Quintessentially Quilly

Quilly | April 30, 2007

Girls
preppy, smart
caring, sharing, shopping
beautiful, long-haired, sporting, fast
daring, rapping, rocking
messy, hairy
boys
 
–RL
 
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Summer
hot, sunny
watering, swimming, fishing
warm, nice, cold, rainy
snowing, icing, blowing
white, cloudy
winter
 
–LM
 
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Nice
graceful, quiet
pleasing, loving caring,
pleasant, thoughtful, evil, crazy
hating, annoying, irritating
improper, wicked
bad
 
–KV
 
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Sweet
good, lucious,
engaging, pleasing, satidfying
pleasant, pure, sharp, tart
twisting, watering, puckering
bitter, irritable
sour
 
–OA
 
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Category: contest | 7 Comments »
Tags: contest, job search, school, students, war

Quilly | April 30, 2007

I have plaque, but I am not going to the dentist to have it removed! Awhile back, Dr. John ran a Liar’s Contest. The lie had to be based on a dragon story. I entered and came in second place. Here is my prize.
My Dragon Story is here, in case you [...]

Category: award, contest, humor | 7 Comments »
Tags: award, Blogroll, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, consumer alert, contest, economics, ill, plumbing

Quilly | April 28, 2007

So much for being the heart and hands of Jesus (see previous post). You’ve all heard tales of the drunk neighbor I take shopping. Well, since she moved last January, technically she is only my neighbor in the biblical sense, but I have still been taking her shopping once each week on Saturdays.
Usually, [...]

Category: inspirational, photo | 27 Comments »
Tags: hello?, neighbors, weight loss

Quilly | April 28, 2007

The kids celebrated my birthday today at Sidewalk Sunday School. They sang their traditional horrible and squeaky rendition of, Happy Birthday, and Brandon, a member of my ministry team, gave me a special bouquet made to represt each of my six years as Director — six suckers.
My ministry team and I start each Sidewalk [...]

Category: inspirational | 2 Comments »
Tags: birthday, church, detour, family, he said-she said, homeless, Sidewalk Sunday School, stage production, students, weather, Wordless Wednesday

Quilly | April 27, 2007

If you happen to be dieting and your silk lined slacks are suddenly too big, don’t wear them over satin underwear. Just a suggestion ….

Category: humor | 10 Comments »
Tags: Blogroll, consumer alert, prayer, weight loss

Quilly | April 26, 2007

Some kind of weird dynamics are going on in my classroom.  For instance, during reading today, there came a brief lull when everyone in every literature discussion group must have taken a breath at the same time.  One of those strange quick moments when a crowd is momentarily silent for no reason — all save one [...]

Category: contest, humor | 23 Comments »
Tags: Blogroll, consumer alert, contest, job search, school, students, war

Quilly | April 25, 2007

Listen to the MUSTN’TS
Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child,
Listen to the DON’TS
Listen to the SHOULDN’TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me–
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.
- Shel Siverstein
1932 – 1999
Today I needed this for me.

Category: contest, inspirational, photo | 18 Comments »
Tags: contest, family, he said-she said, school, Wordless Wednesday

Quilly | April 25, 2007

April brought spring to Las Vegas, changed her mind and gave us winter. An ever contrary female, April changed her mind again and returned srpring to us, then snatched it back and replaced it with winter. Today we woke to summer. I wonder what we will get tomorrow?
It is lunchtime. I [...]

Category: humor, photo | 8 Comments »
Tags: Blogroll, cat tales, consumer alert, family, Hawaii, weather, Wordless Wednesday

Quilly | April 24, 2007

Two — count them — one, two — birthday posts from O’Ceallaigh. (The placement of the second post may require retaliation of some kind.)
One from a Dawg named Doug. Well, two, but he erased me from yesterday and replaced me with a dead Russian. Pft. (OC replaced me with Hugh Hefner. (I am still considering [...]

Category: contest, humor | 19 Comments »
Tags: birthday, Blogroll, busy, consumer alert, contest, detour, family, friends, home, homeless, ill, job search, school, stage production, students, war

Quilly | April 24, 2007

I thought I would celebrate this birthday, which O’Ceallaigh kicked off yesterday in a spirit of fun and follies, by telling you a particularly charming story of a birthday past — my 40th.
The story doesn’t start all that charming. I received no birthday cards. No phone calls. No mention on the [...]

Category: contest, humor | 27 Comments »
Tags: birthday, Blogroll, consumer alert, contest, job search, school, stage production, students, war

Quilly | April 23, 2007

O’Ceallaigh promised me a surprise for my birthday and he delivered. Go check out his blog and see. He’s got the whole world celebrating me today. I feel special. It doesn’t even matter that my birthday is tomorrow. This way I get to celebrate twice as long.
I love you, Sweetheart. Thank you.

Category: Uncategorized | 19 Comments »
Tags: birthday, memoir, stage production

Quilly | April 22, 2007

Quilly’s Quips is currently a 5 time winner of the Thinking Blogger Award.  I think that is enough.  I want to thank every one of the thinking bloggers who nominated me.  Their blogs are worthy of your time.  Stop by, kick back and read for awhile.  You won’t be sorry.
Silverneurotic
O’Ceallaigh 
Brig
Kat
Alastair
And in case you are wondering [...]

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Tags: award, busy, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, driving, ill, meme

Quilly | April 22, 2007

Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat
Saturday night my niece, LB, gifted me with a ticket to, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. There was a catch of course, with LB there always is. I had to drive. The play was in Summerlin, a hoity-toity suburb of Vegas where every other [...]

Category: humor, music | 11 Comments »
Tags: Blogroll, consumer alert, detour, dream, family, homeless, stage production

Quilly | April 20, 2007

About an hour and a half after school started this morning, I checked my daily calendar. It’s routine. It’s always the same. Nothing ever —OMG — I was scheduled to attend a seminar as our school rep that afternoon, but I had forgotten to call for a sub. Crap.
I shot like [...]

Category: contest, humor | 14 Comments »
Tags: Blogroll, consumer alert, contest, job search, school, students, war

Quilly | April 19, 2007

The quarter three Honors Awards assembly was held today for every high-achieving kid in grades 3 — 5. So, the students from my classroom with perfect attendance filed up to the stage as I called out their names. They shook hands, collected their certificates of merit, and lined up for photos. [...]

Category: contest, humor | 7 Comments »
Tags: Blogroll, consumer alert, contest, job search, school, students, war