yo mama'a mama...... abu??

hahahaha
so yeah, its been a while. things here are the same as always. luke and i are doing well. i've been busy with my school bands and my online classes. i've decided to take a week off after this one i'm in now to relax a bit. one right after the other is pretty strenuous and i'm getting overwhelmed. my school kids are getting ready for our honor and type thing here. a lot of them tried out, and i wish i could take them all. they all are so great. luke has been subbing a lot, and on his days off he's been finding surf. we went with the school snow club 2 weekends ago and then last weekend with one of the boy scout troops to help the snowboarders. the weather was beautiful both days adn warm adn so nice. we took some pictures and luke posted them on his blog. all he does is post pics and do comments, but you should check them out. the site is: surfkorea.blogspot.com.
the weather has been warming up finally... the sky was blue today, with no wind and it was pretty warm. i can't wait for spring. the rees get so green adn the flowers are so pretty.
no news on the transfer stuff yet, but keep your fingers crossed! it would be so cool to get somewhere in europe! mmmmmmm
we have started the countdown to getting back to the states, yay! only 104 days! :) we're so looking forward to seeing everyone, going surfing, visiting liane's college (finally!!), and just being in the good ol' U.S. of A.
that's about it here. sorry i couldnt be more interesting. :)
love you all lots and hope to talk to you soon!

a little bit o' tag

So, I got tagged by Jess, Liane, and Horne. Seriously, people! But, Horne's won't show up on my computer now, so I'll just do this one. :)


Four jobs you’ve had in your life:
Teaching music (middle and high school)
Dean of Children's Center at Idyllwild ( so fun!!!)
Teaching swim lessons at Bubble Swim School (gentle ways are best!)
Party hostess at Club Funtime Pizza 'n' Play (ugh!)


Four movies you would watch over and over:
The Princess Bride
Empire Records
Better Off Dead
Pleasantville

Four places you have lived:
Beautiful Seoul, South Korea (mmm, smog!)
Reeeeeno, NV
Las Vegasss, NV
Puerto Rico


Four TV shows you love to watch:
Jeopardy!
Degrassi-The Next Generation (I SOOOO miss that show!)
Mythbusters
The Jeff Corwin Experience
(I'm in Korea, people... there's not much to go on here, except old shows)

Four places you have been on vacation:
Puerto Rico
All over California
Hawaii
Europe


Four websites you visit daily:
Bloggage of family & friends
University of Phoenix Online
aol.com or gmail
surfline


Four of your favorite foods:
sushi
crablegs
spaghetti
halibut and rice pilaf

Four places you would rather be right now:
anywhere in europe
anywhere near a beach
puerto rico
closer to family


Four bloggers I'm tagging:
mom
dad
horne
jackie

hello!!!!

okay, i know its been like, forever, but here i am. :)
so, here's a major update.... we had a FABULOUS time in hawaii. the weather was beautiful the whole time and the waves totally rocked. it was like 85 degrees everyday, and the water was so perfect. not too warm, not too cold. and i totally ruled on the waves. they were so nice. and i tried shortboarding a couple of days and it was really fun, i actually caught some waves on it! it was scarier than the longboard, and when i was on the top of the wave to drop in it was like a mile down it seemed, but i did it. :) then, when we came back to korea, it was so freezing here! we brought warm clothes to put on when we got off the plane, and its a darn good thing! seriously frigid!
we went snowboarding a couple of weeks ago and we're going again this weekend. we go with the school to teach the kids snowboarding. its free... yeah!!!!! heehee the snow is kinda crappy and icy and fake, but hey, again, its FREE!!! no better way... except for free and good snow, that is. whatever.
school is good, we have the end of the semester coming up soon, so i have the kids doing their semester projects. they can play music, do a report on a musician, write a piece of music, etc. it's really cool seeing the ideas they come up with. they are presenting them next week, i can't wait.
luke and i have recently begun watching the tv show family guy and it is friggin hilarious!!! one of my kids loaned them to me. i think the funniest part is that its just a big farce on old tv shows and movies. seriously funny! i don't think my kids get all the jokes in them, but whatever. ;)
my masters classes have started back in again. HARD! the class i'm in now is psychology. i took the class in college, but it must have been the super easy version because this class is crazy hard. and i just finished the first week! oh well, its okay, i only have to take one class at a time, so i have enough time to study and stuff and read the thousands of pages of homework! :)
so there you have it, the update on the happenings. i know i need to post some hawaii pics and blog some more, but i have more homework crap to go do. talk to you all soon!

