i really, really, really..

really want to be a photographer.

look at what I did with my camera phone.



I was sitiing at the bottom of the slide, right? My heart (mad rapper from boston) called me from the top of the tube slide. When I turned to look, he ducked into the slide. I caught him before he jumped back out.

FIELD DAY!!

if you are on spacebook, you'd know i wasn't too geeked abt today. it started off slow... we lost to the same class TWICE in tug of war but...

















we beat the ish out of everybody in relays and standing long jump!!

on 3, Go Team!


GO TEAM! (they did this on their own; no coaching from me whatsoever!! As usual, I was just there to take pics!)


Pumping themselves up!


Won the Boys Relay!


My winning girls relay team!


we won the class relay too! look at my SOLDIERS!


standing long jump action shot


my mad rapper/boston celtic 2020, straight out of highschool! OMG! My 1st class is The Class of 2020!!


i made the comment that kids today only know how to play video games and wouldn't know what to do with a jump rope. Your honor, may I present exhibit A to the jury?


All in all, today was FUN!!! Guess who loves being a teacher!?!?!?!?

i did nothing

i lied.

friday night. drew had show in hollywood beach. a tedturner-like person of haiti wanted the band to play at his b-day bash on the beach. it was at a tapas restaurant and ask me if i made it there?

NO!!

I was dead tired in westpalmbeach!!! so pissed cause i ALWAYS miss the good, ritzy shows and make it to the hot raggedy shows!!! case in point, saturday's event.

h.o.w.. haitian org of women was having a banquet?? no, not a banq cause there WAS NO FOOD... *side eye, digression*

in homestead, florida. homestead is about 1.5 hours southwest of miami. if you're thinking mexicans, rednecks, and ten gallon hats, you're right on the money. not that anything is wrong with an agricultural town... it just seemed... anachronistic. yeah. we'll go with that.

do you know how hungry i was, in the middle of nowhere? i would've torn up some griol and rice, i was so hungry. and i had to watch Mani, the 3 y.o boy who belongs to the female singer. hard.headed aries.

oh. they only got a chance to play 4 songs. and they played them super fast b/c the drummer who is a gigger (as opposed to an actual member of the band), had another show and he had to leave by 830. the band was supposed to play at 645...
ended up being 815...
colored people will be late to their own funeral...

on a brighter note, sunday was spent at the park with lena and her son. drew thought he was going to the beach but forgot he lives in south florida on a perfect memorial day weekend. no parking for you, join us at the park. it was nice watching kids play and parents lounge. i did fall off the merry-go-round... twice. drew was pushing mani and he fell off. lena and i told him he was pushing too fast but drew didn't think so. i got on to see...

drew was pushing too fast.
he's like a labrador or great dane puppy playing with miniature pinchers. yeah, we're all 2 months old but you are waaaaaaaay too big and clumsy to play with us. go find a mastiff.

CAN YOU TELL THAT I'M HUNGRY RIGHT NOW? CRANKY AS I TYPE??

Monday was the best. i finish all of drew's dishes (3 day process. soak them bad boys... in chlorox if he had some) and we watch the last episode of dexter. that show is AWESOME!! and totally plausible!! then we're pretty much chillin, went to target, went to lena's went out to eat at this ital. rest nearby... we're watching jeop.rdy when his landlady texts him to come over.

drew is now a daddy!!!

he has a two month old kitten that jane found hanging around her store since friday!! she gave the kitten her lunch of white albacore tuna and snatched her up. seeing how she was 5 cats (emma, mogwai, dude, dipshit, lea) takes care of two strays (groucho and broke-ass kitty [her tail doesn't work]), it was only right for the ONLY person who doesn't have a cat at their place to adopt her! enter, drew.

he hasn't come p with a name yet. she is soooooooooooo little and cute! varying shades of gray in faint stripes all over, but her belly is spotted!!


drew is going to be an AWESOME daddy! you should've SEEN him cuddling and cooing!!! AWWWWWWWWWWWW, IT WAS SO CUTE!!!!!
just don't ask him about names. b/c she's gray, he said, "tungsten".

i don't like him sometimes.

at Merr/ick + Eola

here's the band playing at that high end mall I was talking about.

action shot of me and drew and I leaving his place for the park


Drew was hotter than a bi... he is too fine!


i put my aviators in front of the lens to see how it would come out... I LOVE IT!


aerial shot that cause me to trip and fall backwards and made my card fall out and made 4 shirts jump on me and look so good on me and made me spend too much money at ebeb. all that.


desy, see what you missed? y'all check out utoob for the rest of nowam (reverse the spelling) music and vids! also, check them out on itoons

the last one!

one more child in the Kutieboot household has graduated from Suncoast High School, the NUMBER 3 school in the NATION!!!

my godbro and mom holding up a 1 cause steph is the last ONE!


