Five Random Facts

The contents of this post convey null inwards common.  This is simply me existence random.

Random Fact #1: Even though I've lived on my ain for a few years, using a hammer to hang things on the wall of my menage notwithstanding makes me experience independent.  This weekend, I had a few things that needed to live hung up.  I hung upwardly my hexagonal pot holder on the wall inwards my kitchen.  This could live considered art, right?

I hung upwardly around bloom pictures inwards my bedroom.  We're going to pretend these are perfectly at nowadays together with level.  Let's simply tell I never mensurate earlier hammering inwards the nails to hang stuff.  It drives my mom crazy.  Hanging these required playing musical chairs amongst ii other pictures on the wall.  

I hung a wreath over these hooks past times my forepart door.  My sis told me the placement of the wreath was "interesting."  How am I supposed to know where to hang a wreath if I've never owned i before???

And, an obligatory selfie to circular out the experience.

Random Fact #2:  I got a novel laminator!  The summertime earlier I kickoff started teaching, I heard @druinok talking virtually purchasing a laminator.  If she buys something, I know it something I've got to have.  So, I bought one, too.  #BestPurchaseEver.  I used my Purple Cow Laminator H5N1 LOT.  I paid less than $30 for it from Amazon, together with I convey non regretted that purchase.  It laminated hundreds upon hundreds of pages for me.

This summer, I killed my laminator.  It wasn't the laminator's fault.  Total user error.  I turned on the laminator to warm up.  Then, I got side tracked.  When you lot purchase a laminator, they tell you lot to never role it for to a greater extent than than ii consecutive hours.  By this, they also mean, don't accidentally larn out your laminator on for 24+ hours.  Oops...  I estimate I got actually side tracked.  When you lot larn out the laminator on for that long, it starts to melt the parts inside.  Yeah.  Not good.

So, I ordered me a novel laminator.  Amazon was having a sale on this Scotch Thermal Laminator.

I took it out of the box today to laminate around of Cindy Johnson's conic cards for my Algebra 2 classes.  This laminator is a affair of beauty!  It's quiet, together with I retrieve it powerfulness live a fighting speedier than my previous Purple Cow.

Random Fact #3:

I can't hold back to demo this novel encephalon teaser to my students.  My mom picked upwardly this toy at a thrift shop lately for me to portion amongst my students.  The finish is to larn the plastic telephone off.  It looks impossible, but it's not.  I'm curious to encounter if whatever of my students volition live able to figure it out.  This volition brand a perfect draw of piece of occupation for Brain Teaser Thursday.

Random Fact #4:

Students laissez passer on you lot the weirdest stuff.  "Ms. Hagan, I brought you lot a H2O bottle."

Thanks?  I did role the H2O to H2O my plants inwards my classroom that I had been neglecting...

Random Fact #5:

My pinkish cabinet finally has labels!  :)  These brand me happy.  Now, I simply necessitate to label everything else inwards my classroom!  Some twenty-four hours I volition live organized...

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