Shoes

Disclaimer: While I generally consider myself to be a fairly practical person (although my brothers may disagree) I do have my moments of complete and entirely blissful impracticality--this is one of those moments.

Backstory:
I hadn't bought shoes for quite some time and my "Sunday" shoes were looking a little sad, so I headed to the Famous Footwear. It was like one of those movie moments where the hero and heronie see each other across a room and both seem to be enveloped in a heavenly light and now neither of them can see anything but each other. So it was like that but with me as the heronie and the shoes as my hero. I fell fast and I fell hard. They are ridiculously adorable black Steve Madden heels. They have a peep-toe and a little bow. They also have WAY too high of a heel for me(considering when I wear them I am at least 6 feet tall). But I just didn't care. I bought them and I took them home and I look at them everyday and I love them.

Moment of complete and entirely blissful impracticality:
The other night I really needed to do a little cleaning and laundry and I (shockingly) didn't want to do it. Then I saw the shoes sitting there and I thought "Dawn, it might be kinda fun to clean while wearing THE shoes." So I slipped them on my feet, and magically they went prefectly with my pink plaid pajama pants and grey Old Navy flag tee (from like 1999)! I looked amazing-seriously like runway ready. I will admit now that I did clean and do laundry while walking around in 3-inch heels at midnight in my pajamas. I know it is silly, but it was fun....and I secretly plan to do it again soon. (or I guess not so secretly now.)

Fun in the Sun

Today in preschool we went on a fieldtrip to the Farm at Thanksgiving Point. I was just glad that it wasn't raining or anything! But before we left for the farm I had the following conversation:

Little Boy: "Miss Dawn, why do we have to wear sunburn?"
Miss Dawn: "Um...what?"
Little Boy: "My mom made me put on sunburn before I got to school."
Miss Dawn: "Oh! Do you mean, Sunscreen?"
Little Boy: "Yeah" (and pulls a face, he obviously doesn't enjoy getting sunscreened)
Miss Dawn: "Well we have to wear sunscreen so that we DON'T get a sunburn, because sunburns really hurt."

Here is the irony of it all--I didn't wear suncreen and I got a sunburn.

Mother's Day

Well today is mother's day and so I post in honor of my mom today...even though this is not a typical mother's day post. I will share a preschool story that is my mom's favorite story (and she has been telling me to blog it for a couple of weeks now.) So here is what could have been overheard in preschool several weeks ago.

Little Boy: "Miss Dawn how does a volcano make?"
Miss Dawn (thinking: um..I should take a geology refresher course) "Well, there is stuff called magma deep down in the ground. And it is really hot, and when it gets SUPER hot it can't hold still anymore and it bursts out of the ground out of a hole that it can find."
Little Boy: "But like how does the volcano make?" (gesturing a mountain-like gesture)
Miss Dawn: "Oh do you mean the mountain part of the volcano?"
Little Boy: "Yeah."
Miss Dawn: "Well the magma comes up and then it cools when it gets out of the earth and after a lot of it comes out and cools then it builds up a mountain-like thing."
Little Boy: Obviously frustrated with my stupidity, "I will just google it when I get home."
Miss Dawn: "Sounds like a good idea-let me know what you find out!" (shoulders shrugging)

So happy mother's day to my own fantastic mom and to all the moms out there who must "google" things for their 4 year olds!

Research

With all the free time I have had lately (see last post) I have been doing some VERY important research. Otter Pop Research. I have been trying to figure out the exact formula for creating the perfect otter-pop. Now to be clear the perfect otter-pop is not one that is completely frozen. The perfect otter-pop would be better described as a "partially melted-slushy-slightly-liquidy-gushy tube of sugar-joy!" So I have been trying different techniques for getting a solid-frozen otter-pop to that point.

Technique #1: Letting the otter-pop defrost on the counter.
Problems with technique #1: It is difficult to know the exact amount of time that the otter-pop should "rest" on the counter, also one might forget that one had left the otter-pop on the counter resulting in a totally melted otter-pop (gross!) Oh and WAITING-who wants to wait?!

Technique #2: Running hot water over the otter-pop.
Problems with technique #2: Temperature control is far from exact, and the results tend to be more liquidy than slushy-gushy.

These are the only techniques I have tried. If anyone has any other ideas, or perfectionary tips for my current techniques please let me know!

I was going to take a picture of some otter-pops or me eating one to include in this post....but then I realized I had eaten ALL of my otter-pops. I guess it is time to go back to the store.....all in the name of research of course. :-)

I miss blogging!

I have been SO busy lately! Since January I have only had a few things going on in my life, including;
Taking about 6 credits at UVU at night.
My preschool; 3 classes of 10 children. (this may seem easy to some, but if you are one of that "some" I invite you over to spend 2+ "relaxing" hours teaching my class while I go get a pedicure and listen to grown-up music)
Working part-time at a child care center
And we must not forget my ridiculously crowded social calendar!! (I am always having to turn people away, I just don't have time for everyone who wants to date me).

So now that the semester is over and I don't have class and homework to eat up my evenings (after working 2 jobs) I am feeling like I have all the time in the world. So maybe now I will remember to blog a little more.

First order of blogging business a little bragging about my grades:
Education=A (I should hope so)
Biology=B+ (which if you know me is really like an A++++)
maybe someday I will finish a degree.....maybe not.....no promises.