As usual, the ceremony was boring but you know what? i've been to waaaaaay worse. I think its worse when they bring some dignitary or person of "importance" to speak. Whatever. just the val and sal spoke and they were good.


you know i have to upload a sample of pics!!

pops and i looking for mom and bro... well he was looking and I was snapping shots!


FAMU College of Ed grads of yesteryear and today :-) also a church member AND we work at the same school! she told the principal to grab me up when I was excessed from my school!


brothers of the grads. we're also neighbors!


my uncle who comes to EVERYTHING we do!!


family shot. oh yeah, that's one of the 4 shirts i got from baybay

The Weekend Wrap Up

let me break it down for you.

Friday. leave school and come back around 545 for Family Fun Night. Tons of indoor activities and food. I was the sole cashier for food where the most expensive item was $1.00. I don't want to count money anymore!!
leave there around 9pm. Go home to defrost from hotdogs, popcorn and limbo; call drew and tell him i'm tired. he says i don't have to drive down tonight but the tone in his voice said otherwise. that's when i changed my spacebook status to 'love = sacrifice'. i crawled out of bed, packed a bag and drove to hollywood. mind you, i've been up since 630am and its now 11pm. lane closures on I-95. gotta love that ish. i make it there and hit the bed. oh but wait, there are no sheets on the bed! DAMNIT DREW! Fcuk that shit, I used the comforter as a sleeping bag and fade to black. then here he comes... with sushi! ok, i'm not mad anymore! eat and go back to sleep.

saturday. he's playing at merr.ick park again. i take pics of them during their 4 hr gig during the hottest part of the day (2-6pm) it seemed. then i made the mistake of getting an aerial shot of them and "falling" into be/be where I spend too much money on 4 shirts. the minute i signed the slip, my feet turned to lead. i trudged out with receipt in hand, str-8 dumbfounded. harry dred already knew the deal and said, "you spent too much money didn't you?" it was written all over my face! dreezy tried to be supportive and say, "you earned it! when do you ever go all out and buy whatever you want? that's your tutoring money right there!" sheeeeet, that's like 3x my tutoring money... i always buy what i want and that's the problem! i justify it with, "i ain't got no kids or major bills, so why not?" but that mini spree hurt my heart.

saturday, we pack up and leave merr.park. we're to meet at harry's house at 10pm so we can road trip to orlando for a show. 1248am, we finally leave! make it to o-town at 430am and hit the telly on i-drive. i have no idea what we're doing, i just came for the (come to find out, uncomfortable) ride. i'm lying. i'm "on staff" as the photo/videographer.

sunday. haitian flag fest!

we're at eola park and i was just hoping i'd bump into a haitian chick with box braids who lives in orlando named desy. maybe she was there, idk was busy taking pics and didn't have her # to set up a play date.

whatever the case, the event was nice! the most fun i've had at a haitian event cause for real, kompa.s fest was NOT getting it, nor were the lil gigs ma/wo.n has played at... no offense to any haitian reading this. y'all actually remind me of ghanians. way too aggressive over the little things.

anyhoo,
we leave there and try to find a place to eat. a place that devout vegetarians, lacto-ovo veggies, and 'only fish' veggies eat. lena, ralph and i were the meat eaters who could eat anywhere whereas the 'tarians were being mum abt where to eat! ralph said, "i will eat some griol (sp?) and not feel bad right now, speak up!" i picked an italian rest and told the vegans to eat some 3 cheese tortellini and holla back. i was hungry, hot and tired and they were perking. we order, eat on the road and make it back to s. florida at 1230. back to drew's where we hit the sheets only to be woken up by an alarm at 545am, seeing how i have to drive an hour to get back home and get ready for work. you already know today was a movie day. that was the plan. i saved it for the last 30 min of the day. even when i'm dead tired, i can't try my students' lives with a movie! we have addition and subtraction to master! books to read! kindergarten to conquer!! ha HA!

will post pics when i find my cord!

my apologies

i haven't been posting or commenting in a while.

the internet is not holding my interest as much as it used to.

it's not you, it's me.


i just don't feel like reading anymore.

i haven't played my word games in over a week.

my favorite gossip blog abt fabulous black people that are young hasn't been read in a while (except for yesterday. and i had to share the mess that is de.reon with Jameil).

and i think i've been to two, maybe 3 blogs in the past week.

What's wrong with me?




there are 19 days of school left. i've lost a student (she moved) and gained a student (today was his 1st day) in the past 14 days.

i'm retaining 3, two of them are ESOL (eng speakers of other languages). ESOL retention is one of the hardest things you have to do. so much red tape! the school and the coordinator have to CTA (think crypogram, T=Y) and make sure its not cause of the language difference this child didn't make gains... blah blah blah. NO, THE CHILD STILL CAN'T WRITE THEIR NAME! THE CHILD KNOWS 10 capital letters and 6 lower case letters! no letter sounds, no numbers, can't give me ONE sight word, doesn't know the front cover from the back, cannot even copy a sentence of the board, NOTHING!

