Tonight I plan on waxing poetic on how great it feels to hang out in the kiddie pool and why I can’t imagine any other place in the world where you can get your camels blessed and opine on current events. [mumble , grumble] I still haven’t decided what I am going to talk about, and I’ll try not to whine about the fact that I was promised the job of Teacher’s Pet and the keys to a Lexus. Anywho. Where was I? Oh! This diary stuff is hard. Bill deserves every penny he gets. There is not one day that goes by that Bill doesn't teach me something.[she tips an imaginary glass of rum and Coke]
I decided to write this diary in the form that I write all of my Cheers and Jeers...
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Cheers to waking up in the partly cloudy, 84°, 30% chance of rain, Houston, Texas!
Sixth grader Darius Grant, 12, sitting beside a one million display check after YES Prep students watched Oprah during a viewing party at the YES Southwest campus, 4411 Anderson Rd., Monday, Sept. 20, 2010, in Houston. YES Prep Founder and CEO Chris Barbic and Melanie Singleton a teacher and YES Prep alum were on the Oprah show and surprised by a $1 million check from Oprah's Angel Network to support the YES Prep school system. (Melissa Phillip / Houston Chronicle)
Cheers to finding your witty, sunshiny faces here!
Sep 27 2010 9:25PM
Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle
Jamal Smith, left, and Christopher Fultz Jr., both 4, eat ice cream during a school-wide ice cream party provided by Blue Bell Creameries, at The Varnett Public School East Campus, in Houston. Blue Bell honored The Varnett Public School East Campus, because it was recently named a 2010 national Blue Ribbon School. A Blue Bell truck filled with ice cream treated every student, teacher, and staff member in the school.
Cheers to our Lifeguard Bill in Portland Maine! Thursday is the day that I drop some coins in Bill’s treasure chest.
Ma Xiuxian (R), 102, attends a class at a primary school in Jinan, East China's Shandong province, March 31, 2010. Ma has never received any education but seven of her nine children have graduated from university. Local officials and school managers helped Ma to realize her dream of going to school, even if for just one class. [Photo/CFP]
Cheers to steamy, sultry, patently Patient, heartthrob, Common Sense Mainer! Michael patiently taught me how to post pictures. Today I have a flickr arsenal of close to 7,000 photos. You may not want to Michael. Thursday is the day that I contribute to Netroots for the Troops in Common Sense Mainer’s name.
A ring-tailed Lemur sits on a photographer's shoulder before the animals are weighed at Whipsnade Zoo
Picture: PA
Cheers to President Obama!
BETHESDA, MD - JUNE 9: In this handout from the White House, U.S. President Barack Obama greets children at a day care facility adjacent to his daughter Sasha's school in June 9, 2011. Bethesda, Maryland. Obama was attending following Sasha's fourth grade closing ceremony. (Photo by Pete Souza/White House via Getty Images)
Cheers to the Troops!
Dec 10 2009 9:37PM
KEVIN FRAYER / AP
United States Marine LCpl. Grayson Barnette of Md. from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion gives candy to Afghan children during a patrol in Khan Neshin, in the volatile Helmand province of southern Afghanistan.
Cheers to friendship!
High School senior Drew Boynton, 17, celebrates with his classmates Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 after being named Alamo Heights High School Homecoming King. Boynton, who has Down syndrome, beat out four other competitors -- including one who voted for Boynton -- to earn the crown for the San Antonio, Texas-area school. (AP Photo/The San Antonio Express-News, Lisa Krantz)
Cheers to Love!
CHICAGO, IL - AUGUST 16: A couple pauses to read a plaque placed outside a strip mall in the Hyde Park neighborhood marks the location where President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama shared their first kiss on August 16, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. The kiss took place in 1989 on the corner of Dorchester and 53rd Streets when the president treated the first lady to ice cream at a Baskin-Robbins in the mall, which is now a Subway restaurant. The Obamas will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in October. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Cheers to Hope!
A teacher (top) falls backwards from a higher ground as students get ready to catch her during a pressure releasing exercise ahead of the National College Entrance Exams at a high school in Chongqing municipality May 28, 2012. The exams will kick off on June 7 this year. REUTERS/Stringer
Cheers to Determination!
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 20: An installation of 857 empty school desks, representing the number of students nationwide who are dropping out every hour of every school day, is on display at the National Mall June 20, 2012 in Washington, DC. The installation was presented by not-for-profit organization College Board to call upon presidential candidates who are running for the White House to make education a more prominent issue in the 2012 campaigns and put the nation’s schools back on track. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Cheers to the furry, scaly, shelled and fine-feathered friends, who watch over us while we sleep!
Dec 11 2009 7:16PM
Kevin Frayer / AP
United States Marine Cpl. Benjamin Zellmann, of Va. from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion holds a puppy taken in by the company during a briefing before a mission in Khan Neshin, in the volatile Helmand province of southern Afghanistan.
Cheers to all of the kiddies in the pool as you make your way during the first Thursday of October!
Photo: (Singye Wangchuk/Reuters)
School children react to the camera through the window of their classroom in a school in Thimphu, Bhutan.