Wednesday, February 28, 2024 I realized last night that the points we earned from Christmas shopping at the Mall of America (we are still unclear on how we earned so many points without spending very much money) expire on Friday. They gave us three whole months to use them and of course, we are down […]
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Jeffrey, Johanna, and Adalynn stopped over to return a trumpet. We adored every darling expression (facial and verbal) Adalynn made. She is making good use of “um” as a conversation starter. She checks out what she wants and looks at her mom and dad and says, “um,” and they take it
Monday, February 26, 2024 Keith is playing flugelhorn this season and it is just strange. He is in the wrong place. But he is sounding terrific. He has a bunch of little solo-y bits and sounds great. He has one stand-in-front-of-the-band song and sounds lovely (flugelhorn adjective) on that one too. I had a companion
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Sunday, February 25, 2024 Today is my sister-in-law’s and my niece’s birthdays and the day my brother-in-law passed away seven years ago. Such a lot for one family. I am thinking of you all, Karen, Marla, and Thom. Keith reported yesterday I had his coughing disease, but I did not. I had that plus a
Friday, February 23, 2024 I worked a short day today. I got to school and Louise was already there! We have never been in the same school subbing before. I was very excited. I zoomed right over to see her in 5th grade. Fifth grade is hard. Louise is brave. We had Breakfast and Books.
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Thursday, February 22, 2024 This is the A hall of Woodbury middle school, where I worked as a lunch lady, a paraprofessional, and as a substitute teacher for about 15 years. After pandemic, I started to go to different schools, even those with different-aged students. That is a personal silver lining for that horrible event.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2024 We went to see Argylle tonight. I enjoyed it (not a big surprise to anyone. It’s a movie). It stars Bryce Dallas Howard. She plays a novelist who is in peril and being hunted by spies. Her character is an “every woman.” I was distracted a couple times by the fact
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 Sea World San Diego was closed today because of flooding. Another atmospheric river is hanging over California, so we got out just in time. There is supposed to be lots more rain and floods and bad. We are so lucky. Meanwhile, back in MN, with a tiny bit of snow left
Monday, February 19, 2024 I woke up too hot to sleep at 3:30am. It was convenient, because our alarms were set for 3:45am. When we rescheduled flights, 6:20am was the only thing available. When we got that flight there were only preferred seats left, which would cost us $55 each to choose. I voted that
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Sunday, February 18, 2024 Balboa Park is a giant park in San Diego. The zoo is in the park. There are at least a dozen museums in the park. There are gardens and trails and stages and restaurants and snack bars and even the world’s largest outdoor organ. We visited the House of Pacific Relations