Me Right Now & Some Kidding With the Kidlets

Me - Right now!
Janiece tagged me for this post-tacular photo.
Here are the rules:

1. Take a picture of yourself.. riiiiiight.. NOW!
2. DO NOT change your clothes. DO NOT fix your hair.. Just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.
5. Tag 5 people

And I am tagging Elizabeth, Zealanda, Cindy, Nat...and whoever else would like to :)

And now, in internal injury news: Since discovering that my well-intentioned prescription pain medication makes me more nauseous than my pregnant sister on a roller coaster after eating a large order of nachos, the three items in the photo below have become my new best friends. I even took my nice little pillow to school with me today and only have to suffer through a small amount of mocking from the kidlets. It's a good thing I didn't show up to class with the warm rice baby stuffed down the back of my pants or the kids might have busted a few of their own ribs laughing at me.
But I decided that as long I as was going to be teaching school with various snapped and bruised bones, I might as well have some fun with it. I told each class about my broken tail bone and bruised ribs as a lead-in to our post vacation poetry project. Here is my example...

Ouch!

Bruised ribs.

Crunched tailbone aches.

Sitting down really hurts!

Pain! Oh the painful pain!

I broke myself over Christmas break.

Yikes! My Christmas vacation was very painful.

But it could have been worse.

No stitches, surgeries, or casts.

Only one doctor's visit.

I love Tylenol.

My backside

hurts.

The fun part was telling each class a different story about how I broke myself over the break.

First hour thinks I fell out of a tree while rescuing the new kitten of a neighbor child. The kid's family was so poor that the only present the little guy got was a kitten from the pound. When the kitten climbed a tree and an eagle was circling threateningly overhead, I overcame my fear of heights to save the kitten from the jaws (or would it be "beak") of certain death but busted my back side and side-sides in the process.
Second hour thinks I fell while trying to help a little old lady cross a very icy, very busy street during the post-Christmas sales rush. She had gotten stuck on an icy patch and I had to rush out into traffic to help her avoid the oncoming cars. I slipped on the ice in the process, cracking my tailbone and ribs.

Third hour got a less heroic tale. They think I was injured in a crowd surfing accident in Las Vegas. I had gone down to celebrate New Year's with my Vegas-dwelling-buddy-Brook and ended up at a Bon Jovi concert. I decided to try crowd surfing, but ended up getting dropped and danced on when Paris Hilton walked in and distracted the crowd upon which I was surfing. Hence the broken tail bone and bruised ribs.

Tomorrows classes with get different stories and I am really looking forward to the kidlets all getting together to try to figure out what what really happened. I'm thinking about a possible bear attack while hiking and I am going to have to work Vin Diesel into at least one of my tall tales...I do have a reputation to uphold, don't 'cha know. And anything that distracts them from the fact that I am sitting on a doughnut is a GOOD THING.