Guest Edit from Jen

jenden75: edit: (for your blog O:-)) i wasn't rolling when jake was talking about bailey- i had [CENSORED] because i've heard him say those things about so many girls that it's gotten [CENSORED]
jenden75: and when he said "i'm desperate", my only thought was [CENSORED] and then [CENSORED] because that is getting [CENSORED].
jenden75: so yeah, def wasn't rolling on that one
jenden75: don't know if i was laughing about the ring, but whether i did or not, i saw it coming from him which is [CENSORED]
jenden75: tbh, if i did laugh about that line, it wasn't cuz he said it- it's cuz it reminded me of the past weekend at myrtle beach where a big black dude that Rich knows literally said (really soon after meeting me) "all i got to say is, what color ring do you want?" and when i laughed, said "no, i'm serious. what color ring do you want?"
jenden75: because you know you and i have the type of body that a lotta black guys go for
jenden75: so, he spends the entire rest of the night telling me at random times why i should be with him
jenden75: made for some hilarious chats
jenden75: so anyway, there ya go, an edit for your blog ;-) (before i got to rambling on and on to an idle computer O:-))
jenden75: so yeah, i'm gonna stop holding a convo with myself now :-D
jenden75: ttyl

OMG Jen, that's freakin' hilarious! That gets you 20 big ones, Baby! :-D You're in the lead!!

And BTW, did he mean 'yellow or white' gold as the "what color" part? Because some dude don't know that a diamond s'posed to be clear. He ain't no Ben Affleck buyin' pink rings for J'Lo. I mean, you and I have big butts, but damn....

Current YouRockMyFaceOff Points Standings:
1--Jen +20
2--Lisa +15
--Meredith +15
--Terence +15
--Adam Drewes+15
3--Lindsey Z. +10
--Shay +10
--Sherwin +10
--Brittany +10
--Kevin +10
--Dawn +10
--Kyle +10
--Mandy +10
--Hank +10
4--Adam Schroeder +5
--Nick Owens +5

And the Number One Reason For Engagement Is...

So last Thursday at Monterrey's in Clemson, Jake was talking to Jen and me, and we were talking about my new school and how I like it, etc. It comes up that there are two teachers younger than I am this year, since I'm a second year now, and they are first years. Anyway, Jake asked if they were single. I said, "No. Amanda's got a boyfriend. Bailey does, too. Well, actually, I think Bailey's about to break up with her boyfriend." At this point, Jake nudges me with his elbow and a raised-eyebrowed "you gonna hook me up?" look on his face. Knowing that Bailey is VERY conservative, I would not have automatically thought of her as a potential set-up for Jake, so I said something along the lines of "I don't thinks she's really your type. She's a Jesus freak." (BTW, I heart Jesus freaks just as much as non-Jesus freaks, and it is Bailey that calls herself a Jesus freak. I, in no way, meant it to be taken offensively.) Jake just shrugged and said "so what?" I said, "She's a virgin." So, Jake goes, (GET THIS)........."I'll buy a ring."

When his words hit, it threw me off guard, but then we started laughing; I hardly new what to say. So then he increased the humor and said "I'm desperate!" Well, Jen and I were ROLLING. And to show how pathetic I am, I said immediately after that, "I'm totally blogging that." Jen proceeded to roll her eyes and put her face down in her hand while shaking her head and saying, "Oh my God."

But anyway, the moral of the story is twofold:
1) Jake needs to get laid. (So help him out if you know any single girls!)
2) Blogging is an addiction.

On an entirely unrelated note:
Kevin IMed me today just to say Hey! He gets 10 YouRockMyFaceOff points!! Yay, Kevin!!

By the way, if you haven't read my AIM profile (and I'm assuming you did if you're here, because the link to my blog is on the profile), then here are the rules and regs...

The Official Rules and Regulations of Libby's "YouRockMyFaceOff" Points Challenge:

You earn YouRockMyFaceOff Points by:
1) Answering challenge questions correctly.
2) Doing something really cool or funny that warrants the presentation of points.
3) Doing something that I'm secretly looking out for (similar to saying Pee Wee Herman's secret word).

First person to receive 100 YRMFO Points gets something really cool that you don't even know about. :-D

I'll also give bonus points for being the first to answer certain challenge questions. Or, maybe the point allocation will be totally random. I guess you'll never know unless you try!

Here are the current standings:

1--Lisa +15
2--Terence +10
3--Lindsey Z. +10
4--Adam +10
5--Shay +10
6--Sherwin +10
7--Brittany +10
8--Kevin +10
9--Dawn +10

Keep up the good work!!

