Team Saturdazzle is in the house. I had many ideas this week for our time together. Some of them I discarded, others I forgot what they were, still others, I discarded , forgot about them, remembered them again, bit forgot that I had previously discarded them, and then discarded them again. This one happened organically but took about a week to culminate, so I'll share a little of the genesis.
Monday or Tuesday of this week I found out that our school was having yet another pajama day. I thought that I might participate this time. There also had been some talk about a lot of snow coming into our are Wednesday and some thoughts that the regular school day might be replaced by an e-learning day. The main difference between a weather related closure, or snow day and an e-learning day is that an e-learning day does not be made up and a snow day does. On E-learning days teachers give assignments to students, the students check in with them over the course of the day and it counts as a day of instruction. E-learning days had their beginnings during co-vid 19 and can be used for weather related closures and other times when meeting at the school is not possible. I think for the most part teachers like these e-learning days but as a building sub at least in my district I do not because I don't work on those days and when I don't work, I don't get paid. In a traditional snow day situation,, I also don't work and don't get paid, but when the school year is extended because of the closure I work and get paid making up for the day I missed.
It turns out that our school was not cancelled. But there was still a lot of snow in the forecast for the majority of the day. So, I wore sweat pants, a tye dye t-shirt and then put warm pajama bottoms over the sweat pants and a thick robe on over the ensemble. As I was leaving I decided to bring
Captain Abearica, the Build-A-Bear Captain America my daughter Lucy brought for me and that I've been using in various ways as a Sub since 2019. I figured what goes better with pajamas than a stuffed animal.
Pajama Day came and went. The 6th grade science classes that I subbed for that day that weren't too cool for school enjoyed his appearance. On Thursday after school I decided to take advantage of the perk I have at the movie theatre where I work and watch the new Captain America movie for free. My plan was to bring Captain Abearica in as well, because family members also get in for free. I remembered to bring him to work on Thursday but forgot to take him into the theatre.
Thursday was the soft opening of the new film whose full title is Captain America Brave New World. The hard opening was Friday, I was working and I figured the place was going to be a zoo. I have a very logical mind, at least to me. I thought if the place is going to be a zoo, why not bring a bear, especially one who's dressed for the occasion?
I talked to my manager, who thought it was a great idea and provided me a name tag for "Cap".
Captain Abearica AKA Steve Pawgers
April Blogging from A to Z Challenge 2025 SIGN-UP March 24-April 5 a-to-zchallenge.com
The A to Z Challenge blog posted yesterday for the first time since May of last year. Besides introducing the above 2025 badge. They posted the schedule for this years challenge:
The THEME REVEAL (optional bonus hop) : March 9- 15
Official Challenge Sign-ups : March 24 to April 5
Reflections (optional bonus hop) : May 2-9
Road-trip (sign up to keep visiting others all year _ optional bonus) : Opens May 10
I'm not sure exactly what I might be doing for the challenge. I've had 4 ideas and I like all of them, but unlike some of the past years I'm only going to do one of them this year
Even as a big fan of the challenge, I still take umbrage with the way they schedule the reflection so early . This year challenge ends on a Wednesday and you have all of Thursday to reflect on the challenge before Friday when the reflection sign up begins. That's not enough time to reflect!!! Well that's my rant. Remember if you are missing any umbrage, I took it.
Now for a new Saturdazzle feature:
Something I said on Facebook this week
My friend's BIL posted on FB this week that he found the Super Bowl game boring. I so did not! So I said this on FB this week:
I loved everything about this game. The Eagles delivered in every aspect of the game after being overlooked in all the talk about a 3peat. Not a KC hater nor an Eagle lover but this was a quality football game Jeff. I’m sorry you didn’t like it.
That's it for this week. That's my Saturdazzle and I'm sticking to it.
