memory - I recently picked up my nephew from elementary school - the new Linwood school which used to be the old OPEN school over on Osceola Ave in St Paul. I was bumped up from 6th grade to 7th grade (yeah, ::blushes :: they thought I'z a smart 1).... they sent me to OPEN - soooo, Maxes kindergarten room turns out to be where I learned how to play the flute (I can still blow on it -but no gaurantee of what noise it will make) ...it's just fun and crazy to get to stand somewhere you have vague memories of and just gaze around.... anyhow, we walk out and I stand outside what used to be, and still is, the lunchroom/auditorium. Just standing there remembering standing in the hallway and what/who was in the auditorium/lunchroom.... back then there was this boy.... he was in a band and played the electric guitar. I walked into the lunchroom and sure enough my memory was correct ...there before me was the stage I used to watch him perform on. talk about feelings flooding back! As I walked out and down the short hallway, I completely felt 13 again! I felt light - and I could feel my whispy hair (I had gotten a haircut from really long straight hair to bangs and shoulder length JUST to be noticed by him.) I stood there trying to figure out if it was real - I thought if I had a mirror Id be staring at a 13 yr old girl! I really felt youthful for those few momments - it was a true twilight zone --- COOL!
I mis school so much to be young agin and care free! that story made me cry! I mis not haveing to pay bills and just being young lost puppy loves stuff like that before I knew what drugs where and my family being one agin!! camping in my back yard!!
I went to grade school just down the street. When the church has their Fall Festival, I always go into the school and open up the door to the closet where the janitor kept the mops and buckets. It still smells the same! Smells like strong soap and that saw dust they use on a dance floor. They used that stuff after they cleaned up after someone vomited. :lipsealed: :smile:
My husband and I and all of our children went to SSP high. What was considered the "new" gym when I was in school is now Heritage Hall. They covered up the beautiful wooden floor and use it as a gathering place now. They filmed a Pepsi commercial there with one of the Timberwolves before it was converted.
Funny, but I can't remember his name anymore! LOL!
I went to my 30th high school reunion in 2001, and two of my favorite history teachers were there.
I told one of them, "I wish now that I'd paid more attention in your classes." He replied, "So do I."
At my 20th reunion, that same history teacher told me that one of the student teachers during my junior year, had a crush on me! I had no clue at the time. But it sure was sweet to hear about it 20+ years later - both that the guy was so enamored, and that the other teachers (who were young pups themselves at the time) were so appropriately protective of me.
I had a super hot English teacher at Park who still teaches there. My nephew has her now and can't understand how granny could have been so hot to his dad and me. :frown: :eyeroll: :smile:
nice I went on a date with a tech. after I got out of school she was and still is hot! It was weard I ran in to her at a bar 2years ago and then we went out!! dse that maker mary kay???? or one of the other techs. HUM!!! :eek: :sheepish: :cool:
As we're talking about teachers on this day. My 8th grade shop teacher would 'celebrate 420' with me many days before and after school. That skewed my whole perception of teachers. Before that, they were this entity that lived in the school and weren't real people.
I remember that we thought our 5th grade teacher, Mrs Johnson, was in a playboy mag. I still don't know for sure if it was her or not, but it sure looked like her. She also used to kiss our other teacher Mr Bennet in the conference room. I used to have a crush on her. I got mad at her one time and brought a rotten apple from our tree at home and put it on her desk without being seen. She didn't know who did it and never found out either.
I had Mr Bennet in 3rd and 6th grade. We never had to do any work. We could put our desks any where we wanted and didn't even have any books and could say and do whatever we wanted.
One requiremnet of the class was to learn how to play chess. We were required to do the "1st 5 moves on every game".
We also had to feed the lab rats. One got milk, the other water or pop. We took turns bringing them home on the weekends.
But then once in a while we would come into class and find what we called "6 rows".
When he got pissed he would put all the desks in 6 rows and we had to sit there very quitly and read the book that was on the desk. Any peep and he'd go into a rage. It was hardcore rules and dicipline when he was mad. Then within a few days of that, we would come back and all the desks would be all scattered again and everything back to normal.
Not sure what the subjuct of the class was supposed to even be, but I liked it. Oh and I almost forgot, the 6th grade class was all "Line patrols". I went to summer camp and took a test and was supposed to be the "captain" because I had the best score. I was robbed of this though because they let the "bigger" kid be the captain and made me the 1st luitenant.