SNOW!!!

It crazy snowed here on Saturday night!! this is the snow couple that luke made. we also started snowball fights with random koreans.... they loved it. :) and luke threw snowballs at cars too, it was very funny! don't worry, no one got mad or hurt! :)


Luke and I went to our friends Boe and Tracie's house for dinner and movies, and all of a sudden the snow started to flurry. it started around 7 pm, so we went out and played in it for a while.


Me and Tracie all bundled up....There is a little hut out at the park area that sells snacks and drinks, so we got some beers to warm ourselves up. hahahahaha :)


we made some snow angels too. i couldn't believe it was deep enough for it! it probably snowed about 6 inches just while we were out there!


this is the next morning out of boe and tracie's window looking at the park we played at. amazing amounts of snow! it was too cool!!!!


and this is the scene out our window the next morning. seriously, there is so much now! and it hasn't even all melted yet. there is still so much left! and it is REALLY cold here, like 19 degrees this morning when i got to school, and the overall high was 40. brrrrrrrrrrrr
i hope we keep getting snow like this! i love it, and maybe the ski resorts will have more REAL snow this year!! :)

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turkey day at the phlegmings

hey guys! here are some pics of turkey day.... we sure had fun, but we missed everyone a whole lot. and we have TONS of leftovers!! :)

me and luke at our table. we tried to get some of our view in the background... you can see seoul tower and the hill behind us and some rooftops.

look at the spread!! seriously, SO MUCH FOOD!!!
look at our cute little turkey. yummy for the tummy!! :)


and here's our living room, all pretty and clean. do you see our cute fishies?!? they are really adorable and all named after surfers :) i know we're supposed to send more house pics, and we will, as soon as we clean the rooms! :) hahaha

anyways, i put up the christmas tree and i'll be posting some cool pics of that soon too! hope you all had a great turkey day! love you lots!

tag

okay, here's a fun new info tag thing from elan...enjoy.

2 names you go by:
1. mimby
2. tinty

2 parts of your heritage:
1. puerto rican hottie mama
2. good ol' americano

2 things that scare you:
1. ants, lots of ants
2. driving in korea

2 of your everyday essentials:
1. hearing and telling luke "i love you"
2. english breakfast tea in the morning (wouldn't gammy be proud!!)

2 things you are wearing right now:
1. warm fuzzy socks
2. counting crows sweatshirt

2 of your favorite bands or musical artists (at the moment)
1. counting crows
2. mas flow (spanish rap/hip hop) i have no idea what they say half the time, but the beats are great!! :)

2 favorite songs (at the moment):
1. she don't want nobody near (cc)
2. mona lisa and mad hatters (mandy moore remake of elton john song)

2 things you want in a relationship (other than real love):
1. honesty
2. laughter and silliness

2 truths:
1. i am a pack-rat... soooo messy
2. i am slightly??? impatient

2 physical things that appeal to you (in the opposite sex):
1. the forearm area. i love the muscles and veins and tendons...
2. tall, skinny

2 of your favorite hobbies:
1. taking pictures of anything and everything
2. doing logic problems

2 things you want really badly:
1. movie making software for the mac
2. puffy vest

2 places you want to go on vacation:
1. thailand
2. italy

2 things you want to do before you die
1. have kids
2. live in europe

2 ways that you are stereotypically a dude/chick:
1. i like skirts
2. i like painting my nails

2 things you are thinking about now:
1. we have to send our boxes out soon for christmas to make sure they get there in time
2. do i have homework due tomorrow for my masters program?

2 stores you shop at:
1. GAP/ Old Navy
2. Yongsan military base PX :)

2 people you would like to see take this quiz:
1. mamma mia
2. horne

so there you have it.... some new insight into the world of melinda.
have a good day!!
:)

end the strike!!

okay, i know its been a while, but i have been really busy. but anyway, here i am and here is an update of my life....