I've changed the comments setting back to where anyone can post a comment...you just have to do a word verification thing!! I love Mandy and Terence, but I like reading more comments from more people, too!! :-D

Anything Can Happen

One of these things is not like the others,

One of these things just doesn't belong,

Can you tell which thing is not like the others

By the time I finish my song?

Did you guess which thing was not like the others?

Did you guess which thing just doesn't belong?

If you guessed this one is not like the others...

Then you're absolutely...right!

Terence may disagree with you there, though. He seems to think that Puff Daddy (Excuse me: P. Diddy) somewhat resembles a praying mantis. Well, whether or not his shades do give Diddy a semi-bug-eyed look, he's just not green enough! Terence and I have a really funny convo about this whole thing (hence the reason I already had 3 pics of praying manti plus one pic of Puffy already on my hard drive), but he has it saved, and I don't. (T: send me that convo!)

ANYWAY, the whole thing that brought this blog about was the MTV VMA's. Puff did a JAM UP job of hosting the awards. While I was never an over-enthusiastic Sean Combs fan, I never really disliked him, either. But my overall opinion on the man was that he took it upon himself to act much bigger and badder than everyone else. I thought he was a self-proclaimed badass superstar. (As opposed to one that the fans put into power.) In my book, he was one step short of becoming the Barbra Streisand of rap and hip-hop--too awesome of a performer to bother performing. You know what I mean.

But tonight, he redeemed himself of his pretentious, ego-maniac persona. For me, anyway. By hosting the VMA's, he brought himself back down to Earth. He showed me how great a performer he really is. And he even gave a dude his watch. Twice! :-D

So here's to P. Diddy! You rock! (Even if you do kinda sorta just maybe resemble a bug that gets his head eaten by his mate after they do it!)

"YOU are responsible for YOU" ~Garfield poster in my classroom

IMPORTANT BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: The following conversation took place at approximately 9:25 PM.

TigerBelle113: aren't y'all home early?
aaadisobey: yup
TigerBelle113: wow that's insane
TigerBelle113: somebody gotta curfew?
TigerBelle113: or did the bars close early?
aaadisobey: just not anybody out at this point, and we didn't feel like waiting til 11:30 for other places to pick up
TigerBelle113: wow
TigerBelle113: you know you're getting old when....
aaadisobey: whatever
aaadisobey: you know you're getting bored when
TigerBelle113: k but last week
TigerBelle113: you woulda stayed out
TigerBelle113: because it would've been that slow anyway
TigerBelle113: cuz summer still
TigerBelle113: you're early birds now
TigerBelle113: might as well get out the ol' blue hair dye
aaadisobey: naw...we would have gone home then too...because it wouldn't have gotten any better
TigerBelle113: whatever i don't believe it
aaadisobey: we're not accustomed to being bored and having nowhere to go, e.g. uptown
TigerBelle113: excuses excuses


Kyle. Just face it. You're getting old. :-D You get tired more easily. And don't even try to blame the lack of fun that you were so accustomed to at Uptown for your "boredom." Jen killed it, yes. (Love you, Jen!) But it's coming back. AND, you ought to have enough faith in your friends and in your own personality to know that no matter where you go or when you go there, you're going to bring the fun with you. So unless you start taking responsibility for your own fun, you might as well go buy a bathrobe and a broom. Because you're definitely going to be the cranky old man that chases kids out of your yard with a broomstick.

An Ode to Jen

You know, I'm not so sure of exactly who all has read this thing since I started it. Based on the number of comments on the posts, only 4 people: Terence, Mandy, Kyle, and Erin. Well, I want to know if JENNIFER LYNN DENTON is reading them. And I think I know a way to find out.

Ahem.

An Ode to Jen

By Libby McNeill

Jen Lynn Den.
What a friend!
She's a great nurse,
And gets many a free pen!

Her favorite one is the Viagra one.
It is the biggest.
And the ink lasts the longest.

Jen has big boobs.
The boys like her.
Jen has big boobs.
And pretty blond hair.

Jen has a pool table.
And she's shot a lot of pool on it.
But she hasn't had a boy on it.
Or so she says.
But I think she needs to.
Because that would rock.

Jen is from Tennessee.
Jen likes to kiss me.
(She really doesn't.
I just wanted something to rhyme with Tennessee.)

I love Jen.
She's the best.
She is way better
Than all the rest!

GO JEN!!



There's more where that came from. So if I think you're not reading this, I'll write an ode to you, too! Ha!


On a more serious note, please pray for Jen's precious, precious cousin, Caleb Denton. It would mean a lot to the Denton family.
Jen, you know your friends are here for you, babe. LOVE YOU!!

Does everybody know what time it is? TOOL TIME!!