I never really had a crush on any of my teachers- I had a lot of respect for a couple- unfortunately they both passed away. I dated a 6'5" hot gym teacher once - he had teenage girls who drooled over him! he wanted 8 kids though and I was way to young to be married and way to young in the sense that there is this whole world out there still so why him? - I don't know how to explain it- so we didnt last long
ironic too - heres a picture I found just yesterday in my collection. I was at the sounding in front of the Union Depot (1999 - I video taped it too)
Rose: Teach me to ride like a man.
Jack: And chew tobacco like a man.
Rose: And spit like a man!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rose: I love you, Jack.
Jack: Don't you do that, don't say your good-byes.
Rose: I'm so cold.
Jack: Listen, Rose. You're gonna get out of here, you're gonna go on and make lots of babies, and you're gonna watch them grow. You're gonna die an old... an old lady warm in her bed, but not here, not this night. Not like this, do you understand me?
Rose: I can't feel my body.
Jack: Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor, Rose. Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.
Rose: I promise.
Jack: Never let go.
Rose: I'll never let go. I'll never let go, [letting go of Jack's hand and watching him sink] I'll never let go, Jack.
it was fun - standing backwards and rolling the ball down the lane and fun stuff like that.
There were just too many people trying to get into the bar area when we left - I tried to look in twice but didn't see anyone. I only called all of you to let you know we left.
We still had to go to Target to let Whitterbeans pick out what she wanted and get home to open presents.
Yes I will
Indeed I will
If I may, if I might
If I can
Once upon a passing night dream
He beheld a mystic image
Bathed in blue reflection
Then he stood and made his song
Closed his eyes to feel the thunder
Echo like a wave around him
Love was in this strange house
And he knew he did belong,
Yes he did belong
Yes I will,
'Deed I will, if I can
And cold it was within the marrow
Waiting like the wounded sparrow
Helpless and forgotten
While the radio played on
Sing your song you fool, you dreamer
Cross the space that lies between us
Cast the stones of fortune
For the journey has begun,
Yes it has begun
So you do,
So you want to be giving
Say it out loud if you need to be holy
So you do,
So you want to be loving
Say it out now
If you need to be holier still
Say you do, Say you want to be giving
Say it out loud if you need to be holy,
And you do and you want to be loving
Say it out now
If you need to be holier still
So it seems or so it may be
I can't know for sure but lately seems
I'm on a journey
To a place I've never been
And baby if I had the answers
I would lay them all before you
Plainly it's a circle,
One that ends and then begins,
And begins again
Yes I will,
'Deed I will if I can
After all these tears between us
Still I couldn't find
Someone half as right as you
And each time I stop to think
What it is I truly need
Here's what I conclude
All I really need is you
Just say what you want to say
You don't have a chance in the world
Can I, knowin' how I've tried
Still come close to losing you, girl
When you are my world
Have I, spent these many years
Tryin' but in vain to tell you
Don't you know it too?
All I really need is you
How could I have known
We'd have ended here
Where we finally did?
You hooked your life to mine
Once upon a starry night
Now when someone asks of me
What it is that I believe
Say, I believe it's true
All I really need is you
Just say what you want to say
You don't have a chance in the world
Can I, knowin' how I've tried
Still come close to losing you girl
When you are my world
Have I spent these many years
Tryin' but in vain to tell you
Feelings come and go
Me, I'm never gonna
Ever let you go
Promise you I'm gonna
Always love you so
And all I really need is you
Lonely lady one, she run away
And number two, she do the same
Lady number three walk out on me
Like number four
Who's keeping score?
Lady five, oh how she lied
She made me pay some dues
Six and seven, eight, nine, ten
They really were bad news
Oh no, they'd only break my heart
That's how it seems
And then I finally came upon
A lady seventeen
Lonely lady number seventeen
She stayed a while
She had the style
Lonely lady number seventeen
She got to be with lonely me
Lonely
Lonely lady number seventeen
Yeah
Lonely lady!
