Is the sign of a great product when you both dream about it in the same night?

Yesterday I broke in the Nike+ product that counts your steps and coaches your workout. And though I didn’t do much more than just the basic calibration through a quick walk to the bank, it made enough impact for us both to have wacky dreams about it. It’s a cool little device. Very smart.

I explained to Lauren how it counted the calories I lost on my walk to and from the bank. And that would be just about enough for the dreams to work with. I dreamt that I had decided to walk to Anderson, S.C. to visit our friends Jeremy & Jen. Half way there, I realized I didn’t turn on the iPod, so suddenly, my walk was in vain. With that knowledge, I took a pit stop along my journey at a nearby “rock farm” to look at all the interesting rocks. All by myself, just looking at rocks on the ground along this dopey trail. I woke up soon after I realized what I was dreaming about was a waste of time.

Lauren’s dream was a bit more frantic. A quick backstory… We were at a Luke Mather’s birthday party last night and just totally grubbed on all the food all night. It was so good. All these brownies, chicken fingers, chips, coke, cake, you name it. TONS OF FOOD. Well she dreamed that as we were at the party eating away, her iPod was actually counting the calories she was eating. It was as if she was standing on a scale throughout the entire party. As she watched the calorie count reach close to 8,000, she panicked. Thinking the iPod must have been broken, she attempted to restart it, but it came back with the big bold 8,000 calories and counting situation.

I can’t think of another time when we both dreamed of the same thing in the same night, so maybe it’s a sign that Nike and Apple did their job well.

Hello, Friends. I do realize that this blog has been completely forsaken, so I’m going to tell the only things I have to tell…which are more classroom anecdotes. Consider this your fair warning if you’re tired of them- that’s all you’ll find here. =)

After trying to explain who our Ast. Principal is, I had to refer to her outfit before they realized who I was talking about. Which led to a discussion/comparison of her outfit to my outfit.

“Okay, wait, do you want to talk about my outfit, or do you want to hear the compliment our Ast. Principal gave you?”

Of course they chose compliment. After going on for about five minutes to pass on the aforementioned compliment, Ed raised his hand.

“Now can we talk about your outfit?”

Trying to get the kids thinking about impossible (for our grade, since we don’t quite do negatives) math problems, I asked, “If I had five dollars and Bill asked me for 7 dollars, then…”
Student pipes up, “Then you’d be broke.”