Mandy11282: libby i just laughed out loud so hard my dog barked at me
TigerBelle113: hahahaha
TigerBelle113: awww tell penny lane hey
Mandy11282: she says 'ark'
Mandy11282: she got a little haircut today
Mandy11282: her hair was in her eyes
TigerBelle113: :-D did she get bows in her hair
Mandy11282: she will when it grows more
Mandy11282: the vet says she needs a little more hair before he will groom her fully
Mandy11282: he is gay, he likes bows
TigerBelle113: the vet is?
Mandy11282: yeah
TigerBelle113: cool
Mandy11282: he's super nice
Mandy11282: but he dresses kinda like al boreland on tool time
Mandy11282: so maybe not so gay
TigerBelle113: hey there have been gay lumberjacks
TigerBelle113: does he have the beard?
Mandy11282: no
Mandy11282: and he has nice hair
TigerBelle113: ah
TigerBelle113: young?
Mandy11282: uhhh 30s maybe
TigerBelle113: oh too old
Mandy11282: for your cousin?
TigerBelle113: hahaha
TigerBelle113: yeah
TigerBelle113: and you
Mandy11282: hehehe
Mandy11282: well yeah
Mandy11282: trust me any suitable guy my age in the city would be mine already
Mandy11282: i am so bored, I would date a lumberjack wanna be gay vet if he'd take me
TigerBelle113: OMG that's so goin in my blog

I HEART MANDY MAC!!

Hey, Mandy...let Miss Cleo look into her crystal ball...you be jammin' mon!

Austin's Poem

To: Libby

Remember, Sweetness, when you dream,
To lay eyes closed, to enjoy the scene.
For when you cry and when you laugh--
I am a bundle of your happiness.
Remember, Gorgeous, when you fear,
That when you stumble, or fail to hear,
When your flags fly at half mast--
I am a bundle of your happiness.

For when your smile shines in the night,
Or when you're clammoring through plight;
When it seems "together for never"--
Know we are shortly apart.
Beauty, we center in a piece of art.

When night skies cloud, no constellations show.
When cold gets colder, the world drowns in snow.
To live to aspire, to cry to laugh--
Nothing burns brighter, no steps unpassed.

Remember, Sweetness, when you dream,
When hope is your clothing, but there are no seams.
Understand, Darling, that such storms pass;
And I am a bundle of your happiness.

-Fin-

Vivil of Bam

You know that FedEx commercial where they say, "Wow, Ned (or Ted), you're ALWAYS wrong?" And then they 're-cap' and tell him that they don't get "French benefits," but they do get "fringe benefits?" We all have at least one specific word or phrase that we've been saying incorrectly ALL of our lives. If you're well educated, there has undoubtedly been a time--more than likely in high school or college--where you've been called out on your misuse or mispronunciation of that term. And usually, it's just a slight differentiation from the correct usage or pronunciation that associates you with that slightest bit of ignorance that you didn't ever think you'd have. For example, how many of you have ever said, or heard someone say, "He walks the straightened arrow." As I hope you've learned by now, the correct phrase is, "He walks the straight and narrow." Somebody sometime heard "straight and narrow" spoken quickly and smushed together, liked the phrase, then repeated it to someone else as "straightened arrow." And that person repeated that, and that person repeated that, and then it got to your parents, and you've heard it all your life.

Anyway, I think you get my point. And if anyone else can think of anymore examples of what I'm talking about, please post them. Meanwhile, I need to explain why the title of this post now makes sense...especially if you watch a lot of MTV.

I gave an interest inventory to my fifth graders on the first day of school. One of my boys said that his favorite TV show was "Vivil of Bam." Or, more correctly, "Viva La Bam." I totally understand his mistake, though, because I'm sure he's heard the title of the show more than he's read it. Even if kids are staring at the TV all day, it doesn't mean they're reading the titles or anything else on the screen. Not to mention the fact that he has probably never heard "Viva la fill in the blank" as a term meaning "Long live fill in the blank." He expects everything to be English, so he tries to make everything he writes or reads fit into the English rules. "Vivil" makes no sense to him. But "of" and "Bam" do. That's 2 out of 3 words that make sense to him when he says and writes it that way. The real title totally baffles him because neither "Viva" nor "la" make sense to him. He's only got a 1/3 success rate that way.

If you were a low-income fifth grader from Joanna, SC who had parents that didn't help you with your homework, read to you, or provide you with the simplest of necessities (let alone experiences to further your cultural awareness), what would you think the title of that show was?

And why does he have cable when he doesn't have shoes that fit?

And why doesn't he have a decent place to live? Why is he living in an old camper in his aunt's backyard when his mom can afford to go to North Carolina to get a tatoo?

