information that could have been brought to my attention YESTERDAY

so this weekend i bought an ipod nano, while i was in milwaukee. dude. my friend jon let me put all of this awesome music on it from his computer. sweet. little did i know that you canNOT move music from an ipod to a computer, it only goes the other way around. now i am back in green bay with a nano emptied of the songs i was going to love, simply because i am an idiot when it comes to being in the know, and i didn't get any burned copies of the cds i wanted. dude, not so sweet.

Thanks alot Ben

Total number of Movies in your collection:
Probably about 15... My friend Brandon who owns over 200 has become my Blockbuster, so I haven't bought a whole lot of them recently.

Last Movie I bought or that was given to me:
About a Boy or maybe Donnie Darko

Last Movie I watched:
Four Rooms

Five Movies I own, that I could watch over and over:
Meet Joe Black
Fight Club
Princess Bride
Supertroopers
Zoolander

to 'some' it up

this last weekend, i traveled to shawano with about 20 other 20 somethings from the green bay area. we stayed at imago dei, a camp/lodging site on the shores of a lake. besides sleeping here is pretty much what we did...

Sang Some Songs


Sat in Some Chairs


Finger Wrestled Some Fools


Hugged


Leg Wrestled Some Other Fools


Ate Some Food


& Posed

Snow Day Blues

Today, in Green Bay... no children will be attending school, because today is a snow day. There is a little more than 2 inches of snow blowing around, but with the promise of much much more I don't think that any school in the Fox Valley area is having school today. Now, you may notice when I post this that it is at 7 something in the morning... and you may think to yourself, did Lisa get internet in her house, wake up, was unable to go back to sleep, and so she is blogging? NO, Lisa does not have internet in her apartment, which can only mean.... yeah, i'm at school today, even though we have a snow day, because i told someone that i would help them move some heavy equipment. So snow day or not, I am still here... Darn, that spirit that has been instilled in me by my parents to help others and live up to their expectations... perhaps this afternoon I can get out there and enjoy the snow a little bit. maybe i can spin this off to make it look like i'm an extremely dedicated teacher, who not only doesn't take sick days, but comes in despite any whether conditions that might be occuring... yeah, like the postal service.

does superman get a super hero salary?

I have recently discovered a new super power of my own, and I get paid to do it... I actually get paid with real money as well, not just the ol' 'thank you for saving my life' bit. I gained my super power the day that I turned 18. (apparently i've been trying to hone in on this skill for 5 years or so) Anywho my new superpower is... donating plasma.

I think that they will call me 'plasma girl' and my costume will be blue and red, like the color of blood, (the color of plasma is too icky to have as a superhero color)

You can make $50 a week donating plasma, that's up to $2400 a year, if you don't ever get sick or lose the right amount of protein in your blood or answer any of those questions about 'the hiv' the wrong way...

Now all that I need to do is seek out my 'fortress of solitude' and I'll be set. I'm thinking maybe the bahamas, or my living room, seeing as i can't quite afford to fly to the bahamas everytime that i need to consult my floating heads... i really need to develop that power of flying thing soon.

CC for me me

Let me begin by saying that I, my friends, AM A HUGE NERD! it's true, and i thought you all should know. i should be ashamed to admit why, but i am not. it is simply because i love to have the closed captioning on whilst i am watching your everyday tv shows. it's not that i have the sound off or anything, no, the sound is on, but i enjoy reading along with my favorite shows as well as the news. you'd be surprised at how many interesting things come over the CC that don't get said on the news stations, and you can always tell when they mess up reading off of their prompters... you probably wouldn't be surprised though at how many people have made fun of me when we are casually watching tv at my house and i realize that i have forgotten to turn them off.

anyways, this morning i was watching music videos on MTV. (i know i was as surprised as you that they still play music videos on MTV, but it was in the morning, when not many people are watching, so that is likely why) i was watching them intermittently while i was getting ready. one of the music videos was Matisyahu, a new-to-the-scene jewish rapper, who sounds an awful lot like Bob Marley. his message is an extremely positive one about faith. he honestly conveys his faith/spirituality openly which compels me to respect his artistry and message. when i was reading the lyrics on the CC they kept putting a hyphen in God, so that it was G-d, as though it was a bad word that had to be bleeped out. i was momentarily outraged that MTV would do such a thing until I went to Matisyahu's website only to find that that is how he has God's name written in his bio. what is up with that? can any of you explain to me why he would want to put a hyphen in God's name, it's like when people turn Christmas into x-mas.

not so 'in shape'

A day before the second semester began at my high school I learned that I was going to be teaching physical education, that's right gym class. Something that I have never been trained to teach and a class that I never really enjoyed that much myself. (That is of course excluding the relaxation class which was a portion of my gym class in high school)

As it turns out I only have 7 students... and they're all girls, not too intimidating, but with only 7 of them it really limits the gaming possibilities. So far we have played games like four square, badminton, giants wizards & elves, nuke'em (which is a game i picked up off of the internet)... but i am starting to run out of ideas. we have begun doing tae bo on wednesdays and pilates on fridays, but the other days i need something to stick in there. i have decided that when it becomes delightfully warm enough outside we will be doing some frolfing, but until then i most definitely need something fun to do indoors.

So this is the part of the show where I turn to the audience and ask for any volunteers, or idea makers. Keep in mind that not all of these girls are the most athletic, and that in order to play with even numbers i have to participate (again with the 'not so in shape' notation).

(Above image taken from this website)