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The Saga of the Dining Room Light Fixture

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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

The Auction

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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

Go Cardinals!

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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.

Bathroom Before

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Change is a’comin’.  (Lloyd doesn’t want me to post just one lline, but he’s already asleep because the Cardinals have a rain delay, so who’s he to tell me what to do? Ha ha ha ha ha.  Guess I showed him who’s boss….wait.  This is more than I meant to write.  Rats!)

Bye, bye, flowers....heh heh...

New Plan

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I am, admittedly, the world’s worst aunt.  I never write, never call, and get birthdays wrong or don’t get cards or presents sent.  It’s a horrible flaw.  Anyway, I have a plan to communicate with my nephews more.  Target has these cool card & envelope sets.  The cards aren’t foldy cards, so I wrote a note on one, and wrote my address & put stamps on two of them (so now they’ve become postcards from them to me).  The plan is for the boys to read my card, which (loosely) says  “Draw something that you see right now and get this postcard into the mail lickity-split!”  Hopefully they’ll think it’s funny & fun.

a box of cheery colors!