The Wooden Necklace Conference

Although it is really no longer polyester pants and wooden necklaces, the name Pumpkin delight gave it sticks. I haven't found a more appropriate name for it now...but I am sure to come up with something.


I took a break and went for a run...along the same trail I ran along last year when I was here. The new 9er Stadium is looking great...almost all the seats are in. I would post the photo I took but I cannot post photos anymore ....for some odd reason....I have been trying since Monday when I tried to post.


I will spend the weekend here learning and playing....and working. Thankfully I get Monday off as a day of rest. My only dilemma is that the 9ers play the Seahawks at 3:30 on Sunday...just about the time I would leave here on my bike and head to Cal Train...so I have to decide if I am watching the game here...or trying to get home before the end of the game.

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*RUN PAST A NEW STADIUM*

Lady Bug, Lady Bug....

Don't fly away home....you cost me too much $$......
Finally the Lady Bug book shelf is put together and in my classroom loaded with books.

I posted last summer about my find...it all came together so well- like it was planned. I saw this book shelf at the public library on our class field trip...and I mentioned to a mom that I would love to have one in my classroom....and that perhaps my husband could make one....and the next day she gave me a $50 gift card to Home Depot to start on it!

But the Captain has so many projects on his list right now I didn't even want to ask...so I went online and found the library site that sells them....For  $1,500! (Not including the $700 shipping!) Then I googled photos of Lady Bug Book Shelf and when I continued on to that link it turns out there was one for sale in a second hand furniture store in Colorado Springs. SO I sent BIG Foot over to look at it since he is conveniently attending the University of CO there....and he said it was in good shape and was $200....and I was serendipitously given a $200 VISA gift card from the parents at the end of the year. THEN BIG Foot drove the disassembled shelf to the Captain's mom's in August and we were to drive to UT to pick it up....but summer was so full of traveling we never got there. When the Captain was at his mom's in November he looked into shipping the lady bug...but it was $300 or more. Then the week before Thanksgiving I was picking up dinner at Beli Deli when the owner asked if my son was coming home for TG....and she told me her son was driving home...from UT! ....in an SUV! So I quickly texted him and he was able to pick up the lady bug and deliver it to me before we left for Vegas....and the Sunday we returned we were going to set it up! Yay! But then I returned with the severe allergic reaction to the smoke and had a rip-roaring ear infection from all the swelling....so this Christmas break the Captain put it together....and I was able to get it organized today. I can't wait until the kids see it!

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*READ A GOOD BOOK FROM THE LADY BUG BOOK SHELF* 

Happy New Year!

Two accomplishments:

*New Year's Eve the Captain and I earned our t-shirts in the Winter Warrior program at the SMAC. 30 consecutive days of working out....well, minus Christmas Day because they were closed.
 

*Then year #3 of the New Year's Day Run to End Hunger Run...this is what I get when all the rest of the runners party all night...I get 3rd in my age division.

And now it is time to eat the split pea soup I have been waiting for. I used the ham and bone from the Christmas ham to make some delicious crock pot split soup...and I turned off the crock pot, put the crock on the stove to cool so I could put it in the fridge....and then promptly went to bed- leaving it out all night. So this is round 2 of the split pea soup....had to buy a bone and a slab of ham...but it is smelling soooooo good right now.

HAPPY NEW YEAR MY BLOG FRIENDS

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH

 HARDER*HAVE A HEALTHY, HAPPY NEW YEAR*