perfect heart is pumping again!

Hell yeah!
God bless the Merrill Brothers Three for carrying the heaviest of boxes in the epic Urban Honking server move. It was a dangerous endeavor that apparently involved Brazilian hackers, but they weathered it well and UrHo is up and running again! And not a minute too soon, I say. Every day that my blog was down something happened that I just NEEDED to blog about, but it was to no avail. I just had to wait it out. Liz offered to let me do guest posts on her blog, which was super nice, but it might have been weird to talk about first graders’ gluey fingers in a fancy NYC blog. I did dust off my cohort blog for some sweet relief, but really, there’s no place like home. Ah… My bright turquoise cyber home. How I have missed your glow!
I will now give a recap of my week “off the grid” or whatever:
* Most notable event that went unblogged: I wore two different shoes to work. Do not adjust your monitors, you read correctly. My mom sent me two pairs of Saucony sneakers for my birthday- one pair navy, one pair lavender. In my rush to get dressed I ended up with one of each on my feet, and I realized much to late to go home and change. I thought my students would lynch me for it. The other teachers thought it was pretty funny. But when morning meeting rolled around and Conner pointed out my mismatched shoes, the response was pretty mild. I told them what happened, and that I was pretty embarrassed. They assured me that I looked really cool, and not to worry. When I said, “wow, friends, I really thought you were going to tease me about this!” they replied that it was not a big deal at all. They wore their shirts inside out sometimes, it was totally mellow. Then when another teacher walked in the room and started laughing at me, they turned on her. “Stop laughing, Kim! Willow looks AWESOME!! She should wear her shoes like that every day!! You’re mean!” And that is why my ego is so big.
Okay, to tell you the truth, that wasn’t the most exciting part of my offline time. My birthday was last week, and between my sweet students and my awesomest of awesome friends, I was treated like an absolute queen. I would be shortchanging the experience to cram it on the bottom of a long post, so instead I will blog about it tomorrow, with photos and everything. A teaser: my birthday involved a lot of fake-outs.
It’s good to be back on the internet.