Whoa the sky is creepy looking right now.  There was some thunder earlier but still nothing is happening.  We have a cold front still moving through.  We won’t get into the mid 70’s until Wednesday.  Of course it gets cold on the weekend.  Carol’s parents are in town from Buffalo and we have the cold weather.  Tomorrow it is suppose to get to 68.  That will be a bit better.  It’s amazing how you get used to the warm weather.  I wore a turtle neck and sweater today and the locals laughed because only someone from Michigan would own a turtle neck.  Guess I will have to lose the turtlenecks.

We got our final final floor plan done.  I am so excited.  I have been staring at the layout imagining where everything is going to go.  I have been busy today locating muralists and working on the spreadsheet of the many things we need to get done.

I also have to work on my new tutoring job.  I am going over the 6th and 7th grade math curriculum.  I am actually going to tutor both grades until they hire someone for the other grade.  Sweet gig as I am getting paid hourly as a teacher instead of a substitute.  I just got credentialed/certified in Texas as of yesterday.  How is that for timing!

So much to do and so much fun to be had.  I’m so glad we came back to Texas!  I wish I could invite everyone to come and see what I love so much. 

I still have to let this roll through my mind but a few things that stick out are……………………

It seems obvious that we are dealing with some sort of time rift.  This is evident in the “pay load” and when Danny told the pilot to go back the way he came and by NO MEANS vary.  No matter what!!!!  I wonder if Naomi will come back to life.  I still wonder if those flashbacks weren’t flash forwards(from the newbies, except for Naomi).

Who are thesse people that Sayid is killing.  The first guy he called Avion which means airplane.  He has to have somehting to do with either the airline or the “island.”  My guess is island.  I would think that someone with the airline would have recognized Sayid right off.

Ben.  I’m wondering if Ben isn’t some rouge spy.  But when would he have had his training.  Unless of course the others were a covert spy group and we all know Ben joined them.  Perhaps they were trying to develop some special program there.  It would kind of explain how Ben had dossiers on every person on the island.  It would also explain why they sent a govt. agent to extract him.  He must have gone rouge.  but why.  Did he discover Jacob and after that everyone followed him?  Still too much specualtion there.

The list.  More on that.  Ben said that Sayid had to kill these people in order to keep his friends safe.  Perhaps these are the people that know the island exists and that there are people there.  Perhaps Sayid is trying to keep Locke and everyone who stayed safe.  Ben loved that Island more than anyone so that would make the most sense.  He didn’t want to leave and maybe he plans on going back once everyone that knows about the island is elimintaed.  Wouldn’t that make a nice ending to Lost.  Everyone is reunited on the island. 

Oh I hope the show does end overall on a happy note.  I hate to think of Jack and Hurley living a miserable life.  I’m sure I will have more ideas and thoughts after I sleep on it.  If you have anything to share please add.

Can’t wait for Survivor and Lost tonight.  It’s only been one episode of Survivor but you have to love that Johnny Fairplay was voted off first.  We shall see what the rest of the season is like.

I got more great news too.  One of the teachers in the new buiklding I have been in really liked me and told the principal that they should hire me for a tutoring position.  I just talked with her today and I am hired.  I will tutor 6th grade kids in an one on one setting.  I pull them from their reading class and prepare them for the TAKS.  That is the Texas MEAP.  Woohoo.  So it is just part time every day and the job ends at the end of April.  Perfect timing as we are planning on heading to Michigan to train the first week in May(coop’s bday too).  The pay is way better than subbing too.

A cold front is coming in.  It was 72 today but is suppose to be 40 by Sunday then back to 75 Monday.  Chilly weekend.  Gotta get the kids outside to run off the Valentines day party candy.  WE also wanted to wish Curly a happy 6th birthday!!!!

Happy Valentines Day Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have so much to say but most of what I had to say was better summed up in the article that someone sent me in a comment on an earlier post.  http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20177008,00.html  This had some really good ideas.  The author of the article does what a few do.  He brings insight from an English major’s perspective.  While that is cool and all I, not having and English major, prefer to just read into it what I see and feel.

My quick observations…..

Hurley can see/hear Jacob too.  Wonder how that will play out.