See, the problem with America is that they worry about being soooo P.C., that's it not P.C. I remember there was some BS about not using red pens or markers cause that would offend Asian students. I would bet my next paycheck it wasn't an Asian parent coming in complaining about that, but a cauc thinking too hard!

Whatever the case, I can't believe I'm sending my babies to 1st grade! I look at them and can't believe where they came from! I look at pics I took along the school year and see all the teeth that have come and gone, the coloring and play-doh activities that have turned into independent writing, books with 4 big words on a page that have been replaced with 3 or four sentences with size 14 font...

we're doing addition now and my heart SWELLS with joy at how fast they are absorbing this concept. to think that most could only count to 10 and they were showing off if they could count to 20 when I first got them. They can count by 2s, 5s and 10s now.

One of my darlings has a pet hamster. He named it Ms. Kutieboots

My babies aren't that anymore.

hey bush, can I have just ONE child left behind??


Fine.
Happy Belated Mother's Day to me.




Taken my 1st week of kindergarten, 2 week of school.

was I supposed to know??

can I tell you how when I was walking my students back to the classroom, they told me to stay outside so they could "surprise" me as I walked in?? Aren't they the sweetest?!!?

biatch (n.)

guess what I got for my birthday?

a cake batter and red velvet ice cream cake from Coldst.one

tix to the concert of the year and a tee shirt (other pic isn't uploading)


a party with 17 of my shortest friends


a set of some beeeeeautiful blank cards

and.....

A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION!!!

seeing how I wanted to have something DvF before 2008 ends, Jameil got me my FAVORITE accessory of all time!!


I own a Dianne.vonFurstenburg scarf!!!!!!

WOO HOO!!

It is the most fabulous scarf; with its art inspired design! It looks like a Britto and I love it!

Jameil loves me!! and I love HER!!



you JAAAAM right!!


Do you think I can pull off the bandit look with a DvF?

damn sure not with that big ole kool-aid grin underneath!

Deuce Seis

or in rim talk, "hi-tops"

That's what I am today!  26!!  I can't believe it!  I love it! I love my birthday!!  There was one moment where i was like, "boooo".  This teacher said, "26?!  I had my 1st child when I was 26!"

Thank you, hater.

Now for the pix!

Our team leader brought her class to sing to me and then gave me this crown!

A shot of a couple kinders pinching me 26 times

The party has begun.  Half the little people are blurry cause they were moving too fast!

and as usual, blogger is tripping because I want to upload more than 3 pictures...

can I tell you how when I was walking my students back to the classroom, they told me to stay outside so they could "surprise" me as I walked in?? Aren't they the sweetest?!!?

IT WAS A GOOD DAY!!

P.S. I have to finish my glowin thedark post!!

boooooo... yay!

the Madd.ens think they're slick. So I can get free shipping on all orders now thru tomorrow yet... they raised the shoe prices by $10. keep that. I'll go to the store and get them myself.

Who can I write about that?! That's WRONG!! So because I'm getting free shipping you're going to jack the price up 12.5%??? yeah, I did the math!! i know the deal! You're going to DOUBLE my tax to cover your shipping costs! keep them. i feel insulted.

I had my day in court.  Changed my plea to 'no contest' and they dropped the HOV violation  :-) b/c i've re-instated my license, there was "no adjudication" on that charge. so all I have to pay is the $76 in court fees by july 1  :-)

OMG. The biggest news this year (for me)...

I'M GOING TO THE GLOW IN THE .DARK CONCERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DREEZY BABY GOT TIX FOR US TO SEE

rihanna
LUPE
N..E.RD
KANYE


WHO IS EXCITED!?!?!?!??! I AM!!!?!?!?!?!?!?? I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE LIGHT SHOW!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT GLOWS!!!!!  I JUST CAN'T WAIT!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!! I'M SCREAMING MY HEAD OFF RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

on a lighter note, Andrew had to say, "for that price, there better be a lot of glowing and there better be a lot of dark.  everything better glow in the dark!  matter of fact, i don't even want to see anything it better be so dark; DARKNESS, DARKNESSES!"

who has an asshole boyfriend?

I DO!  but I love him much!!!

So Tuesday, I will be in the MIA geeked.  and Wednesday, I will be hurting at school, hoarser than and bitch (and a bitch be hoarse) and THURSDAY...

i will be 26.

You already know I'm having my party at school, right? why did the little monchee-chees say, "you can't have cake.  old people don't have cake"

WHO SAID THAT?!  NO CAKE FOR YOU!

so kidding, LOL

Okay, must go now.  I have a funeral to attend.  Remember the pics of the woman who turned 99 on Palm Sunday? She passed in her sleep last Saturday.  We are going to celebrate her wonderful life :-)