He laughed, really hard because I looked so confused. Then he asked for my old license plate number, and I said it was stolen but that it was ZVH-2046...then he said this: "We caught that guy driving around with your plate. He used it to rob an ABC Store in Gastonia" OHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Not what I thought at all!
See this post: http://littlemisshollydolly.blogspot.com/2011/04/license-plate-blues.html
I was laughing when I went back to my seat because I could not believe that is why I was there. I was told that they would never catch that person because the only way he would get caught was if he had my plates on and a cop ran the plate and knew it was stolen. He basically put it on his get a way car (a car identical to mine) so when the guy called the tag of the car after the robbery, they could not identify the robber. Luckily a cop got him that night!
I ended up staying longer than I was supposed to-I thought I had to go up and be sworn in, but it turns out the person just needed me to verify the incident and who I was. Crazy!
Friday, July 29, 2011
The Most Epic Fail of All
Today I had a really long day with back to back triple interviews. After I was done, I headed to Books-A-Million because I can pick up WiFi there for free with my grandma's membership card for their rewards program. I sat there for a few hours critiquing a resume and cover letter for a friend of mine. When I got done I headed out to where I parked my car.
When I got to my car, my trunk wouldn't pop. I didn't think it was a big deal because sometimes my button doesn't work on my keyless. I went to manually key into my car when I noticed that my driver's side mirror was gone. I thought someone had hit my car an ran, so I was MAD. And yelling some choice words. Then I realized my driver's window was gone...so clearly someone had knocked off my mirror then used it to bust out my window. All of my bags were gone from my backseat (make-up bag, Vera Bradley duffel, everything). I immediately call the police, and while on the phone, I tried to unlock my doors, but my key wouldn't work.
Then it hit me. It wasn't my car.
The police officer laughed when I embarrassingly told him what happened. Then, while I am on the phone still and my keys are in the door...the owner of that car comes up. A young 16 year old girl and I was like "Uhh I thought this was my car" Hahaha. She said she knew she shouldn't have parked near me....our cars are same model, make, year, and color....hilarious.
I am loving all of the sarcastic comments on Facebook, ya'll. Loving it!
Sorry officer!
Monday, July 25, 2011
If I Write A Blog, They Will Hire
(Did anyone get the "If you build it, they will come" reference? I thought it was funny)
I have had what feels like a billion job interviews. I have driven around the state...no ALL OVER the state at the beck and call of several principals. The other day I went to an interview, and they were running late so I got to talk to the women who were waiting. Two were recent graduates like me, and two were not. Of the two that were not recent graduates...one had been a teacher for 8 years in that county....and the other one had been a teacher in SAUDI ARABIA for the past 17! I mean, how do I compete with that? I wanted to turn around and walk out, but I did pretty well in the interview. Maybe if I get lucky someone will want to hire me as a recent graduate with fresh teaching knowledge and 0 experience.....
This has led me to create the resume I wish that I could hand in:
Objective:
To obtain a job where I can earn money only to waste it on a cute wardrobe, fabulous accessories, shoes I’ll never wear, and going out to eat at places I cannot afford.
Education:
All the education I needed came from reality television: Survivor, The Real World, The Real Housewives, Kate Plus Eight, and 19 Kids and Counting
Anything else I know came from reading Southern Living and Paula Deen magazines front to back for the past five years
Professional Experience
Principal for a Day through Accelerated Reader Program-May 2000
•Sorted mail into teacher boxes
•Napped on couch
•Greeted anyone walking into the office
•Canceled homework for the whole entire school
Battle of the Books Team Member-2000-2002
•Memorized facts from stories for competition
•Never part of a winning team
Additional Experience
Head of Recruitment for Gamma Phi Beta Sorority at UNC-Asheville-January-May 2009
•Persuaded girls to rush sorority
•Planned SUPER cute recruitment events
Head lifeguard/Manager at Robinwood Lake-WAY TOO LONG OF MY LIFE SPENT HERE
•Sat in a chair and tanned, collected money every once in a while from customers
•Sprayed Sun-In in my hair about once every five minutes
•Talked with random people and listened to my iPod
Honors
All of my Girl Scout Badges-way too many years of my life
Girl Scout Silver Award-2003
School Spelling Bee Champ-2000
2nd Most Accelerated Reader Points (SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRST)-2001
Most Likely to Wear Red to a Black and White Only Event(Gamma Phi Beta)-2008
Most Spirited Sorority Sister-2008 AND 2009!!!
Most Likely to Accidently Destroy the World (Gamma Phi Beta)-2007-My personal favorite
Skills
Shameless gossiping
Texting faster than you can type
Always finding something to talk about
Talking in general
Blogging
Googling
Facebook Creeping
Things that I have considered doing:
And, if I could get this where it said UNC 49ers, I would order it. And wear it with pride:
PS-thanks to Renn, I am now addicted to Pinterest. If you are on Pinterest, leave me a comment so I can follow you!
