May your day be filled with naps and relaxing!
Just kidding. You have to go to Lincoln with me. Bring your wallet.
by Lauren 9 Comments
May your day be filled with naps and relaxing!
Just kidding. You have to go to Lincoln with me. Bring your wallet.
by Lauren 3 Comments
So, Lloyd has had a cold for a couple of weeks. That seems to be his regular December plan. This time, though, he says his feet get sweaty and cold.
So he takes his socks off. His wool socks.
This makes no sense to me. I think that if your feet are sweaty and cold, keep the wool socks on. They will absorb the sweat (shudder), and they will stay warm. Lloyd disagrees, but he is crazy.
Good luck with your cold, sweaty feet, bud. Please get well soon.
Just one away from being prime. This year’s factors: 1, 2, 23, 46. Whew. That was close.
I’m doing a ‘Happy my birthday’ at school again this year. People have been giving amazing ‘everyone’ Christmas presents, so I feel a bit like I’m cheaping out with this little gift. (One lady gave everyone a movie. A movie, for crying out loud!) It’s just a bag with a tiny soda and candy, but at least I’ll freak everyone out a little bit:
Boo!
by Lauren 2 Comments
I mentioned making cookies for after Saturday’s worship service, but not how everything went wrong. The upshot is that the sugar cookie dough was good, but one batch of icing went wrong. Also, I goofed up my chocolate chip dough by not paying attention to the measuring cups. Did you know that 4 scoops of flour is 3 cups (not 2 cups) if you use a 3/4 cup scoop, thinking it is a 1/2 cup scoop? Who makes 3/4 cup scoops? *sigh* Massive fail.
The point of this post, though, is that I resolve from here on out to only make sugar cookies in diamond, square or rectangular form. No waste, no mess. Just cut, lay on pan, then bake. Surely those are festive shapes. Haven’t you ever heard the Legend of the Christmas Square? The Easter Diamond? Valentine Rectangle? Don’t worry – they’ll catch on.
by Lauren 5 Comments
I was at church Sunday morning selling some nativity sets. (The proceeds will go toward the new CDC. Typing it out, though, I feel a bit like a money-changer in the temple.) Anyway, Harold and Beth told me that a friend of theirs was locked out of her car. They would need my burglary kit! I wasn’t quite understanding what was wrong with the car, but I thought they said her key wouldn’t work in the door, and said I’d be over after I was done. While the time passed, I googled alternate methods they could try. As it was, Sam was able to get in… through the trunk.
Hee hee! Kudos, Sam! I’m glad they figured it all out, but I was even more glad when I realized that one of the google fixes that wouldn’t have helped them, definitely helped me! I haven’t been able to lock my truck for years because the locks are stuck. First it was the driver’s side, then the passenger’s. If I wanted to lock it, I needed to leave the back window cracked so I could crawl in. The video said to spray your key with lots of WD-40 (I had silicone spray) and keep trying the lock. Spray, try, spray, try – it worked! I am so happy!
But, things can’t be upbeat for long. It started to rain a lot in the evening, and even more as night approached, and when I walked upstairs to bed I got rained on. Our roof doesn’t just have one leak – now it has two.
DANG IT. Somebody remind us this spring that we need a new section of roof.
by Lauren 6 Comments
Lloyd and Sam went into Lincoln on Saturday to an auction. I had plans to come in a little later in case Lloyd needed to be taken home on a stretcher. (He’s got a cold.) When I finally met up with them later, they had spent $100 on two boxes of masking tape, and $200 on six pieces of furniture for the new CDC. I think I got the better deal. Brand-new this stuff would cost just under $2000.
Lloyd bought one set of cubbies, two workbenches, two shelf/table combos and one dress-up station. It all lives in my dark basement along with the furniture from last time. Maybe I won’t work at the new center. Maybe I’ll just set up shop downstairs! “Come to Scary Basement Preschool! We specialize in Weird Smells and Things Too Sharp To Touch!”