Grades! Chatter!
Dec
18
English Composition: A
Anatomy and Physiology, pt. 1: C (Cs get degrees! says Cheeler)
Still waiting on my math grade. I am so excited to see these grades! I am very proud of myself for finishing out the semester, juggling family and midwifery at the same time without too much trauma for any of us. The A&P class was a bear and the teacher told us a C in her class can be considered an accomplishment as did our tutor because she is HARD. Yay for me!
And a reward: my husband bought me my Christmas present (first one in years due to 
lean times) and it’s a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7 digital camera that can even cook dinner on the Sabbath if you set the timer right! Not really. My oven does that but I have no idea how to make that happen but I am fairly certain it has something to do with food. I have so far taken 4,788 pictures of myself hoping that at some point the Super Model function will kick in and my true self who really looks more like Linda Evangelista than Mary Stuart Masterson comes through.
Speaking of ovens: If you need to sterilize your medical instruments for upcoming births, do not put them at 450 degrees Fahrenheit for 2 hours. Not only will you set the oven on fire seconds before you realize what you’ve done, you will melt the blue sterilization bag plastic all over the instruments and cause a toxic odor to permeate the house for several days after the incident. Scrubbing the melted, now hardened plastic is difficult and time consuming and prone to causing a prolonged scowl on your face.
December 19th, 2006 at 8:56
Oh. My. God. You DO look like Mary Stuart Masterson! I had never made the connection before, but now I see it! You could win look-alike contests! Amazing!
December 19th, 2006 at 9:24
Congrtas! You ought to be proud!
December 19th, 2006 at 1:48
I wouldn’t complain about those grades! I did make an A in botany, but I can’t imagine how it would have been with 3 classes. I’d be a basket case. Kudos to you for handling all of those classes and kids and midwifery. . .
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:55
Other things which do not work well in ovens:
1. Using diaper pins with plastic heads to truss the turkey for Thanksgiving. (I know I am dating myself here with the diaper pin reference but I do believe putting a pamper on the bird won’t end up much better.)
2. Do not willy-nilly preheat the oven. ALWAYS check for Barbies first.
3. Allow your child to touch the iron at least once to become familiar with the sensation. I always tried to protect my little angels by letting the iron cool off in the oven. I could have had 3 slight burns but, instead, melted 5 irons in the preheat stage the next 5 times I used the oven.
Eventually I simply threw away everything that needed ironing. Voila! Who neeeds an iron!
4. Easter baskets should NEVER be hidden in the oven but I don’t want to go into that particular fiasco.
5. Never take the lightbulb out of your oven – even if it burns out because you WILL forget that you did that. The next time you wipe out the oven you WILL stick that wet rag right into that socket and believa you me that packs a whallop.
You will fly backwards across the kitchen faster than a speeding bullet, hit he refrigerator and slide/melt down the front door just like an old cartoon. When you reclaim your senses you will crawl back to the oven to see wtf was wrong with it only to see, uh-huh, your friendly empty light socket.
6. And the final thing that does not work well in an oven . . . me.
Sr Mary Mom
ps: I’ll have more tips for y’all as the need arises.