Something to think about, huh?

Parents who care more about themselves than their children really irk me. But I'm stepping off of my soapbox now. I don't think I really even planned to climb on it when I started this post. So don't get me started on why my fifth grader shouldn't even be watching MTV or Vivil of Bam to start with...

It's late, I've got to get up early...I'm out for tonight.

U Duckin' Like a Bobblehead

After watching Sin City last night and Honey today, I've decide that Jessica Alba is HOT. I used to say I'd turn lesbian for Jennifer Garner. But she's out now. Ben can have her. Jessica Alba's in.

By the way, Sin City's a pretty good movie. Very violent, but the artistic elements don't show as much blood as you'd think, and some of the violence looks fake enough not to be gross. But it's done very well. And Honey is a cute movie. I saw it a way long time ago in theaters, but it's been on the movie channels recently. Mekhi Phifer is also HOT...and I wouldn't have to turn lesbian for him! ;)

I promise my blogs won't always be movie reviews! :-D

Friday in Review

Javario called me "Miss Neill" today. I said "Javario, it's Miss McNeill." Javario then said "Like, Miss McChicken." I've never tried so hard not to laugh...

The 40 Year Old Virgin is the BEST movie I have seen this summer. Now...Wedding Crashers, Star Wars 3, and The Longest Yard were great, too. But the cast of 40 YOV was "phenomenal" (to quote Jeremy Grey). Steve Carell was PERFECT. He was absolutely hilarious. So were his supporting actors. It just all worked so well together. Plus, it helps when a comedy uses intelligent and extremely witty humor. Our Word of the Day at Joanna this past Tuesday was "clever." And if I thought 40 YOV would be appropriate for my 5th graders to see, I'd say the movie was a great example of "clever." I loved it. It is a MUST SEE. So go see it. You will NOT be disappointed. And if you need a date, just let me know...because I will certainly be willing to see it again.

I want to add some great quotes from the movie in this post, but A) I hate when so many movie quotes spoil the punchlines for people who've yet to see the movie, and B) I honestly can't remember any. Not that there aren't any...there totally are a lot...I just have this thing with movie quotes and song lyrics. I can't remember them after only hearing them once. I have to hear them over and over and over again, and usually from my friends instead of the original artist(s). As a matter of fact, I don't think I'd remember half of the Old School quotes I know if it weren't for David, Chris, Kyle, Adam, and Jake. (Thanks, Guys! Love ya!)

Don't F*** With Steve

Please, please, PLEASE check out the Real World: Sesame Street link over to the right.

It's absolutely, hilariously the funniest thing to me right now!

It's TWO L'S, Gosh Darn It!!

As many of you know, last year my kids at the Dendy never called me by my *correct* name. Miss McNeill became "M' M'Neill." Often, I was "M' Bentley," or sometimes even "M' M'Bentley." This year, however, I am only "M' M'Neill" to about 2 or 3 of my students. Most everyone else calls me Miss McNeill (I do get the occasional "Miss Neill" or "Miss Neilly," but it's only the second week). Regardless, the FULL pronunciaton of my name is very refreshing to hear!! Especially when EVERYTHING else printed up or given to me by the administration, mind you, has my name misspelled (they left off the second L). On my nametag. On the hall sign. On my handbook. Everywhere my name is mentioned in the handbook. And pretty much everything else. It's so freaking annoying. Many people say, "but whether it's got one L or two, the name's still pronounced the same." Whatever, bitches. That last L is like the H at the end of Smith, the N at the end of Robertson, or even the K at the end of Polk (Hi, T!). I know you'd be pissed if your name were Josie Smith, and your nametag had Miss Josie Smit embossed on it. Or if Terence's nametag said Mr. Terence Pol on it. Don't tell me that McNeill with one L is "close enough to count." *fingerwave* Unh-Uh. Not cool.

Way to diminish my identity.

I dedicate this blog to Chad, Mandy, and Terence...

I'm sick of trying to be funny enough to make it on Chad's Daily Thoughts. He's too damn selective. Of course, I've got to remember that I am in competition with Eric Lawhorn, Terence Polk, Chad's brothers, and Mandy McCaslan. Tough crowd to beat in the humor department. Needless to say, Terence and I have just about the best conversations anybody can ever have on IM. And Mandy's blog is the best blog I've ever read! I'm so glad that she's bored enough at work to be able to put such time and effort into her posts. :-D Anyway, maybe if I start this blogging thing and keep it up, I'll actually have material to compile into the book I want to write one day. I already have the title. But I'm not telling you. You might steal it. But it's a good one, I promise. I'm sorry this is a boring blog post. But it's my first time. Be gentle.