Christa Allan

This time next week, I will be headed to school for my second day of Professional Development for the new school year. Then, the darlings arrive on Friday. [Warning: enter Wal-Mart at your own risk after 2:45 that afternoon.]
For the past few years, the school year in my parish has started on a Friday. Befuddling, [...]

A different kind of word game…ALPHABET STORY
RULES (because every game has them!):
1. 26 words
2. Must follow alphabetic sequence
3. Must be cohesive/coherent; that is, it can’t be a sequence of unrelated words for the sake of using all 26 letters. Think THEME.
4. No words that you “invented.”
5. Punctuation? Of course!
Here’s a beginning for demo purposes only!
“A [...]

Whatever invaded my body for the past 48 hours took leave sometime overnight. I woke up this morning feeling almost human, which is how I feel most mornings, so that would mean that we’re back to business as usual.
Just for the record, I have NINE days before school starts. NINE. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. That’s counting today, so [...]

WORDPRESS and I are having issues this morning. It won’t allow me to post pictures. I’m experiencing an alien invasion of my body. Yesterday i slept 20 out of 24 hours, woke up for three hours, went back to sleep for 10 hours, and I’m–somewhat–awake.
Perhaps I need Sigourney Weaver or Ghostbusters. I’ll leave you with [...]

Random musings….
1.  According to The Daily Mirror, new mommie Angelina Jolie will have to gain 28 pounds for her lead role in the upcoming The Thomas Crown Affair. A moment, please, while I go celebrate with a pint of Chubby Hubby.
2. Michael Savage said that 99% of autistic children are simply brats who aren’t properly [...]

If stupidity could be packaged and sold, supply and demand would dictate it wouldn’t be valuable. There’s just too much of it.
And on the heels of yesterday’s [poor excuse for a] criminal, I bring you….
“The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin told a jury she wished her husband really had drowned.”
Try to follow this without [...]

“Dye-covered bank robber caught”
by Andrew Vanacore, The Times-Picayune
Tuesday July 22, 2008, 7:37 AM
MY DISCLAIMER:THIS IS NOT A POST INTENDED TO ENCOURAGE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
If anything speaks to the declining educational system, it’s this news story.
First, the suspect decides that 1 p.m. would be an opportune time for bank robbery. Sure, right after lunch and hours [...]

Can you unscramble the letters to find ten US state capital cities?
G R Y O M O M E N
O X E N H I P
S M A R T O C E A N

H A S L A T E A L E S
A P L A I N S O N
I L L [...]

more about “VIDEO: The Most Inspirational Story Ever“, posted with vodpod

KATY MC KENNA RAYMOND WON THE DR. GARY CHAPMAN BOOK, LOVE AS A WAY OF LIFE, WHICH IS FEATURED ON MY BLOG FICTIONARY.
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I’ve decided that my blogging life, especially with two of them (blogs, not lives…but a clone might be nice) needs to be organized. Lord knows, something in my life needs to be organized. [...]

I have more ideas for books than I have sense, and with the new school year yapping at my heels like a rabid chihuahua, I’m desperately flinging words onto paper and into the computer. And, in the meantime, I’m attempting to piledrive that obnoxious internal editor– the one who perches at the top of your [...]

An amusing site…you’ll flip over it…

1. Pre-heat oven.
2. Add Rubik’s Cubes
and Pick-Up Sticks.
3. Enjoy!
more about “Western Spaghetti by PES“, posted with vodpod. Thanks to veryshortlist.com

more about “Coolest Video EVER!!“, posted with vodpod
My friend Jo-Anne Clough sent me this in an email because she thought it would be right up my blog-alley, and she was right. The most awesome aspect of Jo-Anne and I being friends is that we’ve never met! Well, not face-to-face, just email to email, phone-to-phone, [...]

Yanks Thump Sox
Prime rate to remain stable, Bernanke says

By Gene Weingarten

Sunday, June 22, 2008; Page W32
“This is a true fact: I’m writing this column the very week after dozens of copy editors left my newspaper through an early retirement buyout, and I have noticed no difference at all whatsoever in the quality, accuracy”
“How good a [...]

With thanks to KRISTEN BILLERBECK for the heads up on this!
Baby Got Book (OFFICIAL)

How many words can you make from the letters in the wheel? Each word must contain the hub letter R.
Can you find a 9-letter word and at least 15 other words of five letters or more avoiding proper nouns?

I, for one, am delighted that the Brangelina twins have arrived, and mom and babies are well. The birth certificates show that Knox Leon was born at 6:27 p.m. and his sister Vivienne Marcheline a minute later. Knox weighed in at slightly over 5 pounds, and Vivienne weighed 5 pounds.
Darryn Lyons, owner of Big Pictures, [...]