I have had what feels like a billion job interviews. I have driven around the state...no ALL OVER the state at the beck and call of several principals. The other day I went to an interview, and they were running late so I got to talk to the women who were waiting. Two were recent graduates like me, and two were not. Of the two that were not recent graduates...one had been a teacher for 8 years in that county....and the other one had been a teacher in SAUDI ARABIA for the past 17! I mean, how do I compete with that? I wanted to turn around and walk out, but I did pretty well in the interview. Maybe if I get lucky someone will want to hire me as a recent graduate with fresh teaching knowledge and 0 experience.....
This has led me to create the resume I wish that I could hand in:
Objective:
To obtain a job where I can earn money only to waste it on a cute wardrobe, fabulous accessories, shoes I’ll never wear, and going out to eat at places I cannot afford.
Education:
All the education I needed came from reality television: Survivor, The Real World, The Real Housewives, Kate Plus Eight, and 19 Kids and Counting
Anything else I know came from reading Southern Living and Paula Deen magazines front to back for the past five years
Professional Experience
Principal for a Day through Accelerated Reader Program-May 2000
•Sorted mail into teacher boxes
•Napped on couch
•Greeted anyone walking into the office
•Canceled homework for the whole entire school
Battle of the Books Team Member-2000-2002
•Memorized facts from stories for competition
•Never part of a winning team
Additional Experience
Head of Recruitment for Gamma Phi Beta Sorority at UNC-Asheville-January-May 2009
•Persuaded girls to rush sorority
•Planned SUPER cute recruitment events
Head lifeguard/Manager at Robinwood Lake-WAY TOO LONG OF MY LIFE SPENT HERE
•Sat in a chair and tanned, collected money every once in a while from customers
•Sprayed Sun-In in my hair about once every five minutes
•Talked with random people and listened to my iPod
Honors
All of my Girl Scout Badges-way too many years of my life
Girl Scout Silver Award-2003
School Spelling Bee Champ-2000
2nd Most Accelerated Reader Points (SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRST)-2001
Most Likely to Wear Red to a Black and White Only Event(Gamma Phi Beta)-2008
Most Spirited Sorority Sister-2008 AND 2009!!!
Most Likely to Accidently Destroy the World (Gamma Phi Beta)-2007-My personal favorite
Skills
Shameless gossiping
Texting faster than you can type
Always finding something to talk about
Talking in general
Blogging
Googling
Facebook Creeping
Things that I have considered doing:
And, if I could get this where it said UNC 49ers, I would order it. And wear it with pride:
PS-thanks to Renn, I am now addicted to Pinterest. If you are on Pinterest, leave me a comment so I can follow you!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Under Construction
I didn't realize how DIFFICULT it is to upload new templates. I want to smack myself for starting this late at night. Excuse my ugly blog. The changes on blogger are RIDICULOUS...it needs to go back to the old way where I could copy and paste and my blog would be PERFECT with a nice text, background, and color scheme. Just ignore it for a couple of days until I straighten it back out.
Monday, July 11, 2011
The Old North State
There has been little to no time for blogging. I have been all across the state for interviews and a friend's wedding. In the past few weeks, I've put 2000 miles on my car traveling all across North Carolina. I love North Carolina and think it's beautiful and all, but I am tired of driving around it!
I mapped out my trip on Google maps...here is where I've been: 1674 miles and 1 day and 8 hours of nonstop driving (according to Google Maps)
I have seen some interesting things along the way:
A bear someone had JUST hit and killed with their car
A water well where 9 foot tall wooden figures of Batman, Captain America, and Spiderman were all just chilling by the wall
Acres of Corn/Tobacco
The East Carolina Coon Hunting Association Meeting Lodge
And my personal favorite (yes this is real):
Yes, that's right folks. For all of you Farmville playing people out there...Farmville does exist. It is a real place. And it is right here in North Carolina. You can stop and plow the fields, harvest your crops, and feed the chickens and cows.
I mapped out my trip on Google maps...here is where I've been: 1674 miles and 1 day and 8 hours of nonstop driving (according to Google Maps)
I have seen some interesting things along the way:
A bear someone had JUST hit and killed with their car
A water well where 9 foot tall wooden figures of Batman, Captain America, and Spiderman were all just chilling by the wall
Acres of Corn/Tobacco
The East Carolina Coon Hunting Association Meeting Lodge
And my personal favorite (yes this is real):
Yes, that's right folks. For all of you Farmville playing people out there...Farmville does exist. It is a real place. And it is right here in North Carolina. You can stop and plow the fields, harvest your crops, and feed the chickens and cows.
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