A Lazy Saturday and a Dangerous Question: I Love Our RuneScape Love Story. It’s been a while. Life’s been lifing. School is back in session, and August through November feels like a high-speed chase through the wilderness with Odablock on your ass getting ready to live stream your demise—lesson plans, soccer cleats, and drive-thru dinners […]
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When the Fire Starters Still Have Charm Teaching difficult students in special education is never simple. Most have layers that take some understanding-some even have redeeming qualities…but not all. Terry set a fire in the boys’ bathroom? Well, he loves having a classroom job and takes that responsibility seriously. Johnny called his ELA teacher a
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Parenting in 2025 sucks. Everyone has an opinion—and I mean everyone. Not just your family or the people you actually like, but strangers too. Everyone has some expectation about how kids should “act.” And when you let all those outside voices in, it turns parenting into a nightmare— like trying to complete an escort quest
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Cheer Camp | Combat Achievement Unlocked Well, my week started bright and early on a summer day (anyone in education understands the coveted summer day), dropping the teenager and her friend off at the high school. Why, you ask? Cheer camp. A three-day vacation I’ve been looking forward to since the cheer calendar hit my
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Elementary School is Basically Karamja Parts of it are peaceful—like the library, where everything’s orderly and quiet. Think of it like the beachy parts of Karamja, where you can chill and catch a karambwan or two. Or the mining area, where you can just swing your pickaxe and add gems to your inventory in relative
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Every teacher has that one student. The one who makes you question your life choices, your classroom management, and whether or not you should start putting Kahlua in your coffee and have it for breakfast. For me, it was an elementary aged girl my first year bossing in the ED self-contained classroom. She was brilliant.
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Proud Owner of a Brand New Dwarf Multicannon So, I struggle with spending money. Always have. Probably because I was a single parent way before I was really a grown-up. I had to make big decisions on a Ramen-noodle budget, so now? I feel a deep spiritual connection to a clearance rack. Yard sales? Count
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Not just for gaming What am I doing when I’m not sitting in front of the computer? Life360 usually clocks me at the gym, the grocery store, or chauffeuring children around town. Apparently, those are the only three places I go. I’ve got a love-hate relationship with the gym, and a hate-hate relationship with the
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Ironman Girlfriend: Are we not adorable? Being an Ironman girlfriend is hard. Sometimes, I feel sorry for that man of mine… But then I remember how awesome I am — and the feeling passes. Still, I’ve got to give him some credit. He really stuck it out with this bumbling, clueless noob for a while.
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Let’s Talk Slayer Lately, I’ve been focusing on Slayer tasks—because like everything else in my life, I’ve chosen the grind. And like most things in RuneScape, it’s always a roll of the dice: will I get something exciting from my master today? Something that will make me money? Something that will drop something awesome? No.
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