Ladies eleven, twelve and thirteen
They came and went
Baby, I still can hear them sayin'
"It's time to repent"
I turned around and there she was
With such a sweet surprise
A lovin' face, lovin' smile
And love lights in her eyes
Lonely lady number seventeen
You stayed a while
You had the style
Lonely lady number seventeen
Come on and be with lonely me
Oh no
When lady fourteen walked out
That's when I screamed
I had no luck with lady fifteen
Or sweet sixteen
But lonely lady number seventeen
You stayed a while
You had the style
Lonely lady number seventeen
Come and and be with lonely me
Lonely
Lonely lady number seventeen
Yeah
Lonely lady
She makes me feel so sociable
Lonely lady
Number seventeen
Yes
Lonely lady, lonely
Lonely lady
Number seventeen
havn't done that in a long time
memory - I recently picked up my nephew from elementary school - the new Linwood school which used to be the old OPEN school over on Osceola Ave in St Paul. I was bumped up from 6th grade to 7th grade (yeah, ::blushes :: they thought I'z a smart 1).... they sent me to OPEN - soooo, Maxes kindergarten room turns out to be where I learned how to play the flute (I can still blow on it -but no gaurantee of what noise it will make) ...it's just fun and crazy to get to stand somewhere you have vague memories of and just gaze around.... anyhow, we walk out and I stand outside what used to be, and still is, the lunchroom/auditorium. Just standing there remembering standing in the hallway and what/who was in the auditorium/lunchroom.... back then there was this boy.... he was in a band and played the electric guitar. I walked into the lunchroom and sure enough my memory was correct ...there before me was the stage I used to watch him perform on. talk about feelings flooding back! As I walked out and down the short hallway, I completely felt 13 again! I felt light - and I could feel my whispy hair (I had gotten a haircut from really long straight hair to bangs and shoulder length JUST to be noticed by him.) I stood there trying to figure out if it was real - I thought if I had a mirror Id be staring at a 13 yr old girl! I really felt youthful for those few momments - it was a true twilight zone --- COOL!
I've had that happen twice in my life. Once with school and once with my old house. That's a pretty freaky feeling.
Even though it had been remodeled some, the auditorium was the same and some of the same teachers were there! That freaked me out!
I do when i walk into any school.
My husband and I and all of our children went to SSP high. What was considered the "new" gym when I was in school is now Heritage Hall. They covered up the beautiful wooden floor and use it as a gathering place now. They filmed a Pepsi commercial there with one of the Timberwolves before it was converted.
This guy.
HaHa LOL
Poor Poor Old Timer :frown:
There are pictures of past students a lot older than me hanging in that hall. The school graduates it's 100th class this June. :pbpt:
I got a hug from my high school chemistry teacher the other day at the grocery store. I had/have such a crush on him! He's still dreamy. :ooh:
Our class was about 400.
My crush was on my high school biology teacher.
Funny, but I can't remember his name anymore! LOL!
I went to my 30th high school reunion in 2001, and two of my favorite history teachers were there.
I told one of them, "I wish now that I'd paid more attention in your classes." He replied, "So do I."
At my 20th reunion, that same history teacher told me that one of the student teachers during my junior year, had a crush on me! I had no clue at the time. But it sure was sweet to hear about it 20+ years later - both that the guy was so enamored, and that the other teachers (who were young pups themselves at the time) were so appropriately protective of me.
I stole one of their paper cows that they decorated the walls with, for the tourney...
Its still on the folder that I used back then.
I placed 3rd in my category - Humerous Interpretation - at one of those tourneys...
Those schoolgirl days
Of telling tales and biting nails are gone
But in my mind
I know they will still live on and on
But how do you thank someone
who has taken you from crayons to perfume
It isn't easy but I'll try
If you wanted the sky I would write across the sky
in letters that would soar a thousand feet high
To Sir with love.
The time has come
for closing books and long last looks must end
And as I leave
I know that I am leaving my best friend
A friend who taught me right from wrong
and weak from strong
That's a lot to learn.
What, what can I give you in return
If you wanted the moon I would try to make a start
but I would rather you let me give my heart
To Sir with love.
Those awkward years have hurried by, why did they fly away?
Why is it Sir, children grow up to be people some day?
What takes the place of climbing trees and dirty knees in the world outside?
What is there for you I could buy?
If you wanted the world I'd surround it with a wall,
I'd scrawl these words with letters ten feet tall,
"TO SIR WITH LOVE"
I always think of Mr. A when I hear this song. :sheepish: :pbpt:
awwww...sure brings back some fond memories!
she could be an one of those Elven guys from Lord Of The Rings, or something....
