Today at work while I was feverishly trying to make sure all the students had their Mother's Day cards/letters before going home, I had a parade of fifth grade students bringing me goodbye cards. The first few who brought me one were kids who I think might actually miss me, but by the fifth card I'd realized that their teacher had put them up to it. Nonetheless, there were some really cute, funny and sweet cards. 
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In talking with the woman I had lunch with on Saturday after church, I found out that the pastor had asked her to find out when would be a good time for a farewell party. I honestly was kind of surprised. My first year here I was pretty regular (at least 2 or 3 x a month) and stayed for potluck fairly often. But the last two years I've been much, much more sporadic in my attendance, and have stayed for very few potlucks.
Her asking me about that made me think back to when I was leaving Texas to come here and the party that church threw for me -- it was so spot on. A board and card game party! That would be pretty hard to beat.
I'm not sure when / if it will actually happen here. The 17th there's some sort of district wide church service, and then the following Sabbath is my last one, and my mom and I will be heading into ABQ that night. But at any rate, it's nice that they thought about it.
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Tonight as I was making dinner (and ruining a sweet potato) I thought of something for a new post:
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We had the weirdest weather here the last few days. On Tuesday it was nice and warm, although a little windy. Yesterday it got pretty cold (high of 52.) Today though took the cake --- it snowed!! The snow didn't stick, but we all were looking at each other going -- today is May 8, right??
Tomorrow hopefully will be back on the warming trend!
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When I first moved here 3 years ago I bought a number of items at Costco. One was a package of paper towels, and another was a package of toilet paper. I used the last roll of toilet paper up yesterday! (I still have 4 or 5 paper towel rolls left. This is even after I gave a few rolls to another teacher who'd run out.) So I went to the store (Family Dollar) today to pick up some toilet paper. I bumped into so many people from school - even a couple of my 8th graders from my first year here who are now going to be Juniors!
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I'm still having issues with mobile search on Bing. I'm going to give their customer service a few more days before contacting them again about the problem.
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