Terri! So good to see you again. I miss you. Just trying to hang in over here. Glad you weren’t carried away by the storms. FYI: Michael stole corn so that his child would live through the night during the potato famine. He then received a prison sentence and was shipped off the Australia in a prison ship. 😢 I think Michael was not a real person if I remember correctly but it is something that did happen. Interesting note, look up the song. It is sung at soccer games and maybe other sporting events??? Sending big hugs to you. ❤

@@Mycophile11 Mycophile 💚!!!! I misssss youuuuuuu! 😢 I understand, lots of people I know are trying to hang in there. But hey, it is my birthday 🥳 month and we are celebrating every single day in May! 🧁 🙌🏻 😂 Tara called yesterday, I would say she is teetering on the edge of insanity right now?!?! She was waiting at her classroom door for her students, one boy child walked by and said to her, why are you just standing there, shouldn’t you be doing something? Although there is a lot of me in Tara I don’t usually see me when it comes to responding to something like this automatically. She would normally take her time and be subtle dealing with him but this time, her response was pure T ✌🏻?!?! She said, The sheer audacity of you to feel like you have the option in life to speak to me this way, you have absolutely no idea what is going on with me right now, I have 1,000 things running through my head right now, I am never just standing anywhere because the things I need to remember to keep your day running as smooth as possible is something that your young child brain is simply not capable of understanding, which is obvious, since you asked me that question. Of course he asks, what does audacity mean?!?! She responds, a teaching moment for all, you get the dictionary and read, at the front of the class, the definition of audacity. (Collective classroom grown) he does this and says, that is a big word. Tara says, imagine that, your teacher using a big word, maybe I will spend the rest of the day using big words and when I do each of you can take turns reading to the class the dictionary meaning?!?! (Collective classroom groan with one kid saying, man can’t you just keep your mouth shut for once in your life?!?!) 😂🤣😂🤣 But she is calling me in this moment because she is feeling guilty, going on and on about how she shouldn’t have responded this way, blah and blah. I was like, look, there are what, 14 days left of school, your state tests are over, not a lot is going on right now except to make it to the end of the school year. But the thing is this is a tough time and you can’t just sit there and wait for the last day of school, they are there to learn and there are many different ways to do that, including when they overstep in a social kind of way, it isn’t always all about the books? Everything is okay, maybe that immediate response taught him a lesson in life, like maybe he should take a minute and think before he speaks?!?! Blah and blah. My job in this moment, if I get a phone call about something that happened, is to make it all make sense, validate her side of it, she already knows she is okay, she is just wanting verification. This conversation ended with her muttering, sometimes I respond just like my mother and that isn’t always a good thing. 😂🤣😂🤣 I was like, okay child, now guess who has the audacity to say that to ME, you are the one calling for reassurance, how about we don’t make this about me and stick the script about what is really happening here, you are upset and I am reassuring you? When I said audacity she laughs out loud, I mean big time, and I said, point made and guess who isn’t feeling guilty, oh that would be ME! 😂🤣😂🤣 Yeah, everybody is losing it right now. 🤔 Wellll, I kinda sorta took the song to new and modern places with a country 🤠 twist, which was interesting only because I don’t sing in my mind in a country 🤠 way?!?! 🤔 I really don’t know what that was all about, me just streaming a lot of ridiculous consciousness in that moment. Wellllll, and a prison ship sounds scary? 😱 🤷🏼‍♀️ It is the storms, which have honestly been very, very sad. 😢 I misssssss youuuu!!!! 😢 T ✌🏻

@@terrilabeth 😘❤️ Yes. There is a lot more to teaching than the “subject/topic” at hand. Sorry my response is so short. 💕

@@Mycophile11 was it short? I don’t think it was short? 🤔 May is my month and it is time to celebrate! With cookies, 🍪, I do like me some cookies. Unfortunately 😒, no no no no no no no, absolutely no negativity Labeth, go have a cookie 🍪!! 😬 Have you seen my glowing comments about my Post Malone crush? I have given meself alerts 🚨 for it, thinking I was covering meself and me comments with B ☘️ but he says I am owed a bunch of alerts 🚨 for all of the violations?!?! I told him that delayed punishment doesn’t really work for me, the waiting is the hardest and I ain’t good at that. He doesn’t seem too moved by this and is still giving me the delayed punishment. I am working on it, wellllll, not working on speaking my truth about Post Malone 😍, but working on the necessity of the delayed punishment with B ☘️. I think I will just give meself another alert 🚨, just to cover me bases. 👍🏻 At least I am not required to go to clown 🤡 town with Annie 🤡 today. However she just informed me that we are putting in my AC, company is coming this weekend and my turn on the AC in the other room and use 2000 fans to push the air to my room won’t be an option and this room will roast me to a crisp. I am already in shorts and a tank top there ain’t any more clothing options to remove without them all being gone. 😬 Annie the clown 🤡 is being a bit bossy. I got out of the kitchen fast and I am hiding in my room. I have also had about 3 hours of sleep and know this ain’t the time for polite discord with Annie 🤡 so hiding is the best option at the moment. 😬 Thinking about you my friend! 💕 T ✌🏻

@@terrilabeth I have heard of Post Malone but no didn’t see your post about him nor do I know anything about him. 🤷‍♀️ Where is the post?

So glad you and Cierra are ok. Now I see the deer post. Didn’t you have one take out a mirror and then you got another one at a junk yard that was a different color?? Why do I remember a green side mirror on a blue car??? Gotta watch out for them. We have had run ins with them before. We have a ton around here and now with them being displaced with new construction it becomes more of a problem.

@@Mycophile11 Yes, and I still have the green mirror, but the Grand Marquis is silver. Let me tell you, that old car is like a tank. I don't think my KIA would have handled that hit as well. Eh, I'll order a new light set and have someone put it back in. The dent can stay. LOL I need to get a new car anyhow. (Not enough damage for the deductible) Crystal had got me some deer whistles that you put on the front, worked all through winter. I would see anywhere from 3 to 10 every night, but after the whistles were installed, never saw another. BUT, those whistles get clogged up over time, and they stopped working. Ugh. Oh, well, it is what it is. You doing okay this morning?

@@StorytimeWithLana Doing ok. That’s about all it is though, but it’s ok. 💕

I had to search for some history. So sad. Crying now.