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Rockin’ in Papillion!

November 4, 2006 by Lauren 5 Comments

Last night I got this e-mail:

  • WHAT: First Nebraska ukulele club get together.
  • WHEN: Saturday, November 4th at 5pm ’till the cops shut us down.
  • WHERE: The upstairs stage area of D/Rocks Music 147 N. Washington Street Papillion , NE .
  • WHY: Because ukulele is too much fun to not share with others!

Oh, yeah!!! So after a hard day of cleaning up my classroom for Sunday’s Open House, Lloyd and I headed up toward Omaha. (Lloyd said he had to come along because he wasn’t comfortable leaving me alone with possible ukulele geeks because he was fairly certain I would be the hottest (a.k.a. ‘only’) girl there.

As it turned out, there were FOURTEEN ukers there, and six of us were girls! It was crazy fun. Lloyd took pictures because he said people wouldn’t believe that I knew that many people in Nebraska with ukuleles.  He was a great sport and even played along! Perfect score!

If you like a ukulele lady, or lad.....
(We’re meeting again next month if anyone wants to come along.)

P.S. Happy Birthday to Macy G!

Filed Under: Journal, Lauren Tagged With: omaha, ukulele

A thump in the night….

October 31, 2006 by Lauren 3 Comments

A spooky tale of danger and disaster!!!! 

So.   To enhance the super-spookiness of our fabulously decorated house, I called Lloyd on the phone and said, “We could put the wireless speaker outside and play scary music, but the speaker would get stolen.”  “Well,” said Lloyd, “you could put it on the roof.”

Now here’s where all of YOU think, “Duh!  You don’t put a piece of fairly pricey electronics on the roof, idiots.  That obviously has disaster written all over it.”  Well, nay-sayers and wet blankets, you don’t live on the edge like we do. We live life large, and that’s the way we like it.

So I went upstairs to Brad’s room and did a great job of balancing the speaker against the outside of the window.  Great job.  Really.    Once downstairs I thought, “Maybe I should go tie something to the handle and anchor it inside – but I’ve got people ringing the doorbell – I’ll wait until Lloyd gets home.”

When Lloyd got home I asked him to go upstairs to take it out of the window – so it wouldn’t fall.  I told him just how it was balanced….. but I should have done it.  (I mean, this thing was precarious – not great.)  Sitting at the computer, I heard from above – THUMP! thumpthumpthumpthump.    Yeah, it fell – from the window, to the roof, to the gutter, to the sidewalk (and some in the grass, and a little in the hedge).   

No Trick-or-Treaters were harmed.

Here’s the result:

ker-smashed!

Filed Under: Journal

Happy Halloween!

October 30, 2006 by Lauren 4 Comments

Cheap as free!

Here’re my cheap-o Sack-o-Lanterns.  I had to come up with some stuff to decorate with tomorrow.  Fortunately, leaving the potted plants out in the freezing cold has given us some nice creepy foliage by the front door.  Happy Candy Day!

Filed Under: Journal

The Saga of the Dining Room Light Fixture

October 29, 2006 by Lauren 4 Comments

So, we’ve lived in this house ten (Yeah, I wrote six before.  Oops) years – come December.   We haven’t made any major changes – painted a few rooms, put new flooring in one room.  (Sidebar:  Do you guys (Beth, Brad, Annette) like how I’m writing this as if other people are reading it?  YOU already know how my house looks.)  Anyway, all the fixtures on the first level are brass, and I don’t care for brass very much.

A couple of weeks ago I got Lloyd to think about changing the dining room light, and he was on board.  We’ve looked at lights, but haven’t settled on one.  Changing the light would mean changing the handles in the kitchen, so we should pick the light first.

Except……Menard’s had a sale on cabinet hardware and their very cheapest kind was practically free, so now we have new knobs, but no light.

 

New vs. Old, just like in life

 

The other problem is that having them up makes our all-white kitchen look a little cold.  So….with a little wallpaper and alot of imagination, we have:

If I were a rich man, ya da dee da dee da dee da dee da dee da dee da dum

Filed Under: Journal

The Auction

October 28, 2006 by Lauren 17 Comments

Well, folks, another Saturday was frittered away at an auction. This was the Lincoln Public Schools auction, which is better than the rest because they have many things that I’m interested in. (The others just have rows upon rows of computers and monitors. *snore*) Sure, up close they’re all worthless, old globes and microscopes that nobody needs, but taken together – they’re like beautiful displays at Target!

He's got the whole worlds in his hands...

Lloyd here now. I might need to find someone else to go to auctions with me. Lauren doesn’t appreciate them quite enough. She didn’t even mention that I bought 26 laser printers for $1.50 each. By the way, does anyone need a laser printer? …They might work…

what are you lookin' at?

She also didn’t mention the pallet of choir music that I got for $3.00. After pulling about a dozen “worthwhile” titles from the pallet we put a sign on it that said: FREE TO GOOD HOME. Some people even took some of it after Lauren pointed out that it makes good wrapping paper.

I write the songs that make the whole world sing

The pallet-o-music came with such classic titles as:

  • You Don’t Bring Me Flowers by Neil Diamond
  • Can You Read My Mind by Lois Lane
  • Truly by Lionel Richie
  • Mandy sung by Barry Manilow
  • Babe by the river that runs through hell
  • Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey by Sir Paul McCartney
  • Eight Is Enough by the mid seventies

Filed Under: Journal, Lloyd Tagged With: auction

Go Cardinals!

October 26, 2006 by Lauren 5 Comments

Cardinals
Those birds are amazing -beating tigers and all. My brother and sister-in-law were at tonight’s game. Twenty rows (and thirty feet towards left field) behind home plate.

By the way – Happy Birthday, Bethany! I should have posted that earlier!

Update:

I don’t really have much to say about the World Series games. Most of the Cardinal fans I talked to were, “Just hoping we don’t get swept.” So it was really a fun series (but then, the whole playoffs were good if you happened to be a Cardinals fan). And the Tigers have pitchers to blame, so they don’t have to feel bad about the whole mess.

But, and I say this with nothing but caring in my heart, Fox Sports Suck. Watching the broadcasts made me wish they (and by they I mean anyone who has ever in any way been associated with Fox Sports) were dead. They missed pitches, showed interviews on the screen while showing at-bats in little picture-in-picture windows, never showed enough of the field to get a sense of the game, jumped from head shot to head shot (Pitcher, Hitter, Manager, Pitcher, Catcher, Hitter, Owner, Other Manager, Then the pitch). I hate them.

Filed Under: Journal, Lloyd Tagged With: baseball

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