jahnna (she/her)

saint louis? free excellent quality art museum, nice zoo, good restaurants.

this fire horse year is already turning out to be a lot for my water pig self and my earth pig emotional support hound dog.

this is top tier famous-person-ing.

i always wear noise dampening earplugs at the movie theatre. but i am also allergic to phone calls. which are also quite difficult to get exactly right in volume.

i don’t know who he is really, but i went to penn state, and i know that a lot of my friends from college who like football are talking about him.

i would pay some of my hard-earned teacher money to kick him in the shin. the mayor as well, frankly. i have a list. we need a shinkicking booth to benefit feed the west or something.

otis and i are watching ski mountaineering. this is wild. it’s like mountain rescue training turned into a sport.

i chose fidelity when i rolled over an old 401K into an IRA, partly because of a recommendation from i think nerdwallet (it was a while ago, so that part’s fuzzy) and because it was so user-friendly. it’s been good, but i also don’t look at it a ton because benign neglect is kind of my thing.

feels like island in the sun or say it ain’t so. but i have an obsession with i want a dog, and my partner’s favorite is definitely undone/sweater song.

y’all, school is on winter break this week, and i needed this so badly.

downside: j is spending the next ten or so days in memphis, and going back to work next week while also managing the wild beasts of the household will suck.

eddie says they should discuss a union.

i go every year, but i just requested not to have the pap every year since the recommendation has changed and i had the hpv vaccine a billion years ago. no biggie.

a mooney peacock

one of my students is a scholastic gold key art winner for graphic design, and the show opening was tonight at KMAC. i’m wildly proud!

i also really wanted this peacock in the gift shop. but, ya know, teacher money.

one of the best things about the winter olympics is that it’s at the right time of year to watch with my students. great opening to talk about global geopolitics while they are also trying to understand the rules of curling or ski jumping.

Had my @retroreport.org Teacher Ambassador orientation last night, and I'm excited to use more of these resources in my classroom this semester and next year. My 11th graders have really loved the lessons so far.

otis, a black and white hound dog, is obsessed with the winter olympics and likes to get as close to the tv to watch as he can.

the otis-lympics are back. we mostly watched curling before today, but today we’ve so far watched team ice skating, the skiathlon, the men’s downhill, some of the women’s normal hill ski jump, and the women’s 3000m speed skate.

it’s i think because this one was run as an ian alert which is specifically for kids with autism. i was at norton this morning, and those alerts were blasting out from every corner.

it’s tuesday afternoon. already this week we have had:
1) the small crisis of otis digging up a dead possum he was apparently ripening under the wood pile.
2) the bouyancy of the 1” tumor removed from my neck last month being confirmed benign.
3) the agony of all of the nectarines being too soft.

it’s our billionth anniversary. while there are not enough blueberry muffins in the world to drown out [insert wild arm waving at the general state of things], we’re going to try to embrace some joy over here.

season 2 is the best season of murder, she wrote, and otis and i will entertain no objections.

just watched three hours of bluey with otis and eddie while the house was cleaned. it’s the only antidote to them being pissed about being trapped in my office with me.

watching her run and jump in practice and at meets has really been a privilege as has getting to know her as a student and a person. go, natalie, go!

this summer we introduce the new weekly format of one task, one micro-adventure, and one bake of the week. now accepting suggestions for louisville & surrounding area micro-adventures!

it is the last full day of school. it is pouring down rain. it is yearbook signing day. it is a lot.

and we’re back. and it’s the last day before the last week of the school year.

i am co-coaching middle school track. i am not an athlete. i have never been a runner. i have arthritis in my joints and spine. three practices in, and my relationship with stairs can best be described as farcical. choices have been made. but i’ve had a lot of fun!

josh and jahnna had front row seats for terrence simien and the zydeco experience’s pre-mardi gras show at the bomhard theater.

josh drinks sparkling water at a table that was far too short for him. but the butter pats were rose shaped!

josh, jahnna, and eddie out riding around in betty bluecar running saturday errands and visiting peeps around the neighborhood.

we have been out in the world a lot the last two days. today we are not.

observations:
the potholes out here are excessive.

people look at you funny if you sit in the parking lot of costco for two minutes to read the last seven pages of the book you *almost* finished waiting at the doctor’s office.

costco is very crowded on friday morning.

you and your boobs have got this. become radio famous!

cozy hound dogs (black & white and black & gray) snuggling in a nest of blankets (gray & white).

snow day crew.