I knew a couple of teachers like that...
One is also a cheer and dance coach. Good thing she teaches 2nd grade, if she taught 6th,nothing would be learned by those boys.
I had Mr Bennet in 3rd and 6th grade. We never had to do any work. We could put our desks any where we wanted and didn't even have any books and could say and do whatever we wanted.
One requiremnet of the class was to learn how to play chess. We were required to do the "1st 5 moves on every game".
We also had to feed the lab rats. One got milk, the other water or pop. We took turns bringing them home on the weekends.
But then once in a while we would come into class and find what we called "6 rows".
When he got pissed he would put all the desks in 6 rows and we had to sit there very quitly and read the book that was on the desk. Any peep and he'd go into a rage. It was hardcore rules and dicipline when he was mad. Then within a few days of that, we would come back and all the desks would be all scattered again and everything back to normal.
Not sure what the subjuct of the class was supposed to even be, but I liked it. Oh and I almost forgot, the 6th grade class was all "Line patrols". I went to summer camp and took a test and was supposed to be the "captain" because I had the best score. I was robbed of this though because they let the "bigger" kid be the captain and made me the 1st luitenant.
Learned a lesson there eh?
very nice
I never really had a crush on any of my teachers- I had a lot of respect for a couple- unfortunately they both passed away. I dated a 6'5" hot gym teacher once - he had teenage girls who drooled over him! he wanted 8 kids though and I was way to young to be married and way to young in the sense that there is this whole world out there still so why him? - I don't know how to explain it- so we didnt last long
thanks for posting
I hope you had a great birthday surpise-
I could go for some of that cake now!!!!
I was slightly distracted.
TCM just played a few droopys.
pepe le pu was another fave.
It suits me fine, that you treat me like a child
And I can't deny, when I'm with you that you
Step outside, from all those fears locked up inside
Your love is driving me crazy
Your love just takes me away
Your love is driving me crazy
Takes me all the way
What I like, is what you've got to offer
Just my type, I don't mind playing on the edge
Your love is driving me crazy
Your love just takes me away
Your love is driving me crazy
Takes me all the way
Lead me to forbidden doors
You know I'm yours
Yeah you've got it, yeah I want it
Don't you know it babay
Right on time, a tight fit right on the money
So sublime, hot sweet cherries on the vine
Your love is driving me crazy
Your love just takes me away
Your love is driving me crazy
Takes me all the way
Your love is driving me crazy
Your love just takes me away
Your love is driving me crazy
Your love just takes me away
Your love, your love, your love just takes me away
Your love, your love, your love just takes me away
ironic too - heres a picture I found just yesterday in my collection. I was at the sounding in front of the Union Depot
(1999 - I video taped it too)
Rose: Teach me to ride like a man.
Jack: And chew tobacco like a man.
Rose: And spit like a man!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rose: I love you, Jack.
Jack: Don't you do that, don't say your good-byes.
Rose: I'm so cold.
Jack: Listen, Rose. You're gonna get out of here, you're gonna go on and make lots of babies, and you're gonna watch them grow. You're gonna die an old... an old lady warm in her bed, but not here, not this night. Not like this, do you understand me?
Rose: I can't feel my body.
Jack: Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me... it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful. You must do me this honor, Rose. Promise me you'll survive. That you won't give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless. Promise me now, Rose, and never let go of that promise.
Rose: I promise.
Jack: Never let go.
Rose: I'll never let go. I'll never let go, [letting go of Jack's hand and watching him sink] I'll never let go, Jack.
:grin: :smile: :ooh: :cool: :pbpt: :sillygrin: :goofy:
I turned 11 at 11:48!
u mean all this time...u where only 10....omg...
that was whitney thanking them - she typed it out...I guess I shoulda told her to sign her name but I just let her write whatever she wanted to.
bummed i didnt even get to say goodbye...
I was busy in a hour long heads up match only 2 get killed by massive blinds
There were just too many people trying to get into the bar area when we left - I tried to look in twice but didn't see anyone. I only called all of you to let you know we left.
We still had to go to Target to let Whitterbeans pick out what she wanted and get home to open presents.
Thanks Ian and Kris for a fun night out.
6 rings? wow!! I introduced Sarah to him :wink:
but all the kids i talked to seemed nice