I thought that the newbie footage were flash forwards except that wouldn’t explain the Naomi one unless hers was the only one that was a rewind.  Charlotte was excited to see the polar bear “again”, the pilot “knew” that wasn’t the body of the dead pilot because he had been to the island and heard the fate of his friend, Faraday was crying when he saw the footage because he knew they weren’t really dead but wasn’t allowed to say anything(guilt), Miles flash forward or rewind didn’t tell us anything other than he can talk to dead people(unless I missed something..it has been over a week since I saw the show).

Does Ben really not know what the black smoke is?  Did his electric gates keep it out?

I really have to post at least the day after the show.  I am not working tomorrow so I promise to post tomorrow about the show.

If you have any speculation please feel free to share.  I can’t wait for tonight.  The same poster who gave me the link above also listed who she thought were the oceanic 6 so scroll through the comments if you want to see.

This subbing is kicking my butt.  I am exhausted by the end of the day.  I remember when my friend Kim first became a teacher.  She called me and said now she understands why I used to come home and take a nap after school.  Of course I can’t do that now with the boys but I would love to.  I have decided to only teach three days a week so today is my last day this week.  Woo Hoo!!!!!

I love being able to make my own schedule.  We have a lot of Jungle Java business today so I do hope to write after school today.

Have a good one.

I know I was going to write about Lost tonight but I am sooooo tired.  I don’t think I could do it justice.  Cooper is having a rough time making the transition to a big boy bed.  He is even having nigthmares now.  He sees dead people.  LOL  His big complaint is ghosts.

Subbing is still fun but it is hard to get out of bed and get going in the morning when you have a family and you are the only adult morning person.  I am not a night person and crash sometime around 7PM.  But oh if you get me at 7 am I am off and running.  I just want to crash and get ready for tomorrow.  I am taking a 1/2 day at an elementary on Wed. then taking the rest of the week off.  OOhh  it is nice to make your own schedule.

I promise to write tomorrow.  But hey if you have any insight you would like to share by all meand email me because I thin of ew things every night. 

First the other stuff… It has been an absolutely lovely weekend.  We had great weather and blue skies.  That sound you hear is me knocking on wood.  It has been in mid to upper 70’s.  There has been lots of leg shaving and pedicures this week.  We have been showing off our white legs all week.  Brandon got a sunburn fishing and I’m sure the guys are probably turing red as I type while they are on the golf course.  Friday we had family fun night.  A new family with 4 kids moved in down the street.  There are two girls 7 and 4 and two boy 14 and 5 months so the kids are excited.  Saturday we went to the park and had family fun night again.  The night ended with a poker game at Steve and Carol’s.  I almost won!  Second again.  I will win before the years end.  LOL  No more donations!  Sunday was more of the same….park, Friday’s for lunch and lounging.  Oh and I’m sure we will go to the park again before dinner.

Tomorrow I get to teach in a regular ed math class.  So far subbing has been as much fun as I thought.  All of the fun and none of the daily headaches.  I’ll explain more of what I mean later.  Gotta run outside and play now.

TTFN

I am off for my first day of subbing.  I am so excited.  I went and bought a bunch of stuff for my sub bag.  I hope I am just as happy at the end of the day.   TEaching Special Ed 7th and 8th grade math.  Woo Hoo

Should be a great night for Friday Family Fun night.

I’ll post about Lost Tomorrow!

Sorry it has been a while since I last posted.  We have had fantastic weather here.  Another 80 degree day and sunny, sunny, sunny.

Saturday we had two birthday parties.  We were at Colin M.’s party first playing outside then ran over to Taggert and Riley’s party in time to see the python.  Happy Birthday guys! 

Saturday night we headed to the Domain and had a great time sipping drinks on Joe DiMaggio’s patio and at the Daily Grill.  I have a few pics that I will have to download. 

On Sunday we had our Superbowl party.  Great food and great friends always make for a nice time.  The kids had a blast in the game room and again were wonderful.  Who would think that you could put 9 kids in a game room and not have a single fight all day.  We have an amazing group of kids!  I think Carol is going to send me some pics from that event or she may have them up on her site.  The blog is linked here in the margins.

