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| if naps were a food item, naps would be my favorite snack.
it doesn't add calories, it feels like a guilty pleasure when taken midday and it's just plain fun. without naps, moms across the world would be poking their eyes out due to sleep deprivation. i actually ike my family better bc im just less cranky after a nap. when a nap attack happens, there is no fighting it.
i've taken naps in all sorts of places. in classes, while feeding a baby, during sermons, during a staff meeting... what else... while watching tv. i've often laid down on my living room floor, and just passed out for 20 minutes. there were times when i'd try to read a book to my kids, but would end up falling asleep part way through the book, slumped on their bed.
i used to take... super long naps. 2-3 hours. but now, i'm very efficient and can take what is called a power nap. power naps are up to 20 minutes long, not more. i can take a nap sitting up on my couch, with the TV on. it's pretty amazing.
guess where im headed to now?
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| (the upside-down dog book)
This book i started over a year ago, when a teacher lent it to me. written from the point of view of a boy with autism (or maybe asperger's syndrome), i can't say i loved it, but it was certainly interesting.
Christopher (narrator) recognizes what this face  means. He also knows what  means. so, if you made these faces, he'd be able to respond to you accordingly.
but, christopher cannot tell what  or  or  means. his social radar is limited to what is black/white and matter-of-fact. moods or expressions that encompass multiple emotions are out of his range of sensitivity. christopher does not like people going near him, or being in new places because it requires him to make a new mental map which is very stressful.
christopher likes dogs because dogs only have 4 moods - happy, sad, cross and concentrating. plus, they are faithful and do not lie since they cannot talk.
and while christopher has many issues with coping skills and social boundaries, he is brilliant in mathematics, and is a walking book of knowledge. interesting balance.
i'm not giving it a thumbs up or down... thumbs to the side. haha... ok, onto book #3.
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| with summers days to fill, i bought 2 books to read. actually, i have 3 others that i need to finish as well, so that means i have 5 books to work on.
i finished The Wedding by Nicolas Sparks in 4 days. mind you, i wasn't even crazy about The Notebook (movie), so i'm not entirely sure why i bought a novel by the same author. The best part about The Notebook was Ryan Gosling. =)
the main characters of The Notebook were Noah & Allie Calhoun, who were hopeless in love. now in The Wedding, the daughter of Noah & Allie married a man who was the complete opposite of Noah. anti-romantic through and through. the story is told from the husband's point of view, as he searches for a way to make his wife love him again, after 30 years of disappointing her. wilson is not a bad husband, by any means, but cannot be praised as an excellent husband. he provides, but he failed to love his wife properly
the story was not sappy, as i had expected. not like The Notebook at all, i don't think. i can't say that it was a riveting story, BUT the ending was sooo nicely done. caught me off-guard completely!!! and truly, it made the whole thing worth reading, because i found myself in tears. i guess that must be what a good book does... it evokes emotions without the reader even noticing.
the remaining 4 books i'd like to finish, each completely different:
The Heavenly Man (1/5 done)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2/5 done)
The Fall of Lucifer
Angela's Ashes
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| hey folks - in honor of my still-lovely xanga, allow me to make an entry. tis been quite a long time since i've blabbled on this thing.
sooooooo.... school year 2006-2007 has been quite a ride. i'm officially mrs. liaw, not mrs. grace, being that i'm a 4th grade teacher. here are some revelations from my first year teaching:
1. i never thought i'd get sick of hearing my name, but by June, i could not stand hearing "mrs. Liaw... mrs. Liaw...." from behind me, knowing that a child was following me around the room.
2. working with adults is hard - especially women. oh my gosh -- either i'm just totally out-of-it, or women are just freaks. myself included. i've made more people angry than i have in the last 10 years! SHRUG!
3. teachers are crazy, stubborn, anal, controlling, gossiping people. don't be fooled by the smile & teacher-speak. =P
4. being different among your coworkers is a tricky thing -- you don't want to be JUST like everyone else, but at the same time, you can't be TOO different from them. if you just follow everyone's pattern, you don't stand out. no one notices your work. if you stand out too much, your coworkers get intimidated & jealous. see? it's a catch-22 all the way. it's like.. you aren't allowed to do the VERY BEST you can do.
5. i spent more time learning that i did teaching. for real.
6. this generation of kids is increasingly needy and lacking in common sense. it worries me.
7. people have no idea what my age is, especially non-asians. not a clue.
8. female teachers like to eat salads and frozen diet entrees. i swear, most of them bring their own home-made salad or a Lean Cuisine pizza for lunch. a salad would never fill me up, and a Lean Cuisine is just icky no matter how people claim they are.
9. related to #9, female teachers LOVE talking about dieting and how fat they are and blah blah blah. admittedly, i've been sucked into some of those convos, but i generally try to avoid them. maybe it's just a female thing.
10. i've come to realize that i get annoyed with how some people talk. whether it is the say they enunciate certain letters, or what, i don't know. i don't like "s" sounds at the end of a word, when it's overly Sssssss.
there are more realizations from this year, but i'll stop here. ttyl y'all!
~mrs. liaw
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| gosh, i'm sorry people. that last post was such a waste of good xanga space. you know how you go to your email and see "Xanga subscriptions" and you think, hm.. maybe today there will be a semi-interesting post to read. well, i apologize to any of my subscribers for all lame posts of the recent past, as well as for any to come.
but i do have a lil story to share. and it's a gross one, so hold onto your undies!
sooooo.... i felt super ill the other day. i woke up with one of "those" headaches again. it was so bad, that staying in bed was even painful, so i rolled out of bed at 8am on Saturday. i paced the apartment, going from kitchen to bathroom to living room to bedroom and then started all over again. then i plopped onto the sofa, curled up in a ball and used my fingers to poke different parts of my head to find the painful spots. sometimes i rub those spots REALLY hard to make it hurt more, which somehow makes the headache hurt less. anyway, moving along..
i was feeling nauseous on and off -- that's how bad it was. =\ so i decided to run a hot bath to maybe soak the pain away. as i waited in the bathroom, for the water to fill up, i felt the urge to GO reallllll bad. Go, as in numero dos. OK, fine, i said to myself... i guess i need to GO before i bathe...[just the thought of exerting ANY effort for anything, made my head hurt more.]
i get on the toilet, did my business [in pain] and then a rush of nausea comes over me. i thought to myself: this is NOT happening..oh my gosh, is this for real? i'm going to puke...right now! if i wasn't feeling so sick, i would have laughed at myself at that very moment. i literally felt nauseous as a direct result of my headache and smelling p.o.o.p. what was i supposed to do? i dropped the deuces as quickly as possible, simultaneously trying not to let puke erupt from my mouth. flushed, waited, then proceeded to vomit into the toilet.
is that not gross? i kid you not, i was laughing and crying, clenching in pain and suppressing vomit, all in a 2 minute time frame.. maybe even less.
i think i win!? if there was a contest for funny/gross, i really think i'd win!
I'm totally gross, but I really was born this way. =P
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