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Dinner and an Auction

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My Dad called this week and asked if we wanted some company for the weekend. I said that I thought we were pretty free, but I’d better check with Lauren. Lauren thought I was crazy… “You have a conference in Omaha all day Friday, then Middle School Fun Night all evening. Saturday morning I have a workshop and you’re going to that UNL auction. Saturday evening is your school’s Gala [Dinner/Auction fundraiser], and on Sunday your choir sings in Walton Nebraska.” I said, “oh yeah, I forgot.”

Lauren did not spin the salad

We tried to get the whole “Bad Movie Night” crowd to get a table at the auction, but we didn’t do so well. Curt, Pastor Tooman, Jared and I were the only ones who made it. Lauren, Curt and I each bid on a few items without much in the way of luck. Pastor Tooman made out better, but he couldn’t sit with us.

Curt bid on 6 Nights in Frisco County Colorado for 10 people. I really thought he was going to get it, but after a lot of arm raising the other guy ended up getting it for $1,600.00. Sorry Curt.

See Curt? See Curt Bid?

Lauren bid on a few items in the silent auction, but nothing came of it. We were there early this year, and she put down a few opening bids.

We usually help out with checking people in. I was Johnny on the spot with Governor Heineman’s tickets, and even bid on Dinner For Eight with the Governor and his wife at their place. I bid $600 and it sold for $2000, the most for any item at the auction this year. We also bid on tickets to see Wicked, but they shot out of our range pretty quickly.

Can you Find the Governor?

I did, however, win a lock-in at Lincoln Lutheran for up to 12 students grades 5-8. Brad says that they do that at their auction and it brings in good money. I asked our middle school teachers if they wanted to try that and they were up for it. It was in the “almost live” auction, which is where the priciest silent auctions go. There was only one bid and that was for $120.00. I figured it was worth at least $150.00 not to have to do it. I got it for $130.00. So? What do I do with it now?

What will I do with a lockin?

At the end of the auction items they have a special project, where people can simply “bid” $1000, $500, $250 or $100 to go to the special project. This year we raised around $21,000 to go toward various computery things. So it looks like I’ll get to buy some new toys.

4.4 Icees per month

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I love Icees. They are the best thing to drink in the whole world. Lauren would like to put a soda fountain in the kitchen, but I say an Icee machine. She can always let the Icee melt. Lauren has come up with all sorts of reasons for me to have some number fewer than 4.4 Icees a month, and I have had to adapt. My first line of defense is to get them when she doesn’t know about it. So I always have an Icee on Bad Movie Night and when I fill up with gas. But when I fill up with gas I have to get one in a 32 once plastic cup, and Lauren can smell those a mile away (she thinks they end up in the Pacific Ocean, I point out that they are recyclable).

However, we have reached a detente of sorts. I can get Icees if I have a cup with me. So I always travel prepared. The cups are in the back seat. The straws are under the visor (in case you ever need one). I’m the only person who brings Wal*Mart cups into the Wal*Marts.

Hmmm, I seem to be running low.

Long, no spoon.

Max Payne

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Lauren wasn’t feeling very well yesterday. I picked her up after school and we went to vote, then we got some drugs for Cricket, some Subway for us and went home. She went to bed early, and I watched the networks project winners with 3% of the vote in. But that’s not what I wanted to post about.

Peggy asked what movie we went to see for Bad Movie Night®. We decided that we couldn’t really go wrong with a movie based on a video game, so we went to see Max Payne. It was really bad, and I couldn’t possibly recommend it. But we had a lot of fun making fun of it.

This one goes to 11.

What I don’t really enjoy so much anymore is our local theatre. Ever since Marcus Theatres bought Douglas Theatres, the movie experience has been going downhill. There were two things this time that really ticked me off. First of all, they had grape Icees instead of cola Icees. Why would you do something like that? To put it in my own words, when the concession stand worker said, “We only have grape and cherry.” I could only respond, “Why bother?”