Today was another busy work day for the JJ.  We are finalizing our blueprints now.  They will be done by next Wednesday when the MEP’s get them to put their stuff on and then to the review/permit phase.  If everything works out right(knock knock)  I hope to start construction some time in the first week of March.  From there the contractor said 90 days to finish.  The play structure people are already working on our structure.  It’s getting exciting now.

My mom is only in town for a few more days so we will soak up the fun for now and send her off on her way!  I don’t know who will miss each other more, her or the boys.

OK I can’t make this as indepth as I would like as my mother is running a sweat shop and I have to get back to work.  So here are some thoughts.  And please feel free to share yours.

1)  Who do you think are the Oceanic six?  Of course we know that it is Kate, Jack, Hurley and???????? 

A few episodes back I swear that Desmond told Charlie that he had to flip the switch and die in order for a helicopter to come and take Claire and Aaron.  So could they be the other two?  Or am I remembering incorrectly?  AND how was Hurley taken back when he wasn’t even with the camp that wanted to be rescued.  Perhaps that plays out over the next years episodes.  Why would he tell Jack he was sorry he ever went with Locke?  Unless he was referring to another later situation that we haven’t seen yet.  Because if we were talking about the decision to be resuced or hide I would have trusted Charlie’s deathbed statement more than some women who fell fom the sky.

2)  Why is Hurley seeing things again? 

OK I am starting to get that he is the first one to crack when they are able to tell the world that others survived the crash but didn’t or couldn’t come back.  Again we will have to wait to see why they couldn’t or chose not to come back.  We saw that eventually it did wear on Jack as well as evident by the last season finale.   I don’t remember why he first started seeing people and was committed.  That black guy that was suppose to be a lawyer from Oceanic certainly was creepy.  I can’t remember now(have to look back at tivo) who told Hurley he was there.  Was it the same guy who saw Charlie?  Anyway that is another topic.  Perhaps the lawyer is Hurley’s imagination maybe not but when he asked Hurley if others survived the crash it was creepy.  Even more creepier was the “black smoke” that trailed out the door when the lawyer left the room.  I got goose bumps and had to play it over to show my mother.  Not sure what that means yet.

3)  Speaking of black smoke, Jacob and other paranormal thingys…….

Are we ever going to learn what this is?  or will they sweep it away or ignore it like some dumb polar bear fiasco?  Did anyone catch what the house was saying to Hurley when he got lost in the woods?  I kept playing it over and over and couldn’t figure it out.  I knew Locke would be in there with Jacob when Hurley looked in.  And speaking of him What the hell is up with that/him.  How will they be able to make sense of this?  I’m starting to wonder about the”others” and their leader Ben.    Now this is still tied to paranormal so bear with me while I ramble.  Ben and Locke have a lot in common.  Both were dismissed/hated by their fathers.  Both killed their fathers(I know Locke didn’t really do it but the others think he did).  Now let me stop there for a second because this got me wondering.  I’m thinking that maybe the origianl others(pre ben) had a book/bible or something that spoke of a prophet that would come to their Island to …….make them better, lead them, or something etc..  This prophet would be neglected/abandoned by his father but later in life this prophet would kill his father and become the leader of the “others.”  Ben did that to his dad right when he helped kill all j=his fellow Dharma people and then he became the leader of the others.  Remember when Locke came the others took a liking to him and Ben put him on the spot by demanding that he kill his father, knowing that Locke couldn’t do it.  Remember the spectacle Ben put on and then the speech he gave saying Lock wasn’t ready.  I think Ben knew he would lose his seat of power so he made a power play move of his own.  But then the one other who oddly enough resembles the man who spoke to Ben when he was younger and with the Dharma group, gave Locke the dossier on Sawyer.  Locke knew Sawyer would kill his father for him once Sawyer knew that this was the man he had spent his life hunting.  And so it was done and the others rejoiced when Locke joined them with his dead father on his back.  It was then that Ben decided the ultimate test was the Jacob test.  It seemed obvious to me that Ben had been faking it.  He couldn’t hear Jacob and Jacob gave him an ass wooping.  BUT Locke did hear him and Ben knew he would be ousted as leader so he shot Locke and left him to die.  What does Jacob need saving from?

I have to stop here.  But would love to know what others think and I will post more in the comment section if you do too.