It’s been coming on since Friday, so I am just going to lay around and drink hot things. Bleh. (Sinus-y stuff. Gross.)
Taco Fortnight update: four soft tacos for Lloyd (which he was supposed to post about) and chicken noodle soup for me.
by Lauren 2 Comments
It’s been coming on since Friday, so I am just going to lay around and drink hot things. Bleh. (Sinus-y stuff. Gross.)
Taco Fortnight update: four soft tacos for Lloyd (which he was supposed to post about) and chicken noodle soup for me.
by Lauren 2 Comments
Asleep by 9:30. 🙂
My kids sing for church tonight and I have some things to finish at school today. Have a great Saturday, everyone!
Taco fortnight updates: Friday, taco salad for both of us. Thursday, regular tacos for Lloyd, party snacks for me. (Staff party)
by Lauren 4 Comments
One of the downtown buildings caught on fire late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning. It’s an antique store with apartments up above. Someone in the apartment tried to replace a fuse when they lost power and it started a fire around 1 a.m. The fire department – and departments from many surrounding communities – battled the blaze during the freezing temperatures (we had wind chills in the ‘teens-below’) and dark of night, on into the daytime. The building is a total loss. 11 people are without homes, but the community is rallying around them to help.
Lloyd and I have a bit of history with that building. Long ago the antique store used to be the headquarters for the detasseling company he worked for. Lloyd had an office in that place for … seven years?
I spent a summer living in one of the apartments with my friend Kathryn. In the fire photo, the two windows on the left were ours. My bedroom was the one with the air conditioner. (Second one from the left.) Here’s a view from the inside, 26 years ago:
I dug through the trunk to find some old photos. Gah – we were all so young and stupid back then! I had a job at a local mexican fast food place and was terrible at it. Kathryn worked at … the nursing home? She would cook potatoes and onions for dinner and once a week we would treat ourselves to McDonald’s for dinner. Ahh… meat!
This is Kathryn’s room. She had the cool furniture. I think the only thing I still have from those days is the children’s book on the top shelf.
This is a terrible view of the kitchen, with the bathroom in the background. (Hair dryer hanging on the wall.) I can testify firsthand about the electrical issues in that building. Over the mirror there was a bare bulb hanging on the wall with the pull-chain dangling below. If you opened the medicine cabinet so the chain was touching it, and also had your hand on the sink, you got a nice little shock running through your body. It took me several times to learn that lesson.
Here’s Lloyd visiting. Isn’t he adorable? Just a wisp of a lad.
Super-great fashion sense, too. Very avant-garde.
Anyway, good-bye 128 N. 5th St. You will be missed by this little town. Oh, I still have a mannequin from the basement that I ‘borrowed’ when Lloyd worked there. Er… do you want it back?
by Lauren 3 Comments
Update: This was typed one-handed as I watched TV, so it had lots and lots of typos. They are mostly fixed now.
This is the year our driver’s licenses expire. Last time this happened, we were able to renew online, but not this time. (That means the photo on my old license is… 11 years old?)
Seward is a very, very small town. Our DMV is only open one day a week, from 9 – 4:30. 4? I was able to run out at 2 o’clock to get mine done. (I had heard horror stories of long lines and needing all kinds of proof of residence, but it was smooth sailing. Twenty minutes, in and out!) Lloyd left school early and said his wait was short, too, but he had to dig up some proof of residence. That is NOT what the pink postcard says that comes in the mail – they say that you just need the postcard and your old license. Proof of where you live is if you have moved or it’s your first time.
Taco Fortnight Update: three crunchy tacos for Lloyd, two soft tacos for me. Leftover green beans, too.
by Lauren 5 Comments
First of all, Happy Birthday to my brother Mark!
A little while ago I was browsing some ‘frugal’ posts on a website and came across a brilliant idea from a lady who needed a place to set her snow boots in her office so they wouldn’t get water all over – she just used a paint tray from the dollar store.
Well, we just had our first snow on the new playground, and the staff has been talking about snow gear and ways to store it. At the old place, we had a strip of tape along the wall with the children’s names and tried to get them to set their boots in the right spot. It really cut back on the wrong boots going home with the wrong child. Well, someone mentioned that they might get boot trays. I remembered the post and asked Lloyd to go to Dollar Tree (where items are actually sold for one dollar) and clean out the paint tray section!
(There are a few around the corner, too, since 22 wouldn’t fit.)
They aren’t quite as nice as the tray the lady posted about – I wish they were a bit more solid on the edges, but they’ll work just fine. Today I had the children make a label for the inside. I had so many people – especially parents – say what a great idea it was.
Thank you for the inspiration, internet stranger!
Oh, Taco Fortnight update: Regular tacos for Lloyd, soft tacos for me. Both beef.
by Lauren 4 Comments
1) Lloyd turns 47 in two weeks.
2) A couple of months ago my sister was on Facebook talking about celebrating Taco Fortnight – eating tacos for two weeks straight.
3) Lloyd was overcome. He requested Taco Fortnight for his birthday.
4) I forgot to have taco stuff on hand. After eating leftover lasagna tonight, I went to the store and stocked up. I brought back Choco Tacos for dessert.
Totally counts.
Taco updates will be forthcoming,