Barbara Thompson

Tuesday, November 22, 2022 I don’t go out much by myself. I go to work. I go to the library. And sometimes I go to Sam’s club. I learned to go to Sam’s during pandemic. They have an awesome check out app – you just scan everything with your phone, click check out, and you […]

Monday, November 21, 2022 I got a text this afternoon. I saw it float across my phone – It’s time! It’s time? Time for what? Did I forget something? I clicked on it. It was from Daniel, my sports friend. Some while ago, he had told me about the soccers of the world and that

Sunday, November 20, 2022 We had to check out of our comfy hotel room. Bye comfy hotel room. We killed time at the mall looking at Christmas bits until it was time to go to the church for the second concert of the weekend. This one was a choir concert with tiny orchestra accompaniment. Call

Saturday, November 19, 2022 Do you see him? Do you see him walking back to the hotel from the concert hall (Pablo Center), wearing a tuxedo and a pompom hat in 11 degree weather? Isn’t he cute? I started waving from here on the 5th floor and didn’t get a closer up picture. He forgot

Friday, November 18, 2022 It was an interesting day, but the most exciting part was when our new grandniece, Hattie, was born tonight. She was making her mom wait for extra days, so they went to the hospital last night for some medical encouragement. It was fun to check all through the day today, waiting

Thursday, November 17, 2022 I had a doctor’s appointment and a dentist appointment today. Mmmm. Why did I apostrophe doctor and not dentist? Dentist’s appointment. That doesn’t sound right at all. Doctor appointment. That’s okay, but not what I say. Anyway, I saw medical professionals today and celebrated that my co-teacher is back until Thanksgiving

Wednesday, November 16, 2022 The first week was hot and we couldn’t figure out how to get the glass onto the stick and out of the fire. The second week we tried to make cylinders that turned out like marshmallows, and I didn’t even get a turn because we were so slow and confused. Tonight,

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 When I started teaching Human Geography in September, we talked about the world population and that it was expected to turn over 8 billion people in mid-November. It was official today – 12 years after we got to 7 billion, we hit 8 billion. Wow. Since it seemed pretty monumental, I

Monday, November 14, 2022 (Happy Birthday, Benjamin) We had a solid bit of snow overnight. Not a lot, by any means, and I set out to work with no concerns. I got to the first corner and sliiiiiiiid to a stop. Oh. I slowly made my way to see, encountering two school buses, a guy

Sunday, November 13, 2022 We were in a liquor store. 🙂 We are trying to reproduce a beer cheese soup we had at a restaurant, so we needed beer. The recipe called for Leinenkugel’s Red Lager. The store did not have that. I called my cooking, sometimes beer drinking sister for advice. We bought other