first of all, i'm pusuing my masters degree. its all online through university of phoenix, and i'll receive a Masters in Education: Curriculum and Instruction. the online thing is a little weird to get used to at first, but i'm getting the hang of it more and more. it's a lot of writing, but i like doing that, so i'm okay. in my class right now, i am in a group for a team power point presentation. my team members live in taiwan and hawaii, so the time difference is sometimes hard, but it is so cool learning about the different cultures through them. and the classes are pretty in-depth, and fast paced, so each is about 6 weeks long, so i'll be completed in a little under a year and a half. pretty cool. :)

last weekend i went to the boyz II men concert here in korea. i won tickets on the base radio station and i took my friend tracy who REALLY wanted to go. i even had to sing on the radio for them!! hahaha anyways, we had an awesome time and sang along and danced and screamed adn acted silly. i don't think the korean really knew what to do about us. :) but we did meet another couple tehre from the base.... they saw us dancing and singing and came to sit by us because they felt out of place inthe middle of the koreans who were just sitting there. it was AWESOME!!

the countdown has begun for our trip to hawaii.... only 35 more days!!!! yay! we are so excited! i think i want to try to shortboard when i'm there. i'm not sure if i have enough strength, but i'm going to try! and we're going to go to the pipeline masters tournament and see some cool people surfing. hey, maybe we'll see rob machado again and we'll talk, since we're old buddies now!!! hahahaha kelly slater already won the world title last weekend in brazil, but it'll be cool to see who wins the triple crown title there. surfing is cool.

so there you have it.... a good update.... the rest of the stuff is the same old.... luke is good, getting antsy to surf, my kids are great, our concert is the 8th of december, school is good, the weather is getting colder but not too frigid yet...
i miss you all lots!
stop the strike jess, i want to see halloween pics!!!!! :)
love you, love you too

some fun things to see....

while out and about in south korea.
here's some pictures luke and i took 2 weekends ago when we drove to the east coast to go surfing. they brought us some laughs, so i thought i'd share...

in case you were wondering... you can get electrocuted from this strange box on the picture. however, in reality there was no strange box on this fence. hmmmmm........

oh, and don't go holding any really creepy balloons with faces on them or super long fishing poles near these electrical wires......

this was a HUGE flower covered statue of a mermaid on top of a turtle. i immediately thought of violet and lady azuza. but i was a little creeped out by the size of her hands in proportion to the rest of her body. they are almost as big as her head!

and this is what we drive around trying to find a way to the water. it's just on the other side of the barbed wire, but its everywhere, and these military huts are everywhere and there's guys in most of them. we're not exactly sure where we can and can't go, so we wait until there's an opening. so even though the surf may be great (for korea), we can't always get to it.

we're taking a drive again early tomorrow morning, so i'll take some more pics. hope you enjoyed and got a little laugh out of it! :)

mondo magic and other funnies......

lately there has been this show on tv called "mondo magic" and i am IN LOVE with it. it's just a couple of guys who go around and do some crazy magic tricks, but they are seriously awesome! and it's not just the slight of hand crap that you always see, it is REAL magic. i keep telling luke that these guys must have gone to Hogwarts or something, but he just calls me a dork. :) if you get a chance to see it, you should definitely check it out. you'll be amazed!

so anyways, here i am, back from japan. i had a great time there. we were in meetings all day for our new technology training, and we are getting some REALLY cool stuff. i can't wait for it all to arrive so i can start doing the cool music writing and recording stuff they taught us. but, in the evenings we were able to go out and see some stuff.

here's a view of the tokyo harbor. you can't see it very well, but everything is just built on top of something else. it is SO crowded! but, as you can see, our weather was so nice and it only rained a little on our last day there.



and here i am at night in front of some big building that i thought was pretty! :) we took the subway around and went to a "pearl lady" who is very famous and sells to rich and famous people and i bought a really nice pearl and sapphire bracelet. and then we walked back to our hotel because it was such a beautiful evening.



and now, i'm back in crazy korea. luke and i went to a bar the other night to hang out with some friends, and this sign was in the bathroom..... i was dying laughing!!! only in korea.....

