april6263 wrote:

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

april6263 wrote:

LOL...your good at this,  congrats Jet   number three is the lie .....it was my mom that had the pet pig ......not my Dad...it used to sleep with me when I was a young teen and it was a piglet....LOL...and as a teenager I was goofing around with some friends "crab walking" and yes stepped on my own finger and broke it ...LOL

 

 
HAHA, April!! That is hilarious the piglet slept with you!! Since a granddaughter broke her own finger recently by stepping on it while going for a soccer ball (!!), I figured that might be something you had done!!

I do have to ask: how have you had ANY time to read books? Unless you read while you and Niecey are in the hospital?!

I have to think up my truths and lie....give me a few minutes. I wasn't expecting to win!!! LOL

LOL....I have always been a reader and I read quickly.......I haven't had as much time to read since Niecey got sick but I still fit it in when I can ....my hubby and kids tease me though because I still prefer to carry and read  a "real" book to reading one electronically.....they tell me I could down load books on my tablet but to me its not the same...LOL

A woman after my own heart. And I'll bet that you are not alone in this on this board.  I too much prefer a "real" book to reading one electronically.  And I recently read that there is evidence that it is better for your eyes to read a "real" book, especially if you do a lot of reading.  If the students I had when I switched to requiring them to read a book a week to qualify for an A kept up that habit, which some of them have, they would have read over a 1000 books by now.  I made this a hallmark of my teaching when I got depressed over the research that showed time after time that we forget 70% of what we learned the year before within three months.  I still remember walking down our English corridor, and asking myself what I was doing when people were going to forget 70% of it in three months.  And I thought, I can teach a habit.  I never dreamed that the class that began it all would become the single most popular Literature Elective at our high school.   I firmly believe that a large part of the success is that students came to realize that they had control over the grade they earned.  In fact doing this did  transform my classrooms in that students began taking full ownership for the grade they earned:  18 books for an A, 14 for a B and 10 for a C; D's and F's became a thing of the past.  I was stunned.  It worked both with freshman and upperclassmen.  Cheating also became a thing of the past. That was, in part, because for every book a student read, he or she had to meet with me and two or three other students who were ready with a book, for a book conference.  It is much harder to look classmates and your teacher in the eye and lie than it is to lie in a book report.  I did this with Shakespeare, with American Lit, with world lit and with the class that began it all, Modern Mythology where we focused on some of the 19th nad 20th century writers of science fiction, myth and fairy tales: George MacDonald, Ursula Le Guin, C.S. Lewis, J.R,R. Tolkien, Madeleine L'Engle, Katherine Kurtz, etc., etc., etc.  New books got added as students recommended them from their own reading. I also realized after awhile that to make this a success the teacher had to keep up with the class as new books got added to the list. Students still had tests and still had writing but never the fear they had had before they learned that actually reading the book, then having an in depth discussion about it followed by a written assignment went a long way towards dispelling anxiety about tests which I called response reports.       

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

LuvSeason18 wrote:

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

Here are my 2 truths and 1 lie:

1) My black dog's name is Snowball.
2) My favorite berries are raspberries.
3) I use reading glasses.

Humm......I know you have a dog named Marmaduke, so I am going out on a limb and say that # 1 is the lie.  Unless you are throwing a big curve-ball to us sisters. LOL

 
HAHAHAHA, Luv......our ginormous black dog with tuxedo markings is actually named Snowball!!! Glad my curve ball worked this time!!! LOL

How did he get that name? He has a white nose, white chest, and a dab of white on all 4 paws so when I showed hubby the pics of him (before he was old enough to leave his mother), he said, "Snowball! It looks like he got hit in the nose with a snowball!!" I just refer to him as Marmaduke sometimes because he is almost as big as a mini horse....very big for a Lab/golden retriever mix.

Good guess, tho.

Oh, you little trickster you. LOL

Oh...........I am hoping that it is # 3.

KeepOnSinging wrote:

View, unobstructed wrote:

Here you go:


 
I am near sighted but have had laser surgery to correct one eye.

I am ambidextrous.

My son is in the emergency room with pain.  They think kidney stone. 
 

 
I am going to go with number two.

So number 1 is all that's left for me to guess.  Which one is it view?
 

So gabriele is correct.


Yah...well...my grandson called and said "we're in the emergency room.  Dad's in a lot of pain.  He thinks some kind of obstruction maybe."

My husband went up to the hospital right away so kid would have some company if dad needed surgery or something.  With instructions to keep me informed as I had pie in oven.  They did a cat scan and told him he has a 6 mm kidney stone trying to pass.  They offered pain pills.  He declined.  So everyone went home after a couple of hours.  

Son told me dr. said at 8 mm they do the lithotripsy.   So he is just toughing it out.  I reminded him that when my brother was experiencing same, a golfing doctor friend told him to stand up on the toilet seat and jump down landing - bang - hard on both feet!!

All's well that ends well.  Things are fine.  And far better than some conditions it could have been.