dumpster diving

so, i'm sitting in my classroom entering my students book orders. earlier, i was looking for a $10 coupon for scholastic and i couldn't find it in the folder i keep all the order forms and payments. i thought back to this morning and recall throwing some stuff out. boo. the custodial staff had already come by to empty out the trash cans. so what do i do? i find her and ask to dig through the big garbage bag. she gave me gloves when she saw i was about to just start rifling through the bag. after 5 minutes, i gave up. then, i remembered that heidi (next door) probably got the same coupon pack so it should have the same promo code. she let's me borrow her code and as soon as i sit down at my computer, there is my february coupon staring at me. DARN. i dug through trash for no good reason.

i blame my head trauma from sunday. i didn't think of the heidi back-up until after i'd been digging through the trash. but really, i completely overlooked the coupon sitting right next to the computer in the first place. and naturally, kids were walking through the hallway wondering why the teacher is on the floor looking through the garbage. i am so a product of my frugal upbringing. bah.

weekend

last week, susan made spring rolls from scratch. she didn't use up all the filling last time, so on saturday, she made the rest. there were a bunch of peels leftover, so we decided to try and make crab puffs. ok, i call them crab puffs, but she calls them crab rangoon. crab rangoon does sound a lot fancier.

all fried up. they were REALLY good.

susan's chinese new year spring rolls. also VERY GOOD.

so after we went to the farmer's market that morning, we got hungry mid-afternoon. the cafe laurent chocolate almond croissant held us over until we fried up everything. here's susan sitting with all our fried goodies plus sushi rice and "sushi land crab salad" (it's a portland thing).

and here's me icing the left side of my face. i played flag football today and was part of a little collision. subert told me to ice it because they could see the swelling. suck. if it bruises, i'll have a good story for the kids tomorrow. i'm using the blue ice packets that people put in their lunch box. i'd rather use my rice bag, but i think it has to stay in the freezer for a bit longer.

and, i've been checking cnn.com repeatedly, watching the gap between clinton and obama get smaller and smaller. he's only down by 27 delegates. yay for voting.