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Tuesday, February 4, 2025 I definitely wore my pink rhinestone boots and my crown all day while teaching Algebra to 8th graders. It was great. I got a drawing of me checking off who turned in their assignment today. It is best. I had some birthday cookies that Nancy made me. I got cards in […]

Monday, February 3, 2025 I hit 3000 days on Duolingo today. I did the math so you didn’t have to – three thousand days is about 8 years and 2.5 months. I started doing Duolingo before we took a trip to Germany. I wanted to see if I could remember any of the high school/college

Sunday, February 2, 2025 Well, it’s Groundhog Day, again, and Phil has seen his shadow and predicts 6 more weeks of winter. As I saw every year, I would be delighted with only 6 more weeks of winter. Donna and Michael and Nancy tried to get away without playing the new game, Flip 7. Donna

Saturday, February 1, 2025 The sisters and Michael came last night for my pre-birthday weekend. YAY! We had a nice slow morning. Keith left for rehearsal before 8am. Michael went to the Woodbury Cafe for an outrageously expensive breakfast. Nancy and Donna experimented with coffee. I slept late. Then we chatted and laughed the day

Friday, January 31, 2025 We see a lot of shows and I usually love them. Tonight was a bit iffy. We went to Lyric Arts in Anoka to see A Taste of Things to Come. The first act was set in 1957 at a meeting of the Winnetka Wednesday Women’s cooking club. Four young friends

Thursday, January 30, 2025 I have never seen the movie Misery. When I saw that one of the theaters we like was performing the play, I made sure to get tickets. There was a disclaimer in the lobby telling people that there were adult themes, violence, murder, gore and whatnot. I was not surprised (except

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 Today I was the music sub. I had Kindergartners through 5th graders. We drummed, practiced keyboard and ukelele, and worked on learning the names of the notes on the staff. We did all that in ten thirty-minute classes. Wheeeee! Kindergarteners are a bit on the wild side when you don’t have

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 There is no before picture. Darn. Keith went over to Alexander’s to install the new sink and cabinet we got him for Christmas. They were about at this point when Alexander said, “We forgot to take a before picture.” Darn. It was ugly. I mean really, really ugly. (Sorry, Alexander, if

Monday, January 27, 2025 What a good visit! I so enjoyed having Kristine pop in. We are so lucky to have technology that allows us to keep in touch with distant friends, but nothing is better than being together. I think my first flight by myself was to visit her, about 30 years ago. I

Sunday, January 26, 2025 Kristine came from Seattle on Friday night to do a puzzle contest with her sister Julie. They did not expect to win, and they were right. The winners did a 500-piece puzzle without a picture of the actual puzzle in 16 minutes. I do not know how those peoples’ brains work.