We’ve learned in the last 6 months that we no longer have to try to get to the movie on time, but last week was ridiculous. The Max Payne was scheduled to begin at 5:00. The last commercial and preview was finished at 5:26. Ouch.

Oh, and Ron Paul isn’t our next president. Ouch Ouch.

NU-Foam & me

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So, Lloyd is off at Bad Movie Night, and all I managed to accomplish was to figure out which cat has diarrhea (Cricket), watch the new episode of House, and cut up some foam.  Not a bad night, right?

Safer than dangerous foam!

We have a few children at school who are not really nappers anymore, so they go to another room for a little 30-minute rest.  I’m trying to streamline their nap stuff so it takes up less space, and this is as far as I got with making little pillows.  The sewing machine is out, but I need fabric. Maybe I’ll go find Lloyd’s tuxedo….

One of them is smaller. Can you tell which one?

Update:  The tux is safe….. for now.

I need more fabric!

Adventure!

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Oh, it’s been an unexpectedly exciting last half of the day. I needed to run into Lincoln to do a little shopping (future post) before a presentation at the Lied Center at 7:00. I zipped home before I left and some stuff I ordered arrived from FedEx (future post), which was delightful.

Item purchased, got to the Lied on time, sat down with co-workers to watch Richard Louv speak on getting kids outside, for cryin’ out loud. It was an awesome presentation, and if you’d like a snippet of it, read this. (Zip down to the paragraph that starts ‘Even without corroberating evidence…’ I love how it ends.) Anyway, afterwards there was a Q & A that we didn’t stay for. I wanted to run to Sam’s to get some groceries.

Sam’s was closed by the time I got there so I ran into the HyVee next door. As I paid for my groceries, I realized that my camera wasn’t in my purse. The last time I had it was when I took a picture of all those people in the Lied, and ……. NOOOOOOO!!!!!! My camera was in the theater!!!!!!!!!

I was far away, so I called Lloyd, who thankfully was still in Lincoln due to Bad Movie Night, and asked him to go over there and tell them I was coming. He did, God bless him, but they told him that they couldn’t let him in, and that we should call in the morning to see if the cleaning crew found it. NOOOOO!!!!! I drove like mad to get there, burst inside and tried all the Girl Charm I could muster. I begged the man at the door to let me in. He was hesitant, but could see that I was desperate. His supervisor let me in, and was a little surprised that I wasn’t too proud to crawl around on the ground looking for it. (We didn’t have assigned seats.) It was there! It was there!! I kept saying, “Thank you, God! Thank you, God! Thank you, God!” Then I looked at his shocked face and said, “Thank you, too… (looking at his name tag) David!” He laughed and said, “I’m glad when things turn out like this. You just made my night.” I would have kissed him, but that would have been inappropriate.

So here – enjoy this photo!

Look at all these people who know kids need to get outside!

Fail

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I watched Alton Brown make some buffalo wings the other night, and even though buffalo wings kinda creep me out, it was an entertaining show. Lloyd, as you may know, LOVES buffalo wings – they are often a staple at Bad Movie Night.

At Wal-Mart today, I bought some chicken legs to boil for chicken broth to keep around for soup. I really only need the bones for this purpose, and wondered what to do to them so we could eat the meat tonight. Why not buffalo legs!? Genius!

Yeah, no.

Turns out that we only like chicken legs that have been fried, fried, fried until they are so crispy they cut your lips. I baked these guys naked (heh heh, naked guys) in a 450 degree oven for about 50 minutes then tossed them in their respective sauces (jarred pesto for me, our hot sauce-mustard-butter-creation for Lloyd), and dug in. Bleh. We spent a couple of minutes wondering, “Are these done inside?” and really, if you have to ask, they probably aren’t. So they went back into the ripping hot oven for 15 minutes more, but were still…..soft…inside. Soft, like, ‘I’m going to die of food poisoning tonight’ soft’, even though they were totally done. We ate celery and bread.

The bread was excellent.

Every piece is like a roll!