Today I thought I had solved all of my problems. Today I thought I had found the solution to my yearning..(YES A YEARNING) for Starbursts. You see, I found Crystal Light Chewy Candies. And I was as happy as this squirrel in Yosemite with a Garden Salsa Sunchip that I tossed him. I was hopeful. [...]

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I thought I would give an update to the many foods and their flavors that I listed last weekend. The school year is winding down, and I am alternating between trying to organize my classroom and keeping the students busy for longer than 5 minutes because hello, it’s the end of the year, and they [...]

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Today has been a nice little Saturday in the Squishy household. I awoke around 9 am to some pounding and crashing and generally disturbing noises, and I came downstairs to find this: You see, we have had a window leakage problem for a few years now and this wall has been torn down and rebuilt [...]

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There’s a saying that  childhood leaves no child unscathed. I believe this completely. I had tucked many of my traumatic memories from childhood away in the dusty back corners of my mind until I was recently confronted with many of those memories by another teacher who is VERY.INTO.RETRO.MOVIES. and by retro, I mean, from the 80s.  [...]

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Have you ever rediscovered a food you haven’t eaten in a really long time, and then have to eat it like EVERY day after? I’m kind of in that weird food rut with the oddest food: canned green beans. I’m now obsessed with canned green beans, and I eat an entire can EVERY night without [...]

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