i'm it

you know, in tag.....
okay, here are my 5 quirky things...
1. i've been struck by lightning. july 4, 2001. my dad and i were hiking wheeler peak and a storm overtook us and the lightning knocked me backwards off my feet and out for a few seconds. my arm was numb for a while, but i'm recovered now.... but i do get a little jumpy when an electrical storm hits. i really wish it had given me superpowers though!! :)
2. i'm afraid of ants. i know, i just act like i hate them and kill all of them in sight, but i really am afraid of them. they have no problem attacking in force, and they have huge armies. it's not like just one will get you, there's always like a hundred. and, interesting fact, did you know that there are 1 million ants to every 1 person in this world??? something to think about....
3. if i weren't a band teacher, i would like to be an investigator. you know, like CSI or something. it fascinates me. i'm always trying to be all deucive (is that a word??) and trying to figure things out and solve mysteries. i'm a dork. maybe that's why i love my logic problems so much. mmmmmmmm, being logistical... :)
4. i don't like feet. i don't like touching other people's feet or people touching me with their feet. especially if they have socks on and their feet are warm. it grosses me out. sitting on the couch near someone and their feet wander over...blllleeegghhh. jess knows this though, and being the wonderful tormenting big sis she is, touches me with her feet every chance she gets. i still love her though. and i don't really like looking at feet either... except liane's cuz she has the cutest toes, she gets it from mom. :)
5. i think i have a mild case of OCD. if i step on a crack with my right foot, i must immediately follow it with my left. if i scratch my right arm, i have to do the same to my left. if there is a stretch of tile and then carpet, i must take equal steps on the tile with both feet before moving on... which makes for me walking really funny sometimes in order to get an extra step in or avoid one altogether.

so there, i'm a strange person. but hey, it's all good.
so now i tag mamalali and papa (who need to update anyways) and horne.
:)

guess which one they lost....

bag, that is. yeah, not one of our silly bags with clothes, but our SURFBOARDS!!!! whatever. we had to fill out some forms and hopefully they call tomorrow and tell us that they found them.
we had to run through the San Fran airport to get to our connecting flight to Korea because our first one was delayed, so we think that somehow the board bag just didn't make it in time.
but, come on...... how do you lose a bag that is 10 feet long???
no bueno.
but, we're home safe, and no bacon exploded..... it doesn't even smell too bad, ;)
and i'm very tired, so goodnight. :)

locks of love

hey!
luke cut off all of his hair and donated it to locks of love. it was 12 inches long. and now he has a shaved head and it is very white since it hasn't seen the sun in quite a while. hahahaha
and he gets really cold while surfing now too. very silly.
but he decided that he'll just keep growing his hair and keep donating it. how nice!!
won't grandma jane be SOOOOOO happy! heehee
i kept having to sneak these pictures since luke is a very non-picture taking individual.
he's a silly booshke.
oh, and his favorite beanie that he used to tuck all of his hair into is so big now. he put it on and it fell over his eyeballs.
:)

check this out....

hey, here's me and luke at disneyland with rob machado, my favorite surfer, and his little daughter!! when we saw him, luke and i looked at him, looked at eachother, and then looked back at him. it was very movie-like. and then i told him how he's my favorite surfer... all the while luke is just being silent because while we were in hawaii he saw a pro surfer and said "you're good" uh, duh!!! ;) so he let me say the silly stuff this time! the guy who i asked to take this picture looked at us kinda funny because he had no idea who this guy was and why i wanted our picture with him. silly.
and then i shook his hand, which i proceeded not to wash until after i bought my new board the next day to rub off the pro goodness onto my new board! it might have helped too, because i'm doing great with my new board.
anyways, seeing him there was so cool! after we saw him, i was totally freaking out and carl thought i was having an asthma attack. hahahaha. and then we saw the cooooolest fireworks ever!
all of that, plus seeing how cute violet and riles were seeing all their characters and going on the rides with them and jess and rick and papa and mamalali and elan and carl, it was fabulous. a very good disneyland day!! :)

hey there

so, here i am, in santa cruz!! its been a while since my last blog, but i just wanted to give a quick update....
surfing is rad! i had my best surf day and my best wave ever yesterday. i caught it almost perfectly, rode along side it...ahhh, exhilirating!!!!
elan is coming to hang out with me & luke on thursday!! yay!! i can't wait! we can all do some toes on the nose!! :) heehee
luke and i have had a great time so far. camping all alst week was really fun. our little camp place is really great. but it also was SO nice to get to his grandparents and finally shower. my hair was not only nasty, but NAAASTY as carl would say it! :)
all in all, its been really fun so far, and i can't wait for the camping trip with mom and dad, visiting reno, and visiting lv. its going by quick though, which means back to korea soon..... okay, i'm not thinking about that. :)
talk to you all soon!
:)

orange roses

today, luke and i were walking around base at the PX and we saw so many beautiful flowers and roses that are in bloom around here. and then, right along the wall, were the most beautiful orange roses i've ever seen! they were so bright and full of color, look!!!

it just made my day to see such beautiful roses around here! we saw so many others too, HUGE red roses, small white ones, and they were all so pretty! yay!

