jane eyre

i have been hearing about this book since my mom read it cover to cover a few weeks ago. she insisted each of us girls read it before we came home for thanksgiving (so that we could all watch the 4 hour movie together), and proceeded to send us reminder texts that if we didn't read it she would be very =( i failed. i read the first twenty pages so on the plane on the way to kaysville last tuesday, so that i could at least say i started it. we watched the movie anyway. it was fantastic. not the grueling 4 hour depress-fest i thought it would be after the first 20 pages. im a little tempted to name one of my sons mister rochester....


upon jane's return and learning of rochesters impending engagement to blanche. (she is bratty. i didn't like her once.)



seriously, just watch press play. or, click here

my favorite gems from this scene...

jane: if God had given me some beauty and wealth, i would make it as hard for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave you.
rochester: i want you to live with me. to pass through life as my second self. my best earthly companion.
rochester: jane, do you doubt me?
jane: absolutely.
rochester: have you no faith in me?
jane: none, whatsoever.

rochester: let no one meddle with me. i aim to keep her.

yah, they dont end up married as planned.

more random quotes scattered throughout the film...
georgiana: it is a crime against God to deny yourself love.
jane: you have a chance to love someone who loves you with her whole soul. not many people are that lucky.
rochester: i wont tempt you into a life of sin, jane. i wouldn't do that.
jane: i know enough about money to know that shant make me happy.
jane: ive always known myself, but he was the first to recognize me. and i love what he saw.
rochester: i dream of you often and in the morning you're gone.
jane: my uncle left me 20000 pounds. i gave most of it away.

one of the last scenes...
embedding was disabled for this one, so just click here

more gems...
rochester: jane, i want a wife. i want a wife, not a nurse mate to look after me. i want a wife to share my bed every night, all day, if we wish. if i can't have that i'd rather die. we're not the platonic sort, jane.

love it. sigh.

quotes of the day

if the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. --lucy larcom

and

you dont have the luxury of negative thought right now. --christina applegate

you know, the ushe.

just lizards doing push ups. seriously.

quote of the day

advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.--josh billings

A+ for apple hill

quote of the day

people will hate you less if you just shut up. --dan

thanksgiving feast

i had a traditional thanksgiving feast with my kids at school. it took about a week to prepare and freeze all the food, but it was lovely, and the kids were so proud of themselves. I was proud of them. we made turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, homemade rolls, pomegranate jello, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie ALL without any major malfunction or disaster. yay. go us.


a photo representation of the $375 we spent on groceries. hey, for a homemade thanksgiving dinner for 95 hungry teenagers? i think that is acceptable.


22-pound turkeys for $7.99 each. THANK YOU safeway for your rocking deal.

i wish that i could post pictures of my darling, darling students doing all the prep work and enjoying their feast. but, seeing as how that is illegal i will refrain. but just know, you're missing out.

(sidenote: i had never previously cooked a turkey by myself. i knew that we needed to thaw the turkeys before cooking them, but other than that, it was all new to me. so what was i doing before school on the morning we were going to learn how to cook a turkey? i was furiously searching "about.com" for "how to cook a turkey. nothin like leaving things until the last minute. =)

best movie ending...

ever.

quote of the day

Never wear anything that panics the cat. --P. J. O'Rourke

(RIP louie, RIP.)

quote of the day

we bout to punish this turkey. in the oven. --one of my darling students as he was prepping a 22 lb turkey.

Michaela Garecht

i check out the yahoo local news a few times a week and see whats going on in this crazy area that i live and teach in. this is what i found today.





i remember this. i remember my mom talking to me about this. how this little girl was tossed into the back of someone's car and she was never seen again. it scared the living daylights outta me. but i DID NOT know this happened in hayward. the grocery store she got snatched from is just a few miles from my school. it creeped me out. it also made me very sad to learn that they never found her.

quotes of the day

Dan: how was the drive home?
me: great
me: rocking out with my dorky self. i can't complain
me: how was going to sleep?
Dan: oh fine
Dan: I stayed up and watched Jon and Kate plus 8 (guilty pleasure)

and

walt thizzney presents...

quote of the day

you must look into people as well as at them. -- Lord Chesterfield

quote of the day

smiley: good morning ms booth!
me: good morning! how are you?
smiley: good. livin life to da fullest. doin what i gotta do.

smellogram

i was helping to of my students log into an online account, when he turned his head, ran his nose up my forearm and and smelled me.
student #1: (after a deep breath) you smell good, ms booth.
me: thank you, but please don't smell me anymore.
student #1: well...do you want to smell me, ms booth?
me: no i dont think i do, thank you.
student #2: ms booth! i just had PE!! do you want to smell me?!! (he then lifted up his arm and pointed to his arm pit with one of the brightest smiles i have ever seen.)
me: no, i dont think so.

quote of the day

not to worry. all will be well. --a darling sister at the temple

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those who stand for nothing fall for anything. --Alexander Hamilton

veterans day

hearing the national anthem is something that always kind of chokes me up. it is particularly moving when you hear it on veterans day, sung by a choir of veterans, when you are actually WITH a veteran. such was the case this veterans day.


i found some awesome tickets on stubhub, and so cass & i hit the warriors vs. timberwolves game.



this pic is just to give you an idea of how awesome our view was from the 12th row. we only paid $23 for these seats! i guess it pays to be crazy about a team with a less than excellent record. while it was much less embarassing than this game, i was just as excited to be there, maybe even still a little twitterpated. sigh.

quote of the day

bring it on, BART. --cass

disgrace

i'm glad someone said it. sheesh.

quote of the day

live out of your imagination, not your history.--stephen covey

i voted.

go me.



i actually got a little excited feeling when i drove up to the polling place. it was similar to the feeling i used to get at BYU when i was walking up to the testing center before an exam. not the, "oh wait, what test am i taking again?" but more like the, "OK, here we go. lets do this." super dorky, i know, but whatever. that is beside the point. the point is that today i participated in my community, and i liked it. while this has been an extremely difficult and tension filled couple of months, this election required me to practice standing up for something that i believed in, but was entirely unpopular. i voted yes on prop 8, and i'm hoping and praying it will pass. no matter what, im glad to have been a participant.

BUT, ask me if i will be extremely relieved when this dirty old election is over. because the answer is yes.

because at the end of the day i would much rather watch one of these than any debate or slanderous political commercials.

so cute.


hilarious. (but please turn down the volume. the photoshopping skills are excellent, but they use some less than respectable language.)

quote of the day

you're d--- lucky. --custodian (referring to my brilliant feat of trying to recharge non-rechargeable batteries, blowing them up and covering my hands in battery acid.)

and

hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. --fulton sheen

quote of the day

"can you please hold this for me? i think i 'bout to give myself diabetes." --smiley (as he handed me his haphazardl stapled brown paper sack of halloween candy.)