the spring concert was awesome, by the way! all of the kids did such a fantastic job, and the seating in the auditorium was again packed! the support around here is amazing! Mr. Kim, the other music teacher, has connections with the 8th army band, and he had the sound guys make a cd of the performance for us, and luke video taped it. it was really amazing to hear such great music come from middle school students. even the parts i was a little scared for, the students pulled through and did wonderful. they are so great!

the weather is warming up here, some rain storms here and there, but overall its really nice right now. even the humidity i can live with. its not as bad as in august when we first got here.... not looking forward to that humidity again! ;) it's perfect b-b-q weather, and luke is up on the roof cooking steaks right now!

star wars opened here.... the lines are crazy long all the time, so we're going to try to get in tomorrow at the early show (1:00 pm) and hopefully enough people have already seen it that we can get in. people have been getting to the theaters 4 1/2 hours early here, since the seating is free first come first served, and just lining up outside until they open the theaters! crazy! we plan on getting there at about noon, i hope we get in. :)

only 4 more weeks until we get to vegas!! yeah! we got our camping dates too in santa cruz, so we are totally stoked to get home and see everyone!!! yay!!!!
love you all lots!
byebye

yo, i be speakin'

so, jess did this on her blog site and i thought i'd try it out. luke kept asking what i was doing though because when it asked how to pronounce things i was saying them all out loud to myself.... he thinks i'm crazy!!! heehee

Your Linguistic Profile:

60% General American English

20% Upper Midwestern

15% Yankee

5% Midwestern

0% Dixie

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

that's pretty funny.... but darn, no dixie! hahahaha

so anyways, things here are good.... only 5 more weeks till we are in the states!! yay! and i know i really need to do a better job at updating the blog.... so, here's the quick version:
~spring concert thursday, very exited! the kids are doing great and i think it will be awesome!
~we saw the move "be cool" tonight, very funny! and it was pouring rain when we came out of the theater, but we had no umbrelly! silly us!
~"star wars" is coming here thursday night also, and i have a few band kids who are really sad that they have the concert and can't go on opening night. hello, it's here for 6 days, on all 3 screens. they have plenty of time.
~did i already mention that we only have 5 weeks until we go home! we are so excited! and luke is already starting packing. :) we can't wait to see all the fam and friends!
~we have to give gracie away, so sad! but i think i found a really good student to take care of her, and he's so excited about it. so it will be okay.
so, after thursday, i'll blog more, and i'll take some pics of the concert for you all.
love you all lots! byeeeeeee

crazy days

i have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off the past few days. so crazy. my band had this big performance coming up monday and tuesday, which i was totally freaking out about and worring about all weekend. first of all, the lady who set it up wanted a small ensemble (they had a string quartet at last year's conference) and not too big of a sound. but whatever, my band is great how they are and they know how to play as background music, and they ALL wanted to go, so fine, i decided to take them all and the lady would just have to deal. also, we were going to play for an hour. that is a long time for middle schoolers to sit and behave, let alone play music. and then i was worried if we even had enough music to fill the time. so many stupid worries.
well, it all turned out fine, as usual. when we got there monday, there were 6 chairs set up. hahaha. but i found the hotel guy and got more chairs. the lady saw us setting up more people and was a little freaked out, but i assured her that it would be great. and the kids complained some, but they survived just fine, and we had exactly the right amount of music. we only had to repeat one song over again. and then today for the lunchtime thing, they moved where we were playing, and again only had 6 chairs set up. i really think the lady had wishful thinking that i wouldn't bring all of them again. uh, no. so we got it all set up again, and it was great. but the lady had at first told me that the kids would get food for playing, but now since there were so many, she couldn't do that, so the kids were bummed about that, but i promised them a party later on, and that always solves everything. :)
but seriously, my legs are in some PAIN! standing for an hour straight , with little walking or movement, is very hard on your legs. i usually stand during classes, but i'm always walking around to the kids and moving. but at this thing i was conducting them and not really moving around, and i am pooped!
last weekend was crazy too, definitely not enough time in the days! but, on sunday night, a christian rock band called FFH (Far From Home) was here and played on our base, and i went to that. it was very cool. some of my kids played in the worship band before the show, and it was really good. and FFH was awesome, i really liked them. i'd never heard of them before, but they are great.
luke and i are so excited to be coming home to visit. we've started the countdown, it's like 53 days or something. yay!!
there are so many things we want to do over the summer, i hope we can fit it all in. :)

hi again!

yeah, yeah... i know it's been a while. its finally our spring break here!!! woooohoooooo!!! luke and i are going to hang around korea and check out some of the palaces and korean folk villages and stuff litke that. and, luke found some surf last week that we are going to check out on sunday and during the week also. and we really need to clean the house.... not so much the front room and kitchen, they are clean. but the bedroom..... clothes everywhere. i've just been too lazy lately, but now that i have a week off, i can finally get to it.
last week i finally got the piano moved out of my room. yay! you might be thinking... why??? its a band room! well, the piano was a grand piano (not small) and took up so much room in a space that isn't large enough in the first place to hold all the kids i have. so now its gone, and i spent yesterday trying to reorganize and rearrange the things in there. its hard! good thing i have this week off, because it is not finished yet.
so i have some funny pics.... the first one is some of the boys in my band class. we had a band performance during nutrition break, so 3 opf them have theiur band shirts on, but this is after we played our music. they were acting silly that day and rolled up their pants and were being realy nerdy like steve urkel. it was actually april 1st. and i told them that if they stayed like that for the rest of the day then i would give them 50 extra credit points. so then i took this picture and told them "april fools" and they were going crazy. so i gave them 10 points anyways. :)

L-R: Ricky, Anthony, Joe, Ivan, and Solomon
Anthony was actually trying to look more like Napoleon Dynamite and he fluffed up his hair and had that dorky look on his face. We were all laughing so hard! :)
and then last saturday the base did a "walk for fallen heros" and everyone who walked wore the name of a soldier that has died in the war in iraq. and we also took donations and raised money for a scholarship fund for the children of the people who died, so it was all for a very good cause. and they had the 8th army band play, and lots of booths set up, and it was a very fun day, so the walk was 7K all over the base, and i walked with some of my students. here they are:

L-R: Priscilla, Tracy, Agnes, Ehjin, and me!
It was very fun and we took this picture after we were done walking. I had other students participate too, but they walked in other groups, so they aren't in this picture. It was a huge event and there were something like 1500-2000 people there or something. it was awesome!
So there's the update.... hopefully after this nice spring break i have some more fun stuff to write about.
okay, i love you, byebye

fuuuuuuunnnnnnnnyyy

i just have to share....
so, last night luke made us a meatloaf type dinner. he thinks its funny that i don't really remember eating meatloaf when i was growing up. so anyways, he makes us this great meal. yummy!!!
then, later on, we're sitting on the couch and he realizes that he doesn't have his wedding ring on. he took it off while digging his hands in the meat (a little gross, but i guess it's necessary). so, he goes in the kitchen to get it and ...... its gone. so, we start searching, because it must've just slipped off the counter, right. we pretty much tore up the entire kitchen and living room area looking for it, but it is nowhere. i took the couch apart 3 times, we sifted thru the garbage bags twice (yuck) but still no ring. well, then i have him back track what he was doing. and he remembers this... he took it off to make the meatloaf, then put it back on, but then he added another ingredient to the meal, and he doesn't remember taking it off when he added it and transferred the meat. WHAT!?!?!?! so, we take out the leftovers and cut it up and look for the ring, but it isn't there.....so now, i'm freaking out. i'm reliving the moker moment when we thought he ate the tissue with the necklace in it. oh crap, literally!!!
by this time, its 11 pm and i really need to go to bed, and it wasn't turning up anywhere, so we went to sleep. in the morning, i'm again freaking out. where did it go, it must be here somewhere, we couldn't have really eaten it, could we???????
and we're just preparing for the worst. i even put my ring in my mouth and pretended to be eating to see if i would notice it. i really think i would have. and i was SOOOOO hoping that luke had someone like grandma jane who taught him to chew his food 27 times before swallowing! :)
finally, i have to go to school, and luke is left at home to do more searching. he tore up the living room again, but no. he sifted the trash again, but no. he moved the dishes and silverware, but no. by 12:30 when i called him at lunch, we are both just thinking the worst, and not looking forward to what we would have to do to get the ring back.
but....................................
alas, we have a happy, bowel free ending............. :)
i called again at 2:00 to see if anything new had happened and luke remembered that while he was making the dinner the trash bag was full and he needed to put a new one in. so, he looked under the sink where we keep the bags, and ta-da! there it was, under the trash bags!!! yay! happy day!!!!
so, no sifting, because, ewwwwwww, we were NOT looking forward to that.
and there's the funny for the day. hope you enjoyed.
and the moral is..... grandma jane was right! chewing that many times is a necessity!!!! hahaha